Prof Tim Colbourn @timcolbourn
Professor of Global Health Systems, Epidemiology and Evaluation, UCL Institute for Global Health. retweets ≠ endorsements. Views my own. iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/pr… Joined May 2009-
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Today we published an article on lessons we have learned through our work in building the global COVID database. The title is 'Best practices for government agencies to publish data: lessons from COVID-19' We published the article open access in The Lancet Public Health:…
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Lab leak supporters aren't very good at understanding science or data, but they are really good at creating controversy. The latest manufactured controversy involves a diagram I used in the Rootclaim debate which ended up in Scott Alexander's blog post: x.com/nizzaneela/sta…
Lab leak supporters aren't very good at understanding science or data, but they are really good at creating controversy. The latest manufactured controversy involves a diagram I used in the Rootclaim debate which ended up in Scott Alexander's blog post: x.com/nizzaneela/sta…
“Tobacco use is the UK's single biggest preventable cause of death, killing two-thirds of long-term users and causing 80,000 deaths every year.” “a patient is admitted to hospital with a smoking-related condition … almost every minute in England.” bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for eight funded studentships on our 2024 Thanzi MSc Health Economics Distance Learning Programme. Learn more here bit.ly/43BLIen 🗓️Deadline for applications is 2 June 2024, 23:59 BST
Shame only 14 people have voted on this so far. Just to say I’m very much A on @primalpoly’s poll here: x.com/primalpoly/sta… But a B on my one on AI here: (It’s a very different situation with huge uncertainty, nowhere near any consensus on the x-risk or what to do etc):
Shame only 14 people have voted on this so far. Just to say I’m very much A on @primalpoly’s poll here: x.com/primalpoly/sta… But a B on my one on AI here: (It’s a very different situation with huge uncertainty, nowhere near any consensus on the x-risk or what to do etc):
See 3 tweets above 👆 for explanation
"floats" "Machines may decide for themselves" Is there any evidence to support machines actually being able to "decide for themselves"? @GladstoneAI @harris_edouard @jeremiecharris
Another great opportunity to work on our Thanzi La Onse/Thanzi La Mawa health systems modelling project as a post-doc: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo… Apply by 28th March tlomodel.org @thanzilaonse
This is surely a reason to not be worried about AI tech taking over. The LLM is just doing what it was instructed to do. If it correctly depicted the historical images *without* being instructed to do so, surely that would be more worrying?
This is surely a reason to not be worried about AI tech taking over. The LLM is just doing what it was instructed to do. If it correctly depicted the historical images *without* being instructed to do so, surely that would be more worrying?
Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois
148K Followers 1K Following Director @UGI_at_UCL. Interest in Infectious disease epidemiology, pathogen genomics, global health, and all sorts of other stuff.
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg
62K Followers 2K Following Epidemiologist @UKHSA, mom, wife, . Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. Tweet about HIV & COVID-19. #Nature10 scientist. 🏳️🌈 Personal account, obvs.
Neil Stone @DrNeilStone
42K Followers 17K Following Infectious Diseases specialist doctor.Fungi. @BRITMICNetwork.Officially the 1st person to use word #Covid. Personal views only. Ex owner of legit blue tick
Stefan Baral @sdbaral
49K Followers 4K Following 🇨🇦🇸🇪,MD,MPH FRCPC (CM) & CCFP (Fam Med), 🏳️🌈 ally No COI Papers: https://t.co/FQjCu7BsNE Course: https://t.co/yLabiMSsvj COVID Talk: https://t.co/u1t1lAc0vT
Thomas House 热爱�.. @TAH_Sci
6K Followers 976 Following Professor of Mathematical Sciences. Views own & open for revision. Mainly COVID plus other modelling & data science in health.
Prof Irene Petersen @i_petersen
5K Followers 3K Following Professor of Epidemiology and Health Informatics
Rob Hughes @R_Hughes1
5K Followers 5K Following Doctor, Clinical Research Fellow @LSHTM | co-founder @playtandem Working on the future of global child health. Climate & health | Emerging tech | Urbanisation
Michael Absoud @MAbsoud
8K Followers 1K Following Paediatrician @EvelinaLondon ,clinical academic @KingsCollegeLon, Neurodevelopmental,epilepsy, long term conditions, mental health:Views personal #Recovery4Kids
Prof. Michael S Fuhre.. @MichaelSFuhrer
11K Followers 2K Following Science communications. Quantum materials physics. Director @FLEETCentre Personal account. I happily block conspiracy theorists.
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski
143K Followers 2K Following Epidemiologist/mathematician. Co-director of @LSHTM_CEPR and @TEDFellow. Author of The Rules of Contagion. Views own.
Prof Gavin Yamey @gav.. @GYamey
41K Followers 8K Following Professor of Global Health & Public Policy @DukeU. Director, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ @wxdu. TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
taipan168 @taipan168
2K Followers 1K Following It's not a contradiction to be socially liberal but economically conservative. Travel, cars, watches, urbanism and poking fun at the COVID zero brigade.
Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit
89K Followers 1K Following Doctor, Speaker, The Social Edge. Ex-Director, WHO. Professor UCL. Chair, Lancet Climate Countdown. Advisor @cap2030org Tweets/RT≠endorsement
Prof Nisreen Alwan �.. @Dr2NisreenAlwan
82K Followers 5K Following Public Health Professor MBE. My words=my PERSONAL views. RT≠endorse. Other SM: @[email protected], nisreen.a.alwan @Threads, https://t.co/yfWKMqZjXJ
Professor Lucy Eastho.. @LucyGoBag
28K Followers 11K Following Disaster Wild Card. Co-Founder, After Disaster Network. Author - Sunday Times Bestseller 'When The Dust Settles'
Monica Gandhi MD, MPH @MonicaGandhi9
91K Followers 666 Following MD, MPH; ID/HIV MD; UCSF (tweets own); No conflicts; Wrote book on COVID & pandemic playbook pub. Mayo Clinic Press called Endemic: A Post-Pandemic Playbook
Dr Duncan Robertson @Dr_D_Robertson
22K Followers 4K Following Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University; Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford. Focusing on COVID-19 Member, @IndependentSage. DMs open
Catherine Moore @SmallRedOne
13K Followers 5K Following Still a virologist working for the public health body west of England. Likes cats, likes birds, terrible gardener. Brexit sucks, vaccines work.
Benjamin Mazer @BenMazer
13K Followers 2K Following Surgical pathologist, academic gadfly, and writer exploring controversies in diagnostics and medical evidence.
Fiona Russell @Fiona_M_Russell
9K Followers 989 Following Vaccines ID epi Global health paediatrician |Director Child & Adolescent Health PhD Program @UniMelbMDHS | Professor | co-Chair @WSPID ISC | views are mine
Arjun Chandna @arji_barji
286 Followers 571 Following Infection registrar @HTropDis @uclh. Postdoc @MORUBKK @NDMOxford. Music, food, cycling, nature, racket sports. Worried about our #ClimateEmergency 🌍
TracieScalise @ScaliseTra7387
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ruth shakespeare @shakespeareruth
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Bakary @Bakary823441968
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Dr Thindwa @deusthindwa
585 Followers 255 Following Epidemiologist with a focus on infectious disease modelling and analysis @YaleEMD @YaleSPH
Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke
538K Followers 442K Following Founder, Sons of Liberty International, #veterans training Ukrainian forces to fight Russia. A 501c3 nonprofit org: https://t.co/iJVW8PgiN9
Christiane Hagel @Christi_Hagel
125 Followers 358 Following DPhil @UniofOxford @NDMOxford @Tropmedoxford & MPH Alumna @ChariteBerlin #globalhealth #digitalhealth #healthsystemsresearch #femtech enthusiast
Matt Field @matthfield
3K Followers 1K Following Senior Technology Reporter for @TelegraphTech, ex @cityjournalism. DM or get in touch discretely on Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram + 44.7858.679.854. Tips welcome.
Zenan Chen @ZenanChen1112
6 Followers 44 Following ESRC White Rose DTP funded PhD student @InfoSchoolSheff in health informatics
Geoff Schwarz @geoffs23
16 Followers 18 Following
Int Journal of Health.. @Healthsci_Bio
40 Followers 636 Following International Journal of Health Science & Biomedicine is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to the advancement in all fields.
Carol Chan @carolchancarol
232 Followers 450 Following Academic GP Trainee @imperialcollege | MBBS BSc + Honorary Clinical Lecturer @UCL | Fellow @theRSAorg | Fellow @AdvanceHE |@HLA_int Alumni
Dedik Sulistiawan @sulistiawan_ded
442 Followers 600 Following PHenthusiast | Lecturer | Researcher | Ph.D. Student
Huanfa Chen @HuanfaC
931 Followers 546 Following Asso Prof in Spatial Data Science at CASA, UCL. All views my own.
Jhansi @Jhansi_K_
24 Followers 1K Following
Althea @Althea_3811
2K Followers 2K Following Travel ✈️ |Beach 🌊|Yoga 🧘♀️|Love to read 📚|Hardworking person|Like to explore and experience new things|#windenergy|#travel
P BICARREGUI @P_BICARREGUI
0 Followers 20 Following Final year UCLMS. BSc Medical Anthropology. They/Them
LP @le_Preena
60 Followers 528 Following My soul has a hat | Observer of humans & their behaviors | Behavioral science PhD @UTHealthSPH | @LSHTM-Alum | Everything #pubhealth & #impsci | Views mine
UCL Health Economics .. @UCL_HEPL
174 Followers 231 Following The UCL HEPL brings together health economists from across UCL and present their world class research, specialist clusters, and interdisciplinary networks.
Alex Bradbury @AlexLBradbury
263 Followers 962 Following NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Clinical Trial Design @UCL_SBB | former @pih @harvardmed @BrighamWomens | Zimbabwean-grown
Dr Madeleine Benton @maddy_benton
472 Followers 842 Following Chartered Psychologist | Research Associate | Research in perinatal mental health, gestational diabetes, behaviour change @ King’s College London
@CleanAirClassrm is o.. @CleanAirClassrm
3K Followers 3K Following #CleanAir #HealthyLearning PublicHealth #VaccinePlusPlan Allied Health & Building Professn Led Founder @mishwoz https://t.co/ZiHARbeQMw
Ni Putu Shartyanie @shartyanie
37 Followers 51 Following
Sir CyrilGreat @CyrilGreat
10 Followers 145 Following Phd in View (Atlantic International University) Hawaii. USA.
Danielle Schoenaker @D_Schoenaker
981 Followers 797 Following Senior Research Fellow & NIHR Advanced Fellow @UoS_Medicine • Preconception Health and Care • Maternal, Paternal and Child Health • DOHaD • all views my own
mishkendall @mishkendall
1K Followers 592 Following Maths / statistician working in epidemiology and phylogenetics @warwickstats and @UKHSA. Mainly focused on @NHSCOVID19app since early 2020.
R P Shah Memorial Tru.. @Rpshahmemorial1
4K Followers 5K Following 10k Health Care Workers in40 countries collecting info,Epidemiologists,Scientists, #globalpublichealth,#clean air,LongCovidAdvocate [email protected]
Katerina Porter @KatyaAndTheBoys
6 Followers 94 Following
Kanika Rawat @Kanika__Rawat
83 Followers 397 Following PhD student @CES_IISc Behavioural ecology, Evolution, Vector biology Dance and Ultimate frisbee
Peter @error9900
359 Followers 4K Following
Barnaby Poulton @BarnabyPoulton
289 Followers 877 Following Digital Health Consultant, Entrepreneur, Mentor and Speaker. Hon Professor of Digital Health, Nottingham Trent University.
Helen E-J @Dr_Helen_EJ
132 Followers 494 Following Paediatrics. Epilepsies. Migraine. Supporting self-care, inclusion, school attendance, transition to adulthood. Detail. Equity. Natural Heath Service.
Kabir Sheikh @docsheikh
5K Followers 1K Following Professor at @UCL working to strengthen #healthsystems in #LMICs. Views are mine. #HPSR #HealthEquity
Eric Frasco @esfrasco
113 Followers 249 Following Community Psychologist & Political Scientist | PhD Candidate @UCLGlobalHealth / @UniAndes researching MHPSS and peacebuilding in Colombia
Bin WU @Dankemann
59 Followers 1K Following Former Journalist of Southern Metropolis Daily, China Media activist Postgraduate student of the Institute for Global Health, UCL Chevening Scholar 2023/2024
Steve Sullivan (is, e.. @MagisterSTEVE
438 Followers 1K Following Latin teacher, family man, Bruins fan, and all around geek.
Dr. Julii Brainard @BrainardJulii
271 Followers 290 Following San Diego transplant to UK. UEA researcher in Health Protection. I model disease spread, evaluate evidence, make numbers into pictures. Opinions are my own.
Paula Bergero @Paula_Bergero
658 Followers 1K Following Lic. en Física (UNLP) - PhD (UNLP) Especialista en Comunicación Pública de CyT (UBA) - Investigadora CONICET en @MACFE_INIFTA @inifta_ok - Wikimedista - LW8ELE
Iratus Ursus Major �.. @i_iratus
28K Followers 10K Following He / Him. Have been called “Verbose” and “Pretentious Prick.” Swears sometimes. https://t.co/avzn8OzwHK
Kevin McIntyre https:.. @KMcIntyre94
1K Followers 5K Following PhDc, Epidemiology and Biostatistics @WesternU | Global surgery, SR/MAs, COVID-19, Bayesian stats & causal inference https://t.co/u3b4VfZKt0
Lydiaction @lydiactionmw
275 Followers 1K Following
Blake26❤️ Memecoi.. @snkbz41jgdbdp
41 Followers 2K Following
Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_
11K Followers 7K Following Atypically Friendly - I write about AI and human creativity. Will periodically make extremely unusual arguments.
Hypoautonomic @hypoautonomic
837 Followers 3K Following looking at medical misinfo also chess and political tweets (leftist) COI: researcher in blood transfusion business He/Him @[email protected] 🏳️🌈
Science for All @Sci4O_mlw
168 Followers 175 Following An initiative under @MLW_Programme aimed at encouraging students to pursue clinical and biomedical science careers.
Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois
148K Followers 1K Following Director @UGI_at_UCL. Interest in Infectious disease epidemiology, pathogen genomics, global health, and all sorts of other stuff.
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg
62K Followers 2K Following Epidemiologist @UKHSA, mom, wife, . Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. Tweet about HIV & COVID-19. #Nature10 scientist. 🏳️🌈 Personal account, obvs.
Alasdair Munro @apsmunro
55K Followers 630 Following Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Diseases | Clinical trials | Vaccines | Antibiotics | Husband and dad
Neil Stone @DrNeilStone
42K Followers 17K Following Infectious Diseases specialist doctor.Fungi. @BRITMICNetwork.Officially the 1st person to use word #Covid. Personal views only. Ex owner of legit blue tick
Paul Mainwood @PaulMainwood
20K Followers 595 Following Used to study physics. Now my job title has "strategy" in it. (Taking a break from this site until change of ownership, foreclosure or similar.)
Stefan Baral @sdbaral
49K Followers 4K Following 🇨🇦🇸🇪,MD,MPH FRCPC (CM) & CCFP (Fam Med), 🏳️🌈 ally No COI Papers: https://t.co/FQjCu7BsNE Course: https://t.co/yLabiMSsvj COVID Talk: https://t.co/u1t1lAc0vT
Thomas House 热爱�.. @TAH_Sci
6K Followers 976 Following Professor of Mathematical Sciences. Views own & open for revision. Mainly COVID plus other modelling & data science in health.
Prof Irene Petersen @i_petersen
5K Followers 3K Following Professor of Epidemiology and Health Informatics
Health Nerd @GidMK
81K Followers 2K Following https://t.co/hkLzdpoOQd Epidemiologist. Writer (Slate, TIME, etc). ' Research fellow at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email [email protected] he/him
Rob Hughes @R_Hughes1
5K Followers 5K Following Doctor, Clinical Research Fellow @LSHTM | co-founder @playtandem Working on the future of global child health. Climate & health | Emerging tech | Urbanisation
Michael Absoud @MAbsoud
8K Followers 1K Following Paediatrician @EvelinaLondon ,clinical academic @KingsCollegeLon, Neurodevelopmental,epilepsy, long term conditions, mental health:Views personal #Recovery4Kids
Prof. Michael S Fuhre.. @MichaelSFuhrer
11K Followers 2K Following Science communications. Quantum materials physics. Director @FLEETCentre Personal account. I happily block conspiracy theorists.
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski
143K Followers 2K Following Epidemiologist/mathematician. Co-director of @LSHTM_CEPR and @TEDFellow. Author of The Rules of Contagion. Views own.
anonymous historian a.. @james_e_b_
9K Followers 4K Following Historian: Middle East, law, drugs. In the top 0.001% of Django Reinhardt listeners. Himmel und Erde und Wind und das von den Menschen geschaffene kann bleiben
Prof Gavin Yamey @gav.. @GYamey
41K Followers 8K Following Professor of Global Health & Public Policy @DukeU. Director, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ @wxdu. TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit
89K Followers 1K Following Doctor, Speaker, The Social Edge. Ex-Director, WHO. Professor UCL. Chair, Lancet Climate Countdown. Advisor @cap2030org Tweets/RT≠endorsement
Edward Nirenberg 🇺.. @ENirenberg
36K Followers 6K Following Views my own, but you can borrow them if you feel so inclined. Anti-disease. Big Nerd Energy. “A homework person.” Fun at parties. Antibody hoarder. he/him
Jasnah Kholin - 8964 .. @wanderer_jasnah
10K Followers 1K Following HKer. RNA Virologist working on nidovirus/immune system interactions. Insomniac. Life before death. Journey before destination. 一个健康的社會不該只有一種聲音. 解散警隊. ★ she/佢 ★
Prof Nisreen Alwan �.. @Dr2NisreenAlwan
82K Followers 5K Following Public Health Professor MBE. My words=my PERSONAL views. RT≠endorse. Other SM: @[email protected], nisreen.a.alwan @Threads, https://t.co/yfWKMqZjXJ
Shamez Ladhani @ShamezLadhani
10K Followers 155 Following Paediatric infectious diseases specialist @StGeorgesHospital, Epidemiologist @UKHSA #vaccines #meningitis #covid #childhoodinfections tweets personal
yonatan @zozuar
39K Followers 152 Following
John-Arne Røttingen @jarottingen
8K Followers 1K Following Chief Executive Officer (CEO) @wellcometrust
Peter Miller @tgof137
1K Followers 245 Following
Cognition @cognition_labs
124K Followers 19 Following Makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. We are an applied AI lab focused on reasoning, and code is just the beginning. Join us: https://t.co/tpfZwEwGiq
Yulia Navalnaya @yulia_navalnaya
368K Followers 1 Following
Stop TB Partnership @StopTB
40K Followers 2K Following The Stop TB Partnership is hosted by UNOPS and is a collective force transforming the fight against tuberculosis (TB). Retweets do not reflect endorsement.
AI Explained @AIExplainedYT
5K Followers 147 Following 250k+ YouTube subs, growing a friendly, professional AI networking hub.
David Roberts @drvolts
207K Followers 4K Following I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at https://t.co/mAVggtRfoE! (@volts.wtf on bsky, ahem.)
Muriel Blaive, PhD @MurielBlaivePhD
10K Followers 741 Following Historian of Czechia. Inveterate enemy of hypocrisy and self-righteousness. Admirer of Stefan Zweig, Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, and Karl Popper.
Carsten Jung @carsjung
4K Followers 694 Following Senior economist @IPPR. Lead on macro & AI. Former @bankofengland economist and @IMFnews fellow.
Jürgen Schmidhuber @SchmidhuberAI
107K Followers 0 Following Invented principles of meta-learning (1987), GANs (1990), Transformers (1991), very deep learning (1991), etc. Our AI is used many billions of times every day.
Eva Janouskova @EvaJ_MathModel
77 Followers 79 Following Mathematical modeller at @ucl Institute for Global Health, working on Thanzi La Onse model to help improve the health control strategic plan in Malawi #TLOmodel
Jim Reed @jim_reed
10K Followers 3K Following BBC health reporter. Was at #VictoriaLIVE, #newsnight, #newsbeat. Dad to three small screaming children. DMs open or email me on [email protected]
Kabir Sheikh @docsheikh
5K Followers 1K Following Professor at @UCL working to strengthen #healthsystems in #LMICs. Views are mine. #HPSR #HealthEquity
Iratus Ursus Major �.. @i_iratus
28K Followers 10K Following He / Him. Have been called “Verbose” and “Pretentious Prick.” Swears sometimes. https://t.co/avzn8OzwHK
EPR HPRU @EPR_HPRU
1K Followers 2K Following NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response at King's College London. Conducting research to minimise the impact of emergencies.
Dr. Julii Brainard @BrainardJulii
271 Followers 290 Following San Diego transplant to UK. UEA researcher in Health Protection. I model disease spread, evaluate evidence, make numbers into pictures. Opinions are my own.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86
182K Followers 11K Following Journalist at BBC Verify | disinformation, conspiracy theories, verification, AI, open source investigations, extremism | [email protected]
Anshel Pfeffer אנש.. @AnshelPfeffer
71K Followers 3K Following Mancunian hack @haaretz writer @TheEconomist correspondent, unauthorized biographer of Netanyahu and Ovadya Yosef. Next book: God Fearers @penguinpress 👇 Nonno
Danilo J. Rezende @DaniloJRezende
35K Followers 1K Following Director @ #DeepMind Building models to accelerate fundamental sciences Prev @EPFL IFT @Polytechnique @fisicaUSP
Nora Belrose @norabelrose
8K Followers 124 Following Working toward a free and fair future powered by friendly AI. Head of interpretability research at @AiEleuther, but tweets are my own views, not Eleuther’s.
Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_
11K Followers 7K Following Atypically Friendly - I write about AI and human creativity. Will periodically make extremely unusual arguments.
Andrew Sissons @ACJSissons
8K Followers 717 Following Deputy Director for Sustainable Future @nesta_uk. Climate, economics, energy, heating. Ex civil servant, chief economist. Personal account.
George Hotz 🌑 @realGeorgeHotz
248K Followers 174 Following President @comma_ai. Founder @__tinygrad__
Jo Michell @JoMicheII
15K Followers 1K Following Economics prof @UWEBristol. @PKEconSoc chair. @FMM_macro fellow. @PEF_online council. Blogging intermittently at https://t.co/gjD32qdelI
David Krueger @DavidSKrueger
13K Followers 4K Following Cambridge faculty - AI alignment, deep learning, and existential safety. Formerly Mila, FHI, DeepMind, ElementAI, AISI.
Jan Leike @janleike
44K Followers 322 Following ML Researcher, co-leading Superalignment @OpenAI. Optimizing for a post-AGI future where humanity flourishes.
Shobhana Nagraj @ShobhanaNagraj
1K Followers 2K Following ✨Clinical Researcher @CGHRinfo | Research Fellow @greentempleton @UniOfOxford| #GlobalSurgery, #MNCH, #ImpSci, #IPE, #MedEd, Views Own ✨
Aiden Sidebottom @Aiden_S
2K Followers 2K Following Associate Professor in Security and Crime Science, University College London.
Katja Grace 🔍 @KatjaGrace
8K Followers 797 Following Thinking about whether AI will destroy the world at https://t.co/pMilDvd4ya. DM or email for media requests. Feedback: https://t.co/zGAm1i7SKH
Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg
1.0M Followers 913 Following Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS adjunct faculty. Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain. #ai #machinelearning, #deeplearning #MOOCs
Jan Brauner @JanMBrauner
777 Followers 313 Following PhD student in ML. University of Oxford, @OATML_Oxford.
Center for AI Safety @ai_risks
5K Followers 1 Following Reducing societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence through technical research and field-building.
George Mack @george__mack
287K Followers 943 Following The best ideas I think or find. Get the best ideas, essays and videos I've collected here: https://t.co/q33ixsFPbq
Karen Luyt💙 @KarenLuyt
2K Followers 397 Following Professor of Neonatal Medicine - University of Bristol - improving outcomes for newborns @NCMD_England Director @peri_prem strategic lead.
davidad 🎇 @davidad
13K Followers 7K Following Programme Director @ARIA_research | accelerate mathematical modelling with AI and categorical systems theory » build safe transformative AI » cancel heat death
David McCoy @dcmccoy11
1K Followers 483 Following Evidence to Policy Lead at United Nations University International Institute for Global Health. Former Prof of Global Public Health. Views are mine.
Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn
209K Followers 4K Following Director @DigEconLab Professor @StanfordHAI @SIEPR @Stanford @NBERPubs https://t.co/D2bPyxoFEf
Siméon @Simeon_Cps
7K Followers 1K Following Creating more common knowledge on AI risks, one tweet at a time. Founder in Paris. AI auditing, standardization & governance.
Paul Christiano @paulfchristiano
2K Followers 0 Following
François Chollet @fchollet
470K Followers 770 Following Deep learning @google. Creator of Keras. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'. Opinions are my own.
jessicat @jessi_cata
3K Followers 554 Following AI&cogsci-influenced philosopher; expert in game theory, anthropics, AI alignment, and scalable cryptocurrency algorithms
Demis Hassabis @demishassabis
357K Followers 126 Following Co-founder & CEO @GoogleDeepMind - working on AGI. Trying to understand the fundamental nature of reality. Also revolutionising drug discovery @IsomorphicLabs
Mick W@tson ↙️ @BioMickWatson
30K Followers 3K Following Bioinformatics | (meta) genomics | Data science. Some politics. Views are all my own and do not represent past, current or future employer.
Exponential Roadmap I.. @exponentialroad
2K Followers 3K Following For innovators, transformers and disruptors taking action in line with 1.5°C, with the mission to halve emissions before 2030 through exponential climate action
Prof. Joseph Mfutso-B.. @MfutsoBengo
813 Followers 814 Following international bioethics scholar and researcher, he directs a HEPU Think Tank & Policy Lab, an ex-Dean of School of Public Health and Family Medicine,
Let's take the same @ONS database and use the inflation-adjusted series, as we really should when comparing flows over time. Suddenly, what looked like an ever-increasing volume of trade is actually a lot more flat. Goods exports (dark blue bars) are still well below pre-Brexit.
Today we published an article on lessons we have learned through our work in building the global COVID database. The title is 'Best practices for government agencies to publish data: lessons from COVID-19' We published the article open access in The Lancet Public Health:…
New @marmotihe analysis confirms since 2010 central government spending cuts to local authorities were highest in areas with lower life expectancy and more health inequalities, further harming health in these places @MichaeMarmot @ucl bit.ly/LEGAP
Rick Astley and the Foo Fighters performing Never Gonna Give You Up in the style of Smells Like Teen Spirit because Dave Grohl spotted Rick on the side of the stage since they were performing the same event and just pulled him in to do the song. Completely unrehearsed.
I delivered to Park Lane apartments, Bloomsbury flats with swanky concierges and to the 7th floor of council flats. The bankers/Mayfair residents didn’t tip once. People in council flats were the ones who did.
A few thoughts on the role of pigs in the emergence of influenza A virus in mammals. 1. It is simply not the case that movement of flu viruses into non-swine mammal species requires pigs as a "mixing vessel".
Specifically: -Quantify the extent of the outbreak and begin testing asymptomatic animals immediately -Testing for virus and antibodies in both cows and farm workers -Testing other species in and around cattle farms (cats, wild birds, etc. Sure, include pigs if they're there)
Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/0…
Why did so many hunter gatherer groups around the world nearly-simultaneously and in an unconnected way develop agriculture? This has been a kinda problematic question in human prehistory. It may have been solved... by an economist? Studying the economics of... Earth's orbit?
Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵 1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody
A key invention is the RC1, the machine that eats the machine. A giant rotating tunnel slow-cooks batteries at ~300C. It uses almost no energy—a self-perpetuating release from the cooked batteries. No oxygen, no fire, no waste. Gases are trapped & made into industrial products 5/
From a million miles away, NASA captures Moon crossing face of Earth. (Yes, this is a real image) Credit: NASA/NOAA
Open Letter to Suella Braverman - 17 April 2024 Ms. @SuellaBraverman, Good Evening. You kindly posted below a link to your full speech at the recent NatCon Conference in Brussels, and to say it was a chilling read would be a dangerous understatement. In your speech, you've…
My speech to @NatConTalk on why we need to leave the ECHR, how to do it and what next. ‘Rights radicalism’ in full here 👇
Lab leak supporters aren't very good at understanding science or data, but they are really good at creating controversy. The latest manufactured controversy involves a diagram I used in the Rootclaim debate which ended up in Scott Alexander's blog post: x.com/nizzaneela/sta…
@arguablywrong @slatestarcodex It gets worse. As evidence against an earlier introduction, @slatestarcodex presents a doctored version of Fig. 3E from Pekar et al.'s "Timing the SARS-CoV-2 index case in Hubei province", 2021.
Photos that don't look real but are - thread 🧵 1. Cranberry harvest by Kristina Makeeva
For today's @OurWorldInData Data Insight I calculated how many children died since 1950. I had never done this before and I was shocked to see just how many lives ended so very early.
Students sometimes ask 'should I do a regression or calculate a correlation?' This is a useful explanation about why it's the same thing: lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linea… (originally via @seabbs)
Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about H5N1. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this strain of bird flu so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know.🧵⬇️
Talking down our country you say? Let’s take a look at the people who’ve actually been talking down our country and our great British institutions…. 🧵 1/9
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