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Paediatrician

Joined July 2009
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I honestly think having the US and China compete against each other in a Robot Olympics would do more to raise public sentiment on AI than using frontier models to develop new wonder drugs or whatever.
🇨🇳 This humanoid robot tried to clean and jerk 16 kg (35 lbs) at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. It got the bar overhead… then the knees buckled, the arms started flailing, and the whole system spammed errors. Thankfully we’re still a long way from Terminator 😂 Writer: Sol
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In good faith and with no judgment (mistakes happen), I truly hope that Anthropic will hear the feedback and change course on this. Anthropic is a company that has been raising awareness about AI manipulation which is a very important topic! You don’t want to go down as the first company to enable and open the door for human-designed AI manipulation at scale (giving intentionally bad answers to users without them knowing is the highest form of manipulation in my opinion). One way to avoid that is just at the very least to always keep disclosing the limitations and safeguards. More generally I want to emphasize that there are millions of AI builders out there using your tools for good every single day and the more you can keep helping them, the better for the world! Thank you, it’s not too late to fix this!
BREAKING NEWS: Anthropic's latest model will NOT help you if it thinks your ML research/ML engineering is interesting, and/or will secretly degrade its IQ so that the average engineer won't notice. We are already seeing Anthropic's latest model's moderation filters our GPU inference research and programming 😭
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Meet Steven Artandi, a physician-scientist who studies cancer biology. His work helps uncover the mechanisms that enable cancer to grow and persist. Learn what he wanted to be when he was a kid — and the quote he lives by. @StanfordCancer @SCIDirector
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Presented at #ASCO26: Among patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the RAS(ON) inhibitor daraxonrasib led to significantly longer overall survival and progression-free survival than chemotherapy. Full phase 3 RASolute 302 trial results: nej.md/4nWaxvM @ASCO
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James Zogby (@jjz1600) describing his meetings about Gaza with senior Biden foreign policy staff (Jake Sullivan and Antony Blunken) is really something else.
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This Israeli soldier is telling you about the horrific crimes the IDF is committing. The translation here is 100% accurate. Watch this. All Israelis know what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank.
This is beyond the edge of evil Watch an Israeli soldier openly confess to their own crimes…
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The BMA remains concerned and calls on the Israeli government to immediately release all arbitrarily detained Palestinian healthcare workers, including Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. With @AmnestyUK we have written to the foreign secretary demanding action to ensure that the Israeli government adheres to international law and medical neutrality. bma.org.uk/what-we-do/workin…
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BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me! As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest". Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far. Together we are One.
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Did they engage in some heroic act? These are literally the rapists who gang raped Palestinians on camera, celebrated and protected. This isn’t just a “Netanyahu” problem. This is the systemic dehumanization and double standard the world has normalized.
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I reported on the testimonies of Palestinians raped by dogs last month. Pro-Israel cheerleaders responded by claiming this was an outrageous lie - and that it was antisemitic. The New York Times has now published the testimony of a Palestinian detainee.
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Interesting article about potential drawbacks of AI scribes substack.com/home/post/p-189…
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‘They would dress like Muslims, move to a town where no one knows them, and harass Jewish girls in order to frighten their parents so they leave for Israel’ Diabolical. Some people are just born evil.
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This is an absolute disgrace. In 2026, is the GMC fit for purpose?
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- 👏👏👏👏👏👏 @AlexCrawfordSky This is how you report Israeli attempts to demonise the journalists they murder. The contrast with @BBCNews extraordinary. @SkyNews rightly leading with the story.
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As National PEWS moves towards being developed settings outside of wards understanding enablers and barriers will be vital to ensuring it's utilisation in pre-hospital settings is credible and effective. Please share!
Calling all UK prehospital clinicians and senior clinical leaders! 🚑 Your expertise is essential to exploring how paediatric early warning system (PEWS) can be effectively integrated into real-world prehospital care. We are conducting a short online survey to understand the barriers and facilitators to implementing PEWS and to identify strategies that can optimise the successful adoption of the National Paediatric Early Warning System(NPEWS) within UK ambulance services. 🕐 10–15 minutes 📜 CPD certificate provided To register your interest, scan the QR code or use this link: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…
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I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.
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It was quite a day in court yesterday. Grateful to Channel 4 News for covering the case. It’s all there: Avoidable deaths. 90,000 emails deleted. An entire NHS email account erased. A key board meeting note denied to exist. Thanks to all our supporters. It was a great turn out as always.
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'The name 'Palestine' is far older than any place name in Europe... it's as old as literacy itself.' Historian William Dalrymple tells Bianca Nobilo why he'd like to write the history of the Palestinians. Watch more: youtu.be/EGfRaYEdRxk @DalrympleWill | @bianca_nobilo
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Jesse Jackson recognized the humanity of Palestinians, and for that he was endlessly smeared as a terrorist-loving monster by the same Zionist media and political class who are now celebrating him to turn him into a harmless icon and symbol for their own depravity. RIP
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The most important film of our time. ⬇️
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