@johnhuww.bsky.social
wine, gardens, churches and Wales will feature. Professionally interested in health and life sciences, mental health, academic clinical careers and science policy in general. I cross boundaries. @wi_john
Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe .. maybe, those with tenure ?
“ERC grants aimed at early career researchers saw a 22 per cent increase in applicants .. a record 4,807 proposals…including 169 from the US — nearly triple the 2024 figure.”
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Finally big job done … just need to wrestle some thorny characters in to position (one of my professional skill sets 😂) Select some clematis to grow through the roses, some underplanting and a new version of the garden emerges.
02.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ezra discovers Bernard (Crick). When in doubt America seek out a Scot.
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A beautiful day that’s hopefully helped lift the spirits …
02.11.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“But until we have a government prepared to undertake an extremely painful course correction – and, in the politicians’ defence, an electorate prepared to vote for one – this is simply a foretaste of every budget for the foreseeable future.”
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I am now convinced that for all the knowledge and experience a manager or leader can acquire, the capacity for adaptation is the most important. I seek to embody it, but know now that it is elusive, never fully mastered.”
An insightful post…
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Random rose basking in the sunshine…
02.11.2025 09:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“We don’t need so-called flexible work schedules. What we need are plain old boundaries — jobs where work stops at a set time & allows other parts of life to exist without interruption.”
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“It is dispiriting to see the persistence of ill-founded stereotypes about older workers’ ability to work fast, adapt, use technology and develop within their role, when older workers have such potential to tackle skills shortages, help businesses to thrive”
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“Gur agrees. “This isn’t blind optimism,” he says. “This is one of those spaces where there is an intersection of the most advanced science in the world and an entrepreneurial spirit. And that is an incredible strength for the UK.”
02.11.2025 07:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Insert cliche! “A single breakthrough is all it would take for Aria — and the UK — to make history, Gur says. “We are asking ourselves all the time, what will be our ChatGPT moment, what will be our Ozempic moment?”
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“The real world is your placebo,” Tallon said. “That is a particular advantage of the NHS compared with other countries.”
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“It is important to apply what is already known about good business to help better train managers and boost skills and performance in businesses — particularly in the areas around each university. There are different missions and different ways of being a great business school.”
02.11.2025 07:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Our business schools are not playing the role in the local or national economy that they should. They are not delivering useful programmes focused on Britain’s business needs. The incentive structure has gone wrong.”
on.ft.com/47Cwbxl It is time for business schools to think locally
“That said, not all bottlenecks are easy to dispatch with. In high-stakes professions like accountancy and law, the requirements for quality and accuracy strike me as one example…human experts are still having to check AI-written documents for hallucinations and errors.”
01.11.2025 07:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“For businesses wondering why they aren’t seeing big productivity gains from AI yet, the best idea is probably to make a careful assessment of systems, workflows and bottlenecks, rather than chivvying individual staff to use the new tools more often.”
Quite!
“even if LLMs do help individuals to race through certain tasks, that doesn’t mean businesses should expect an automatic and commensurate increase in overall productivity. That’s because organisations aren’t just groups of individuals, they’re systems.”
Paging DHSC!
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“Rare Dementia Support centre will offer genetic counselling and testing for families. It will also educate GPs on symptoms, aiming to speed up diagnosis. In addition to cutting-edge medical expertise from the team at UCL, patients and their families will be offered practical support”
01.11.2025 07:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘I see people with dementia in their 20s’
“brainchild of Professor Nick Fox, director of the UCL Dementia Research Centre, who specialises in young-onset dementia….I’ve seen people as early as their twenties with dementia, and it doesn’t have to affect memory.”
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How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals
“There is always a lot of focus on technological innovation. What really drives a lot of progress is when people also figure out how to innovate on the financial model,”
Financial hallucinations!
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“a relatively modest investment in basic neuroscience and clinical translation that could pay off many times over in restored productivity, reduced medical visits and sheer human relief.”
31.10.2025 08:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Your Headache Is Serious. Science Should Take It Seriously.:
“Here is a common, disabling & economically costly disease whose mechanisms remain underexplored — largely because of institutional bias.& the solution isn’t so much a moonshot as it is low-hanging fruit”
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Your reminder that as a country we’re great at measuring/describing a problem but utterly incapable of fixing it.
England's most deprived areas named - with Jaywick topping list - BBC News
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“The CBI and Universities UK outlined five main consequences of the levy. They said universities already subsidised research by £5.4 billion a year, largely through international student income. A levy would “accelerate contraction” in research and innovation, they warned.”
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Tax on international students would be crippling, universities say: “The CBI & Universities UK, warned that plans for a 6 per cent levy would undermine the government’s efforts to boost economic growth, skills and productivity levels.”
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“The resident doctors’ strikes have shown the cracks in our health system. For students, they have also indicated what kind of doctors we may become: more politically aware and outspoken, yet increasingly cautious about committing to a career in the NHS. That should concern us all.”
30.10.2025 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fascinating conversation with Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer of Palantir. Touching on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war.
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Plural
30.10.2025 08:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morning glory..
30.10.2025 08:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Dr. Means could build a big, diverse tent filled with people eager to tackle her stated priority..Instead, her intense anti-medicine skepticism forecloses meaningful discourse with people who do not entirely agree with her.”
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