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Kate Polling

@katepolling.bsky.social

Mental health researcher, NHS psychiatrist, Clinical co-lead, SLaM's Clinical Informatics Service. Interested in health inequalities, self-harm, crisis care & using clinical data to make things better. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/catherine-polling

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Does global rise in diagnosed #neurodivergence reflect an increased awareness or does it indicate something else?

The 62nd Maudsley Debate, chaired by IoPPN’s Francesca HappΓ©, aims to tackle that question. #MaudsleyDebates

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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

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RCPsych Awards 2025 Read more about the different awards designed to mark the highest level of achievements in psychiatry.

Lot's of other great people from @maudsleynhs.bsky.social up for awards too: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcp...

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Clinical Informatics Service

Delighted that @maudsleynhs.bsky.social's Clinical Informatics Service has been shortlisted for @rcpsych.bsky.social Digital Team of the Year. More about our team, supported by @maudsleycharity.bsky.social here www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/c...

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The responses to this are just what I needed on a Monday morning. Some things are getting better!

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City Hall has triggered a high air pollution alert for Tuesday 12 August as hot weather is expected to increase pollutant levels.

We're urging Londoners to look after themselves, stop their engines idling, and refrain from burning wood or garden waste.

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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

Trying to change the population is creepy and dangerous, full stop. But pronatalism is also wrong on the science, particularly the US brand of it. Here's a nice explainer on some of its more egregious logical flaws.
From @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social and @shelleydclark.bsky.social

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North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

It's not enough. But it's something. Please give if you can, and tell your reps to stop this horror. chuffed.org/project/help...

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I re-read this every year and am always glad I did.

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I learned a great deal from this (very long) thread, definitely worth a read to try and understand what the new pope might mean (inc that this US pope won't/shouldn't please JD Vance and his ilk)

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Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archivesβ€” books, museums, databases, &cβ€” because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.

And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

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Woooooooo ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky

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As someone who’s worked with, on, about NHS data, I can’t emphasise enough that it is far far from a carefully curated, nationally complete and ready to use data set. I keep reading otherwise sensible sounding pieces that comment on the uh-mazing data we can straightforwardly exploit.

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A Tale of Three Artificial Intelligence (AI) Experiences in Healthcare Interactions AI tools are being increasingly used in healthcare, particularly for tasks like clinical notetaking during virtual visits. As a patient, I’ve had three recent experiences with AI-powered notetaking to...

AI can make errors when integrated into healthcare systems.

...but so do humans.

We don't have good processes to correct these errors for humans or AIs.

Some thoughts based on three different clinical encounters as a patient, where my clinician(s) used AI - or not.

bit.ly/42bkqwG

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β€œRookie factor”: why healthcare workforce policy needs to embrace experience What price experience? I have been working across several safety critical industries for years and in terms of the approaches that these industries take to workforce issues there are some stark differ...

This is a very thoughtful piece by @alisonleary1.bsky.social in the @bmj.com.

In any organisation, we need the right combination of new enthusiasm and recent training, alongside the experience and wisdom of those who’ve been around a while.

#MedSky
#PatientSafety

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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The second issue is that the uncertainty surrounding any given ranking is very large, and in many important cases so large that no statistically meaningful comparisons can be made, nor can useful user choices be sustained.

The second issue is that the uncertainty surrounding any given ranking is very large, and in many important cases so large that no statistically meaningful comparisons can be made, nor can useful user choices be sustained.

Seems like it is a day to reissue the @britishacademy.bsky.social report from 2012 on the efficacy of league tables in the public sector and especially to flag this point: often the level of statistical uncertainty involved renders them meaningless
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

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Still growing thread full of advice worth think about... so much that I'm going to have to read it in stages.

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Really useful article on how to think about making clinican interactions with AI useful and avoid turning clinicians into 'liability sinks'. Look forward to seeing more coming out of this project.

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A quick thread on schools and phones. I'm quite in favour of older kids having phones and managing their own social relationships/travel/finances and learning about how to be good digital citizen. Seems sensible and useful preparation for more independence and autonomy.

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It is my conviction that people who understand, at a fundamental level, what computers can and cannot do, are less susceptible to AI hype.

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