Does global rise in diagnosed #neurodivergence reflect an increased awareness or does it indicate something else?
The 62nd Maudsley Debate, chaired by IoPPNβs Francesca HappΓ©, aims to tackle that question. #MaudsleyDebates
@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
Does global rise in diagnosed #neurodivergence reflect an increased awareness or does it indicate something else?
The 62nd Maudsley Debate, chaired by IoPPNβs Francesca HappΓ©, aims to tackle that question. #MaudsleyDebates
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!
17.10.2025 19:29 β π 1106 π 480 π¬ 38 π 144Lot's of other great people from @maudsleynhs.bsky.social up for awards too: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcp...
18.10.2025 14:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Delighted 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...
18.10.2025 14:23 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0The responses to this are just what I needed on a Monday morning. Some things are getting better!
15.09.2025 06:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0City 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.
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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31.07.2025 06:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's not enough. But it's something. Please give if you can, and tell your reps to stop this horror. chuffed.org/project/help...
24.07.2025 23:19 β π 114 π 68 π¬ 3 π 16I re-read this every year and am always glad I did.
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02.06.2025 11:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I 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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28.03.2025 18:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just 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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19.02.2025 20:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Woooooooo β¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈ
Someoneβs done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky
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01.02.2025 10:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As someone whoβs worked with, on, about NHS data, I canβt 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.
28.01.2025 08:37 β π 45 π 7 π¬ 4 π 2AI 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
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 whoβve been around a while.
#MedSky
#PatientSafety
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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17.11.2024 11:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 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...
Still growing thread full of advice worth think about... so much that I'm going to have to read it in stages.
26.10.2024 12:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Really 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.
28.09.2024 12:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A 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.
15.09.2024 06:15 β π 24 π 8 π¬ 4 π 2It 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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