🤖 In policy? Thinking about the definition of "AI"?
Led by @aspendigital.bsky.social, a set of us at intersection of AI/ethics/law/policy put together this resource on the lineage of policy "AI" definitions, what they're getting right, what might be improved.
www.aspendigital.org/report/defin...
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
NEW PREPRINT! 🦠⚖️🌡️ The Pandemic Agreement is the first global health treaty to name climate change, and behind the scenes, the UNFCCC was a source of both inspiration and conflict. Cristina Arnés-Sanz and team tracked climate issues through three years of negotiations: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Big tech is moving into your medical records. Microsoft’s Copilot Health will soon merge Apple Watch data with clinical histories to "connect the dots" in seconds. It’s an efficiency win, but the privacy stakes are high: HIPAA doesn't apply here, and AI bias hasn't been solved yet.
#MedSky #MedAI
A long-used medical test underestimated the severity of kidney disease in Black patients. New study says with the bias removed, transplant rates are up. www.statnews.com/2026/03/10/k...
Don't trust ChatGPT Health – or likely any general health LLM – to give you medical advice in the context of a serious acute illness. Patient triage is clearly outside its functional requirements.
#medsky
www.evidencetriage.com/p/the-chatgp...
Pediatricians are cool to begin with
Now their blood is being used to make new treatments for RSV and colds! 👏🏽👏🏽
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
Progress!
This is fantastic, and it's something that we've been saying for years.
When companies say that are using "AI for climate change", they are referring to much smaller models used for doing things like climate modeling.
Massive generative AI models are NOT USEFUL for mitigating climate change.
The percentage of people dying before age 70 is an honest accounting of whether our health systems are working. For the United States, that number tells us we’re failing nearly one in four people.
The US recorded 160 new measles cases in the past week, 44 fewer cases than recorded the week prior, but still more than any week in 2025. The US has recorded 902 total cases in 2026, after 2,128 cases recorded in 2025.
Updates on measles and more in the Tracking Report: mailchi.mp/messages/pan...
oooh we are posting super bowls?
As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.
Georgia O’Keeffe, Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt
After the Trump administration formally withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization, the New York City Health Department joined a WHO network aimed at countering new pathogens and emerging outbreaks.
😍💔🇨🇦
The largest randomized trial of medical A.I.
—Over 100,000 women in Sweden
—radiologist + AI vs 2 radiologists, in follow-up
—AI added led to 29% more cancer detected, 44% reduced workload, and
—Less cancer dx in subsequent 2 years, and, when found, less aggressive
thelancet.com/journals/lan...
America is bleeding scientific talent
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory 🗃️
Feels like this was going to happen sooner or later. A dairy cow in the Netherlands tests positive for antibodies to #H5N1 #birdflu, which has infected many, many, many cows in the U.S.
History repeating...
On this day in 1969, Billy Preston arrived at Apple Studios, where he helps The Beatles complete the Let It Be album during their tumultuous recording sessions by providing a fresh and positive energy to the band.
Still can’t wrap my head around this intentional destruction of science
7,800 research grants terminated or frozen
25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies that oversee research
Proposed budget cuts amounting to US$32 billion…
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Covers of the 2 leading science journals this week
@science.org and @nature.com
www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
An AI-powered learning health system is improving sepsis recognition.
The HERACLES algorithm helps lower mortality and enhance clinical documentation through continuous, data-driven feedback.
It reduced sepsis mortality from 20.54% to 15.27% in program wards.
#MedSky
Really enjoyed this take on Carney’s speech. ⬇️
I added more than 20 books to this already great list of global health books!
communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...
Continuous glucose monitoring sensor data, with a foundation model, predicts risk of Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular outcomes better than HbA1c
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nick Benson distributed 500+ crowdsourced dashcams to document ICE agents in Minneapolis.
The initiative aims to capture evidence of operations following the shooting of observer Renee Good.
An AI revolution in drugmaking is under way
AI is shifting drug discovery from in vitro to in silico. New models cut preclinical timelines to 18 months and may replace control groups with synthetic patients. The aim is to double clinical trial success rates.
#MedSky 💊 #MLSky
