Tim Bray

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

New AJR Accepted Manuscript:

"Clinical Training As the Foundation for Responsible Artificial Intelligence Use in Radiology: A Perspective From Industry to Fellowship"

By Dr Hong #BrighamRad

ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/...

@ajrradiology.bsky.social

Brock et al investigated inflammation-induced changes in femoral hematopoietic bone marrow using advancing MRI techniques - they highlight the potential of advanced MRI T2 analysis and machine learning

#EuropeanRadiologyExperimental

eurradiolexp.springeropen.com/articles/10....

YouTube video by BAMM Stats Talk - The Characterization of a Quantitative Imaging Method

Can statistics be fun? You might find it hard to believe, but I had a blast giving this talk on #statistics of quantitative MR methods at the latest @ismrm.bsky.social conference. And judging from the reactions, people had fun too. Have a look: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTT...

Fantastic industry panel on sustainability in MRI at #ismrm

A great place to hear about some of the latest ones (with short accessible summaries attached) is @prelights.bsky.social! 👀

We’re capturing high-resolution 3D images of their internal structures, fully non-invasively — using a scanner originally designed for imaging human 👫 and small animal 🐷🐭…
…and recently used on Egyptian mummies 👀!

📌 A promising step forward for plant studies using multi-energy imaging 🌱

Preparing a GenAI class for the medical students :)

Butterflies on a blue sky

THREAD

The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter

In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.

By quite a lot.

Release the Kraken...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Sakana AI The AI Scientist Generates its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication

Sakana’s AI Scientist V2 generated a paper that passed peer review in an ICLR workshop. sakana.ai/ai-scientist...

This was done with ICLR workshop organizers’ blessing, and the paper was withdrawn after acceptance.

FUTURE-AI: international consensus guideline for trustworthy and deployable artificial intelligence in healthcare Despite major advances in artificial intelligence (AI) research for healthcare, the deployment and adoption of AI technologies remain limited in clinical practice. This paper describes the FUTURE-AI f...

FUTURE-AI: international consensus guideline for trustworthy and deployable artificial intelligence in healthcare www.bmj.com/content/388/... #artificialintelligence #healthcare #bioinformatics #ethics #trust

Great piece

Guest Post: An Editor’s Perspective on “My Very Last Issue.” - The Scholarly Kitchen BMJ's Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief Brandy Schillace reflects on changes in publishing that are making important work harder to do.

Perspective from 17 years as a scholarly editor -

“…things will get worse before they get better — as evidenced by the recent resignation of an entire board ... We must be very careful, for we are losing something precious.”

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/01/15/g...

Want to develop exciting new deep learning and MRI technology for faster, better whole-body MRI scans? Here is an exciting PhD opportunity to do this! If you are interested, please do get in touch. @garyhuizhang @CMI_UCL @David1Atkinson

ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2025-26-proj...

"AI" creative writing looks passable to people who don't look at writing all day long. To editors, it pops out like a sore thumb. LLMs are glorified predictive text machines and they predict, well, predictably. PS: if you submit an "AI" story, the editor WILL remember you, and not in a good way.

Want to develop exciting new deep learning and MRI technology for faster, better whole-body MRI scans? Here is an exciting PhD opportunity to do this! If you are interested, please do get in touch. @garyhuizhang @CMI_UCL @David1Atkinson

ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2025-26-proj...

New Year, new blogpost ...We haven't had enough of experts - and the civil service is one place we definitely need them occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

I do not want AI-generated media.

I want more human-created content.

I want to see and experience things that humans have created.

Some fairy parachutes from yesterday’s hike, a close-up, and a fairy parachute condo! Lol
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Nice

Experiments in k-space.

I call this one "explosion-02".

Happy #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Mushrooms from Hocking Hills in Ohio.🍁🍄‍🟫🍂

For Christmas I want a dragon.
Be realistic.
OK. I want my paper to be accepted without revisions.
What colour do you want your dragon.

Which one are you?
Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.
–Peter Medawar

Some papers are very difficult to read but that doesn’t necessarily mean they're deeper than other papers. Authors must work very hard to make their story easy to read and understand by others. Or as Stephen King says: "the shorter the book, the less bullshit".

It is a bit ambitious to try and sum up the magic of MRI physics in one post but here goes

Open thread…

Credit: Yin Hao

Meteor Shower and Orion in Mongolia 🇲🇳

Stemonitis slime mold, zoomed out photo below. #fungifriends #fungi #forestfloor #mycology #naturephotography

Building a NMR spectrometer isn't terribly complicated if you understand the physics. I'm simplifying the initial process by using this ancient spectrum analyzer. I'm planning to replace this during my grad school thesis research. But before we get there I should explain how NMR works. 🧵

Infinite Armada Chess xkcd.com/3020