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Society president talks to CLAPA ahead of ground-breaking conference Cleft Lip and Palate Association UK

“This year, as well as lived experience presentations, all of the sessions will have someone with a direct involvement of the lived experience – as a service user or parent/carer - talking about their life challenges and successes.

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NHS Cleft teams and specialists from around the UK are in Newcastle today for the start the #CFGBI Conference.

The conference will have a very different feel this year – with more than 30 people with lived experience of cleft involved in the programme. [1/3]

Cleft@18-23 study is now recruiting participants across the UK! @cleft1823study.bsky.social

#cleft #cleft18-23 #cleftresearch #cleftlipandpalate

When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

I find this article completely terrifying AI models asked to win chess match against a non-AI chess program resort to hacking the chess program 11-37% of the time once recognise cannot win by chess rules. There was no prompt suggestion to do this. Implications are massive

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This is not good. AI investment bots are making a mockery of finnancial investment Is this a tipping event? A harbinger of ????? finzennews.com?utm_source=t...

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

Winter is here - hold on to your seats, it could be a bumpy ride #getvaccinated

Chris Whitty (has he made it here yet) posted in the other place: t.co/eo5MFz6Hvs

@theguardian.com Please quote effect sizes & the conclusions report not press release

Effect size - 1.63 IQ point reduction per mg/l fluoride increase. Normal IQ range 90-109

Report emphasises that effect is at doses significantly above recommended and can not be extrapolated to the lower doses

Chief medical officer highlights one of key societal issues of our age and the future

We need to take collective responsibility for aging well as a society, it can’t just be medical

Supporting environments and behaviours that make this possible.

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@nottmhospitals.bsky.social Great to see that NUH has seen the Blue Sky. Building a community of positive innovation and teamwork

100% can confirm, despite what might or might not happen in healthy volunteers in corporate labs, that this is DEFINITELY still an issue in the inpatient setting that anybody seeing potentially hypoxemic patients needs to know about

I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I’d like to share a very small sample of the work I’ve been so proud to support (thread)

Hi Blue Sky. Prefect reflection of the clear blue sky no distortions or coming storms. Moel Hebog in Llyn Cwmstradllyn