Claudia Pagliari
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Academic @EdinburghUni researching digital health & society. Theory, design, policy, evaluation, innovation, ethics. https://t.co/n9W2Fg5U43
Edinburgh UK
Joined September 2009
Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow. Anti-vax propaganda implicated. #PublicHealth #OutbreakPrevention #VaccineHesitancy
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The country hasn't been able to curb an outbreak of more than 5,000 cases over the last year, while US cases are at a 33-year high.
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Some welcome good news for the University of Dundee with a giant leap forward in remote robot-assisted brain surgery (albeit presently on a cadaver). #telemedicine #robotics #surgery #stroke #thrombectomy #innovation #Scotland
@dundeeuni
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A Dundee professor carried out the first remote thrombectomy on a human cadaver.
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A new strain of “nasty” flu is being predicted to cause havoc in the UK this winter. The vaccine prepared for the seasonal jabs isn’t a perfect match although is expected to lessen symptoms. Schools have already shut in Japan to help curb outbreaks. #Flu25
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Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.
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“It's relentless - We’re getting questions patients wouldn’t have bothered GPs with before, like 'Should I take this food supplement?'” Why #eHealth can’t sit alone from patient education & self-empowerment. #NHS #Tech #Change #DoctorPatientRelationship
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A month since GPs in England started offering online appointment bookings, patients recount their experiences.
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"The X algorithm prioritises sending new users right-wing leaning content", a Sky News Data and Forensics investigation reveals. In this report, Sky's @Chesh explains how Elon Musk's X is boosting the British right. 🔗 https://t.co/r4Ay11hwdL
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A guy just used @AnthropicAI Claude to turn a $195,000 hospital bill into $33,000. Not with a lawyer. Not with a hospital admin insider. With a $20/month Claude Plus subscription. He uploaded the itemized bill. Claude spotted duplicate procedure codes, illegal “double
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In 1833, a chance meeting in London between a 17-year-old girl and a renowned inventor quietly set the stage for the digital revolution. That girl was Ada Lovelace, daughter of the famed poet Lord Byron. Unlike her father, whose life was marked by romanticism and rebellion, Ada
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Prince Andrew is a fool and a sleaze, but he’s not Epstein. And he isn’t the only vain celebrity to have been taken in by his ‘playboy lifestyle’ illusion. So why does he seem to be the only one being vilified and destroyed? Media? Money? Political convenience? Hostile state ops?
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The silence is deafening. Civilian men, women, and children are being slaughtered in Sudan. Estimates of over 150,000 killed & 14 million displaced since April 2023. Considered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. No mass protests. No daily political statements/demands. No
🔴 The hot sand around the Sudanese city of El Fasher is stained red with the blood of more than 2,000 massacred civilians See how journalists used satellite imagery to reconstruct the scale of violence ⬇️ https://t.co/4k6tHsVEfX
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“An alarming appetite for population data” UK research leaders have been enabling this for years and been rewarded handsomely by both overseas partners and our own state institutions. Has the penny finally dropped and how will universities respond? #data #security #accountability
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Digital ID Won't Work Without Public Trust, Warns Information Commissioner
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The government's digital ID scheme will not work without public trust, the information commissioner has told MPs.
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“The reality is that there aren’t many alternatives” #Cyberthreats #Monopolies #Infrastructure #Resilience #DigitalDependency
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More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.
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“We can't make calls since Storm Amy damaged vital internet link”
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Broadband, mobile data, and digital phone services all failed on Tiree after a subsea fibre cable was damaged during Storm Amy.
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“Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year” #DigitalEthics #AI #Sustainability
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The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.
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Given #cybersecurity threats why is UKGov not acting to stop the wholesale digitisation of our telecommunications, public/legal records, government, NHS & bank infrastructure? #DigitalDependency “Firms advised to put plans on paper in case of cyber-attack”
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Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.
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“Data-poisoning attacks might be more practical than previously believed” #DataIntegrity #DataGovernance #Cybersecurity
New research with the UK @AISecurityInst and the @turinginst: We found that just a few malicious documents can produce vulnerabilities in an LLM—regardless of the size of the model or its training data. Data-poisoning attacks might be more practical than previously believed.
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University employers claim that redundancies are being "carefully considered … in an "open and fair way" but basic failures to bypass major avoidable pension harms, secrecy about this, and lack of consultation with staff or trade unions suggest otherwise.
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University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
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We've urged the government to stand firm against pressure to increase drug prices, as an increase would mean less of the #NHS budget could be spent on other NHS services with wider health benefits, such as GP appointments. Read more @Independent 👇 https://t.co/100QTj549F
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If given a choice, would you prefer to have a tiny £17 share of a £480,000,000 settlement or a vote on good causes to help? Apple and Samsung users could be due share of £480m payout #Consumertech #Lawsuits #Giving #Innovation #Charity #Justice
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Consumer group Which? is taking tech giant Qualcomm to the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London on Monday.
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