RT @aaditsh: AI is more dangerous than you think. Recently the founder of ChatGPT, Sam Altman, talked about AI regulation. The dangers, r….

RT @AndSplend: I'm hosting SWAT4HCLS 2023 (Basel + remote). Would you like to attend?

Incredible video. Own it Brexiteers.

I presume, having made abortion illegal in half the USA, the Supreme Court are going to mandate better support to women in perilous positions of poverty if they fall pregnant, right? Right??.

Interested in solving hard data problems with important biomedical data & gifted engineers & scientists? We're hiring Engineering Managers at @BenchSci to lead a Data Team & a #MachineLearning team. Challenging & rewarding jobs!

Thoughs and prayers for web admin at this week after booster announcement. .

I've been having a play with the @OpenAI Beta over the last few days. Very cool. Tried some code explanation using OWL-API and some ontology enrichment experiments. Just scratching the surface to see how much the model understands of biology. Blog: #gpt3.

Really interesting study from multiple villages in Bangladesh. TLDR; large cohort study with good control groups showed mask wearing was effective in reducing covid transmission. Thread below and link to paper 👇.

Really interesting webinar if you are interested in deploying semantically enriched facts in a #graph database. Register below!.

We should also not underestimate the value of a subject matter expert being able scrutinise data; when is an outlier an error and when is it a discovery? AI approaches are becoming transformative but not as a complete SME replacement 2/2.

Enjoyed sitting on @biocurator conference panel yesterday on future of #biocuration. My thoughts from 2016 are here (and I still believe them) Today, I see biocuration as relevant as ever with increased adoption of #machinelearning approaches 1/2.

RT @RoyalFamily: Next, The Princess met two @TheQueensAwards winning companies. 🖨 @Global_Graphics provides software for digital printing….

RT @JamesFransham: Why has the UK been so successful? (Think about the ROI on $45m given variants' ability to ruin your multi-billion dolla….

Let us never utter the words 'people have had enough of experts' again. Experts - scientists - are getting us out of this Covid pandemic. There is no other way out of this.

RT @BBCFergusWalsh: AstraZeneca says it aims to have a ‘next generation’ Covid vaccine ready for use in the autumn which will incorporate s….

Going to talk to @OBOFoundry about the use of their bio-ontologies within industry and how we consume and support the consumption of ontologies more broadly. Feel free to pop in - you will need to register if you are not an OBO regular

This is a primary school which, due to shortfalls in budget, has already had to reduce staffing to a level that only 4.5 days of teaching can take place each week from 2019. I wrote to @lucyfrazermp but still waiting for any real terms increase.

Cost of COVID continues to hit education and will be downstream consequences. This is my kid's school, Fulbourn Primary: "Our current estimate is that to date it has cost £53,692 [extra]. To date. we have been able to claim £1,596 [funds from gov]" @lucyfrazermp @Cambslive.

Thanks to all our colleagues for supporting this drive with their incredible generosity: @Congenica @eaglegen @GenomicsEngland @emblebi @sangerinstitute Donations still welcome during this difficult year: