Habeeb

Doctor and Quantitative Researcher. Views are my own.

[michael phelps @michaelphe14501]

Powerful piece from Geoffrey Robertson. Surely these convictions can't stand.
https://t.co/1ZTNo9DzNV

[Venk Murthy MD PhD @venkmurthy]

While I have doubts about the Midjourney proposed business model and the maturity of the tech, there is no question that is technically super cool and worth doing a ton more research on

It's also shocking that the paper spent almost *TWO YEARS* in peer review at the final journal home

https://t.co/FSm7kEDN4L

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

This is, perversely, good news for Britain, Australia, Japan, Europe, and other countries being cut off that would once have seen themselves as close allies of the United States.

It shows us what the future may hold if AI is the strategically and economically decisive technology of the 21st century and is controlled by the US and China. It is good news because *it may be happening early enough to give us time to act.*

I think this will be rescinded pretty soon, but it’s a sign of things to come. In a future where frontier models cannot be used outside the US, our industries and economies will fall behind and American businesses may not be able to operate overseas. We won’t be able to defend ourselves militarily with defence systems built on obsolete software. Europe 2031 is a good scenario of what a future like this could mean: https://t.co/AMc5LrFJeS

Some of the things we need to do are ‘no regrets’ measures we should do anyway. But some are genuinely costly and risky.

We need cheap electricity – powered by gas, coal (this is costly, coal is very bad), deregulated nuclear fission – whatever can provide *cheap, reliable, 24/7* power. This almost certainly excludes wind power, which is enormously expensive and unreliable. We need projects to be able to connect to the grid in days rather than years by paying for fast-track connections.

We need to make it incredibly easy to build data centres, with the property taxes retained locally and hypothecated for local tax cuts so there is some direct benefit for locals. This doesn’t need to be nationwide.

We need to create new regulatory regimes for innovative businesses that give them the right to hire and fire staff with ease. The difficulty and cost of firing staff is one of the main reasons Europe has fallen behind so badly. We need to create a parallel employment regime that companies and workers can opt in to: https://t.co/YaNOXK1Po2

Even though I think it will probably fail, I think we should probably try to create a good, non-American frontier AI lab. I am quite pessimistic about this – even extremely well-resourced, innovative software companies are struggling to do this. But the stakes are so high that not trying seems foolish.

One thing that might work in our favour is the number of brilliant AI engineers who are not US citizens, who under the current export controls do not have access to Mythos/Fable even if they live and work in the US. What happens to Demis Hassabis, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, and the many other Europeans, Canadians, etc who are working on AI models in Britain and America who are affected by this?

I do not think we should force our own companies to use model, because this would exacerbate their economic weakness – this lab should have to compete on an even playing field. I am deeply sceptical that this can work, but we cannot rule it out. If we do it, it has to be able to pay US salaries, operate without political constraints. https://t.co/Um05rUF4Vq

It is cope to tell yourself that Trump is an aberration or that these export controls are a one-off. To repeat, I think these specific controls will be lifted quickly and it will be easy to move on and forget it happened. But this is a look into a potential future. Every one of us that is not a US citizen is at risk. The standard political divides do not apply here; the question is whether you grasp the enormity of AI as a technology. We have to act!

[Reuters @Reuters]

King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going

[NEJM @NEJM]

Dr. Aaron Baugh, a Black pulmonologist in California, believed that using race-correction in lung-function tests was a way to reduce health inequities. That was until he ran the numbers himself. Shocked by the results, he began to study the harmful effects of race correction on Black patients with lung disease.

Part two of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙀𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 uncovers the racist myths that led to today’s lung-function testing with Harvard historian of science Evelynn Hammonds and Brown professor Lundy Braun. Why is the race-corrected interpretation of spirometer test results still used by a majority of U.S. hospitals, when scientists have documented that the practice is harming patients?

Explore this topic in the latest episode of the Intention to Treat podcast: https://t.co/0CqRWfGg4C

[Parmita Mishra @parmita]

i know this for VERY annoying reasons, but watson and crick's DNA paper is still copyrighted. so much for open science.

842 words. 73 years old. watson and crick both passed away. british taxpayers funded it. nature still owns it. the iconic helix drawing was made by odile crick, who wasn't even an author, and her copyright runs separately through 2078. the data was rosalind franklin's photo 51, taken without her consent. she got no royalties in life. nature still collects them.

watson died last november, so under UK law the paper enters public domain on january 1, 2096. 143 years of private rent on a publicly-funded discovery, while nature publishes editorials about open science.

i'm the founder of a biotech company and i cannot legally put this paper on our website. the pattern is constant in biology: the moment an observation crosses a publisher's desk, the observer loses it. franklin's photo. paywalled, MTA'd, or licensed back to the people who paid for it.

this stuff they do to a scientist's work is even worse than what happens to musicians and artists and no one cares.

[Jenna Taglienti @jenna_taglienti]

I wrote this in a moment I never would have chosen. A sudden pause that made me see my life clearly.

The meaning of our work is profound. This experience simply helped me see more clearly what matters most.

“Time is Finite” JAMA

https://t.co/IwkKdyeEWx

[Trudy Wu, MD @TrudyWuMD]

Incredibly touched by this. Please take a minute to read today. An important message for physicians everywhere

[Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) @drmattuk]

The draft GMC Order 2026 consultation just dropped. Buried in it is a fundamental change to who can be awarded a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).

This matters enormously. Let me explain why.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I have waited years for someone to challenge this nonsense phrase on mainstream media. An indictment of the liberal PEP media that it took Tucker Carlson to do it. And he undeniably did it well.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A surgeon in London has performed the UK's first long‑distance robotic operation on a patient located 1,500 miles away in Gibraltar.

Urological surgeon Professor Prokar Dasgupta says this moment is 'good news for patients' in remote areas.

[Ibraheem Abioye @DrAbioye]

Previous guidelines suggest that pregnant women with sickle cell disease should be prescribed low-dose aspirin to reduce the preeclampsia and IUGR risk.

Our new trial indicates this practice may be harmful.

Very pleased to have been part of this @cctris_ trial.

[Andrew Bennett @andrewjb_]

for the capital shortage sceptics: there is no UK VC fund who could lead this round

[The Aziz Foundation @AzizFndn]

We know Britain is a much more open, tolerant and loving place than what we often see on our screens.

All across the UK there are good, honest people who know too well that we draw strength and inspiration from each other.

This year, we want to share their light.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

STUDENT ‘LOAN’ SCANDAL - IT’S THEFT

Worse than @RoyLilley states interest is applied on student ‘loans’ at RPI - PLUS 3% for higher earning graduates

Medical Graduates have the biggest loans by far & will therefore have the biggest interest applied & more to pay @wesstreeting

[Dr Waheed Ahmed 🧬🦀 @WaheedURAhmed1]

I graduated medical school in 2021 with £80k in student debt. Despite working as an NHS doctor for almost 5 years & repaying thousands each year, I now owe £10k more than when I started.

This isn’t a loan — it’s a punitive graduate tax my generation will never be able to repay.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said it is 'clear' that there is a genocide in Palestine.

He went on to say that seeing images from Sudan, Palestine and Ukraine 'hurts' him.

https://t.co/Nzi5VvRBJH

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

I've been trying with the BMA research team to produce one graph to rule them all. Real terms pay with inflation indexed on the same graph. Look at the CPI dotted line, our pay, the average public sector worker, worker & our comparators. It's not pretty! ONS & NHS digital

[Ari Reddy MD @AriReddy]

9️⃣ Why the strikes matter

This isn’t about “money-hungry doctors.”
It’s about:
•Longer training time
•Lower pay at every stage
•Fewer training posts than qualified applicants
•No automatic progression after completing training
•Final salaries that lag their international peers by 40–65 percent

If you designed a system to drive doctors abroad, you would build exactly this one.

The strikes are the predictable outcome of a structure that relies on exploiting junior doctors to keep the NHS running.

[NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme @NHS_CEP]

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