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If people have the energy… I’m over there too now, say hi/follow etc threads.net/@hannahdevlinjou…
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There was no hack. Some researchers had carelessly made the data available and then bad actors obtained it and tried to sell it. Full story by Hannah Devlin @hannahdev was published in the Guardian last month: theguardian.com/science/2026…
For anyone following UK Biobank story, here's our investigation from last month revealing dozens of breaches, which now raises questions about whether more could have been done sooner... theguardian.com/science/2026…
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Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online, reveals @hannahdev theguardian.com/science/2026…
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Confidential health records from @uk_biobank project exposed online theguardian.com/science/2026… via @hannahdev et al
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Very valuable perspectives from community organisations on the implications of attempts to rehabilitate scientific racism via @aamnamohdin theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
Interested in what others make of the authorised use of UK Biobank data to build an embryo screening tool for cognitive abilities and other polygenic traits. Is this “health related research in the public interest”?
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US startup #HeliospectGenomics charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’ theguardian.com/science/2024… via @hannahdev et al @susan_bewley @ProfJoyceHarper
REVEALED: US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’. Latest piece with @tomburgis @davidtpegg & @jason_a_w theguardian.com/science/2024…
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And here is my contribution to the Guardian and @hopenothate's extensive report. If you know the history of eugenics, and scientific racism, it is galling to see it repeat and rhyme over and over again. Which is why it needs exposing.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
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REVEALED: An international network of “race science” activists seeking to advance discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a US tech entrepreneur. @davidtpegg
@hannahdev @jasonwilson @jason_a_w + me. theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
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On what is in some ways the hardest day of my year but in other ways the most positive, as we release the latest report from the @mbrrace confidential enquiries into maternal deaths and morbidity, it is important we recognise the families and friends of the women who have died
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Top Olympic tips for mental resilience to enhance success | Paris Olympic Games 2024 | The Guardian theguardian.com/sport/articl…
‘They get anxious but still win gold’: Team GB’s psychologist @jessthomsp on nerves, negativity and self-doubt theguardian.com/sport/articl…
Exclusive: Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use theguardian.com/education/ar…
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Elegant work published in Science on a potential future treatment for #PCOS @profdicanderson @hannahdev
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BREAKING: Michigan reports a case of #H5N1 #birdflu in a farm worker who had exposure to dairy cows. statnews.com/2024/05/22/bird…
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Exclusive:
David Cameron has written to Rishi Sunak warning that universities will face job losses and even closure if he pushes ahead with curbs to graduate visas
Sunak is weighing up measures to ensure only ‘best and brightest’ come to U.K.
Cameron: ‘One of the consequences of any restrictions on graduate visas is that universities will experience further financial difficulties — leading to job losses, closures and a reduction in research’
He highlights the ‘significant economic contribution’ that international students make to the economy
He also warns that it could damage Britain’s ‘soft power’
He joins a coalition of ministers opposed to hardline curbs on graduate visas including Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor and James Cleverly, the home secretary
Ally of Sunak pushes back: ‘Ultimately ministers get lobbied and make a case for their equities but the PM has to take the right position for the country’
thetimes.co.uk/article/e8cd8…
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No bird flu virus was found after cooking ground beef to medium to well done, the US Department of Agriculture said in a briefing after conducting a study as it addresses concerns over an outbreak of the disease in dairy cattle reut.rs/4awomJa
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Intriguing paper in this week's Science: a new, much cheaper approach for MRI scanning
It's an MRI scanner that uses a 0.05 Tesla magnet (vs. the current 1.5 - 3 T) and operates at a fraction of the cost (~$22,000 for the hardware), time (<10 minutes), and noise of a current MRI scanner
Unlike current MRIs, the prototype scanner plugs into a standard wall socket, and doesn't need specialist shielding equipment
It uses a deep learning (AI) strategy to improve the low signal-noise ratio that's inherent to lower field strength MRIs
Although the images from the 0.05 T approach aren't as good as from 3 T MRI, they don't seem to be far off
Zhao et al: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
