An astute essay on how medical education needs to adapt to generative #AI

"The whole idea of a medical curriculum built by humans is now in doubt"

"AI questions by patients will inevitably lead to an evolution of the patient-doctor relationship"

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2304993

Excellent diagnosis and recommendations by @kissane.
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

I'm a committed #Mastodon user. But I sympathize with the complaints she has gathered and understand why they drove many users away.

All of us who are here and committed to stay should take them seriously, especially if we want more people from our networks to give Mastodon a try (not deterred by its reputation), like what they find (not deterred by their experience), and decide to join us.

Why does manuscript submission in 2023 still feel like 1983??

I just submitted a ms to @ISMEmicrobes @springernature only to get a reply two days later that they insist that the figures will not be part of the text.

I don't know a single reviewer who prefers flipping pages back and forth while reading a ms.

All this stems from the time scientists would use a typewriter for the text and a mm paper for the figures. Why are we putting up with this?? 😠

#rant #peer_review #scicomm

What does Kering's announcement of a 30% stake in Valentino mean for the future of the Italian luxury brand?

The FSW team explores Kering's H1 2023 results and examines what this all may reveal about the current and future states of Valentino.

https://www.fashionstrategyweekly.com/p/kering-announces-a-30-stake-in-valentino

#fashion #luxury

Today the first papers came out from a huge collaboration between Meta and outside researchers: the Facebook and Instagram Election 2020 Study (FIES). There is a lot to unpack!
My story is here (and thread coming later but about to watch Oppenheimer):

https://www.science.org/content/article/does-social-media-polarize-voters-unprecedented-experiments-facebook-users-reveal

List of great scientific theories - what are your favorites?

(I’m curious to follow up on the discovery stories behind them). To kick things off:

Gravity, planetary motion (ptolomy > copernicus > newton > einstein)

Temperature (galileo > celcius/farenheit > thompson aka kelvin (themodynamics) > statistical mechanics

Genetic code / central dogma (DNA > mRNA > protein)

Neuron doctrine (cajal vs golgi)

Neurons communicate via chemical transmission (dale/eccles)

Memory engrams (semon …)

#science #neuroscience #philosophy #history