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Breast Cancer Screening in the UK (1)

Breast cancer screening can save your life. If you are eligible, make sure to get screened.

Here is a thread from Breast Cancer Now on Twitter.

Screening can pick up breast cancer before there’s any signs or symptoms. And the sooner breast cancer is diagnosed, the more effective treatment is likely to be. Here’s 5 things every woman needs to know about NHS breast screening.

twitter.com/BreastCancerNow/st

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5 things every woman needs to know about NHS breast screening
Once you turn 50, you'll be invited for screening every 3 years until your 71st birthday. It might not happen the year you turn 50, but it will by the time you're 53.
You need to be registered as female with your GP to be automatically invited for screening.
Screening uses a breast x-ray, known as a mammogram, to look for cancer that may be too small to see or feel.
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How to REALLY examine your breasts
cancer

Please see Dr Liz O'Riordan's video on how to properly examine your breasts.

twitter.com/Liz_ORiordan/statu

IMAGE: screen shot from Liz O'Riordan's video of how to REALLY examine your breasts. View it. It could save your life. https://twitter.com/Liz_ORiordan/status/1630865715082285056
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Was Rosalind Franklin a victim of sexism in research?

28 February – 70th anniversary of the day Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Bene’t St, Cambridge, and announced: “We have found the secret of life!” Had he and James Watson discovered the chemical structure of DNA  by nicking Rosalind Franklin’s data, though?

See the whole of the tweet thread here:
twitter.com/OddThisDay/status/

Image and caption from twitter thread: Watson and Crick, photographed by Antony Barrington Brown, with Crick pointing at a point on their DNA model in the Cavendish Laboratory in 1953
Image and caption from twitter thread: Head shots of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. Franklin is a young woman with dark hair and a look on her face as if a man is explaining something to her, and Wilkins is a lantern-jawed man with receding hair and glasses
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Dramatic fall in number of clinical trials in Britain between 2017 and 2021

The ABPI notes a 44% drop in the number of participants recruited to commercial clinical trials in the past 5 years.

The number of industry clinical trials started in the same period fell by 41%.

As a result The Office for Life Sciences has announced there will be an independent review into the UK commercial clinical trials landscape by Lord James O’Shaughnessy, Senior Partner at consultancy firm Newmarket Strategy, Board Member of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), and former Health Minister

The Office for Life Sciences is supposed to champion research, innovation and the use of technology to transform health and care service

Thanks to Paul Agapow on Twitter for the information.

Office for Life Sciences (UK Government header)
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Worst fears about science in Britain confirmed

timeshighereducation.com/news/

A summary of John Gill's (Times Higher Education) tweet on twitter today.

Text grab. Quote from Prof John Hardy, Professor of Neuroscience, UCL. "This confirms all my worst fears about the difference between the claims that Britain is a science super-power and the reality. I fear the opposite is happening. We are fading fast and having just done a review meeting in Paris, I fear we are being overtaken. And it's definitely getter harder to attract bright students and postdocs to London. It's depressing the the Government promised to protect this money for R&D but now appear to have given it back."
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The rotten underbelly of academic publishing

The link is to the article by Nick and Alexander Magazinov exposing authorship-for-sale networks, where someone submits a (usually plagiarised or fabricated) paper to a journal, and then sells the co-author positions on the internet.
Papers pass peer review, because that is organised by a crooked editor who is paid by the authors.

forbetterscience.com/2022/10/1

Thanks to Nick Wise on Twitter for the original information.

Image: Simpsons cartoon titled: If these trends continue... Cartoon shows graph of disco record sales in the 1970s (an exponential curve)
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Chris Guiton

Never, ever use repetitive redundancies. Don't use no double negatives. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

William Safire

#WritingCommunity #Writing #ContentWriting

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Choosing the right outcome is key to a clinical trial.

@MarionKCampbell has compiled a thread on composite clinical trial outcomes, drawing together key papers. Here is a link to the thread:
twitter.com/MarionKCampbell/st

Screen shot of title page of clinical paper: Freemantle et al. JAMA 2003 "Composite outcomes in randomized trials. Greater precision but with greater uncertainty?" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/196588
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Jelena Brankovic

I wanted to write something like, "oh you don't say" but this is *actually* a brutal read

#science #metrics #evaluation

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

Chatbots are not a good replacement for search engines

iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-ma

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Dangers and downsides of ChatGPT

1. Danger of loss of meaning/cumulative 'blurriness' due to paraphrasing
2. loss of attributions/referencing

According to John Burns Murdoch: Outputs are rephrasings rather than direct quotes makes them seem game-changingly smart — even sentient — but they’re just very straightforwardly not.

newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-t

IMAGE: screen grab of title of Ted Chiang's article on ChatGPT in the NewYorker. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
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Here's to celebrating The International Day of Women and Girls in Science

The theme of this year's day is:
Innovate. Demonstrate. Elevate. Advance.
I.D.E.A.: Bringing communities Forward for sustainable and equitable development

The 8th International Day of Women and Girls in Science looks at sustainable development goals (SDG): SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), SDG 9 (industry, innovation, and infrastructure), SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities).

These SDG are some of the UN's 17 global goals, see: sdgs.un.org/goals International Day of Women and Girls in Science aims to link the knowledge and expertise of women to the wider International Community and its applications for the 2030 agenda and its 17 global goals.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science also demonstrates the power of women to develop communities for the better. Without education for women, communities for men as well as women are compromised. Thoughts are with the women and girls of Afghanistan.

Image is a screen shot from https://www.womeninscienceday.org/, the website devoted to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Image from https://sdgs.un.org/goals with icons showing the second 6 of the United Nation's 17 sustainable development goals.
Image from https://sdgs.un.org/goals with icons showing the final 5 of the United Nation's 17 sustainable development goals.
Image from https://sdgs.un.org/goals with icons showing the first 6 of the United Nation's 17 sustainable development goals.
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Britain now has record-breaking cancer treatment waiting times.

"Without more treatment capacity, such as radiotherapy, this just leads to record long waiting lists. It is absolutely not okay."

telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/0

See @RTherapy4Life on Twitter for further info. Article in Telegraph newspaper by Lizzie Roberts and Ben Butcher.

Image of article in the Telegraph newspaper: Urgent cancer treatment waits are longest ever. By Lizzie Roberts and Ben Butcher.
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@empiricism
I agree, there will be drawbacks as well as advantages and opportunities with AI/LLM.

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Christian Schwägerl

What happens with Google search, ChatGPT etc is that they skim off the hard word of journalists without linking back to our platforms any more, cutting us off from readers and potential customers who might support our investigations and work, i.e. the very creation of quality information. It‘s value strip-mining at its worst when Google searches don‘t yield links to actual journalism any more but „answers“ that are algorithmically synthesized. niemanlab.org/2023/02/google-n

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This week is kidney cancer awareness week 2023
6-10 February
The aim is to make as much noise, raise hot kidney cancer topics and bring awareness of kidney cancer to everyone, so that the first time someone hears about it is not when they're diagnosed.

Signs and symptoms of kidney cancer
- Blood in the urine
- Low back pain or pain in the side
- A lump or mass in the area of the kidneys
- Abnormal red blood cell counts
- High blood pressure or hypertension
- Thickening of the blood
- Tiredness
- Weight loss
- Temperature/night sweats

Kidney cancer can be symptomless or signs can be vague, so if you feel something's not right, see your doctor.

Kidney cancer awareness week 2023 (6-10 February) logo. For more information see: https://www.kcuk.org.uk/event/kidney-cancer-awareness-week-2023/
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Dr. Heather Etchevers

Good news: our team is leading a basic-science workpackage in this Horizon Europe project known as MELCAYA. Finally getting around to announcing it officially 😉
Professors Susana Puig, project leader, and Inès Brecht, workpackage leader, along with dozens of additional experts including myself and representatives of patient groups to work on the predispositions to and treatments for melanoma in infants, children, adolescents and young adults.
clinicbarcelona.org/en/news/an

Professors Susana Puig, project leader, and Inès Brecht, workpackage leader, along with dozens of additional experts including myself and representatives of patient groups to work on the predispositions to and treatments for melanoma in infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Standing in front of two screens describing "MELCAYA kick-off meeting" in Barcelona on 13 January 2023.
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Using ChatGPT intelligently

Use it as a tool in creating your articles
-- Use it to create STRUCTURE for your writing
-- DO NOT use it to create content
-- Prompt to ChatGPT could include: topic, context, requirement (e.g. outline of presentation or article), suggestion of questions/research sub-topics, language (e.g. accessible), tone (e.g. Formal or informal)

Mustaq Bilal has done a thread on this here: twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/st

As Mustaq says, if you use ChatGPT's artificial intelligence with your own natural intelligence, you'll be unstoppable. A Porche with no brakes!

Image: photo of girl in blue jeans and pale blue T-shirt with laptop sitting cross-legged on the floor. OpenAI logo.
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What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science

A new article from @Nature.

Many scientists are using ChatGPT to increase productivity, but others remain wary. “If you believe that this technology has the potential to be transformative, then I think you have to be nervous about it,” says computational biologist
genomic.social/@greenescientis

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

[Reproduced from Nature twitter account, as I can't see it here on Mastodon yet. Apologies to @greenescientist if he got there first]

Illustration by Paweł Jońca, as used in the Nature article by Chris Stokel-Walker & Richard Van Noorden. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00340-6?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675722349
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