Stefan Marciniak
Professor of Respiratory Science University of Cambridge. Lung doctor. Fellow St Catharine’s College. Cell biology. Pleural medicine. Rare disease. Genetics.
Lab webpage = cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-ste…
- What AI seems good at: tweaking grammar to fit a particular vanilla style What AI is really bad at: scientific papers
- The hallucination of nonexistent papers makes AI annoying and fascinating in almost equal measure
- Weird to have already given a lecture this morning and it’s not even 6am 🥱🫁
- Through the magic of Zoom I’ll be giving a talk on pneumothorax genetics to an Australian 🇦🇺 audience at 5am (a lunchtime talk apparently) but I’ll still be in clinic at @cuh.nhs.uk by 7:30am to prep notes for my clinic 🇬🇧 Two alarms set for 4:30am ⏰⏰😟
- Through the magic of Zoom I’ll be giving a talk on pneumothorax genetics to an Australian 🇦🇺 audience at 5am (a lunchtime talk apparently) but I’ll still be in clinic at @cuh.nhs.uk by 7:30am to prep notes for my clinic 🇬🇧 Two alarms set for 4:30am ⏰⏰😟
- What does a £114 billion per year GDP loss mean? Assuming tax as 36% of GDP (OECD figure) that’s £40–42 billion less in annual gov revenue That’s 900,000 band 5 nurses Or 680,000 police officers Just an illustration, but clearly the brexit impact on our tax base will have harmed public services
- 10 years since the referendum 5 years since brexit Most of that time under brexiter rule The OBR’s assessment 1. Long‑term GDP impact ~4% lower (£114B/y) 2. Trade: clearly reduced relative to the counterfactual 3. Migration: composition changed, totals not reduced obr.uk/forecasts-in...
- 10 years since the referendum 5 years since brexit Most of that time under brexiter rule The OBR’s assessment 1. Long‑term GDP impact ~4% lower (£114B/y) 2. Trade: clearly reduced relative to the counterfactual 3. Migration: composition changed, totals not reduced obr.uk/forecasts-in...
- “Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record” 😳🏥 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- “10 years on a we are still waiting” For what? The disaster came, pretty much as predicted by the experts. The fantasy benefits didn’t come because, well, they were always fantasies That Johnson backs this new ‘campaign’ says it all. If only he’d had an oportunity to implement his vision Oh, wait
- An interesting article in the @data.ft.com but their nice image of an amino acid is spoiled by erroneous labelling (at least for this pedant) “Carbocyclic acid group” ?! Really? Yuk! www.ft.com/content/b154...
- WHO sees low risk of Nipah virus spreading beyond India But it did not rule out further exposure to the virus, which circulates in the bat population in parts of India and neighbouring Bangladesh www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- Turns out @brucespringsteen.net released a new song yesterday. Who said the political song was dead?
