James W. Phillips
@AnEmergentI
Fmr special adviser to the UK PM for science and tech, #10 ‘weirdo&misfit’, COVID rapid testing&origins, Letby trial, metascience, neural circuits, Ox|Cam|UCL
Whats it like to begin working in 10 Downing Street at a moment of national crisis with zero background in politics? An interview on this I did with Statecraft, a publication by Santi Ruiz @rSanti97 supported by DC-based Institute for progress @IFP, has been published. - 1/2
So the spin is - if you don't let us control what you see and say then we'll say you fiddle with kids
If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that.
My friend's father has exceed cancer prognosis life expectancy several fold. Tumours (amazingly) were still shrinking + preparing for immunotherapy. But we have a major problem: access to experimental drugs. Anyone w/contacts to German **CatalYm** plz DM for compassionate use.
Bat signal to sci/tech ppl! A friend of mine's father was diagnosed days ago with Stage IV Metastatic Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The prognosis is difficult. The friend has been an exceptional public servant and colleague. I am helping the family map out networks.…
The opening clause here is almost perfect as a discussion point:
The Harry Potter world was the best depiction of concealed carry rights in mass media, both the positives as well as the difficult negative tradeoffs that are just so bitter to swallow but still better than the alternative.
Read the room
ATI chair says sole defence focus would be ‘massive mistake’, following Peter Kyle's call to for an overhaul of the institute. I understand Doug Gurr told staff he would “be very surprised” if it didn’t “carry on as we are doing” with its other work. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res…
“I’m so proud to be English” - Chloe Kelly I haven’t heard anyone on telly say that about England in so long. For all the sneering from some quarters, that’s just such a wonderful thing to hear. Much more of this please, in all kinds of arenas. 🏴
The general view of the UK economy is that it's been stagnating for decades now. But on some of the most important metrics it's actually going backwards...
@AnEmergentI 's jameswphillips.substack.com/p/my-metascien… I'm biased but I think my blog.benjaminreinhardt.com/wddw and blog.benjaminreinhardt.com/parpa are pretty good
Every UK household this morning now that the Online Safety Act has come into effect
Weird how centrist people are coming out of the woodwork, so to speak, to defend pro-merit, pro-free speech/academic freedom positions! It's almost like such views were being suppressed by some force over the past few years.....
Based on what I have read and heard so far, the agreement reached between the Federal government and @Columbia is an excellent template for agreements with other institutions including @Harvard. First, academic freedom is preserved as the University maintains academic autonomy.…
Based on what I have read and heard so far, the agreement reached between the Federal government and @Columbia is an excellent template for agreements with other institutions including @Harvard. First, academic freedom is preserved as the University maintains academic autonomy.…
Response to the tweet last time was extraordinary, and thankfully the therapeutic response also was. But now we are running up against the limits of compassionate use for highly promising drugs.
This is urgent as sadly news of amazing response to chemo setting up access to immunotherapy has been met with/Cachexia more recently. My friends family know this is long shot. Also if anyone has routes to get Pfizer to send Ponsegromab for compassionate use please do.
To stand by and leave the Lucy Letby issue to someone else is to be complicit. Please will MPs, religious leaders, media influences and others study this case and make their voices heard?
We now have three MPs (David Davis, Jeremy Hunt, Nigel Farage) speaking up about Lucy Letby. But we need to hear from all of them. Ms Letby’s case raises issues of great public importance, so MPs of all political persuasions have a duty to make their views known.
How to decentralise scientific information sharing away from incentives of the legacy for profit journal cartel without succumbing to the incentives of the social media system is a v important question imo. Useful thread here.
"Science has many bad features because of the bad incentives of journals" risks becoming "Science is even worse because of the [sometimes] worse incentives of social media". I'm optimistic about creating healthy new media forms, but science-with-X-as-target has many downsides
"Science has many bad features because of the bad incentives of journals" risks becoming "Science is even worse because of the [sometimes] worse incentives of social media". I'm optimistic about creating healthy new media forms, but science-with-X-as-target has many downsides