Beatrice Alex

Anyone thinking Weightwatchers when seeing mentions of the Academic Size & Shape project?

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.

OpenAI: We'll do it

THEN delete.

This tech, called “AI“ in the article, is already being used in some NHS trusts. Called Transpara and is a convolutional neural network trained on 1mio images to classify the likelihood of breast cancer in each new new mammography. Boffins made it 😉
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

#WhenTheySayAI

I mean, if Downdetector is down, it must be bad. :-)

ChatGPT users can’t use service for tailored legal and medical advice, OpenAI says OpenAI dispelled suggestions that it’s changing its terms around legal and medical advice.

OpenAI updates its terms of service for ChatGPT: can’t use the service for “tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional.”

www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Thank you for your vision to set up this journal.

Decoding Hidden Heritages Explore the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland

Happy 10th Anniversary to the JOHD: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com. It's wonderful to celebrate open access to humanities data as supported by this journal. And thank you for inviting me to speak about our work www.hiddenheritages.ai where we provide access to digitised Irish and Gaelic folktales.

#Edinburgh folks: free hackathon for 15-18 year olds on Sat 27th Sept. Build a project in a day. Free, beginner-friendly, and open to secondary students. Food, drinks, snacks, and swag are provided. At @codebasetech.bsky.social, Castle Terrace. Sign up at: lochdin-edinburgh.netlify.app Please share!

Interesting stats from EMNLP: This year, we received 8174 submissions and accepted 22.16% of the submissions as Main papers and 17.35% as Findings. … 82 papers were desk-rejected because at least one of their authors had been identified as an irresponsible reviewer 2025.emnlp.org/desk-rejecti...

Google Scholar Is Doomed Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Hidden Heritages - a great resource providing access to digitised Gaelic and Irish folktales. The transcription was done automatically using @transkribus.bsky.social or crowdsourcing. A great example of the use of AI and NLP for the benefits of research and society.

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Do you have a source for this?

This work is part of the AIM-CISC project funded by @nihr.bsky.social and affiliated with the Advanced Care Research Centre: usher.ed.ac.uk/advanced-car...

Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health? Social attributes of neighborhoods, like heritage, and low-level social disorder, are not reflected in official metrics such as deprivation indices. However, research suggests these attributes are im...

Published today! 🗞️🗞️🗞️

Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health?
Eleojo O. Abubakar, A. Grivas, B. Guthrie, C. Zheng, C. Grover, C. Llewellyn, C. MacRae, R. Tobin, B. Alex, C. Dibben, J. Pearce and A. Marshall
doi.org/10.1111/gean...

Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding The Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down.

Cuts to the the Women’s Health Initiative “will lead to incalculable losses to scientific discovery and human health.” www.statnews.com/2025/04/22/w...

Spaces still available!

Join us in two days for this beginner-level online lesson where we’ll teach you how to create a digital gazetteer from historical texts, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.

No programming skills needed!

📅Thur 17 April
🔗 edin.ac/3FBtHoy

Wonderful to see all the hard work of my PhD student Sarah Immel of the CDT for Designing Responsible NLP exhibited at the Edinburgh Science Festival. Today at the Edinburgh Futures Institute!

Thank you very much for speaking to the group. So important seeing work on AI involving patients.

Lucy Havens, Benjamin Bach, Melissa Terras, Beatrice Alex
Investigating the Capabilities and Limitations of Machine Learning for Identifying Bias in English Language Data with Information and Heritage Professionals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00860

Simple but impactful chart shows the leading cause of death throughout the lifecycle.

The image features an antique wooden box with ivory Napier’s bones, an early mathematical calculating tool, spilling onto a surface. Superimposed on the left side is a green-tinted illustration of Ada Lovelace, a 19th-century mathematician and writer, in the shape of an ampersand. On the right side, there are two dark blue rectangles with white text that read "INTRODUCTION TO BAYESIAN STATISTICS." In the top right corner, there is a circular dark blue logo with pink text that reads "DCS."

Spaces still available to join our two-class course on Bayesian Statistics!

We'll cover the fundamentals and provide hands-on practice with Bayesian models in R.

📆 Wed 25 Mar & 2 Apr, 14:00 – 16:00
🔗 edin.ac/42XeZ54

A digital collage featuring Ada Lovelace, a stylized dog, and vintage text in the background. A circular, dark blue logo in the top right has the text DCS in pink lettering. There is a dark blue rectangle in the bottom right that says "Machine Learning" in white.

Curious about Machine Learning?

Join us for our next Digital Methods of the Month session where we'll break down the basics and discuss some of its real world applications.

No prior knowledge needed - this session is beginner friendly!

📆 Mon 7 April, 13:00 - 14:00
edin.ac/3DwwC1f

Are you a CAHSS researcher with an excellent data-led project? Nominate your work (or someone else's!) for a CDCS Digital Research Prize - there's £250 towards research costs up for grabs!

Deadline for nominations NOW EXTENDED: 14th March 2025

The
@EdiClinicalNLP group is now on Bluesky for further announcements: bsky.app/profile/edin...

What’s a better citation for distant reading? Genuinely curious. Wondering if distant reading/Macroanalysis are still a thing in DH or if folk have moved on to use different terminology.

Amazing. Thank you. I’m leading the Edinburgh Clinical NLP Group.

My first thought exactly.

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