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Marisa Miraldo

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Professor in Health Economics at Imperial College London. Co-Director School of Convergence Science for Health & Technology @ Imperial. Passionate about diversity and evidence based policy. Views are my own. @[email protected] .. more

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Marisa Miraldo @marisamiraldo.bsky.social · Jun 16

👉👉🏿👉🏼Post Doc in Behavioural Economics

at the Economics and Public Policy Department and Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation at Imperial Business School ! Come and join us!

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Marisa Miraldo @marisamiraldo.bsky.social · Apr 18

🚨PhD alert - Fully funded at the Econ & Public Policy Department at Imperial College for fall 2025!
We have a strong group in #HealthEconomics!

Applications due April 30!
More details: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55wkl...

#EconPhD #healtheconomics

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Sophie @anxi0usvirgo.bsky.social · Mar 24

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · Feb 21

PhD position (London, UK)
Understanding and predicting behavioural drivers of epidemic dynamics
with @marisamiraldo.bsky.social @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Peter White, Katy Turner
at LSHTM
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2274

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 19

Only 6 months later, all three authors announced in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists they had discovered tortured phrases in over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles, some within high-ranked journals.

And it seemed that nobody had noticed.

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"Bosom peril" is not "breast cancer": How weird computer-generated phrases help researchers find scientific publishing fraud

Many fraudulent scientific papers contain "tortured phrases," standard scientific terms paraphrased into gibberish. Breast cancer is a scary disease, but what is bosom peril? These phrases are likely popping up because scientists, to boost their article count, are running texts through paraphrasing software, which helps them avoid plagiarism accusations. And new AI technologies may be crafting some article text from whole cloth.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Dec 19

Study (N=1,200) finds people interacting with biased AIs became more likely to underestimate women's performance and overestimate white men's likelihood of holding high-status jobs.
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Bias in AI amplifies our own biases, finds study

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 19

The Guardian view on the Pelicot rape trial: Merci, Gisèle, from women everywhere | Editorial

Gisèle Pelicot’s extraordinary courage and composure has forced a reckoning in France and elsewhere. We must act on her demand for change Gisèle Pelicot, a 72-year-old woman who had retired to a small village in provincial France, has become a heroine…

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Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social · Dec 19

A t-shirt that can detect heart conditions is being developed, thanks to a £340,000 grant from @thebhf.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹

The shirt will monitor ECG signals recorded via wires running through the fabric, and an AI-trained system will help detect any irregularities ⬇️

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‘AI t-shirt’ could improve heart monitoring and treatment | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Researchers are developing a t-shirt capable of identifying inherited heart conditions.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 19

Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply

Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces have acted deliberately to cut availability of clean water Israel’s restriction of Gaza’s water supply to levels below minimum needs amounts to an act of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity, a…

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Dec 17

If you are part of of know of a community group that is for or has Black researchers in biomedical science please wave or DM! You do not need to be formalised, just active. This is for the purpose of being added to a list for small grants funding to the group.

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Marisa Miraldo @marisamiraldo.bsky.social · Dec 17

Me too @shooshan.bsky.social please, thank you!

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Imperial Enterprise @imperialenterprise.bsky.social · Dec 11

📢 Announcing 'visionary leaders' to lead Schools of Convergence Science: hubs.ly/Q02-W-3X0

🔬 4 new Schools, announced as part of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social new strategy, will push the boundaries of transdisciplinary innovation by combining #ourImperial expertise in STEMB and social sciences.

Imperial announces 'visionary leaders' for Schools of Convergence Science | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Imperial has announced academic leaders for four new cross-cutting Schools of Convergence Science.

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MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social · Nov 19

Does scientific evidence inform policy decision-making during public health emergencies? This paper investigates the policy impact of the Imperial College #COVID19 Response Team focussed 👇
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Policy impact of the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team: global perspective and United Kingdom case study - Health Research Policy and Systems

Background Mathematical models and advanced analytics play an important role in policy decision making and mobilizing action. The Imperial College Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Response Team (IC...

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