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Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 1d

So good to hear! Go you!🎉🙌

PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 1d

A mathematical ceiling limits generative AI to amateur-level creativity

A new study argues that the algorithms driving tools like ChatGPT impose a hard limit on originality. By prioritizing probable answers, these models are structurally confined to producing amateur-level work rather than expert innovation.

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Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 4d

Not quite what you seek but one of my favourite studies is the WHO pathways to care study (Gater, R., de Almeida e Sousa, B., et al (1991). The pathways to psychiatric care: a cross-cultural study. Psychological medicine, 21(3), 761–774. doi.org/10.1017/s003...) with its cool alluvial plots

The pathways to psychiatric care: a cross-cultural study | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

The pathways to psychiatric care: a cross-cultural study - Volume 21 Issue 3

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Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 4d

To paraphrase Wilde “Science is too important to be taken seriously” thanks Lindsey Smith Taillie !

Science Magazine @science.org · 4d

"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv

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Science Magazine @science.org · 4d

"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 12d

So many good puns to run with here - “it’s how you slice the cake” ? That gets the results

Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 13d

So @jamesheathers.bsky.social & I answer the burning question: does Cake cause Herpes? No, but one can torture the data to give that impression, and that's a problem. Promiscuous dichotomisation in biomedical science hugely increases spurious findings, best avoided
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 12d

So devastating. You are critical research infrastructure for our stat our nation, and “too important to fail” !!!!!

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 12d

This is devastating! @franklinwomen.bsky.social is critical research infrastructure. Human capital is what drives research and innovation and if at least half of the workforce can’t reach its full potential that’s a serious lost opportunity! @croakeynews.bsky.social @biancanogrady.bsky.social

Franklin Women @franklinwomen.bsky.social · 14d

After 10 incredible years, Franklin Women will be closing our doors at the end of 2025 💜

This news brings many emotions, but above all we’re filled with gratitude for this incredible community and pride in all we’ve achieved together.

Read Melina’s full message 👉 shorturl.at/WEyzs

Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 13d

So @jamesheathers.bsky.social & I answer the burning question: does Cake cause Herpes? No, but one can torture the data to give that impression, and that's a problem. Promiscuous dichotomisation in biomedical science hugely increases spurious findings, best avoided
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 13d

🌍 Alcohol causes 2.6 million premature deaths each year, yet remains the world’s favourite drug. 🍺

A major Lancet Public Health study shows most countries are far off WHO’s 2030 target to cut drinking by 20%.

🧵 THREAD

#PublicHealth #Addiction #AlcoholPolicy #GlobalHealth

Franklin Women @franklinwomen.bsky.social · 14d

After 10 incredible years, Franklin Women will be closing our doors at the end of 2025 💜

This news brings many emotions, but above all we’re filled with gratitude for this incredible community and pride in all we’ve achieved together.

Read Melina’s full message 👉 shorturl.at/WEyzs

The Matilda Centre @matildacentreusyd.bsky.social · 15d

65% reduction in vaping use, 89% rated the program as very good, and significant increased knowledge around vaping 12 months after receiving the OurFutures Vaping Program, says Dr Lauren Gardner at #APSAD25

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 15d

Btw I see these examples as dragons on the edge of the map - I think clustering features together is a useful strategy until we can isolate some features as causal. It is also crucial to be transparent about the status of the concepts we invoke both in research and clinical practice.....

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 15d

Flippers and convergent evolution might be a good (?the best?) example of the same observable features having different causes - I'm not that up on biology either! What about "aliens building pyramids"?

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 16d

Perhaps the problem here is not with dimensional models but with woolly clinical thinking?

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 16d

Is one way through this checking that we have described potentially overlapping symptoms in sufficient detail/granularity so that they are indeed the same symptom? Eg is the dolphins flipper exactly the same as the turtles?

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 16d

I see so much confusion (eg syndromes reified as “natural kinds”) that I appreciate the effort to push the syndrome model of covarying symptoms as far as it can go and then testing if it gives us a better basis to search for shared etiology. If it were easy we’d have solved it by now?

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 16d

Unlearn avian adaptation to urban environments?

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 16d

Displacing the Ibis?

Science Magazine @science.org · 17d

"I was late learning about science … For much of my scientific training I feared I was behind my peers. But I have been able to close the gap—and that is something to be proud of." #CelebrateFirstGen https://scim.ag/4nBoBJr

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 18d

One in five pregnant women are diagnosed with the condition, which experts say is linked to age, weight and a lack of exercise.

'It is a shock': New mum on navigating gestational diabetes as diagnoses rise

One in five pregnant women are diagnosed with the condition, which experts say is linked to age, weight and a lack of exercise.

www.abc.net.au

Science Magazine @science.org · 19d

In 2022, something shocking happened to the Hektoria Glacier. Over 16 months, it retreated by 25 kilometers, and it lost a whopping 8 kilometers in just two of those months—the fastest glacial retreat in the modern record.

Now, researchers may have identified the worrisome mechanisms behind it.

Antarctic glacier shows fastest retreat in modern history

Tides and glacial earthquakes caused record ice loss at Hektoria Glacier

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 20d

The human cost of war goes beyond the physical. Ella Baron, an illustrator, visited Ukraine and depicted the emotional and mental trauma of people who have experienced the war, as they recounted to her.

https://www.msf.org/battles-mind

Positive Choices @positivechoices.bsky.social · 20d

Interested to hear how evidence-based substance use prevention & mental health programs are being implemented in Australian schools?

Register for our free webinar presented by @matildacentreusyd.bsky.social's Dr Lauren Gardner & Natalie Gorgioski on Wednesday 26th Nov!
positivechoices.org....

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 21d

I am enjoying Slow Horses - from a recent episode a taxonomy of barriers and enablers to change (the five fu$ks) #impsci #slowhorses

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 21d

And does it matter if we dont have equal granularity across symptoms? Actually I think the hi in hitop allows some elegant zoom in and out to different levels of granularity.

Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 21d

What do you think about the granularity of the symptoms? Do we need more work to get our “indivisible atoms” or is that fraught and we are stuck with some kind of linguistic relativism (eskimos having many words for snow) and does that matter for structure? Love your work!

Cracks in the Ice @cracksintheice.bsky.social · 21d

Speaking to a loved one about their #methamphetamine use can be tricky. However, support and encouragement from family and friends can play a key role in the recovery process. For tips on starting the conversation about methamphetamine use, visit cracksintheice.org.a...

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 21d

I’ve spent the last 8 years(!) working from the position that HiTOP relies too much on analyses of traditional diagnoses, baking in limitations of the DSM, and that we need to move to symptom-level analyses to fix it

It turns out that rebuilding HiTOP from the ground up doesn’t change much 💀

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A figure of the results from our study, showing a model that looks remarkably similar to the official HiTOP model. There are also important differences like a pathological introversion domain and a combined hypomania/disinhibition dimension.

Implementation Research and Practice @impresearch.bsky.social · 22d

New #ImpSci publication out: Real-World Implementation and Impact of Digital #CBT for Insomnia on Healthcare Utilization: A Propensity-Matched Controlled Study journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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