Aviv Shachak 🇨🇦🇮🇱
@avivshachak.bsky.social
Professor, University of Toronto. #HealthInformatics and Health Professions Education #HPE.
“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.” (Marshall McLuhan)
“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.” (Marshall McLuhan)
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Day 2! Featuring some sales!
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Day 2! Featuring some sales!
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Vale Brian Cantwell Smith ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...
Obituary: Brian Cantwell Smith (1950 to 2025) - Faculty of Information
Former dean wove philosophy and computation into a lifelong inquiry into the human dimensions of intelligence, judgment, and meaning Born into a prominent Canadian family known for both its intellectu...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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down the line, I may open some YCH commissions, where you can get your very own WOL in place of Adbert/Meteor! if you'd like to see that, please reshare this, it'd really help out :D
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
down the line, I may open some YCH commissions, where you can get your very own WOL in place of Adbert/Meteor! if you'd like to see that, please reshare this, it'd really help out :D
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After months of slowly working away on this... My FFXIV parody of Tom Jung's 1977 Style A Poster for Star Wars a New Hope is complete!
#ffxiv #FinalFantasyXIV #FFXIVFanart #finalfantasy #ffxivwol #fanart
#ffxiv #FinalFantasyXIV #FFXIVFanart #finalfantasy #ffxivwol #fanart
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
After months of slowly working away on this... My FFXIV parody of Tom Jung's 1977 Style A Poster for Star Wars a New Hope is complete!
#ffxiv #FinalFantasyXIV #FFXIVFanart #finalfantasy #ffxivwol #fanart
#ffxiv #FinalFantasyXIV #FFXIVFanart #finalfantasy #ffxivwol #fanart
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October 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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It's my birthday today! According to internet rules that means I'm allowed to ask for likes and reposts? It'd mean a lot to me if you were to share my art, and maybe, if you're feeling extra generous give me a follow 😄
October 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's my birthday today! According to internet rules that means I'm allowed to ask for likes and reposts? It'd mean a lot to me if you were to share my art, and maybe, if you're feeling extra generous give me a follow 😄
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A new JAMA report concludes that medicine is "flying blind" on AI. With widespread adoption but little proof of improved outcomes, it calls for standards for validation and oversight to close the gap between innovation and evidence.
#MedSky #MedAI #MLSky
#MedSky #MedAI #MLSky
JAMA: Medicine is flying blind on AI
A year after its landmark artificial intelligence summit, JAMA says health systems are deploying unproven algorithms with little evidence they improve outcomes — or even do no harm.
www.medicaleconomics.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🧪 Media coverage offers a career boost to researchers, but a new study finds this benefit disproportionately goes to men. Men-led papers receive more news attention, potentially widening gender gaps and shaping public perceptions of who is a scientist.
#AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
#AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow
Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds
www.science.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🧪 Media coverage offers a career boost to researchers, but a new study finds this benefit disproportionately goes to men. Men-led papers receive more news attention, potentially widening gender gaps and shaping public perceptions of who is a scientist.
#AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
#AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
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Our work starts today 🕊
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Our work starts today 🕊
It’s not an “eternal peace”. It’s a very fragile ceasefire and many things can still go wrong. Until I see the hostages released and the aid trucks flowing into Gaza, I’m cautiously optimistic.
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It’s not an “eternal peace”. It’s a very fragile ceasefire and many things can still go wrong. Until I see the hostages released and the aid trucks flowing into Gaza, I’m cautiously optimistic.
My song for Yom Kippur is this rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Who by Fire” by Rona Kenan and Maureen Nehedar. Cohen’s lyrics are based a traditional prayer for Yom Kippur and they beautifully combine it with a well known liturgical poem of the day
youtu.be/n7lg6kL1Bb0?...
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רונה קינן ומורין נהדר שרות לאונרד כהן - Who By Fire
YouTube video by Rona Kenan
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October 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
My song for Yom Kippur is this rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Who by Fire” by Rona Kenan and Maureen Nehedar. Cohen’s lyrics are based a traditional prayer for Yom Kippur and they beautifully combine it with a well known liturgical poem of the day
youtu.be/n7lg6kL1Bb0?...
youtu.be/n7lg6kL1Bb0?...
American Medical Informatics Association Affirmation of Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion amia.org/news-publica...
American Medical Informatics Association Affirmation of Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Washington, D.C.
amia.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
American Medical Informatics Association Affirmation of Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion amia.org/news-publica...
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September 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This is a really good thread about forecasting too far into the future for medical AI, and what the “we should stop training doctors/lawyers” crowd is missing.
Tagging for #MedSky #MLSky
Tagging for #MedSky #MLSky
In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
September 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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September 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Any power that we can build against the catastrophe in Gaza will help us overcome it. And right now, an enormous majority in our society is opposed to it. So we will not turn people away and act as gatekeepers of the anti-war movement. We will not conduct moral purity tests.
September 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Any power that we can build against the catastrophe in Gaza will help us overcome it. And right now, an enormous majority in our society is opposed to it. So we will not turn people away and act as gatekeepers of the anti-war movement. We will not conduct moral purity tests.
It is with great sadness that I learned about the passing of Brian Cantwell Smith, former dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information. Brian was a true visionary and an inspiration for many of us at the faculty. He will be sorely missed. RIP
September 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It is with great sadness that I learned about the passing of Brian Cantwell Smith, former dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information. Brian was a true visionary and an inspiration for many of us at the faculty. He will be sorely missed. RIP
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August 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Famine has now been officially declared in Gaza City, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). We know that this wasn’t inevitable but is a deliberate strategy of starvation by our government.
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August 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Famine has now been officially declared in Gaza City, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). We know that this wasn’t inevitable but is a deliberate strategy of starvation by our government.
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August 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM