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Elizabeth Pisani

Elizabeth Pisani

@elizabethpisani.ternyata.org

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Public health, Indonesia, things of beauty.

Elizabeth Pisani is a British-American epidemiologist, public health consultant, author and journalist. She is an academic researcher and the director of Ternyata Ltd., a public health consultancy based in London, UK. Her research investigates the ways in which politics, economics and culture influence public health. This has included markets for substandard and falsified medicines and HIV. Before this, Pisani was a journalist who worked as a correspondent for Reuters in several Asian countries. .. more

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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 2d

Confidential tip? Reach me on Signal: KatherineEban.45.

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MSF Access @msfaccess.org · 2d

Novo Nordisk discontinues key insulin products in EU/EEA for commercial reasons: “Yet another unacceptable example of pharmaceutical corporations putting profits before people’s health.”

msfaccess.org/msf-responds...

MSF responds to Novo Nordisk’s discontinuation of key insulin products in EU/EEA

Discontinuation of key insulin products for commercial reasons another example of pharmaceutical corporations putting profits before people’s health.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 3d

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 4d

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

—FDR, 1944

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 8d

If you happen to live near Sutton Courtenay Churchyard in Oxfordshire and your house is shaking - don’t worry, it’s just Eric Blair spinning furiously in his grave as the total devaluation of the once prestigious prize in his (pen) name…. What a ridiculous thing to do!!

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 8d

Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁

Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 8d

Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.

This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪

(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)

Text says: This section provides a comprehensive description of the methodology employed in this study to develop an explainable XAI framework for ASD diagnosis and parental support. The proposed framework integrates the TabPFNMix regressor, a state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) model for tabular data, with SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to ensure both high predictive accuracy and interpretability. The methodology is structured into five subsections: (1) Dataset Description, (2) TabPFNMix Overview, (3) SHAP for Explainability, (4) Framework Design, and (5) Evaluation Metrics. Figure 1 shows the overall methodology. Informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the study, and, where applicable, consent was obtained from legal guardians for minor participants as approved by the IRB.

And then Figure 1 is shown with lots of AI errors on the image.

An absolutely totally fine this can be published in a science journal image that purports to show how the study was carried out but instead is just AI slop.

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The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · 9d

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 14d

EVENT: Join C20 for a special curator talk and tour of the new exhibition, Theo Crosby: 100 Lives at Osh Gallery - celebrating the visionary architect, designer, curator and artist.

🗓️ Tue 9 Dec 2025 - 6:30-8PM
📍 Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London
🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22d

NEW

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump

A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim

By me. Enjoy.

emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump

A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim

emptycity.substack.com

Elizabeth Pisani @elizabethpisani.ternyata.org · 28d

Next up: No Pot Noodles anywhere.

No Context Brits @nocontextbritss.bsky.social · 28d

Elizabeth Pisani @elizabethpisani.ternyata.org · 29d

Bukan main! Aku sudah beli buku Leila Choudori 2 kali dalam 2 hari, karena yang pertama (beli baru di toko buku di Pontianak) ternyata bajakan.

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Suroor Alikhan @suroora.bsky.social · Oct 31

3 new posts on talkingaboutbookswomenstravel.review!
Elizabeth Pisani on Indonesia, Gwen Maka on cycling from Seattle to Costa Rica, and Lina Boegli on travelling the world on her own in 1892. All intrepid travellers! #travelbooks #travelbooksbywomen @elizabethpisani.ternyata.org

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · Oct 28

✨CFA✨

I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!

Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Oct 25

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · Oct 24

President Prabowo appointed his brother, tycoon Hashim Djojohadikusumo, as leader of Indonesia’s delegation to the 30th UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil, as Indonessia misses the deadline to submit its latest climate pledge ahead of the summit www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

Hashim to lead Indonesia’s delegation to COP30 climate summit - Society - The Jakarta Post

During a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Jakarta, President Prabowo Subianto apologized for missing the COP30 climate change conference in Brazil, but promised to send a ...

www.thejakartapost.com

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Heikki Wilenius @hw.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Oct 24

The Hippocratic License was just brought to my attention: https://firstdonoharm.dev/. I think it's a great idea, and I think we need a similar derivative license for Creative Commons.

#opensource #ethics

The Hippocratic License: An Ethical License for Open Source

The Hippocratic License (HL3) is an ethical source license that specifically prohibits the use of open source software to violate universal standards of human rights.

firstdonoharm.dev

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · Oct 21

There are 40+ species of ladybird in the UK - they help maintain healthy ecosystems in gardens and green spaces. Ladybirds need safe places to shelter and hibernate over winter, so avoid cutting back hollow stems and seed heads like teasels & sedums.
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/lad...

Ladybird sheltering in a dead seed head. Image Geograph/Walter Baxter

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quamed1.bsky.social @quamed1.bsky.social · Oct 17

The @WHO has issued a warning after detecting Diethylene Glycol (DEG) contamination in three oral liquid medicines, COLDRIF, Respifresh TR, and ReLife, linked to child fatalities in India.

Read more: quamed.org/who-medical-...

WHO Medical Alert: Contaminated Oral Medicines Identified in India - Quamed

The World Health Organization has issued a warning after detecting Diethylene Glycol (DEG) contamination in three oral liquid medicines, COLDRIF, Respifresh TR, and ReLife, linked to child fatalities ...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Oct 2

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · Oct 1

After 5 years work, TESSA HUNKIN'S HACKNEY MOSAIC PROJECT is now published. We are including a complimentary copy of 'A Hoxton Childhood' (cover price £20) with all orders to UK addresses: spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · Oct 1

Propositioned outside my house at 8am by a guy who’d just left an all-night chemsex session. Dalston, you’ve still got it!

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Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · Oct 1

L' @itmantwerp.bsky.social, en collaboration avec des partenaires européens, palestiniens et australiens, a mené une étude sur la disponibilité des #médicaments dans la bande de #Gaza: "La nouvelle recherche met en lumière l'ampleur d'une grave pénurie"

www.rtbf.be/article/des-...

Des chercheurs alertent sur la 'grave pénurie' de médicaments à Gaza - RTBF Actus

L'analyse, réalisée durant l'été, portait sur 25 médicaments essentiels dans 14 établissements de santé : trois...

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · Oct 1

Successive Indonesian governments made vague promises that they failed to keep. Bedjo Untung of the 1965 Murder Victims Research Foundation said, “Not a single 1965 survivor or family could get a court decision to document what they had suffered” www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Indonesia’s Mass Killings 60 Years on Still Demand Justice

The 1965-66 massacres were among the darkest days in Indonesian history. Marxism and communism remain banned in the country and continue to be applied to target critics of the government.

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Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · Sep 29

Most frameworks to assess #pharmaceutical #systems focus on national level, but many key functions, eg medicine distribution and use, are managed locally. We present a method to assess #local pharmaceutical systems & identify ways to improve their #performance.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · Sep 26

This only happens to you once

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Sep 18

Peter Salama Refugee MPH Scholarship @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social

hopkinshumanitarianhealth.org/sites/defaul...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Sep 18

Jane Austen. Spike Lee. MrBeast. “Modern Family.” The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog search tool lets you see which creative works tech companies may have used to train their generative-AI models: https://theatln.tc/vQSlfiyC

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NUS Press @nuspress.bsky.social · Sep 16

“[The author] has extremely interesting sections on coinage, the make-up of the trade (tea replaced porcelain and silk as the most profitable product) and a deep-dive into the commercial organization of Batavia…. the wealth of data makes it palpable and the details bring out nuance...”

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Eoin Lettice @eoinlettice.bsky.social · Sep 12

Mary Robinson is a load-bearing human being. We barely deserve her. #latelateshow