Janice McCallum
@janicemc.bsky.social
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My primary aim throughout my career involves guiding clients, friends, everyone I know toward improved evidence-based decisionmaking. Strategist, consultant, board member, patient advocate. UChicago, Simmons Univ alum. #AI #healthcare #MediaLiteracy
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piermonn.bsky.social
📣 We have a postdoctoral opportunity within the #Wimmics team on the French Riviera! On combining generative #AI and linked data model for #NLP based federated queries on secure and distributed #KnowledgeGraphs

📎 More info and application on jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

#GenerativeAI #LLM #ML
Natural Language Based Secure Federated Query Building
Offre d'emploi Inria
jobs.inria.fr
janicemc.bsky.social
Glad I moved back to New England.
wareflo.bsky.social
Safest states 2025, 52 metrics across 5 categories: personal/residential safety, financial safety, road safety, workplace safety/emergency preparedness wallethub.com/edu/safest-s... #NewMexico is 27th. #Florida, #Texas, #Mississippi, #Lousiana are 47th, 48Th, 49th & 50th #balloonfiesta
Safest States in America in 2025
Safest States in America in 2025
wallethub.com
janicemc.bsky.social
I sure hope this backfires.
economist.com
Not long after a raid on South Shore in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security published a video of young Hispanic men being led away in cuffs. The Hollywood-style visuals seem to have been part of the goal
What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
The worst excesses seem designed to produce content
econ.st
janicemc.bsky.social
The brazenness of state terror has escalated so much since @timothysnyder.bsky.social wrote this in April. I'll share this piece w my book club when we discuss On Tyranny later this month.
timothysnyder.bsky.social
"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
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ddiamond.bsky.social
“I often think about my mom’s healthcare experience when I think about the ways in which the system needs to be fixed and the things we must fight like hell to protect…

Healthcare broke my heart, but healthcare cannot stay broken.”

— Solomon Banjo
The day healthcare broke my heart
I still remember the first time healthcare broke my heart. It was the summer of 2015 and my manager started our check-in like she often did, by asking me how I was doing.
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histalk.bsky.social
Headlines: Veradigm to issue business update - Google, Flo Health to pay $56M in data privacy suit - Federal shutdown could end Medicare telehealth coverage histalk2.com/2025/09/28/m...
Morning Headlines 9/29/25 – HIStalk
histalk2.com
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amymaxmen.bsky.social
Media, I am begging you to callout false information within the headline.

I know it's a challenge with limited characters, but that's the only part of the story that many people read. The broadcasting of misinformation is as dangerous as policy changes.
janicemc.bsky.social
Comments by @liastot.bsky.social are on target--and apply across all healthcare. #ruralhealth #publichealth
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nejm.org
Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin asks why, under an administration that says it is focused on making America healthy again, we are denigrating and discarding our single most cost-effective public health tools — vaccines. Read the full editorial: nej.md/4mtH8Xm

#MedSky #PublicHealth
Editorial 
"Under an administration that says it is focused on making America healthy again, why are we denigrating and discarding our single most cost-effective public health tools?" 

"Risk and Benefit" by Eric J. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
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samwang.bsky.social
I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.

Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
janicemc.bsky.social
Important and timely topic for patients and clinicians. Registered for the virtual event (no fee).
vmontori.bsky.social
Trust is central to science based policies + care. Careful + kind care demands mutual trust bw patients & clinicians; bw clinicians & the organizations that set up the material, regulatory, scientific and financial conditions for care. I see you at this timely @patientrevolution.org town hall!
janicemc.bsky.social
Not suprised one bit. I'd be surprised if the models corrected for bias in the training data.
kimbbellard.bsky.social
Anyone surprised? 😒
arstechnica.com
The findings suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less “empathy” toward Black and Asian ones.
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atscommunity.bsky.social
The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.
idsainfo.bsky.social
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people.

Our statement: https://bit.ly/45LeJHi
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