@jessrmorley
100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently postdoctoral research associate Yale Digital Ethics Center.
The thing about being an academic is that you can never really escape the essay crisis, but your (by which I mean my) ability to cope with an all-nighter declines year-on-year.
Continually having to prove that I'm human in order to read articles about AI is becoming exceptionally annoying, and ironic.
Changing the song lyrics from “never ending story” to “never ending snow storm” and staying here for the foreseeable.
American professors, who wants to come to Oxford for a year or two? Get in quick - deadline soon.
www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/vacancy-geor...
New paper out today in Public Health! 🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
AI's lackluster impact on pop health is not a technical issue - it's a design one. It has been given the wrong function, is being built on unsuitable infrastructure, & is too often too distant from patients/practitioners
Third Lecture in my Thinking Critically About AI in Healthcare series
Recording: youtu.be/G_tnE3ycM1M
Slides: www.canva.com/design/DAHBD...
This week looking at the "last mile problem" i.e., why do we keep building models that succeed technically, but fail to help clinically.
Second lecture in my Thinking Critically About AI
Lecture Recording: youtu.be/6cIirLgH_rw
Slides: www.canva.com/design/DAHAY...
Outline: This week talking about why individual empowerment is the wrong mechanism of change to attach to AI.
Me: excited because >500 people registered for my lecture series on AI
Me five minutes later: why has nobody turned up to my meeting? Oh, it’s because I only invited myself ….
The first lecture from my series "Beyond The Hype: Thinking Critically about AI in Healthcare" is now up on YouTube for anyone who wasn't able to make it to the live webinar www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bJ...
Slides are here: www.canva.com/design/DAG_u...
Next week: "Challenging the Empowerment Myth"
Thank you 🤩
Yes! Anyone can register.
New lecture series announcement 🧵
This term, on behalf of the DEC, I'm giving a 6-wk lecture series: "Beyond the Hype: Thinking Critically about AI in Healthcare"
Hybrid: 12-1pm EST in person at Yale, or 5-6pm GMT/6-7pm CET online
Registration: dec.yale.edu/programs/beyondthehypelectureseries
Do I have 500 things to do - yes. Am I spending the afternoon watching the eras tour movie, using my friendship bracelet materials to make an “ugly” Christmas jumper for our office party …. Also yes.
Launching my Topic Collection at BMJ Digital Health & AI on the Governance, Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (GELSI) of AI in Healthcare.
Aims of AI
Ethical challenges in real-world settings
Meaningful engagement
Adaptive governance
bmjdigitalhealth.bmj.com/pages/gelsi-of-ai-in-healthcare
Were I a LinkedInfluencer, I'd post about what moving apartments abroad, largely on my own, when the lift in my current building has been out of action for 3 weeks and I don't drive, has taught me about resilience and self-reliance ... but if I ever become that person, I'll put myself in the sea.
Every now and then something comes along to remind me why I’m an academic and not something more dynamic. This time it is counting the number of injuries I have incurred whilst packing to move flat …. typing is apparently the only safe physical activity for me.
US service digitisation is utter chaos. The first flat I rented required an e-signed lease, but a security deposit paid by cheque (never written one in the UK - ever). Moving on Monday and I paid the deposit online, but had to print and hand in the lease IRL. Consistency? Never met her.
A t-shirt that says “suffering is temporary, publications are forever”
When the next 3 months look slightly overwhelming in terms of volume of work, wearing sartorial reminders of what really matters becomes necessary.
Great! I'll email you
Awesome thanks, I'll add to our reading list
Not from our end ... we have an entire set of requirements that are exclusively about data quality.
We can't add anyone to the team because the contract was awarded based on our current set-up, but please do get in touch if you'd like to submit some evidence or be in an interview etc.
Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service.
The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS.
Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇.
Get in touch
The gym in my building is currently closed. Fortunately the lift is also broken and I live in the 14th floor whilst the laundry room is 3 floors into the basement. So some 6 trips up/down 17 flights of stairs later & I’ve got clean clothes whilst getting a workout in.
I am just a girl, sitting in front of a spreadsheet, once again asking why 'wrapped content' is not the default setting for all cells.
Nothing like the pilot saying “obviously it’s very lovely here, but I hope you have your umbrellas and raincoats ready for when we land” for confirming you’re on the flight home 🇬🇧
Pinky: So Brain, what did you get up to today?
Brain: Well Pinky, I tried to take over the world, but then I got hyperfixated on how to use structural equation modelling for system design for 15 straight hours, forgot to eat, and collapsed exhausted at midnight.
Pinky: same again tomorrow?
Running dangerously low on Yorkshire Tea. Active rationing is occurring. Fortunately, a reconnaissance mission to England is planned for next week. Otherwise: digital ethics, analogue anarchy.
🎙️ New pod! The Aural Apothecary with Steve, Jamie & Paul talking AI, ethics, & NHS values, inc:
– Why AI hype misses the point
– AI as infrastructure
– Why regs can’t wait
My picks for anthem, book & medicine:
🎶 Long Live – Taylor Swift
📚 Venkatapuram, Health Justice
💊 Sertraline + Propranolol
It is almost the last Friday of the Month - which means the release of our latest episode! This month we discuss AI in Healthcare - can it really save the NHS?
As a teaser, check out our special guest @jessrmorley.bsky.social in the Briefing Room www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...