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Guest Post - Beyond Generative AI: The Indispensable Role of BERT in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen

ChatGPT has popularized generative AI, but interpretive AI has quietly remained in the shadows. Interpretive AI offers profound insights into content and audience engagement, a critical tool for publishers aiming to harness the full potential of AI.
Source: sspnet.org

What (else) happened? A key question for learning programmes.

blog post image Good paper from 2013 on the need to go beyond just asking 'did our programme work?' "It is clear that programme evaluations using traditional ‘outcomes-based’ models are inadequate for the health professions context. Consequently, the scholarship in health professions education has begun to incorporate...
Source: wiley.com

Science education in an age of twitter disinformation / Post.

Science education needs to adapt to a world of misinformation on social media and beyond.
Source: post.news

Beyond Omicron: what’s next for COVID’s viral evolution Callaway, Ewen. Nature 2021 600:7888.

The rapid spread of new variants offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 is adapting and how the pandemic will play out over the next several months. The rapid spread of new variants offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 is adapting and how the pandemic will play out over the next several months.
Source: nature.com

Effectiveness of a serious game addressing guideline adherence: cohort study with 1.5-year follow-up Tobias Raupach. Insa

Background Patients presenting with acute shortness of breath and chest pain should be managed according to guideline recommendations. Serious games can be used to train clinical reasoning. However, only few studies have used outcomes beyond student satisfaction, and most of the published evidence is...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Detection of a particle shower at the Glashow resonance with IceCube Nature.

The Glashow resonance describes the resonant formation of a W− boson during the interaction of a high-energy electron antineutrino with an electron1, peaking at an antineutrino energy of 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) in the rest frame of the electron. Whereas this energy scale is out of reach for currently...
Source: nature.com

Corporate diversity

Why you should look beyond the typical labels: This article highlights the benefits of having a diverse talent pool in your organization, taking into consideration their unique backstory.
Source: impactplus.com

Covid bereavement group founder is 'inspirational young man'

Covid bereavement group founder is 'inspirational young man': The support group now has about 700 members around the UK and beyond. "On the evening of his father's funeral Liam Meyer launched a group to help other families whose lives had been ravaged by Covid-19. His father, David, died with Covid-19...
Source: bbc.com

Open source learning analytics

Stephen's Web ~ Learning Analytics beyond the LMS: Enabling Connected Learning via Open Source Analytics in ‘the wild’ ~ Stephen Downes "This excellent report (55 page PDF) will introduce you to the Connected Learning Analytics (CLA) toolkit." Overview of an approach to learning analytics.
Source: downes.ca

After the morning after: what next for UK trade policy? - Trade Knowledge Exchange: In the aftermath of the UK General Elections,

After the morning after: what next for UK trade policy? - Trade Knowledge Exchange: In the aftermath of the UK General Elections, in which the Conservatives won 364 out of 650 seats in House of Commons, the question that arises is what this means for the UK and the EU. “Getting Brexit done” was,...
Source: trade-knowledge.net

Eisai launches a digital health solution on Amazon Alexa for children with a rare form of epilepsy - Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.

It marks the first time Pharmaceutical company Eisai has moved beyond medications and into digital health. The company’s Amazon Alexa skill – Ella the Jellyfish – has been developed for children with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) and was created with input from patients, their families and caregivers.
Source: epmmagazine.com

Beyond the Quality Illusion: The Learning Era : Academic Medicine: Jur Koksma and Jan Kremer.

Beyond the Quality Illusion: The Learning Era : Academic Medicine: Jur Koksma and Jan Kremer. The authors recommend, for the path forward, a “travel kit” of 10 crucial elements—compassion, deliberation, flexible goals, ownership, the engagement of patients, the inclusion of payers, the involvement...
Source: lww.com

Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients—Beyond Survival Statistics: This Viewpoint discusses

Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients—Beyond Survival Statistics: This Viewpoint discusses the challenges of communicating uncertain prognosis to patients and offers a framework and language that go past mortality statistics—addressing range of time left, loss...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Global health and wealth in "200 countries ... 200 hundred years and beyond ... 120,000 numbers ... pretty neat." presented

Global health and wealth in "200 countries ... 200 hundred years and beyond ... 120,000 numbers ... pretty neat." presented by the late great Hans Rosling. The beauty of statistics and how lots of data can reveal insights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
Source: youtube.com

Virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects: Psychologist Pete Etchells on his book, Lost in a Good Game.

Virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects: Psychologist Pete Etchells on his book, Lost in a Good Game. " ... a psychologist at Bath Spa University in England but still an avid gamer, Etchells specializes in understanding the behavioral effects—both positive and negative—of video...
Source: arstechnica.com

Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980: The spending began soaring beyond that of other

Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980: The spending began soaring beyond that of other advanced nations, but without the same benefits in life expectancy.
Source: nytimes.com

Management Reasoning: Beyond the Diagnosis: This Viewpoint discusses management reasoning, ways in which it differs from

Management Reasoning: Beyond the Diagnosis: This Viewpoint discusses management reasoning, ways in which it differs from diagnostic reasoning, and areas that require further research. David A. Cook. Jonathan Sherbino. Steven J. Durning. JAMA.
Source: jamanetwork.com

Electric Scooter Wars Heat Up in San Francisco and Beyond: The VC cash is flying as cities fling regulations at this surprisingly

Electric Scooter Wars Heat Up in San Francisco and Beyond: The VC cash is flying as cities fling regulations at this surprisingly seductive method of transportation. I haven't tried an electric scooter but I'm not sure how it would cope with the hills in Cornwall. Could this personal mode of transport...
Source: ieee.org

Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is

Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development (CPD) and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as...
Source: amegroups.com

Snapchat grows up: "Organizations that aren’t on Snapchat Discover will go beyond the experimental phase on Stories. The

Snapchat grows up: "Organizations that aren’t on Snapchat Discover will go beyond the experimental phase on Stories. The remaining skeptics won’t be for much longer."
Source: niemanlab.org