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Dr Hannimal
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Deputy Director of LEAP Digital Health Hub.
Senior Lecturer in Digital Health at UoBristol.
Brain, sleep and mental health.
Wearables and predictive modelling.
Cats and Guinea pigs.
Insufferable.

Kokkolalainen.
Marsuihmisiä.
Uskomaton nörtti.
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Got my corona shot today. I'm not too concerned about Covid's short-term effect on me -- I've had it twice now -- BUT it's important to me to protect vulnerable people around me AND the vaccine lowers the risk of developing persisting health issues after infection.

So get your shot if you can 💪
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Yeah absolutely fucking not thanks
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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What really frustrates me is when someone sees firsthand that LLMs are incapable of differentiating between fact and fiction when it comes to a subject they know about, but then they go right ahead and keep on using it!
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Labour have explicitly decided to make a virtue of the fact that Brexit now allows the UK to spank asylum seekers in ways contrary to EU law by taking away guaranteed financial assistance.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I can’t quite comprehend and still many clinical trial papers that many patients no doubt would like to read and behind a paywall. It’s entirely unacceptable. Journals should make articles used in potentially life altering clinical decision making free. How are they not.
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
People who think AI tools like ChatGPT do a great job at summarising and interpreting research papers have not both read the papers and use ChatGPT. Goodness its performance is awful.
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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narrator: no, it cannot
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Ahhh feeling this again. Another bit of bad news just as I am feeling a bit like myself after surgery. It’s never ending. I wish I had just one appointment where I’d go and see a surgeon and oncologist and they’d tell me “things are going great”. Or one treatment that wasn’t torture.
Cancer treatment is like being saved from a deadly house fire by being thrown into a septic tank head first. Like I’m grateful to be alive but I’m also dealing with a lot of shit.
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Are you or do you have a PhD student who uses digital tools for monitoring any health condition OR who works in clinical psych or neuro, and who is interested in doing a research visit to Bristol? We have a small amount of funding available and I’m keen to host seis.bristol.ac.uk/~nb14397/phd...
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Everywhere, the right wing calls those it opposes "communists." Even here in Finland, even supposedly sane and moderate people have started doing that.
FYI for foreigners - Mamdani is not a communist. That's what the right wing calls anyone who wants to spend tax money to benefit the public, like providing free childcare or increasing bus service.

True Americans cut taxes and tell citizens* to go fuck themselves.

*except the rich ones
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This was years ago. I got into a small argument with a guy because he thought Moomins were annoying and claimed they were American. They're neither of those things, they're adorable and Finnish like me. It took WAY too long to realise he mistook Moomins for Mormons. Still makes me laugh.
Do you remember sharing a story about talking to a guy who mixed up Moomins and Mormons? Might have been on LinkedIn. But I recently talked to a friend who's spent time in Helsinki and who's a big Moomin fan, and the story came up 😅
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This will be someone's dream position. Maybe yours?
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Cancer treatment is like being saved from a deadly house fire by being thrown into a septic tank head first. Like I’m grateful to be alive but I’m also dealing with a lot of shit.
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Finally, it looks like Financial Education will be taught in every school! Hurrah!
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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It wasn’t until I undertook my degree that I truly understood critical thinking/enquiry and writer bias - school didn’t equip me adequately for this. So this is excellent news and they need to start in primary school!
School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
First day back at work after a 3 week break and wow there is no easing into this.
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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I notice that 15 years of screaming all-channels terror about librulz helping Asian sex offenders do crimes - for no well-explained reason - has precisely overlapped with it becoming grimly clear that the upper echelons of society are infested with rapists, child molesters and arse-grabbers.
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Ordinary members of the public work like dogs and yet never get to step foot in, let alone live in, Sandringham. Most of us are barely getting by, and are financially devastated when we can't work. Most of us won't retire until we are in our mid to late 70s.
October 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Poor Prince Andrew, who if he were anyone else would be rotting in a prison cell, is having to give up his god-given birthright of being a prince, and is instead destined to live in this pit. What a punishment.
October 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Murder mittens 🩷🩷🩷
Finland's Nature Photo of the Year.

yle.fi/a/74-20190438
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Getting my dressings removed today and I strongly suspect from the vibes that someone here in this waiting room is getting her life turned upside down today. I hate being here. I hate all of this.
October 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM