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Kate Polling

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Mental health researcher, NHS psychiatrist, Clinical co-lead, SLaM's Clinical Informatics Service. Interested in health inequalities, self-harm, crisis care & using clinical data to make things better. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/catherine-polling

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 8d

Delighted that @maudsleynhs.bsky.social's Clinical Informatics Service has been shortlisted for @rcpsych.bsky.social Digital Team of the Year. More about our team, supported by @maudsleycharity.bsky.social here www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/c...

Clinical Informatics Service

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 4d

Does global rise in diagnosed #neurodivergence reflect an increased awareness or does it indicate something else?

The 62nd Maudsley Debate, chaired by IoPPN’s Francesca Happé, aims to tackle that question. #MaudsleyDebates

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9d

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 8d

Lot's of other great people from @maudsleynhs.bsky.social up for awards too: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcp...

RCPsych Awards 2025

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 8d

Clinical Informatics Service

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · Sep 15

The responses to this are just what I needed on a Monday morning. Some things are getting better!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 11

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · Aug 12

City Hall has triggered a high air pollution alert for Tuesday 12 August as hot weather is expected to increase pollutant levels.

We're urging Londoners to look after themselves, stop their engines idling, and refrain from burning wood or garden waste.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · Aug 7

Trying to change the population is creepy and dangerous, full stop. But pronatalism is also wrong on the science, particularly the US brand of it. Here's a nice explainer on some of its more egregious logical flaws.
From @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social and @shelleydclark.bsky.social

Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

theconversation.com

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Jul 24

It's not enough. But it's something. Please give if you can, and tell your reps to stop this horror. chuffed.org/project/help...

North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · Jun 20

I re-read this every year and am always glad I did.

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · May 10

I learned a great deal from this (very long) thread, definitely worth a read to try and understand what the new pope might mean (inc that this US pope won't/shouldn't please JD Vance and his ilk)

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · May 9

Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!

www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope

During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · Mar 28

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Feb 19

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.

And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · Feb 19

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Feb 2

Woooooooo ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Feb 1

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · Feb 1

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Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social · Jan 28

As someone who’s worked with, on, about NHS data, I can’t emphasise enough that it is far far from a carefully curated, nationally complete and ready to use data set. I keep reading otherwise sensible sounding pieces that comment on the uh-mazing data we can straightforwardly exploit.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · Jan 10

AI can make errors when integrated into healthcare systems.

...but so do humans.

We don't have good processes to correct these errors for humans or AIs.

Some thoughts based on three different clinical encounters as a patient, where my clinician(s) used AI - or not.

bit.ly/42bkqwG

A Tale of Three Artificial Intelligence (AI) Experiences in Healthcare Interactions

AI tools are being increasingly used in healthcare, particularly for tasks like clinical notetaking during virtual visits. As a patient, I’ve had three recent experiences with AI-powered notetaking to...

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · Dec 28

This is a very thoughtful piece by @alisonleary1.bsky.social in the @bmj.com.

In any organisation, we need the right combination of new enthusiasm and recent training, alongside the experience and wisdom of those who’ve been around a while.

#MedSky
#PatientSafety

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

“Rookie factor”: why healthcare workforce policy needs to embrace experience

What price experience? I have been working across several safety critical industries for years and in terms of the approaches that these industries take to workforce issues there are some stark differ...

www.bmj.com

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · Nov 30

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