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Xosé M Fernández

@xosegb.bsky.social

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Genomicist with many hats: data & innovation - molecular medicine, translational research and science • Opinions expressed here are my own • RT ≠ endorsement

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · Jun 9

DigiONE, a moment to celebrate past achievements and reflect on the 12 months ahead #DataSavesLives @digicore-cancer.bsky.social tinyurl.run/DigiONE

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 8h

Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer Susceptibility Genes jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer Susceptibility Genes

This cross-sectional analysis uses data from the All of Us study to estimate the population-level prevalence in US adults of pathogenic variants in key cancer susceptibility genes.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate. n.pr/3J0HVBC

Study: We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought

Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate.

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 13h

Evidence from language and mythology helps archaeologists digging a Bronze Age site on the Russian steppes archaeology.org/issues/onlin...

Features - Wolf Rites of Winter - Archaeology Magazine - September/October 2013

Archaeologists digging a Bronze Age site on the Russian steppes are using evidence from language and mythology to understand a remarkable discovery

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fbm-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social · 13h

Publiée dans @wildlifebiology.bsky.social, une étude @dee-unil.bsky.social & @korafoundation.bsky.social révèle que les #loups présents dans les #Alpes du Nord & le #Jura consomment majoritairement des cerfs, chevreuils & chamois.
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#Suisse #alimentation @unil.bsky.social

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 13h

Vaccine misinformation is affecting patients and researchers in Europe, experts warn #WorldVaccineCongressEurope www.bmj.com/content/391/...

US vaccine misinformation is having “frightening” ripple effect in Europe, leaders warn

Vaccine misinformation and disinformation being spread in the US—including by senior politicians—is affecting patients and researchers in Europe, experts have warned. Speaking at the World Vaccine Co...

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 13h

Journals are automatically rejecting public health dataset papers to combat paper mills #AI www.bmj.com/content/391/...

AI: Journals are automatically rejecting public health dataset papers to combat paper mills

Two major academic publishers have begun automatically rejecting most papers submitted using public health datasets, sparking a debate over how to combat “paper mills” that are likely using artificial...

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 13h

Was the Turing Test always meaningless? www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Was the Turing Test always meaningless?

A meeting to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s famous paper drew a fairly unanimous judgment from the expert speakers

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ESMO - European Society for Medical Oncology @myesmo.bsky.social · 19h

🤖 #ESMOAI25: Your not-to-miss sessions! AI to unlock the data vault, featuring discussions on foundation models for radiology, EHRs with AI and more!
⏰ Register by 22 October and benefit from advantageous fees #HealthAI #esmomeetings

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2d

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like

As scholars of ancient texts well know, the reconstruction of lost sources can be a matter of some controversy.

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 1d

PubMed is running on autopilot during shutdown, but key independent committee has been abolished www.bmj.com/content/391/...

PubMed is running on autopilot during shutdown, but key independent committee has been abolished

PubMed, the life sciences search engine maintained by the US government and relied upon by researchers worldwide, is still performing its basic automated functions during the federal shutdown, but new...

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 2d

The Coming #AI Backlash www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... l

The Coming AI Backlash

How the Anger Economy Will Supercharge Populism

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 5d

Britain considers drug price changes as European leaders warn “unnecessary clinical trials” are sending wrong message to big pharma www.bmj.com/content/391/...

UK considers drug price changes as European leaders warn “unnecessary clinical trials” are sending wrong message to big pharma

Europe’s health commissioner has warned that “unnecessary clinical trials” and bureaucracy are “not sending the right message” to the pharmaceutical industry, while other leaders stressed the need to ...

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 9d

How engineers can help the United States translate new ideas into practical benefits for the nation: “The Ability to Produce Is Just as Important as the Ability to Innovate” - NAEngineering president Tsu-Jae Liu discusses issues.org/engineering-...

“The Ability to Produce Is Just as Important as the Ability to Innovate.”

National Academy of Engineering president Tsu-Jae Liu discusses how engineers can help the United States translate new ideas into practical benefits for the nation.

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 18d

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24d

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:

“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24d

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 19d

Why AI systems may never be secure, and what to do about it
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Why AI systems may never be secure, and what to do about it

A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 19d

How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta”
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How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta”

Coders need to start thinking like mechanical engineers

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 20d

This only happens to you once

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 19d

To Understand #AI, Watch How It Evolves www.quantamagazine.org/to-understan...

To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine

Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they d...

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 19d

Xénogreffes - La transplantation d’organes porcins sur des humains vient d’être autorisée aux États-Unis #xenotransplantation www.epsiloon.com/tous-les-num...

Xénogreffe : l’espoir

Après 30 ans de tâtonnements et de prouesses, la transplantation d’organes porcins sur des humains vient d’être autorisée aux États-Unis. Alors que 100 000 malades sont en attente de greffe.

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 19d

Les addresses IP révèlent les migrations, là où on n’a pas des données administratives à l’échelle mondiale www.epsiloon.com/compte/reade...

Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 22d

Stereo-seq V2 used at BGI-Research to map Einstein’s transcriptome www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Can China’s new tech crack Einstein’s brain? Scientists hope to give it a try

Mapping technique allows analysis of old biological samples often poorly preserved.

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 24d

If #AI can diagnose patients, what are doctors for?
#LLM are transforming #medicine, but the technology comes with side effects www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?

Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.

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Xosé M Fernández @xosegb.bsky.social · 25d

Access to novel cancer medicines in Europe: inequities across countries and their drivers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26d

Which one is it going to be?
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

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