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Fergal Kerins
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Irish emigrant. Canadian immigrant. Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room

Founder @PreOperative.bsky.social 🧠
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Still one of my favourite documentaries!
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Jupiter or coffee?
December 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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A #neuroimaging reference standard in the making. Very proud of this work and the @preoperative.bsky.social team.

#mri #imagingstudies #neurosky #neurorad #radiologyAI
preoperative.bsky.social PreOperative Performance @preoperative.bsky.social · 7d
Neurological reference standards can solve non-obvious and costly problems in neuroimaging data quality.

A short thread…

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#MRI #dMRI #diffusionMRI #neurosky #neuro #neurorad #neuroradiology #neuroscience #imagingstudies #radiologyAI
December 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Program points are a great #gamification framework with levels and rewards. An endless supply of currency that can be “printed” at will.

But your flight will be 105% sold. 🤷🏻‍♂️
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10d
Flights remain congested and often unpleasant.

But that misses the point that airlines core businesses are not flying planes. It is to build lounges so that people use their credit cards. And on that count, they have been incredible innovators. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Credit-card deals have become the core of the airline industry. During the pandemic, United’s mileage program, built around its partnership with Chase, was valued at around twenty billion dollars; the rest of the business—the passenger part—was ten billion dollars underwater. Annually, charges on Delta’s American Express cards total about one per cent of the U.S. G.D.P. (“It’s amazing how much money people will spend for a free flight,” Harteveldt observed.) In most years, the programs account for much of the airlines’ profits. This year, Delta’s card will earn the company eight billion dollars. Why do people sign up for the cards? “Lounge access is the No. 1 reason,” a Delta executive recently said, of their Reserve card. Since the airline business is largely a credit-card-loyalty business, and since the credit-card-loyalty business is largely a lounge business, it’s only a minor stretch to think of Delta or United as lounge companies that also fly planes. In Atlanta alone, there are two lounges that together cost more than a hundred million dollars to build.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Very proud of the work we’re doing at @preoperative.bsky.social!
preoperative.bsky.social PreOperative Performance @preoperative.bsky.social · 20d
Diffusion MRI is sensitive to scanner and protocol differences which is why multi-site trials, studies and AI tools struggle with trust in the numbers.

This thread introduces a phantom MRI data analysis tool, in use with our phantom technology, measuring the reproducibility of phantom data.

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December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
fergalkerins.bsky.social
We’re going to have to redefine “too big to fail” criteria when this bubble is big enough to make countries insolvent.

#AI
iwriteok.bsky.social Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27d
it's actually really good our stock is down $500 billion, you fool, you absolute simpleton

www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
"Nobody in history has ever lost $500 billion in a few weeks," Huang said. "You've gotta be worth a lot to lose $500 billion in a few weeks."
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Good advice…
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The fact that the Kessler twins could make such a selection suggests surprisingly light regulations/protections around assisted death.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The Kessler Twins sisters Alice and Ellen die together aged 89
German pop duo who last year said their wish was ‘to leave together’ had joint assisted death at their home in Grünwald
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
fergalkerins.bsky.social
Does anyone else find it very disturbing that correcting the incorporation of a barely significant grammatical character in an AI response is not a straightforward, well defined, and simple fix?

🚩

#AI #ChatGPT
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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It’s very good. And it’s hard to believe it’s not about AI (and specific tech bro’s global ambitions).

But knowing Vince Gilligan’s roots, it could be an alien’s response to society’s trajectory towards a Fermi paradox great filter - YMMV 🤷🏻‍♂️

And Rhea Seehorn is awesome. #Pluribus
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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BlurSky banned #SarahKendzior for quoting a Johnny Cash lyric from Folsom Prison Blues in a response to an article and defence of Johnny Cash.

This is not the action of serious people.

Seriously BlueSky?
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Indistinguishable from The Onion. The Poe’s Law of bad design
alastair.is Alastair Coote @alastair.is · Nov 11
Must be frustrating when you post your April Fools joke almost six months ahead of time by mistake
November 11, 2025 introducing ipnone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone Born out of a collaboration between ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple, iPhone Pocket features a singular 3D-knitted construction designed to fit any iPhone ISSEY MIYAKE Cna Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket. Inspired by the concept of "a piece of cloth," its singular 3D-knitted construction is designed to fit any iPhone as
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The closing of the curtain was equally impressive
antongerashchenko.bsky.social Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Nov 11
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
fergalkerins.bsky.social
Toronto, Nov 2nd @00:17am

Kirk at bat in the 11th inning of game 7
mathewkumar.com Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · Oct 28
This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Crossing guards on October 31st. 🎃Never change #Toronto
Toronto crossing-guard in hoodie with skeleton mask and axe on October 31st
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Massively upsetting, but also the ubiquity of gambling advertising & access for consumers generally, & the inability (or indifference) of leagues to support players with access to astonishing amounts of money and short careers altogether makes this event very predictable

www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...
Live updates: NBA stars Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier arrested in illegal sports betting bust
NBA stars Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier and Damon Jones are among those arrested in two illegal gambling cases, according to the FBI.
www.bbc.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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If Ticketmaster was a human, everyone interested in live sport and music events would be in a coercive relationship.

This is criminal.
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Accidental candid truth uttered in response to the #AWS outage and #DNS issue today.

I’m 98% sure she meant point of sale
October 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
fergalkerins.bsky.social
The Fermi Paradox is one of my favourite scientific mysteries.

Did natural nuclear energy sources start life on Earth? This hypothesis is new to me and is mind blowing.

#FermiParadox #abiogenesis

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
The Fermi Paradox - Did a Natural Nuclear Reactor Spark All Life?
Podcast Episode · Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur · 2025-10-09 · 33m
podcasts.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
fergalkerins.bsky.social
Well, that was terrifying… #AI

A great introduction to the topic. Worth a listen.

@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton
Podcast Episode · The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · 2025-10-09 · 1h 43m
podcasts.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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preoperative.bsky.social
PreOperative Performance is delighted to attend the International Society of Tractography meeting in Bordeaux this week!

Say hello, DM or email

✉️: [email protected]

@tractography.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Thank you @esmrmb.bsky.social and thank you Marseille!

This was a greatly enjoyable meeting and I was delighted to see sessions dedicated to the importance of medical imaging quality (control & assurance) and reference standards.

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October 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Day 3 of #ESMRMB2025 begins shortly. It’s poster day!

In poster PG353 PreOperative Performance’s technology is applied to higher order tensor models of diffusion MRI data which can resolve complex neural architecture such as areas with crossing fibers.

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October 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Preclinical imaging, including studies of ex-vivo tissue and organoid models, play a critical role in advancing MR imaging research by providing the means to explore the biological underpinnings of disease, refine imaging techniques and uncover insights…

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October 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM