Category: Technology
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[Link] China pours money into brain chips that give paralysed people more control
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02098-5 One brain–computer device being trialled in people is a minimally invasive, wireless device called NEO, which can restore hand movement in a person with paralysis using a pneumatic glove. Eight probes are placed on the dura matter, the outer membrane surrounding the brain2. The first person to receive the device, in October 2023, was…
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AI, social media, and the shifting standards of content quality
in TechnologyAs the web overflows with unfiltered information, the debate over content quality resurfaces in the age of generative AI. While both social media and AI produce a spectrum of content, a crucial difference emerges: AI labs are incentivised to optimise for excellence, unlike the misaligned incentives driving much of human-generated online content.
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Video conferencing impact on climate change
in TechnologyI’m not a huge fan of any of these services so have no emotional attachment to which is worse (I’d prefer using something like Jitsi). But I did think it was useful to note the significant difference in the climate change impact of the biggest service providers. Given the prevalence of Zoom, and availability of…
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Condemning AI in education while requiring Turnitin
This post briefly explores the contradiction in higher education’s approach to student data: condemning AI companies as “predatory” while mandating student submission to Turnitin’s commercial database. Unlike AI services offering opt-out options, plagiarism detection systems provide no choice. Are we applying consistent principles to educational technology, or simply protecting the status quo?
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Reimagining trust in academia through networked transparency
Academia should move from outsourced trust via publishers to networked transparency. While traditional publishing established mechanisms like persistent identification and peer review, today’s technology enables these functions to operate openly. Version control systems document the evolution of knowledge creation, open platforms invite diverse feedback, and scholarly control of these mechanisms creates more responsive, values-aligned academic…
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Digital Health Considerations for Clinicians – Norwegian Physiotherapy conference
Digital healthcare tools offer exciting possibilities while raising important questions for practitioners. In this presentation for the 2025 Norwegian Physiotherapy conference, I explored a range of considerations for clinicians around the integration of technology into practice. The key question I considered was, how do we ensure technology serves our patients’ needs while mitigating the risks…
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Wikitok is a TikTok-style interface for exploring Wikipedia articles
in Technologyhttps://wikitok.vercel.app A TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles. I love this idea. I’ve added the app to my home screen and instead of killing time doom-scrolling on Twitter, I do the same thing on Wikipedia.
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Physiopedia AI course for healthcare professionals is now live
The Physiopedia AI Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals Programme is a comprehensive course exploring AI’s impact on healthcare education, research, and clinical practice. This free online programme introduces frontier AI models, discusses AI’s potential in enhancing learning and research, and examines its role in diagnosis and clinical performance. Learn to integrate AI into your professional life…
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Solo is a free, AI-supported website builder from Mozilla
Solo is a free website build from Mozilla that uses AI to help create websites by suggesting: Business names, Text composition, Content organisation, SEO optimisation, and Image suggestions.
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Two clinical perspectives on technology and time to care
Two clinical perspectives on technology in healthcare, showing different levels of digital adoption in their specialities. Physiotherapy focuses on encouraging simple digital practices for efficiency, while radiology is advanced in incorporating AI for improved patient care. Challenges include data standardisation in physiotherapy and IT infrastructure issues in radiology, highlighting the need for whole-system innovation and…
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An Introduction to The Babylonian Map of the World–the Oldest Known Map of the World | Open Culture
https://www.openculture.com/2024/08/an-introduction-to-the-babylonian-map-of-the-world-the-oldest-known-map-of-the-world.html
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Semantic Reader update
A brief overview of some of the skimming features available in Semantic Reader.
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A notebook for seeing with language models
https://thesephist.com/posts/spc/ I want to share with you some of my early design explorations for what future creative thinking tools may look like, based on these techniques and ideas. This particular exploration involves what I’ve labelled a computational notebook for ideas. This computational notebook is designed based on one cornerstone principle: documents aren’t a collection of…
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Beyond silos: AI as a personal knowledge management system
The future of personal knowledge management lies beyond siloed note-taking apps. We need a system that integrates information across various platforms and formats, creating meaningful connections in our fragmented digital lives. Whether through browser-based solutions, operating system integration, or local AI models, the goal is a seamless, intelligent layer that unifies our entire digital ecosystem.
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Weekly digest 26
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Improve online reading with Reader view in Firefox
This post describes the Reader View feature in Firefox, which allows users to read web pages in a clutter-free, distraction-free mode with customisable text and background settings, making it ideal for online reading.
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Zettlr is an open-source writing platform for academics
I’ve always been fascinated with the tools people use to write (I should write a follow-up to that post), and over the last couple of years that interest has been focused on what I think of as . Your one-stop publication workbench. From idea to publication in one app: Zettlr accompanies you while writing your…
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Automated page translation in Firefox
Firefox’s page translation feature allows users to translate web pages directly in the browser, ensuring privacy by running the language model locally. While the translations are not perfect, it’s a convenient option for simple browsing activities, without relying on cloud services or sending data to servers.
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Blended Intensive Programmes on Digital Health and AI
ai, artificial intelligence, assignment, BIP, Blended Intensive Programme, digital health, digital health technology, European Commission, genAI, health intervention, healthcare technology, online learning, personal organisation, personal productivity, professional education, prompting, student modility, workshopDuring April-May, I participated in two Blended Intensive Programmes at Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão, coordinated by Antonio Lopes, in collaboration with European physiotherapy schools. These programmes combined short-term physical mobility abroad and online components, featuring topics like digital health technologies, responsible AI use in education and research, and generative AI workshops.