Pietro Ghezzi
@pietroghezzi.bsky.social
Immunologist/cytokines. Ex-prof Uniurb, Emeritus prof Brighton & Sussex Medical School. Views my own. Do del lei e non uso parolacce.
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My new book on AI, literature and distant writing is now available from Columbia University Press
"Encounters with AI - An Experiment in Distant Writing"
"Encounters with AI - An Experiment in Distant Writing"
Encounters with AI | Columbia University Press
What happens when a philosopher hands the pen to artificial intelligence and keeps only the role of designer? Encounters with AI is an experiment in what Luc... | CUP
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September 23, 2026 at 1:21 AM
My new book on AI, literature and distant writing is now available from Columbia University Press
"Encounters with AI - An Experiment in Distant Writing"
"Encounters with AI - An Experiment in Distant Writing"
Human migration has surged since 2000 — these maps reveal where people are going www.nature.com/articles/d41...
June 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Human migration has surged since 2000 — these maps reveal where people are going www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How good are ‘AI doctors’ — and will they take over medicine? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How good are ‘AI doctors’ — and will they take over medicine?
Nature talks to specialists about whether people might soon be diagnosed by artificial-intelligence systems.
www.nature.com
June 4, 2026 at 10:47 AM
How good are ‘AI doctors’ — and will they take over medicine? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great advert from COOP for the 80th anniversary of the republic in Italy #2giugno #festadellarepubblicaitaliana
June 2, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Great advert from COOP for the 80th anniversary of the republic in Italy #2giugno #festadellarepubblicaitaliana
In Greece at least 72% of centenarian records were cases of pension fraud. The person was left alive on paper while relatives collected the pension cheques. That was the secret to longevity in Greece www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How long can humans live? We simply don’t know
Claims about the upper limits to human lifespan are characterized by hype, deficient data and shoddy science, says longevity researcher Saul Newman.
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June 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM
In Greece at least 72% of centenarian records were cases of pension fraud. The person was left alive on paper while relatives collected the pension cheques. That was the secret to longevity in Greece www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Will AI ruin the social sciences — or revolutionize them? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Will AI ruin the social sciences — or revolutionize them?
The technology can whip up spurious findings and pollute survey responses, but it could also make research more rigorous.
www.nature.com
June 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Will AI ruin the social sciences — or revolutionize them? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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La philosophe et psychanalyste Cynthia Fleury rend hommage à Edgar Morin, mort à 104 ans. Elle décrit un arpenteur de la complexité qui savait faire dialoguer ce qui semblait incompatible et maintenir ensemble des mondes qui s’ignorent.
➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/8i
➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/8i
May 31, 2026 at 4:50 PM
La philosophe et psychanalyste Cynthia Fleury rend hommage à Edgar Morin, mort à 104 ans. Elle décrit un arpenteur de la complexité qui savait faire dialoguer ce qui semblait incompatible et maintenir ensemble des mondes qui s’ignorent.
➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/8i
➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/8i
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As Labour crashes and burns in UK, Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany, which adopted "centrist" reforms two decades ago, is now at just 12% support- as fascist AfD leads polls.
There is no developed nation where going "centrist" has led to anything but destruction of a left-leaning party
There is no developed nation where going "centrist" has led to anything but destruction of a left-leaning party
Germany, INSA poll:
AfD-ESN: 29%
CDU/CSU-EPP: 22%
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 14%
SPD-S&D: 12%
LINKE-LEFT: 11%
FDP-RE: 3% (-1)
BSW-NI: 3%
+/- vs. 22-26 May 2026
Fieldwork: 26-29 May 2026
Sample size: 1,205
➤ europeelects.eu/germany
AfD-ESN: 29%
CDU/CSU-EPP: 22%
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 14%
SPD-S&D: 12%
LINKE-LEFT: 11%
FDP-RE: 3% (-1)
BSW-NI: 3%
+/- vs. 22-26 May 2026
Fieldwork: 26-29 May 2026
Sample size: 1,205
➤ europeelects.eu/germany
May 31, 2026 at 10:41 AM
As Labour crashes and burns in UK, Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany, which adopted "centrist" reforms two decades ago, is now at just 12% support- as fascist AfD leads polls.
There is no developed nation where going "centrist" has led to anything but destruction of a left-leaning party
There is no developed nation where going "centrist" has led to anything but destruction of a left-leaning party
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Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible. Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible
Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible. Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to de-Americanize global science. The US science crisis presents an opportunity to reinvent funding and management of the global research enterprise. www.nature.com/articles/d41... How to de-Americanize global science
How to de-Americanize global science
The US science crisis presents an opportunity to reinvent funding and management of the global research enterprise.
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
How to de-Americanize global science. The US science crisis presents an opportunity to reinvent funding and management of the global research enterprise. www.nature.com/articles/d41... How to de-Americanize global science
Medical AI can transform medicine — but only if we carefully track the data it touches
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Medical AI can transform medicine — but only if we carefully track the data it touches
The uncontrolled deployment of machine learning in medicine can distort patient information and sacrifice long-term data reliability for short-term benefits.
www.nature.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Medical AI can transform medicine — but only if we carefully track the data it touches
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes. The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.
How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes. The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.
How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes
The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.
www.nature.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes. The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.
How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes. The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.
www.bbc.com/news/article... Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers
Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers
Paloma Shemirani’s brothers say she refused chemotherapy because of their mother’s beliefs.
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June 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
www.bbc.com/news/article... Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers
Could a novelty indicator improve science? A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study how out-of-the-box research changes the scientific landscape.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Could a novelty indicator improve science?
A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study how out-of-the-box research changes the scientific landscape.
www.nature.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Could a novelty indicator improve science? A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study how out-of-the-box research changes the scientific landscape.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
today 36C in Milano. Tomorrow I will go buy another fan
June 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
today 36C in Milano. Tomorrow I will go buy another fan
Two men jailed over theft of £4.75m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Two men jailed over theft of £4.75m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace
James Sheen given four-year term and Michael Jones 27 months after ‘bold and brazen’ theft of toilet in Oxfordshire
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June 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Two men jailed over theft of £4.75m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Who is on RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel — and what will they do? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Who is on RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel — and what will they do?
Critics fear that anti-vaccine leader’s picks for crucial committee will be a ‘disaster for public health’.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Who is on RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel — and what will they do? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Look beyond the longevity drips and supplements. There is a path to living longer and healthier that doesn’t require reversing the aging process
Look beyond the longevity drips and supplements
There is a path to living longer and healthier that doesn’t require reversing the aging process
www.science.org
June 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Look beyond the longevity drips and supplements. There is a path to living longer and healthier that doesn’t require reversing the aging process
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl... Mental health consequences of dietary restriction: increased depressive symptoms in biological men and populations with elevated BMI | BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
Mental health consequences of dietary restriction: increased depressive symptoms in biological men and populations with elevated BMI
Introduction The literature primarily examines the mental health effects of dietary patterns, with ‘healthy’ diets linked to fewer depressive symptoms, although no standardised definition of a ‘health...
nutrition.bmj.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl... Mental health consequences of dietary restriction: increased depressive symptoms in biological men and populations with elevated BMI | BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
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Yeats latest. (From the New Yorker)
May 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Yeats latest. (From the New Yorker)
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Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the SETS Initiative at #CornellTech, spoke with @afp.com about AI deepfakes on TikTok.
"Impersonation videos are particularly pernicious as they further degrade our ability to discern authentic accounts," he said.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
@mantzarlis.com
"Impersonation videos are particularly pernicious as they further degrade our ability to discern authentic accounts," he said.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
@mantzarlis.com
'Tool for grifters': AI deepfakes push bogus sexual cures
Holding an oversized carrot, a brawny, shirtless man promotes a supplement he claims can enlarge male genitalia -- one of countless AI-generated videos on TikTok peddling unproven sexual treatments.
www.france24.com
May 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the SETS Initiative at #CornellTech, spoke with @afp.com about AI deepfakes on TikTok.
"Impersonation videos are particularly pernicious as they further degrade our ability to discern authentic accounts," he said.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
@mantzarlis.com
"Impersonation videos are particularly pernicious as they further degrade our ability to discern authentic accounts," he said.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
@mantzarlis.com
Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears. Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
www.nature.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears. Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Italy changes law on right to claim citizenship through great-grandparents. Italian citizenship by descent law change leaves many out of luck and out of pocket | CNN www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/t...
Italy changes law on right to claim citizenship through great-grandparents | CNN
Italy’s government has made it impossible for anyone to get Italian citizenship through their great-grandparents, dashing the hopes of those who have already paid money to start the process.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Italy changes law on right to claim citizenship through great-grandparents. Italian citizenship by descent law change leaves many out of luck and out of pocket | CNN www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/t...
World-first’ gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England www.theguardian.com/society/2025... ‘World-first’ gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England | Gonorrhoea | The Guardian
‘World-first’ gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England
Jab hailed as ‘landmark moment for sexual health’ and comes amid record cases of infection
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May 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
World-first’ gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England www.theguardian.com/society/2025... ‘World-first’ gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England | Gonorrhoea | The Guardian