I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
Desperately need people to understand the rhetorical power of “this isn’t what America is” over “this is absolutely what America is.” We need to diagnose problems but we need to give people a framework to think about solutions, and the second formulation above almost never actually gets there.
June 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Desperately need people to understand the rhetorical power of “this isn’t what America is” over “this is absolutely what America is.” We need to diagnose problems but we need to give people a framework to think about solutions, and the second formulation above almost never actually gets there.
Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition causes ill-health, according to a new framework drawn up by experts and endorsed by 76 medical organizations internationally.
www.thelancet.com/commissions/...
www.thelancet.com/commissions/...
Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity
www.thelancet.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition causes ill-health, according to a new framework drawn up by experts and endorsed by 76 medical organizations internationally.
www.thelancet.com/commissions/...
www.thelancet.com/commissions/...
Halleluja. Nach nur sechs Tagen des Einbauens, Ausbauens, Filmens und Fotografierens schließt sich der Framework Support endlich meiner Diagnose an (Mainboard inne Fritten), und schickt Ersatz 🙄
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Halleluja. Nach nur sechs Tagen des Einbauens, Ausbauens, Filmens und Fotografierens schließt sich der Framework Support endlich meiner Diagnose an (Mainboard inne Fritten), und schickt Ersatz 🙄
In a new paper Matthews, Tabery, & @ent3c.bsky.social articulate a value-harm trade off framework to distinguish controversial from abhorrent science. Concluding: "genomic race science is not just controversial science but, rather, abhorrent science... because it is both valueless and harmful."
How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science
What makes certain scientific research controversial? And when does scientific research go beyond being merely controversial to be something far worse? We propose a diagnostic framework for distingui...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:51 PM
In a new paper Matthews, Tabery, & @ent3c.bsky.social articulate a value-harm trade off framework to distinguish controversial from abhorrent science. Concluding: "genomic race science is not just controversial science but, rather, abhorrent science... because it is both valueless and harmful."
Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs.
I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me!
elmc.at/fullstack-re...
I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me!
elmc.at/fullstack-re...
Fullstack Refereeing
A framework for thinking about refereeing as Backend, Frontend, and Runtime, so you can diagnose play problems instead of solving the wrong ones.
elmc.at
April 15, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs.
I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me!
elmc.at/fullstack-re...
I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me!
elmc.at/fullstack-re...
how to diagnose why somebody's "apology" is unsatisfying, and how to make genuine, useful, repairs in your own relationships--using a Jewish framework, but quite applicable for folks of any religion or no religion at all
Hey! ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR was one of Beacon's 2023 bestsellers! That's cool. And, uh, not something this typically solid midlister is used to....
Cheers to Beacon’s Bestsellers of 2023!
By Christian Coleman | Some are new, some are veteran crew. These are a handful of Beacon’s bestsellers of 2023! Let’s raise a glass of bubbly to the authors and to another year of bestsellers! Wh...
www.beaconbroadside.com
December 18, 2023 at 8:39 PM
how to diagnose why somebody's "apology" is unsatisfying, and how to make genuine, useful, repairs in your own relationships--using a Jewish framework, but quite applicable for folks of any religion or no religion at all
Useful new article highlighting that race science is both valueless and harmful, and so should be treated differently from controversial research which is valueless but not harmful (arguably, a lot of social science research) or harmful but valuable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science
What makes certain scientific research controversial? And when does scientific research go beyond being merely controversial to be something far worse? We propose a diagnostic framework for distingui...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Useful new article highlighting that race science is both valueless and harmful, and so should be treated differently from controversial research which is valueless but not harmful (arguably, a lot of social science research) or harmful but valuable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
“As opposed to hallucinations, which involve AI models arbitrarily filling in the gaps within a logical framework, the team coined a new term for the phenomenon: “mirage reasoning.””
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays
Frontier AI models generated "detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces" without ever seeing the images.
futurism.com
April 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
“As opposed to hallucinations, which involve AI models arbitrarily filling in the gaps within a logical framework, the team coined a new term for the phenomenon: “mirage reasoning.””
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
‘Not enough usage’: your biggest churn reason is a broken habit loop
www.revenuecat.com/blog/growth/...
www.revenuecat.com/blog/growth/...
'Not Enough Usage' vs. Price: How to Diagnose Subscription Churn | RevenueCat
Usage churn drives up to 40% of subscription cancellations. Learn the four-part framework to diagnose it and fix each stage of the habit loop.
www.revenuecat.com
September 24, 2026 at 3:38 AM
‘Not enough usage’: your biggest churn reason is a broken habit loop
www.revenuecat.com/blog/growth/...
www.revenuecat.com/blog/growth/...
Question for ethicists: Is an Expression of Concern enough when authors claim to have trained ML to diagnose autism from facial appearance, using a collection of facial images that were scraped from the Intertubes without niceties like "formal diagnosis" or "consent"?
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - ASD2-TL∗ GTO: Autism spectrum disorders detection via transf...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: ASD2-TL∗ GTO: Autism spectrum disorders detection via transfer learning with gorilla troops optimizer framework (2023)
pubpeer.com
April 3, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Question for ethicists: Is an Expression of Concern enough when authors claim to have trained ML to diagnose autism from facial appearance, using a collection of facial images that were scraped from the Intertubes without niceties like "formal diagnosis" or "consent"?
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science, from @lucasjmatthews.bsky.social, James Tabery and @ent3c.bsky.social in The Hastings Center Report. Read here:
How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science
What makes certain scientific research controversial? And when does scientific research go beyond being merely controversial to be something far worse? We propose a diagnostic framework for distingui...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science, from @lucasjmatthews.bsky.social, James Tabery and @ent3c.bsky.social in The Hastings Center Report. Read here:
How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science
How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science
What makes certain scientific research controversial? And when does scientific research go beyond being merely controversial to be something far worse? We propose a diagnostic framework for distingui...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science
A low-cost, non-contact diagnostic technique uses recordings of snoring sounds to detect obstructive sleep apnoea. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/abnormal-s...
Abnormal snoring sounds help diagnose common sleep disorder – Physics World
A snoring-based framework shows potential as a low-cost, non-contact screening tool for obstructive sleep apnoea
physicsworld.com
June 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
A low-cost, non-contact diagnostic technique uses recordings of snoring sounds to detect obstructive sleep apnoea. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/abnormal-s...
Wann wird #Ordnung selbst zur #Instabilität?
Wenn Structural Compression schneller wächst als Adaptive Capacity – ein minimaler Diagnose-Rahmen und der #CRTI-Index sind jetzt als Open-Science-Paper verfügbar:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🖖
Wenn Structural Compression schneller wächst als Adaptive Capacity – ein minimaler Diagnose-Rahmen und der #CRTI-Index sind jetzt als Open-Science-Paper verfügbar:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🖖
Structural Compression in Complex Systems: A Minimal Stability Framework and the CRTI Diagnostic Index
Title Structural Compression in Complex Systems: A Minimal Stability Framework and the CRTI Diagnostic Index Description This paper introduces a minimal conceptual and mathematical framework for d...
doi.org
March 4, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Wann wird #Ordnung selbst zur #Instabilität?
Wenn Structural Compression schneller wächst als Adaptive Capacity – ein minimaler Diagnose-Rahmen und der #CRTI-Index sind jetzt als Open-Science-Paper verfügbar:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🖖
Wenn Structural Compression schneller wächst als Adaptive Capacity – ein minimaler Diagnose-Rahmen und der #CRTI-Index sind jetzt als Open-Science-Paper verfügbar:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🖖
So when you see incomprehensible gaps in service like my family experienced today - desperately calling all over the region to find somebody to do an urgent MRI to diagnose unbearable pain ... this is the framework that works.
We're not the customer, and delivering the MRI is not the product.
4/?
We're not the customer, and delivering the MRI is not the product.
4/?
July 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
So when you see incomprehensible gaps in service like my family experienced today - desperately calling all over the region to find somebody to do an urgent MRI to diagnose unbearable pain ... this is the framework that works.
We're not the customer, and delivering the MRI is not the product.
4/?
We're not the customer, and delivering the MRI is not the product.
4/?
Job searches are overwhelming and exhausting. Here's a framework for how to focus your time and energy on the right step in the process for your current search:
climbandpivot.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-dia...
climbandpivot.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-dia...
How to diagnose where your job search is failing
And ideas for improving your results at every stage of the process
climbandpivot.beehiiv.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Job searches are overwhelming and exhausting. Here's a framework for how to focus your time and energy on the right step in the process for your current search:
climbandpivot.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-dia...
climbandpivot.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-dia...
Mentorship Relationships Stalled: How to Restart
Mentorship momentum fades when meetings become generic and advice turns into platitudes. Learn the specific framework to diagnose what went wrong and rebuild a mentorship…
https://davidohnstad.info/mentorship-relationships-stalled-framework-fix/
Mentorship momentum fades when meetings become generic and advice turns into platitudes. Learn the specific framework to diagnose what went wrong and rebuild a mentorship…
https://davidohnstad.info/mentorship-relationships-stalled-framework-fix/
September 25, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Mentorship Relationships Stalled: How to Restart
Mentorship momentum fades when meetings become generic and advice turns into platitudes. Learn the specific framework to diagnose what went wrong and rebuild a mentorship…
https://davidohnstad.info/mentorship-relationships-stalled-framework-fix/
Mentorship momentum fades when meetings become generic and advice turns into platitudes. Learn the specific framework to diagnose what went wrong and rebuild a mentorship…
https://davidohnstad.info/mentorship-relationships-stalled-framework-fix/
Out now in Nature Metabolism! 🖥️🧬
An Open Targets project has identified a set of plasma proteins that could be used to diagnose and monitor patients with Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
An Open Targets project has identified a set of plasma proteins that could be used to diagnose and monitor patients with Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A data-driven framework reconstructs the molecular continuum of human MASLD progression - Nature Metabolism
A trajectory-based molecular framework reveals coordinated temporal shifts in metabolic, inflammatory and fibrogenic mechanisms across the human MASLD spectrum.
www.nature.com
July 14, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Out now in Nature Metabolism! 🖥️🧬
An Open Targets project has identified a set of plasma proteins that could be used to diagnose and monitor patients with Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
An Open Targets project has identified a set of plasma proteins that could be used to diagnose and monitor patients with Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Improved diagnosis.
Better understanding.
Education.
Research.
WHO produces the first diagnostic framework (allowing Dr's to diagnose it in a scientific manner) in 2008.
You won't care though.
Better understanding.
Education.
Research.
WHO produces the first diagnostic framework (allowing Dr's to diagnose it in a scientific manner) in 2008.
You won't care though.
December 17, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Improved diagnosis.
Better understanding.
Education.
Research.
WHO produces the first diagnostic framework (allowing Dr's to diagnose it in a scientific manner) in 2008.
You won't care though.
Better understanding.
Education.
Research.
WHO produces the first diagnostic framework (allowing Dr's to diagnose it in a scientific manner) in 2008.
You won't care though.
📊 A 3 Layer Framework to Measure AI Presence, Readiness and Business Impact: Redefining Metrics for the AI Search Era - A new guide where I propose a structured way to measure, diagnose, and prioritize AI search: www.aleydasolis.com/en/ai-search...
April 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
📊 A 3 Layer Framework to Measure AI Presence, Readiness and Business Impact: Redefining Metrics for the AI Search Era - A new guide where I propose a structured way to measure, diagnose, and prioritize AI search: www.aleydasolis.com/en/ai-search...
🤯 Every Explainable AI (XAI) system has a silent killer
⚡️ It’s called the sociotechnical gap
🧐 How do you detect & diagnose it?
🔥 Our #CSCW2023 paper “Charting the Sociotechnical Gap in XAI” gives you a framework to do it
📰 arxiv.org/abs/2302.00799
A Skytorial ⤵️
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#academicSky
⚡️ It’s called the sociotechnical gap
🧐 How do you detect & diagnose it?
🔥 Our #CSCW2023 paper “Charting the Sociotechnical Gap in XAI” gives you a framework to do it
📰 arxiv.org/abs/2302.00799
A Skytorial ⤵️
1/n
#academicSky
December 18, 2024 at 3:40 PM
🤯 Every Explainable AI (XAI) system has a silent killer
⚡️ It’s called the sociotechnical gap
🧐 How do you detect & diagnose it?
🔥 Our #CSCW2023 paper “Charting the Sociotechnical Gap in XAI” gives you a framework to do it
📰 arxiv.org/abs/2302.00799
A Skytorial ⤵️
1/n
#academicSky
⚡️ It’s called the sociotechnical gap
🧐 How do you detect & diagnose it?
🔥 Our #CSCW2023 paper “Charting the Sociotechnical Gap in XAI” gives you a framework to do it
📰 arxiv.org/abs/2302.00799
A Skytorial ⤵️
1/n
#academicSky
“Under the framework proposed by Harrison.ai, any manufacturer with an FDA clearance in one of six AI device categories — including products that detect, diagnose, & triage findings… — would be trusted to release new products of similar quality in corresponding categories w/o additional FDA review”
February 23, 2026 at 1:08 PM
“Under the framework proposed by Harrison.ai, any manufacturer with an FDA clearance in one of six AI device categories — including products that detect, diagnose, & triage findings… — would be trusted to release new products of similar quality in corresponding categories w/o additional FDA review”
New preprint: EarlyDx 🏥
Can an LLM diagnose an emergency-department patient using only what is known at admission?
We built a benchmark from 154,834 MIMIC-IV ED encounters: admission-time evidence in, open-ended ED diagnoses out.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.28788
Can an LLM diagnose an emergency-department patient using only what is known at admission?
We built a benchmark from 154,834 MIMIC-IV ED encounters: admission-time evidence in, open-ended ED diagnoses out.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.28788
September 28, 2026 at 12:34 AM
New preprint: EarlyDx 🏥
Can an LLM diagnose an emergency-department patient using only what is known at admission?
We built a benchmark from 154,834 MIMIC-IV ED encounters: admission-time evidence in, open-ended ED diagnoses out.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.28788
Can an LLM diagnose an emergency-department patient using only what is known at admission?
We built a benchmark from 154,834 MIMIC-IV ED encounters: admission-time evidence in, open-ended ED diagnoses out.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.28788
The Solvathons have been one of our most exciting research community experiences: Hands-on, effective – solving real cases during the events, and multidisciplinary – from clinicians to bioinformaticians. Thumbs up to the SolveRD community. Looking for more now with @erdera.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eFaqO
rdcu.be/eFaqO
The Solve-RD Solvathons as a pan-European interdisciplinary collaboration to diagnose patients with rare disease
Nature Genetics - This Perspective presents the Solve-RD Solvathon model, an innovative, pan-European framework uniting clinical and bioinformatics experts to diagnose rare diseases through...
rdcu.be
September 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The Solvathons have been one of our most exciting research community experiences: Hands-on, effective – solving real cases during the events, and multidisciplinary – from clinicians to bioinformaticians. Thumbs up to the SolveRD community. Looking for more now with @erdera.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eFaqO
rdcu.be/eFaqO