Peter Openshaw

@p_openshaw

Mucosal immunologist and respiratory physician, working on lung infections (esp. COVID, RSV and influenza) at Imperial College London.

London, England imperial.ac.uk/people/p.opens… Joined September 2017

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Peter Openshaw @p_openshaw Oct 29

This is a great thread, so important. As someone who does lots of reviews for journals against the clock, I'm sure I'm missing things. If AI catches them I'm delighted. Will take a lot of anxiety out of reviewing and let me think about big stuff.

Ruslan Rust Verified account @rust_ruslan Oct 28

Lots of debate this week on whether journals should ban AI in peer review.

We actually tested this in our new preprint, and the results were pretty clear to me.

For context, I've reviewed for most of the big journals and evaluated 1,000 human reviews as an editor. I love to read and evaluate science.

TLDR: From now on I won't do any peer review without AI. For clinical trials, I'd even call human-only review dangerous 🧵

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Peter Openshaw @p_openshaw Oct 10

Great post, nice analysis from @ZdenekVrozina. So ineresting!

Zdenek Vrozina Verified account @ZdenekVrozina Oct 10

The pancreas makes a protein that can clump into amyloid. Normally it takes years, because the hard part is forming the first seed.
A new paper argues SARS2 proteins hand it over for free. Then it takes days🧵
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Peter Openshaw @p_openshaw Aug 11

"Pugh ... offered free blood tests to worried parents in an attempt to prove whether or not their child was protected [he] inserted the results of a blood test on his 26-year-old daughter Josephine, who was inoculated against the three diseases..."
thetimes.com/travel/destina…

Peter Openshaw @p_openshaw Aug 11

telegraph.co.uk/news/1479592/D… Let's not forget this 2004 scandal: "A doctor has been jailed for nine months for faking blood tests to trick parents into believing that the separate inoculations he gave their children for measles, mumps and rubella were effective."

www.telegraph.co.uk Doctor jailed for faking MMR blood tests

Peter Openshaw @p_openshaw Aug 2

If Jake's worried, I'm worried. He doesn't worry needlessly.

Jake Dunning @OutbreakJake Aug 1

@greg_folkers @KrutikaKuppalli @PlacideMbala @TheLancetInfDis Very kind, Greg - thank you. I wish we had not needed to write this review now. I am increasingly worried about the trajectory of the current outbreak.
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