Dimitrios Tsallos

Good data analysis is tricky. It requires knowledge, training, & thought. That's not gatekeeping, it's a fact for most scientific tasks! Machine learning tools may be tempting, but naive data-driven analyses can be dangerously misleading. We need more thought not less.

"We should be afraid. Not of intelligent machines. But of machines making decisions that they do not have the intelligence to make. I am far more afraid of machine stupidity than of machine intelligence" - @MelMitchell1

In 2018, "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial" was published in the British Medical Journal. It sought to determine if wearing a parachute when jumping from a plane had any impact on survivability. It did not.

when you’re in the middle of an experiment and halfway you realize you’re out of a reagent

Next time you hear someone say "tHe sHoTs r KiLliNg peOpLe!" remind them which group is actually dying #rates-by-vaccine-status" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…

Great to be at the Functional #PrecisionMedicine for #BloodCancer Workshop and Symposium. Exciting yesterday on FPM and drug screening to stratify patients to therapy. Now Day2 and @DrTonyLetai speaking on what we have to do to prime cancer cells to therapy! @TheSFPM @kporkka

Great start of the second day at #FunctionalPrecisionMedicine for blood cancer symposium with focus on immunotherapy. Nice to see so much great work produced in transatlantic collaborations. @TheSFPM

Great session at #FunctionalPrecisionMedicine for blood cancer workshop showing a lot about ex vivo assays and clinical trials. Very clear benefit using the assays on VenEx trial, great work by @LabKontro

New pre-clinical study uncovers a therapeutically actionable molecular mechanism of #azacitidine mediated thrombocytopenia in #MDS #AML by Okoye-Okafor et al. @The_Will_Lab @Einsteinmed @Einstein_SCI: bit.ly/3AM69Hq @dsallos @Amitvermamds @aditishasMD #Leukemia

Very excited to see this online! Many thanks to project lead, Dr. Cynthia Okoye-Okafor, our fantastic collaborators, and @JExpMed for a smooth publishing process.

Are physicians ready to adopt clinical decision support tools to interpret molecular profiling data? 2 months since publication (bit.ly/3aNEU64), the IPSS-M calculator (mds-risk-model.com) has computed risk for 17,640K MDS patient profiles from >60 countries.

The amount Elon Musk just paid for Twitter ($44 billion) is nearly equal to Biden’s proposed climate budget ($44.9 billion), in case anyone's wondering how seriously we’re taking the climate crisis

Welcome to join our team! We value also applications from researchers not pursuing master's or PhD degrees. Feel free to share. #ComputerVision #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #leusm #BigData

Hello world! I’m happy to present you the Hematoscope Lab oscarbruck.fi/hematoscope

"Omicron's milder so why get vaccinated now?" Omicron:

Άρθρο μας με @STsiodras στο @JournalSjph για θνητότητα 🇬🇷 διασωληνωμένων #COVID19 ασθενών σε σχέση με το φόρτο του συστήματος υγείας, ως αρχές Μαϊου 2020. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Αναδεικνύει τις χαμηλές "αντοχές" του ΕΣΥ, που δεν αφορούν μόνο τη διαθεσιμότητα ΜΕΘ. *Thread*

Ex vivo drug sensitivity testing predicts venetoclax+azacitidine treatment responses in AML. VenEx trial interim results presented at #ASH21

Excellent talk by @hkuusanm on predicting response to venetoclax+azacitidine in AML using ex vivo drug screening #ASH21

New study on role of primary school children in transmission⬇️ ▪️Genetic sequencing done on all positive cases ▪️Most household transmission "originated from within the school" ▪️"Children may play a larger role in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 than previously assumed" [1/3]

A machine-learning algorithm has been used to optimise the allocation of COVID tests at the Greek border. Read more in this excellent N&V by Ziad Obermeyer @oziadias go.nature.com/3u3II8N