Associate Professor & PhD supervisor, UTS | Pain researcher | Paediatrics, pain science education and health AI | Co-founder, One Thing | Author of 7 kids books
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined January 2018
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I think I can now OFFICIALLY say: “By night I’m a children’s book author”?!
It is very exciting for me that the Zoe and Zak’s Pain Hacks Book Series 1-5 is becoming a reality. I can’t wait for the day (very soon) when the physical hardcover box sets arrive!
More info 👇
Welcome to Zoe and Zak's Pain Hacks. The new kid on the block to help kids with chronic pain, their parents, caregivers and teachers better understand the complex nature of pain and develop treatment strategies to give them back their lives.
noigroup.com/product/zoe-and…
@JoshuaWPate
I wrote this piece on cognitive surrender, agentic workflows, and a big question nobody has cleanly answered yet… who checks which step? palpatehealthai.substack.com…
Build as you think: the gap between ideas and working health apps is collapsing. I wrote up this experiment here - open.substack.com/pub/palpat…
It's 2030. Your GP is wearing an AI earpiece. So are you. So is everyone in the clinic.
Except the kid.
Surely not?!
Read the full thought experiment on my Substack (Palpate Health AI) open.substack.com/pub/palpat…
Hi health professionals with a Notes app full of ideas: software is quickly becoming “on-demand” now that AI agents can do many steps at once… here’s a Substack I wrote about my experiments so far - open.substack.com/pub/palpat…
I prototyped a phone addiction app (with group accountability) on my commute home using Claude Cowork. People need to know that this can be done in 17mins!
palpatehealthai.substack.com…
I forced my phone to block Instagram until I do 10 squats. I "built" this silly app in 5 minutes with 0 code. The barrier to entry is gone. 🤯 #AI #vibecoding
I wrote a full breakdown of how I did this (and you can try the prototype yourself) in my new Substack: palpatehealthai.substack.com…
Which of these posters feels most trustworthy, even though the paper is fake? A, B, C, or D?
I’ll explain why this made me uncomfortable in the comments below.
Context: All 4 posters were generated from the same deliberately fake paper (about “kissing it better” vs blowing a kiss). I used AI to test whether visuals alone could make weak science feel credible...
...I unpack the full experiment (including 10 different poster styles), as well as what this means for conference posters, scientific trust, and AI tools here:
👉 palpatehealthai.substack.com…
The internet is listening to me?! I wrote a newsletter post on Monday requesting AI that is brave enough to say "I don't know."
Just THREE DAYS later, OpenAI released a ‘Confessions’ publication. Ha!
But in the world of health research and patient care, I think we need the honest thought bubble. Check out the post that predicted the news...
palpatehealthai.substack.com…
In healthcare, we often say "it depends." It’s fascinating to see that AI models can actually know when "it depends," but so far they have only been trained to sound certain. We need to unlock that ‘shrug’!
I tested Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3) to make an instant PowerPoint + infographic from a PDF paper.
There’s an important clinical error that looks totally plausible design-wise.
Are we about to flood the web with beautiful, incorrect science?
Substack: open.substack.com/pub/palpat…
