Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture. Now at @alan-winfield.bsky.social
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Teresa May's talk of betrayal makes me very angry.
The loss of the right to live work and travel in 27 countries represents a massive and unprecedented loss of opportunity for our children & grandchildren. The real betrayal of #Brexit is of the young, by the old.
Unforgivable.
Prosthetic leg for 5-year-old Marina from Kherson. | U4UA donorbox.org/prosthetic-leg-…
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How do we get large numbers of robots to work together as a team?
@sabinehauert will illustrate the progress in swarm hardware and AI that will build 'swarms for people', in applications like nanomedicine and environmental monitoring.
Get your tickets ⬇️ rigb.org/whats-on/engineerin…
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Just received my first copy of (Un)kind! (out 6th Feb - pre-order here geni.us/Unkind ) >
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In 1901, an eternal light bulb was connected in California. It still hasn't gone out today, 123 years later. It is cited as strong evidence of how products are purposely made not to last in modern technology.
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Want to improve your academic writing? 🖋️✨
I’m giving away 'Writing in English at University: A Guide for Second Language Writers' by Lund University—for FREE! 🎁
This book is a GAME-CHANGER for second-language writers! 🌟
Type "English" in the comments, and I’ll DM you the details. Let’s ace your writing! 💌📚"
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"After years of worrying about issues like school funding levels, class size, and curriculum design, many reformers have come to the conclusion that nothing matters more than finding people with the potential to be great teachers." newyorker.com/magazine/2008/…
V unhappy with @virginmedia. My blueyonder email account stopped working late last night. Spent the whole morning trying to restore it, to no avail. My heart sinks at the prospect of having to work thru 100s of family, subs, travel apps, retailers etc, to change my email address.
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Couldn't be more delighted with this appointment. Not only on Heidi's extremely well-deserved behalf, but for the country, too - someone tough, decisive, experienced & authentic is exactly who we need to grasp the nettle of our huge transport challenges.
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Heidi Alexander MP @Heidi_Labour has been appointed Secretary of State for Transport @TransportGovUK.
ALT Heidi Alexander MP appointed Secretary of State for Transport.
Evolutionary Robotics (ER) as a tool for modelling Evolutionary Biology.
New paper that explores the value, strengths, limitations and potential of ER as a modelling tool. frontiersin.org/journals/rob…
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Happy times at the excellent @DARSSymposium in New York this week! Congratulations to Simon Jones for his exciting work on Distributed Spatial Awareness for Swarms, which won Best Paper Award! He's been working on this for a while, building on @AjdDavison's excellent work on GBP.
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I prepared and defended my master's thesis amidst the sounds of bombing and terror during the Gaza war, to send a message to the world that we in Gaza deserve life and are waiting for the sun of freedom. We are waiting for the world to see us 💔.
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Needs a tap🤏😉
Foundry (Oil on Board) by Peter Knox (b. 1942) #Art #NorthernArt
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As #genAI pollutes the web, we lose valuable information on natural language processing: "the web at large is full of slop generated by [#LLMs], written by no one to communicate nothing. Including this slop in the data skews the word frequencies". 404media.co/project-analyzin…
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I'll be participating in the Sidmouth Science Festival next month, contributing to a discussion on Citizen Science on Weds 9th Oct 7:00-8:30pm. You can find out more about the Festival and the event here: sidmouthsciencefestival.org/ @SciCommsUWE @UWE_SoAS @SidmouthScience
ALT A colourful logo for Sidmouth Science Festival, 4-12 October 2024. The logo states 'sparking curiosity about the world of science. Explore, Learn, Enjoy!'
ALT Extract from the programme that states: Citizen Science: Just for Scientists? Wed 9th Oct, 7pm-8:30pm. Become a citizen scientist: you don't need to be an expert? This evening event explores what citizen science means, hears presentations from three people involved in citizen science projects and invites you to learn about how science can be a community effort.
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Book your place now! Tuesday, 22 October, 1-3 pm, (UK time/BST)
@helloedhit @UWEBristol”
#eatingdisorders, #bodyimage
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#sunflowers#bees. 🌻Watercolour painting for sale with a mount. Last sunflower painting for the year finished
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The game of academic deadlines (by @PHDcomics)
ALT Funny PhD comic about academic deadlines, fitting for the deadline of #chi2025
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Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged 'Carpentopod' table project. See
decarpentier.nl/carpentopod for project info, or see it live at @EHVMMF this 13 & 14 Sept.