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A brilliant panel for the “What is consciousness ?” Part of the series of podcasts called “A Question of Science” Hosted by Prof Brian Cox at The Francis Crick Institute
@crick.ac.uk
@smfleming.bsky.social
has a link below to the Podcasts and a video of the event. ⬇️💭
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about 1 month ago
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Ace Centre
about 1 month ago
Communication Works is back! 🎉 We're delighted to announce that Communication Works will return to Oldham and London next year and registration is now open! North - Fri 22nd May, Oldham Events Centre South - Wed 24th June, Charlton Athletic Football Club Register your FREE place:
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Sarah Garfinkel
about 2 months ago
Bloomsbury/UCL people: Have you tried this new Lebanese Cafe - Matbakh Kitchen - located on Great Ormond Street? The food is delicious! My Mums family came from Syria and I’m so happy to find truly authentic home cooking. Do try if you’re in the area.
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Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours: Julia Simner from University of Sussex School of Psychology is on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 with Jim Al-Khalili with a name check for Jamie Ward, Louisa Rinaldi and the team at The University of Sussex
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Life Scientific - Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours - BBC Sounds
Professor Julia Simner tests Jim for synaesthesia with surprising results.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ln2s?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
2 months ago
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻
6 months ago
🧵🆓🔓🦋
#bskySPEECHIES
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#Brava
@carorowland.bsky.social
et al. See that,
@bronwynhemsley.bsky.social
@lucyebryant.bsky.social
@katharinebeals.bsky.social
Not a gestalt language processor in site, no mention of analytic language learners because it's all strictly rooted in empiricism!
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CENMAC
3 months ago
Take a look at our October Newsletter. It's going to be a busy month with AAC Awareness, Dyslexia Awareness Week and the Tes SEND Show at the Business Design Centre in Islington!
bit.ly/CENMAC_ENews...
#AssistiveTechnology
#SEND
#AACAwareness
#DyslexiaAwareness
#Dyslexia
#TesSENDShow
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3 months ago
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Joanna Grace PhD
3 months ago
This is a reference post for an article I am writing (there's not word count to give full references within the article so I'm leaving them here to refer across to). There are three things here: 1) The slide is from a presentation I did recently: Neurodivergent and Not Attending.
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RIP good sir 🏏❤️
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3 months ago
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Prof Andy Field
4 months ago
All sign this please
@hopenothate.org.uk
secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/178037/...
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Biggest record of hope against hate
Add your name to show you’re with us >>
https://secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/178037/petition/1?ea.url.id=8513711&
[email protected]
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Prof Andy Field
4 months ago
Just uploaded the updated `discovr_19` R tutorial, which covers logistic regression. This one is almost unrecognizable from the old version, changed to match the chapter of the forthcoming textbook.
github.com/profandyfiel...
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GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio
discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr
https://github.com/profandyfield/discovr
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Not a surprise, but shocking how the Trump administration has dismantled the system of checks and balances on public health.
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4 months ago
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www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
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Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-win...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/16/robert-redford-oscar-winning-actor-and-director-dies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
4 months ago
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Camden New Journal
4 months ago
Lab staff take strike action over pay row -
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/lab-...
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Lab staff take strike action over pay row
Staff are key to blood tests at Camden's hospitals
https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/lab-staff-take-strike-action-over-pay-row-2
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Ace Centre
4 months ago
The final webinar in our series on access is on voice based communication, including using voice for typing and control purposes. Join us as we explore this important communication method! 📅 24th October ⏰ 12:30-13:00 🔗
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See our full range of Access webinars here:
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Hugh Jones
5 months ago
Here's a
#HigherEducationPostcard
of what became in time the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, which houses the Institute of Neurology, part of
@ucl.ac.uk
As requested by
@matthewbroome.bsky.social
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has
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Kathy O'Donnell
5 months ago
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.
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From the transgenderUK community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community
https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1mtwx8t/ms_trans_employee/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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Ace Centre
5 months ago
Join us in October for a free taster session on using a mouse as the primary method for communication access as part of our series on Access Methods🖱️ Learn to identify considerations for mouse led communication, potential adaptions, and alternatives available. 📅3rd Oct ⏲️12:30pm 🔗
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Steve Rosenberg
5 months ago
Sad to hear that actor Ray Brooks has died. I will always remember him as the narrator of my favourite TV show as a kid, Mr Benn. Here’s my musical tribute to one of the voices of my childhood.
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Adrien Doerig
5 months ago
🚨 Finally out in Nature Machine Intelligence!! "Visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models" 🔗
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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High-level visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Doerig, Kietzmann and colleagues show that the brain’s response to visual scenes can be modelled using language-based AI representations. By linking brain activity to caption-based embeddings from lar...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-025-01072-0
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Ace Centre
5 months ago
Want to develop your skills for AAC communication but not sure where to start? 🤔 Our free 30 min session is a great entry point into some of the different forms of communication and how to develop your interaction style. Book your FREE place:
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#aac
#aacpeeps
#altcomm
#commpartner
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The Guardian
5 months ago
Tens of thousands of people take to streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025
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Tens of thousands of people take to streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025
Event becomes biggest of its kind as more than 100,000 turn out to support its ‘existence and resistance’ theme More than 100,000 people took to the streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025 on Saturday, making it the biggest such event in the world, organisers said. The route wound through the centre of the capital’s most famous sites, taking in Regent’s Street, Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square. It concluded at Parliament Square with speakers including Heartstopper and Doctor Who actor Yasmin Finney. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/tens-of-thousands-of-people-take-to-streets-for-london-trans-pride-2025?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Ace Centre
5 months ago
Trying to find out who provides AAC/AT services in your area? Our handy service finder is a great tool to get a quick and easy view of your local AAC, Wheelchair and EC services (UK only). Try it here 👉
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Anil Seth
6 months ago
My PhD student Trevor Hewitt is conducting an online experiment into closed-eye visuals during psychedelic experiences. If you've had such an experience, please consider taking part at
closed-eyes.com
(it's only a short survey) - and/or help us spread the word. 🙏🏽🧠
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Adam Bienkov
8 months ago
Kemi Badenoch's spokesman claims the Conservatives are the "real opposition" to Labour. Asked about a poll this week putting them in fourth place, he replies "that was one poll. There's another poll out today where we're not." Journalist: "And where are you in that other poll?" "Third"
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Important research from UCL, please share with any SENCO’s , Ex-SENCO’s and teachers who have the qualification, but are now in different positions in Education.
@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
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@sussexalumni.bsky.social
9 months ago
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Tunes for a relaxing Saturday 🇯🇲😎🎙️
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Wonderful World, Beautiful People by Jimmy Cliff on Apple Music
Song · 1969 · Duration 3:14
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/wonderful-world-beautiful-people/1488634629?i=1488634655
9 months ago
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Centre for Research in Autism and Education
9 months ago
#CRAEresearchSummaries Experiences of interoception and anxiety in autistic adolescents
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Experiences of interoception and anxiety in autistic adolescents
A reflexive thematic analysis Kiera Adams, Jonahs Smith, Mary Brown, Geoff Bird, and Polly Waite (2025) research gate We all know the feeling: your heart races before a big event, your stomach twis…
https://crae.ioe.ac.uk/experiences-of-interoception-and-anxiety-in-autistic-adolescents/
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Greenpeace UK boss arrested over US embassy dye protest
Five people are arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and conspiracy to cause criminal damage, police say.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy700zk38zro
9 months ago
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Looks like a full scale take over, it seems the “Cheeto in chief” and “Space Karen” love free speech unless it contradicts or in anyway questions the what the current US administration is doing. It’s affecting all education in the USA from K - 12 to university level.
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10 months ago
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Joanna Grace PhD
10 months ago
From Parenta UK: Our game-changing webinar on the 12th March! Join sensory specialist, Dr. Joanna Grace as she dives into 'How The Stories We Tell Shape Children With SEND' Attend live and secure your FREE CPD certificate. Reserve your spot here -
bit.ly/Parentawebinar
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@anilseth.bsky.social
, this BBC abridged version of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s : Other Minds. It’s a nice audio introduction to consciousness in other animals.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@neurofishh.bsky.social
@sfn.org
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Other Minds: The Octopus and The Evolution of Intelligent Life (Omnibus) - BBC Sounds
Philosopher and scuba-diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the intelligence of the octopus.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028rzs?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
10 months ago
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Andrea Lathrop
10 months ago
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Just found a great little BBC archive of sound effects that can be downloaded for communication aids, soundscape, presentations
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BBC Sound Effects
BBC Sound Effects
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?resultSize=20
10 months ago
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Well worth a listen ❤️🧠❤️
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@sarahgarf.bsky.social
@smfleming.bsky.social
@lisaquadt.bsky.social
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Other Minds: The Octopus and The Evolution of Intelligent Life (Omnibus) - BBC Sounds
Philosopher and scuba-diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the intelligence of the octopus.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028rzs?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
10 months ago
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New Book from
@robinince.bsky.social
looks interesting. There are lots of books out there about Neurodiversity, Robin’s book looks like one to get.
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10 months ago
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Hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas/Holiday break. Love to you and yours.
about 1 year ago
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thanks for sharing this
@willwa.de
It is really worth a watch and is still available on iPlayer
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about 1 year ago
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RLDM
about 1 year ago
Come join us at Trinity College Dublin for the 6th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2025) Abstract deadline January 15:
rldm.org/submit
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Alex Fellows
about 1 year ago
I meant to do this last week but hi everyone, I'm Alex. I love all things neuronal and spend most of my time trying to image motor proteins and organelle movement in the axon.
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Trying a new Domain
about 1 year ago
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Well I only just realised you can use your personal domain . Interesting indeed 😊
about 1 year ago
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The team at The Ace Centre have provided an NHS Assistive Technology service finder on their website. If you’re in the UK you just enter your Post Code and you will get a list of local services.
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#AceCentre
#AT
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#NHS
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NHS Service Finder | Ace Centre
Find an assistive technology service near you
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about 1 year ago
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The man, the icon, Luke Skywalker , The Joker and yes his most icon roles in Scooby Doo & The Alien Invaders and most famously Scooby Doo on Zombie Island as Snakebite Scruggs. 🌟😎
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about 1 year ago
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Here we go remember people “X’it means X’it. Moving away from X which went to go down hill as soon as Musk took over. When I go to news and topics on there now, most stuff is content I wouldn’t have seen 2 years ago. When the algorithms promote content that gets an extreme reaction, time to go
about 1 year ago
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Photoshop Adds Expand Canvas AI to its latest beta :
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/07/27/adobe-adds-firefly-powered-generative-expand-option-to-photoshop-beta
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Adobe adds Generative Expand option to Photoshop beta
Adobe has added a new Generative Expand feature to the Photoshop beta, allowing users to seamlessly expand images with artificial intelligence cues from a text prompt.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/07/27/adobe-adds-firefly-powered-generative-expand-option-to-photoshop-beta
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