This is a problem.

I love a documentary featuring lovable weirdos that teaches me about a topic I know nothing about. This was great!

When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!

FINALLY.

Ireland will not take part in 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if participation of Israel goes ahead, RTÉ Director-General says

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

Someone you know IRL showing you something they used AI to make or do feels like a someone trying to impress you with a dead rodent that's been run over by a car. This is not good what do you expect me to do with it

Knees are a little too important for how easy it is to destroy them imo

Determining perception thresholds of young adults to small continuous moving platform perturbations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671548v1

It is astounding how much time I spent declining genAI services right now. No, I don't want you to summarize this novel for me. No, I don't want you to compose a message to my mom. No, I don't want you to create a picture for me. Fuck. Off.

"IN FAIRNESS TO Kneecap and Sally Rooney, if I had to embroil myself in a battle of wits with a world leader, I’d probably pick Keir Starmer too."

Leading physicists claim Mark Carney’s elbows are in a quantum superposition of up and down simultaneously

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Validity of measures of reactive balance training intensity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.668970v1

Did a new one

Influence of reactive balance training program characteristics on reactive balance control and fall risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.25332828v1

I truly don’t think even the most well-meaning, informed men understand how many of the women in their lives have been sexually assaulted or abused, often by multiple men, and often by men they know. The stories women share with each other privately would shock them to their core.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Western World to recognize Palestine as a state in September if it’s still there

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

What is left to say? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

23. It's ok to judge a book by its cover. The cover is part of the book.

Job alert: We're looking for someone to help us produce a female-specific risk calculator for Alzheimer’s disease! 🧠 Key qualifications are experience w/ large databases, project management, and women's health research. See posting for more info: shorturl.at/zkO8V

CIHR rant here: our panel funded 6 (!!) out of 42 applications. That is only 14% success rate. That is as bad as the worst of times. So much good science left unfunded, labs closing, skilled workers let go. Without a $$ infusion, the Canadian research ecosystem is never going to survive and thrive.

"Don’t ask people to read something you couldn’t be bothered to write." I think the phrase "hitting the nail on the head" comes to mind reading this. #WritingCommunity #IamWriting #CreativeWriting #Fiction

A personal career highlight came for me on Tuesday with my talk as the ISPGR 2025 Promising Scientist! Directly followed by a busy poster session where I shared the results of a project conducted in Toronto with @avrilmansfield.bsky.social (preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

What I would say is that the music is professional, at a distance it sounds like well recorded, professional music. But it lacks the indefinable frailty that makes art magical, the human bit. Until AI can have its heart broken, or get a panic attack then it cant achieve this

PhD student Nigel talks about the differences in COM measurements between markerless and marker-based motion capture ##ISPGR2025

Lab alum Janna discussing treatment for gait asymmetry post-stroke ##ISPGR2025

Today at 3pm Janna Marvyn will be presenting some of work on our visual feedback intervention for post stroke temporal gait asymmetry. (Oral session 7) #ISPGR2025

Are you sick of attaching countless mocap markers to your participants? Ask Alex about validity of markerless motion capture for balance assessment at poster S-133! #ISPGR2025

Do internal or external errors help motor learning of a novel balance task? Ask Kimia at poster G-50 to find out! (And wish her son a happy 1st birthday today!) #ISPGR2025

What is the optimal way to deliver reactive balance training for people with stroke? We still don't know, but tried to find out. Go chat to Júlia about it at poster J-74 today! #ISPGR2025

At #ISPGR2025 we just piloted something new. Guided poster tours. Really enjoyed guiding my poster tourists along pitoresque perturbation posters. Thanks all involved for the deep discussion. Is this the productive power of many-to-many interactions we hope to promote? #poorselfies

Just in time for our ISPGR symposium on reactive balance training!

This is why we need ranked choice in Canada. I want the NDP, Greens and Liberals to acknowledge they're all basically the same and endorse each other instead of fighting for the same votes.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? It's all just linear models. Statistics is, like, three linear algebra operations in a probability-shaped trenchcoat.

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK. One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge: “It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.” Except… it doesn't. 🧵

applying for jobs again

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

My “you’re over 30” advice is hold onto the bannister. Stairs will kill you and not even look back

guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

A photo I took in the Nottingham Castle museum last week. That's pretty much summing up my attitude to this so called "AI" (LLMs are actually just a niche of the wider field of AI).

REVEALED: A Daily Puzzle Game Guess the topic using the fewest reveals and hints! www.britannica.com/games/revealed

Just try to process this.

if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong

Exploring the views of people with stroke regarding aerobic exercise participation during inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation: a qualitative descriptive study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.25327504v1