📢 New Episode Alert! This week, I chatted to Prof. Alan Winfield (@alan-winfield.bsky.social) from @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social about developing new standards for ethics and transparency in robotics. 🤖 Listen now: www.robottalk.org/2026/03/13/e... #Robots #Robotics #Ethics

Fascinating glimpse into everyday Roman life: This samian ware bowl was repaired with lead rivets, clear evidence that it was valued enough to mend rather than discard. The repair reflects either the practical mindset and economic realities of a Roman household, or it may have been a...🧵1/3 📷 me 🏺

We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers—here's what it reveals. phys.org/news/2025-12...

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2 🏺

Chapa Sirithunge is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests span assistive robotics, soft robots and physical human-robot interaction. Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/11/28/e...

Wonderful father-son story here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #BristolRoboticsLab #Robot

Researchers at Peking University have developed the world's first portable underwater exoskeleton, which assists divers' knee movement, reducing air consumption and muscle effort during dives. The tech could extend dive duration, improve safety, and reduce fatigue. 🤖 techxplore.com/news/2025-11...

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Interesting, and good to see: Four ways #AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ht @garymarcus.bsky.social

I am *very* pleased that the UK Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill is now in its 3rd reading in the @houseoflords.parliament.uk after which it should become law. See bills.parliament.uk/bills/3519 (1)

@smithsonianmag.bsky.social The Only Recording of Woody Guthrie Singing the Protest Song ‘Deportee’ Has Been Released for the First Time www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t... #music #WoodyGuthrie #protest #Deportee #recording #folk #FolkMusic #folksong #AI #artificialintelligence #restoration

What would you love to know about #robot ethics? 🤖 Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Alan Winfield (@alan-winfield.bsky.social) from @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social about developing new standards for ethics and transparency in robotics. Send me your questions for Alan in the comments!

🥀 🧪 Jane Goodall 1934-2025

Very good. I'm especially pleased to read that the Act includes 'a new mechanism for companies and the public to report “potential critical safety incidents”'. We badly need AI accident and incident (near miss) reporting and investigation. #AI #AISafety #AIRegulation 1/2

To the best of my knowledge the Starship delivery robots that operated for 5 years in Milton Keynes, UK, were not accorded any 'pedestrian' rights. They were regarded a great success, especially during Covid lockdown, see www.mkfm.com/news/local-n... 1/2

If you need some levity in these trying times, here's what's fresh out of Paris.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUE...

#AI From Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

This, by @birmo.bsky.social, is the most hopeful thing I've ever read about LLMs. open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

Lovely story from the brilliant @britishwildlife.bsky.social magazine. This mag is endlessly fascinating – recommend if you're not a subscriber already. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Hull Minster, early evening in spring. #YorkshireDay #GodsOwnCounty

There is someone out there who wants your weird little book. Even if you doubt yourself sometimes, don't doubt their earnest enthusiasm.

Earlier today I searched for #ethical generative #AI, and found this @wired.com article: I’m Not Convinced Ethical Generative AI Currently Exists www.wired.com/story/the-pr... Short answer: no.

AI and why we should all be worried. A recent talk for the Swindon Science Cafe alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2025/06/ai-a... #AI #AIethics #sustainability #exploitation

'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #WomensArt

A portrait presented to a good chum for his 60th birthday present today.

US painter Maria Oakey Dewing, A Bed of Poppies, (c.1909) #WomensArt

LLM reveals all the situations where you need text, but you don't really want to write it and you're not sure anybody is going to read it.

Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist #WomensArt #Monday

#BlueMonday views from St Ives #Cornwall

Ancient Incas recorded information by tying knots into long cords they called khipus. Sam Kean reports from the Peruvian Andes, where scholars hope to unlock one of the most important lost writing systems in history.

Our paper "AI safety for everyone" with Balint Gyevnar is out at Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... We challenge the narrative that AI safety is primarily about minimizing existential risks from AI. Why does this matter?

Remarkable performance of Elgar’s choral work The Dream of Gerontius last night at Steam in Swindon. It is a complex work, but performed brilliantly by non auditioned singers and orchestral players plus 3 professional soloists, after only the day to practice. #classicalmusic @marstrina.bsky.social

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio... Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

On Sunday @marstrina.bsky.social and I were utterly spellbound by Anrity Singh's exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries: www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/arp... #womensart @womensartbluesky.bsky.social

🔥 "Empathy ≠ emotional intelligence." Angelica Lim explains why emotionally intelligent AI could manipulate us - and why empathy is the better path forward. Full episode drops very soon 🎙️ youtube.com/@WomeninAIRe... #AI #EthicalAI #SocialRobotics #HumanCenteredAI #WiAIR

These are real images of exoplanets. Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away. These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark. And we can see them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on who is the greatest scientific mind in history.

Education in #Engineering and the Humanities have a strong, historic connection that engineers should promote and stand up for, argues Allison Marsh spectrum.ieee.org/engineering-...

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921, the painter's connection to the natural world is always apparent in her work #WomensArt

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #womensart

Good to see the detail on this from @faizsays.bsky.social. At the time, @alan-winfield.bsky.social and I wrote this piece www.theguardian.com/science/poli...

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, 1616 #womensart

#AI #Meta chng.it/Xr4hVs5xSs

Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - very excited to have this article out! 😊 With Henry Potter and George Ellis.

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