Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 With thanks to @atranscendedman.bsky.social Santa Edition www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I asked ChatGPT to tell me what success rates for grant programs would be considered okay for researcher mental health. A shocking embarrassment for Australia. Damage is being done on a daily basis. Urgent action is required.

2025 must read johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...

Behold: a genuinely useful flowchart #AcademicChatter

Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important. Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG

#OAweek Support diamond #openaccess scholar-controlled journals, such as those listed at freejournals.org.

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? While SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t cause HIV/AIDS, its immune dysfunction, T cell depletion, vulnerability to infections, accelerated aging, and systemic damage echo AIDS-like effects in a broader sense.

📢 Call for Participation: ACII 2025 🌏 13th Int’l Conf. on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction 🗓 8–11 Oct 2025 | Canberra, Australia ✨ Theme: Socially Responsible Affective Computing Program: acii-conf.net/2025/wp-cont... Website: 🔗 acii-conf.net/2025 #ACII2025 #AffectiveComputing #AI

"In fact, impunity reigns now, right? You have Putin, Netanyahu, you have all of the violence in in Africa. You have Myanmar in my part of the world, and many more. You have the threat that China will follow, and their tactics are the same tactics used by" tech CEOs" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Silent Invasion: COVID-19’s Hidden Damage to Human Organs. Posted: 01 July 2025 "COVID-19 cannot be simply regarded as a respiratory disease; it should also be considered a more systemic disease that leaves long-term effects" Source: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional. 📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025 🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...

If you are a PhD student working in Affective Computing, or related areas, the Doctoral Consortium at ACII 2025 is a fantastic opportunity. Important Dates: ============== Submission deadline: 30 June 2025 Website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo... Contact: [email protected]

🎤 Call for Demos – #ACII2025 📍 Canberra | 🗓️ 8–11 Oct | Co-located w/ ICMI Got a system, prototype, or product in affective computing or intelligent interaction? Show it live! 📝 2-page abstract (in proceedings) 📹 Short demo video 📅 Submit by 15 July 2025 🔗 EasyChair | ❓ [email protected]

Enjoying an early morning walk in her favourite winter weather on her tenth birthday. Happy birthday, Jessie! #westie #westies

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Go on, apply for this two-year post-doc in Oxford working (with e.g. me and Robert Trager) on Causal Systems Modeling for AI Governance! Please share this ad with anyone who might interested!

In case you missed our landmark Delphi Consensus 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Please read and share🙏🏻 whn.global/global-exper...

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

Deadline extended for #ACII2025! Main track full paper submission deadline: 9 April 2025 Website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo... General Chairs ============ Roland Goecke ( @rolaustral.bsky.social ) Guoying Zhao Björn Schuller

Final call for paper for #ACII2025! Main track full paper submission deadline: 31 March 2025 Website: acii-conf.net/2025/call-fo... General Chairs ============ Roland Goecke ( @rolaustral.bsky.social ) Guoying Zhao Björn Schuller

“We are losing sight of the academic mission: to think, to enquire, to design and perform new research, to innovate, to teach and communicate our findings for the purpose of societal improvement” academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

If you’re interested in a crash course from the beginning in chronic issues with COVID I recommend this excellent interview with David Putrino. Perhaps the least well understood consequence is the damage every infection likely causes everyone, symptomatic or not. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The most extraordinary thing about James Harrison, who donated his rare plasma every 2 weeks for over 60 years and saved the lives of an estimated 2.4 million babies, is that he had to overcome a FEAR OF NEEDLES. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This is what you need to know: www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/everything...

Both mild and severe cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are linked to changes in brain biomarkers associated with Alzheimer’s disease. But let’s keep getting it over and over right ? www.news-medical.net/news/2025020...

We are thrilled to welcome you in-person in Canberra, Australia. The 13th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2025) will be held in Canberra, Australia on 8-11 Oct 2025. Please visit our official website for more details: acii-conf.net/2025/

Our social media channels are up! Bluesky: @acii2025official.bsky.social Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/groups/14586... Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/g/15dF...

This is the longer version on YouTube where I talk about. An incredible tribute from people around the world. Hard to process… youtu.be/FUCmDZaCeP0?...

“Last year, the bill for sick leave in Sweden came to 92 billion kronor … That's just over 14 billion kronor more than the year before … But Social Insurance Minister Anna Tenje cannot explain why.” FAFO in action. www.tn.se/arbetsmarkna...

Do Europeans still get to set the rules for their own elections? Or does Elon Musk decide? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

Not now... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“We projected 2024 mortality to incl 2 Cvd waves, both ⬇️ than 2023 & all other mortality improved on 2023 However in year to Aug 24, Cvd led to ≈same deaths as 2023 in aggregate, with winter wave lasting longer & peaking at higher deaths than predicted” www.actuaries.digital/2024/12/17/m...

Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... My friend @chrischirp.bsky.social pointed out I can't just lazily paste links to a paper of interest without any explanation! We all buy into gut microbiota shaping immune populations and programmes, but this study adds huge granularity, by anatomical region and subset

Not sure if this piece of sad news has found its way to Bluesky already - vale Professor Gemma Carey www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...

And finally got around to take the final step (deactivating the account on the former bird place). It's done!

I have started to put a starter pack for affective computing research together. go.bsky.app/NNDbtma

Cövid papers Insomnia And REM Behaviour Disorder #5 ( Don't look up... A different meaning for the astute Neurologists) doi.org/10.1093/slee... Advance access publication 5 January 2024

Just realized BlueSky allows sharing valuable stuff cause it doesn't punish links. 🤩 Let's start with "What are embeddings" by @vickiboykis.com The book is a great summary of embeddings, from history to modern approaches. The best part: it's free. Link: vickiboykis.com/what_are_emb...

@marwamahmoud.bsky.social @abhinavdhall.bsky.social Welcome! I am trying to find more affective computing people here with the aim of creating a starter pack. Please let me know if you come across others from our field.

Our household has COVID, primary school the likely source. Once again our community is awash with this virus, the 2nd-3rd major spike this year without any v ‘low’ period. Every (re)infection does damage so pls work to minimise spread, to protect yourself & others. It’s not another common ‘cold’. 1/

Rise in babies are being born with heart defects. This isn’t lockdowns, obviously, they didn’t even exist then! It’s obviously not school closures. And it’s obviously not masks. So can we start tackling the root cause now? COVID. #SARSCoV2 #LongCovidKids www.news-medical.net/news/2024111...

🚨 Petition to get NeurIPS to join Bluesky 🚨 I just wrote the NeurIPS board requesting them to consider joining Bluesky. It took about 2 minutes. I invite you to do the same. neurips.cc/Help/Contact If they changed the name of the conference for the greater good, there's a chance! Please repost!

It's Friday... So, here's a Guardian Australia article about a CSIRO study to track all sorts of different aspects of flatulence/wind/farts, looking for participants - including Chart your Fart app 🤣 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Cøvid papers Gastro #5 Kudos to my Dear Friend @zalaly.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

I mean, it’s *their* data and, you know, it’s not as if the rapid decline hasn’t been noticed & pointed out etc.👇 bsky.app/profile/arc-...

Yep, perfectly normal for a fit 30yo to die of a heart attack... www.canberratimes.com.au/story/881837...