Trying to keep awake as I approach my 1am taxi for my 4am flight. It’s kind of like following in my father’s footsteps, except I’m not flying the plane.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Paper presented and poster session by the sea attended!

Insane view from my hotel in Sharm also

In Sharm El Sheikh for @mobilehci.bsky.social this week. I’ll be giving my talk tomorrow at 12 on Safescreen, our cool security camera app that blocks screens in real time. Come say hi if you’re there!

Finally a crumb

Get outta there. Get out.

Imagine travelling to the US for work now. Or study.

Was ready to call Silksong a worthy successor to Hollow Knight and one of the best games I've played this year. Reached beyond the bounds I assumed existed. No actually Silksong is the probably best game I have played in years.

🏆 ❗ Our paper just received the Interaction Design for International Development Award at #INTERACT2025. I'm so proud of the work and my coauthors! Dancing with Data: privacy Compromises of Egyptian Women Reconciling Westernized Social Media Sharing with Local Cultural Values: shorturl.at/sTogU

Completing a part of Silksong 🪡 that was transcently effective, had me grinning, yelling, despairing, locking in, clutching it out on a knife edge and then being rewarded with joy, triumph and prestine art and vibes. Those who've done this section will know 🤍

Displaced people seeking to start new lives in Scotland could be helped to settle in the country with the support of a new social robot being developed by Shaul Ashkenazi (@shauliash.bsky.social) at @socialai.bsky.social and colleagues. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

"PA legislators have quietly gathered expert testimony and reviewed research on harnessing subsurface water across the commonwealth to cool [the data centers] used for artificial intelligence and cloud computing."

A miserable example of the laundry list of humiliation and betrayal that UK trans policies enacts on hundreds of thousands of people, at great cost to both the state and the individuals, for no reason other than to treat them as political footballs.

Last evening in Eindhoven, it’s been a super comfy place to visit

Lovely time spent getting to know the IEEE RO-MAN community here in Eindhoven :)

Flying out to IEEE #RO-MAN Conference 2025! I’ll be there presenting my Late Breaking Work: AZRA: Extending the Affective Capabilities of Zoomorphic Robots using Augmented Reality! Come say hi at either poster session or read the preprint at this link! arxiv.org/abs/2508.08507

New journal paper! Our findings reveal how students use online resources for mental health, and how researchers and practitioners can best reach them! 📄 Use of Online Resources by UK Undergraduate Students for Mental Health Questions 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10447318.2025.2545462

Qoobo reading about themselves in the paper

Hey thats me!

While Rainworld is not really a metroidvania, it is one of the best games ever made and one of the most substantial ecological and theological experiences ever

Another step on the road to the end

We had such a good time at @sequential-scot.bsky.social yesterday! Thank you everyone who came to say hello! To everyone who came the cosplay competition you all did a great job either being the stars of the show or supporting everyone with your cheers!! Couldn’t have asked for a better crowd!!

I’m 33 today, a schnapszahl birthday according to my German friends! It’s been a weird year navigating my first project lead role and the nightmare of the world outside, but many nice memories and successes to look back on. Chief of which was equalling Steve for best mini golf score yesterday 😅

Imagine if the Post Office demanded the rights to everything you sent. Wild the shit we'll put up with if it's in the digital domain.

Kendrick and SZA in Glasgow absolutely slammed

Honoured to be featured as a guest lecturer in the upcoming Universitas Gadjah Mada DCSE Summer Course. I’ll be speaking on the implications of emotional robotics, and ubiquitous emotional computing in general, on our future society❤️🤖 Should be good fun! sc.dcseugm.id

Awesome news! #RO-MAN 2025 accepted our Late Breaking Work showing off our technical innovations from the AZRAM project! "AZRA: Extending the Affective Capabilities of Zoomorphic Robots using Augmented Reality" Looking forward to showing it off in Eindhoven 🤖 Demo Video: youtu.be/SVHohefeliU

Reminder, this is today at 5pm BST! See y'all there :)

Just out of a Karaoke party from a friends birthday and now off to a bachelors subcrawl, it’s a powerful Saturday

showing vibri things she's never seen before

The next GWiCS event is tomorrow at 3pm in the Sir Alwyn Williams. See you there for an excellent talk, snacks and discussion!

During this Pride month don’t forget the myriad ways that’s LGBTQ+ rights has been sanded away or actively punted like political footballs in the US and Europe in the last few years during this facist wave. Don’t let it become old news. It’s everyday reality. 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️👊

Brands during Pride month: 🌈 Exxon: no matter who you love, we’ll make sure your children don’t have a livable planet 🌈 Amazon: we treat all of our warehouse workers like dirt, regardless of their sexual orientation 🌈 Raytheon: our tomahawk missiles don’t discriminate

more like inting milan #cfc

Now more than ever

We've written a book chapter on the future of haptics! Our group of fantastic researchers the @uofgcompsci.bsky.social contributed this awesome chapter to the @springer1842.bsky.social Handbook of Human Computer Interaction. This is my first book contribution, a career milestone🤩

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

Went to a #Pint25 of Science night, good fun as always. Enjoyed my friend Tom’s talk on AR manipulation and won the coaster design contest for a cool pint glass :)

🌱 Late spring vibes 🌱

This talk is real good, excited to discuss it next week!

Magic FF Set looks very cool and I like having fun inconsequential things to look forward to, like that and Deltarune and Switch 2 :)

Goodbye Tokyo and Yokohama. It’s been fun ☺️

May

At Skygarden in Yokohama Landmark Plaza which offers is inexplicably also a pingu fan cafe

My #CHI presentation of my TOCHI is today! 🌸 Come find out about my on the participatory prototyping of haptic comfort objects with socially anxious users 🌸 G301 16:20 :)

Alright this is the new #CHI presentation high bar, Spors et al. presented their paper Human-Nature Relationships through Video Games as an interactive visual novel between the live presenter and their VN sprite coauthor

#CHI opened with some awesome live calligraphy!