'Tis the season to preprint BBS commentaries; I'm happy to share ours too! 🎄✨ The textual basis of current LLMs causes trouble, but linguistically relevant insights *can* be found in systems modelling the more natural form of human spoken language: the speech signal itself. arxiv.org/abs/2512.14506

In the ADHD webinar Prof Johnny Downs shared data from the CAMHS Digital Lab showing in south London early childhood factors & demographics impact an ADHD diagnosis. Watch more- https://ow.ly/uFIz50XHxv4 #KingsMaudsleyPartnership Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience | Maudsley Charity

carries the guid Scots tongue in her heid all the way to London where it becomes like the kitchen china worn and cracked with use kept in the press with the girdle and the spurtle, the ashet and the jeelie pan… —Elizabeth Burns, “Grandmother” from THE THING THAT MATTERED MOST (SPL/B&W 2006) 2/3

Participants needed! One of my Phonetics students is looking for participants in her study - just requires listening to some voices in a short survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪💬🎧

The #BethlemGalleryArtFair2025 is now open! Visit us Weds to Sat until 20 December to buy a gift for yourself or a loved one, and support our artist community at the same time. Throughout December we'll be posting highlights of works available to buy, so watch this space for artwork inspiration!

Critical gaps in AI radiology research … #RSNA25

5 years ago today, Pandemic Year. It had been a month since I opened my "side project" (lol) cat rescue in the spare room of my flat in London. I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!

Join us for Love Methods Week 2026, an all-online workshop on sharing open, reusable methods! 📅 Dates: January 19–23, 2026 Learn how to make your research more transparent and reproducible while enabling others to reuse your methods and data responsibly. #LoveMethods26

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰

Scotland's first ‘Stolperstein’ memorial for a Scottish Holocaust victim has been unveiled in Edinburgh to Jane Haining who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. Thanks to Haining family, faith leaders, civic representatives, diplomats and all who attended. #Stolperstein

@nickcummins41.bsky.social and @judedineley.bsky.social are leading a symposium on 3rd December in London for @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social, all about what speech and the voice can tell us about health. You do not want to miss this! @kingsioppn.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voice-and-...

In today’s article, researchers Asilay Seker and Aeron Kim discuss the use of #naturallanguageprocessing in #mentalhealthresearch, and how this approach allowed them to explore #emotiondysregulation in neurodevelopmental disorders. @camhsdlab.bsky.social www.inspirethemind.org/post/can-tec...

A yellow-footed rock-wallaby catches the last rays as the sun sets at Boolcoomatta.

🔔new paper alert🔔 I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The next talk will be by Professor Amy Orben 👋. She works for the Digital Mental Health Group at the University of Cambridge 🎓 Amy will guide is through a talk on fixing the science of technology harms, which refers to the negative effects that technology can have on people. #DigitalYouth

I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence. This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines. You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...

LLMs can be useful for some things, but simulating human research participant responses isn’t one of them

There are many songs about this city, but Tom Waits wrote one of the best, simply titled "Chicago." Out today, Mavis Staples' new album kicks off with her fantastic version of the song. I'm so glad to hear this quintessential Chicago singer putting her own stamp on it.

At the very bottom of the US Army’s “Shutdown Guidance” for troops in Bavaria, there was a “Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags” including various local food banks. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/army-tells-s...

Join us on Wednesday at 15:00 GMT! #PPIE #codesign #biostatistics #datascience #livedexperience @kingsioppn.bsky.social @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social

If your health research involves data science, and/or you’re looking to learn more about PPIE/co-design, this webinar with @beatrizgoulao.bsky.social and peer researcher Lynn Laidlaw is for you! All welcome: Wednesday 29/10, 15:00 GMT. No registration required. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/it-de...

Furry visitor to SGDP @kingsioppn.bsky.social this afternoon. Screening everyone who enters and exits, and making students smile #campuscat 🐈‍⬛ 🐾

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Well done, Izzy! Great to see this out 😊

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

WATCH NOW 🎥 It's finally here: our first RESEARCH EXPLORED video. Produced in partnership with @elstreescreenarts.bsky.social, this RESEARCH EXPLORED video dives into a project at @kingsioppn.bsky.social looking at 'expressed emotion' - how parents talk about their children. youtu.be/HVGUd0ipJv0

🚨 Today the High Court ruled that a company linked to Michelle Mone must repay £122 million for faulty PPE.🚨 She still sits in the House of Lords. She must be stripped of her peerage and removed. Sign and share our petition 👇 chng.it/XbVkG7Jrw4

Really great review of women’s mental health and reproduction in World Psychiatry The issue for me is how do we get this knowledge out there to all the health professionals who think this is all just ‘women’s stuff’?

I wrote a response to Thomas Friedman's "magical thinking" on AI here: aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...

Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍 For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...

Thank you @camhsdlab.bsky.social for supporting me 💙 What a team 💪🏻

A good day today 🎉 Our stellar pre-doc colleague and co-author Lauren White is presenting her work on reference intervals for assessment of symptom severity in depression. Well done, Lauren! #interspeech2025 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

Ahoy from Rotterdam. My brain on the first morning of Interspeech 2025:

Me, me - I'll be there 😀 Proudly watching our pre-doc presenting her first paper.

😍 Check out the #Interspeech2025 Proceedings! www.interspeech2025.org/abstract-boo...

Emergency vet with Smol Paul (again). He's not in immediate danger but there's something neurological causing problems with his legs. He needs an MRI, which will cost around £4.5k. If you'd been meaning to donate, this would be an excellent time 😭 Will share pics of Paul's brain if it helps!

Are other states trying to use AI for court interpreting? Are any linguists engaging on this? www.aclu-wi.org/en/legislati...

The Incubator is #hiring! We are looking for an organised and enthusiastic individual to help us run events and evaluate programmes! Know anybody who fits the bill? Apply now to be a part of our friendly team! mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/hiring-admin/

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 @oxengsci.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oxexppsy.bsky.social & St Catherine's college, is hiring an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Technologies for Mental Health and Cognition). To view the job particulars and apply, click the link below. Feel free to share! 👇

#5 is going to blow your mind 🤯 Listen to the full episode here: link.podtrac.com/SciStuff-BlackHoles

NEW: calling all those interested in use of #AI in #healthcare. Our review of use of AI in radiology diagnostics published in @eclinicalmed.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Accompanying blog 'Curb your enthusiasm' www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/cu... @emmajourno.bsky.social

Our 2025 GROW programme is perfect for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career #researchers! Build a network of peers at the same career stage, connect with senior researchers, plan goals with 1-to-1 coaching sessions & much more in this fully-funded programme👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow25/

Oh no! This place is on our doorstep @kingsioppn.bsky.social @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.