How lovely to hear this! I was inspired by some of his work early on in my career.

Exactly! 😆

I’ve been trying to get on to OSF too!

Gosh!!

We’re going to have one unhappy dog on December 26th.

Why people with dementia can be so moved by music Researchers are looking into why patients can still have a powerful response to music even as their memory fades.

Here's a piece on our new Marsden project on music in dementia (w/ Lynette Tippett at UoA and @carolynfredericks.bsky.social at Yale)

Having known several people with Alzheimer's, all of whom retained their music perception and musical memory, I'm eager to learn more about these puzzling phenomena

Lucky you! 🎉🎉🎉

I, too, found Q7 tricky

Gambling ad ban would pass parliament with conscience vote, Labor MP says Macarthur MP Mike Freelander believes the multi-partisan support for restricting gambling advertising means the reforms will "get there" eventually.

You wouldn’t believe how bad it is in Australia with our predatory gambling industry…and what they get away with.

Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

Thirsty AI datacentres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight. CBC News investigation.

www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Songs Inside - Trailer This is "Songs Inside - Trailer" by Shalom Almond on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Went to a special screening last night at Flinders University. This film has won a stack of awards and will be distributed widely via ABC and iView from Dec 1st. Shot inside Adelaide Women’s Prison. Extraordinary in so many ways.

And they charged almost half a million (AUD) for the report.

PBS Kids Show To Feature Character Who Uses Communication Device A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet.

A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. #disabilities #autism #PBSKids #AAC

#Parents! #Caregivers! Was your #child born just after #lockdowns in 2021 (July to Oct?)

We need your help with a #study looking at post-pandemic #talking and #thinking skills 😊

Free tablet for taking part.

Also check out our new website: bornincovidyear.co.uk

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

Absolutely horrifying

In this study of 13,592 participants-childhood loneliness was associated with cognitive decline & risk of #dementia in adulthood, even in the absence of adult loneliness.
There is a need for interventions for childhood loneliness to promote cognitive health across the lifespan. #slpeeps #prevention

Frontiers | An ethical advantage of autistic employees in the workplace Previous research indicates that autistic employees are less susceptible to the bystander effect than nonautistic employees. This paper considers whether the...

Among the challenges that autistic people might face in the workplace is the fact that many contemporary orgs do not seem to value an ethical advantage.

Thanks for sharing Caroline. I’d love to see more learnings shared by researchers who conducted trials during the pandemic like we did. Yes it was ‘messy’ but also very real!

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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ABRACADABRA literacy instruction delivered by speech-language pathologists to children with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic This feasibility study explored literacy instruction for children with autism in an area of socioeconomic disadvantage during the COVID-19 pandemic.Fifty-nine autistic children (5–12 years) partici...

Did you conduct research during peak COVID pandemic and want to share learnings? We did! Our paper on literacy support for autistic children is now published. And it’s open access. This is research funded by the Australian Research Council and partner org The Luke Priddis Foundation.

What about the duet with Nick Cave? Where is that on the mental health scales 😂

Is it that time of year already?? 😂

If you’re attending #AMLaP2025 in Prague, please go see Gustavo’s talk on form typically of French nouns and verbs! New work with @jarciuli.bsky.social

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

Meet the three-year-olds helping anxious teens spend more time in school As school returns, we look at a scheme that pairs teenagers with toddlers from a local nursery in a bid to help increase school attendance.

This is just a lovely positive story for your weekend.

Meet the three-year-olds helping anxious teens spend more time in school www.bbc.com/news/article...

Spag Bol with vegetables made into a smiley face.

Friend’s 8 yo is in hospital in Malaysia. This is how lunch comes. Different smiley face every time. Why aren’t we doing this?

ChatGPT tends to ignore retractions on scientific papers Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies

“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues.

In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”

Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From We introduce a novel method to test a classic idea in developmental science that children's attention to a stimulus is driven by how much they can learn from it. Preschoolers (4–6 years, M=4.6${\it M...

Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From by ‪@ruthefoushee.bsky.social‬ and colleagues
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...