Stuart Cunningham

Stuart Cunningham

@stucun.bsky.social

Research: speech science & tech (dysarthria, voice, AAC #Augcomm, #A11Y). Teaching: research methods and #ebp in #slt University of Sheffield May occasionally contain #stats, #cybernetics, #cricket, #everton, and #sfgiants

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the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social

Suck ass, The Economist

This is a screen shot from Pubmed. NIH will have to now refer to AI as "Super intelligence" because of you-know-who. Remember how some people were worried that policing of speech on campus was going a bit far? I wonder what they're up to these days?

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Elon Musk sabotaged Western defensive military operations against Putin's Russia. He committed an act of outright treachery. He is a malign force working against the West, and cannot be allowed to wield such vast wealth, power and influence any longer.

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Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

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This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️ 'Planned operation' — Zelensky confirms Ukraine's Starlink access not fully restored. Zelensky called the restrictions a "planned operation" targeting Ukraine, noting that Starlink speed limits remain in effect in Ukraine but not in EU countries.

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Liverpool's defeat leaves Everton & Brentford as the last two of the 134 league clubs in England & Scotland to remain undefeated in competitive football during the Burnham premiership

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social

After a long international break, and a draw at Hull City, Everton remain undefeated in competitive football since Andy Burnham became the Evertonian Prime Minister on 20th July 2026. (So are Liverpool and Brentford still undefeated under Burnham)

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This is a truly grotesque "trial" of a vaccine known to be safe and effective. It will in practice randomly withhold that treatment from a percentage of children to see what happens. It is absolutely the reverse of good practice.

Rachel Fairbank@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

Unlike Sunder I'm not surprised. Sullivan has been getting a lot wrong for a long time.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social

"Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch herself is foreign-born" Surprised to see Andrew Sullivan get so much wrong here. Wrong on fact of birth. Does not seem to know this is a racist meme, not clever wordplay. Believes bullshit projection of white minority. Quite wrong on public views too in several ways.

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Replying to @proptermalone.bsky.social

i genuinely want nothing more in the world than to see ossoff eviscerate vance on a debate stage

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In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social

Visa applications to study in the UK fell by 10.3 per cent for the key recruitment month of September, new Home Office figures show. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #highered #visas #internationalstudents #edusky https://ow.ly/3LSs50ZVPAE

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I think the BBC should close its television news channel to save money It’s so poor now anyway Fund proper journalism, make decent news programmes, maintain Radio 4 Rolling news is awful too

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Crazy Rupert Lowe has a new angle. Ban folic acid in flour. Follows a mandate that all non-wholemeal wheat flour must be fortified with synthetic folic acid (vitamin B9) by the end of December 2026 to prevent upward of 200 neural tube birth defects including spina bifida and anencephaly each year

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According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

bryan newbold@bnewbold.net

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

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Still upset about that highly cited paper in Psych Science you consider deeply flawed? Now is your time to shine ✨

simine vazire@simine.com

Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I have questions, beginning with: 1. Does he understand how a "synthetic AI focus group" works? 2. Does he understand what focus groups should actually be used for? (TBF it appears a large part of the political class/media have the wrong answer for Q2).

Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social

I hosted an in-conversation with AI minister Kanishka Narayan at Labour conference We covered a lot of ground... He said there was too much AI “doomerism” in Westminster And revealed he has used synthetic AI focus groups to gauge public opinion on a range of topics 1/9

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The sweetest moment in every capital markets banker's career is the moment he gets to explain to a stroppy investor thatn if they don't buy it somebody else will.

Premier League News@plnews.bsky.social

UAE warns Andy Burnham it may pull billions in investment for the UK's proposed Oxford-Cambridge tech hub—dubbed the UK's Silicon Valley—in retaliation over Manchester City's guilty verdict, per The Telegraph.

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Intrigued to see the Conservative conference will feature a speech on "press freedom" next week while they ban lobby journalists such as @josiahmortimer.bsky.social from attending their conference.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

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New Mystic Meg prediction by Daniel Hannan who famously predicted the ‘blue eyed Sheikhs’ of Iceland Banking would would save us in 2004, Brexit Britain would be booming in 2026, and that Covid wouldn’t kill anyone in 2020 In other words, we will be rejoining the EU

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The "Reform Party" was created in part to make the case for electoral reform... looking at many of their accounts and supporters it would seem that most of them have forgotten that

If I set up a bunch of agents to hack a website I'd expect a knock on the door from law enforcement. 🤷‍♂️

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

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Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

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I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility