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Sheffield, UK/Voorschoten, NL
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I am pleased to announce my first original research article!
'Exploring cultural imaginaries of robots with children with brittle bone disease: a participatory design study' is published in the @MedHums_BMJ Special Issue for @itdfproject:
mh.bmj.com/content/50/4/705
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Call for Book Reviewers 2026📚📢
Press Start is looking for review submissions of recently published game studies books. The deadline for expressing interest is December 13, 2026. Selected manuscripts will be published in our 2027 issue. More details below in this thread👇
Missing Japan and feeling sad after six months of an unsuccessful postdoc job hunt and my first ever conference paper rejection, I decided to finally finish Yakuza 0. What a thrilling and unexpectedly moving first experience of the series; next on my list is Like a Dragon: Ishin!
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With a Terrible Fate is thrilled to invite you to another live conversation with @MajorLinkSean, creator of Hero’s Purpose, this Sunday at 6p ET. Join us to discuss all things Zelda, Hero’s Purpose E6, philosophy of fan fiction, gaming, and more.
withaterriblefate.com/2025/0…
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Delighted to announce that Dr Maria Guix, of Uni. Barcelona, a rising star in the field of nanotechnology, will give a plenary talk "Designing Biohybrid Robots" at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open till March 30th livingmachinesconference.eu/…
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Did a review: Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered review – the good, the bad and the gloomy of Lara Croft releases theguardian.com/games/2025/f…
I'm finishing my PhD and one of my favourite examples of (visual) storytelling is the music video for Sunburn by @museband. It's a simple story told efficiently but to devastating effect:
youtu.be/N9SZaOJEWXU?si=_Pxk…
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Delighted to announce that Prof Murray Shanahan, of Google DeepMInd and Imperial College London, will give a plenary talk "What Sort of Thing is a Large Language Model?" at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open. livingmachinesconference.eu/…
I can't believe they send reporters to areas experiencing dangerous weather conditions. It gives people the idea they can still go outside safely. Footage of reports like this, although funny in hindsight, could so easily have been deadly:
youtu.be/FVlq-mHbHFg?si=z4df…
#StormÉowyn
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My lecture this Thursday on "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence" will now be livestreamed from around 5-5.15pm GMT (n.b. registration now closed for in-person attendance). If interested, please join by this link meet.google.com/qbk-hagv-nrc
I'll be giving a public lecture in Sheffield, UK, based on my new book "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence" on 23rd January. Please register by January 7th if you'd like to come along (form is in the reply to this message). @ShefRobotics @shefcompsci
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Our @itdfproject issue is now the current @MedHums_BMJ publication. It's a wonderful collection of approaches to disability, technology and the future and I'm proud that so many contributors are disabled non-academics and recognised here as researchers.
mh.bmj.com/content/50/4?curr…
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I'm giving away a Steam key for @onyourtailgame just retweet this tweet and follow me to enter. Winner will be selected later today.
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Fab, my book #PsyofAI got reviewed in @psychmag. Any other potential reviewers looking to be enlightened (even if slightly alarmed) please get in touch 😀 @tandfpsychology @shefcompsci
Enlightening, and slightly alarming…
@tonyjprescott 'The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence', reviewed by Zilong Zhong.
bps.org.uk/psychologist/enli…
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For anyone who hasn't got a copy of Psychology of AI yet I have added a summary to my blog page so you know what you are getting :-) tonyjprescott.com/2024/11/23……
@routledgebooks
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A blog post on teaching at a Critical Disability Studies PhD course in Copenhagen with the great
@k_runswick_cole & @DanGoodley ! I introduced my Anti-Ableist Pedagogical Principles & led a lecture on positionality & disability @EducationSheff @DisMatters sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/news/…
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Thank you to all who joined our live study of Tales of Eternia! We look forward to carrying the insights from this foundational text forward to the rest of the Tales series and beyond.
Tales of Legendia begins TOMORROW, 5pm-11pm ET! Don’t miss the boat.
twitch.tv/terrible__fate
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Would people like a talking robot pet? We took our LLM-enabled MiRo-e robot to the Sheffield Festival of Mind to find out youtube.com/watch?v=quVza0CE… @itdfproject @SheffUniEng @ShefRobotics
Can't believe no one's commented on this music video in 5 years, it could quite easily explain - without excusing - a lot of Trump's abhorrent behaviour:
Clean Bandit - Mama (feat. Ellie Goulding) [Official Video] youtu.be/Ao3XJ-UDdzI?si=_qlY… via @YouTube
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Our new review "Understanding the Sense of Self Through Robotics" just came out in Science Robotics exploring how theories of self can be tested using robots as physical models or lab tools. With @A_Wykowska & Kai Vogeley science.org/doi/10.1126/scir… @shefcompsci @ShefRobotics
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Recent comments from ex-PlayStation boss inspired this week's newsletter: "“We’re at the stage of hardware development that I call ‘only dogs can hear the difference’. We’re fighting over teraflops and that’s no place to be."
theguardian.com/games/2024/o…
