Liz Truss not only served the shortest term of any British Prime Minister, she was also joint shortest prime minister at 5ft 3in tied with Spencer Perceval (who lasted longer 1809-1812).
RA/PDRA job building an application to improve communication in mental health: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it…
Pat Healey retweeted
NEWS: As most will be opening presents and starting a little too early on the Christmas chocolate and mince pies @WemTownLadies boss @DavidHealey84 will be pulling his trainers on for a quick half marathon before lunch! Read why 👉 womenscompetitions.thefa.com… #WeAreNational
Scared about the threat of AI? It’s the big tech giants that need reining in | Devdatt Dubhashi and Shalom Lappin theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Very proud of this
Not only has @QMUL been rated the top University for social mobility, but our Computer Science Dept in @QMEECS has been ranked the number 1 course out of 1294 (see Table 3 in the link)
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Joan Robinson: “The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.”
Entirely new version of text-chat based toolkit for online dialogue experiments using Telegram built by Greg Mills! @QMCogSci @QMEECS @mpurver. Open-source and downloadable at:
cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/diet/
Voicebox: Interesting funny people (and also me) talk about talking. Streaming on Youtube Tonight! Tuesday December 15th, 7:30pm, Tickets £3 from wegottickets.com/event/50982…
@Abigoliah, @DebbieHayton, @HowardRead, @Robbotron, @SaloniKrishnan, @SophieScott, @SophWoolley, @WillEaves.
Lecturerships in Computer Science/AI/Big Data. Closing date – 3 January 2021.
webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/…
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Congratulations to Morteza Rohanian and Julian Hough, on their COLING 2020 Outstanding Paper: "Re-framing Incremental Deep Language Models for Dialogue Processing with Multi-task Learning"! @QMCogSci
coling2020.org/2020/11/29/ou…
New video of our project on embodied imagination in collaboration with stroke survivors vimeo.com/438148408 @QMCogSci @QMULsed
Zoom disables accounts of former Tiananmen Square student leader via @FT
on.ft.com/2YoTVRT
Pat Healey retweeted
Edward Luce spoke with dozens of officials to discover what went wrong in Donald Trump’s first real crisis — and found a president who ignored increasingly urgent intelligence warnings and dismissed anyone who claimed to know more than him on.ft.com/3cxam4D
Brilliant.
Also easy to re-use as survivaball suits for the coming climate apocalypse! theyesmen.org/project/balls
