First cup of tea: a bottomless well of satisfaction.

Brexit appears to have finally broken the Daily Mail. They've published an honest headline about the subject for once.

Have they tried switching the newspaper off and on again?

Delighted to be joining Dr Catherine Lai and Jon Barker (Sheffield) to give a keynote at UK and Ireland Speech Workshop UKIS 2024 (1-2 July) Engineering Dept:

How ‘conversational’ are conversational products and technologies?

Reg: ukis2024.eng.cam.ac.uk

#EMCA #speech #technology

This platform is useful for handling slow/poor #CustomerSupport , but I wanted to say a huge thank you to two call-takers first direct EE today for making a horrible situation (phone and cards stolen on the street in Barcelona) better by being so calm, efficient, & reassuring 🙏

A familiar experience for Speech and Language therapists also! #sltpeeps RCSLT 💙 Better Conversations Lab

Social and Personality Psychology Faculty Statement on Student Protests for Justice in Palestine (a 🧵with my thoughts)

S-P Faculty can add your name here: docs.google.com/document/d/1wq…

First cup of tea: life expands to encompass more beauty, more joy.

Early stroll. A fly tipper has dumped a load of puddles. Scaffolding’s celebration of geometry. I feel I am walking through a museum of rain. The sonic pleasure of passing cars on wet roads. Dandelion clocks: soft horology.

“I had come by to make sure the university president had not called in the APD, but he did,” McAfee posted later. “Then I witnessed a young person being viciously pummeled by the cops. After demanding that they stop and refusing to step away, I was arrested.”

From the screen to the garden! 💻🌿

As Conversation Design Institute #BBB24 drew to a close, it was wonderful to participate in Women in Voice's 'fireside' chat with brilliant women in #AI : Executive Director Deborah Akinyele Lisa Talia Moretti Moretti and Tanya Van Gastel The Multiverse AI - ChatGPT for your profile photo

#EMCA #CxD

Ready to kick off the Conversation Design Institute #beyondboundaries conference on #conversationdesign with Rasa. I'll be live tweeting (is it now xing?) the event. Follow along! ⬇️

I'm currently listening to Spencer Hazel from MARG Newcastle and Nikoletta Ventoura from Ufonia who are talking through their academia-industry collaboration with the #BBB24 audience of #conversation designers and conversational #AI industries #EMCA

#Sunrise morning run along the promenade from Poblenou in #Barcelona

Just caught up on this great two-way discussion with jon ronson and Sander van der Linden ‘For me, it's just about telling complicated, grey area human stories’ bps.org.uk/psychologist/m….

Excellent work Dr Jon Sutton for making this happen

That's the print version of the special issue 'Being political in divisive times'… some online extras to come tomorrow, and then the whole edition will be collected via our Archive and in The Psychologist app, and go in the post, on Thursday.
Thanks again Kesi Mahendran, Prof• et al!

Love the notion of #conversplaining 😍 #EMCA - yes, definitely a thing, even better when accompanied by things such as 'oh yes, non-verbal communication is so important, right?' or 'you obtained funding for THIS?' or 'but where is the language in your analysis?' etc. 🙃

Early morning run along the promenade for (almost) silence and this #sunrise view of the Tres Xemeneies (Three Chimneys) of the abandoned power station in Sant Adrià de Besòs in #Barcelona 🌅

Bittersweet feelings as I enter my last week in🇫🇮 😢 I'm very grateful to colleagues University of Jyväskylä for all their support. These 3 years have been terrific!

Time to get ready for the new chapter, in a familiar territory 🇬🇧: Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Lincoln

I'm all for public trial transcripts, but leaving the task to AI would be extremely problematic.

Lookind towards the #sunset and towards the sea through palm trees at Poblenou #Barcelona 🌴