Bernd Porr
@berndporr.me.uk
Realtime AI, Bio-inspired AI, robotics, biosignals, neuroscience, research ethics and signal processing. Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Occasional filmmaker (https://www.eigenproductions.co.uk/). Oh, and recovering anti Brexit activist.
Spotted this sticker here in Glasgow, @teslatakedown.com .
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Spotted this sticker here in Glasgow, @teslatakedown.com .
Talking about terrible papers I just found this beauty on IEEE explore (but there are many more) attempting to draw a data flow diagram. Note that the summation node has only inputs. No outputs! And of course drawn in something like MS Paint.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/101...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/101...
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Talking about terrible papers I just found this beauty on IEEE explore (but there are many more) attempting to draw a data flow diagram. Note that the summation node has only inputs. No outputs! And of course drawn in something like MS Paint.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/101...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/101...
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Oh God. How did this get through the editorial process?! *Checks journal name* Ah, yeah, OK.
Sharing this "scientific paper" with Bsky because misery loves company: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Oh God. How did this get through the editorial process?! *Checks journal name* Ah, yeah, OK.
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I will never tire of these wonderful comics about Ada Lovelace (and Charles Babbage] from Sydney Padua
sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/co...
sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/co...
![4 panel comic showing the origin of Ada Lovelace
1. Ada was the daughter of "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" poet and nutcase Lord Byron.
[A dramatic Lord Byron drawn with a quill in one hand and desperate romantic admirers clinging around him]
2. Her mother Anabel fled her husband but was afraid their daughter would inherit his WILD BLOOD!!
[Woman fleeing from him with a swaddled baby in arms]
3. ADA MUST NEVER BECOME POETICAL!
[Stern looking woman, possibly her mum but maybe a governess, standing while grimly declaiming, while in a the background a small girl reads a book]
ONLY ONE THING HAS THE POWER TO SUBDUE POETRY..
4. ...MATHEMATICS!!
[Drawing of a young Ada engrossed in a book about ADVANCED CALCULUS]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreidcxkn3sxzfze7ethmmm6l63hu7kbnacnayjnhqk3rhrlrvskfkzu@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I will never tire of these wonderful comics about Ada Lovelace (and Charles Babbage] from Sydney Padua
sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/co...
sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/co...
Those who are still being able to produce genuine content will be either treated as a curiosity or they will be even more setting new trends. Either way the rest will just regurgitate and fake it with AI for various reasons.
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Those who are still being able to produce genuine content will be either treated as a curiosity or they will be even more setting new trends. Either way the rest will just regurgitate and fake it with AI for various reasons.
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
every company in 2025
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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RFK Jr.: ‘The President Having Sex With Children Is Fine From A Purely Nutritional Standpoint’
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
RFK Jr.: ‘The President Having Sex With Children Is Fine From A Purely Nutritional Standpoint’
...by using chatGPT. Hilarious.
Papermillers complain about PubPeer.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An expert criticism on post-publication peer review platforms: the case of pubpeer - DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
While traditional peer review offers advantages in academic publishing, it is often hampered by significant weaknesses, leading to frustration among many authors. Scientific discoveries after publicat...
link.springer.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
...by using chatGPT. Hilarious.
There is a matching article about MAGA which amongst others also explains it to its strong links to family (other factors are for example zero sum game, winners / loser, strongmen).
press.uchicago.edu/books/excerp...
press.uchicago.edu/books/excerp...
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
There is a matching article about MAGA which amongst others also explains it to its strong links to family (other factors are for example zero sum game, winners / loser, strongmen).
press.uchicago.edu/books/excerp...
press.uchicago.edu/books/excerp...
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Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the widely used physiological measures in psychophysiological research. But with over 100 indices to choose from, how do we know which ones to use?
In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
1/
In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
1/
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the widely used physiological measures in psychophysiological research. But with over 100 indices to choose from, how do we know which ones to use?
In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
1/
In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
1/
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Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Indeed! Let me add that Brexit has led to levelling up by levelling down and this has -- if anything -- benefitted right-wing populists.
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Indeed! Let me add that Brexit has led to levelling up by levelling down and this has -- if anything -- benefitted right-wing populists.
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf
"... a Director General with no substantive journalistic record and a Board with negligible experience of what it is to be a journalist in the 21st century."
Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"... a Director General with no substantive journalistic record and a Board with negligible experience of what it is to be a journalist in the 21st century."
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Wenige Tage vor seinem Tod 2013 hat der Kabarettist Dieter Hildebrandt mir erzählt, wie er als Schüler den #Novemberpogrom 1938 in seiner schlesischen Geburtstadt Bunzlau erlebt hat. #NeverForget
Dieter Hildebrandt über Reichspogromnacht 1938
Kabarettist Dieter Hildebrandt erinnert sich, wie er auf dem Schulweg die zerstörten Geschäfte von Juden sah.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Wenige Tage vor seinem Tod 2013 hat der Kabarettist Dieter Hildebrandt mir erzählt, wie er als Schüler den #Novemberpogrom 1938 in seiner schlesischen Geburtstadt Bunzlau erlebt hat. #NeverForget
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social, that's Kinning Park in Glasgow.
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social, that's Kinning Park in Glasgow.
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virtue signalling is good actually
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
virtue signalling is good actually
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i understand maybe six words of this post
The member of the Scottish parliament for Shetland has lodged a complaint in Holyrood over the depiction of fair isle knitting in the UK’s new competitive knitting show, which debuted this week with a controversial tank top challenge and steek-related dismissal.
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
i understand maybe six words of this post
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Congratulations to the excellent team @leigh-day.bsky.social and their courageous client for pursuing and winning a case that we were delighted to fund @lawforchange.uk
Documents show that for nearly two years Sheffield Hallam University complied with a demand from a Chinese Government foreign intelligence service to halt research about human rights abuses in China.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Congratulations to the excellent team @leigh-day.bsky.social and their courageous client for pursuing and winning a case that we were delighted to fund @lawforchange.uk
This morning while cycling through single file traffic suddenly an SUV was speeding head on through the red light: massive poppy at the front and after not managing to flatten me the gammon showed me the middle finger. I guess he was late for the flute practise at the orange order down the road.
the relative who's visiting turned up with a huge poppy badge on his shirt collar and i kept looking at it like
a do not press sign next to a yellow button
Alt: a man looking at a "do not press" button as if he wants to press it
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This morning while cycling through single file traffic suddenly an SUV was speeding head on through the red light: massive poppy at the front and after not managing to flatten me the gammon showed me the middle finger. I guess he was late for the flute practise at the orange order down the road.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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