So I'm in a 'burn it to the ground' mood. Here goes. Ethnically, I'm an English Romany, called by some 'Gypsy', (not a slur to many English Gypsies, they don't really care). Haven't disclosed this before because of the rabid hate that exists in the UK towards us... 1/

Reminder: Submission deadline is 19 April 2024 for our 2nd International Workshop on Explainable AI for the Arts #XAIxArts @ ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, USA Creativity & Cognition

Less than 1% of UK professors are black (160 out of 22,855 professors in 2020/21 data). I am incredibly delighted to share that I have accepted an offer to be a full Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London 1/8 qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202…

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic

New work from the brilliant Julie Freeman.

"Academics and researchers involved in cutting-edge science at British universities are to be vetted by the security services, under government plans to tackle Chinese espionage." thetimes.co.uk/article/academ…

As a medical school professor, I spoke yesterday at a #upenn session with President, Provost and others. Here is what I said, a plea to American academia on behalf of Jewish students, staff and faculty. #israel #HateSpeech #Zionism #AcademicTwitter

We are happy to share four of our Innovate UK projects, together with Session Studio, Stage, RoEx and AudioStrip For a brief description of each project, check: qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202…

Yesterday was Crouch End Cricket's 150th anniversary party. It was much fun. Everyone who came in the same shirt had to arrange themselves in height order

Tremendous victory with this shambolic bunch of misfits today; brutally dispatching sworn enemies Stoke Newington. Next pic we'll get trees in the background, rather than reveal the grim wasteland of the Peter May Sports Centre... Crouch End Cricket

This is my favourite cinema and Ive been going there for more than 60 years. It’s right in the heart of Jewish north london. B*stds.

Final bit of Unwin. Here he is chatting to Peter Hawkins who voiced Bill and Ben. You'll be tripping your t*ts off after this.

Indeed. Our “non-ML” students were also approached to do neurips reviews (they didn’t apply or ask or submit !)

If anyone's looking for an East London flat, this place looks amazing, and you should definitely put in an offer after our last buyer pulled out 🙄 rightmove.co.uk/properties/144…

The last Jew in Yemen, Yehia ben Yossef, has passed away. This marks the end to millennia of a continuous Jewish presence in Yemen. He was buried by his muslim neighbours.

Thrilled to be speaking at this today 🤘drop by if you can!

The way we make music is evolving with AI, even The Beatles embraced it last year. But what does this digital shift mean for artists and their instruments? Explore the future with Dr Anna Ploszajski - find me on Instagram and guests on the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering #CreateTheFuture Podcast: qeprize.org/podcasts/the-f…

We're happy to share that our students Soumya Sai Vanka Franco Caspe and Farida Yusuf are part of the organizing committee for the AIMLA conference next year. We're also calling for contributions; please check the blog for details. aim.qmul.ac.uk/cfp-first-aes-…

Victoria Park, London, 1978. 100,000 Skins, Punks, Jews, Blacks, Muslims, Mixed , English, Irish, Hindus, Sikhs, Scots, Welsh, Working Class, Middle Class, trade unionists, unified against racists and fascists. Gen Z, it's your turn.

Work from our group will be presented at #EUSIPCO2024 later this August. For more information, check: c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2024-08-0…