A new reading list in @IEEEspectrum features fascinating robotics papers from Black scholars — exploring the fields of robot-assisted medical imaging, wearable robotics, and the design and development of intelligent systems. (via Dr. Carlotta Berry, PhD 🪷 NoireSTEMinist® 🤖 Henny Admoni) spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/at-w…

Generous funding by the Azrieli Foundation for postdocs. A wonderful opportunity to join labs in Israel!

In her fourth State of the University Address, President Martha E. Pollack announced that two residence halls will be named for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55. news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/1…

The only problem w/ Youtube's x2 speed setting is that I keep getting disappointed I can't use it in a live conversation

Academia is just saying “next week things should free up a little and not be so busy” over and over again.

"Assuming that a process such as decision making can be understood by looking at single neurons, or even their ensembles, is like attempting to understand why people in Australia drive on the left side of the road from examination of their DNA"

Almost exactly 2 yrs ago, @xz9090 and I started working on a tutorial for researchers in #HRI on running #experiments. ! 🤖🧪 We wanted it to be both accurate and accessible to people new to #experimentaldesign. So happy it is out this week in ACM Digital Library THRI! doi.org/10.1145/3412374

So proud of Ronit_Feingold for being selected as one of 2020's Future Digileaders at the "Digitalize in Stockholm" event KTH Royal Institute of Technology For the open-to-the public event: digitalizeinstockholm2020.se

In 1953, David-Ben-Gurion insisted on using the word אישי (my man), instead of בעלי (my Lord), for the weird "husband". As we mark the International Day Against Violence Towards Women we should adopt the processive thinking of DBG. Letter found in the DBG Archives at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

These guys are awesome! youtu.be/Bm-gNZems4I

The keynote talk by Charles Isbell on algorithmic bias at #NeurIPS2020 is UNBELIEVABLE. I don't want to spoil too much, but it's clear many hours went into creating this keynote based on A Christmas Carol, complete with Michael Littman as Scrooge. slideslive.com/38935825/you-c…

If you've never crashed a zoom lecture (different time zone, internal seminar), you haven't lived life to its fullest! Just did, Iolanda Leite's great talk, which explored a variety of ways in which clarity in HRI is key. And Brussels sprouts 🍈

Dr. Shelly Levy-Tzedek (Shelly Levy-Tzedek) from the #physiotherapy Dept. , just won a 2-yr 100,000 NIS grant from the #Ministry of #Health, to study the efficacy of a socially assistive #Robot in post-#stroke #rehabilitation, a topic of increased importance during a pandemic

Blushing here 😊

Woah -- McGill University is hiring in Computer Science Approaches Against Racism (!!) cs.mcgill.ca/employment/294/

If you have not yet watched the film "Picture a Scientist", do. g.co/kgs/8z8eiH

👩‍🎓💐🎊 Congratulations to the unstoppable Ronit_Feingold for submitting her PhD thesis today! Ronit, it has been a pleasure working with you, I am so very proud of you, and can't wait to see what mountain tops you'll conquer next! 🍻🏆

My Reviewer 2 is GPT-3

What a beautiful day for celebrating 2 graduations, 2 wedding engagements and 1 paper submission 🎉🏆