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.
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Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
@aishadown.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
@aishadown.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
@aishadown.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
@aishadown.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Recovered memory theory is back! Now with psychedelics. "Therapeutic emergence of dissociated traumatic memories during psilocybin treatment for anorexia" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40420197/ n=2, no controls...
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Recovered memory theory is back! Now with psychedelics. "Therapeutic emergence of dissociated traumatic memories during psilocybin treatment for anorexia" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40420197/ n=2, no controls...
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I'd add that the BBC fails to note the most important factual point -which is that the vast majority of these kids are here because their parents moved here entirely legally, mostly or work.
This article is like a case study in the media normalisation of the far right.
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farage branded racist over campaign video remark about Glasgow pupils
The Reform UK leader said the proportion of children who do not have English as a first language in Glasgow was
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I'd add that the BBC fails to note the most important factual point -which is that the vast majority of these kids are here because their parents moved here entirely legally, mostly or work.
♻️ Good to see that at Dundee Uni they are so committed to recycling!
Via @forbetterscience.bsky.social
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s...
Via @forbetterscience.bsky.social
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s...
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
♻️ Good to see that at Dundee Uni they are so committed to recycling!
Via @forbetterscience.bsky.social
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s...
Via @forbetterscience.bsky.social
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s...
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OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died.
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died.
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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...
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In our latest paper, we take a data-driven approach to help answer this.
doi.org/10.1111/psyp...
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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."