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Stuart Cunningham

@stucun.bsky.social
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Research: speech science & tech (dysarthria, voice, AAC #Augcomm, #A11Y). Teaching: research methods and #ebp in #slt University of Sheffield May occasionally contain #stats, #cybernetics, #cricket, #everton, and #sfgiants

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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Such sad news. A real talent. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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RJ Mitte, actor best known for Breaking Bad role, dies aged 34
Mitte, who played Walter White Jr on acclaimed show, had cerebral palsy and advocated for disability representation
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 12/10/2026
RJ Mitte (1992–2026)
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Liverpool's defeat leaves Everton & Brentford as the last two of the 134 league clubs in England & Scotland to remain undefeated in competitive football during the Burnham premiership
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/10/2026
This is a truly grotesque "trial" of a vaccine known to be safe and effective. It will in practice randomly withhold that treatment from a percentage of children to see what happens. It is absolutely the reverse of good practice.
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Unlike Sunder I'm not surprised. Sullivan has been getting a lot wrong for a long time.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
i genuinely want nothing more in the world than to see ossoff eviscerate vance on a debate stage
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 08/10/2026
now i’m imagining rogan trying to do you and yours but he just credulously reads out emails from obvious scammers
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think the BBC should close its television news channel to save money It’s so poor now anyway Fund proper journalism, make decent news programmes, maintain Radio 4 Rolling news is awful too
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Apparently Rupert Lowe doesn't like fortified foods. I do hope he's never eat a breakfast cereal, bread, or margarine. 😉
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 08/10/2026
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R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies.
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Dr Susan Ebbels @susanebbels.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very concerned by errors in definitions of key terms in new @departmentforedu.bsky.social training on speech, language & communication www.gov.uk/government/p... 1. speech sound disorders don't include voice quality (@sharynnemcleod.bsky.social & Graham Daniel 2017 misquoted)
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SEND training for schools: speech, language and communication
Training materials on strategies for supporting pupils with speech, language and communication needs in mainstream schools.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/07/2025
another good way of thinking about what cracking value radio 4 is that it makes twenty hours of programming a day - news, drama, comedy, documentaries, a soap opera, arts - for about £90m/yr, while spotify pay joe rogan about £60m/year to listen gullibly to liars for about nine hours per week
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Word Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just heard that Niagara Falls is lighting up purple to mark #DLDday on October 16! Edinburgh Castle too. And the list is growing. radld.org/dld-awarenes... @radld.bsky.social #DevLangDis
radld.org
Light Up Events
Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Crazy Rupert Lowe has a new angle. Ban folic acid in flour. Follows a mandate that all non-wholemeal wheat flour must be fortified with synthetic folic acid (vitamin B9) by the end of December 2026 to prevent upward of 200 neural tube birth defects including spina bifida and anencephaly each year
The official petition to end the mandatory
fortification of white flour with folic acid
has just hit 100k.


Great news.


It helps me take the fight to the
establishment in Parliament


Let's end it.


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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How come Wikipedia is doing better than academic publishing? Btw love that icon: 🚫🤖 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmat...
	
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 07/10/2026
As nice as it is to share a headline with Margaret Atwood, I wish it were under circumstances not as bleak and depressing www.cbc.ca/books/works-...
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Works by Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Ryan North among books banned in U.S. schools in 2026 | CBC Books
Nearly 12,000 bans took place in American public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression organization began tracking removals...
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026
According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.
Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Iain Dale said he had never heard the word "ethnonationalism" until a couple of years ago on his show. "It's a posh word for racist, basically", I suggest. LBC have put that on X x.com/LBC/status/2...
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LBC (@LBC) on X
'It's a posh word for racist, basically.' With ethnonationalism on the rise in British politics, @Sundersays gives @IainDale an unfiltered explanation on what it means.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 07/10/2026
Still upset about that highly cited paper in Psych Science you consider deeply flawed? Now is your time to shine ✨
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have questions, beginning with: 1. Does he understand how a "synthetic AI focus group" works? 2. Does he understand what focus groups should actually be used for? (TBF it appears a large part of the political class/media have the wrong answer for Q2).
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🥹🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🥹
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The sweetest moment in every capital markets banker's career is the moment he gets to explain to a stroppy investor thatn if they don't buy it somebody else will.
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 02/10/2026
Intrigued to see the Conservative conference will feature a speech on "press freedom" next week while they ban lobby journalists such as @josiahmortimer.bsky.social from attending their conference.
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Several funny things here, but love that Merz seems to be in his attic room.
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Watched #newnight for the first time in ages. Wondered why Labour peer Lord Walker basically sounded, rhetorically, like a Tory. It turns out he was one, until very recently, and by the sounds of it will be one again very soon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
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Richard Walker, Baron Walker of Broxton - Wikipedia
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I only recently watched The Battle of Chile, and I found it remarkable. Sad to read that Patricio Guzmán has died. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Patricio Guzmán obituary
Chilean film-maker whose trilogy on Augusto Pinochet’s coup brought him to international attention
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Mystic Meg prediction by Daniel Hannan who famously predicted the ‘blue eyed Sheikhs’ of Iceland Banking would would save us in 2004, Brexit Britain would be booming in 2026, and that Covid wouldn’t kill anyone in 2020 In other words, we will be rejoining the EU
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The "Reform Party" was created in part to make the case for electoral reform... looking at many of their accounts and supporters it would seem that most of them have forgotten that
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If I set up a bunch of agents to hack a website I'd expect a knock on the door from law enforcement. 🤷‍♂️
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So wonderful he was able to finish where he started. 🐐
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"England have made a nervous start, particularly in their defensive third." I wonder why that might be? 🤔
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If the Prem League want to really punish #ManCity they should force Sheikh Mansour to sell the club to Mike Ashley
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Punishment has not been decided yet, but will obviously involve a points deduction or a fine, ... for Everton. 😉 #premierleagueinit
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not surprised there are people in the UK Football Policing Unit who want to blame football fans for Hillsborough to exonerate their mates, but I am surprised they implied it in a public statement. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
UK Football Police Unit accused of ‘bringing Hillsborough’ into alcohol debate
English football’s leading fans’ group has criticised the UK Football Policing Unit for ‘bringing Hillsborough into the debate’ around drinking in sight of the pitch
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuck this bullshit immediately
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why has this live-streaming serial criminal not been arrested?
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing… 
F1 track with numerous Zoom signs on the advertising billboards
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You can hear the disappointment on the Sky Wolves channel commentary team. 🤣 #diblingfantastic
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've realised why Grealish has started passing to Mykolenko this season, he's joined the socks-down gang.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And reappointed O'Grady in 2023!
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Two of the world’s most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activists & grifters—Andrew Wakefield and RFK Jr—headlining a conference held by the extraordinarily damaging anti-vaxx group Children’s Health Defense in the midst of the worst measles outbreak in 35 yrs tells you all you need to know about MAHA
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Everton Football Club (MIRROR) @evertonfc1878.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Evertonians. 🤝 British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are both in attendance for tonight’s game at Hill Dickinson Stadium. 🔵 x.com/Everton/status/21002911244725…
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Stuart Cunningham @stucun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
V good thread, an antidote to the hype about "Hyperpolitics" (made up 'data' and all).
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.
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