Polly Atkins

Julia Foecker & Polly Atkins (@Pols303) were awarded the Discovery Commercialisation Fund for the project "SENSE Braille: Refinement and Market Analysis of a User-Friendly Multisensory Braille Device for Educating Visually Impaired and Blind Children" 🎉

I’m currently on route to @unilincoln to talk to students at the @UoLCompSci about video games accessibility! It’s always a great day when I get to talk about accessibility in games! ❤️💛🖤

Our LEGO Braille set has arrived! It will be a great learning tool for LLBS members & an aid to show sighted people how braille looks and feels. We are taking the set to Skegness Library on 5th Oct for a National Libraries Week #legobraillebricks #legobraille #skegnesslibrary

I don’t know what to say but I’m on the credits for EAFC 24! For some this wouldn’t mean much, but for me it’s massive! All I want is to make games accesible and I’m starting to get to a place where I feel I am! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me so far ❤️💛🖤

4 weeks today we say goodbye to FIFA and say hello to @EASPORTSFC I’ve written about my journey into games accessibility and FIFA! I hope you enjoy reading about how FIFA was more than just a game to me. Retweets and likes are massively appreciated thewobblygamer.co.uk/blog/f/fifa-fr…

This is how I advise my #PhD students to write research manuscripts (in case someone finds it helpful). General points: 1. Research questions addressed by your manuscript are key and should guide you. 2. Don’t view your manuscript as an article. See it as a STORY. 3. Pick the writing style that is easily understood by a broader community. Make reading easy. 4. Most of data should get into the paper. If some doesn’t support the hypothesis, it still must be in the Suppl. Information. It must show the reproducibility limits. 5. Make the paper shorter, not longer. Cut out things that may sound like ‘bluff’ or ‘decoration’ of the story. Use well-defined terminology, don’t invent it unless clearly necessary. 6. Focus on reporting & explaining the numbers. Minimize discussions of qualitative outcomes and your imagination. ▫️ Specific steps: 1️⃣ First, formulate and polish the key questions that your study addresses. It may take hours or even days (even though you've been doing research in this area for years). A single study should address no more than 1-3 key questions. It’s your perfect start for writing. 2️⃣ Write down the structure of your STORY first: Sections and Subsections that will answer those questions. Into each subsection, put 1-2 sentences that formulate the message(s) from this subsection. It will hugely help you navigate the manuscript later and save a lot of time. 3️⃣ Write approximate messages in the conclusion section. Usually, no more than 1-4 sentences. ▫️ At this point, SHARE your [structure+questions+messages] document with your advisor for feedback. Toss it back and forth until you both converge. You can also include major collaborators if needed. ▫️ 4️⃣ Write the introduction part. Put down the paragraphs that introduce a reader into the key question(s) of the manuscript and the background of your story. 5️⃣ Write the main text for each section, smoothly and firmly. Each paragraph should add a separate value and end with a message-like sentence. Follow the “First… Second… Third…” structure for paragraphs when possible, it gives rigor and readability to your story. 6️⃣ Write the conclusions. Add a broader perspective that is justified and not generic. 7️⃣ Write the abstract. It must have simple terminology and clearly explain what readers can find inside the paper. It also should contain the key conclusions. 8️⃣ Write up 4-5 different titles and spend >30 mins with your team discussing which title sounds best. Finally, iterate on the resulting draft within your team. The number of drafts can easily exceed 20. ▫️ ❗In addition, I always emphasize that a high quality of your research paper: - sharpen your writing and analytical skills. - shapes your reputation. - shows who you are as a researcher and communicator. ▫️ p.s. Everyone has a different style of advising and writing. You can adopt only some specific steps if you find them helpful. p.p.s. Another way that we sometimes use is by starting with figures ('story in figures' style). #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

What are some statistical mistakes/errors that you’ve seen or are common, from users relying on the default settings in stats software, using software without knowing details of the math underlying the model, etc.? e.g. cases when software may partially give rise to error

Here is a completely free Computer Science curriculum for those with the discipline to go through it independently. The curriculum follows the same degree requirements as an undergraduate computer science major and consists of courses from Harvard, MIT, and Princeton, among other colleges. The curriculum has four major sections: 1. Introduction: Students can review this section and decide whether this fits them. 2. Core: This section corresponds to the first three college years. 3. Advanced: This section corresponds to the final year of a Computer Science curriculum in college. 4. Final Project: Students can validate, consolidate, and display their knowledge by completing this project. Assuming you spend around 20 hours per week, you can finish in two years. I won't lie: completing a curriculum like this alone will be hard. Having the support of professors and other students is very important, but if you have the discipline and the will, this material is amazing. The link to the repository is on the screenshot and its ALT description.

Thankyou St Vincent's! This school is so inspiring, and the children are so amazing! It has been a pleasure collaborating with you! @PsychLincoln

@TheWobblyGamer etsy.com/uk/listing/126… This small buisness looks pretty good!

Hey does anyone know where I can business cards with braille printed???

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Can companies stop using ALT text as meme now please! It’s actually harming social media for visually impaired and blind users as once the big companies deem it is acceptable to “abuse” it so will every one else! @RedBullUK DO BETTER

@beautybay Please can someone double check the maths when applying the promotional code at checkout because they are all wrong. I have checked this for several codes. This is clearly just over 10% but it should have been 25%.

learning to code in R

How much adrenaline is in Florence Welch’s body when she performs? Now seriously? How can she perform with a broken foot for half of the show and sprint around the entire arena???

florence welch performing night one at the o2 arena in london. photographed by jim dyson.

Police training dogs at London Bridge. All very alert and serious except for one doggo who is absolutely going to fail but is making hundreds of friends a minute

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