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The Roundtable2/12/26 PanelThe Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Joseph Palamountain Jr. Chair in Government atSkidmore College Beau Breslin, Corporate Attorney with Phillips Lytle LLP Rich Honen, and Associate Professor in the department of sociology at Vassar College Catherine Tan.
2026-02-121h 28The Roundtable1/20/26 PanelThe Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Joseph Palamountain Jr. Chair in Government at Skidmore College Beau Breslin, Former New York 19th Congressman and NY Assemblyman John Faso, Newly former Mayor of the City of Albany, Kathy Sheehan, and is an Associate Professor in the department of sociology at Vassar College. Her research is on health, wellness, and medical knowledge Catherine Tan.
2026-01-201h 13
Hydroponics DailyAre Soilless Crops Artificially Flavoured? Hydroponics Myth BustedHost Dr. Russell Sharp tackles a Twitter claim that hydroponic crops lack micronutrients and are artificially flavoured, explaining why those assertions are incorrect and how micronutrient levels can be measured (e.g., atomic absorption spectroscopy).
He reviews research on manipulating flavor through nutrient levels, light, and biostimulants, notes the limited and mixed evidence, and concludes there is no solid proof of intentional artificial flavouring in hydroponic produce; soilless systems can match or even enhance some flavour-related compounds.
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2025-12-2205 min
The Squarepeg Podcast139 [S10 E11] Creating space to show up without shrinking: how we can thrive at work as autisticsHassani Turner is an executive coach for neurodivergent professionals and the founder of MyNeuroCompass, a coaching service and app that helps neurodivergent people understand how their brains work, identify their strengths, stop masking and start leading authentically – as Hassani puts it, 'finding space to show up without shrinking'. Hassani has spent 15 years in the corporate world. She was formally recognised as autistic at age 36, and her work is influenced by both her lived experience and her role as a corporate leader, where she helps organisations recognise and value their neurodivergent people. She's also a speaker, wr...
2025-10-2551 min
The Squarepeg Podcast137 [S10 E9] Meeting myself again: sensory needs, autistic joys and building stronger relationships after autism diagnosisMarian Schembari is an author and essayist whose first byline was at age eleven. It was a poem about dragons. Since then, her essays about travel, friendship, money, and love have appeared in many well known publications, including The New York Times and Marie Claire. Marian was formally recognised as autistic at 34, and spent the next couple of years writing a memoir about it, A Little Less Broken, which came out last year. Marian grew up in an Italian/Puerto Rican family and has lived all over the world, including in New Zealand and Germany. She now...
2025-10-111h 03
The Squarepeg Podcast135 [S10 E7] A blessing and a curse: autism, masking and miscommunicationMy guest this week is Clara Törnvall, an author and journalist who lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her two children. Clara was diagnosed autistic five years ago at age 42, leading her to write her first book, The Autists - Women on the Spectrum, a personal essay and cultural history of autism, which has been sold to 13 countries. In 2023, she published a second book, The Autist's Guide to the Galaxy, which places autistics as the 'normal' ones and neurotypicals as the outsiders. Clara's background is in radio and TV presenting and she has also been the editor o...
2025-09-2759 min
The Squarepeg Podcast134 [S10 E6] Making your body a nicer place to live: autism and a different approach to physical fitness** We're taking a 2-week mid-season break – new episodes will start again on Saturday 27 September ** Leighanne Stephens is a fitness and lifestyle coach for neurodivergent women and non binary people. Now 27, she was diagnosed autistic two years ago, with as she puts it, 'a surprise addition of ADHD'. Leighanne lives in London and has been self employed since leaving college, niching down to work exclusively with neurodivergent folk last year. In our conversation we talk about the effects of burnout, how Leighanne has come to accept her spiky profile, the relationships between dyspraxia, coordination, rh...
2025-09-061h 04
The Squarepeg Podcast130 [S10 E2] "Whenever I fell, autism caught me": autism, intersex and genderDeborah discovered they were autistic in their 60s, after a lifetime of not fitting in anywhere. Their sense of difference was not just social, but physical, as in their teens they were diagnosed with CAUV – congenital absence of uterus and vagina. Because of their then-undiagnosed autism, Deborah says they "always felt different anyway – I wasn't upset when I was diagnosed [with CAUV]; I thought it just made me extra-different." They have come to understand their condition as intersex and to identify as autigender. Deborah is originally from the US, but has spent the last thirty years in Irel...
2025-08-091h 01
The Dog Who Asked for More: Training, Behavior, Enrichment & Nutrition for Real Life With DogsDog Sports for Everyday Dogs: Agility, Rally, and Mental Exercise ExplainedHere’s your description written in your exact structure and tone:Have you ever felt like your dog has endless energy… no matter how many walks or play sessions you add?So many pet parents think the answer is more exercise. Longer walks. More fetch. More movement. But sometimes all that does is create an even more wired, overstimulated dog.In this episode, Em sits down with certified trainer and dog sport competitor Catherine McGuire to talk about what dogs actually need: jobs, mental challenges, and outlets that work their brain as much as t...
2025-06-041h 00
The Squarepeg Podcast128. Art and autism math: healing and connecting after a late autism diagnosisElinor Trier describes herself as a "Sparkly Champion of Neurodivergent and Queer Joy". She's a neuroqueer AuDHD artist, writer, podcaster, YouTuber, and founder of Elinor Trier Studio, where she creates artwork that reminds us that we're not the 'odd one out', we're 'one of a kind'. Elinor says, "It wasn't until I became a certified weirdo by getting an official autism diagnosis in my mid-thirties that my life started to actually make sense." In this conversation we talk about the power of art to heal and connect us, the relationship between her art and her...
2025-05-0358 min
The Squarepeg Podcast127. Autism's healing mechanism: an autism and OCD journeyAnna has been on a real journey of self discovery, from refusing to entertain the idea that she might have a diagnosable condition, to devouring every book she could get her hands on that might help her understand her autism and OCD. Now in her thirties, Anna talks to me about her experiences of the autism diagnostic process, having OCD and receiving treatment in various forms, and becoming housebound following the Covid pandemic. She also shares her fascinating internal world of synaesthesia, and the solace she finds in her many intense interests. Squarepeg...
2025-03-081h 07
The Squarepeg Podcast125. Autism is the easiest piece: starting over after years of misdiagnosesMalori talks about her experience of spending seven years being given various misdiagnoses and being medicated and treated for conditions that she didn't have. Now, with the knowledge that she is autistic, Malori reflects back on her journey through the mental health system, what she's learned, and what's changed for the better since she first sought help for the difficulties that she was experiencing back in 2015. Content warning: in this episode, Malori shares some of her experience of getting treatment for an eating disorder. Squarepeg is a podcast in which I talk to other late...
2025-02-221h 13
Mostly FictionalEp. 93: Pam Basically Researched Herself into a Mood ReadMeanwhile, Hallie has no idea where her current read came from! Books mentioned, in order:She’s a Lamb by Meredith HambrockYellowface by RF KuangPet by Catherine ChidgeyThe Lost Girls by Sonia HartlTwilight by Stephenie MeyerPersuasion by Jane AustenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellMansfield Park by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirThe Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi LeeSeven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human by...
2024-12-1849 min
The Squarepeg Podcast123 [Re-release] Autism, psychotherapy and trauma: why many autistic people need a different approachI first released this episode in July 2022, as part of Season 6. And this week I've released a brand new episode with Cloie, as part of a miniseries of revisits, where I reconnect with some of my guests from previous conversations. So here's Cloie's original episode, for those of you new to the podcast, or in case you'd like to refresh your memory before listening to the new episode (that's episode 124). Cloie Parfitt is a psychotherapist, originally from Tennessee in the United States, now living in Norwich in the UK. A former nurse, she switched to psychotherapy when...
2024-09-2156 min
2024-08-011h 09
WithAI FM™Women Leading AI Innovation with Catherine BreslinWelcome to Episode 7 of Women WithAI, where we are thrilled to have Dr. Catherine Breslin, a leading AI consultant and machine learning scientist, join us to unpack the complexities of AI technologies and the gender disparities in the tech world. In this conversation, we'll examine how biases enter our AI tools, examining everything from voice recognition to language models. Dr. Breslin will share insights from her remarkable career, shedding light on her hands-on experiences and leadership roles. She'll discuss everything from algorithmic biases to the potential of multi-modal AI models. She'll also highlight the critical...
2024-05-0831 min
The Matrix AI Talk Radio from inteligenesis.comRevolutionizing Business AI: The Catherine Breslin EffectAmidst the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, leaders emerge whose insights & experience steer the direction of technological growth. Catherine Breslin is one such figure, a renowned expert shaping AI strategy for companies on the cutting edge.
Breslin's journey is a testament to the pivotal role women play in fields traditionally dominated by men. Her voice stands out not merely for its clarity, but for its authority. She underscores the essence of AI - its potential to enhance human capabilities & transform industries.
With a background deeply rooted in machine learning & language processing. Her...
2024-05-0601 min
The Squarepeg Podcast118. Bonus: Building a happy and authentic autistic lifeIn this bonus episode I share more about my own autism journey, and talk about my career-ending burnout and creating authentically autistic lives we don't want to escape from. Squarepeg is a podcast in which neurodivergent women, and trans and nonbinary people, explore navigating a neurotypical world and share their insights, challenges and successes. I hope that these conversations will be inspiring and thought provoking, open you up to new ways of thinking about being neurodivergent, and help you feel more connected to a worldwide community of people with similar experiences. I...
2024-05-0417 min
Love at First ScreeningOrphans Need Therapy, Women Need Friends (No Reservations)This week, our hosts request a table for two to discuss No Reservations (2007), starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, and Abigail Breslin. It's a classic tale of wacky, opera-singing guy tries to worm his way into the heart of frigid chef who has recently suffered the loss of her sister and gained custody of her niece. Madison admits this pick doesn't serve a traditional rom com, and Chelsea wonders if there weren't too many plotlines in this kitchen? The duo both agree, however, that the grieving baby Breslin needed therapy, not fish sticks.
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2024-04-241h 06
SVU POD: Especially HeinousS6E1 Birthright (TCC: Dr. Ricardo Asch/Dr. Jose Balmaceda)Happy first day of Season Six!! We’re kicking off it off classic SVU style and does this episode have everything OR WHAT?!?! Little Miss Sunshine; Abigail Breslin, skrt skrt bikes, EGOT Winner Viola Damn Davis, Marty McFly’s mom, Pedro Pascal’s dad and bike cops who would DIE before removing their helmets. We’re so pumped to be back! Let’s get into it! Recap 2:09 True crime chaser 57:00 Patreon Recap 2:50 True crime chaser 1:10:00 **TW: kidnapping, biomedical rape, infertility** Rate and review! Email us at svupod@gmail.com! P.O. Box 176 Deforest, WI 53532 Check out our Instagram @svupod! Get pod merch and more...
2023-10-031h 17
Sky News DailyIs AI becoming too clever?The government is unveiling a new approach to regulating AI in the UK in the hope of building public trust in the technology it hopes can benefit the economy. But what does the future look like with reliance on artificial intelligence? And can we keep it under control? On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood is joined by science and technology editor Tom Clarke to explore the benefits and pitfalls of the technology and speaks to machine learning scientist Catherine Breslin, who helped develop Alexa, about how much the technology has evolved in the last few...
2023-03-3016 min
Sky News DailyIs AI becoming too clever?The government is unveiling a new approach to regulating AI in the UK in the hope of building public trust in the technology it hopes can benefit the economy. But what does the future look like with reliance on artificial intelligence? And can we keep it under control? On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood is joined by science and technology editor Tom Clarke to explore the benefits and pitfalls of the technology and speaks to machine learning scientist Catherine Breslin, who helped develop Alexa, about how much the technology has evolved in the last few...
2023-03-3016 min
HERE AND BACK AGAIN21: Here And Book Again Bonus Episode: Children’s Books - Christmas Gift GuideWe are going rogue this week with a bonus episode of non-streaming content.
Having trouble deciding what to buy the small literary child in your life for Christmas?
Want to know what's hot out there on the bookshelves?
Well, in this bonus episode, we are joined by Elaina Ryan (CEO of Children's Books Ireland) to discuss all of the above.
Thanks to Andy Gaffney for producing and thanks to Laura Bryna for letting us use her awesome Christmas tune!
U MAY need to slow your podcast speed down, as the excitement of...
2022-12-0638 min
Tech for Non-Techies122. What's a Digital Mindset & how do you get one?To be digitally savvy, follow the 30% rule – this is the minimum threshold that gives us just enough digital literacy to thrive in the tech age, says Professor Paul Leonardi. "To have digital transformation in your company, you don't need to know how to code, but you need to know enough about coding to be dangerous. This means being able to talk to the people in your organisation who are working with your codebase, so you can understand the opportunities and challenges of your platform," says Professor Leonardi. "When you are getting a recommendation from a data scientist, it is...
2022-10-2653 min
MLOps.communityVoice and Language Tech // Catherin Breslin // Coffee Sessions #129MLOps Coffee Sessions #129 {Podcast BTS} with Catherin Breslin, Voice and Language Tech co-hosted by Adam Sroka.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter// AbstractBack in the day, Speech Recognition was its own thing. It's a very different flavor of Data Science. You could not use a lot of the tools. It wouldn't cross over to this type of machine learning.Now, with the advancements, Speech Recognition and Machine learning are coming in together. It's interesting to hear right from someone with a Ph.D. level working with some of the biggest companies in the world doing it. The fact that something like Alexa is lots of models back to back and just fathom the complexity of that is quite cool!// BioCatherine is a machine learning scientist and consultant based in Cambridge UK, and the founder of Kingfisher Labs consulting. Since completing her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2008, Catherine has commercial and academic experience in automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, and human-computer dialogue systems, having previously worked at Cambridge University, Toshiba Research, Amazon Alexa, and Cobalt Speech. Catherine has been excited by the application of research to real-world problems involving speech and language at scale.// MLOps Jobs board jobs.mlops.community// MLOps Swag/Merchhttps://mlops-community.myshopify.com/// Related Linkswww.catherinebreslin.co.ukhttps://catherinebreslin.medium.com/MLOps Community Newsletter: https://airtable.com/shrx9X19pGTWa7U3YTwitter: https://twitter.com/cathe
2022-10-2149 minTech for Non-Techies108. How to work with a data scientistSome problems that annoy you daily could be solved by AI, but most business teams don't know that because they've never discussed them with a technologist. Listen to this episode with Dr Catherine Breslin, a machine learning scientist with a PhD from Cambridge, to learn how to make the most of the AI revolution. Dr Breslin was one of the first people to work on Amazon Alexa and today leaders Kingfisher Labs, a consulting company. Learning notes from this episode: For AI to have the biggest impact, data scientists need the input of domain expert...
2022-07-2029 min
The NeverEnding Movie MarathonThe Cat in the Hat (2002) with Giovanni IacobucciApril Stinkers Day hacks up its hairball a little early this year as Alex, Rocco, and Matt relax their USUALLY strict #NoStinkers policy to let this mangey stray onto the pod. And we couldn't possibly celebrate another April Stinkers Day without our filmmaker friend Giovanni Iacobucci (modmythmedia.com, donut.media), who we must apologize to once more for making him watch...THE CAT IN THE HAT! A film that Mike Myers was court-ordered to make. One that also nearly spiraled his career highs had it not been for the cash cow of SHREK. Also the m...
2022-03-301h 56
Danielle Newnham PodcastWomen in Tech: Advice to Younger SelvesAs it’s International Women’s Day, I wanted to do something a little different and hand the episode over to some of the amazing women I have had on the show and I will link to each of their original episodes in the notes below.Today, we have Shellye Archambeau, Rana el Kaliouby, Sherrell Dorsey, Soraya Darabi, Eileen Burbidge, Yodit Stanton, Donna Auguste, Megan Smith and Dr Catherine Breslin and what follows is the one piece of advice they’d offer their younger selves.First up is Dr Catherine Breslin - an AI and Machin...
2022-03-0829 min
Roger Swidorowicz Medicina y Salud 2025Zoë KravitzZoë Isabella Kravitz (1 de diciembre de 1988) Actriz, modelo y cantante. Nació en Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos. Es conocida por sus actuaciones en X-Men, Divergente e Insurgente. Se formó en el Purchase College y en 2007 hizo su debut en Sin Reservas junto a Catherine Zeta-Jones y Aaron Eckhart.Posteriormente actuó en X-Men: Primera Generación (2011), Divergente (2014) y Mad Max (2015). También ha prestado su voz para varios filmes como The Lego Batman Movie y Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse y ha sido la imagen de Venus Zine, Vera Wang y Elle. Actualmente hace parte del dúo R&B, Lolawolf con Jimmy Giannopoul...
2022-02-2503 min
VUX WorldVoice AI in noisy environments with SoundHound's Andrew RichardsVoice AI can provide immense value outside of the home. Problem is, outside is noisy! So how to you create voice AI solutions and speech recognition systems that work well in cars, in traffic, outside or with screaming kids in the background!?We're joined by SoundHound's Director of Business Development, Andrew Richards, to shed some light on how one of the top voice AI companies tackles this challenge.We dive into:What are the common challenges when implementing voice solutions in noisy environments?Any examples of areas where the environment proves trickier than others? Micro...
2021-08-2059 min
"Como se fala... ?""Como se fala 'bem passado' em Inglês?" | Teacher André BettiPalavras mencionadas no episódio 4:
Rare: malpassado
Medium-rare: no ponto para malpassado
Medium: ao ponto
Medium-well: no ponto para bem passado
Well-done: bem passado
reservation – reserva
order – fazer o pedido
starter (principalmente no Reino Unido)/ appetizer - entrada
side dish - acompanhamento
main course – prato
all-you-can-eat – rodizio/ self service
special – prato do dia/ especial do dia
bill – conta
service – atendimento/ 10%
gorjeta - tip
Expressões mencionadas n...
2021-06-1716 min
Practical AI25 years of speech technology innovationTo say that Jeff Adams is a trailblazer when it comes to speech technology is an understatement. Along with many other notable accomplishments, his team at Amazon developed the Echo, Dash, and Fire TV changing our perception of how we could interact with devices in our home. Jeff now leads Cobalt Speech and Language, and he was kind enough to join us for a discussion about human computer interaction, multimodal AI tasks, the history of language modeling, and AI for social good.Sponsors:O'Reilly Media – Learn by doing — Python, data, AI, machine learning, Kube...
2021-05-1142 min
Technologies Impacting SocietyThe Future of Voice With Dr. Catherine BreslinPODCAST 8Dr. Catherine Breslin, https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine...- a machine learning scientist, specialising in speech and language technology. Catherine has a distinguished academic background with a degree from Oxford and postgraduate qualifications from Cambridge. Her career has been about the application of speech and language research to real world problems. She's worked for Toshiba and then onto Amazon, where she played a major role in developing Alexa there onto other platforms and she now works for Cobalt Speech https://www.cobaltspeech.com/I caught up with Catherine, where we got...
2021-04-2423 min
Danielle Newnham PodcastDr Catherine Breslin on Building Alexa to Be More HumanIn today’s episode, I speak to AI and Machine Learning Scientist and founder of Kingfisher Labs - Dr Catherine Breslin. Catherine spent several years in academic research before she joined the Amazon Alexa team during its infancy back in 2014. Whilst there, Catherine managed the Cambridge-based AI Alexa team which were working on inventing foundational Machine Learning tech to build intelligent conversational interfaces for a myriad of devices, apps, languages and environments. The team also worked on technology that enabled the automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding behind Amazon’s Alexa.Catherine holds a First Class Honour...
2021-03-2951 min
Technologies Impacting SocietyThe Future Of Voice With Dr. Catherine BreslinDr. Catherine Breslin, https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-breslin-0592423a - a machine learning scientist, specialising in speech and language technology. Catherine has a distinguished academic background with a degree from Oxford and postgraduate qualifications from Cambridge. Her career has been about the application of speech and language research to real world problems. She's worked for Toshiba and then onto Amazon, where she played a major role in developing Alexa there onto other platforms and she now works for Cobalt Speech https://www.cobaltspeech.com/ I caught up with Catherine, where we got to discuss the future...
2020-12-1823 min
The Beef EdgeTB in cattle - what you need to knowJust over 3% of herds in Ireland will go down with TB in any given year and on this week’s episode of the Beef Edge Podcast, Catherine Egan is joined by Philip Breslin, Superintending Veterinary Inspector with the Department of Agriculture Food & the Marine to discuss all things related to bovine TB.
Philip outlines how the herd test works and why farmers have to do a herd test every year. Wildlife have been shown to play an important role in spreading TB to cattle in Ireland. The department are responsible for removing badgers from areas where there are severe TB ou...
2020-12-0922 min
VUX WorldWhat is text-to-speech and how does it work with Niclas BergströmEvery voice assistant needs three core components: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Text-to-Speech (TTS). We've already covered what Automatic Speech Recognition is and how it works with Catherine Breslin and in this episode, we're covering the latter, text-to-speech.To guide us through the ins and outs of TTS, we're joined by Niclas Bergström, a TTS veteran and co-founder of one of the largest TTS companies on the planet, Readspeaker.Text-to-speech is the technology that gives voice assistants a voice. It's the thing that produces the synthetic vocal sound tha...
2020-05-1853 min
VUX WorldWhat is automatic speech recognition and how does it work? With Catherine BreslinWhat is speech recognition and how does it work?Automatics speech recognition (also known as ASR) is a suite of technology that takes audio signals containing speech, analysis it and converts it into text so that it can be read and understood by humans and machines. It's the technology that makes voice assistants like Amazon Alexa able to understand what a user says.There's obviously a whole lot more to it that than, though. So, in today's episode, we're speaking to one of the most knowledgable and experienced speech recognition minds the world has to o...
2020-03-3052 minPractical AISpeech recognition to say it just rightCatherine Breslin of Cobalt joins Daniel and Chris to do a deep dive on speech recognition. She also discusses how the technology is integrated into virtual assistants (like Alexa) and is used in other non-assistant contexts (like transcription and captioning). Along the way, she teaches us how to assemble a lexicon, acoustic model, and language model to bring speech recognition to life.Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR ch...
2020-03-2349 min
Maths AppealMaths Appeal Ep 11 - 2D & 3D Shapes / Catherine BreslinBobby and Susan tackle 2D and 3D shapes, and Puzzle King Bobby sets a puzzle related to a Rubik's cube with a casual West Ham reference thrown in for good measure. Our guest is machine learning scientist Catherine Breslin who gets us excited (and slightly terrified) about voice recognition devices.
2019-02-2500 min