Roland Moore

@rolandmooretv.bsky.social

Writer - Emmy winning Fallen (2025), Humans (2021), 2:hrs, Land Girls, Rastamouse, Big Finish / BAFTA voting / WGGB. NOT VERIFYING SO NO DMs PLEASE

Thanks Paul and to you all for being there with all the best genre news. Thanks too for your reviews - love to hear what you think of our work as writers. Take care all ♥️

Paul Simpson (SFB)@scifibulletin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen to @scifibulletin.bsky.social (the site - not me, quite yet!) @alasdairstuart.com @smartartz.bsky.social @nickjjoy.bsky.social @bigfinish.bsky.social @dannyrobins.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2026/08/03/f...

It's arriving! My first foray into the Star Cops universe. It's been a joy to dive into this hidden gem of a TV show, and to get to write for such interesting characters in the audio continuation

Big Finish Insider@bigfinish.bsky.social · 3d ago

👮‍♂️🛡️⭐️ STAR COPS RETURNS in September with Adrift, the next part in the Conflict mini-series. Click https://bgfn.sh/sc5c4 to read more and to pre-order as a single or series bundle purchase.

Rafe Wallbank's cover artwork for Star Cops: Conflict - Part Four: Adrift, featuring Inspector Paul Bailey and Commander Nathan Spring.

A federal judge has approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about US$3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

Judge approves a US$1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay authors about US$3,000 per book.

ctvnews.ca

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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*receiving some notes* we know the brown fox is fast so we can lose "quick" and is "brown" overdescriptive? is it necessary for the dog to be lazy, it's more interesting to the reader if he's active? also it's not clear *why* the fox jumped over him