'when AI generates summaries, students bypass the cognitive engagement required to actively interpret academic work. It is precisely this engagement – the effort to comprehend, synthesise and relate ideas – that catalyses learning.' 1/3

🚨 We've had 300+ signatures in under 24 hours — incredible. 🙌Let’s try to get to 600 by tomorrow. Every signature helps build pressure for parliamentary scrutiny and media coverage. Please sign + RT if you can + send to channels this oldie doesn't understand. Thank you so, so much💥

Is there any survey platforms besides Qualtrics that have the following qualities? ✅ Easy to use; doesn't require much programming skills ✅ Accommodate multiple users ✅ Cheaper than Qualtrics 😅 Please RT for reach. I am asking for alternatives that are more friendly to low/middle income countries.

Excuse me for focusing on mental health claimants for a moment but 23% of PIP recipients with psychotic disorders as primary condition would lose eligibility if the evil 4+ rule goes through. This is incredibly dangerous. Another important FOI, this time from Benefits & Work.

I wrote this 12 years ago about the absurdity of the government *deliberately* seeking to reduce UK exports and growth. After Brexit and Trump, it makes even less sense. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨🚨 This is beyond-wit non-sensical horseshit from this Lab official proposing some conspiracy-like idea on the meaning of a #customsunion. Another reminder why Labour has a very long way to travel on their thinking on #brexit which is getting increasingly disattached from their electorate.👇

One week to go until our Spring Concert! Tickets available on our website (linked in bio) 💐 🎶 ☀️

A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).

Psychology and education-minded people in the UK! We're hiring a Research Fellow to join my team at the NIoT. Looking for PhD grads with strong quant skills 📈, and an appetite for doing research with real impact for schools, teachers, and children 📚🧑🏽‍🏫. Deadline April 20. niot.org.uk/careers/rese...

One of the biggest problems with this AI bullshit when it comes to education is how it makes people think the final output is the only thing that matters when in reality the actual work you input of reading, thinking, synthesizing ideas & writing the paper/taking the test is how you actually learn.

Fancy getting a new efficient, heating system for free? We're looking for homeowners with electric heating and smart meters to join our research project (note we are looking for quite a select target group - so please pass on to anyone you think might fit the bill/benefit).

It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

LAST CALL FOR #REMEMBEREDMUMS Please could I have any late mothers in by 8 pm tonight (Saturday 29th), so I can finalise the list and get it printed out for first thing tomorrow, cheers. DMs open until 8 pm. x

Excellent critique of childhood development interventions: "The privileged of Global North & South can find solace in the idea they have little responsibility for inequality. If bad childcare & poor brain development are major contributing factors to poverty, then it's parents’ job to overcome it"

Let’s just remind ourselves of the alternative trade deals the UK is signing up to… 0.08% growth by 2038 from the CPTPP trade deal. Against a 4% long term loss from Brexit. We need to stop pretending this isn’t ruinous stupidity.

'Moomins' creator Tove Jansson illustrated both the Swedish and Finnish editions of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book 'The Hobbit' in the 1960s #womensart

The @jrct.bsky.social - a relatively radical York based grant making foundation - is looking for new trustees micro.green-park.co.uk/jrct-trustees/

Support a local choral society! Tickets available for our Spring Concert - www.eghamchoral.org/tickets/ Raising money for rare disease charity actionforat.org Action for A-T

🚨🚨Again, easy to forget in current turbulent times but #brexit is still a devastating shitshow with nearly pitless misery. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

www.gov.uk/government/c... The consultation on the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper is open until 30th June. Now is the time to have your say and stand up for those who need support the most! 👇 #DisabilityRights #BenefitsJustice #StandUpForJustice

We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media. Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.

*Please repost* Are you a parent of a child aged between 13-24 years? Are you concerned about young people’s social media usage? We are looking for young people aged 13-24 years to take part in a new project to help understand how we can support their mental health whilst online. Read more ⬇️

🚨🚨 Brave contender for speech of the year. Every word of it rings true to me. Claude Malhuret is a proper role model for European politicians in these chaotic and existential times for Europe. Take 8 minutes of your time and listen carefully. It is worth it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIK9...

Opportunity cost aside, what would such a study look like? If observational, what would it add to Denmark's study of *every child born in the entire country from 1999-2010*, which found slightly more autism in non-MMR recipients? If randomized, how long would kids be randomized to no vaccine(s)?

THREAD The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW) If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so. Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"? 1/30

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai

He did not bend his neck

Measuring cardiac interoceptive accuracy is hard in adults, let alone in infants! Such fun turning my brain to this alongside the wonderful Rosie Donaghy, Matteo Lisi and Jeanne Shinskey. Our musings on possible ways forward now accepted in psychophysiology: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Useful post by @vkempe.bsky.social about life in communist bloc "if autocracies take hold, those who grow up within them will not be able to recognise the system for what it is" "Scholars...are not able to fight for the...freedom to pursue what they do not know about" substack.com/home/post/p-...

The final results are in, and we have answers to all the immediate questions: 1) As FDP and the BSW narrowly failed to enter the Bundestag, CDU/CSU and SPD can form a two party coalition. Friedrich Merz will be the next Chancellor, but negotiations will still be complex.

THE BUNNY PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #linguistics 🐦

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

"The magnitudes of the effects are modest but suggest that efforts to improve phonological awareness, naming speed, and morphological awareness beyond Grade 3 are warranted." #reading #research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rehearsals are in full swing for our upcoming Spring Concert! 🎵🔷🎹🎼🎷🔵🎶🎻

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We’re hiring! We are looking for a postdoc in my lab, childvisionlab.co.uk to study how early vision loss & sight-rescuing treatments shape brain development. Join our Wellcome-funded project using advanced neuroimaging and behavioral methods! Deadline March 1st, start date flexible. t.ly/2Yoel

Oh, so now OpenAI is *against* training AI models on other people's work without paying for it ... www.ft.com/content/a0df...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

excited to say that our Substance Beats Style paper was accepted to NAACL! We investigate *why* student-written programming prompts don't work well for LLMs, and find that while students think it's because of technical vocabulary gaps, it's actually information content that matters

right! I've done it! I've written about the woman who shagged a hundred guys in a day for OnlyFans, and why it made me think about class war: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/dont-cross... (free to read!)

Der Arm zuckt jetzt bestimmt auch hierzulande bei dem ein oder anderen.

Do you have a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging & are looking for a post-doc? Do you want to join a friendly lab? Do you want to live in Norwich (UK) - gorgeous city close to the beach? You can surf, meet seals, do wonderful walks, eat gelato & enjoy gorgeous sunsets!

"Wer glaubte, dass man Hitler integrieren, kontrollieren, domestizieren, entzaubern könne, wurde bald schon eines Besseren belehrt. Auch der Versuch mancher Demokraten [...] Hitler mit seinen eigenen Waffen zu schlagen, indem man seine Themen aufgriff & seine Strategien kopierte, liefen ins Leere."

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

RIP David Lynch. I was lucky enough to talk to him and Isabella Rossellini in 1987, to tie in with the UK release of BLUE VELVET. They were both lovely, and fun to talk to. multiglom.com/2010/07/06/d...

Snow (settling but very light) TW20 #uksnow