Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

oh noooo

Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 5 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. The media, their framing, IS the problem

Unfortunately the team of PhD level experts in question consists of Ariely, Boldt, Croce, Fujii, Gino, Hauser, Lesné, Schön, Smeesters, Stapel, Tessier-Lavigne, and Wansink.

🇬🇧 LONDON: WORLD THEATRICAL PREMIERE 🇬🇧 🎥 AUG 7: ActOne Cinema SOLD OUT! 🎥 AUG 6: Picturehouse Central (Piccadilly Circus) LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE The film that spawned the #1 bestselling book. George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison will be on-hand for Q&A's & book signings @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Radical!

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

I love when airlines are like ooooooh we didn’t realize you’d ALL be bringing a bag

one cool thing about Scandinavian countries with comprehensive public health insurance is places like Denmark can do a study on… everybody and conclude that yes COVID vaccines are safe

Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵

One of the many things that upset me about the "powder keg" metaphor that's being amplified by English news outlets is that exactly the same metaphor was used to retroactively 'explain' the wars in the Balkans in 1990s as reflection of 'simmering animosities'. Fabricated then, fabricated now.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This page has something for everyone! Or at least everyone who is interested in film, gender, or beautiful graphs. Gender dominance in screenplays, revisited with tons of data. pudding.cool/2017/03/film...

How do you miss an unborn child, Poppy Noor asks herself in this brilliant and touching piece. To paraphrase Kate Inglis, author of 'Notes for the Everlost', you miss them with every last inch of gut, bone and marrow. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

When you love someone with a mental illness or history of trauma… Daughter/mother, clinical psychologist/advocate-educator team Dr Michelle Sherman and DeAnne M Sherman, with a new resource @hopkinspress.bsky.social Repost for your chance to win a copy! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

<TMS best practices> Hi folks, Could you please point me to the most up-to-date consensus paper you're aware of relating to TMS safety? Number of pulses / intensities / frequencies / other parameters etc. I want to take as wide a look at the literature as possible. Please repost for visibility!

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

"Data and code available upon request" is the academic equivalent of "Please ask staff about allergens".

My little brother is a young man who is pretty good looking, has stable teaching job, hobbies of football, photography, and chess. He has not found it difficult to get a partner. Have the people talking about a crisis for young men just tried being handsome and charming with good career prospects??

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

"It was the average of times"

Maria A Oquendo, the new Chair of DSM-6 (yes it's coming) has received unrestricted educational grants and/or lecture fees form AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Otsuka, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, and Shire. She receives royalties from the commercial use of....

I've realised that my opinions about psychoanalysis are like my opinions about communism: I'm prepared to defend the core ideas till the day I die, but the experience of both has left me bruised.

How do parents make meaning after pregnancy and baby loss? Our survey is now open. We'd love to hear from you. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/lboro/surv... Pls share widely. Thank you Sands, Held In Our Hearts, @arcantenatal.bsky.social @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social for supporting this research.

"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Launching London Tech Week, the CEO of Nvidia has just remarked on the UK’s ‘fantastic universities and research communities’. That’s great — but around 90 of the UK’s 166 universities are currently making job cuts. Half are closing courses.

"In contemporary therapy research the dominance of clinical trials has all but dissolved theoretical debates, instead focusing almost solely on which therapeutic interventions can best alleviate the symptoms of mental disorder"

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Wow. This is so dangerous. I know the thing is just a plausible phrase generator, but the fact it seems to have been programmed to flatter turns it in effect into a lying seduction machine. Horrified that so many people are rotting their own brains with this this uncanny valley parasocial interface

From today, our film The Invisible Doctrine is on general release. Well, with the exception of Amazon, which has banned it. theinvisibledoctrine.com

I agree these products must be exceptionally safe. But another way to report this headline is "one brand of tampon found to have as much glyphosate as 3 tablespoons of safe drinking water". Let's not create fear over nothing.

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

I’ve checked this and they just compared the height of a gorilla to the diameter of the asteroid. But it’s the volume of a gorilla and the volume of the asteroid that matter. A 23m asteroid could fit something like 20,000 gorillas if it were spherical. So let’s say 10,000, since it’s not.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Been conferencing in my former academic area after some time. It was difficult then, but even harder to understand now, how cognitive scientists can be so completely oblivious to how much an average audience member can take in.

Remember the good times when the main threat to the scientific endeavor was conditioning on a collider

This is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

I don't really want this Croatian train-replacement bus to be playing *any* music at 1AM, but there is a certain brilliance to choosing specifically a techno version of The Sound of Silence

One of my ongoing culture shocks is how much the Western trans debate is fixated on… toilets. Folks, this is REALLY WEIRD. Do you do something different in the toilet that we don’t know about that would make this the main sticking point? Every day in the news, it’s toilet, toilet, toilet.

This piece is excellent, can't believe I missed it

Poster prep is going well.

How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects like food poisoning 🤢🤮 that arise much later? Our answer in @nature.com this week: Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavor representations in the amygdala. 📄: nature.com/articles/s41...