This is a sobering read, but absolutely underpins why I'm pursuing my PhD research!

Breaking the silence: Access, advocacy, and the path to equitable psychological care. Ronja Doerbecker has reflections as a trainee with lived experience of hearing loss. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Everybody is welcome ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙🩷💜 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

That was a magnificent performance by Canada! #rugby #NZRCAN

Searching for a JASP book amongst the shelves of SPSS textbooks... #statistics #phdlife #AndyField

Count down to our trip to Japan 🗾 has officially begun!! Flights are booked, train passes have arrived, hotels are reserved, and we're trying to narrow down our lists of where we want to visit... #japan #tourist #phdlife

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver

All sign this please @hopenothate.org.uk secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/178037/...

Mae'r tywydd yn stormus iawn heddiw!! Mae hi'n bwrw glaw a bwrw cesair!! Mae hi'n rhy wyntog - dw i'n oer!! #britishweather #dysguCymraeg

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Blimey. Weapons (movie) is a bit creepy isn't it!!

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I've been trying hard to be consistent at this - so pleased to see my stats have improved as a result! #UseAltText #AltText #accessibleforall Check out yours here: cred.blue/alt-text

It's Welcome Week (also Welcome Back week) at university - so lovely to meet fellow PGRs at all stages of their research journeys, but also so very tired now! Have also been to the library 📚

#AcademicSky To all those new students struggling to find your voice....

Does anyone know why there are lots of people dressed in chicken costumes cycling around Manchester on dominos pizza bicycles? Or did I hallucinate them? 🐔 🚲

So sleepy....

I'm looking forward to the Creative Research Methods conference tomorrow & Tuesday in Manchester (the last conference I'm attending this month I think...) Anyone else going? #creativeresearchmethods

The only member of the British royal family that I have met, sad to hear of the passing of the Duchess of Kent www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Okay, I concede that agreeing / arranging to attend two conferences in two different cities on two consecutive days was maybe a bit ambitious 🫣

Don’t live near-by, you can donate here: tinyurl.com/PrestonLD-Donate Disgusted, angry or worried about Reform? Then get active or support a local party fighting them.

Tomorrow!!!

Anyone else going to the Auditory Science Meeting at Nottingham Trent tomorrow? Please come say hi, my poster is P35 #academicsky #auditoryscience #phdlife #conference #psychscisky #musicscience

Would like to say I'm excited to be travelling today ready for tomorrow's conference, but so far my bus has been late and my train was cancelled so I'm having to make new plans as I go... How is our train network still so, so bad in 2025??? #britishrail #alwayslate

Ethics application has been submitted!! 🎉 #phdlife

Finished building my survey for my first empirical study *happy dance* So grateful to friends and colleagues who have volunteered some time for piloting / de-bugging #phdlife #musicscience #academicscience #psyscisky

Probably a good time to post this from the @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social . We are glad to have this option for the extreme cases where we might need to warn people to evacuate such as flash flooding

Aarrghh!! Trying to get a poster printed and delivered to my office in time for next week's conference - so stressful!!!

I really hate spider season

What garbage is this??? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-... #wru #rugby #welshrugby #baddecisions

Help please #phdlife #psychscisky #academicsky #musicscience Can anyone recommend good resources for understanding statistical analysis methods, particularly modelling, mediation & moderation? For context I'm currently building a survey w/ many variables & multiple regressions prob aren't enough...

#academicsky #musicscience #psyscisky #acoustics #Salford #auraldiversity

Aural Diversity Conference - University of Salford and online – 5 September 2025. A free event for people working in aural diversity from any disciplinary background. Learn more, including how to sign up here laura.salford.ac.uk/news/aural-d...

In the garden...

Am at the cinema about to watch #FantasticFour - it's a bit loud, glad I've brought my #LoopsExperience with me, it's important to #ProtectYourHearing

Today marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima—the first use of such a weapon in history. As the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, Japan has a vital role in building a world without nuclear weapons. Let us pause to remember the victims and pray for lasting peace.

Wanna have a picnic surrounded by peacocks (and peahens) with me? #phdlife #weekoff #peacocks #screaming

Emily Jerram (an Autistic trainee clinical psychologist) still needs autistic men participants for an interview-based study on autism and empathy (self-ID is okay). Options incl spoken (online or near London), written, AAC, or w/ support. Please email [email protected] w/ q's or to express interest

End of year exam passed - proceeding on to year two of PhD candidature and looking forward to starting my first empirical study (and disseminating the findings of my scoping review) #phdlife

Wanna catch the train with me? Off to take my end of year exam / mini-viva... #phdlife #psychscisky #academicsky

This picture shows how I react when you forget to add #AltText to your images. No picture attached? That’s the point. When there’s no alt text, sight impaired people get exactly what you’re seeing now: Nothing. #AccessibilityMatters #DontBeADickAltTextYourPic

Me: "As a matter of fact, yes I do collect fountain pens. Why do you ask?" You: "..."

Every 3 months I go to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription that's in automatic renewal. Every time, I'm told it's not available, that it's locked, that they don't know if they can dispense it, and only when I show them my NHS app and texts will they dispense it... /1

Proof of cat

Funding opportunity for SIPS members! The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and Peer Community In Registered Reports invite researchers to submit research projects for consideration for research funding from SIPS and a recommendation decision from PCI-RR. buff.ly/AigqCod

I've been gardening. Seen baby frogs (froglets?), a centipede, some millipedes, an earwig, lots of bees, butterflies and worms. Bliss. Now I'm having a cold beer and a sit down and nursing the blister on my finger. Hoping it might rain later... How's your weekend going?

You know what emergent tech of the last decade actually works well, and was adopted by millions? 3D printing. It’s great! So many applications. But also nobody is sneering at you for not having or utilizing 3D printing. Nobody is trying to sneak a 3D printer into your garage without your consent

This is a really lovely thread about how to get better at writing alt text for images - do recommend a read.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

From yesterday's walk along the canal