In which 94 benchmark phenomena are identified. 16 are domain- and species-general and should be explained by any theory claiming generality. 30 are species- and/or domain-specific but highly robust across procedures

New Paper out! GIBSONA is a battery of Animal AI tasks evaluating object and affordances understanding - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tolerable venue for a conference. In San Sebastian for the International Congress of the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology

Sunday night films are going to be Robert Redford for the foreseeable future. Last week: All the Presidents men. Tonight: Three days of the condor.

Mediated conditioning rediscovered. www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs...

Made a cauliflower, spinach and halloumi biryani that was so delicious that it inhibited all efforts at photography and just elicited eating. You'll just have to take my word for it.

Another view over Crummock Water from yesterday's walk

Been told by a student that I give off "big Dad energy". I don't know how to take this.

Haystacks at dawn

Still getting reference requests. Today's strategy is a block of 15 email replies all saying the same thing...

I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...

Go home weather, you're drunk

Are you having an actual laugh? Four effing pounds and 9 effing pence?

Spotting spam emails is not easy: e-mail.wtf

The inter-reminder-interval is now only 24 hours. I think this is because I sent the reference on Friday and actually had email correspondence with a real human yesterday.

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Have purchased an endoscope inspection camera to locate something under the floorboards. At only £16 I think it's fair to say I have found the present everyone is getting from me for Christmas. Who wouldn't be happy with an endoscope?!?!

Have purchased an endoscope inspection camera to locate something under the floorboards. At only £16 I think it's fair to say I have found the present everyone is getting from me for Christmas. Who wouldn't be happy with an endoscope?!?!

Exciting gift of tea from my Chinese MSc student. So at the age of 51, I have purchased my first tea strainer. #AllThisTimeOnTeaBags

Laughter conditioning is, I'm sure, a thing. Like Harry Enfield, Bob Mortimer, and Joanna Lumley, I have laughed so much at Alan Partridge that now, merely seeing him makes me laugh. Can't wait for this new series in which Alan tackles mental health... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Currently experiencing an 8-hour inter-reminder-interval for a (job) reference request. Yes, I will get to it, but I'm doing it as a favour, so for Pete's sake be patient! Pissing me off ahead of trying to write an objective assessment of something or someone is not a great idea.

I'm really looking forward to giving the opening talk for #BACN25! "Memory², Methods, and Mentorship: Four facets of my research journey thus far" Not too long left to wait!

The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year. Drop me a line if you want to know more Deadline September 14th www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....

We have three Swiss cheese plants, and want to name them after famous Swiss associated people (or maybe things?). One is a baby. Roger (after Federer) has been taken. Other suggestions for good names are welcomed ...

I need a #mathematician to help with a project. Ideally UK-based. I've emailed a few folks in my uni, but none replied... Anyone interested? My need is nonlinear modelling of brain and muscle signals, optimisation, decomposition. Anyone?

Local bus stop. "It's just patriotism", "be proud to raise our flag". Bollocks. It's racist graffiti, pure and simple; stoked by millionaires, grifters and hypocrites.

Waiting for the emergency alert test to be over and done with so I can have a sunday afternoon nap. www.gov.uk/alerts

Having a pre-term tidy of the office. Loving seeing the old @qjep.bsky.social with the new...

Too soon?

The next EPS scientific meeting will be held at University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026. The portals for this meeting will open on Monday (8th September) at 10am (UK time)! eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

#ESCOP2025 we're ready for you ! Conferences giving you ideas for new experiments? Come tell us about it and see if we can make a demo in PsychoPy at our booth!

Only a few days left to apply for this 3-year postdoc position in Nottingham (deadline Sept 5th!). If you're considering applying please get in touch. If you're already a PI, then repost this!

Watching Children of Men for the first time in quite a while. It's like watching Nigel Farage's vision of Britain.

Learned Predictiveness in Children. After 3 years of testing children at @notts-psych.bsky.social annual public engagement event "Summer Scientist week", we have finally collated all the data from 161 children between the ages of 4 and 14 who completed a "magical potions task"

Learned Predictiveness in Children. After 3 years of testing children at @notts-psych.bsky.social annual public engagement event "Summer Scientist week", we have finally collated all the data from 161 children between the ages of 4 and 14 who completed a "magical potions task"

Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!

Queue for EU vs non EU passports. Once again, thanks leavers.

Some iconic pieces of history in the war museum in Vienna. The car and uniform (with bullet hole and blood stains still showing) that the Archduke Fanz-Ferdinand was shot in, and the revolvers and grenades used by his assassins...

Buildings of Vienna. Brutal vs Gothic.

Breakfast in Vienna.

Off to Austria for a city break. One direction is Austria airlines the other is Ryanair. Both flights about the same price. Austria air - cabin bags free. Ryan air - Oh, would you like to take your legs on board, that will be £30 extra. Breathable air you say? £25.

Phew, I am only at the "Early exposure" phase - Full recovery is possible with immediate intervention.

B&M bargains. August, UK. The holidays are coming... The holidays are coming...

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Absolutely delighted that the youngest Haselgroveling has passed all her GCSEs! With Autism and ADHD diagnoses it has been really hard for her, but with hard work and support she is now looking forward to heading off to college to A levels in Psychology, Sociology and English. Well done Libby!

Evening discussion with chums while on holiday... You set yourself the task of learning the same word in every language on the planet. What word do you choose? What word exists in every language? Initial suggestions went straight to basic unconditioned stimuli, e.g. "sex", "food". Any others?

OOO ... Check! Weather forecast ... Good! Camping kit ... Sorted! Langdale here we come...

Tried to get MS Co-pilot to do some simulations of the Pearce-Hall model. They were spectacularly wrong time and time again. After persevering I thanked co-pilot and said it should walk away from the problem for now, saying it looks like it was too hard for it. It was surprisingly understanding.

A powerful clip from today's episode 👇 Listen to #NottsPsychPod wherever you listen to your podcasts: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...