I'm at Cymera this year along with these fantastic horror authors: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

Are you an #undergrad at a UK University? Do you like insects and being outside? Do you like getting paid? If so, this summer studentship could be for you iapetus.ac.uk/wp-content/u... feat #insects #fieldwork #trees #scotland for more details and to apply: iapetus.ac.uk/new-rep-sche...

Self-worth protection allows us to tell stories to cope with failure Lauren Burnett (Supervisors: P Miles & G Prescott) #sciencehaiku #sciku

Model predictions don't fit all participants: Perhaps folks get tired? Ana Belan (Supervisor: T Otto) #sciencehaiku #sciku

"the article sheds new and urgent light on a decades-long dispute regarding the relationship between Fisher’s eugenical commitments and his scientific contributions, at a moment in which his legacies are being actively debated once more"

if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)

Omg @dunsworth.bsky.social doing the lord’s work here 🙏

I really appreciated this video by Kihana Wilson (who is not on Bluesky, alas) about the mixed feelings of #Artemis II. Follow her on Instagram (www.instagram.com/the_astro_st...) if you're over there!

This is so, so well-articulated.

Humans play favourites but don't pick fights with outgroups (unless friends go first) Hirotaka Imada (Royal Holloway) #sciencehaiku #sciku @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social

When I was a teenager I took public transport to and from school and waited in the local library afterwards for my dad to finish work and collect me. I read, I did homework, I borrowed books and tapes, I was safe and warm. I work in libraries now and getting that job felt like coming home.

Nobody: Literally no one: DAG aficionados:

Capuchin monkeys navigate virtual worlds and decline hard tasks Andreea Miscov (Supervisors: E McEwan, A Seed, J Ales) #sciencehaiku #sciku

Anger and disgust often occur together... How is this perceived? #sciencehaiku #sciku Nóirín Ní Ghiollagáin (Supervisors: Yours Truly and D Donaldson)

Thoughtful piece: “Rather than focusing on a crisis of boys or girls, many specialists say the priority should be supporting young people overall, sometimes in a gender-neutral way” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Hadza collaborator of mine suddenly lost his wife earlier this week. They had two young children. I am seeking to raise a small amount of money to help Endeko cover funeral expenses and short-term childcare costs. Any small donations would be appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/support-en...

Check out this nice review of the Element (short book) @mjacquart.bsky.social and I coauthored. A PDF of the Element is freely available from @universitypress.cambridge.org, here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... #philsci #SciComm 🧪 jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Our Puffins are back as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Which is why I think all in the social and human sciences would benefit from learning the basics of agent-based modelling. Because when you are forced to build models of social phenomena from the ground up, you'll realise how little we actually know.

“if we consider the notion that explanation is not separate from discovery, but one of its highest forms, then we might rebuild a culture in which science is not merely produced but understood. That’s not a decorative add-on to the scientific enterprise. It’s one of the ways the enterprise survives”

Post 2/14 For every one of us receiving an award, there are countless others who had the talent but lacked the structural support to survive the 'leaky pipeline.' We view this prize not as an individual achievement, but as a debt owed to those who couldn't make it.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Video coding: it's a tricky business, folks! So let's improve that #sciencehaiku #sciku Nikolai Kokinov (Supervisors J Ainge & V A Smith)

Gardening in school Improves kids' concentration Teachers like it too #sciencehaiku #sciku Kaeli Gibson (Supervisor: B Dritschel)

You are *not* going to guess the explanation for this one.

it hurts

New paper - one for the headbangers! 🐳 🦑 🧪

Viral posts claim you can read at 900 words per minute by flashing the words in the same location. Here's an article I wrote about that, and what science tells us about how to increase reading speed […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

We're hiring a number of PhD students in psychology and neuroscience at St Andrews. Positions are for four years. UK applicants only, unfortunately. Deadline April 13. I'm eligible as a supervisor -- do reach out if you'd like to work with me. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Coercive control can have cognitive impacts (New, ongoing, work) #sciencehaiku #sciku Gretchen Jakub (Supervisors B Dritschel and D Donaldson)

Children do better On memry tasks with 'baiting' (Monkeys? No effect) #sciencehaiku #sciku Janie Fink (Supervisors A Seed and A Barron)

Our research carries some emotional demands Let's talk about that (extremely belated) #sciencehaiku #sciku from last Friday's seminar by @julier282.bsky.social

There's no universe where a Reform government deems my teaching "legitimate", so how should my employer "prepare" for that? Fire me in anticipation? Laboriously inspect my teaching resources for wrong thought? Make me teach certain things under threat of disciplinary sanction?

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

This is a truly excellent piece on why low birth rates are simply not a problem, and why pronatalism is clearly being promoted for political, not scientific and not practical, reasons

One historical contingency that has led to much confusion was Sherwood Washburn's decision to call the famous conference Man the Hunter. This was against the pleading of Richard Lee and others. The conference was progressive in many ways, but the title is stuck in the past.

We will take strike action next week unless the University rules out compulsory redundancies. The executives we have lost confidence in continue to forecast the need for another £20m of savings. All from staff losses. We’ve already lost over 600 colleagues. When will the job cuts end?

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

Your regular reminder that the absurdly simplistic claim of "race scientists" that there are genetically determined racial differences in intelligence is about as "controversial" as the claims that the earth is flat, that smoking doesn't cause lung cancer, or that vaccines cause autism

Just a few tickets left for tonight's show - grab yours quick!

A thoughtful response from @dermotcasey.bsky.social to an interview with @utafrith.bsky.social about the expansion of the diagnostic category of "autism"

Just two days to go! Come join us for research-based hilarity

Academic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

This #InternationalWomensDay I want to tell the story of Lilian Vaughan Morgan. I learned of Lilian this past year - what a badass. Lilian was a leading scientist when women weren't welcome in the lab, nor even the department. But she contributed immensely to the genetics of sex determination 1/n

Experimental participants to us

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

If you're in need of a guffaw, might I recommend...?

There's possible reverse causality, there's potential reverse causality, and then there's the fear that young people living with their parents will hurt their job prospects.