A-level psych: Mrs B declares that those of us who are dating someone should bring that person to class next week to discuss our relationship (we're 16-17). Neither boyfriend nor I are up for that, thank you. Mrs B drags me in class for 'not being brave enough to look at' my relationship.

Arousal's *two* things: It splits into 'energy' and 'agitation' Lydia Ren (Supervisors: D Donaldson & J Ales) #sciencehaiku #sciku @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social

Dancing's good for you: Scottish country and ballet both make folk happy Chetan Choksi (Supervisors: G Doherty & P Miles) #sciencehaiku #sciku @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social

Today we have published an in-depth summary of the EHRC’s Code of Practice. See our full statement and summary below.

please do share widely | University of St Andrews Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) PGR Scholarship www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/schola...

Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16

Also want to be clear: the specific context here is, e.g. banning trans men from the women's changing room after you've also banned them from the men's changing room. Complete exclusion, based on no principle other than awkwardly backfilling from "biological sex" then realising that doesn't work.

By the way, I'm always suspicious of screenshot posts that cut off halfway through a paragraph, so I do encourage everybody to read the whole thing to see this isn't out of context. Beyond being a grim attack on trans people, what also comes across most strongly is that it's just an unworkable mess.

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

The UK Minister for Equalities has laid the EHRC’s Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations before UK Parliament. You can find it here: www.gov.uk/government/p... We will be taking time to read it thoroughly before we share our thoughts. More details in the thread below:

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Showing up to work on time is *hard* -- no, scratch that, showing up to work *at all* is difficult.

Don’t ask forgiveness, radiate intent https://medium.com/@ElizAyer/dont-ask-forgiveness-radiate-intent-d36fd22393a3 I think about this @elizayer post all the time. I don't know of a single piece of advice that has helped me more to appreciate complex organisations yet retain the ability to act

Microaggressions are more readily perceived by women than men Yihua Chen (Supervisors: G Brown and N Tausch) #sciencehaiku #sciku @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social

Research and teaching are not valued equally: Let's ask folks why not Jenny Taylorson (Supervisor: P Miles) #sciencehaiku #sciku @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social

It is very much worth donating to this campaign in solidarity with young Black people and with a charity that is attempting to redress the balance of inequality in this country

New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

When too excited, Neurons can wear out and die. Astrocytes can help! Alyssa Corbett #sciencehaiku #sciku

Incredibly proud of this new book and honoured that Robert would take me on as a co-author!

Legislating that literally every view, regardless of academic rigour, should be platformed by universities helps only those who want to spread disinformation and have a vested interest in damaging trust in expertise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

"When I’ve been most lost, I’ve felt myself realigned by encounters with novels. It’s been so profound for me what books have done to me in my life, this electric sense of reconnection that I’ve encountered when I’ve been at my most disconnected."

Curiosity's six constructs in one trenchcoat Let's embrace that fact Dr Lily Fitzgibbon (University of Stirling) #sciencehaiku #sciku

Awesome plenary from @nakedprimate.bsky.social at #ehbea2026, about gestures and storytelling, which started with a dawn drive in Chad and ended with a Douglas Adams quote perfectly encapsulating the process of science

Why study movement? To understand behaviour's flexibility Qi Li (Supervisors: G Miles & D McLean) #sciencehaiku #sciku

'Moving Beyond Words' helps caregivers understand folks with dementia Caileigh Beckley (Supervisor: M Ellis) #sciencehaiku #sciku

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)