What a lovely start to a cold winter morning. I didn’t know @uoylibrary.bsky.social wields the power of the rainbow.

My first first-author paper is out now in Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience!🎉 A model to explain ASMR's neural mechanism & clinical potential via predictive coding of CT-touch, linking LC-vagus dynamics & the PPS network... 1/5 w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social

Very happy to share that I passed my viva with minors yesterday! Huge thanks to my examiners and to friends and colleagues who helped me get here 💙 #PhDone

Behold, the first preprint from my PhD! A novel theoretical model proposing that ASMR's neural mechanism and therapeutic potential involves predictive coding of CT-touch in peripersonal space. 🧠 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Today is the day I’ve dreaded and longed for… I submitted my #phd thesis! I look forward to shamelessly plugging it to everyone post viva 🤘

I have nearly finished my sixth and penultimate thesis chapter. I needed one more full writing day to complete it and today is the day York seems to be having a huge power cut! Sign to take a long weekend? #phd #york

> Finishes 3 thesis chapters > Feels sense of accomplishment it’s all coming together > Looks up at calendar > It’s nearly May #academicsky #phd

A great read and includes the first (to my knowledge) written citation of some of my PhD work! … Page 29 😎 #AI #xrisk #academicsky

From old York to New York! Can’t wait to talk (and listen) at the NYU Mind, Ethics and Policy Summit!

Another three IT opportunities @york.ac.uk This time in the exciting £7.6million Smart Data Donation Service (SDDS), which focuses on addressing the significant gap in understanding digital lives. (thread)

This is how it starts… the singularity. First it’s our coffee, next the world!

Gotta love when your preorder arrives early! Looking forward to the read @jeffsebo.bsky.social

I fear I may never finish my #PhD thesis if this cat will not cease and desist in her constant nuzzling into my hand and keyboard.

Successfully talking yourself into just putting words on the page for your thesis is a great feeling. Just need to keep the motivation going for the next 10 months! #academicsky #phd #ecr

Happy Holidays! 🎄

Today was my last day teaching before I return to my PhD studies, and I have to say that the undergraduates’ reaction to this news has me a tad emotional #academicsky

People say large language models are a watershed because, for the first time in human history, we've invented a technology we cannot control - but we haven't been able to control printers for 40 years.

Imposter syndrome has been bothering me a lot less lately. I owe this, at least in part, to a single quote from a very impressive member of York’s Psychology Faculty: “I’m just some guy.”

How I felt during the @uniofyork.bsky.social outages, being married to someone in IT.