Quite remarkable the difference in reporting between the BBC and the Guardian websites on the protests in London today. Is the Guardian overplaying it or the BBC underplaying it? I suspect the latter.

The best piece I’ve read this year on Trump’s increasingly blatant lurch towards total power. To quote Sinclair Lewis, if you think “it can’t happen here” you are just not paying attention. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thinking about media and politics this morning, film specifically, I want to encourage you to read this excellent piece on the limits of empathy using the example of Killers of the Flower Moon. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/o...

Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Not only did federal goons show up to try and intimidate our governor, they did so on hallowed ground. Gov. Newsom was speaking at the Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum, which I helped found so we do not repeat the horrors and injustices of the past. Shameful.

My excellent colleague, Dr Sophie Hodgetts is running a public webinar about teaching about sex and gender in psychology. 'Sharing reflections and practical strategies for delivering education that is accurate, evidence-based, and just.' It's free to join and you can register below:

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Just launched! Professional short online courses in behavioural science at Durham University. 👉Behavioural Science at Work: Applying Behavioural Insights to Boost Business Performance bit.ly/3U5szh3 👉Identity & Inclusion: Behavioural Insights for Leaders bit.ly/4flkMFK

Yes, the UK university system is indeed broken … www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ah yes, another example of people, who should know and report better, committing the base rate fallacy. Exactly what I thought might be the case when I heard the same statistic reported on the Today programme this morning. I’m glad someone looked up the relevant data.

New paper out ! 😎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Looking for a new Editor-in-Chief for one of the oldest psychology journals in the UK. Established over 75 years ago, QJEP is looking for someone with vision and verve to steer it through the next years. Open call!

This 👇 is an excellent analysis and read: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Do yourself a favor and watch every single Tom Lehrer video on YouTube. youtu.be/HHhZF66C1Dc?...

The AI hype makes doing science so much more difficult. Fighting its nonsense takes time away from doing science and its uncritical adoption hollows out our scientific processes and deskills scientists on a massive scale.

The Joint EPS X CSBBCS Meeting is now done! Presenting my work was a rewarding experience and I recommend these societies' meetings to all ECRs. I also got some inspiration for future studies from the amazing cogn psych research presented. Thanks to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for having me! ✨

This is really worth a read.

Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

A new article from my lab: doi.org/10.1167/jov....

Me too, also for @jephpp.bsky.social

This is very, very good news. ♥️🇺🇸

Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

We’re now seeing paramilitary ICE raids in LA — with full on military garb, military tanks, flash bang grenades & the arrest of a major labor leader. This is a core manifestation of fascism — using federal forces to put down dissent. If we don’t stop this now, this is the future everywhere.

Patricia Smith Churchland, an APA Pacific Division past president, is co-editor-in-chief of the new Journal of NeuroPhilosophy (JNphi), which is currently accepting submissions for upcoming issues. Learn more at www.jneurophilosophy.com

“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

The cuts at Newcastle are brutal and risk the future of an immensely important institution (in the #UKHE landscape; in local development; in the national economy). Do co-sign this petition to make visible its significance well beyond managerial spreadsheets. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

‘We will not go quietly’: The Māori Harvard student fighting for his future

A long read on Labour's depressing new immigration rhetoric and counterproductive policy open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

All redundancy is awful, the fear, the sense of failure, the challenge of finding other work. It's such a common disaster in the UK most families know it. But looking at my academic friends facing it now, it's particularly bad. They have twisted their whole lives around the pursuit of these roles >

Humans are sensitive to many different types of social interactions, but it has been difficult to isolate these differences in the human brain In this new preprint @yuanfangzhao.bsky.social w/ @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social applied data-driven methods to two fMRI video datasets to address this 1/n

Excellent letter. Well said @tanjabueltmann.net . I deeply share your outrage and sense of betrayal.

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏 www.nature.com/naturecareer... More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc... #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Oh ffs: no, the graduate visa scheme did not lead to an elevenfold increase in overseas students in the UK from 2020 to 2023. Reclassifying EU students as overseas students as of August 2021 did that. on.ft.com/4crwsVV

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

The time has come. EVERYONE who follows me, please repost, share and spread this fundraiser to provide legal defense for whistleblowers in America, including my friend Miles Taylor, who Trump has ordered to be investigated for treason, for the “crime” of criticizing him. Please donate if you can. 🧵

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Not good, for knowledge production, for universities, innovation, for economic growth, social and health policy, or for our country's wider culture. And of course a worrying time for every individual researcher personally.

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Durham Uni study finds chimpanzees more empathetic than assumed www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK Universities better be geared up for a similar fight in 2029. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At @journalautism.bsky.social we are recruiting! Thanks to a massive increase in submissions over recent years, we are dramatically expanding our team to appoint FIVE new editors! See details of the role and how to apply here, by May 23rd. journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

Newcastle people! Come along to @waterstones.bsky.social on May 28 for an evening of minds and presences - I'm delighted to be joined by Vincent Deary of @northumbriapsy.bsky.social

On this day 2y ago we announced our move away from the huge profits that NeuroImage makes for Elsevier. Things at Imaging Neuroscience have progressed fantastically thanks to the support for this move by the brain imaging community and @mitpress.bsky.social. 565 papers published already!

Also noting that I'm super impressed with Harvard's website devoted to this issue -- clear, concise, and impactful. Excellent scientific communication www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

I have complained about both of my alma maters frequently so I want to share praise where praise is due. I'm proud of Harvard for finding their backbone. It's a big deal because everyone else looks to them. And godspeed to them in fighting this shakedown bullshit from the Trump administration.