Really proud to involved in this work ijpds.org/article/view...

Finally out! TLDR: People don't feel shit cause they believe wild conspiracy theories, they believe CTs cause they feel shit. CT beliefs are often confabulations explaining their existential predicament. I drew on LOTS empirical stuff to try & make this defeasible: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I especially think the Life in the UK test is a dumb way to test how immigrants have acclimatised and integrated. It's a bunch of parrot-learning on facts most British people don't know. Here's a taster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZcJ...

Follow-on funding can be found for successful projects. We also need capacity building to support a new generation of researchers. #AMHDMshowcase www.ukri.org/blog/evolvin...

A model like NIHR's PGfAR scheme would have been great, but adapted so that follow-on funding had to be led by young people and bring in one or more disciplines missing from the main grant (social policy, implementation science, health economics etc)

Young co-researchers from the Agency projects doing us proud

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

Safe, Happiness, Ratcatcher, Reservoir Dogs, Naked

Busy afternoon at our #projectEPIC meeting yesterday with great talks by Chiara Punzi, Lara Calabrese and Elisabetta Lalumera on how to test #epistemicinjustice #philsky #philpsy

Here's a counterpoint to this grim revival of climate eugenics at Essex (lots of other great research against populationism is available): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is a peer reviewed book chapter from the Agency projects, funded under #AMHDM. As a team, we thought a lot about what we meant by 'expertise'. Three of us wrote this to articulate some of the key principles. publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/45...

As part of #AMHDMshowcase today we heard from young person advisory group members in a panel discussion on involvement of young people in research – impacts and lessons learned. This session was chaired by McPin’s research director @vanessapinfold.bsky.social @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social

In the qualitative study, young people said how important relational stability was for them. However, caregivers often lack agency, and YP with high mental health needs are likely not to have their needs met. #AMHDMshowcase

I defy anyone to read this and think that #Covid is no longer a problem. We are living through a major public health crisis. #COVIDIsNotOver #SARSCoV2 #LongCOVID

New CPD podcast from the 'Agency' team open.spotify.com/episode/5ObN...

Almost 260 people booked in now! Numbers capped at 300 so book soon if you haven't already

Embarrassing to see adults talk to robots in a public forum. That'd be like if your friend asked a mailbox for directions once. You'd roast him for decades for that shit. Every time the concept of navigating space came up you'd hit him with "Why don't you ask the mailbox?"

Join the waitlist for Affective Atmospheres — 18–19 Feb at Civic House, Glasgow. A free, in-person conference Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk 🔗 placememory.net/affective-at...

This is the report I spoke of on #bbcaq just now - ministers tried to suppress it, were finally forced to release it after an FoI, but shamefully only published a redacted version. The first duty of Govt is to protect its citizens - that starts with being honest with us about scale of threat we face

Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important. A thread 🧵

Ain’t Got No - I Got Life from ‘68 #ninasimone #MusicSky #VinylSky

What does EU digital legislation, including the famous Digital Services Act (DSA), actually do? 3/9

Which does beg the question why he is leading a government which routinely engages in using far right tropes and imagery, hostile and dehumanising rhetoric against marginalised groups, pushing discriminatory policies and claiming it "understands" out and out racists and bigots.

www.bmj.com/content/392/... Autistic girls & women: By age 20, they were diagnosing pretty much equal numbers of men & women. Huge study, whole population of Sweden born 1985-2020. Not 1 in 10. Not 1 in 4. Not 1 in 3. Equal numbers, just about. 100 years of research, most based on the wrong info.

Trying to imagine what would happen if engineering modellers took the approach of ignoring low probability, high impact events... I think at least the insurance industry is catching up.

Hoover - Side Car Freddie [USA, Post-Hardcore] (1992) https://redd.it/i4ycpv https://youtu.be/upxAlvBQ05k

A point of clarification: U of Sussex was not, in fact, fined for attempting to protect the rights of trans people; it was instead fined for having a policy on the books that was not enforced, and instead contravened, as evidenced by the university repeatedly siding with Stock over her actions

FULL page review in the new Wire for Shane Parish's latest Autechre Guitar. Derek Walmsley says "uncanny" "brilliant" and other adjectives of that nature. Also out TODAY the latest single: "Slip" !! Stream it on bandcamp or whereever you do that stuff. shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

Published an exciting new paper with Dr Sam Jordan showing that autobiographical memory flexibility moderated the risk of depression following negative life events. Read it here: doi.org/10.1037/mac000… @astonpress.bsky.social @astonpsychology.bsky.social @astonuniversity.bsky.social

"The fixation on proving LLMs are conducting something "akin to thought" could just as easily be framed as questions about why it is capable of resembling thought" Post from @eryk.bsky.social on a paper I hadn't the stomach to deconstruct. <3 mail.cyberneticforests.com/th/?ref=cybe...

If you support autistic adults: are you asking about burnout or assuming it's depression? This matters because treatment is completely different. Sensory rest helps burnout. Behavioural activation helps depression. Get it wrong = worse outcomes. #MentalHealth #Autism #Burnout 🧵 THREAD

"Schools are bombarded by interventions that mention science, but where's the evidence base?" - Jess Deighton This is the practical episode — how to make evidence-based prevention actually work in schools. 🎧 Listen everywhere now 🔗 buff.ly/jHS2uCk #MentalHealth #Prevention #Schools

What an interesting PhD, I look forward to reading…

New CfP in Qualitative Research in Psychology: 🔮 "The Future of Rigorous Qualitative Research" We're inviting papers that address the big question: What does the *future* of good, quality, rigorous qual research look like? 📄 Deadline Sept 2026 💬 Happy to answer Qs docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Really an astonishing physical feat - both from the boy, swimming for 4 hours to get help, and for his mother, treading water with the two other children.

Boy it's a good thing the UK government isn't up to its eyes in deals with the company founded by one of these guys

A heartfelt thanks to the @thebsp.org.uk for their support toward our 3rd Summer School in Umbria! ❤️ Deadline for the cfp: February 15!

'Barely one tenth of the population are aware that England will introduce a new system of “lifelong” student funding in a year’s time, according to new polling.' Education, education, education. Not.

Very enjoyable video (more than one kind of tension invoked) youtu.be/ueCO4spGNPs?...

This is the first time I’ve read details about a bomb that was set off in residential London street, destroying cars and sending shrapnel into kids’ bedrooms. Young people are considered vulnerable online, but the actual radicalisation of old generations is given a free pass by the press.

People will quote a lot of Catherine O'Hara in the next few days and with good reason because she has a lot of quotable lines but I think the main thing she did was permanently change how people say "David"

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Lucinda Williams last night. Preamble to Lake Charles, which was the highlight.

The system has tested to destruction the idea that running universities as private schools fully funded by students works. It doesn't. Which makes sense. The reason universities exist isn't entirely or even primarily to make graduates richer.

Great stuff. Did you see this paper a while back? I loved Laura's plea: "We need a bold new vision with strident defence of interpretive qualitative analyses, which does not aim to be subdued by the rigid demands of quantitative empiricism or conservativism". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lovely to have Jo Billington with us today for both PHaR and department seminar