Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.

#GenAI excels at processing text. But can it be relied on for #qualitative #research? Here's an #edDev #SOTL study analyzing #survey results exploring trust in the classroom which suggests being cautious about #AI use in research. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TL...

"I see evidence midwives don’t have the training, understanding, to manage women who are very sick because of the change in the characteristics of women giving birth. What worries me is curricula are not moving with the times to recognise that change" - Prof Marian Knight of @Mbrrace

Someone's done TWEEZ right?

Exulansis -the moment you simply give up trying to explain the in‑between. 📖 This article gives voice to the silent struggle of families living with #LongCovid, where recognition, care and empathy often fail them. www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/exulans...

Seen that video of a hundred-year-old veteran weeping over his lost country and being comforted by the 'D-Day Darlings' in a poppy-bedecked morning TV studio? Assailed by a profound sense of unease? Of distaste? Of dread, even? Allow me to make it worse: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...

Big Brave stirring up the heavy slowcore

Was wrong, but also right. Funny game #utb

🌅 Had a great morning filming the @acamh.bsky.social podcast on our paper examining the phenotypic & aetiological overlap between subclinical hypomania with psychiatric & neurodevelopmental diagnoses. Podcast will be out in the New Year @qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social

Very excited to take up this role at @sussex.ac.uk & look forward to working with colleagues & students to help amplify the hugely important work the University is doing on climate, nature and environmental sustainability eg the very first undergraduate degree in climate justice starting in 2026 💚

A wise person once told me "if it doesn't apply to you, don't take it personally". As a gen x who is definitely grumpy online but on the left, I definitely see so many people in my generation who've been brain poisoned by both the internet and the media. 50 year olds radicalised by radio 4.

Coyote chorus to greet the day ...

Brilliant talk today from Dr Victoria Williamson - inspiring stuff!

This is happening tomorrow! You can get both in-person and online tickets still.

Celebrating the escape of our unexpected pigeon guest with a game of Wingspan. Turns out that Raymond (the cat) was more forgiving as a host than he was as an escort.

Why I'm wearing my Joan Shelley t-shirt today

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Off their phones and into the streets www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

dangerous times for hinge epistemology

Well, now, look what arrived in the post... Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published. Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Zines, zines, zines. I did a podcast chatting about the #ZELP project, emotional literacy and general #zine stuff. It was fun. I didn't rant *too* much. The accompanying video that the podcaster made it super cool. 🩷 www.linkedin.com/posts/lucind...

New paper, the amazing luke ward www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Watching the Zohran victory speech He's quoting Eugene Debs, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mario Cuomo, and SPIDER-MAN (2002) This is my shit

Ah, hope. There you are. ❤️ #Zohran #NYC

We therefore suggest a compromise: if more trials *are* run, they should be optimally designed to test for possible mechanisms and individual differences. We give detail about how to do this This will enable us to understand why negative effects sometimes happen in trials and who is most at risk

There was a switch in crticism of Home Education from if your child doesn't go to school they will miss out on Socialisation to no school meaning they will not be resilient to bullying and demands of authority. That abuse was core to school.

Really disappointing that the NHS and third sector partnership options have been abruptly cut out of this scheme just as they were getting off the ground

Contained in this JCVI advice www.gov.uk/government/p... Annoyingly, laying my hands on the evidence underpinning that statement is not proving easy.

Good luck to Anita, but BBC reporting here that there is no international definition or agreed common symptoms is just wrong and perpetuates doubt and myths. There is a WHO definition, and widely agreed pattern of common symptoms. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Piece on how the British right has managed to convince a significant minority that it would be in their interests to get rid of the European Convention on Human Rights. My suggestion: rather than capitulate, make human rights part of a wider politics of equality. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

*Job alert* Exciting job at UCL: Lecturer in Child Mental Health www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Reminder to listen to In the Earth Again, our collab album with Hayden Pedigo if you haven't already.

This is a real gap - there must be autistic CBT practitioners who could fill it?

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Great visualization of research methods

Uncanny top 2 for me

And social media doesn’t frame it well — it shows the shitty tweet you took from X or the image or the AI slop and that’s the thing we take in first. Your commentary sits upon it, nesting secondarily — but the propaganda, visually and informationally-speaking, is first through the mental door.

🎃 It's this time of year again 🎃 A yearly reminder about the best cover version of 'It's Halloween'. @robertdallasgray.com 🎃 @bluekanues.bsky.social 🎃 @mjohnhenry.bsky.social 🎃 + Jill O'Sullivan on gorgeous vocal 🎃 vivariumsounds.bandcamp.com/track/its-ha...

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

Is it normal to be delusional? @emas-b.bsky.social launches our 2026 series of Philosophy workshops at @winterbournehouse.bsky.social this February! Ticket is free and includes access to the Garden. Thanks @triphilosophy.bsky.social for supporting this initiative #philsky #philosophyforeveryone

The sheer WORK involved in trying to get across the basic message that LLMs don't UNDERSTAND anything, and can only pump out statistical variations on word-order, over & over again.

I know this reinforces a narrative about condescending leftists calling all conservatives bigots but I'm sorry, every form of data — anecdotes, polling and public statements by conservatives — indicate that these are the main drivers. It's a doomed quest to keep looking for good underneath evil.

What does Labour say if immigration plummets and the economy takes another hit? Having spent this year talking up legitimate concerns? “Oh, it’s different now”? No. They’re stuck with a policy plank which implies other Right Wing policies.

🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...

On April 7th 2026, I'm going to be running a workshop at the wonderful Winterbourne House and Garden on the topic of mental health and role-playing games! You can get tickets to the event here: www.winterbourne.org.uk/whats-on/phi...

and actually train travel is a great opportunity to think about what goes wrong with digital-first services. Buy your ticket online, have it on your phone - so far so good - it's then your responsibility to have a charged phone to prove you have a ticket. Why is there no record of this transaction?

A new ceramic artwork that I've just completed in a subway in central Birmingham. Video by @gardnergareth.bsky.social