Still think this, but with very little conviction these days.

Guess where we’re going shopping tomorrow…

This kind of conversation is crucial for the future success of HE, and needs to be heard.

A conversation elsewhere has taken me back to the most difficult challenge I ever faced in my work. 26 years ago to the day I got a phone call from a lawyer asking if I would talk to them about being an expert witness in a public inquiry into a fatal train crash at Ladbroke Grove (London).

The difference that 90 minutes made.

I want to add a tiny halfpenny's worth to the valid arguments of others against AI in academia. I should maybe mention that I have regularly used Maple (a symbolic maths expert system) usually to check (and sometimes correct) something I've done by hand and that is the sum total of my use of "AI".

Rose blush noisette - just perfection

"rest more" "socialise my way" "find joy in my autistic traits" a beautiful recipe for being

This does seem a bit sudden

Game invented by my grand daughter. Try and catch just the blue bubbles.

A world without the autistic community would be a deeply dull, depressingly dull world. We make it so difficult for them, but we would be so impoverished without them.

I want to say more about this now I've read more. It's a $50m call for applications for funding to research potential links between autism and the gut microbiome, with stated goals of identifying biomarkers for early intervention to stop autism developing

It's #spectrum10k all over again

Brilliant analogy.

Er, nope.

It's no longer summer, which means that I have miles and miles of this landscape to myself. Miles and miles of peace. The loudest sound is the ravens, who keep an eye on the visitor.

I am looking to create a lab code of conduct/manual/safety check type document outlining the ethos of how we work. Could anyone point me in the direction of a good (open source) example covering safety, comms, working with others etc.? Or would anyone be willing to share theirs? Thank you!

Birch trees are the best.

Setting sun over the hill.

You’re the only person who can do your research. You’re the expert.

To say that Amy has the shortest name a storm can have, she’s lasting a very long time.

This gives me much hope for the future of Psychology. Over my career, I've seen many tech fads come and go (or often not go), each displacing the basic effort of theoretical clarity by something that works off laziness. Here, the latest fad is being shown for what it is very early in its lifetime.

Twenty words that just stopped me in my tracks. I will flood with tears - soon when I'm able to. Not for me, but for some very close to me.

#littlescientistswanted - very much!

#WildflowerHour Grass of Parnassus hanging on

DSM diagnoses are only as real as constellations of stars in the sky patterns intensely studied heavy correlations mounds and mounts of data but it's still a myth Ursa Minor just tells you where you are and suggests which way to go, if you're inclined to move same with a diagnostic label

A great talk this evening from @drmbothapsych.bsky.social at Durham, @durhampsych.bsky.social ,who are very fortunate to have such a trail-blazing colleague. Actually, great is the wrong word. Shocking, moving, demanding, re-orienting.

This is sloppy and unhelpful writing. "scientists say that strong evidence ... is lacking." suggests there is a lack of evidence, which isn't true. There's plenty of high quality evidence. It is what would be expected if there is no link. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My phone just autocorrected raptured to tortured. I've never liked the phone anyway - and now I have to consider that it doesn't like me.

Got distracted for a minute working out that these colours sit on a continuous line in colour space. An interesting minute, but followed by a better one wondering how I’d draw the leaf. Perception is best done slowly.

Look it's really important that we do, but it breaks my heart that I had to spell out that autism isn't an epidemic, and that it's a horrific statement for anyone but particularly people with such power to make.

I am on Farage's list of ILR-ners to be deported, should they win the next election. I honestly can't remember when I last got so angry. Good start of the week here 👌

Autistic people are valuable, as people are rightly saying on here. They are also the kindest, most empathetic and generous community I've ever been privileged enough to be part of. Funny fuckers to the last one. Find yourselves some autistic friends. Apropos of nothing obv.

Just want to say my piece. What causes autism is the wrong question. The right one is how do we learn and grow from the very different experiences that autism brings.

My favourite Gean tree is just blazing now.

Showing off!

But at my age I’ve only got time left for maybe 10 diseases. So I don’t need AI to predict that my risk of getting more than 1,000 diseases is zero. And, of course, the probability of me getting at least 1 disease is one. Didn’t even need a calculator…

Some Scottish Neuroscience at the poster session this morning #ICON2025: @ekcunningham.bsky.social presenting "Around The Clock: Physiological Markers Of Lapses In Attention During Sustained Task Performance" *P3.56*. Have a look and let Emily know what you think.

Personally I think Keir Starmer would make an acceptable deputy leader.

So many problems, ethical and statistical. 1. Ethical approval isn't just about how data is obtained. It's about how data is used and what the real world consequences of that data might be. That process shouldn't be sidestepped.

...but institutions will continue to rely on staff doing research, funded or unfunded, in unpaid time.

😂😂

Been struggling a bit with GitHub today - over-estimating how much I understand it. Anyhow, back in business now. Despite having complexities I don't yet grasp, it's immeasurably better than what my first ever software was stored on...this is the 8" floppy disc. My memory says it held ~16kbytes.

We all need hope in hopeless times. The old poisoners are gone. But the new cooks are labouring on rediscovering recipes that will kill us all again. A new hope? The media hates hope, tragedy sells. But perhaps he can lift up a corner of the sheet under which we struggle to breath? Let in some air?

Didn’t get one last time, I was excited about the gov warning on my phone. Disappointed. As a minimum they could have used Ride of the Valkyries as the sound. Instead just a beep that’s not really so different from what my phone does anyway. Stupidly clicked on the screen and the message went away…

It’s strange to be alone in a landscape where you can almost sense the people who have known this over the past millennia. A nice breeze so no midges.

Late summer already.