Second Christmas bake. Cinnamon and cardamom buns

First Christmas bake. Sourdough loaf, 70% white, 30% wholemeal flour

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Christmas food shop is done. Only took 40mins drive each way for a normally 10min drive, and a 30min queue to pay. Apart from that, stress free! Time to start baking things

There is a serious financial crunch facing universities – with alarm that if overseas student enrolments in January are lower than expected (and they have been for a few years now), bankruptcy is a very real prospect.

Can confirm, still the best Star Wars film. It's a toss up between that and The Wrath of Khan

Includes me exposing the myth that Cambridge somehow earned its way into its leadership position in UK life sciences. It didn't. Leeds was in the lead, and then the Medical Research Council in London picked Cambridge and London as winners because it was their mates.

After watching Andor recently it is time to revisit Rogue One and see if it stands up to my previous position that it is the best Star Wars film

Out of office is on, which means no more work for the next 2 weeks!* *apart from that work I'll probably end up doing over the next 2 weeks...

Had a dream/nightmare last night that I had to pay £4.80 for a flat white and all I did was passive aggressively comment on the high price but still paid it. This feels like a "tell me you're a UK millennial without telling me..."

ECR looking for a change in the New Year? We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch. Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

It’s a holiday miracle! The deadline for IPM5 submissions has been extended to January 15th www.phomo.org/event-detail...

Massive congrats to @adamjcurtis.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva yesterday with no corrections! Big thanks to @rhens.bsky.social & Alex Wade for examining his thesis

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship» jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #psychjobs

Honestly, I've been relatively quiet about some political stuff on here of late, because when everything seems to be getting worse it is hard to know where to look. However, the transphobic movement in the UK and what they have done to marginalize trans people is despicable.

When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sitting on the side of a freezing football pitch watching kids run around in random directions, occasionally with the ball. Life choices

We’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

If anyone wants to give me 600 million for some niche geeky memory studies feel free to DM me

📢 Calls are now open for the #FKNE PhD Thesis Prize 2026 and #FKNE Mentoring Prize 2026! Two great opportunities to spotlight excellence at #FENS2026 in Barcelona 🇪🇸 🔗 Learn how to submit your application or nomination : buff.ly/xMhQy3k Read more below 👇

Love this. I promise you all 100% home grown, small batch slop, fresh from my noggin

I was pretty disinclined to travel to the US already, but this new proposed social media policy just makes it even less likely. The thought of potentially travelling all that way to then be denied entry because of some flippant remark I made about an American fascist 3 years ago. No thanks.

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University! healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati... 1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!

It’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀 If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word: Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Great couple of days in Zurich talking to Klaus Oberauer's group. Some great feedback on one of our more recent projects and they graciously answered all my annoying questions about their research. Big congrats to Dr @joschadutli.bsky.social in particular!

New paper in Psych Review on a model of false recognition in Deese-Roediger-McDermott DRM task. Not just recognition responses, but also associated RTs! And not just the semantic task, but also the structural task - where words overlap in orthography/phonology! A thread!

Just for balance, they appear to have swanked up Terminal 2 and it Is actually pretty nice and security was quick and easy. Sometimes we can have nice things.

The York to Manchester Airport train is mercifully a direct train, so no changes, but God is it slow. It feels like a film with only 40mins of decent content being stretched into a 1 hour 45mins feature length movie

Here's the reality this example illustrates: It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

Don’t say that! Every academic will start putting it on their CVs. 🤣

Unfortunately the HE 2025 ballot failed at 39% turnout. I have written about why and about what desperately needs to change in UCU's national structures off the back of this result. Some HEC members need to chi up and understand their role in all this, and how disconnected they are from members.

What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out! rdcu.be/eSyjz

UCU ballot on industrial action over pay and pay-related: turnout 39%, meaning there will be no national industrial action on these issues by UCU. Still waiting for Unison and EIS-ULA results.

Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!

Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest. I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care: medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba

Full professorship in general psychology open @tudresden.bsky.social We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions. @dgps.bsky.social @dgps-fgal.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517

Hard choices for preprint servers. bioRxiv has always declined reviews/hypotheses b/c of concern about signal:noise and a wish to avoid subjective judgments. AI slop makes screening certain content similarly challenging so other servers are adopting new restrictions. Two thoughts... 1/3

My awesome team won an Inclusive Impact Ward! Details are below, but my team built a Toolkit to help researchers navigate the sensitives around including disabled people in research practice.

Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces go.nature.com/4ocRj3n

New preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

New preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...

Had some time to kill in town this morning before a meeting so went to a great coffee shop for a coffee and croissant and they are playing the whole of Jeff Buckley's Grace. Sometimes life can be kind.

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

I might be able to drop a preprint this coming week on a paper that has taken me (and colleagues) almost exactly 4 years to write! I just checked and the first draft document was created on 26/11/2021, so Wednesday would be the 4 year anniversary!

When I talk to students about public speaking or teaching, I always bring this up: Just tell people when you don't know something! It's remarkably powerful b/c it signals to your audience that you know the boundaries of your expertise and they can trust what you DO talk about.