Definitely one for an 'in-class' discussion. Be being worried about Gen AI 'friends' for children just me having a 'moral panic' ?? www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

As a non-user it’s easy to forget the power of Facebook in the spread of disinformation www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Excellent resource for anyone (like me !!) who is going to need to address Autism and Tylenol/Paracetemol in their teaching this week ! www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

Great turn out for the celebration of 50 years of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London

The ideal thing to put on the side of a bus

Yet another one for the ‘must read’ pile

It’s astonishing that I talked about Clearview AI four years ago with our UEL Psychology students, and it felt like SciFi. Now it’s disturbing reality !

How am I supposed to teach new undergraduates about ‘Science’, when this is OK with the UK’s most popular political party ? Is asking for a reasoned assessment of ALL the evidence a sign that I’m politically biased ? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good to see my decision to move our students away from Twitter/X and on to BlueSky has been vindicated ! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Which just goes to prove that if you hang around in Higher Education long enough, what you do coming into fashion !!! I particualry loved 'Placing critical thinking as a foundational learning skill', in the age of AI it's bizarre that people would think anything else, ut sadly they do

Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... 🇺🇸

If only there were a clinically proven, totally safe way to prevent diseases like measles…

And so London provides the very definition of the phrase ‘No shit Sherlock’ Child Q's school strip-search was gross misconduct www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yet more evidence that Cyberpsychology needs to be at the forefront of the discipline as a whole www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A dreadfully sad story, but it explains why I persist with teaching the psychology of conspiracy belief year after year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The inevitable consequence of holding ‘free speech’ above everything else www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

Looks like requires reading for Forensic Psychology. It’s fascinating how dual-processing can be used to address a whole range of behaviours.

Seems they’ve worked out how to monetize Gen AI ! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Rather terrifying that the US government are pulling funding for disinformation research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Three laptops definitely isn’t ‘wasteful’ !

Make you wonder about the effectiveness of the 2023 Online Safety Act

Yet another for the ‘must read before teaching starts again’ list !!

When I first arrived UEL, I could never have imagined a story like this ! Look east: an exhilarating weekend in London’s new cultural quarter www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Both very funny and disturbingly accurate at the same time !!! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

Really interesting summary of VR theory, just published. Will definitely make an appearance in 25/26 teaching vhil.stanford.edu/sites/g/file...

Oh the irony ! www.science.org/content/arti...

Yet another thing for the ‘just include that in next year’s teaching’ folder !

The amalgamation of disparate disciplines into larger administrative units is prompting fears about academic identity, voice and workload – not to mention student experience. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky #EduSky

I’m now feel official ‘old’. I’ve just stumbled into the world of AI companions and I’m a bit freaked out. My reading for this evening below ! www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Useful reasd for anyone interest in 'Misinformation' research, and particularly valuable if you are talking to anyone who starts mentioning 'censorship'.

Yet more high-quality social media research that I need to read over the summer !

One for the ‘I should be doing this’ folder for 25/26 !!!

Excellent showing from the Department of Psychology !!!!

If it wasnt so serious it would be funny. Dont we all know that ‘Do your own research’ actually means ‘watch a few Youtube videos www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

Excellent morning with Alison Vitalis and the BSc Forensic Psychology students. Off to the Royal Courts of Justice next !

Yet another entry on my ‘Things i didnt know about’ list. The idea of the ‘Windrush’ generation is so engrained, I had no knowledge that West Ham’s first black player played in 1900 ! More on this in next year’s teaching www.whufc.com/news/fred-co...

‘Science’ really needs to get its act together, to communicate that it’s not some political stand point, it’s the best interpretation of what the current evidence says.

It’s a depressing thought that i need to keep the Eugenics stuff in my 1st year lectures for another year ! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looks like the entire ‘MMR fiasco’ lecture is going back into next year’s teaching. Now competing with ‘Learning Styles’ as the ‘Myth that will never die’

Social Media appears to becoming less social. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Yes, that’s definitely the issue with delaying the robots !!! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...

Thanks to @abigail-j-lindsay.bsky.social for co-starring in this video of how we introduce all of our UG students to Virtual reality in the UEL Dept of Psychology youtu.be/V1npui2WYVM?...

That’s definitely an image that will appear in next year’s teaching !

I’m increasingly sure that arguments about assessment, ‘authentic’ or otherwise, miss the AI point. What we need is a fundamental reassessment of what graduate level skills and knowledge are in the age of Gen AI. If the AI can do it, can it be a graduate-level skill ???

There is a joke for the 2x2 ANOVA lecture in here somewhere

Brilliant vaccine explainer, that I will definitely be ‘borrowing’ for next years Level 4 module !!! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In advance of September, I’ll guess now that they’ll find that the ‘autism epidemic’ is caused by the ‘woke mind virus’ ;)

I look forward to seeing what nonsense theory this is based on ! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yet more for the ‘must read this’ list !!

Are you Tottenham in disguise ?