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Our information diet is shaped by a tiny sliver of humanity whose job, identity, or obsession is to post constantly Consuming too much of this diet can distort our perceptions, manipulate our emotions, and fuel intergroup conflict www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-social...

Again, why critical thinking skills are crucial in education. If people are bombarded with a constant stream of algorithmically selected content that engages them emotionally and we aren't equipping them with critical thinking skills from an early age then things like this are the inevitable outcome

Kindness & compassion should be a given in health & care work, but in a system under immense pressure they can’t be taken for granted. Take the time to learn what it means to learn with kindness & compassion with our course Warm up, included in ShiftWorks. buff.ly/fLEvhvC

“Even the smallest contribution made towards a clearer understanding of one’s own position or that of one’s opponent – is a great success. A discussion which you win but which fails to help you to change or to clarify your mind at least a little should be regarded as a sheer loss” (Popper, 1994).

Millionaire ‘man of the people’  Public school educated  Didn’t vote for VAT on school fees Opposed to arming Ukraine and NATO Believes NATO provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine  Eurosceptic

Methodological considerations for social media intervention studies Perspective by Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele, Stephen L. Murphy, Laura Lemahieu & Ernst H. W. Koster 🚨FREE🚨web access (with registration) until Aug 28: go.nature.com/45cerHT PDF: rdcu.be/eyaz8

I'd be inclined to tax them even more - UK gambling industry launches summer charm offensive to head off tax rise www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Millionaire ‘man of the people’  Public school educated  Didn’t vote for VAT on school fees Disagrees with arming Ukraine  Opposed to NATO Believes NATO provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine  Eurosceptic

Millionaire ‘man of the people’  Public school educated  Didn’t vote for VAT on school fees Opposed to arming Ukraine and NATO Believes NATO provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine  Eurosceptic

Millionaire ‘man of the people’  Public school educated  Opposed VAT on school feels Disagrees with arming Ukraine  Opposed to NATO Believes NATO provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine  Eurosceptic

"Despite such anthropomorphic language often being used...by the models themselves generating statements like “I believe” or “I hope,” it is implausible that these models possess anything like human beliefs, desires, intentions, emotions, or even the sense of self implied by using the pronoun “I.”

Millionaire ‘man of the people’  Public school educated  Opposed VAT on school feels Disagrees with arming Ukraine  Opposed to NATO Believes NATO provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine  Eurosceptic

New paper on impact of #healthmisinformation with the amazing Hannah Bauer This meta-analysis aims to help fact-checkers identify dangerous misinfo and to help researchers plan studies on health misinformation. doi.org/10.1080/1041...

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

Let's see Len McCluskey's response, but this looks completely outrageous. Tens of millions of members' dues wasted, by a man who claimed to represent working people. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

paper from @danneidle on the limitations of wealth taxes, which probably won't be popular on here but anyway taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/22/u... (NB 'wealth taxes aren't a magic wand' does not='no wealth taxes'; more 'don't pretend that that you won't also need mid to high earner taxes')

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... A feeling of real helplessness. All the World is capable of is gesture politics. We’re not going to stop mass murder in Palestine. Which means we won’t be able to stop it elsewhere.

A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services" But it's not. Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029. Here’s the evidence:

A great thread of wealth taxes - and the pitfalls of rushing in without understanding the basics

Some A+ lawyering in this excellent (and presumably extremely complicated to publish) story

And Accepted: The Moral Dilution Effect: Irrelevant Information Influences Judgments of Moral Character Started writing this one at a writer's retreat in 2022, very happy to get it over the line! Pre-print available: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Right, that’s enough fishing for today. Tomorrow’s blue sky will be bluer. The guy who wished my cancer would kill me quicker was a bit much, but you never know what you get from the compassionate left

Recent research from CamCAN shows that, when pulse pressure, the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure, gets too high, it can damage the brain’s “wiring” (white matter), making it harder to think fast and solve puzzles: doi.org/10.1161/HYPE... @camcan-2010.bsky.social

🚨Boycott CBS CBS operates as a core division within the monopoly, Paramount Global which is: Showtime Comedy Central MTV VH1 BET Nickelodeon Paramount Network CMT TV Land Smithsonian Channel Pluto TV Paramount+ Spineless fucks! Boycott them all!

EWOMS (European Working Memory Symposium) Lyon, France 26-28 August 2026 The 2026 theme — Working Memory, Strategy, and Consciousness — aims to bridge traditional cognitive perspectives and neuroscientific approaches to working memory. Abstract submission deadline: 13 March 2026

Breast cancer test predicts relapse risk after just two weeks of treatment. The simple test, already approved for clinical use – could spare thousands of women with #BreastCancer unnecessary treatment. Read about the findings, published in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social ⤵️ www.icr.ac.uk/about-us/icr...

Former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin was asked about a potential off-ramp for Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Her reply: LEGENDARY

I did the thing you are never supposed to do. I wrote a (rough draft of a) textbook: Theories of Rational Decision It's technical, but from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the normative theory but touches on some behavioral issues as well. raw.githubusercontent.com/kzollman/Rat...

War, as a sitcom. ~AA

Rejoining the EU is not as straightforward as some think. That’s why Starmer’s approach is the best plan at this time.

Jeremy Corbyn can’t be bought. … except by Press TV & the Iranian regime.

"He just bombed a nursing home." [LAUGHTER]

👀 Just out in Thinking & Reasoning with @boissinesther.bsky.social @mts-raoelison.bsky.social @wimdeneys.bsky.social Curious how intuitive reasoning develops through adolescence? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KFH5K... Quick summary👇

Good to see in today’s nature & climate announcements from the govt: - Confirmation that Land Use Framework will be published later this year, with updated principles; - Restatement of 30x30 commitment & how we’re falling far short, action plan coming assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687141...

It is now 18 months since the European boss of Fujitsu, which supplied the crap Horizon system and whose officials lied to sub-postmasters and to courts about it, accepted moral responsibility and said the company would cough up. Yet it still hasn’t handed over a bean. 🧵 1/2

A Neuroscience Account of Error Management Theory: Exploring the Evolutionary Foundations of Moral Blame | Are humans adaptively tuned to morally overblame? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

“People don't realise the scale of the problem of gambling harm in this country.” Labour MP and former Royal Marine @alexballingermp.bsky.social spoke to @zoecrowther.bsky.social about why he wants the government to introduce sweeping gambling reforms and change the taxation system

This is tragic - please please vaccinate your children against measles! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... here is Indie SAGE report on preventable childhood diseases - including measles! Screenshot from report below. please share! independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2

‘Debate Me!’ demands the Stranger who doesn’t allow replies to their posts

Children exploited by gangs to launder money ‘happening everyday’ – charity www.channel4.com/news/childre...

Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵

Traditional indigenous Marshall Islands navigators join cognitive neuroscientists in cutting-edge research on the vast Pacific Ocean: our @memoryplace.bsky.social colleague @pfvelasco.bsky.social studying dynamic intelligence in action www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

Use it or lose it: "on average, half of initial acquisition gains were lost for accuracy-based measures after 6.5 months of intermittent or nonuse, for speed-based performance measures after 13 months of intermittent or nonuse," #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Jeremy Vine using his 10 year old daughter to dodge tax. I'm pretty certain he doesn't want people to know about this. So be good! #Jeremyvine

Office for Budget Responsibility: reaching Net Zero cheaper than we thought, not hitting it vastly more costly. You'd like to think this might get reported in our right-wing media, but it won't be.

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...