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The #Helios exhibition at Victoria Baths

He knows how to relax. A model for us all

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

If the police got their people who estimate crowd sizes together with their people who estimate the street value of drug seizures, they might have better estimates for both www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I have a new favourite bar chart

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If the police got their people who estimate crowd sizes together with their people who estimate the street value of drug seizures, they might have better estimates for both www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I have a new favourite bar chart

What's the opposite of clickbait

If I were a vast imperial power I would simply not become so hubristic about my military might that I become embroiled in a prolonged asymmetrical war with a weaker power who's fundamental willingness to stick it out means that they can bear not losing for longer than I can afford to not win.

The magic thing about this campaign though was rebuilding the connection between the national team and the wider Irish public. What we’ve experienced since November is lightning in a bottle. We haven’t had anything like it in a decade and beyond. Let’s build. I love this team.

Have to say, I’m not a fan of rueing the day

watching the game as god intended, on two iPads jn a hotel lobby in Valletta #CZEIRL

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

In case you missed it 👀 ❗ FORRT has launched the Open Research Games Portal — a collection of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible science ! Explore it here: forrt.org/games/ and feel free to browse and use ✨

Me: there’s no such thing as academic emergency. Also me: I’m gonna bring my laptop on vacation JUST IN CASE!!

"What do you think of U.S. foreign policy?" "I think it would be a good idea."

Hotels, for some reason: “No, not good enough. We can make this toilet paper even thinner!”

?? a divine light shines down upon you and by His free benevolent will transforms your credences in exactly the manner a Bayesian update would require? This is well known!

OpenAlex (openalex.org) is totally badass. I am not convinced the coverage is the best but compared to competition (WoS and other BS) the functionality is miles ahead. And I get to share the data on the other end.

If you want to collaborate on Qmd, Rmd, or md files for reproducible manuscripts, try out the alpha version of Quarto Review! It does track changes, comments, syncs with git, shows differences between versions! github.com/Lakens/Quart... Tell me the bugs and feature requests!

HOWLING

A story, told by me regarding my own course, about why online quizzes are now so totally useless as to be farcical 20 questions, hard questions, that should take somewhere between 30-45 minutes to answer, even you were doing the old school cheating method of simply googling things note the pattern

📚 Proud to share a new LMU study led by OSC Member Prof. Dr. Katrin Auspurg! It shows that reproducibility in social science is often limited by missing or poorly documented materials. #OpenScience #LMU #Reproducibility #SocialScicence

Once again reminding all academics in the UK that they really, really, really, really should sign up to @alcs.co.uk Lifetime membership is £36 and they take it out of the money they collect for you so it really is "free money". I'm getting a little over £100 *every year*. Do it!

Open PhD position in DFG project, Cognitive Psychology, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Application deadline: 1 May 2026

Lie: Bike-lanes cause traffic congestion. Truth: Bike-lanes help solve traffic congestion. Lie: Bike-lanes hurt street shops if they replace parking. Truth: Bike-lanes help street shops more than street parking does. Lie: Bike-lanes cost us too much. Truth: Bike-lanes save us all public money.

On World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world.

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Crazy that the new Dune movie is about how all the supermarkets in Ireland are now in a desert-filled post-apocalyptic wasteland where customers brave each trip while hounded by giant underground worms.

We have a big Open Science & Research Integrity Event coming up at @micireland.bsky.social on April 8th. Featuring @maddipow.bsky.social , @dermotlynott.bsky.social and the launch of @marekmcgann.bsky.social's book. It's rooted in psychology, but should be of interdisciplinary interest. Come!

I think about this tweet a lot

Crazy that the new Dune movie is about how all the supermarkets in Ireland are now in a desert-filled post-apocalyptic wasteland where customers brave each trip while hounded by giant underground worms.

TIL: Ireland’s population still hasn’t recovered from The Great Famine of 1845-52.

We plan to hire a post doc to start in Fall 2026 (flexible), in the Aulet Lab at UMass Amherst, funded for two years. The postdoc will help establish our developmental fMRI research program studying symbolic number acquisition in 4-8 year old children (among other things!).

I have a joke about Editorial Manager but you have to change your password to see it

I have a scientist joke, but you're in the control group.

I have a lexicography joke, which comes from the Latin ‘jocus,’ which perhaps shares an older ancestor with the Old High German ‘gehan,’ meaning “to say,” which in turn comes from the Sanskrit ‘yācati,’ “he asks.”

As part of Brain Awareness Week, we're highlighting a timely piece by Dr @elronan.bsky.social from @futureneuro.bsky.social and @rcsi.bsky.social on how sleep disruption can strongly affect people living with mood disorders. Read on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social: https://pulse.ly/qfyvg87q4h

Oh really? Is that because pandering to the far-right and assuming they will act rationally, reciprocally, & in good faith has always worked in the past, & because there's good evidence that Reform can be trusted? I totally trust this former Tory advisor report published by a right-wing think tank.

One for all the psycholinguistics people teaching about lexical ambiguity

universities as soon as you enter a phd program

364 days to #StPatricksDay! Music is a huge part of it for me, so please quote this with your favourite hidden gem of Irish music (any genre you like) and a line about why. To kick us off, the Brilliant Trees and "Talent" - an awesome 90s tune from Dublin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjj...

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it

Do you have any thoughts on systemic bottlenecks in science and how to fix them? Astera is running an essay competition! astera.org/essay-compet...

Wow! He could’ve just left it at Happy St. Patrick’s Day and everyone would’ve been happy, but this is so much more

"Britannica’s lawsuit said that OpenAI unlawfully copied nearly 100,000 of its articles... The complaint said that ChatGPT produces “near-verbatim” copies of Britannica’s encyclopedia entries, dictionary definitions and other content, diverting users who would otherwise visit its websites."