If a Labour government just didn't spend its time using the bully pulpit to talk about what bastards foreigners are and pandering to anti-trans cranks it'd make a real difference to me. So it's relatively easy for a new leader to significantly shift my opinion. It therefore *cannot* be Wes Streeting

free video for intro lectures on auditory perception

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

New #RSOS paper: ‘Don’t hate the players, hate the game’: qualitative insights from education researchers on questionable and open research practices. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @mattmakel.bsky.social @sarahcaroleo.bsky.social @jesse-fleming.bsky.social @bryancook.bsky.social

"data available upon reasonable request"

In preparation for the imminent publication of the new edition of my R textbook, the updated interactive tutorials are now available on CRAN. I did a massive re-write last summer, road tested them in my teaching last term, and I’m pretty happy with them. For now. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

/tʃiɹz/ 🍻

Goddammit! “ski jump penis doping” was my four word password smh

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Little ask for any of you interested in football, history or Dublin 8 and surrounds. @historystpats.bsky.social was a big success on Twitter but we left because it is the worst place in the world. Very few have followed us here. It would be great to get a few more follows and some amplification! 🔴⚪️

Goddammit! “ski jump penis doping” was my four word password smh

I'm delighted to share this interesting work, a wonderful collaboration with colleagues based in the Canary Islands. ☀️ Acta Psychol. 2026 [https://lnkd.in/e3Q_xQ-H]. #MathAnxiety #MathEd #MathTeacher #CogSci #Edusky #DevPsy @mclstrainee.bsky.social @mcls-official.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Assistant Professor post in Maynooth (joint between Psychology and Education) is now advertised - closing date of March 4th, full details via: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... #jobsfairy #irishResearch @mupsychology.bsky.social

The hi viz will work great when I'm hit by a motorist looking at their phone.

That‘s the spirit.

The problems with coining terms like 'rage bait' and 'brain rot'. The words, metaphors and ideas we use to describe experiences and phenomenons may not necessarily be able to explain them, writes @emmaefarrell.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Part of an ongoing pattern from this US government to remove access to factual information from its citizens

Did a speedrun of our new "four hour" AI in education online course; completed in <15 minutes, 100% on every test without watching any videos & skimming content. Now I have a certificate and a skill endorsement on LinkedIn. This is good. This is excellent education. Well done everyone.

France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:

“The devil can cite scripture for his purpose”…if ever there was an apt use for this quote

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

Our new paper, with colleagues from the Strategic Council of the National Academies, offers an integrative framework of the several components that contribute to making research findings trustworthy including ethics, methodology, transparency, inclusion, assessment, etc www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We're pleased to announce Dr Charlotte Pennington @drcpennington.bsky.social, author of "A Student’s Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology", will be a keynote speaker at the UKRN conference in July 2026! #ukrn2026joinus #OpenResearch #Research

Announcing the dates for this year's London Open Science & Scholarship Festival! 🎉 Monday 20 - Friday 24 April 2026 🗓️ Find the full list of 13 partners and more details on the latest Open@UCL blog post buff.ly/eSmjBWJ And make sure to keep following for updates! #LDNOpenFest26 #OpenScience

This took me fucking ages

This July, we are holding a virtual hackathon to explore LEVANTE data! If you're interested in data analysis, development, and cross-cultural variability, please join us! First week is open, second week is by application with mentorship on group projects. levante-hackathon-2026.github.io

Happy Groundhog Day! I am a fan of the absurdity of weather prognosticating rodents and celebrate Groundhog Day with my thermochromic linocut. The shadow is visible if the ambient temperature is <30°C and disappears when >30°C (and it’s a safe bet winter is over or you are overheating your home). 🧵

Ok researchers rise and shine, it's groundhog day - what better way to get you up to date with what has been going on at the FORRT Replication Hub? forrt.org/replication-...

Please do not let all the focus on the funding environment in academia distract us from the real victims of these crimes and their enablers. Please do not look away from the misogyny. Please notice the gender differential. Please pay attention to how women are talked about in these emails.

Seeing a lot of talk about the start of spring coming up. Don’t make me tap the sign!

“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

For a weekly seminar class, I'm looking for pairings of psych popularization with scholarly take-downs of the underlying research. I want students to see examples of how shoddy research gets hyped.

Sweet Jebus this is awful

Wow, the big building firms are really coming out swinging against these rental forms, rolling out very threatening language towards the minister. Without any further information, that probably means good news for renters, right?

I tell you what, if I was the king, I wouldn’t have as my most trusted advisor someone called Wormtongue

This government clearly don't really understand the complexity or the danger of the situation. They show no sign of beginning to understand, and every sign of asking the monorail salesman how public transport should work. It's going to be an uphill struggle, but don't leave this to politicians.

I tell you what, if I was the king, I wouldn’t have as my most trusted advisor someone called Wormtongue

This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.

Call for papers for ESLP (Embodied and Situated Language Processing) 2026, which will be held in sunny Lancaster! Conference is July 29-31, with abstract submission deadline of May 3rd. eslp2026.sciencesconf.org

"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara. TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

May be of interest to the reproducibility folks: New tutorial on computational reproducibility for simulation studies just dropped! felipelfv.github.io/Why-risk-it-... by @felipefv.bsky.social, Jason Geller & @brodriguesco.bsky.social

They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*. If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE

Early reviews are in: ‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’

As we all know, confidence equates to ability

📽️ "Advancing automated assessment of research findings" / with Andrew Tyner @cos.io youtu.be/bnYLDC1jqhI?... The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel