The T-FUN Festival is NEARLY HERE! 🎉 Join us online from TOMORROW FOR THREE DAYS of inspiring talks and events on Assessment & Feedback, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, and Engagement & Belonging. See our website for details on how to join in: buff.ly/x8SUDdp #TFUNFest2025 #HigherEd #Teaching

Honestly the resilience of this team, coming back from behind again and again - I cannot believe the last few weeks #lionesses

ICYMI: We are currently seeking proposals for the Psychgeist of Pop Culture: 🧠 Severance 🗡️ World of Warcraft rkowert.com/call-for-pap...

This is a superb article - agree that everyone working in HE should read it.

Science/research chums. I am working on a project about replication and am very keen on your feedback. 1/3

I've been wanting to write again recently but I keep getting that little self-doubt voice that says 'you've got nothing interesting to say' and 'nobody will be interested anyway'. Maybe it's time to just push through the discomfort and get writing again regardless of the little self-doubt voice!

Just read this on the lack of digital skills, which isn't new but reinforces experience in the classroom & should be a further nail in the coffin to idea that students are "digital natives" means anything other than they have probably grown up near connected devices. futuredotnow.uk/lack-of-digi...

The T-FUN Festival is coming, this Sept! 🎉 3 themes in 3 days: 16/9: Assessment & Feedback 17/9: Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity 18/9: Engagement & Belonging Flash-talks, longer talks, collabo cafés & more, 10-3pm UK time. For more info subscribe to our mailing list: t-fun.co.uk?page_id=27

As an academic with endometriosis I sometimes struggle navigating academia with such a frustrating and misunderstood chronic condition. I find myself wondering if there’s enough support for students dealing with this condition, especially now so many are having to juggle jobs alongside studying.

I've updated my 'Online Research Tips for Dissertation Students' slide deck on OSF: osf.io/rgxqn/ It's available for use or adaption, so if you have dissertation students doing online research (or you're delving into the world of online research), please do take a look! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

I've updated my 'Online Research Tips for Dissertation Students' slide deck on OSF: osf.io/rgxqn/ It's available for use or adaption, so if you have dissertation students doing online research (or you're delving into the world of online research), please do take a look! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Does anyone know of a (preferable accessible) guide to understanding / building cognitive tasks? You have software specific books like Building Experiments in PsychoPy, but I'm looking for more of a dummy's guide to tasks to think about trial structure, responses etc.

Trying to buy tickets is becoming a more and more frustrating experience. Spot 40,000+ in the queue for Lewis Capaldi tickets this morning and there's already people selling tickets online (either scalpers actually selling or scammers who don't actually have tickets).

Realising that season 3 of Tour de France: Unchained is out means it’s time to relive Mark Cavendish’s 35th stage win 🙌🏻

I recently went to my GP to discuss a women’s health issue and she wanted to refer me to see a consultant but mentioned that the waiting list is over a year. When I mentioned having access to private healthcare through work she encouraged me to pursue that to be seen as soon as possible.

Oh the sheer joy at watching the Glastonbury live stream to see Lewis Capaldi walking out on stage! What a moment 😍

Friday morning crying over a new Lewis Capaldi song. His music just always hits different and it’s so good to see him releasing new music!

Had a really lovely day exploring a local National Trust place today 😍 I would quite like my own tree house now!

AS PROMISED! A fresh call for papers has gone live this morning! CfP: The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Severance rkowert.com/call-for-pap...

Good news, researchers and educators in #StatsEd! The RoSE 2025 e-conference registration has just opened up! Sign up for our free international conference happening July 31st here: bit.ly/roseconferen...

Does anyone else have any fun holiday traditions? I've just got back from a holiday and one of the first things I packed was a new Pez dispenser. When I was younger my mum would always get us new Pez dispensers and lots of refills for the journey, and even now I can't holiday without Pez!

Coming soon (Next Tuesday!) our next T-FUN talk… @maddipow.bsky.social will be talking about why Pedagogical Research needs Metascience on Tues 24th June 13:00 – 14:00 (BST). For more details please see: t-fun.co.uk?page_id=104 #Psychology #HigherEd #Teaching #Scholarship #OpenSci #Metasci

I really enjoyed joining this online last year! Learnt a lot from some fab people 😊 Signed up again and ready for this year!

Excited to welcome @ephemeralidea.bsky.social to King’s Open Research Summer School on Mon 21st July. She’ll be sharing new reflections since Big Little Lies, a standout in the growing movement to detect and challenge questionable research practices misconduct. 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/j7y9962r

Thanks to everyone who attended our online event last month, led by the wonderful Dr Emily Nordmann, entitled: Teaching Track 4 Life. You can catch-up with it on our youtube channel here: buff.ly/6BZHBBK Please like and subscribe! #Psychology #HigherEd #AcademicLife #Teaching #Scholarship

Sam Fender’s People Watching album just keeps getting better and better 🙌🏻

Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.

I’m still so intrigued about the idea of a Celebrity Traitors. I can see the obvious appeal, but I think the show works because the people don’t know each other which plays a large part in the way they often pick up the most ridiculous breadcrumbs as ‘evidence’. Will be an interesting experiment!

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🎉 An estimate of 10,662 students connected with STEM professionals last term via I’m a… projects. Thank you to the 398 STEM professionals who lent their time to inspire students across the country! Check out the full report: about.imascientist.org.uk/files/2025/0...

I tried reading some papers on heteroscedasticity but it just didn't feel normal

Looking for someone in the UK who does research on misogynistic online hate speech / abusive online behaviour towards women ... and wants to be interviewed about their work on TV. Tag anyone you think is a good fit! 🧪 thanks!

With my distractibility and love of talking about concerts we'd never get to the point of the meeting 😁 Regardless, forced icebreakers still make me shudder!

When I was a teen I had a chronic illness which meant I was often housebound. To give myself something to do that was low energy I used to write to my favourite authors, actors, and footballers for autographs. I’ve recently been having a clear out and found this from Jacqueline Wilson 😍

If you have experienced psychosis and may be interested in taking part in an online research study, please use this link to access an online survey and more information about the research: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Reading and getting angrier and angrier.

For anyone who knows R/RStudio and wants to learn how to use a Chi-Square, one of my students is running a project on how students learn new data skills. You can take part online (uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...) or if you're at the University of Glasgow, you can do it in person.

Would you like to write for New Scientist? We always work with freelancers, but occasionally I put out a call like this for new writers. I'm looking for 300-700 word news stories about new discoveries. Don't pitch us press releases or the big journals, we have those covered. Pay starts at 51p/word

Looking at something like this could be so interesting in a cog psych session about decision making in the real world!

I’ve just taken biscuits out of the oven, and now I’m at the stage of ‘do I even pretend that these will last long enough to be iced?’ 😂

Really looking forward to seeing the responses to this prompt! You've still got time if you'd like to submit a piece for The Psychologist about creativity. Details in the link below!

We have an ongoing interest in psychologists' collaborations/friendships. Particularly if you collaborate with a different 'type' of psychologist, and / or you can reflect on this partnership through the lens of the area you research or practice in, we'd like to hear from you! [email protected]

Please share 🙏🏼 we're running a fun study that takes ~10mins. We want people to estimate things, like how much a piano weighs? We know most won't know the exact answer but we're interested in your guesses. It's honestly quite fun and you'll get the answers at the end. research.sc/participant/...

We’re looking for contributors for the theme adolescence (the tv series) for the forthcoming upload of the @bpsofficial.bsky.social @theatp.bsky.social @bps-dartp.bsky.social Teachers’ toolkit, which supports psychology teachers in schools and colleges. If you can help, please DM me. Thanks. 😊

I’ve learnt that Fall Out Boy’s album From Under the Cork Tree came out 20 years ago today 😮 Jeez, I feel old! That album brings back so many core memories from being a teenager. Fall Out Boy had the biggest impact on me as a teen. Good times!

OK the sun is shining, the next two issues are in a relatively good place, so it's time for a bit of a commissioning drive. Who or what would you like to see feature in The Psychologist, online and potentially in a print edition? Info on what we're looking for here www.bps.org.uk/contribute-p...

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

This doesn't cost much in terms of time or effort but can mean a huge deal to the person on the receiving end! (and if you get an email like this, make sure to save it in a nice 'happy things' folder for those rougher days or when you're writing an application and need to reflect!)

Does anyone have any favourite movie soundtracks? I like having movie soundtracks on in the background whilst I mark assessments. Traditionally I default to Jurassic Park but I'd like to have some extra options!

Lots of practical advice in this great article!