If you're wondering why you're no longer seeing my posts, it's because the moderators have gotten to me (new advanced moderation settings in 'Sky)

Strong meme game in the kid's online homework platform

Social comfort beats biomechanical comfort. Cool paper, but annoying not to have data www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

before obtaining their degree, medical students have to pass their #OSCE - Objective Structured Clinical Exams, the gold-standard assessment, involving actors as standardised patients. Happy to share, we have created a #VirtualTwin of these exams, including auto-assessment: rdcu.be/eOzyX #medicalXR

Finally a school event I'm prepared for

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Not a lake

Happy Halloween

The cerebellum isn’t just about coordinating movement. It’s implicated in nearly every domain of cognition—from language to social behavior. But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵 Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry. arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818

Some poor guy at @vrsummit.bsky.social earlier this month trying to straighten out the bent and mangled fingers we had him embody in the #VR hand embodiment tool developed @caitlinenaylor.bsky.social during her PhD

(1/3) Every year, more than 12 million people worldwide experience a stroke. On World Stroke Day (29 October), we’re highlighting research that’s offering new hope for recovery.

It is well known that movement accuracy decline if there’s a delay between target vision and movement onset. Is the same true for haptically sensed targets? With @volcic.bsky.social we found that it depends on the posture of the reaching and sensing hands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Continuing with my festive-themed posts

New parkrun PB at the weekend - 23.28 (the move to the winter route apparently knocks about 30s off my previous best time) Operation breaking 23 starts now with renewed enthusiasm!

A new, Short and Sweet open-access paper on how briefly hiding the hand impedes goal-directed arm movements. Briefly is really brief: we find a decrease in performance in goal-directed movements due to just a few ms without vision of the hand (target remains visible). doi.org/10.1177/0301...

So Nike has made an acupuncture/pressure points shoe or something? Lots of mind/body connection gibberish, but no sense of what would actually make someone choose to wear something to bizarre looking about.nike.com/en/newsroom/...

The stigmata are a lovely subtle touch in this special image

Another lovely effect a bit like the last one (but maybe even more distressing!), for those seeking illusory content. No idea who made this one I'm afraid - if you happen to know, let me know so I can credit them!

The Ethics of Digital Touch ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

It is hard to describe how unmotivated I am to respond to this request

My PhD student is conducting a study exploring the human element of peak motorsport performance. If you’re involved in motorsport, please take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire below 👇 🔗 forms.office.com/e/fDb2MxgcXP #Motorsport #Racing

Six-seven!

German train life I hope my connecting train is delayed at about the same rate as my current train so that I can dash between platforms 😐

And the first laptop exploded. #TooIntenseHacking @vrsummit.bsky.social

On the train and watching someone in my carriage overtly lie about whether someone is in the seat beside them (just the person's own luggage), so they can keep it for themselves Outside of kids and politicians, this kind of overt low-stakes lying seems very rare to see first hand

That person you meet when you attend a scientific conference and want to quickly get breakfast alone before returning to your room to prepare your presentation

When is work not work? What is the workiest work? gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/w...

I'm finally playing Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice and I've never felt so unnerved by a game - the sound design is extraordinary

When is work not work? What is the workiest work? gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/w...

Our Dagstuhl Seminar with @panxueni.bsky.social, @vrneuroscience.bsky.social and @pedrolopes.org is now official! Invites will be sent next week by the admins, but stay tuned for the outcomes next July! www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

Oh this hurts a bit

omfg lmao www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/c...

It's Dyspraxia Awareness Week! Please share this information video we commissioned from dyspraxic animator Charlotte O'Neill, explaining a bit about dyspraxia (aka developmental coordination disorder). The video is suitable for school-aged kids, so share widely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pamE...

Genius

I've discovered something called the 'beer mile', where you run 4 laps of a 400m track and chug a beer at the start of each lap, which feels like the race I've been training my whole life to win

Weird images like this brightening up my mandatory training

No don't fall for *that* cancer scam. Fall for *my* cancer scam.

Pro tip: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is too scary for the children to watch

Gavin's movie reviews Thursday Murder Club Stellar cast, and enjoyable whodunnit that was loved by kids and grownups alike (one strong swear, but very funnily done) 8/10

Gavin movie review K-Pop Demon Hunter Gorgeous spectacle, good (deliberately generic, so anyone can relate) story, lots of heart Didn't make me cry, which is reasonably rare 8/10

Gavin's movie reviews are back! Moana 2 was an empty soulless parody of one of the finest films ever 0/10 (kids like it way better than the original, but they are wrong)

The proof-viewing request from this journal having a grammatical error is just a little too ironic for me to handle

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Probably not what you're looking for but loads of demos etc inside this: doingpsychstats.wordpress.com/metascience/

Best p-hacking demonstrations for a ppt slide: go!

wow, massive illusory motion effect here

Donald Trump announces that paracetamol can be very effective for treating outbreaks of people discussing the Epstein files.