The Ox Drove ancient track from 400 ft close to Win Green. This was a hilltop route for moving vast herds of cattle (oxen) and other livestock from the West Country (Devon, Somerset) all the way towards the major market towns like Salisbury and on to the Hampshire ports.

Deliberate fire-making by humans in the UK may date to more than 400,000 years ago, according to evidence in Nature. The findings predate previous evidence for the deliberate lighting of fires by around 350,000 years. go.nature.com/4oKHAS4 🏺 🧪

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Distant Viaduct, by Trevor Grimshaw (1947-2001). Born in Hyde, studied at Stockport College of Art, worked in advertising in Manchester. #NorthernArt

Winter Sunlight, Diggle, Saddleworth, painting by John McCombs, b.1943 (Saddleworth Museum).

Oh yeah www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...

Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback

‘The French people want to save us’: help pours in for glassmaker Duralex

Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, photo by landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.

NEW In the heart of the Eurasian steppe, a #BronzeAge metropolis has been unearthed, showing that the settlements of nomadic steppe societies were just as sophisticated as contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations. #AntiquityThread 1/14 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...

3 papers @thelancet.com today on the health dangers of ultraprocessed foods and a call for action The health risks www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell @cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185 @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

​Where the veil between seasons and legends is thin. Wayland's Smithy is cradled by a blazing ring of fall foliage. The very definition of a timeless landscape. 🍁 #History #Mythology

This explains a lot (Source: www.ft.com/content/20d6... )

​The ancient earthwork of Wansdyke snaking its way over Tan Hill. A historical line of sight, with Woodborough Hill framed above the Kennet and Avon Canal. #wiltshire 🏞️

NEWS: ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: “He belongs with her.” I spent yesterday afternoon with Ofelia Torres and her mother, Sandibell, talking about Ruben Torres. Here’s the story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/i...

Scientists charged too much to immigrate to UK, says Royal Society on.ft.com/3KYRjpU

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Dusk at The Clumps. The moment you feel the temperature fall away.

93 million U.S. residents are immigrants or are U.S. born and have at least one immigrant parent.

The River Itchen approaching Hockley Link, Winchester. In the background is the beech clumps on St Catherine's Hill (hillfort). This is a chalk stream river and has exceptionally clear water; a rarity nowadays. HedleyThorne.com

I already go out litter picking because British people don’t know how to use bins.

This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)

St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.

Old Sarum in the morning, looking eastwards. Visible is the outline of the old cathedral. #OldSarum

This virtual special collection, The Psychological Science of Anti-Black Racism, an Ongoing Social Problem, highlights a selection of articles published in APS journals over the past decade that explore the enduring problem of anti-Black racism in the U.S. journals.sagepub.com/page/aps/cro...

Bonus Friday column! The Guardian asked me to write about being blacklisted by Moscow and it got me thinking about an old Russian proverb ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Interesting piece on AI malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

Uffington Castle and White Horse, with views across to Martinsell Hill and the Pewsey Downs.

2 in 5 arrested over last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse

Proud of my daughter Leah, who completed her undergraduate degree in Politics and International Relations.

Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

PhD Position on Adaptive Responses to Crises: Trust in Government, Science, and Law 👉 www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3511...

Brilliant economic analysis by Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com

I am delighted to announce that we will be hiring a social psychologist: jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please contact me with any questions!

A morning shot of Uffington castle

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

We are very proud to receive our official certification as a University of Sanctuary! Recognising our commitment to creating a culture of safety, inclusion and support for those seeking sanctuary. Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wRe25 @solentuniversity.bsky.social