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Our free, inaugural online event 'Connecting People, Place & Practice in Environmental Psychology' is open to @bpsofficial.bsky.social members & the wider community interested in the intersection between people, places, and psychology. 02 July 2025 10:00am - 2:30pm www.bps.org.uk/event/connec...

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Academia relies on unpaid labour — but researchers should think carefully about what kind of work they’re willing to give to for-profit organizations for free, says Dritjon Gruda. https://go.nature.com/3ZFMXZ5

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For people who think aphantasia may just be a difference in how people describe their imagery, these lesion cases report it as a subjective change in individuals

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Delighted that our work on positional memory is now published. We asked how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka. 🧵1/14

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Mosquitoes could be given anti-malaria drugs so they no longer spread the disease. Re-designed anti-parasitic drugs successfully rid the insects of malaria when absorbed through their legs. Coating bed nets in the drug cocktail is the long-term aim. 🧪🦟💊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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📢 If you're part of a Clinically Vulnerable family or an ally, please help to share! We are collecting stories for the UK Covid Inquiry regarding the 'Impact on Society' for those in CV households. Please join our FB to take part in our survey and contribute. 🙏

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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The papers all follow a similar template and make misleading claims https://go.nature.com/4kucwEH

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1/ Writers – have you been asked to work for free? Then join our call for evidence on the type + amount of free work that has been requested of you over the past 12 months to help us identify + tackle the problem

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“Data centers in the US used somewhere around 200 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, roughly what it takes to power Thailand for a year.” A quarter to a third of which is due to #AI. #AIEthics www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

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Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible. This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Are smartphones and social media harmful to teenagers? The evidence is mixed, but a group of researchers have published a paper attempting to reach a consensus view. The trouble is, a bunch of other researchers disagree with their consensus www.newscientist.com/article/2480...

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Today in @nature.com , we report a spatial single-cell atlas of human cortical development, revealing surprisingly early specification of human cortical layers and areas. We built an interactive browser to explore the spatial data: walshlab.org/research/cor... Paper link below 👇

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This paper makes important point that we're not talking about impact of AI on reading enough. Marking work that's full of AI is demoralising but in some ways, the threat AI poses to comprehension is bigger than the threat to what students produce... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky

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Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong. In our editorial we argue that the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We want to hear from you! We’re conducting a survey on the state of neuroscience. This week’s question is: What do you think are the fastest-growing areas of neuroscience? #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...

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What do we mean when we say 'panic buying'? Is there actually panic involved, in its truest sense? A new paper argues not, and highlights the importance of accuracy in naming such behaviours: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

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Fancy taking a detour from the mainstream? We've got just the thing. 🎙️Find expert insights on the psychological side of kink subculture from Liam Wignall (University of Brighton) and Clinical Psychologist Kate Marks in the new episode of PsychCrunch: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

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My new book, “Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary” publishes today from @princetonupress.bsky.social My goal in writing this book is to facilitate a better conversation. A short thread…

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We're always looking for psychologically-informed reviews for our 'Culture' section. If you've seen / heard / been to something lately which might suit this, please let us know! Here's the 'Culture' collection… www.bps.org.uk/collections/...

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We're looking for disabled people (incl. people with mental health conditions & neurodivergent people) to be part of our advisory group for a project @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social aiming to improve clinical trial accessibility. Email me at [email protected] if you'd like more info. Please share!

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We're looking for passionate individuals to join our Board of Trustees and play a key role in shaping the future of the British Psychological Society. Deadline for completed nominations: 28 May '25 and for the EDI role 11 Jun '25 Ready to get involved? 👉 www.bps.org.uk/elections-2025

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People often claim psychedelics have been used globally, for millennia, & in rituals of psychological healing. In today's Guardian Long Read, I show what these stories get wrong & why the reality is far more interesting: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... From "Shamanism: The Timeless Religion"

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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...

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Our second Mempathy episode is out today! We talk about why memory loss affects people’s ability to picture themselves in the future. The science in this episode is relevant to all of us. On all the usual podcast platforms or you can listen here: mempathy.podbean.com

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The 1st major study from @arc-cogitate.bsky.social is out today in @nature.com—a landmark collaboration testing theories of consciousness through rigorous, preregistered science. Data & tools shared openly. Contributed from @mcgillumedia.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

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The cerebellum is involved in many behaviours & cognition, but would you suspect damage would lead to loss of speech? Charlotte Malcolm and team explore: The Neurocognitive Profile of Post-operative Paediatric Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome: A Systematic Review www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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This is a key new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

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I’ll be speaking at this meeting alongside Prof Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social and Prof Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social Please encourage your local MP to attend - template in thread below.

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This preprint suggests the cerebellum instructs neocortical plasticity via the thalamus: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Very cool if this holds, a really important finding! I've said it before and I'll say it again: plasticity in the brain is less "local" than most people think. 🧠📈 🧪

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Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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CPCR faculty David Yaden (@existwell.bsky.social) spoke with Johns Hopkins Medicine to discuss evidence-based messaging about psychedelic research, informed consent, and adverse events surveillance. Read it here: www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/article...

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The brilliant Alex Toliver created a CE course for my upcoming neurodiversity-affirming certification for work with the autistic community: resiliencymentalhealth.com/2025/04/17/c...

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New paper out at @openmindjournal.bsky.social!! We studied early vocab in deaf, hearing, blind, and sighted children in order to learn how sensory access (vision 👀, hearing 👂) and linguistic experiences shape how children learn words... Read on for a quick summary! 1/N

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🚨DR UK's Statement Opposing the Supreme Court's Ruling on 'Biological Sex' 'We stand in solidarity with the Trans community as they experience an onslaught of rights erosions and attacks on their lives.' Read our full statement here: www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

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NIH says its employees aren't allowed to attend scientific conferences without prior approval... even if they do so on weekends or vacations. Towards the elimination of the curious & intelligent, & a power flex; not even the pretense of a logical reason to do this 🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Great to see coverage of our work with adolescent girls understanding the gender mental health gap by @bpsofficial.bsky.social this week! www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

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What goes on inside toddlers' brains? A pioneering human experiment within another decades-long experiment. The mothers of 300 of the children being studied are themselves part of a project that has monitored their health since they too were babies in the '90s. 🧪🧠 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Very useful set of guidelines for conducting social psychology lab experiments by @eddiehj.bsky.social, @davidamodio.bsky.social, and colleagues. Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Few quotes follow…

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🧵 Had a call this week that left me frustrated. A huge grant maker funding a youth-led learning project decided it wouldn’t collect individual-level data. Just totals. No identities, no journeys. Here’s why that choice isn’t neutral and why it could cause real harm. 👇 (1/11)

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Does “learning to live with Covid” actually involve any learning? Lara Wong challenges assumptions and says that learning to live with Covid is not just a health issue but a matter of equality and rights. Page 5 here: pexlib.net?247182 @cvcev.bsky.social #PatientExperience

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Oh great; more Ai phrenology.

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A special issue of Science explores the complex and close associations rats share with humans—from their ubiquity in the human environment to their crucial role as biomedical models. 🐀 Learn more on #WorldRatDay: scim.ag/3E7Xo04

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We're looking for your contributions around our qualifications. Our survey is now open and will give members, trainees and wider stakeholders the opportunity to provide evidence and share their experience of our qualifications. Have your say: www.bps.org.uk/qualificatio...

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Wow! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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It looks like my books, Dirty Teaching & Messy Maths appear in the ‘Lib Gen’ database which Meta used to for their AI training without my knowledge or permission. I support the @societyofauthors.bsky.social day of action. Will you? chng.it/VyMZB4jPbQ

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