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Just learned that Carlo Umiltà has passed away — a giant of Italian neuroscience 🧠 I was lucky to learn from him during my PhD (not my advisor, but a regular presence in the lab).

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PYMS has a new board and it is booming! Don't miss this session in London if you are an early career meta-scientist (or are interested in meta-science careers)!

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me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

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Disinformation crosses into public health, climate, security, and more. We’re commissioning research that explores how these threats intersect, and how to respond. 📄 Learn more: crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/commiss...

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'You Blew Me Away 8' by sculptor Penny Hardy, sculpture made from upcycled scrap metal, to create a piece which signifies renewed life and energy #womensart

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🔔 Excited to share this new article led by Nicholas Waters and co-authored with Sammy Ahmed on SES and academic achievement www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Calling all mid-career researchers! For the first time ever @gamblingcommission.bsky.social is hosting a UKRI policy fellowship. Work with gambling data and contribute to policy development. Open to psychology, sociology, public health and related disciplines. Apply via UKRI by 15 July orlo.uk/bqw1v

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Heads up: we've got two new funding opportunities through our new Research Programme on Gambling, supported by the government’s statutory levy on gambling profits. See also our opportunity to develop Gambling Harms Research and Innovation partnerships 👉 www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

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🚨Research funding available! 🚨Spread the word! We’re inviting applications for innovative, small-scale research projects that address urgent and emerging behavioural science challenges facing UK security and defence. UKRI funding rules apply. Read more about this commissioning call ->

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New from me and @carlbergstrom.com in @nature.com on navigating LLMs in science, from the jumping off point of peer review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“At the moment, the sector is going through emergency redundancy programme[s] that proper planning could have avoided,” Augar said. “That’s why the governance errors in the [2010s] have led to the problems in the 20s.” 1/2

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Counterpoint: new Public First research shows every UK resident working adult (on a full time equivalent basis) is £466 a year better off on average as a result of international students. So let’s just publicise that instead of levying them www.publicfirst.co.uk/calculating-...

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Are you attending #Metascience2025 in London next week and do you have a Canadian affiliation (past or present)? If you would like to meet up with other colleagues with links to Canada for an informal get together, get in touch with me: DM or dominique.roche[at]sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

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Wow, I’ve just found a Bluesky channel that lets you see only posts with links to scientific papers and get a feed that focuses on the science discussions around them. This is transformative!

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After achieving "significant savings on non-payroll and through a voluntary severance scheme this year," Lancaster University now aims to cut a further 20% of its workforce next year. #UKHE #AcademicSky

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In July, we will be travelling to Dundee for our joint scientific meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, which will include many prize talks, symposia, posters and much, much more! For full information, please visit: eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

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We are devastated at the loss of Elaine Sykes, our Lancaster University and Copim colleague copim.pubpub.org/pub/elaine-s...

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🚨Research funding available! 🚨Spread the word! We’re inviting applications for innovative, small-scale research projects that address urgent and emerging behavioural science challenges facing UK security and defence. UKRI funding rules apply. Read more about this commissioning call ->

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🔍 The NABS+ commissioning call is now open! We’re funding small, focused research projects that tackle key security and defence challenges using behavioural science. Topics include AI, online harms, and information manipulation. APPLY NOW crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/commiss...

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Working to reduce gambling harms in Great Britain? Take part in two Network programming initiatives: 👉 A priority-setting survey to shape future work to reduce gambling-related harms survey.alchemer-ca.com/s3/50366829/... 👉 £1,000,000 in funding for community-focused initiatives. networkrgh.co.uk

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I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

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Interesting article by Jennifer Kemp, 'Research Software Is an Important Research Output. Let’s Act Like It.' (via LI and Katina Magazine): https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/research-software-important-research-output

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That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.” /1

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NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

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Lots of content out there about open science in psychology in terms of science content. Where is the conversation about open science tooling in psychology: I want to learn more about the research platforms, tools, ecosystems people are trying to build in?

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Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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Congratulations to our own Professor Karen Broadhurst (@karenb-2.bsky.social) who receives an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for her dedicated and high impact work in child and family justice research 👏 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/obe-in-...

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