dremalt.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology @ Newcastle University. Studying the evolution of hierarchies and hierarchical thinking, mostly in primates. Open science, BTS, ManyPrimates/ManyManys. Living organism. Psoriatic arthritic. Age dyschronic. Writer. Buddhist.
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I have used GiffGaff for years, and its been pretty much great. They're on the O2 network in the UK, which others have mentioned, and roaming in EU has not been a problem.
If you want a provider who also does the full phone provision plan thing, I hear Three is good, if not as good as they once were
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Something to keep in mind that is often forgotten: people get into science because they want to learn what is real. They may wind up 'doing it wrong' and then not want to change, but for most, that's not due to narcissism. Scientists can be convinced, that's a key part of our identity.
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...2%
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according to genetic testing, he really is part "wild canid"
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Danger Mouse's instrumentation is just so gripping!
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Hello! Could you please add me to the pack?
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Try "Unraveling Balero" - you might remember it, we talked about it years ago.
Another TAL standalone goodie is "The Feather Heist"
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Surely a number of Radiolab eps...
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Would be fascinated to know about the channels that allowed the name to get passed around, modified, and handed back to Lucas.
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One of my favorite tidbits of WEG lore is that the name "Mace Windu" appears much much earlier than Ep.1 as the name of a random Squib in a random supplement: www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/c...
But what I didn't know till now: "Mace Windy" is an even older name from Lucas' original 1973 treatment!
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Mine are all just dog photos. Can't exactly argue that they're wrong...
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They are! Saw a few flowering in Solukhumbu, around Phakding
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Good point. Springer-Nature has heaps of lower tier journals they could do this with without much reputational loss. I often forget that such journals are 'Nature-adjacent'
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Thank you for your service
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Very likely the same. I would not call it deeply flawed. Flawed, sure, but what it is is an adventure game, not a CRPG, built in the Baldur's Gate engine, right after BG came out, so expectations were off in 1999. And yeah, it is a lot of peoples' favorite game!
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Play Planescape: Torment! It will give you a new perspective on how D&D operates through these very channels.
DE is a spiritucal successor. Torment is the OG.
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Yeah, this. It wouldn't happen if it wasn't somehow rewarding for him.
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Done!
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and yet, it looks (!)
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I'm telling you, if you want the best attempt that humans have been capable of so far, it's this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therava...
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We developed a class at Edinburgh called "critical analysis", for 3rd years. But, its mostly about how to read and critique psych papers. And its all based on the lead lecturer's lectures and framework - which to be fair are very good
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But then if the questions are integrated into a system like @octopus-ac.bsky.social, and we as researchers build on those, and policy makers know that the answers will be coming to them through the platform and thus know to be monitoring it... well that seems like it solves a quite a few problems.
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But that was only part of the problem. It isn't that hard to find out what policy makers want to know. But answering their questions in way that makes sense to them, and in a way that they become *aware* that you've answered their questions, is harder.
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I have, for some time, been keen on off-handedly lamenting "I just need the policy makers to tell me what they want to know and I'll find out!"
Access to the ARI database gives us pretty much exactly that.
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Time to begin a kintsugi practice
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Timely post... So for the first time I have to teach undergrads a complete personality course and I've been trying to think about ways to talk about more meaningful stuff than just the Big 5, measurement/reliability/etc.
Any topic suggestions for a progressive personality curriculum?