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Tomorrow marks the 3rd anniversary of Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. His forces bombed cities like Mariupol into rubble. Raped, tortured & murdered civilians. Targeted maternity & children's hospitals. I took this photo of one the mass graves - it contained 445 bodies in Izium (1/2)

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Hands up who’s had their ability or credentials questioned because of the colour of their skin ✋🏾

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The Working Memory Symposium will return in 2025 (Tentative date: July 8-11)! We are now seeking a new post-doc organizer to join our organizing team. To apply, fill out the google form linked on our home page (www.wmsymposium.org) by March 16!

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This essay by trans cyclist Austin Killips is a must-read and is a perfect dismantling of the lie that Republicans are trying to "save women's sports."

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The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

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Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters: 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Favourable: 64% Unfavourable: 16% NET: +48% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump Favourable: 22% Unfavourable: 73% NET: -51% 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin Favourable: 4% Unfavourable: 89% NET: -85% Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.

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There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

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#neurojobs Looking for a new role as Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience? @thechbh.bsky.social has great facilities, lovely people...and an open position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW735/p...

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'High-stakes gambling: Overrepresentation of gambling harm among help-seeking communities in the NW of England.': http://osf.io/d95m6_v1/

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Kemi Badenoch says Lib Dems are "nice people" who don't spend lots of time online, and instead do a lot of work in local communities: "A typical Liberal Democrat is someone who is good at fixing the church roof." Sounds great maybe we should give them a chance! www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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"And you totally know how to paint a baby?" Artist: Yup "You're sure?" Artist: Don't worry about it "You know what a baby looks like?" Artist: Yes "It's just you always paint babies like they're 40yr old blokes called Colin" Artist: Not this time

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The Führer couldn't wait for an Enabling Act to be passed, so he rolled his own Executive Order.

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This dog is too long for our current rating system to handle. We are working internally to address this problem, but in the meantime please only send regular-length dogs. Thank you… 13/10

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Two twin funding initiatives providing a fantastic and pretty unique opportunity for talented individuals to develop post-doc expertise through fellowships on the impact of AI in science. UKRI: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... & Alfred Sloan Foundation: apply.sloan.org/prog/call_fo... #metascience

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Never mind woke Marxism, I can't even indoctrinate my students into formatting a bibliography consistently. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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On 27th April, my friend and I are fundraising for Macmillan by completing over FOUR marathons in one day between us (141 miles in total)! Run – 26.2 miles Row - 26.2 miles Ski - 26.2 miles Bike – 62.1 miles (100km) Any donations would be much appreciated www.justgiving.com/page/4-marat...

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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

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The meeting programme for EPS Lancaster in April is now live! eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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Spent the morning talking about psychology my children's school. Now, I've given many talks to leading experts from across the world, but nothing prepares you for Qs from 6-7 year olds! Personal favourite, from my own son, "if you stepped on a bit of lego and didn't have a brain, would you feel it?"

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Every talk that I've ever given on writing — and I've given MANY — has begun with Tim Radford's first rule of writing to think of the reader. “This is because, although you — an employee, an apostle or an apologist — may feel compelled to write, nobody has ever felt obliged to read.”

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PhD students in social sciences studying "metascience" and AI: This looks like an AMAZING opportunity. Fully funded research postdoc that can be housed at whatever university you can find an appropriate mentor. sloan.org/programs/dig...

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📢JOB ALERT: Research Associate - NABS+ Doctoral Fellow x 2 📍Lancaster University Deadline: 3 March 2025 MORE: https://buff.ly/4gBENH6

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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Google doc apparently has inbuilt AI now. Seeing an unfamiliar vertical line, I hovered over it. It suggested that I make some corrections to the blurb I was writing. The first one was to change "Dr. Devezer" to "He". Thank you, AGI.

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Very pleased that the @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Psychonomic Society has added their professional voice to concern over the Trump administration's attack on science: www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...

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Here is a new collection of resources regarding preregistrations including a shiny app for the generation of preregistrations, help for reporting deviations, literature on preregistrations etc. prereg-psych.org

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Great point.

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We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.

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James Reason (1938-2025) I learned yesterday that Prof. James Reason died. Thanks for the inspiration, Jim. But most importantly, at this time, we hold him, his family and those who loved him, to the light. www.linkedin.com/posts/steven...

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New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

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Huge well done to Rebecca Hart for publishing her review on the role of meaning/semantics on short-term ('working') memory, as part of the special issue of QJEP on '50 Years of Working Memory: Contemporary insights for the Baddeley and Hitch (1974) framework' 🌟 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Ah, yes, the arts must be reigned in quickly. I am pretty sure that "Gleichschaltung" will become part of the American vocabulary, similar to Kindergarten or Blitzkrieg. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... 1/2

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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We’ve all heard the stories of how Trump loves to stiff his contractors …. This is the same playbook with national research funding

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