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joesimons.bsky.social

Using computers to better understand people. Social psychologist. Bristol to Singapore via Oxford and UNC.

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Explains why I don't feel rested or rejuvenated from my holidays. 😅 #phdlife

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

If social media has taught me anything, it's that - while southern Europe makes a strong showing - China has hands-down supremacy in the preparation of gratuitously enormous batches of food

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Latest suggestion from my nine year old; collective nouns should be symmetric. E.g. An owl of parliaments A raven of murders In awe of the elegant surreality.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII

submitted 15 days ago • 256 comments

Fantastic thread that absolutely nails the problem; as scientists, we are often surprisingly bad at understanding the wider value of our work

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste”

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

Not a great sign when your paper has the cadence of a Captain Beefheart track "Broad frameworks include creatures wandering meadows ... Differently, serious tomatoes are situated in shut foundations and are outfitted with ICT innovation, which empowers creatures to be observed continuously"

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Can't believe its only a couple of weeks until #SPSP205! I'll be there, presenting some of our work on computational measurement of attitude properties. Who do I know whose going?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments