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psychfarmer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University of Greenwich. Interested in studying self, body and social cognition using behavioural, neural and VR methods.
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Happy birthday, Dad. Time to come back now, it’s all gone a bit rubbish without you. ❤️❤️❤️

submitted 3 days ago • 229 comments

Not just geneticists who need to take a stand against the rise of eugenics. In the social sciences, (overt) eugenic ideology mostly seems to be published in psychology and philosophy but it creeps in all over the place www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

submitted 12 days ago • 288 comments

If you’re also appalled by Wednesday’s anti-trans Supreme Court decision and live in the UK, it’s pretty easy to email your MP (members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP) or MSP (www.parliament.scot/msps) a

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

the journalists who quoted this source attacking 'the mentally-unwell network' and allowed them to stay anonymous are actual scum, eagerly facilitating politicians attacking the public so long as they get first dibs on the attacks www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

The UK government is proposing to finally finish off its universities by further tightening the terms of the graduate visa route. The stupid fools. Playing with dangers they don't even understand. www.ft.com/content/f441...

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

my offer to america: we bring woke back

submitted 24 days ago • 316 comments

It really is just mad stuff burning very thing to the ground for no benefit.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

#uhoh Looks like OpenAI can take surveys for you… how are we going to stop this?? It’s currently only for “Pro Users” ($200/month) but eventually roll out. Big threat to survey research

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

I am a broken record on this point but I think it is important: the gap between how awful the British media and political class are and the actual British public is *huge*, you genuinely get an unrepresentative vision of how bad the UK is if you judge by these public phenomenon.

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

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submitted 36 days ago • 28 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 42 days ago • 2582 comments

truly we were not built to see ourselves so much www.thecut.com/article/what...

submitted 43 days ago • 26 comments

New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Really cool paper showing the importance of social relationships in the brains processing of other individuals.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

submitted 56 days ago • 51 comments

I need the institution where I teach (NYU) to respond clearly and unequivocally saying this is unconstitutional and they will not be adhering to it. This is a red line.

submitted 58 days ago • 56 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 57 days ago • 1739 comments

ChatGPT says I coined the term ‘automatic imitation’. I'm not sure that's true, but this book is a fine survey of the state of the art. Open access. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 60 days ago • 291 comments

idea: we force op-ed writers to place their takes on a quasi-prediction market and whoever gets the most correct gets to write more op-eds

submitted 59 days ago • 19 comments