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Forever DM, eurorack hack, and neophyte game designer. Also, academic psychologist interested in cultural evolution, ritual, religion, and reality beliefs.
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UoTA sent out an unhinged newsletter about AI and students. I clicked on the sender, Niall Ferguson, who is also co-founder of UoTA. And, well... substack.com/@niallfergus...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a Good Thing and also very funny. Of course, it's going to destroy the reputation of glitter in the same way that certain arrangements of facial hair are verboten.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Applied science is nothing without basic science. You need 10 basic scientists for one applied scientist to thrive and take credit.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Pre-print. Get Reviewed. Make responses. Get reviewed. Get accepted. WITHDRAW, UPDATE PREPRINT WITH ACCEPTANCE AND REVIEWS.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Announced today, my university dropped 5 rungs in the QS rankings. Also today: a university wide day of industrial action. We are asking for is for the employer to categorically rule out compulsory redundancies. That's all. I wonder if there's some correlation between those two things??

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is a terrible headline. And yet the article is not *about* the headline, and is somehow *worse*.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I have no love for these kind of LLMs, but there are a lot of aspects of this 200 page (!!) preprint that need to be discussed. The participants are all adult undergrads at excellent universities, for one. Then there are the measures, which are a little over-elegant for a first foray like this...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

PbTA apocalypse world? I can't wait for the reddit threads on this...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yessss

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

been a long time coming, there's now a preprint along with Will Hoppitt describing our new R package for creating, fitting and interpreting bayesian NBDA models (STBayes). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Documentation is here michaelchimento.github.io/STbayes/inde...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

It's always a challenge to edit my own writing. This is especially so when the writing is old. It's like "Yeah, it's not wrong, it's not even unclear. It's just ugly. This doesn't need an edit, so much as a complete re-write". But it's hard to justify it because it's a vague feeling about 'voice'.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Predicting behavior is basically impossible.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Woah, when did 'Religion, Brain, and Behavior' get that sneakily high IF? That's great news for that journal!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Inbox zero.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Universities have very different duties of care for students than they do for staff, and I personally couldn't be less interested in a wellbeing seminar/online resources. Staff need more careful management of workload density, and staffing which includes resilience to staff absence through illness

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

I'm not, like, a military guy. But I do know a couple of things. 1. Soldiers are drilled on marching. 2. Soldiers follow orders. Soo.... can someone who knows about such things comment on the marching at Trump's parade? Surely it was deliberate? (I tried google. It's so hard to find stuff).

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, Reviewer 3, if you're out there... you get it.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Scholarship for Durham University Students £15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26. Durham people please spread the word! Application form 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I don't want to pick on this person, but they came up in my feed and I'm feeling salty. If you're in the media, stop asking rhetorical questions. 'Why!?!?!', you ask. Do you know the answer? The rest of us do. Stop asking. Start stating facts.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sure we all have a Beach Boys / Brian Wilson memory. When I was a child my mum would always put on the Beach Boys when she was cleaning the house. To this day I still know all the words to "Good Vibrations", "Surfing USA", and "I Get Around".

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The author (not the poster) argues that we shouldn't be paid to review, it's part of a service. The thing I don't understand is that universities will squeeze blood from a stone for your time and overheads in any grant, but is fine with reviewing as service.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

We have a lovely new paper out, showing that even ignorant people can be very good at recognising who's knowledgeable based on minimal cues

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment