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Tweets for 2012-05-24

My critique of the "is this feminist?" blog doesn't fit in 140 characters. PROBLEMATIC http://t.co/oMxv249v #
Now up on http://t.co/85Rwnq1n – my @BBC_Future column: Why your brain loves to tune out http://t.co/i96mxFJk #
Loving the knowledgable and generous comments on my column on adaptation reposted at mindhacks http://t.co/i96mxFJk #
Contact Juggler provides masterclass in manipulating correlation in time and space to give illusion of causation http://t.co/Sxi2QPxc #
"Pingus is a free Lemmings-like puzzle game covered under the GNU GPL." http://t.co/mMW7F5oe #
Sheffield's Dept of Philosophy announce @drangiehobbs as new Fellow for the Public Understanding of Philosophy http://t.co/jGk9vCOY #
My latest column for @BBC_Future: "Why your body jerks before you fall asleep" http://t.co/cEpYTwCx #

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Tweets for 2012-05-17

Today i would like to see a country by country comparison of per capita GDP adjusted for average annual working hours. Kthxbi #
markets are as fundamental as conversation RT @TimHarford: Rules of trading in a prisoner of war camp: http://t.co/WPdAymE9 #
Morning all. If you have a brain quirk or mental curio you'd like to read a column on, let me know. Past columns here http://t.co/sBrs5sLj #

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Tweets for 2012-05-17

Today i would like to see a country by country comparison of per capita GDP adjusted for average annual working hours. Kthxbi #
markets are as fundamental as conversation RT @TimHarford: Rules of trading in a prisoner of war camp: http://t.co/WPdAymE9 #
Morning all. If you have a brain quirk or mental curio you'd like to read a column on, let me know. Past columns here http://t.co/sBrs5sLj #

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Tweets for 2012-05-17

Today i would like to see a country by country comparison of per capita GDP adjusted for average annual working hours. Kthxbi #
markets are as fundamental as conversation RT @TimHarford: Rules of trading in a prisoner of war camp: http://t.co/WPdAymE9 #
Morning all. If you have a brain quirk or mental curio you'd like to read a column on, let me know. Past columns here http://t.co/sBrs5sLj #

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Tweets for 2012-05-10

Soho, london #
Fascinating: The Geographical Flow of Music http://t.co/LmKynhow cc @mikedewar @emmafraggle #
.@stevenpoole slams @jonahlehrer's book on creativity as superficial neuroscientism http://t.co/98z46NJD Lehrer retorts http://t.co/E6U382kB #
Do I know any any mental health informatics types? http://t.co/CTKuo7jY #job #london #
My column for @BBC_Future "Why the brain loves to tune out" http://t.co/IcTA82LP (uk readable version) #
Basically, I am never happier than when writing about the brain's fundamental computational principles…. #
…And making people do weird stuff with their eyes http://t.co/IcTA82LP #
Richly deserved! RT @vaughanbell: Weirdly, I have won a journalism prize – for blogging http://t.co/b30e4DJ8 #
Advance warning: going to be leading an urban Mind Hacks treasure hunt in Berlin on 11th of July. More soon. #
Classic: disappointed fans in Sheffield after Dylan went electric "Bob Dylan was a bastard in the second half" http://t.co/Y3E8oxuY #
RT @Neuro_Skeptic Juvenile delinquents "hardly convinced that their crime was caused by features of their brain" http://t.co/y3l3KSeb #

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Tweets for 2012-05-03

My @BBC_Future column on earworms is now on http://t.co/85Rwnq1n http://t.co/MPG5KvYL how to breed them, care for them, and get rid of them! #
Archive classic. Dement (1960) The Effects of Dream Deprivation http://t.co/EQQYWAVT"anxiety, irritability, and difficulty in concentrating" #
In other news, I'm trying to find something to read about dream incorporation, where external stimuli get woven into the dream. Any clues? #
Psych people: can you recommend any refs on the phenomenon of incorporation of external stimuli into dreams? #
Humans who have never seen a dog can tell if it is afraid from the sound of its bark http://t.co/V5H9wqQ9 #
US Citizens – apply for a Fulbright scholarship to undertake research and/or teaching in beautiful Sheffield, England! http://t.co/LRukiwzX #
The cyclo.id album is awesome. If you like maths-techno http://t.co/UoPzzclF #
Nick's journey finds him staying at an asylum … RT @underscrutiny: Objects, like people… http://t.co/NV4QQb9z #
Does teh interwebs rewire my brain? http://t.co/kmdMoCsa I can has relax now? #
Perfect one line summary! RT @marvel_matt Type of online activity – not internet use itself – will drive any changes http://t.co/1tDhYYCd #
Speaking of techno-panic, am happy to say I come top for a google search of "why Sherry Turkle is so wrong" http://t.co/1aPYQnAF #
Experience the hypnotic beauty of travel in the University of Sheffield's paternoster lift http://t.co/7nEppXEV #

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Tweets for 2012-04-26

Special issue of Experimental Brain Research "Perceiving Transformed Movements When Using Tools" http://t.co/kzfCeH09 #
Review : 'tool use does not literally extend peripersonal space' http://t.co/1VzoqyZb #
Lovecraft anniversary marked by feeling of creeping dread http://t.co/nwZNNHLN #
Reposted on @mindhacksblog My column on @BBC_Future about personal superstitions, from a few weeks back http://t.co/9Jr7UcFD #
International Student Drama Festival, 22-30 June. This year in SHEFFIELD http://t.co/8r93aGDd @NSDFest #
Dr Chris Jones, Lecturer in Environmental Psychology at U of Sheffield talking about Understanding Public Attitudes: http://t.co/belTbS8O #
My latest at @BBC_Future "Does the internet rewire your brain?" http://t.co/yHnxhuIr short answer: yes #
Motor plasticity in a juggling task in older adults—a developmental study http://t.co/Yd83A4yS n=1206, no decline in learning with age #

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Tweets for 2012-04-19

Is there a brain quirk you'd like explaining? I'm currently taking requests for column topics #
-aw @ #
RT @MarkChangizi: My student's, Aaron Fath's, view on what are earworms. In this Harnessed excerpt… http://t.co/ld6mzDmp #
From @timeshighered : only two research intensive universities admitted more state school pupils last year: Sheffield and Liverpool. #
Earworm-related lolz RT @decath10n: The best reason to save the NHS yet? (read from bottom up). http://t.co/zGnJ9TRC #
Research income vs teaching income for 160 UK universities http://t.co/miOD91C7 (using data from @timeshighered) #
New review in Brain & Cognition "Training the brain: Fact and fad in cognitive and behavioral remediation" http://t.co/TXUrJlzh #
"Logic feels so good—I like it! Evidence for intuitive detection of logicality in syllogistic reasoning." http://t.co/A7j0unBw #
Tetrapod forelimb homology http://t.co/qPwYgH9V (thanks Jason!) #
Depth from motion. Visual illusion meets child's nightmare monsters http://t.co/0J2le0zT via @MarkChangizi #
Today: visiting the philosophy department at the U of Nottingham. #

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Tweets for 2012-04-12

Animal Vision Conference, Sussex Sept 10, http://t.co/JXUFhJF8 #
Article on the bio-inspired robots of our Professor Prescott http://t.co/ualSMhsn #
As always, for my analysis of Olympic risk strategy I turn to @drjennings: Lessons from the 2012 Boat Race…. http://t.co/Z79NbBpo #
RT @sheffielduni: inspirational video feat. one of our students – Simon Wheatcroft http://t.co/bOpovACH <– aka @moochoo psychology student! #
UK-readable version of my @BBC_Future column on earworms http://t.co/jIoA4Tus thanks to @mariapage for advice on this one #
On the sociology of willpower http://t.co/ld8Sdnpe Orwell said it best in Keep the Aspidistra Flying #

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Tweets for 2012-04-05

86 year old performs stunning dance routine http://t.co/FPKg2N0j a joy #aginggracefully #
Neurological change following limb immobilisation http://t.co/6BZYhtlM report from @jjodx #
RT @mikedewar: Hi everyone! Have you written / read any high quality scientific literature on memes or viral behaviour on the social web? #
RT @paulbloomatyale: How to ask a question at a conference or colloquium. http://t.co/xQIT5S3P #
British Academy all-dayer "Modelling for Policy" http://t.co/5S9dLKAF #
Interactive python tutorials http://t.co/DM2K6gAS really very good. If you, y'know, want to learn python #
"You're flying! How?" "Python!" xkcd classic http://t.co/TkJwlG7i #
"Behind Athletics" Sports-science in #Sheffield 26 April from @ri_science http://t.co/PWnFNsN7 #
"All of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, One Line Every Hour, Over and Over" @HowlTweeter #
Classic: Tomasello on Pinker "Language is Not an Instinct" http://t.co/KtIk8nxd via @alexfradera (in 2004 blog post comment!) #
Research validated internet-based CBT for depression and anxiety http://t.co/t0Eoaqat via @vaughanbell on @mindhacksblog #
Just contributed to the production of the film about Zigmunt Bauman @BeingHumanFilm http://t.co/t6gUNT8g good luck guys! #
Now seeking critical reviews of "Rethinking Innateness". Any leads? Found this by Rispoli http://t.co/v1cNVFnD #
What Maslow Missed http://t.co/2X1DMhpR (answer: social connection) via @jonmsutton don't skip the comments #
Ira Glass on how to make your work match your ambitions http://t.co/0oRuQIp7 via @brainpicker #
Shalizi on giving academic talks http://t.co/cqjIQENQ (much of this applied to writing also) #
AWESOME funded PhD place with two of my FAVOURITE colleagues "Communicative Development in Human Infants and Robots" http://t.co/Z5BEReSc #
RT AWESOME funded PhD place with two of my FAVOURITE colleagues "Communicative Development in Human Infants and Robots" http://t.co/Z5BEReSc #

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Tweets for 2012-03-29

Low-tech robotics RT @alicebell: Wind-powered kinetic sculptures crawl down a beach: http://t.co/mSiGHsrV See also http://t.co/CMeAozyg #
Autism cases cluster like environmentally triggered illness, but in areas of social privilage rather than deprivation http://t.co/2rCRGwXN #
How I will retort to the next intrusion by the physicists into psychology http://t.co/MU5joRdO (Via Cosma) #
Online book of condelences for Michael Siegal now open
http://t.co/QWz8rerf see also for details of memorial seminar #
Oooh special issue on dichotic listening in Brain & Cognition http://t.co/Khu2FzIq #
20 minutes talking to @mikedewar has made me a coding genius. If only it would last… #
Bert has Korsakoff's amnesia and keeps a website. This page tells a bit about how he copes http://t.co/zPumAFsg #
Five cognitive neuroscientists take a trip into the wild to escape the distractions of technology http://t.co/4gIpe7pB #
Congratulations to the ABRG's own Mark Humphries, who has just been awarded a 7 year MRC Senior Research Fellowship. http://t.co/JvWV4gbZ #
Good day – @totalshowman gave me a copy of his thesis, all corrections done. Thanks Dr Walton! http://t.co/OSn6qfOV #
Got @mikedewar to help me with a coding problem today. Felt like tiny hobbit carried over the mountains in the claws of giant eagle #
People from online collages keep offering to write me guest blog posts, presumably to get SEO for their spammy site. Anyone else get this? #
Psychological and Neuroscientific Connections with Reinforcement Learning http://t.co/gHLTTPLV Great new chapter from the ABRG's Ashvin Shah #
Enjoy @totalshowman's thesis "The Discovery of Novel Actions" here http://t.co/nLsIJmrJ #
kinetic lego poetry from @alexallmont http://t.co/Io1B9UOP via @yaxu #
Sean Bennett thinks earworms are a kind of auditory REM, brain activity specifically tuned to aid memory http://t.co/qIwI9sjx cc @mariapage #
RT @MarkChangizi Earworm teaser from Harnessed. http://t.co/ld6mzDmp #
Here's a UK-readable version of my latest column for @BBC_Future, about the superstitious brain http://t.co/TCvORFoO #
What's new in the Psychology Department at @sheffielduni? News here: http://t.co/6UunAYZl #
Terrific review of @jonahlehrer 's new book and a must-read comments section http://t.co/wxggbKxW #

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Tweets for 2012-03-22

It's going to be a straight down the line Gibson-Brooks-Dennett gig, folks #
Question at talk: what are the most important concepts you use to understand the mind? Was stumped. #
Before RT @thundercauldron: @pubpsychsheff @tomstafford psychology in the pub at the showroom. Great talk in prospect! http://t.co/cGwkH7wh #
During RT @mariapage: Live from showroom! @tomstafford explaining why pirates wear eye-patches http://t.co/ICwyaX29” #
Should have said: computation, action, evolution, game theory #
After: http://t.co/veoPL0Yp #
Thanks to all who turned out. Appreciated the support. Nice to do a talk for the home town crowd! #
"And yet still they spot." http://t.co/2wOj5VFV #
I am in the queue for bread with @aden_76. Next stop: @Sharrow_Vale hardware nextdoor #
Meat space still not irrelevant. Quality of research linked to physical co-location, even in the internet age http://t.co/3Ixf9hVY #
ADHD traits associated with higher creative achievement http://t.co/b3DDIvZ9 cc @mariapage #
Those last two links from @jonahlehrer's new book, which I am reviewing for @sciencefocus #
BBC News – Why are grown men still launching tabletop war? http://t.co/Py9zuNIN #
http://t.co/Hm7tNWTv: Anatomy Of An Idea http://t.co/ZwK0BZ5X #
Bitly Fights for Social Analytics With Weapons-Grade Math | Wired Enterprise | http://t.co/RFcsjRSO http://t.co/rous0uty #
RT @topfife: Pirate Bay launching DRONE SERVER STATIONS — http://t.co/tb5vPcCQ via @tuupola #
There have been 4999 downloads of my free ebook "Explore Your Blindspot" as of this morning… https://t.co/Llf7tab8 you know what to do! #
RT @Psych_Writer: Mild intoxication aids creative problem solving. New research Digested: http://t.co/Jx6hirl1 #
Our ebook on lucid dreaming is now available from the iTunes Store http://t.co/MuF6b69u #
Seminar this friday in the department: Jen McBride "Automatic Motor Activation and Control" http://t.co/9FgZzP0p #sheffield #
RT @jjodx Neuroprosthetic motor learning http://t.co/nx5tP0G5 #
So just how "effortless" is that judo throw? http://t.co/OE24H4fa #
RT @Neuro_Skeptic The Age of ADHD http://t.co/TiJjlKo9 #
This! RT @bengoldacre Alan Turing on the next tenner please http://t.co/Z6UzOwQ0 #
RT @deevybee "The REF: a monster that sucks time and money from academic institutions" http://t.co/ihRtUnn8 #

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Tweets for 2012-03-15

Scholarly debate in action: http://t.co/GCk5cf1f blogs have a special place in debate, not served by journals #
Read @whimsley exploding some fashionable nonsense about trends in publishing http://t.co/xnDgfP8P #
Including a link to this, which argues that the internet has *narrowed* popular discourse, not widened it http://t.co/F2ehAtrm #
And this, which is a neat experimental study of how social influence affects success of cultural products http://t.co/P09PrXha #
All win RT @criener: Did a 3D sidewalk chalk drawing with my Sensation and Perception class today! Cool stuff. http://t.co/qn6kqCCv #
Trying to find details of a story I remember about a footballer whose superstition was always to be last out the dressing room #
Am writing about personal rituals for @BBC_Future. Here's a good post on soccer superstitions http://t.co/C0iI737K #
"10 Most Superstitious Athletes" http://t.co/VFZTgRFe #
Dickinson and Balleine (2000). Causal cognition and goal-directed action http://t.co/MmNeD5Z9 a classic #
http://t.co/9gkcIbvf "Share your life experiences" #
Finished my column. Would like to include some fun examples of personal superstitions / rituals of the famous, alive or dead. Suggestions? #
"Forget your generalized audience." Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck via @brainpicker http://t.co/EIXxXfcD #
Browse recently submitted PhD theses from Leeds, York and Sheffield http://t.co/eVufjDdF the scholarly diversity fills me with joy #
On thursday I'm talking at Psychology in the Pub on how we're "Thinking Meat" https://t.co/UUMhvNSu #sheffield #
And here's a UK readable link for my column "Why can smells unlock forgotten memories?" http://t.co/YAyEvUKT #
Excitement in the lab as @thundercauldron shows off his new continuous flash suppression technique, allowing subliminal priming. Neat-o #
"Lego Robots! Subliminal messages! Britney Spears! Pirates! And a no-holds-bared personal revelation" https://t.co/UUMhvNSu tomorrow folks! #

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Tweets for 2012-03-08

.@HelenMort considers poetry and the dreaming brain http://t.co/hP5OA0Rt #
RT @vaughanbell: Amazing @Radiolab short on nightmares and lucid dreaming http://t.co/Y5uFRb8W #
I wish I was still at school so I could go to this http://t.co/PaHG4qAo Schools Videogame Festival in july #
Excellent paper: "For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything" (Greene & Cohen, 2004) http://t.co/x67XQF5o #
"Sheffield Ladies Wot Tech Celebrate International Women's Day" http://t.co/qlnxF1G6 #Sheffield #
So do I know anyone with experience of hacking the Google Analytics data export API? #
This is exactly the sort of thing that never happens to me http://t.co/9a8E6gkd What's the secret to serendipity @underscrutiny? #
Hilariously bad dualism on this wikipedia page "Laughter is a part of human behavior regulated by the brain" http://t.co/dckYVBjT #
"A laugh is characterized by a series of short vowel-like notes (syllables), each about 75 milliseconds long" http://t.co/Wmu4CIJa #
"chimpanzee laughter occurs almost exclusively during physical contact" Another gem from http://t.co/Wmu4CIJa #
It occurs to me that laughter could be a great measure of implicit bias. You can't control it, but it is also fundamentally social #
Man tickling a gorilla http://t.co/T87L8yQi Love the BBC! #
The paper from that article "Reconstructing the Evolution of Laughter in Great Apes and Humans" http://t.co/U7ysG4Bv #
"Laughter among deaf signers" RT @yaxuprime Was wondering if laughter is inherently vocal, apparently so http://t.co/GSDgBFEN #
"Why do we need to sleep?" http://t.co/ZP0UGjB6 my latest column for @BBC_Future #
We can make you laugh, by electrical stimulation of the cingulate cortex http://t.co/9PZqaQ2C but it ain't funny #
In blog comments @maxcoltheart is educating me http://t.co/MaxKtPWA. It's sad there aren't more academic fora for this kind of discssion #
"Piéron’s Law and Optimal Behavior in Perceptual Decision-Making" (van Maanen et al, 2012) http://t.co/LOqjIWPQ #
It would have been Townes Van Zandt's birthday today http://t.co/xJgVg6b2 #
"Read-Right aims to provide free rehabilitation to patients with Hemianopic Alexia" http://t.co/CluM9em6 #
Gamma band synchronisation is 91% heritable http://t.co/mBirYuXV that is an UNHOLY amount of genetic determinism in the visual system #
Academics: I've conducted a simple study showing that using a wiki improves my students' exam grades. Which journal would publish this? #
And, yes, I know the control condition is crucial. What i've done is neat/convincing but not conclusive (ie not Nature territory) #
.@JStro_ And it's open access now – very fitting! http://t.co/aOnJLtTi #
Robust, but slightly shrill, retort by Bargh to Doyen's criticisms of his classic elderly-prime/walking time study http://t.co/hl3gB6jX #

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Tweets for 2012-03-01

The Drop the Health Bill petition is now the most popular No. 10 e-petition, with 158,680 signatures http://t.co/cV5PskXm #
Futurology and the Uses of Fiction by @AlecPatton http://t.co/4I9Gs1G1 #
"Without a putative task analysis, interpreting functional imaging results is little better than reading the tea leaves" Shallice & Cooper #
That quote used in a great review of the book in the latest @psychmag #
Received 14 June 1995; accepted 8 May 2006 Available online 8 October 2008
Academic publishing is fantastically broken http://t.co/e3ZmVipp #
London here I come #
Tomorrow: visiting @Preloaded in Old Street. Anyone on Silicon Roundabout fancy lunch? @genmon? #
Obituary of the Department's Prof. Michael Siegal http://t.co/QWz8rerf #
"the whole industry is somewhere between hopeful speculation and a rip-off" me quoted on Brain Training in the National http://t.co/o3Xej98K #
Oh look – a new column by me at @BBC_Future is up "Do we all see the same colours?" http://t.co/8ak4f7vO in UK link: http://t.co/SYZhFw21 #
Come and be a colleague of mine in Sheffield "We're hiring" http://t.co/XQgiVQTT #
Important context on that "Psychologists Legally Required to Dress As Wizards" story http://t.co/M6t8ys81 #
In case you missed this last night: Come and be a colleague of mine in Sheffield "We're hiring" http://t.co/XQgiVQTT #
Howl for the digital age RT @mikedewar: I saw the greatest minds of my generation… http://t.co/O4XPriP4 #
13th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW13) to be held in San Sebastian (Spain) from July 12-14, 2012: http://t.co/RzUS0mNH #
Is Willpower just Working Memory? New paper by Alan Baddeley and colleagues explores links between social and cog psych http://t.co/PD2S2tA4 #
British Neuropsychological Society Meeting, London, 28-29th of March http://t.co/Y2kXLYNO #
Surely to really recreate the effect of the BBC Micro, everything else has to be as boring as the 1980s? @Raspberry_Pi #
Funded PhDs in "Search and Rescue" network with engineering and comp sci. I am co-supervising project 3 http://t.co/Z5BEReSc #
RT @BrainStraining @Neurobonkers shows you how to lie with questionnaires http://t.co/9KspPbiY #
RT @brainpicker Mozilla introduces Collusion, an experimental tool that allows you to see who's tracking you online http://t.co/3bP1wqNj #

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Tweets for 2012-02-23

Fred Inglis reviews "What Are Universities For?" in @timeshighered http://t.co/tqtxvu9s #
What happens when one of the best classical musicians in the world busks in the subway? http://t.co/abUfCFA5 (washington post, 2007) #
Visual illusions in Lego http://t.co/zG0Kgiho cc @legopsych #
Cerebellar task deficits in older adults, but tasks associated with basal ganglia unaffected by aging http://t.co/7rp4cpdT (Seidler, 2006) #
MT @vaughanbell: story telling is more effective in changing 4yo kids' behavior than explicit instructions http://t.co/xZbBZ72t via @hysell #
Sweet: cake for breakfast may help with weight loss http://t.co/Vt3VrIG6 #
No decline in skill learning rate across lifespan http://t.co/Yd83A4yS (Voelcker-Rehage, 2006; juggling study, n=1206!). #
Our paper, Bednark et al (2012) now available "Creating a movement heuristic for voluntary action" http://t.co/qhycQ5cv (uncorrected proof) #
"mystery detective" Massimo Polidoro comes to Sheffield http://t.co/OPxqyV4H March 12, Psych Dept at 1pm, reserve by email psycos@shef.ac.uk #
RT @DigiWorldSheff: Interested in Robotics? Want to develop new tech in Search & Rescue? PhD scholarships: http://t.co/GGxMRWyl #
RT @social_brains RIP Ulric Neisser, a trailblazer of cognitive psychology: http://t.co/GQnZrf5i #
Peter Dayan's review of Jeff Hawkins' "On Intelligence" http://t.co/N5Y3AR7E (PloS, 2004) #
RT @vaughanbell Why recalling names is so vexing http://t.co/jjPNhYdX First of an ace new Neurohacks column by @tomstafford for BBC Future #
.@vaughanbell Sadly not viewable from within the UK! I wonder what I wrote 😉 #
Here we go: my column, viewable in the UK: "Why recalling names is so vexing" http://t.co/kVj5jOz0 #
EPSRC announces 'Research in the Wild' funding call (Digital Economy theme) http://t.co/TMgs93bX via @DigiWorldSheff #
3 weeks until my talk at Psychology in the Pub, Sheffield https://t.co/UUMhvNSu #
"Western psychology is about as culturally neutral as Coca Cola" RT @vaughanbell: The mind is a guess http://t.co/SjqEjWHk #

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Tweets for 2012-02-16

Cartoon illustrating a streamlined peer review process which would be easier than the current system http://t.co/xlztJKuj #
What It Means to be Human http://t.co/5Gl7W1WB @royalsociety on 8th of March #
Age effects shrink when motor learning is predominantly nondeclarative http://t.co/5Kowi7qU (Chauvel et al, QJEP, 2012) #
Steve Fuller on what an improvisation friendly academia might look like http://t.co/4SMB5bX9 (In @timeshighered 2008) #
NIH Grant opportunity: modelling social behaviour http://t.co/mVc1VhKO #
Bursaries available for our taught masters programmes in the Department of Psychology at @sheffielduni http://t.co/3VBPUePO #
Psychology lecturer job at Sheffield Hallam http://t.co/za8xGToi #
Turkle, authenticity and conversation in the robotic age RT @whimsley: "Alone Together II: The Unburdening". http://t.co/E0oQq0OT. #
Asylum Dialogues Friday 24th at Sheffield University http://t.co/qbBsgUQU "highlighting acts of solidarity shown towards asylum seekers" #
Psych people: anyone remember the study where they allocated seating at the beginning of term and came back at end and saw who was friends? #
.@HelenMort blogs on poetry and the brain – here, applying the neuroscience of emotion to understand poetic imagery: http://t.co/LZaU3xNJ #
"It's mine now" http://t.co/DK3YrEZ5 cc @alexfradera #
if you want to #savethenhs please sign this petition http://t.co/fl05fHoH #
Study Psychology at @sheffielduni and we'll tell you why Mat found this RT @mathewe: Psychologists creep me out http://t.co/x2A2FWoE #
The Drop the Health Bill petition is 4th in the no. of signatures at http://t.co/cV5PskXm it needs to be 1st. Sign it http://t.co/fl05fHoH #
Today; at De Montfort University, Leicester to give a guest lecture on language and thought to @alterAlison's students #

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Tweets for 2012-02-09

Fox News vs The Netherlands http://t.co/4pIKJX3x no prizes for guessing who wins #
RT @bengoldacre: here's a handy rule for anyone sending out press releases: if it doesn't contain an "unsubscribe" link, you're a spammer #
I am going to be on BBC radio Sheffield at 1.15 talking about brain training. My book on this http://t.co/BHsf88qn #
Is anyone doing the sci-art of this? They should: Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity http://t.co/2pzA1n2A #
This really tickles me – Dressing Psychologist as Wizards in Court http://t.co/x4nMSM04 HT @pambamboo #
RT @jamescrabtree: Fascinating piece on Guardian's FB ap, esp the demographic profile it lets them reach — http://t.co/xIKxPSJK #
Who Supports These NHS reforms? http://t.co/PRkTv3Dd #
Winston is introduced to the idea of Newspeak http://t.co/DJRDdqmY (old BBC drama, I think) #
Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island http://t.co/8k2vin27 #
Important doubts about Luria's classic work on reasoning in literates and illiterates http://t.co/B94yG7XC (Shalizi in 2007) #
Shalizi reviews Flynn's book about the rise in IQ test scores across the generations http://t.co/OigTJycg (American Scientist, 2009) #
Eliciting self-explanations improves understanding http://t.co/Rx7eZIy5 (Chi et al, Cognitive Science, 1994) #
Students @sheffielduni : get paid to do research during the summer of your penultimate year http://t.co/bP95t1CB #
Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on In-Class Concept Questions http://t.co/7he2WGWe (Smith et al, Science, 2009) #
Uninhibited imaginations: Creativity in adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder http://t.co/8Pzdq6OM cc @mariapage #
naming something diminishes its emotional power http://t.co/l0MxdvXD (Lieberman, 2007) cc @alterAlison #
Those last few refs taken from @sianbeilock 's "Choke: The Secret to Performing Under Pressure" #
Ed Cooke in the Guardian on how to remember names at parties http://t.co/UR3Ibe2h via @Psych_Writer #
Stephen Fry's vision for Britain http://t.co/ldKQZWVw don't blame me if you now spend all morning watching clips of A Bit of Fry and Laurie #
The Legend of Berwhale the Avenger http://t.co/X3p2mHcB blame @mariapage for starting this #

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Tweets for 2012-02-02

No better tribute for our ebook than this "After reading it, I had the first lucid dream I had had in a long time" http://t.co/xirdYr40 #
My brother just got in touch. "Is academic publishing really this bad? http://t.co/MxwlaX9b" he asks. All together now…."It's WORSE!" #
Research blogging: http://t.co/MaxKtPWA my paper in Frontiers tells you why one of the oldest claims in cognitive science is wrong #
Are there any demonstrable benefits of being illiterate? No surprise if illiterates score worse on tests, but do they ever score better? #
So, the FFA – probably roughly behind your ears, right? #
"Insightful and very well written. A great introduction to lucid dreaming" https://t.co/LH4WFI3h #
Action of caffeine specific to the BG RT @edyong209: Why isn't caffeine as addictive as cocaine? HT @scicurious http://t.co/0padNu2K #
Interview with me about, er, various topics in cognitive science http://t.co/12PMgPp4 #
How do social psychs appear to an outsider? "Metacognition in the practice of narrating psychological scholarship" http://t.co/tiYFC6tL #
Should we worry about Facebook? I think it boils down to a psychological question about manipulation http://t.co/Rr7ACNOA thoughts? #
Damning RT @annefgreaves Map of museums with @ace_national Renaissance funding http://t.co/IlFo6e9f Notice the gap? #savesheffieldmuseums #
Good reasons not to take cocaine: Incredible interactive map of Mexican drug war by @diegovalle http://t.co/dBo5u04Y via @neurobonkers. #
STFC Public Engagement Fellowships 2012 http://t.co/nF2mbJ3Z #

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Tweets for 2012-01-26

Loving this series from @niemanstory where journalists talk about stories that have really stuck with them http://t.co/3UlrBOHv #
Some comment and debate on yesterday's stereotype threat story here http://t.co/L5ZQ5uqL via @JulesHolroyd #
Nice morning surprise: got a first review for our free ebook on lucid dreaming – five stars! https://t.co/LH4WFI3h #
About my recent free ebooks RT @mindhacksblog A treasure hunt for the mysteries of mind and brain http://t.co/fuRISwGI #
Thank you kind stranger for my first review of the Explore Your Blind Spot free ebook – five stars! https://t.co/Llf7tab8 #
Typing skill is based on interactions with the environment, not on internal schemas: Logan & Crump (2010) http://t.co/MB69KJIp #
Favour: could someone try downloading my Control Your Dreams ebook (for $0) https://t.co/LH4WFI3h I'm having trouble debugging the site #
Okay, so it is still broke 🙁 #
The mystery of our shrinking brains. Why have modern humans got less grey matter? http://t.co/Ikv9ZbD4 #
First mention of lucid dreaming? St Augustine of Hippo in 415 AD http://t.co/yfdfGdXN Get our free how-to ebook here http://t.co/KLzuPn8b #
Tentative evidence that lucid dreamers may cope better with trauma http://t.co/QpvWQrPo Ebook on how to lucid dream http://t.co/KLzuPn8b #
Yes, that's a roomba with whiskers, that's how @mathewe and @ShefRobotics roll http://t.co/OW5NfnJ5 #
.@mathewe the cost of the science doesn't always correlate with the value. fMRI, I am looking at you #
BPS Undergraduate RA scheme http://t.co/ouDjwu7a #
"The Marilyn Meme" at Sociological Images http://t.co/7B2lHtcQ via @Erica_Jane_MP #

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Tweets for 2012-01-19

Today: to the @royalsociety for an update on the parliamentary pairing scheme I am part of. #
Is Terry Eagleton a national treasure yet? RT @stevenpoole: Eagleton reads de Botton so you don't have to: http://t.co/h2fGmxse #
Neat 2009 study "The role of sleep in false memory formation" showing that sleep selectively increased false memories http://t.co/bl4oTQyM #
has anyone ever estimated the economic contribution made by Wikipedia? I'm guessing billions of $ worldwide #
Scan of 70 year old triathlete's muscles give graphic illustration that age related muscle loss is not inevitable http://t.co/7nJxUB3y #
From Brad Duchaine (2010) "Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable" http://t.co/XTJmhOmx #
Case study of a developmentally prosopagnosic family http://t.co/VDZwKDke (also from Duchaine, 2010) #
Detecting tetrachromacy in human subjects http://t.co/MKH6CeVJ cc @Harpsicordian #
Rosenthal & Fode (1963) Classic study on the role of experimenter expectations in psy research http://t.co/hOtIBs5C PDF http://t.co/7FdWNRk2 #
RT @FriedaKlotz In a weird way this is quite inspiring. Clay Shirky's rant about women: http://t.co/xszAJobW #
Gendered descriptors in references prejudice academic hiring decisions http://t.co/uNn0ciUg via @AtheneDonald in @timeshighered #
Frustrating @BBCr4today piece about doubts over the veracity of stereotype threat. #
No evidence for stereotype threat isn't the same as "there's no discrimination" @BBCr4today #
Scientific savantism: psychologist reviews lit on stereotype threat and then given platform to pronounce on origin of gender differences #
.@dantekgeek and here's the Uni of Leeds press release about the stereotype threat work http://t.co/vFJatS4A #
Wooah! Juggling quadrocopter robots http://t.co/WEF78evE #

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Tweets for 2012-01-12

Compare: cortical topographic maps http://t.co/sbHJrJJt penguins http://t.co/3tvDHKoj #
RT @bakadesuyo: What's the best way to learn faster? http://t.co/r4ZQaQA0 #
"Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience" (O'Reilly & Munakata, 2000) is now available free & online http://t.co/pmy2Z8t8 #
verisimilitude is a massive attractor when doing computational modelling work. Unfortunately it is also only a local minimum 😉 #
Trends in Neurosciences "The neurobiology of anhedonia and other reward-related deficits" http://t.co/BEiMwmJa #
Legend RT @totalshowman I'm so pleased this guy didn't give the RI Christmas Lectures when I was a boy: http://t.co/a4VAnRxa #
Dreams content is weird, but the cognitive processes are common to waking http://t.co/jy3Hul1 more in our free ebook http://t.co/bBs4IiYm #
RT @timd Slightly inebriated older gent gets on bus, greets similarly inebriated older acquaintances: "Din't forget nah, stay above graand" #
Very important! Blanton & Jaccard (2006). Arbitrary metrics in psychology. http://t.co/XLbiflya #

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Tweets for 2012-01-05

The Sliver of Perception http://t.co/OkwOa4Kk "in the grand scheme of things we're all pretty much blind and deaf" #
New ebook "Control your dreams" http://t.co/xirdYr40 it's a DIY guide for lucid dreaming, at a "pay what you want" price (inc. £0) #
Let me know if you spot any formatting errors in your e-book format of choice #
Gamers have more lucid dreams http://t.co/CM4O4Q7D via @vaughanbell #
Great endorsement for our book on lucid dreaming "after a quick read I scored 2 lucid events in one nights sleep" http://t.co/PSqyVhw5 #
RT @Neuro_Skeptic: New post http://t.co/34NbQvwY Do rapid eye movements during sleep mean that we're watching things in our dreams? #
How to understand debt (aka why those overmortgaged family analogies are wrong) : @nytimeskrugman on debt http://t.co/vqDSG08T #
.@GeorgeMonbiot is excoriating on matt ridley's libertarianism http://t.co/Q52DcaVD #
.@Erica_Jane_MP so is there a way you can search your favourites on twitter? Seems like a useful thing for someone to make #
Great article on the cognitive skills of elite footballers in Jan's psychologist magazine http://t.co/8kEC5vnj shame it's closed access 🙁 #
So what's a good book to buy someone who has just started a PhD (in the arts and humanities)? #
Lucid Dreaming as Metacognition: Implications for Cognitive Science http://t.co/bgeZn0p discussed in our free ebook https://t.co/LH4WFI3h #
Lucid dreamers better at Iowa gambling task http://t.co/26JSDrS this, and more, discussed in our free ebook https://t.co/LH4WFI3h #
Archive classic: "Why not be a writer?" http://t.co/jZ6WTI2h #
From the archive "Trust in Science" http://t.co/5P1ydg6u now available in Romanian http://t.co/V8bQQ1Su thanks to http://t.co/UUyv2Lnh #

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Tweets for 2011-12-29

Dinosaur Comics tackles the "hundred words for snow" fallacy http://t.co/DiYPYLNE #
RT @bakadesuyo: What's the most important lesson for improving your writing skills? http://t.co/T6btmnax #
My free ebook is Xmas fun for all the family https://t.co/Llf7tab8 if your family is well geeky and into quirks of visual consciousness #
More information doesn't get you out of telling stories @jonahlehrer on causation, correlation & the scientific method http://t.co/b9q4qqOB #
Coaching psychologist, based in London: "Realizing your potential from an evidence-based perspective Dr. Anne Hsu" http://t.co/phAJ5jks #
RT @mindhacksblog Translated post: Insegnare ed apprendere in modo efficace http://t.co/0kC6cEYp (thanks Giuliana!) #
Original: "Make study more effective, the easy way" http://t.co/cGh4pBij #
Team Syneseizure! Cyborg gimp mask lets you feel how things look http://t.co/Vn2nsjwJ #
Exploring the future: Tools for strategic thinking http://t.co/Ft8MkmwL #
Welcome to the Sigma Scan – a searchable repository for horizon scanning papers, designed for government users. http://t.co/m5tjfdBU #
Dennett on Julian Jaynes "Julian Jaynes' Software Archeology" http://t.co/3tQiWv6H (via @frabcus) #
Onset asymmetry in Parkinsons effects sensitivity to different kinds of religious thinking http://t.co/bKZmSZJq #
The Portland Works project wants to ensure the survival of one of Sheffield's great buildings http://t.co/yZhe5oIQ also http://t.co/Ip44xJFp #

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Tweets for 2011-12-22

Trusty et al (2004) Practical Guide for Reporting Effect Sizes http://t.co/roLkRECL reassuring name #
Trivia stats: we have 354 female undergraduates in my department. Of these, only 19 (5%) choose to be referrred to as Ms rather than Miss #
We have 75 male undergraduates, none of whom have to make a choice and are all on the system as "mr" #
Trying to explain to my mum about the peer review process. Any links more useful than this, the Downfall spoof? http://t.co/iZw9kisj #
Tweenbots are human-dependent cardboard robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. http://t.co/KDfn5gkI #
Nice design "Spaghetti measuring tool. Small, adult and family portion." http://t.co/2ERQWKak #
Next semester I run a module about controversies in cognitive neuroscience. We need a new controversy to consider. Any suggestions? #
Good suggestion @alexfradera @tomstafford voodoo correlations? <— phrased as Q: "Does fMRI analysis produce spurious results?" #
Suggested controversies for my cog neuro class: voodoo correlations/publication bias in fMRI, mirror neurons, fMRI evidence in court. (1/2) #
(2/2) plus effects of meditation. Any more? #
APA manuscript formatting guide from Purdue Owl http://t.co/4Vf9BfA6 #
Sheffield Psychology department spring seminar series now online http://t.co/J5fqmfdw #

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Tweets for 2011-12-15

I cut the freewill stuff from my talk 2nite RT @sciammind: most popular on the site now: "Is Free Will an Illusion?" http://t.co/6Uq043mk #
RT @alokjha: the Guardian: Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister http://t.co/aIm2cr1P #
Selling traditionally feminine products to men, drawing on ridiculous stereotypes of masculinity http://t.co/Q9O7D1eg via @frankieroberto #
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
Joseph Campbell – via @DigiWorldSheff #
RT @bakadesuyo: What's an excellent productivity secret we can learn from Jerry Seinfeld? http://t.co/C04WMvgZ #
I wrote this free ebook about your visual blindspot. It's creative commons licensed, and a scientific adventure http://t.co/1jnp6XoI #
"learning by reviewing" students who mark peer's papers improve in writing more than if they just read peer's papers http://t.co/BKjWNhJO #
HI afternoon people – I've released a free ebook http://t.co/Llf7tab8 it's a scientific travel guide. And the cover is a picture of my eye #
Nearly 1000 downloads today of my new free ebook about the visual blind spot http://t.co/Llf7tab8 #
This is approximately 999 more readers than for any scientific paper I've written #
Congratulations to @totalshowman for passing his PhD viva with minor corrections (my 1st supervisee to write up). Well done Tom! #
Great interactive map from the Australian showing global student migration patterns: sources and destinations http://t.co/S8aTpwRj #
Gone to dance with Aunty – RIP Russell Hoban http://t.co/UO9b4cGh #
Neurocognitive literature digest. Banana domestication to the dreams of the deaf. A cornucopia of awesome links http://t.co/izK5OsC4 #
Mediators vs Moderators – finally had to get this distinction clear in my head. This helped: http://t.co/JoPpz3X2 #

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Tweets for 2011-12-08

RT @bengoldacre A job for a very nerdy person who knows about stats and writing. http://t.co/940jZjIF #
Here's a nice natural illusion which shows the power of shadow to influence perception of depth http://t.co/Tf4MnvWL #
. @thundercauldron and here's that great Gladwell / New Yorker article about where ideas come from http://t.co/DSO2xMzH #
I have just donated money for the UK Uncut legal action to force HMRC to collect unpaid tax. http://t.co/eWxu2EDn #
Late to the party, but here is a great critique of @TimHarford's Adapt by @whimsley http://t.co/uoMDPYh2 was there ever a riposte I wonder? #
Talking in #manchester tomorrow eve http://t.co/2p1KlyWM minds, brains, perception, free will, lego robots and subliminal messages! #
It's going to be a rollercoaster ride though cognitive science. If I fit it all in #

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Tweets for 2011-12-01

That neat evolutionary psychology waist to hip ratio story about female attractiveness? More complicated than that http://t.co/jDOFjtnL #
Last link from and via @PsychScientists – thanks guys! #
up to 10 fully funded PhD studentships to start in 2012 offered in Dept of Psychology at @sheffielduni http://t.co/D23CpBFO #
And in other news, the University of Sheffield has been named "University of the Year" http://t.co/YJsFUwOT #
"We don't need to understand engines to drive a car, why do we need to understand code to use a computer?" says interviewer #
Correct analogy is "read maps". Without code you just drive your computer around your home town, never able to go anywhere new #radio4 #
Convinced that queues are the ideal experimental paradigm to investigate the construction and maintainence of social norms #
Senior Lectureship in Cognitive Science and Decision Making, University of Manchester http://t.co/3fvRGcmP #
Shalizi: "what is economically efficient is a function of our social arrangements, of who owns how much of what" http://t.co/PFf5pafg #
From: the shire, To:Mordor. Via the M6 http://t.co/kEVDLXzj #
+1 day! Vaughan is the http://t.co/85Rwnq1n 99% RT @vaughanbell Just noticed that Mind Hacks blog is 7 years old today http://t.co/NDVd9w39 #
Giving a 'psychology for non-psychologists' talk next Thursday in Manchester. In a bar. Title "thinking meat" http://t.co/xlnlKulN #
I'll be talking mind, brain and how to understand the self in an age of neuroscience http://t.co/xlnlKulN #
RT @mariapage: Oh no… It's true… 🙁 Sad day for neuroscience "Obituary: Professor Jon Driver" – http://t.co/932yCxnt #
Great 2008 paper from @sianbeilock : When does haste make waste? http://t.co/y4NsEMiH Skilled motor perf. enhanced by prioritising speed #
Richard Shiffrin runs an annual Cognitive Science Conference, ASIC, held at different outdoor adventure sites http://t.co/UqZTeTZ4 #
RT @Psych_Writer Dodgy research practices are rife in psychology. Details of an alarming new survey: http://t.co/oWzYElVs #

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Tweets for 2011-11-24

Creationist slams "research" from @sheffielduni Psychology department http://t.co/rIA2FEfC #
Ouch! Why is U2 popular? http://t.co/zpMy0XYw "The nostalgia is so thick you have to wipe it from your face. " via @rellimluap #
Economist debate from Dec 2010 "Language Shapes How We Think". http://t.co/9Wa5zsY4 Boroditsky vs Liberman (of Language Log), round one! #
Round Two! http://t.co/Kus1D5x4 #
Just found my opening music for today's lecture http://t.co/pfQ7XHiM #
"modelling natural action selection" book just out (and in my sweaty paw) http://t.co/O3JWKSRW #
.@tom_hartley and it is interesting – a proper evolutionary & computational treatment of decision making! #
Gladstone was prime minister 4 times in the 19C, AND he found time to dabble in linguistic anthropology http://t.co/LAzWO5zQ #
Your source for that is, of course, Gladstone, W. E. (1858). Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. London: Oxford University Press #
Winston Churchill said "They told me how Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right." #
Birth of a myth: Whorf (1940) makes the claim that the Eskimos have many words for snow http://t.co/84OzD3Fe #
What's the collective noun for professors? One correspondent suggested "an absence" http://t.co/FusFgzE4 in @timeshighered #
Love the straight dope: "Could early man only see three colours?" http://t.co/LAzWO5zQ (quick answer: no) #
a solution if you don't like using a passive author voice, though not a recommended one http://t.co/avpD3oIU via @mathewe #
RT @PhEMH @tomstafford although really this is just another "Polly Matzinger rocks" story … which she does <– True! http://t.co/txFVggYw #
The more I read of the new Whorfianism the less impressed I am; Lera Boroditsky in Scientific American http://t.co/XgsMqBef #
Preparing for lectures on language and cognition. Do the words we use matter? This complaint to the BBC assumes they do http://t.co/aoOUKra5 #
"Viagra for engagement dysfunction" RT @tombennett71: Gamification is bullsh*t http://t.co/2dLN4pVa #
Fantastic paper from Flaherty & Senghas (2011) showing how language supportings thinking (about numbers in this case) http://t.co/DO5SeiPB #
"Language as a Cognitive Technology: English-Speakers Match Like Piraha When You Don’t Let Them Count" http://t.co/EpNFjaxC #

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Tweets for 2011-11-17

Possibly my most eloquent blog post ever RT @mindhacksblog
Neuro ears: http://t.co/CiBRO09O #
From @timeshighered Israeli scholar-activist teaches teachers to critically analyse textbooks http://t.co/yJQvcqhR #
PsychoPy = very impressive. My students got their expt working in just 2 hours, from never having seen the software b4! http://t.co/3Nh8feHC #
Fun times talking psychology of programming with @yaxu #
Anyone who read the Yorkshire Post article about our bit.ly collaboration: more info here http://t.co/qmNJXu8a #
.@EuphoricBuffoon article on the psychology of conspiracy theories, from our own @psychmag http://t.co/uijv1jwX (post by @vaughanbell) #
Computational sound art, http://t.co/UhzaQajN. Lovely. via @yaxu #
"Training Attentional Control in Infancy" : early evidence of distal transfer http://t.co/fPnES932 #
Article in Frontiers in Cognitive Science just published "Additive factors do not imply discrete processing stages" http://t.co/Y9PEW2G0 #
Ironically, this is a follow-up to an (accepted) paper in Cognitive Science, which hasn't been published yet #academicpublishing #
RT (myself) @tomstafford Anyone who read the Yorkshire Post article about our bit.ly collaboration: more info here http://t.co/qmNJXu8a #
Nice to be a highlight! RT @ResearchDigest Psychology to the Rescue highlights, in Italian http://t.co/1DBe3UaB
english http://t.co/iMRkwPlx #
What's the use of powerpoint if it won't let me embed this Tim Minchin video in Friday's lecture? http://t.co/CIiWUsGa #
Here's the Yorkshire Post article on our hack day with bit.ly data http://t.co/nzLNwjzk is that a pun I don't get or a typo in the title? #
A few clicks from you can help #Sheffield Renewables get £100,000 to generate hydro-electricity from the Don. DO IT http://t.co/1DeCYs70 #