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  • PsychoPy is an open-source package for running experiments in Python (a real and free alternative to Matlab) http://t.co/3Nh8feHC @psychopy #
  • On Monday I start a week in London as part of the @royalsociety scientist-civil servant pairing scheme. #
  • My pairing is with a gentleman from the Home Office. I'm guessing they have their own particular take on 'psychology'. #
  • From the archive RT @psychmag: 7 years ago: @tomstafford meets Vilayanur Ramachandran http://t.co/xXUZjU9P #
  • I need 10 thousand leaky integrators, running in parallel on millisecond time scale. Suggestions? #
  • Awaiting luscious-haired psychologist @sapinker at the RGS, in the audience with @ResearchDigest #iq2pinker #
  • Ironic that a man who made his career triumphing the immutability of human nature is now celebrating it's adaptability #iq2pinker #
  • Interesting, evidence linking resource shortages to war surprisingly weak, sez Pinker #iq2pinker #
  • Rare lucidity lapse, Pinker garbles report of Baumeister's self-control work, making it sound like it supports hydraulic theory #iq2pinker #
  • RT @deevybee: NYT piece on Gazzaniga's new book on free will and the brain http://t.co/g7dMGeCj #
  • Summarised as: responsibility is an emergent property at the social level, not something that can be defined neurally #
  • Alison Gopnik on what psychology tells us about how universities should be run http://t.co/C3zdx72C via @anniemurphypaul #
  • Talking to my cousin about his University application personal statement. I told him not to do this: http://t.co/hjHAYbhn #
  • Day 4 of the @royalsociety pairing scheme. AM: at the Home Office research facility in St Albans. PM: watching debate in the House of Lords #
  • There's a film out about my favourite sociologisy, Zygmunt Bauman http://t.co/QeX46Ots #

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  • One for all you data visualisation geeks http://t.co/zoWfTfbu a roundup of the nicest figures recently published in scientific journals. #
  • Old nature article about neuroscience and freewill. Full of the confusions of neuroscientists http://t.co/2NVS5mIk #
  • A conceptual prophylactic for neuro-philo-confusion: http://t.co/Rx2eFCCj "Toward a Philosophical Structure for Psychiatry" via @vaughanbell #
  • old, but Jolly Good NY Times article on psychology of free will http://t.co/WYhF2C7Y #
  • Skepticism about free will linked with a weakened readiness potential (from EEG recording) http://t.co/2Ga0C2DH #
  • old scientiic american article on replication of Libet experiments with intracranial recording of single neurons http://t.co/cNdZ9MSY #
  • (1/2) Most of this freewill stuff appears amazing for the same reason that fMRI scanning appears amazing: … #
  • (2/2) … as native dualists we're astounded by *any* evidence that brain causes mind. #
  • Guilty or not-guilty? It depends on how the jury constructs a story from the facts they're given http://t.co/lzgu3hyW #
  • Nick's been done got bang to rights RT @underscrutiny: Romantic masochism invested in and infected by a new age http://t.co/areMxi8c #
  • MT @matthew_mella: Overlap, tomorrow: free talk from @russStearman about #narrative in videogames. http://t.co/WdVGJZj3 #Sheffield #
  • Our friends in Cardiff seem to have no idea of the practical impossibility of allowing scientists veto over copy… http://t.co/h6wiGPcZ #
  • Virtually northing remotely readable would get published on science, ever #
  • RT@js_simons Rip-roaring stuff from @ProfAndyField on why psychologists shouldn't be smug about stats errors http://t.co/5O88xLfv… #
  • "This study provides the first evidence that sexist ideologies can create gender inequality within societies" http://t.co/FDsLBTvt #
  • Last link via @BPSOfficial and @psychoBOBlogy #
  • RT @Psych_Writer Steve Jobs' gift to cognitive science. Just posted on the Digest: http://t.co/ZukIGHEE #
  • "Games of Invention" http://t.co/GO29Vidf a short article about creativity I wrote for the boys at @rattlecentral now on the blog #
  • .@alexfradera that article inspired by our last annual wander/chat about creativity, improv and science (and the other ten thousand things) #
  • It's not the booze, it's your beliefs about the booze http://t.co/odl1Jm9K great stuff from Kate Fox on culture and behaviour #

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  • 100 years of Style / East London. Very enjoyable http://t.co/Le1ZwSUZ thanks @robotdan #
  • RT @PsychScientists Skinner & Epstein train a pigeon to pass the mirror test for 'self concept': http://t.co/hjxDeCJC #
  • RT @PsychScientists
    Seriously, BF Skinner was a total badass <– this is what @totalshowman keeps telling me. In different words! #
  • Friday afternoon and p<0.049 for my latest analysis. I *know* its just an arbitrary threshold, but its the arbitrary threshold everyone uses #
  • RT @SheffCivicTrust: #Sheffield is England's greenest city, with 150 woodlands and 50 public parks! #
  • RT @vaughanbell: Top athletes, singers have coaches. Why don't other professions? http://t.co/7l5hQ9HS Properly fascinating New Yorker piece #
  • Why GTD works! RT @PsyBlog: How to Avoid Being Distracted From Your Goals. Making specific plans creates mental space http://t.co/D6QY44sv #
  • My thoughts on Randy Olson's "Don't be such a scientist: talking substance in an age of style" http://t.co/dL2192xH #
  • UK Judge rules against use of Bayes' Theorum in court, unless we have "firm" knowledge of the priors http://t.co/r1SprMTT #
  • Textbook use of juxtaposition by the Mirror to suggest that Knox is pleased Kercher is dead http://t.co/zKJjWLi0 #
  • RT @PsychScientists I love how well Bad Lip Reading works bit.ly/mZ4Pls Match intonation and most of the obvious lip movements and viola! #
  • And while we're talking about who expectation drives perception: "I Kissed a Girl" (backwards) http://t.co/2u54RgF8 #
  • But my favourites are on Jeff Milner's backmasking site (and the one I use in PSY101 lectures) http://t.co/5V5bCF0u stairway to heaven! #
  • RT @andybrownphoto: My work is featured in this month's Now Then magazine – if you're in Sheffield, pick up a copy ! #

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  • First day of term. Just cycled to work, passing a student obviously on their way home from the night before. That's the spirit! #
  • Important critique of "Baysian cognition" experiments, reported in withering style by Cosma Shalizi http://t.co/6CON0TYU #
  • Sheffield: England's greenest city http://t.co/NtqUMesJ #
  • Rats learning a habit show shifts in striatal brain waves, from high (gamma) frequency oscillations to low (beta), http://t.co/PT6Xn6bY #
  • Cory: the solution to privacy erosion on the internet is code, not laws http://t.co/YXONxeSM #
  • And of course the most important thing about "the privacy bargain" is that you know you are currently making some form of it #
  • "Rethinking 'thinking': Modernism and the mind" by @cfernyhough http://t.co/xac54fm3 #
  • I review Roy Baumeister's new book "Willpower" here http://t.co/ac4TNMf4 short story: this is a bad book, don't read it #
  • RT @mikedewar: Cosma Shalizi calls out the "data scientist" emperors on their shiny new clothes http://t.co/nkLn88ga #
  • RT @cfernyhough: Anyone know of any mathematicians or games theorists with interests in memory? #
  • Review of research on spacing effects in learning – essential for all students, not just psychology students! http://t.co/AxxCyJ8G #
  • I've just completed the Adult ADHD symptom checklist http://t.co/6fZkgBXz it says I have "symptoms highly consistent with ADHD in adults" #
  • Funny, I started the day healthy and normal, now – if I believe this scale – I am a patient who "warrents further investigation" #

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  • You'd have thought that @sheffielduni would have access to Psych Science, but no. Anyone got access to this http://t.co/6KOk2FrY ? #
  • Lor' bless the internets and people who sent me that PDF #
  • nice guardian series: "Voices of finance". Here, computer programmer at a trading company http://t.co/oYTo6k60 #
  • RT @PsyBlog Feelings Beat Thoughts For Fast Complex Decisions. Think or blink? The debate continues… http://t.co/EJ79V5GB #
  • First supervision with @mariapage today. She'd brought me chocolate covered almonds from Greece. I gave her a long list of things to do #
  • Doesn't seem fair somehow! #
  • From the archive http://t.co/jvat1s04 "the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being" #
  • My award for most amusing/charming lab profile goes to Lera Boroditsky's lab at Stanford http://t.co/vJOC1hID #
  • Cinema is a crucible of Humean causal perception, seen narrative informed by our experience of the form http://t.co/8HHduT2M #
  • The Living Handbook of Narratology: chapter on Cognitive Narratology http://t.co/iBt15mF0 #
  • Next stop Thessaloniki, to visit the @sheffielduni faculty there. For this trip I will mostly be wearing brown #
  • Today: running a workshop for doctoral students on how to communicate research to the public #
  • Five excellent science communication tips from Randy Olson http://t.co/ecvXwCJR #
  • A cursory search suggests that there are surprisingly few online resources for PhD students who want to develop media skills. Any tips? #
  • RT @jrfj: @tomstafford besides the BSA fellowships, have a lot of other resources listed here, including some online: http://t.co/YOGoXDuo #
  • Now online from CogSci: "Piéron's Law Holds During Stroop Conflict: Insights Into the Architecture of Decision Making" http://t.co/5LhSGWas #

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  • RT @topfife: My head smells of electroconductive gel. #
  • Currently wondering: what are the essentials of the psychology of judgement and decision making that our graduates need to know? #
  • Reckon this year's cognitive psych class need to be introduced to Michotte's work http://t.co/u0DRr5J #
  • Just got my hands on Ron and Marty's new book "Mindhacker". Can't seem to shake this weird feeling of familiarity… http://t.co/47JInL5 #
  • Important RT @bengoldacre teach our kids to code bit.ly/oFBU6X #
  • What app will let me write scripts on my iPhone? Just so I can do some marginally non-trivial maths #
  • New academic year approaches. Moving from "Inbox zero" to triage email management style #
  • Factoid: if I was literally worth my weight in gold, i would be worth about 3 million pounds sterling #

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  • Writing is like sculpture, not painting : you should focus on taking away the unnecessary #
  • Interesting post from @PsychScientists about the nature of representation in cogntiive science http://t.co/c9SsyB9 #
  • Here's a summer project if ever I saw one @xkcdfeed Depth Perception: xkcd.com/941/ #
  • Psychology at @unsheffield named best in the UK for employability by the Daily Telegraph http://t.co/bHNN06L #
  • Revisting code I wrote 4 years ago. Can't decide if this is a beautiful thing, reflecting academia's long view, or a terrible curse #
  • Now I am re-reading my thesis. If this trend continues i'll be revisiting my GCSE maths notes by the end of the afternoon #

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  • Workshop on Cold Reading at #Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub, 26 Sep http://t.co/vKCLozT #
  • NASA astronaut flew with a secret: a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease http://t.co/uTDTwrR story broken by Houston journo with PD himself #
  • Kidnap negotiator has never lost a hostage, and trusts his gut instinct http://t.co/I7GrkNW #
  • Scatter charts of Somali pirate hijack negotiation times http://t.co/eDSuqeP I love the internet #
  • This exercise finding from the Lancet is equivalent to "if you do NOTHING physical all day you will die sooner", right? @BBCr4today #
  • Cosma Shalizi is bang on here: Capitalism requires state intervention http://t.co/OVAdwFV #
  • Should I spend the next half hour reading this paper, or watching clips from Watership Down on youtube? http://t.co/r3g7Pcr #
  • trying to write about lucid dreaming, but the implications for understanding consciousness are twisting my melon. Any good reads on this? #
  • individuals who do better at a vmPFC-related task have more lucid dreams http://t.co/26JSDrS (told ya @mariapage !) #
  • here we go: "Lucid Dreaming as Metacognition: Implications for Cognitive Science " http://t.co/bgeZn0p #
  • Something more recent from LaBerge http://t.co/jy3Hul1 Dream content is weird, but the cognitive processes are common to waking #
  • re-reading the chapter on lucid dreaming from Jeff Warren's "The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness" awesome awesome book! #
  • RT @dansumption @tomstafford Only time I ever managed to lucid dream was the day after Sue Blackmore's lecture on lucid dreaming 🙂 #
  • .@dansumption the well known "beginner's luck" phenomenon! #

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  • Workshop on Cold Reading at #Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub, 26 Sep http://t.co/vKCLozT #
  • NASA astronaut flew with a secret: a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease http://t.co/uTDTwrR story broken by Houston journo with PD himself #
  • Kidnap negotiator has never lost a hostage, and trusts his gut instinct http://t.co/I7GrkNW #
  • Scatter charts of Somali pirate hijack negotiation times http://t.co/eDSuqeP I love the internet #
  • This exercise finding from the Lancet is equivalent to "if you do NOTHING physical all day you will die sooner", right? @BBCr4today #
  • Cosma Shalizi is bang on here: Capitalism requires state intervention http://t.co/OVAdwFV #
  • Should I spend the next half hour reading this paper, or watching clips from Watership Down on youtube? http://t.co/r3g7Pcr #
  • trying to write about lucid dreaming, but the implications for understanding consciousness are twisting my melon. Any good reads on this? #
  • individuals who do better at a vmPFC-related task have more lucid dreams http://t.co/26JSDrS (told ya @mariapage !) #
  • here we go: "Lucid Dreaming as Metacognition: Implications for Cognitive Science " http://t.co/bgeZn0p #
  • Something more recent from LaBerge http://t.co/jy3Hul1 Dream content is weird, but the cognitive processes are common to waking #
  • re-reading the chapter on lucid dreaming from Jeff Warren's "The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness" awesome awesome book! #
  • RT @dansumption @tomstafford Only time I ever managed to lucid dream was the day after Sue Blackmore's lecture on lucid dreaming 🙂 #
  • .@dansumption the well known "beginner's luck" phenomenon! #

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  • Agree to talk to NPR, but having hard time getting PDF of paper they want to talk about. Perhaps I should only discuss open-access science? #
  • Fascinating discussion on @BBCr4today about ME. Normally the anti-establishment groups are anti-biological explanations, not pro! #
  • Prolonged exposure to television can kill chipmunks! http://t.co/X716Znj #
  • Good news day (1/2): PhD student Tom Walton (@totalshowman) has won a ESPRC/UoS 1 year post-doctoral fellowship. Well done Tom! #
  • Good news day (2/2): I have been given a place on the Royal Society parliamentry pairing scheme http://t.co/yLsc0R6 #
  • Also, I am about to go on Radio Sheffield to talk about "Internet Addiction" #
  • Not live on Radio Sheffield it turns out, but I've been recorded for Drive Time, being skeptical about the idea of internet addiction… #
  • does anyone remember/have that Posy Simmonds cartoon showing alternating generations of maternal neglect/suffocation? #longshot #
  • and actually, while I'm at it, that Michael Leunig cartoon "the economy says". A copy ideally, but a reference to which book would do… #
  • Amen! RT @mathewe Happy 30th birthday to @HeeleyFarm ! A fantastic achievement for a cherished institution. #
  • And of course neuroplasticity is lifelong… RT @MLERULES Brain maturation goes on 'til 30something http://t.co/m3dHEi4 (neuroskeptic blog) #

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  • Estimates of the totals spent globally on the component processes of scholarly communication and research, http://t.co/ByVXwdZ #
  • Is there anything interesting to say about neuroethics other than "knowledge of the brain may make us question our ideas of responsibility"? #
  • The Research Digest is dead, long live @ResearchDigest ! RT @christianjarret Hi everyone. I've made this my own personal feed. #
  • Today: Town meeting for BBSRC call on skill acquisition and high performance in sport, in Camden Town, London #
  • DHL have a bizarre idea of how science works (but are obviously keen to bask in it's reflected glory) http://t.co/ciPO3Qc #
  • Today: sharing the bill with Elizabeth Loftus, and others, talking to prospective University psychology students in Sheffield #
  • My talk title is "Thinking Meat: putting brain and mind together", and is inspired by Terry's Bisson's story http://t.co/cs33Org #

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  • I will be in Berkeley, California, and environs, for the next ten days #
  • Keynes vs Broken Window Fallacy: if govt refuses to spend during recession, should you break the windows of govt offices? @TimHarford #
  • Calculation vs perception in expertise; chess grandmaster edition: http://t.co/zsEO3tq via @TimHarford #
  • “We believe caffeinated coffee is the best current option for long-term protection against Alzheimer’s memory loss" http://t.co/MiE86MV #
  • Via @mathewe, fantastic footage of -and reflection on – a moment of sublime motor expertise http://t.co/Rh6YoxK #
  • Stallman: ebook readers "take away the traditional freedoms of readers" "ending friendship between people who read" http://t.co/OIZdSKw #
  • The Overton Window visualises the range of policies that are currently within the bounds of public acceptability http://t.co/rA1hZfh #
  • including Sheffield @timeshighered: 7 UK universities plan to ditch degree classifications & adopt GPA http://t.co/1yLOMPm #

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  • RT @tomwalton: Prince Philip looks like Quentin Blake drew him #
  • Today: York for the Yorkshire Vision Network meeting #
  • University of Sheffield Psychology Department graduate Jessica Ennis made MBE – http://t.co/myF7Y4a Well done @J_Ennis ! #
  • Didn't think it was possible for @jonmsutton to go up in my estimation, but it turns out he's a Sheffield psych grad like me & @J_Ennis ! #
  • Videos of psychologists talking about their research – professionalpsychology.tumblr.com 'Psychology according to psychologists' #
  • European rail travel made easy http://t.co/0D7u0rr @loco2 #
  • RT @jonahlehrer: Can a stupid mental exercise really make us smarter? http://t.co/kJoNO4d <– for some value of 'smarter', yes #
  • 5 summer students starting today. Remembering Daniel's pep-talk "Show them its about the work, it'll be about the work" http://t.co/YBxqlBG #
  • RT @mikedewar How a climate skeptic asks for the time: bit.ly/j5Z7vm #
  • University of Sheffield "Real Stories" http://t.co/dJNT29c Local aspects of the work of our arts and humanties deptartments #
  • It happens to the best of us: Study of Nobel prize winning research rejected by journals http://t.co/t1oaEcV (which was itself rejected) #
  • Considering submitting to the Journal of Universal Rejection http://t.co/v8Ibge0 "the most prestigious journal (judged by acceptance rate" #
  • Just got my reminder email that I signed up for in November, from http://t.co/n6YZ17L Love these guys #

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  • RT @tomwalton: Prince Philip looks like Quentin Blake drew him #
  • Today: York for the Yorkshire Vision Network meeting #
  • University of Sheffield Psychology Department graduate Jessica Ennis made MBE – http://t.co/myF7Y4a Well done @J_Ennis ! #
  • Didn't think it was possible for @jonmsutton to go up in my estimation, but it turns out he's a Sheffield psych grad like me & @J_Ennis ! #
  • Videos of psychologists talking about their research – professionalpsychology.tumblr.com 'Psychology according to psychologists' #
  • European rail travel made easy http://t.co/0D7u0rr @loco2 #
  • RT @jonahlehrer: Can a stupid mental exercise really make us smarter? http://t.co/kJoNO4d <– for some value of 'smarter', yes #
  • 5 summer students starting today. Remembering Daniel's pep-talk "Show them its about the work, it'll be about the work" http://t.co/YBxqlBG #
  • RT @mikedewar How a climate skeptic asks for the time: bit.ly/j5Z7vm #
  • University of Sheffield "Real Stories" http://t.co/dJNT29c Local aspects of the work of our arts and humanties deptartments #
  • It happens to the best of us: Study of Nobel prize winning research rejected by journals http://t.co/t1oaEcV (which was itself rejected) #
  • Considering submitting to the Journal of Universal Rejection http://t.co/v8Ibge0 "the most prestigious journal (judged by acceptance rate" #
  • Just got my reminder email that I signed up for in November, from http://t.co/n6YZ17L Love these guys #

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  • Congratulations – well deserved! RT @mariapage I got the scholarship. It's official. Too many good things happening lately!!!! #

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  • Oh look, uk crowd funding (just for the arts though) http://t.co/aeuDr0q @mikedewar @jamesb #
  • A man just gave me a pound before going home to torrent my book. That man is a gentleman! #

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  • London calling #
  • RT @StoryingShef: Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ~H. Arendt. #

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