- Which laptop should I buy? My priorities are a) portability b) it should play nicely with Ubuntu Linux #
- Apparently everybody has been using bootstrapping on their data for years. Who knew? #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Month: March 2011
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-30
- Read @dougald on what's right and wrong with the big society http://bit.ly/gMfCAj #
- Telling: "Statistics alone seem to be troubling for the courts," http://bit.ly/gpcwWr #sex #epistemology #
- £40,000 in Public Engagement Grants available from the British Psychological Society http://www.bps.org.uk/grants #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Links for March 2011
- Five Emotions Invented By The Internet
- Jonah Lehrer on why easy decisions are hard: ‘the modern marketplace is a conspiracy to confuse, to trick the mind into believing that our most banal choices are actually extremely significant’
- Mark Changizi in Psychology Today: The Problem With the Web and E-Books Is That There’s No Space for Them ‘Our brain has astounding navigation capabilties, and libraries of books harness our brain’s natural capabilities’
- NYRB critique of Mad Men: The writing is extremely weak, the plotting haphazard and often preposterous, the characterizations shallow and sometimes incoherent; its attitude toward the past is glib and its self-positioning in the present is unattractively smug; the acting is, almost without exception, bland and sometimes amateurish
- Feynman on how play freed him to do research again
- Jonah Lehrer: The Virtues of Play
- Sci Am: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential
- ‘better-educated liberals and conservatives are more polarized on global warming than their less well-educated kindred’
- How Visa Predicts Divorce – The Daily Beast
- Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively
- Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience
- Alison Gopnik piece on how explicit instruction comes with a creative cost
- ‘But behind all this crude celebration of sociopathy, there is a better way to live. It’s called kindness, and friendship, and a little human decency’
- Larry Bartels graph on how “partisan beliefs strongly predict people’s opinions about discernable facts”
- Information is Beautiful survey on beliefs about consciousness
- ‘It’s as if the relentless demand of networks for me to be everywhere, all the time, were denying me access to the moment in which I am really living’
- Adam Gopnick in the New Yorker: ‘when people struggle to describe the state that the Internet puts them in they arrive at a remarkably familiar picture of disassociation and fragmentation. ‘ (aka the quintessential feelings of modernity)
- Alison Gopnick in Slate on Serry Turkle’s “Alone Together” ‘the exaggerated highly-focused attention we consider appropriate in a contemporary classroom is itself a recent cultural invention’
- Salon.com on The Shallows ‘Yes, the Internet is rotting your brain’ (the internet is structurally disposed to cognitive loading)
- What the Zeigarnik Effect tells us about beating procrastination – start anywhere
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-27
- RT @kevgillan: Posted 'Reminder: the budget deficit was not caused by welfare spending!' http://t.co/yFYRWEk #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-26
- #Sheffield Publicity Department flag still up at Pye Bank at 0900 this morning @TomCommon @andybrownphoto http://t.co/mrWCdAZ #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-25
- This! RT @johannhari101: "Glib, cheap pessimism is the enemy of progress” #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-24
- .@tomwalton the archers is the marmite of radio #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-23
- beautiful RT @oliverburkeman: RT @MotherJones: Best journo-job want ad ever ever: http://t.co/G6AkBj5 #
- From @jonahlehrer: success comes from sustained hard work, not native talent http://t.co/i3jSKHn #
- Alison Gopnick: studies in young children show that direct teaching hampers curiosity & understanding cf exploration http://t.co/Yl6Jh91 #
- More evidence, via @researchdigest, that napping is a good thing: a midday nap tunes out -ve emotions, tunes in +ve ones http://t.co/nyYTnx5 #
- From @jonahlehrer http://t.co/3xucleK prosocial behaviour not predicted by city size = culture is all to play for #
- From @vaughanbell: the Hallucinogenic Goggles hack http://t.co/IAXWpii #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-22
- So, will today's UCU strike be associated with a downspike or upspike in subsequent papers published? #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-21
- Advanced publication copy of Yates & Stafford (2011) on saccadic decision making http://bit.ly/cGO9oV now available @djyates #
- The psychological benefits of solitude http://bo.st/fTitJw (via @iamsamthomas ) #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-20
- RT @PsyBlog: 10 Rules That Govern Groups. What most groups of people have in common http://t.co/GMLlnxq #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-19
- Amen RT @bengoldacre "if you don’t link to primary sources, I just don’t trust you" http://t.co/LUJEztg” #
- Have fun and learn about science with this game from arms manufacturers BAE systems http://t.co/NhgkUbY @djyates contains vis search task! #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-18
- http://sheffielduniversaleducationcollective.wordpress.com/ "For free radical education in the city" #sheffield #
- RT @rattlecentral: Weeknotes № 1307 http://t.co/hKGUN49 Skiing, our Adaptive Unconscious and Mr Fante. Fante who, you ask… ?” #
- Two hours to kill in Wolverhampton. Any suggestions? #
- Machynlleth #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-17
- RT @jonahlehrer The Virtues Of Play, or why that preschool lawsuit is insane http://bit.ly/eNsuHa #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-15
- Now in press at Cog Sci: "Pieron’s Law holds during Stroop conflict: insights into the architecture of decision making" http://bit.ly/hJoo4j #
- Any psychologists out there interested in experimental philosophy? http://sites.google.com/site/experimentalphilosophygroupuk/ #
- Talking at @rattlecentral this lunchtime about the Psychology of Attention and how we might design tech. which helps us concentrate #
- More carnivalesque wonders at the Western Bank Library gallery #Sheffield http://t.co/0BeDXf8 #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-10
- Has anyone a ref for that study about republicans vs demoncrats on judgements of material fact? Ie party affiliation affects what u believe #
- Tomorrow: Talking on how the Internet affects attention at 2cv.co.uk Now: grudgingly removing reference to the Panopticon from presentation #
- Yes, Bentham's prison and Foucault's metaphor for society. I was convinced it was relevant at some point, but can't remember how now 😉 #
- "Our brain has astounding navigation capabilties, and libraries of books harness our brain’s natural capabilities" http://is.gd/oDaLI8 #
- Funded study at the University of Bremen at UG, Masters and PhD level http://is.gd/obU74A #
- FoE report: The Role of Psychology in Environmental Campaigning and Activism http://is.gd/IkAzIr #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-09
- "it's time for a phone to save us from our phones" http://youtu.be/EHlN21ebeak really? #dynamicofcapitalism via @timoarnall #
- 9-11 September 2011 http://www.edalefolkfestival.co.uk/ #sheffield #folk #
- A to-do list with only two times: now and tomorrow: RT @TimHarford Time management, simple style: http://goo.gl/i3IVm #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-08
- Great critique of Mad Men http://t.co/cGq7lAh via @kat_jennings_ #
- RT @edyong209: People don’t know when they’re lying to themselves http://t.co/UktB3eH #
- In London? Need a talented graduate? My RA, Anna, is now looking for work paid or unpaid in research or psychology/clinical related. #
- anyone remember the story about a craftsman who defends a high price for quick work with "you're paying for the 20 years it took to learn"? #
- All the original illustrations from Alice in Wonderland http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alice2a.html #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-08
- Great critique of Mad Men http://t.co/cGq7lAh via @kat_jennings_ #
- RT @edyong209: People don’t know when they’re lying to themselves http://t.co/UktB3eH #
- In London? Need a talented graduate? My RA, Anna, is now looking for work paid or unpaid in research or psychology/clinical related. #
- anyone remember the story about a craftsman who defends a high price for quick work with "you're paying for the 20 years it took to learn"? #
- All the original illustrations from Alice in Wonderland http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alice2a.html #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-07
- RT @Mark_Changizi: "Look at This Crazy Russian Nuke Plant: Are 10,000 Buttons Safer Than One Screen?" http://t.co/BtlCqlZ by @johnpavlus” #
- RT @Mark_Changizi: "Are Physical Interfaces Superior to Virtual Ones?"
http://t.co/BRDppzA by @mims” #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-04
- The Great Important Conversation (Sorry No Ducks) http://idiolect.org.uk/notes/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sorry-no-ducks.jpg #
- Sheffield Friday Night Ride on the theme of "bounded infinity". Math. theory + cycling = awesome? http://www.sfnr.org.uk @sheffieldfnr #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-04
- The Great Important Conversation (Sorry No Ducks) http://idiolect.org.uk/notes/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sorry-no-ducks.jpg #
- Sheffield Friday Night Ride on the theme of "bounded infinity". Math. theory + cycling = awesome? http://www.sfnr.org.uk @sheffieldfnr #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-03
- Saturday I'm organising a workshop on Improv and particularly on status, taught by the wonderful @alexfradera. Get in touch if you want in #
- aka Saturday #impro workshop #sheffield #lastminute #free #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-02
- "The Attention Economy and the Net"
by Michael H. Goldhaber (1997) http://www.well.com/user/mgoldh/AtEcandNet.html # - I have bought a Victorian copy of the textbook which was used to teach maths for 2000 years. Yes, 2000 years. http://yfrog.com/h5g4wnfj #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Categories
Tweets for 2011-03-01
- Manchester #
Powered by Twitter Tools