June 2011 – idiolect

Is it a paradox that both sedatives and stimulants are pleasurable? @BrainStraining @vaughanbell #
got a spare ticket for Ani Difranco in Salford (and a lift from Sheffield) tonight! Anyone want? #
Want to spend a week in Sardinia learning about how to embed intrinsically motivated flexible learning in robots? http://bit.ly/emOtWE #
Now this is useful robotics http://vimeo.com/13514262 robot delivers you beer at work #
People of the twitterverse: can you recommend me a crowd-funding website and/or introductions to the same? #
Seeking to talk to someone who has experience/knowledge of Creative Commons licensing. Suggestions anyone? #
Speaking of which, buy my 'The Narrative Escape' for Kindle here http://j.mp/gmg2iX #radio4 #
I can open 2 instances of Word, but not of Excel. Why the assumption that I'll never want to look at 2 spreadsheets simultaneously? #
The problem with psychoanalysts is their tendency to be the conspiracy theorists of mind and culture #
♺ @dougald: Fascinated by the exchanges @uniteddiversity have been having with authors re: piracy – http://bit.ly/fV2vI9 #copyright #
Thought it was impossible to smell underwater? Not for the star-nosed mole. It re-inhales its own air bubbles http://is.gd/2Y6yUh #
"I didn't used to believe in synaesthesia, but then I saw scents" (via @alexfradera) #
If I publish a paper, I sign over copyright for my figures to the publisher. Can I avoid this If I copyright them with a CC license first? #
.@tom_chance is my IP guru, thanks Tom! #
The bowtie. Extinct in the wild? #
Subitizing exists for touch http://is.gd/LLe8kL #
Iconnote is a blog by Alison G. Gibbons http://iconnote.blogspot.com/ #
Useful innovations in teaching http://is.gd/a87jep #
RT @NewPubThink: "Intellectual life is not dead within the university, but nor is it safe there." http://bit.ly/hu1Nnp #
Guardian Law "Legal Heroes" series http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/series/legal-heroes #
So who's up for breakfast/lunch in east london tomorrow? #
Brunch in Cambridge Heath #
(The neuroscience of) The Quick and the Dead http://youtu.be/_aMfSwuObb0 #
Trying to learn mixed models logistic regression using #rstats Now feel whatever the statistics equivalent of "really high" is #
Evidence based date questions http://is.gd/og9T63 from okcupid #
"New technologies and the Reinvention of the Author" http://is.gd/bsH1KF Prospect Magazine Literary Festival event your bag @alteralison? #
Templeton Positive Neuroscience Awards will grant $2.9 million at the intersection of Neuroscience and Positiv… (cont) http://deck.ly/~hrC4Y #
Congratulations Tweetdeck, you've added enough functionality to break why I like twitter. I quit. And your mobile version is buggy as hell #
This looks like it could be very useful for dealing with email: http://www.boxbe.com/ Anyone got any experience? #
More fun than it should be : http://isparade.jp/ #
RT @AlecPatton UK Universities could learn from Texas, where they admit the top 10% from every high school http://wp.me/pwY1p-EV #
RT @alexfradera Stewart Lee on the instumental view of learning http://j.mp/h6oqmk #
I have organised an away day for my research group. They are under orders to eat greek food, play snooker and talk about science #
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ #
Oh, look @sheffielduni now does a MSc in Science Communication. http://bit.ly/gdgMkM I wonder if the course directors use twitter? #
You understand that relative percentages are meaningless. Maybe it's because you're not a Londoner http://yfrog.com/hshzjrkj #
If you want to do a PhD in Sheffield supervised by me, now is the time to let yourself be known! #
Psychology PhD projects at the University of Sheffield (I'm in here a few times) http://psy-phd.group.shef.ac.uk/ #
Ok, annoyingly my projects aren't listed in the previous link. Here's what's on offer: http://tomstafford.staff.shef.ac.uk/phd.htm #
Get my ebook about dreams, morality and stories for $0.99 or £0.71 http://mindhacks.com/2011/02/15/the-cut-price-narrative-escape/ #
A note on human behaviour: Enjoying the Natural History Museum yesterday, I came across this exhibit http://bit.ly/eCSMe0 #
Milgram's "obedience" studies, not about obedience after all? Excellent post http://ht.ly/3Xl5z & chimes with my ebook:http://bit.ly/dW7z6b #
Columbia University prof. tells it like it is on US TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCPz2SzROFQ #
The ebook reader in 2050 http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/01/stephen-collinss-cartoon-e-book-reader-2050/ #
Consumers born or made? "Advertising…is the only institution which we have for instilling new needs" Potter (1954) http://bit.ly/hQxQHN #
Evidence-based viva preparation http://bit.ly/hxBF2W thanks @keepstherainoff #
Most of us are not really too busy or overwhelmed, we just have that feeling because of our choices about how we structure our time #
Had loads of fun talking to skepticallyspeaking.com about computational cognitive neuroscience and Mind Hacks. Interview broadcast next week #
Lifehack: once you finally find the thing you are looking for, put it in the place you looked first for it -> an adaptive filing system! #
Why Twitter’s New Retweet Feature Sucks http://outspokenmedia.com/social-media/twitters-new-retweet-feature-sucks/ #
Look's great! RT @profschwabe New PhD position in my group. Check out http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ars/?page_id=140 #
Looks great! RT @profschwabe New PhD position in my group. Check out http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ars/?page_id=140 #
Talking in York, 13th of May: "Infering cognitive architectures from high-resolution behavioural data" http://idiolect.org.uk/notes/?p=1363 #
Clay Shirky's list of people who change the world by helping us look at it in a particular light http://say100.saymedia.com/thought-leaders #
Now, every time I use a semicolon, I think of Kurt Vonnegut #
Stress Potentiates Early and Attenuates Late Stages of Visual Processing http://bit.ly/ghEASn via @mariapage #
Manchester Cafe Scientifique. Robin Dunbar in april! http://www.cafescientifique.org/manchester via @McrSciFest #
love the idea of 'procedural literacy' @tom_chance: "Why humanities students should learn to program" – http://ur1.ca/3axxp #
Manchester #
"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 #
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 #
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 #
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” #
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 #
"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 #
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 #
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 #
RT @jonahlehrer The Virtues Of Play, or why that preschool lawsuit is insane http://bit.ly/eNsuHa #
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 #
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! #
RT @PsyBlog: 10 Rules That Govern Groups. What most groups of people have in common http://t.co/GMLlnxq #
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 ) #
So, will today's UCU strike be associated with a downspike or upspike in subsequent papers published? #
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 #
.@tomwalton the archers is the marmite of radio #
This! RT @johannhari101: "Glib, cheap pessimism is the enemy of progress” #
#Sheffield Publicity Department flag still up at Pye Bank at 0900 this morning @TomCommon @andybrownphoto http://t.co/mrWCdAZ #
RT @kevgillan: Posted 'Reminder: the budget deficit was not caused by welfare spending!' http://t.co/yFYRWEk #
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 #
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? #
Great talk in Sheffield last night RT @mindhacksblog A history of psychology through objects: http://bit.ly/fcPD3G @sciencemuseum #
attn @alterAlison RT @mariapage The evolving art of storytelling – http://goo.gl/XHEH5 #
Recommended for all psychologists: get yourself on a neuroanatomy course and dissect a real brain (e.g. http://www.neurocourses.com/ ) #
Book review of "Holy Ignorance". The symbiosis between secularism and fundamentalism http://t.co/JljXxja attn. @dougald @M_Hargraves #
Am interested in arguments for/against AV – can anyone recommend any research-based resources? #
RT @SciCafe: 04 April #Autism epidemic disease, psychosocial disorder or post-modern condition http://t.co/wzTWoLI #SciCafe #Sheffield #
I interviewed @lkblackburne about her ebook "From Words to Brain"
http://www.40kbooks.com/?p=7499 #
No2av people say av makes coalition more likely. Sounds like a testable statement to me. Can I have some evidence either way? #
RT @StatFact RT @almostandy "It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them." — Frederick Mosteller #
fMRI confirmation of predictive coding in visual perception http://tw.physorg.com/221118448 (via @mariapage) #
Today: at Society for Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour symposium on 'active vision' in York http://t.co/4Pog4JA #
Why we love @GeorgeMonbiot: a tenacious commitment to following up the evidence, even if uncomfortable: http://t.co/Rm0iiLD #
Political Scientists on AV http://t.co/9OJeLmy #
Last talk of the day and @djyates knocks it out of the park! Soon we will be taking over the world with our eye tracking research. #
For some loose sense of "world" #
i-perception, an open-access journal of human, animal, and machine perception http://i-perception.perceptionweb.com/ #
Crowd-sourced geiger counter readings from across Japan. http://japan.failedrobot.com/ attn @mikedewar (thanks Alex!) #
Fom the archive: "Cultivated Perception" gestalt principles and graphic design http://mindhacks.com/2004/12/17/cultivated-perception/ #
Ooooo http://opani.com/ "run your R, Octave, Matlab, and Scientific Python scripts in parallel, in the cloud, or locally" #
Musical training benefits all auditory skills (e.g. including language skills). http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v11/n8/full/nrn2882.html #
How you learn a motor skill (blocked vs interleaved practice) effects where in the brain it's stored (revealed by TMS) http://bit.ly/g6edZq #
Progress on early indicators of Parkinson's Disease (Nature, August 2010) http://bit.ly/dTYAQn #
Review in TINS: "Repairing the parkinsonian brain with neurotrophic factors " http://bit.ly/e7PhFF #
Review in TICS on "Training and plasticity of working memory" http://bit.ly/frKmZI #
Blindsight depends on connections from the lateral geniculate nucleus to extrastriate cortical areas http://bit.ly/gifYpm (Nature, 4/2010) #
On using games rather than facts or narrative in museums bit.ly/fPcIMW (via @StoryingShef) #
RT @timeshighered: Surprise! Sheffield has announced £9k fees. We will grant that this is possibly not that much of a surprise. #
3 Phd "demonstratorships" available in Psychology, University of Sheffield http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/psychology/prospectivepg/demonstrators #
heading to Oxford for the Experimental Psychology Society meeting… #
Follow the brilliant @AlecPatton for his ongoing reports on the world's most innovative classrooms http://bit.ly/g88Oxv #
Hello Oxford #
The most accurate estimate of voting intention you should be able to find: http://bit.ly/gn9gIC from the Uni of Nottingham (thanks WJJ!) #
Tickets for @thisisplayful go on sale at noon. Attn @alexfradera #
My short review of @researchdigest's new book The Rough Guide to Psychology. http://bit.ly/g1iSrZ In short: I liked it, a lot #
In fact, my only criticism would be that I couldn't see any mention of Michael Jackson in the book. What's going on @researchdigest ? #
Very excited – since @cigirkalfaoglu has joined, the entire lab is on twitter @djyates @tomwalton @thundercauldron #ff #win #
Now I want to #comedinewithTHE so i can find out what the beef between @timeshighered and @wesstreeting is #
I am reviewing every cognitive psychology textbook in my office. Most of them are unreadable http://t.co/kyUqXRt #
Not unreadable, because it focuses on debated issues: Mason's "taking sides" http://t.co/IqkdFdy #
Funny and clever, with each chapter title a question: Willingham's "Cognition: the thinking animal" http://t.co/5kRAdqu #
Nice because it is just a collection of original papers : Levitin's "Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core readings" http://t.co/JTmzdaw #
Enjoyable because of David Shanks' disruptive review chapter on memory: "Cognitive Science an introduction" http://t.co/FbFT8G2 #
That was exhausting. Now I can put those books back to some truly useful purpose http://t.co/TS48z7S #
Sheffield Uni research RT @occdigest Drinking habits of freelance musicians are a response to job demands: bit.ly/g9mbov #
Royal Society scheme for pairing MPs & Civil Servants with working scientists http://royalsociety.org/pairing-scheme/ #
How would you convince that you are a psychiatrist and not a patient: loving the answers over at mindhacks.com http://bit.ly/hHBRpW #
RT @jonmsutton Interview with Mike Ambinder, full-time experimental psychologist at Valve Software http://ow.ly/4Cw0l #
RT @BrumProtestor Private Eye reveals that just 18 of 12,000 companies left UK in 3 years because of tax #ukuncut http://twitpic.com/4ly4gd #
Good short piece here by @JonahLehrer "Is Nudging Really Enough?" http://on.wsj.com/hvHFI8 on the limits of nudge agenda #
However, it's a mistake to think of nudge as a theory of human nature. Its a shallow bunch of tricks with a false theory at its root #
For a wise counterpoint to Nudge, see the Steer report from @theRSAorg http://www.thersa.org/projects/reports/steer-the-report #
RT @vaughanbell Excellent piece on the mysterious medieval 'dancing mania' http://is.gd/2J14sh by @psychiatrist #
University of Sheffield research: how to send a public health warning http://bit.ly/gOGVJG #
Yep: that about covers it: How to Fix Any Computer http://theoatmeal.com/blog/fix_computer #
I am unable to find *anything* worth reading on the experimental psychology of concentration. #
For experimental psychologists, "attention" seems to mean only "selection", not concentration. Am I missing a key word? #
Neuroskeptic: The Tufnel Effect, "It's such a fine line between stupid and…uh, clever." http://bit.ly/fxe7au #
ps this is why you should code your analysis, rather than perform it step by step by hand/click #
Introduction to library skills via zombie apocalypse graphic novel http://bit.ly/gFUNmd via @seatrout (the librarians kick zombie ass) #
classic, make sure you check the tables on p2 and p3 RT @almostandy The real meaning of British English http://see.sc/1mevH4 #
RT @mariapage What is IQ measuring anyway? "Role of test motivation in intelligence testing"- http://goo.gl/4HfjZ #
Taking the 10,000 hours of practice theory seriously
http://jamesjchoi.blogspot.com/2011/04/taking-10000-hours-of-practice-theory.html #
RT @TimHarford The political bias of the New York Times: goo.gl/f9BdA (Most interesting is the subtle way in which bias is said to emerge) #
In Sardinia. Science is cool http://t.co/lUHzHxi #
RT @cfernyhough: So I had my fMRI scan, and I can report that it was like being jammed inside R2D2 for the duration of the Battle of Endor #
Egypt's foreign minister says Cairo will permanently open the Rafah border crossing to ease Israel's blockade on Gaza. http://bit.ly/iCnWQ9 #
Psychology in the Pub, 18th of May in #Sheffield on Facebook and friendship over social networks http://bit.ly/kGQ4Kn #
Ah, that old airport riddle – where is the least awful place I can wait for my plane? #
Fortunately, I never travel without my facebook profile. One should always have something sensational to read on the train #
Hello Thessaloniki #
From @almostandy : Why Experimental Psychologists hate psychoanalysis http://t.co/rihxyQI #
RT @BrainStraining: Brilliant essay on how to find academic problems to work on. http://t.co/kQS9Qzi #
Saw this sign in the window of one of Thessaloniki's many boutiques. It's one response to the financial crisis I guess http://t.co/psOxkVH #
Tomorrow I am giving a lecture on evolutionary game theory at City College, Thessaloniki. I am hoping the outcome will be non-zero sum. #
This introduction to Honest Signalling Theory from Uni of Washington Prof Bergstrom is clear, as well as beautiful http://bit.ly/mlThmA #
Ouch: academia as merely the conspicuous consumption of leisure, esteemed for its impracticality http://bit.ly/k4Cant (Veblen, 1899) #
RT @vaughanbell: The convenient fog of war http://t.co/6xFUUBU Why the corrected Bin Laden story will have little impact #
Back in the U of K! #
Epistemology fans: come to the lecture tonight on 17th century science and "the invention of the fact" http://shef.ac.uk/arts-science #
For live-tweeting of the Sheffield council elections tonight, follow the Yorkshire Post's @Jeniharvey #politics #sheffield #vote #
If you are in Nether Edge ward you can vote for the Green Party's @RealRobCole in the local elections today.#sheffield #vote #politics #
"at no time is it permissible to sit idle and observe the poetry of life" http://chzb.gr/eklXv7 #
This week's Art Science encounter: Kinetic sculptor and environmental artist Andrew Stonyer http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/arts-science #
The devil is in the detail of the definition of "optimal" RT@mariapage The brain performs visual search near optimally http://t.co/nla73V9 #
Psychologist of deception Aldert Vrij on the 18 characteristics of good liars http://bit.ly/lXZoeo #
Avon understands evolutionary game theory better than Stringer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lB8C2VfrW4&t=2m11s #
The brain leading us beyond the political left and right – loving this Prospect article by @RSAmatthew http://bit.ly/3DpKm #
Although who is going to tell @RSAMatthew about Hauser's scientific misconduct? Not the best example of research to cite about morality… #
Thursday: "a new and suprising look at physics and theology" http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/arts-science Hugh Pyper is brilliant, recommend #
This will be ace: "Neuroscience and Neuromania" Robin Dunbar and Ray Tallis at the British Academy June 14 http://bit.ly/iDktci #
The ethologist Tinbergen laid out four fundamental questions that can be asked about any animal behaviour http://bit.ly/l8hXme (wikipedia) #
I'm sure someone came up with a fifth somewhere, but I can't remember what it was #
Andy Barto: "It can be easier to evolve a reward signal to learn a behaviour than to evolve the behaviour itself" #
There is a very informed discussion about political ideologies and human nature on my blog http://idiolect.org.uk/notes/?p=1467 #
Without, i should say, any contribution from me! #
.@jamesb here's that simon armitage poem I mentioned last night http://idiolect.org.uk/notes/?p=344 #
Rap is the perfect genre for this – like most rap I can't tell if they take themselves seriously or are sick with irony http://bit.ly/k27VCn #
i heart windows grep http://www.wingrep.com/ #
Vodka company sponsors 'facebook Russian roulette' – if unlucky, you can lose your virtual life http://t.co/CfIhw3B #
Today I am giving a talk in York : "Infering cognitive architectures from high-resolution behavioural data" http://bit.ly/gtSosu #
We have just won funding which will allow me to hire an RA for a year (whoop!), more soon #
Amen @PsychScientists Working out a system's job description really should be the first thing you do in any task analysis #
The questions you never thought to ask, science does for you "Is there a morphine store in the brain of the camel?" http://bit.ly/kDUZVa #
Just spoke to the station manager at Sheffield train station – they're planning 150 new cycle parking places. Great! #
It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action #
The Unsuggester: analyses 50m books, comes back with the books read by the people who don't read the books you do http://bit.ly/C2ccF #
…reveals that the godly don't read "A Game of Thrones", for example. Link via @oliverburkeman 's book Help! #
People who read the Old Man and the Sea unlikely to read Mind Hacks. Hmmm.. http://www.librarything.com/unsuggester/8387 #
One good thing about submitting to a journal with a 1200 Euro publication fee – I'm going to feel good whether its accepted or rejected! #
If anyone needs a databank of spurious evolutionary thinking and politically motivated science, ask Satoshi Kanawawa http://bit.ly/10WE73 #
Absolutely stoked to be hosting dataist @mikedewar this week. Tonight : exploring Sheffield town #
Great Jon Ronson article on psychopathy in the guardian http://t.co/lyIovkU #
Boggled by http://t.co/uNbcNhQ the hoax which the dupes cannot, by definition, believe is a hoax #
Open access journal goodness: Frontiers in Cognitive Science http://www.frontiersin.org/cognitive_science #
Get a bursary to come and study of one of our masters courses here at Sheffield Psychology Department http://bit.ly/mxrGnX #
Classic paper: Can a Fly Ride a Bicycle? Wolf et al, 1992 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/337/1281/261.short #
Advertising space available for purchase in lecture halls at Aston University http://bit.ly/kvZqpC "Reach our students today!" #
Great interview by @researchdigest in @psychmag with David Halpern, head of govt's "Behavioural Insight Team" http://ow.ly/53xFL #
London calling #
RT @StoryingShef: Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ~H. Arendt. #
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! #
Congratulations – well deserved! RT @mariapage I got the scholarship. It's official. Too many good things happening lately!!!! #
RT @mariapage: Interesting: Futuristic Strobe Eyewear May Improve Your Game – http://t.co/OsL2c90” #
Had forgot that the full text of my article in Prospect about confabulation is here http://idiolect.org.uk/notes/?p=894 #
Can you help my friend james? RT @jamesb Know anyone involved in running a dating service? Intros much appreciated (for work BTW!) #
RT @TimHarford Who would win in a fight between Neal Stephenson and William Gibson? http://goo.gl/uSCFW Scroll to Q4. HT @edyong209 #
Unexpectedly spending the evening in Oxford. Hello Oxford #
RT @StoryingShef: Funding arts in HE: Interesting response to critics of his new private uni by Prof Grayling http://t.co/bU8mIPY #
RT @oliverburkeman: "Nausea wells to the throat…" Tezza Eagleton weighs in on Grayling University http://t.co/F5ov0d5 #
Your political ideology affects what you view as the true self http://econ.st/jkNcxX report on Knobe's x-phi work from The Economist #
Which China Melville book should I nominate for my book group? #
"Advertisers try and sell material products using transcendent values" http://cantsellmelove.tumblr.com/ here are some examples #
"I wouldn’t pity ‘generation rent’. I’d pity the people who are slightly older and bought at the wrong moment." http://bit.ly/kzda6c ouch! #
Great reveiw of latest Adam Curtis documentary by @qwghlm http://bit.ly/mMAZWf #