Month: September 2011

• 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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• Seeking touch-typing data-geeks who'd like to get to know their brains better – we've a winning time-for-data offer! http://t.co/yZSuGE4 #
• Sheffield Centre for Robotics webpage is live. Looking good @ShefRobotics! Come and visit our open day this afternoon http://t.co/dK2IwVL #
• Frustrating phone call with Uni technical support reminded me of this http://t.co/xq6pSSB #
• Wearing my Immanuel Kant t-shirt today, and having a drink with @andybrownphoto later. So: philosopher's drinking song: http://t.co/f68MmAv #
• Wise words on data sonification http://t.co/sfVNFTD via @yaxu #
• It's the @sheffielduni psych dept makeover! RT @mathewe: How I spent my afternoon, stretching @tomstafford 's error bars http://t.co/kjFP9PO #
• Still enjoying CBC's How To Think About Science immensely. You could teach a great course based on it http://t.co/2nIOsCr #
• RT @jpeelle The motor control group at ICN in London has an open postdoctoral position http://t.co/oCe56K6 #
• "We are poor and like the peculiar….This is a guide to all the under-a-fiver delights that Sheffield has to offer." http://t.co/OXhjgqn #
• Sheffield well represented here @Psych_Writer The definitive list of psychologists who tweet, updated http://t.co/7HKzJhi #
• Review wot i wrote RT darkmtn: Now Then magazine reviews this year's #Uncivilisation http://t.co/8eGGe7s #
• Saturday in #Sheffield http://t.co/GQ21cZK "Stories of Activism in Sheffield, 1960-2011" #

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• Ah, the joys of academic writing, where anything published in the last ten years can be referred to as "a recent result" #
• Calculated my h-index. http://t.co/eDU9JYG Got a number. Now trying to work out what that means #
• Solfest here I come! #
• The @GeorgeMonbiot column on the scandal of academic publishing will shock everyone except academics http://t.co/zO96p4t #
• "Media Disruption Exacerbates Revolutionary Unrest? Notes." great post from @whimsley http://t.co/1kRBSYS #
• In 1990 UCL biologist Steven Rose teamed up with Rupert Sheldrake to test his theory of "morphic resonance" http://t.co/oRd2viO #
• RT @vaughanbell A handy list of prefixes to commonly used brain anatomy terms and their meanings http://t.co/P1Eyvwg #
• Are you a touch-typing data-geek who'd like to get to know your brain better? I'd like to offer you a deal… http://t.co/yZSuGE4 #
• #Sheffield #Robotics centre launches today, brought to you by @sheffielduni & @sheffhallamuni http://t.co/JvkkISL #
• I'll be there! RT @ShefRobotics The TAROS 2011 robot exhibition is open to the public 3.30-5.30pm this Friday, Furnival Building, SHU #

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