Month: July 2012

links

Links for summer 2012

tweets

My column for @BBC_Future "Why we love to hoard" aka using behavioural economics to de-clutter your life now up http://t.co/DVIGTZ32 #
My MP (lab.) and another (con.), both brain tumour survivors, are doing a sponsored walk for Headway starting in Edale http://t.co/uoUArcH9 #
"there is no such thing as an apolitical act in mental health" fantastic stuff from @vaughanbell http://t.co/8IViDxpu #
Enterprise Europe site lets you search for research partners in Europe. This one sounds like a job interview challenge http://t.co/49Ciu95T #
RT @johnmyleswhite: This UMN faculty member's reasons for leaving academia are very timely: http://t.co/abDqzZkz <– also frightening. #
This next RT why scientists should use twitter, from @neuroconscience #

tweets

A good example of the complete contempt an advert can display for its target http://t.co/TcSLDzzk #
Data sleuthing causes resignation of another social psychologist, @edyong209 reports http://t.co/UrwCP1Zo #
Berlin report http://t.co/TTrE3lOv an even-more-pondering-than-usual post #
My latest for @BBC_Future, how possession distorts our values and how to fight back (uk-readable link) http://t.co/p6lGWQ09 #
Sinister RT @PaulLewis: We cannot name the judge, court or case. But here is the most we can say court ban on BBC film: http://t.co/B9yXQNYg #
I take that back, the court order is probably not sinister, it is probably due to someone in the doc being involved in an ongoing case #
2007 paper with a nice review of the idea that colour might enhance performance (in brief: evidence is checkered)
http://t.co/Bc2uDggQ #
I said "Perception is about meaning". http://t.co/TTrE3lOv Blog comment asks: "what is the citation for that?" Any one got any offers? #
Reading (and puzzling over): The Master and his Emissary, The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist #
Seeking a touch-typist in Sheffield who will volunteer to have their brain fMRI scanned on the 8th of August. Y'know, for science. Pls RT #

tweets

Preliminary report of my analysis of the dynamics of skill learning, using data from @Preloaded's game Axon #
For the record, this analysis woudln't have been possible without help from @mikedewar at @bitly http://t.co/l0PFU0DP #
(obligatory break from writing article about twitter, to check twitter) #
Less than a week before my intervention at the @BMWGuggLab in Berlin http://t.co/2YA6qfcp #
Well hello Berlin…Am not sure a terrifying close up of my face will encourage people to attend on wednesday http://t.co/ndobaZoO #
'Creationists look at scientists the way the world now looks at bankers' http://t.co/FDVGJ85E #
RT @DanBox10: Damn, I love #FreedomofInformation My wife says I talk about it too much. Like a strange, bureaucratic mistress. #
"Why oh why does it keep raining?" RT http://t.co/dLaTpCtT #
Why I am unlucky but you are careless – my latest column for @BBC_Future now up at http://t.co/85RrPPSd http://t.co/9gheSHVr #
Map of America coded according to whether tweets mention beer or church http://t.co/wxGgkwIp cc @mikedewar #

tweets

This is surely a great example of some principle of the psychology of reasoning: "the Beatles never existed" http://t.co/ZoGUgkdf #
And so to sunny Aberystwyth for three days… #
.@mikedewar dude, next time you try to convince a scientist to switch to python, mention this http://t.co/SfezcChX #
"Infants in Control: Rapid Anticipation of Action Outcomes in a Gaze-Contingent Paradigm" http://t.co/GDu83V8S #
That last paper conceptually very similar to our new action acquisition task http://t.co/N83NUmuD except training eye-movements #
Couldn't we solve SEO spam by google instituting a *penalty* for sites seen to be spamming? #
Currently spammers only have potential benefits, and bloggers bear the cost #
"Why I am always unlucky but you are always careless" http://t.co/Ie2R3keH my latest column for @BBC_Future #