Category: tweets

• Phlegm beer at the University Arms #Sheffield http://t.co/hovy9TwG #
• 32 metronomes synchronised by resonance – very enjoyable demonstration of principle http://t.co/iuPJo6QW …! #
• What shall I write my next @BBC_Future column on? If you've a mind curio or brain quirk you'd like to read about, let me know #
• I've solved the teach-your-kid-programming problem, and with a dash of 80s retro cool http://t.co/yyb99BVX #
• Like this: crowd sourced service monitoring http://t.co/ctOx8DKg #
• Moonwalking bear inattentional blindness demo overlayed with various eyetracking metrics http://t.co/GMmOgqxE #
• Psychological self-defence for the age of email http://t.co/PxvPxcQe my latest for @BBC_Future (UK-readable link) #

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• Sheffield, England #
• Law of Effect – pivotal psychological theory, and a rock band from Leicester http://t.co/F2LRl9y9 anything to do with you @jonmsutton? #
• My latest column for @BBC_Future now up on http://t.co/85RrPPSd http://t.co/ScBLudq6 Can glass shape really affect how fast you drink? #
• Origins of that effect-of-curved-glass-on drinking-speed study revealed http://t.co/TNkJTcxw over a pint, course! Thanks @MarcusMunafo #
• "Can glass shape really affect how fast you drink?" aka how facts are made http://t.co/ScBLudq6 now w comments from author @MarcusMunafo #
• Social cognition priming studies 'poster child for doubts about the integrity of psychological research' http://t.co/xkXrCCgB ouch #

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• .@alexfradera has a question abotu attention span in premodern cultures http://t.co/7H4ih5pU #
• I'll be talking about how massive data will revolutionise our understanding of the mind at this from 1pm http://t.co/Lwl0pKhg #Sheffield #
• Stacked to the rafters at the Magic and the Mind event and the bar has been drunk to near dry before we've even started @FestivalMind #
• Good point, well made: xkcd on the vacuousness of exhorting people to "think logically" http://t.co/v8EKGp9V #
• Drawing machine draws into the night, travelling a long long road http://t.co/J1aMr9gX @mattiasjones #
• Brooklyn, New York #
• My new column for @BBC_Future is about leaping from psychology evidence to applications isn't straightforward http://t.co/ayWCfZ9f #

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• Can anyone spare me $9k so I can buy a fibre optic keyboard for use in the scanner? #
• Really?! RT @frabcus Genius. Plugin that tells you which scientific paper was source of bad newspaper journalism. http://t.co/9LlKXnKD #
• The advertising dollar makes its own judgement of the future of the newspaper business http://t.co/FeYpWeV1 #
• My colleague Danielle Matthews is on Radio Sheffield at 11am talking about her study into early language development http://t.co/yQPtPzPb #
• Cancel that, she's been bumped. But she's still looking for parents of young children to take part in the study http://t.co/yQPtPzPb #
• Okay, so what's a fun saturday night in NYC for a week saturday? #
• A good popular science book makes you part of the scientific conversation. http://t.co/SmanoW1F @MarkChangizi in 2010 #
• Auction psychology http://t.co/nXm7TGbV My latest for @BBC_Future now up at http://t.co/85RrPPSd #
• "Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric" What it's like to be stung by a Tarantula Hawk Wasp, courtesy of the http://t.co/PK6cN9Qu #
• This is your brain on twitter #
• "let’s not be too hard on phrenology while taking out the neurotrash." says @stevenpoole http://t.co/U0Ekt6k8 #

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• Wsj: 'This Isn't Candid Camera, It's a Science Project' http://t.co/Hkdv8jsr that'd be me in Berlin then. #
• Buy the New Statesman so you can read @stevenpoole being cruel, so cruel – but fair – about neuroscientism #
• Virtue ethics is due a major comeback IMO #
• Psychology in the Pub on Sleep, Learning and Memory, Oct 11, Showroom, #Sheffield Maybe this link'll work: https://t.co/ocgylD26 #
• This link is considerably useful if you are coming to study at the University of Sheffield this month http://t.co/aus3vIPP #
• My next column for @BBC_Future problematises drawing clear conclusions from psych research. Tricky. It's hard to be liked for problematising #
• Why you pay more: auction psychology http://t.co/QEAZaJTt my latest for @BBC_Future (UK readable link) #
• "Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses" http://t.co/eVbRZNkX #
• The 'subliminal' nature of the stimulus presentation is suspect – they use a yes/no recognition test (the expt DV reqs. only 2AFC discrim) #
• Myths in the way of clear academic prose http://t.co/YbzrfU1i Helen Sword in @timeshighered #
• Teaching questions rather than answers #
• What scene from any play/movie/book best exemplifies the moment where someone comes to the alarming realisation that the game has changed? #
• To clarify: I'm not interested in the feeling that the pieces have moved, but that the very rules of the game are different from before #
• This is more than just surprise. #
• The greatest hits…of Cognitive Modelling http://t.co/vYBRjsDB provided by Gary Cottrell #
• Our @FestivalMind event: the public votes which research gets funded http://t.co/Lwl0pKhg now on twitter as @MindsInvestors #Sheffield #

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• Academics: what is a reasonable time to wait after submitting a paper before nudging the editor for a response? #
• tbh, those "wettest summer for 100 years" stats don't work for me. I'd rather have a headline which reported a z score. Or is that just me? #
• Nottingham #
• "Stopped clocks and dead phones" My BBC column from last week, now live on http://t.co/85RrPPSd http://t.co/GkENyjMh #
• Go Estonia! But how do you teach a six year old to code? Anyone? #
• Meanwhile, in the basement of consciousness, the clocks have stopped and phones gone dead http://t.co/GkENyjMh #
• Welcome to the Academy! RT @jamesb I'm doing a bit of teaching http://t.co/RBOYgpvZ #
• Elsevier support just told me that 4 months is typical for "under review" stage. cc @PsychScientists @chrisdc77 @JimGrange @MarcusMunafo #
• Browsing the "Psychology" section of a 2nd hand bookshop provides good evidence that people have no idea what psychology is #

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• So that was the first full week I have had without using the Internet since 2004 #
• Stopped clocks and dead-phones. My latest for @BBC_Future now up. UK readable link http://t.co/ztD9pZ01 #
• "Magic and the Mind" 23rd Sept, 4.30pm, #Sheffield as part of @FestivalMind http://t.co/yPIGIYpK #
• EPSRC sand-pit on "Digital Personhood" http://t.co/cSdqPAOg #
• Google research awards http://t.co/o2n17a48 #
• "Combating the Attention Spam Crisis" talk by @jkraus http://t.co/5R6Ei1aF very good. He means 'mind' when he says 'brain' tho cc @jamesb #
• Full text of that talk by @jkraus here http://t.co/gN1Qwt7J. But remember kids: Why Sherry Turkle is so Worng http://t.co/1aPUiNrv #
• Here's the @FestivalMind project that @mattiasjones is…er…doing http://t.co/5SXfewy8 I've had a very small part in the coding #
• And I'll be part of this http://t.co/Lwl0pKhg Come along. And, ahem, feel free to vote for me #

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• RT @BBC_Future Manchester City to open its archive on player data and statistics: http://t.co/oLxJcasN #bigdata #

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• AHRC "science in culture" theme http://t.co/0sVQFDP7 is the pun deliberate? #
• Upcoming call for AHRC Science in Culture theme large grants http://t.co/XS8ZnPIk #
• I am about to be on BBC Radio Sheffield to discuss this amnesia case http://t.co/wK0sGfir 'The woman who has lost 20 years from her memory' #
• Crowd-sourced analysis of terms of service. http://t.co/gXxwf8xU next stop: an app that reads contracts, tells you how standard they are #
• More olympics psychology from me on @BBC_Future. UK readable link http://t.co/1yYrBUAw "Olympic lessons in regret" #
• New in Cog Sci from M Mirolli: analysing when a minimally cognitive agent develops representations http://t.co/XK2CGJgc #
• Academic Colleagues: I recommend caution when dealing with @Podiumfor2012, who I have found to be manipulative and deceitful #
• HP Printers and Scanners have good linux support. Hurrah for HP! #
• Author of the great http://t.co/ojkCoz1J blog leaves important update on my "red for victory" column: http://t.co/2rkay373 #
• And he's on twitter as @brainsidea. Thanks for the comment Richard! #
• Just booked my flights for New York in September. Who fancies a beer? #
• Now on http://t.co/85RrPPSd my column for @BBC_Future, "what a silver medal can teach us about regret" http://t.co/2dXeOPmg #
• RIP Duncan Luce, author of the bible "Response Times and their role in infering elementary mental organisation" http://t.co/ha34IqaC #
• Driskell's (1994) meta-analysis of the benefits of mental practice http://t.co/726eAsg7 short story: it works #
• Imagining how you'll study leads to better grades than imagining why you should study http://t.co/VJHeECbr #
• Recommended source for a history of the behaviourism-cognitivism debate in psychology anyone? #
• Now live: Stafford & Bell (2012): Brain network: social media and the cognitive scientist http://t.co/3IMoNHFk cc @vaughanbell #
• Featuring: twitter! cognitive science! Glamourous neurotweeps such as @deevybee and @edyong209! Get it while it's hot http://t.co/3IMoNHFk #
• Our article on how social media are transforming science now FREE to access, because @TrendsCognSci get it http://t.co/qB1Exeal #

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• Take a tour of Sheffield Music City, http://t.co/r0nEEZcX courtesy of @PublicityDept #
• Struggling to generate many examples of sentences without the letters "I" and "K", for an experiment. #
• That's 1 down, just need 29 more! RT @thefalken: @tomstafford "A sentence with no letters has none." #
• "not just useless piffle about technology; it is also an endorsement of some rather noxious political ideas" http://t.co/6TBXEYX2 BOOM! #
• Ok twitter, now I need example sentences which don't contain the letters O or L. Can you help? #
• My latest for @BBC_Future now up on mindhacks http://t.co/f0TQIG8b a cautionary tale of scientific research with an Olympic theme #
• Amazing visualisation of the global arms trade http://t.co/b7gGwKrf Campaign Against the Arms trade http://t.co/UCP5m9eL #
• The great E.C. Tolman, on what 'rat psychology' can teach us about academic freedom http://t.co/PU9L8gpd via @criener @EPCharles #
• Using implicit memory to store passwords. A sort of behavioural biometrics http://t.co/zcFtEStd via @Neuro_Skeptic #
• A doctor referred to as cDa29…'is the first tetrachromat known to science' http://t.co/QunMNE3w via @neuroconscience #
• Editor's final demand b4 publication: remove all use of 1st person plural. Means I have to edit my paper to make it harder to read! #
• Is also against APA style http://t.co/62wAngcV #
• Do you have an advanced degree in maths/eng and could solve a theoretical problem with a robot art project? http://t.co/ZJ5hfAUa #
• We will pay you in pure kudos if you can help! http://t.co/ZJ5hfAUa if you live in Sheffield, beer too #
• Wow twitter, you are super helpful on a Tuesday night! Thanks for all the RTs and replies. I've got some great leads on a solution… #
• …if anyone wants to do some of the work, i'm still open to that too! Knowing the answer != implementing the answer #
• So, people of Sheffield, what would you like to see at your very own Festival of Science? #

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• Workshop for Google Data Analytics Social Science Research http://t.co/vqUZmpNl via @DigiWorldSheff #
• Want to learn python by looking at examples of small complete scripts which do simple tasks. Can anyone recommend link? #python #lazyweb #
• Discussion on this @Neuro_Skeptic post is illuminating about many issues in academic writing http://t.co/vc9Lint1 #
• Feel slightly weird that my (scientific) life story is told in the august issue of @psychmag http://t.co/fBh0WK5W #
• But very happy to be able to give credit to two of my scientific inspirations: Professors Andrew Mayes and Kevin Gurney #
• At the 1992 Olympics the Lithuanian basketball team collected their bronze medals in tie-die http://t.co/x2BJbMCh #
• 'new' publication How do we use computational models of cognitive processes? http://t.co/IrR80evY I survey how models are use in cog sci #
• Summary: All is not as neatly Popperian as the textbooks would have you believe! http://t.co/IrR80evY #
• RT @Neuro_Skeptic Induction of lucid dreams: A systematic review of the evidence http://t.co/RpiwD6sd #
• More on lucid dreams, including that vital "how to" guide, in our free ebook https://t.co/3cJMEUY3 #
• A cautionary tale of scientific research, with an Olympic theme: does wearing red make you better at fighting? http://t.co/COShjl0J #
• Can anyone recall an expt where ppts gave more compensation to plane crash victims who nearly made it to safety? Google has failed me #

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• 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 #

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• 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 #

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• 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 #

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• 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 #

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• Enjoyable post on the sunk cost fallacy from 2011 by @davidmcraney http://t.co/CGjoI8ua #
• Aerial photos of Sheffield from the 1920s http://t.co/Oo9dnKaU #
• Another psychology fraud case detected using statistical sleuthing http://t.co/yPkDXSYu #
• My column for @BBC_Future now live at http://t.co/85RrPPSd "Why are we so curious?" http://t.co/Eck3MKo9 #
• Infancy researchers – have you ever used an eyelink 1000 for eye-tracking with babies? Are the two compatible? #
• Limits to the efficient coding hypothesis http://t.co/LKksMmlE #

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• Great @jonahlehrer column on blind wine taste-testing http://t.co/4OkyhaDJ answer: even experts can't judge reliably #
• Myself and @totalshowman tried a related experiment with tea http://t.co/gH6hJRgx #
• Talk "Educating the Innovators of the 21st Century" #sheffield 18/7/12 http://t.co/0EQDptoh #
• Talk: "Does racism continue to play a role in our mental health system" Thursday, 21st June @ 7.30pm at The Showroom cinema, #Sheffield #
• Striatum and pre-SMA as neural basis of the speed-accuracy trade-off, Forstmann et al (2008) http://t.co/3rUwUvEZ #
• The personality of early risers http://t.co/Pd59AA9E @ResearchDigest post from 2007. Morning people aren't much fun, it sounds like #
• "The structure of a bottlenose dolphin society is coupled to a unique foraging cooperation with artisanal fishermen" http://t.co/7bxn6v6U #
• Human cortical mircostimulation dates from the 1860s. On wounded soldiers. With a battery. Go Dr Hitzig. http://t.co/eGebhRoO #whoknew #
• Cruel cruel beer advert: a couple walk into the cinema and find that all the seats except theirs are filled by bikers http://t.co/nrCagJvr #
• Conformity to innocuous social norms – video of the Elevator set-up, and modern day replication http://t.co/pFxjUint #
• RT @MarkChangizi: Pinker on group selection. http://t.co/I5FrvelL #
• Playing "Gay? Or Eurotrash?". As research. http://t.co/aleIreRw #
• "Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is accurately perceived at 50 ms" http://t.co/OKMfYY0Y Rule & Ambady (2008) #
• Berlin plan #3 Instant social knowledge through unconscious perception http://t.co/uLEyFTSM #
• UK-readable link for my @BBC_Future column on why we are curious http://t.co/ncUafXXd #
• Loving @vaughanbell's Dramatically Titled Neuroscience Story http://t.co/ZN9osfp0 and comments #
• "Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience" http://t.co/CoC2NKNf Bowers & Davis (2012) #
• Beware Stimulus Effects in Psychology http://t.co/oagc5hrb #
• Satellite Eyes automatically changes your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of where you are, right now. http://t.co/adDfiZwi #
• My column 'what makes us laugh?' for @BBC_Future now up at http://t.co/85RrPPSd for all to see http://t.co/luT5S4J3 #
• With great subhead from @simon_frantz "understanding laughter means understanding fundamental issues of human nature." http://t.co/luT5S4J3 #
• Cool research project http://t.co/n2wdJzrX #
• Solid gold advice for scientists from @MarkChangizi http://t.co/WuiKvR4N #

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• Prolonged rock climbing activity induces structural changes in cerebellum and parietal lobe. http://t.co/yf4ORWZs BUT correlation only study #
• My department's student society is on twitter @SheffuniPSYCHOS Hi guys! #
• Making plans for my Berlin mindhacks adventure http://t.co/EmUOZjqo #
• More Berlin plans: hacking crowd psychology http://t.co/gNB0Z78j #
• I've promised I will think of a third intervention for Berlin, based around the idea of 'unconscious perception'. Any suggestions?? #
• Travelling in mainland Europe by train? Ring the Deutsche Bahn UK Booking Centre http://t.co/u66IYPrQ they are awesome #
• Dan Simons has pointed out that footage of his "door experiment" is online. http://t.co/Wf24ZomJ Thanks Dan! my plan: http://t.co/EmUOZjqo #
• "Rowers' high: behavioural synchrony is correlated with elevated pain thresholds" http://t.co/6OKCqXTf via @emmafraggle #
• Today's mission: write my column for @BBC_Future without mentioning evolution..difficult when nothing in biology makes sense without it #
• Dear @EMTrains, a promise to reply within "20 working days" to my cycle reservation is NO USE AT ALL #
• Dear @EMTrains, why don't you just admit that you don't want people with bikes to use your trains? It would be easier on both of us #
• Corinne Rose: This is your brain on urbanism http://t.co/3ibLXbHf I'm part of Corinne's programme in Berlin this summer #
• Tomorrow can wait: Exploring Europe with an autistic child http://t.co/pZnwbtVm #

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• Today : university of birmingham #
• Storying Sheffield 2012 exhibition June 12th. One day only http://t.co/mUSbHGVX #
• Excellent book RT @barryjamesgibb: Today the new edition of my book launches: The Rough Guide to the Brain
  http://t.co/ydbqfbPQ #
• Essential RT @TimHarford: What does email want? http://t.co/txYhRc5Z #
• Those with higher scientific literacy better at accommodating scientific evidence to their existing ideology http://t.co/z6TRbXVo #
• RT @deevybee: #DSM5 draft does not include 'dyslexia': major concern for International #Dyslexia Assoc http://t.co/LHCqIpzp #
• Andrew Huxley, Nobel-Winning Physiologist, Dies at 94 http://t.co/vaYkRssO (NY Times obit) #
• RT @DanTGilbert: Born on third base but think you hit a triple? Read Michael Lewis's remarks to Princeton grads. http://t.co/jZdLRTJo #
• "Understanding laughter means understanding fundamental issues about human nature. " my @BBC_Future column http://t.co/7dKib6oF #
• My column on why we laugh ends up introducing Tinbergen's 4 fundamental questions of the evolution of behaviour http://t.co/7dKib6oF =WIN #
• Meet me in Berlin on 11th of July for urban experimental experiential psychogeographical fun http://t.co/2YA6qfcp at the @bmwgugglab #

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• If you could build a human scale visual illusion in a public space, which would it be? #
• If you could build a human scale visual illusion in a public space, which would it be? Have an opportunity in central Sheffield… #
• For an insight into the power and ubiquity of adaptation, see this column by @MarkChangizi over at Discover http://t.co/X8tOqbe1 #
• RT @vaughanbell The trouble with fMRI: I’ve written a piece for The Observer about ‘the trouble with brain scans’… http://t.co/K7WuAlKu #
• Monday morning people: Don't miss @vaughanbell on fMRI in the Observer http://t.co/jWD2fxSp follow-up http://t.co/AIOPIvTk #
• My column for @BBC_Future now up at http://t.co/85RrPPSd : Hypnic Jerks http://t.co/xizlC97h #
• "If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts." Kurt Vonnegut #
• No evidence that monkeys will learn to play a synthesizer http://t.co/7LuJC4bp via @thundercauldron #
• Needed: social sci. researcher to advise exciting project on maps and creative engagement http://t.co/syn4n510 cc @mindfulmaps #
• "Eye movements reveal rapid concurrent access to factual and counterfactual interpretations of the world" http://t.co/gXOL53k9 #
• Vital @vaughanbell What Is the “Bible of Psychiatry” Supposed to Do? The Peculiar Challenges of an Uncertain Science http://t.co/jELmeYU8 #
• Trialing two new organising tools: http://t.co/irNLyn6R and http://t.co/QpDjVxvn. Checkvist most elegant, trello better for groups #
• Does anyone know if the kindle is any good for reading PDFs (ie academic papers)? #
• So it sounds like Kindle-PDF suitability is …mixed #

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