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Tweets for 2011-11-10

My entry features in @Psych_Writer's compilation of answers to "one time Psychology to the Rescue" http://t.co/bCP5H93t #
.@cfernyhough Out of interest, can you give me some examples of your favourite popular science books? #
RT @oliverburkeman: This week's column is about the amazing power of automaticity, habit chains, and Ifttt. Yes, Ifttt. http://t.co/hVzGDw4J #
I am giving a seminar at Birkbeck on Wednesday at 1pm "Beyond reinforcement learning in action acquisition" http://t.co/qzeV67P8 #
Today @sheffielduni Psychology Dept : hack day on bit.ly data with Dr @mikedewar. It's behaviour Jim, but not as we know it #
Hack day in effect – @mikedewar presides http://t.co/7Q3yIDYi #
Hackday update: Technical hitches abound. @mikedewar looks like he is enjoying these most. Next, a true essential of hackdays: takeaway! #
Hackday drink of choice – Ubuntu Cola http://t.co/CDP1m2S6 #
My colleague Tom Webb is looking for 2 post docs, to work with him, in Sheffield, on goal monitoring http://t.co/zj8GdF30 #
Today: giving a seminar at Birkbeck at 1pm "Beyond reinforcement learning in action acquisition" http://t.co/qzeV67P8 #
What Sheffield's sharing (bit.ly hack day report) http://t.co/qmNJXu8a thx to @mikedewar @totalshowman @djyates @thundercauldron @mariapage #
…And @CigirKalfaoglu and Stuart Wilson #

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Tweets for 2011-11-03

PsychoPy is an open-source package for running experiments in Python (a real and free alternative to Matlab) http://t.co/3Nh8feHC @psychopy #
On Monday I start a week in London as part of the @royalsociety scientist-civil servant pairing scheme. #
My pairing is with a gentleman from the Home Office. I'm guessing they have their own particular take on 'psychology'. #
From the archive RT @psychmag: 7 years ago: @tomstafford meets Vilayanur Ramachandran http://t.co/xXUZjU9P #
I need 10 thousand leaky integrators, running in parallel on millisecond time scale. Suggestions? #
Awaiting luscious-haired psychologist @sapinker at the RGS, in the audience with @ResearchDigest #iq2pinker #
Ironic that a man who made his career triumphing the immutability of human nature is now celebrating it's adaptability #iq2pinker #
Interesting, evidence linking resource shortages to war surprisingly weak, sez Pinker #iq2pinker #
Rare lucidity lapse, Pinker garbles report of Baumeister's self-control work, making it sound like it supports hydraulic theory #iq2pinker #
RT @deevybee: NYT piece on Gazzaniga's new book on free will and the brain http://t.co/g7dMGeCj #
Summarised as: responsibility is an emergent property at the social level, not something that can be defined neurally #
Alison Gopnik on what psychology tells us about how universities should be run http://t.co/C3zdx72C via @anniemurphypaul #
Talking to my cousin about his University application personal statement. I told him not to do this: http://t.co/hjHAYbhn #
Day 4 of the @royalsociety pairing scheme. AM: at the Home Office research facility in St Albans. PM: watching debate in the House of Lords #
There's a film out about my favourite sociologisy, Zygmunt Bauman http://t.co/QeX46Ots #

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Tweets for 2011-10-27

Need suggestions for good music to code to. Anyone? #
RT @oliverburkeman: "Anything you can do, I can do meta-" — Douglas Hofstadter #
RT @timeshighered UCAS data: as of 19 Oct, female applicants down 10.5% on same date last year, male applicants down 7% #
On http://t.co/85Rwnq1n: I tell you how to study more effectively, the easy way http://t.co/cGh4pBij #
Thanks Vaughan! RT @vaughanbell: Great piece by @tomstafford on how the science of memory points us to better learning http://t.co/bju29FJu #
Brain shaped salt and pepper shakers? http://t.co/gZfWzNwa Don't mind if I do #
Loving the http://t.co/pXNplTez blog, especially the illustration on this post http://t.co/ppW0WtBu #
Advertisers "employ neurobiologists to find ever more ingenious methods of bypassing the conscious mind" sez george http://t.co/lPLv1C4z #
RT @vaughanbell A review of the new Kahneman book on cognitive illusions from @jonahlehrer in the New Yorker http://t.co/syhgQU1f #
"No celebrity disaster is too tragic to remind us of an interesting fact about cognitive science" sez @vaughanbell http://t.co/aKFr1SQb nice #

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Tweets for 2011-10-20

RT @psypress new psychology of language article by one Noam #Chomsky http://t.co/DX1GGtVC (and free access) #
Vital, inspiring, exciting talk about @StoryingShef from #TEDxSheffield http://t.co/jmvOo94v. Proud this kind of course can run at my Uni #
Interesting .@timeshighered interview with Nature editor http://t.co/Bfb0wEll #
Enjoying R "without the arrrgh" thanks to http://t.co/87AjoW3k and a recommendation from @deevybee #statistics #
About to give first lecture on neural network modelling to our first years. Emegence, levels of description, computation: all good stuff! #
So, er, anyone got access to this? http://t.co/lOftRbSI "Vygotsky's zone of proximal development: The hidden agenda" Bruner (1984) #
Solved! @dantekgeek is my new hero of teh intertubes #
gmail -> creater filter -> criteria= to:-me from-me -> action:move to folder 'circulars'. -> Email clarity boost 100% #
Wish I could be there MT @jennacondie: Psychology talk from Christian Jarrett (@Psych_Writer) Thurs eve in Manchester: http://t.co/TsjeOUjv #
Tapp (2003) : it is genuinely harder to teach an old dog new tricks http://t.co/fbS16TZW #
"National differences in gender-science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement" http://t.co/W77mA4R3 #
Amygdala volume, of course RT @royalsociety The number of Facebook friends you have is associated with brain size http://t.co/2BnNWxcX #
The @38_Degrees petition #SavetheNHS is on 475377 signatures. They're hoping for 500000 by the end of the day http://t.co/ivlhIWia #
RT @aden_76: “@tobystevens: iPhone accelerometer hijacked as keystroke logger http://t.co/JLYg0eGN” smart n sneaky via @dgwbirch #
RT @vaughanbell: The hot hand smacks back http://t.co/jLXdzwIu A commonly cited 'cognitive illusion' may not be illusory #

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Tweets for 2011-10-13

One for all you data visualisation geeks http://t.co/zoWfTfbu a roundup of the nicest figures recently published in scientific journals. #
Old nature article about neuroscience and freewill. Full of the confusions of neuroscientists http://t.co/2NVS5mIk #
A conceptual prophylactic for neuro-philo-confusion: http://t.co/Rx2eFCCj "Toward a Philosophical Structure for Psychiatry" via @vaughanbell #
old, but Jolly Good NY Times article on psychology of free will http://t.co/WYhF2C7Y #
Skepticism about free will linked with a weakened readiness potential (from EEG recording) http://t.co/2Ga0C2DH #
old scientiic american article on replication of Libet experiments with intracranial recording of single neurons http://t.co/cNdZ9MSY #
(1/2) Most of this freewill stuff appears amazing for the same reason that fMRI scanning appears amazing: … #
(2/2) … as native dualists we're astounded by *any* evidence that brain causes mind. #
Guilty or not-guilty? It depends on how the jury constructs a story from the facts they're given http://t.co/lzgu3hyW #
Nick's been done got bang to rights RT @underscrutiny: Romantic masochism invested in and infected by a new age http://t.co/areMxi8c #
MT @matthew_mella: Overlap, tomorrow: free talk from @russStearman about #narrative in videogames. http://t.co/WdVGJZj3 #Sheffield #
Our friends in Cardiff seem to have no idea of the practical impossibility of allowing scientists veto over copy… http://t.co/h6wiGPcZ #
Virtually northing remotely readable would get published on science, ever #
RT@js_simons Rip-roaring stuff from @ProfAndyField on why psychologists shouldn't be smug about stats errors http://t.co/5O88xLfv… #
"This study provides the first evidence that sexist ideologies can create gender inequality within societies" http://t.co/FDsLBTvt #
Last link via @BPSOfficial and @psychoBOBlogy #
RT @Psych_Writer Steve Jobs' gift to cognitive science. Just posted on the Digest: http://t.co/ZukIGHEE #
"Games of Invention" http://t.co/GO29Vidf a short article about creativity I wrote for the boys at @rattlecentral now on the blog #
.@alexfradera that article inspired by our last annual wander/chat about creativity, improv and science (and the other ten thousand things) #
It's not the booze, it's your beliefs about the booze http://t.co/odl1Jm9K great stuff from Kate Fox on culture and behaviour #

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Tweets for 2011-10-06

100 years of Style / East London. Very enjoyable http://t.co/Le1ZwSUZ thanks @robotdan #
RT @PsychScientists Skinner & Epstein train a pigeon to pass the mirror test for 'self concept': http://t.co/hjxDeCJC #
RT @PsychScientists
Seriously, BF Skinner was a total badass <– this is what @totalshowman keeps telling me. In different words! #
Friday afternoon and p<0.049 for my latest analysis. I *know* its just an arbitrary threshold, but its the arbitrary threshold everyone uses #
RT @SheffCivicTrust: #Sheffield is England's greenest city, with 150 woodlands and 50 public parks! #
RT @vaughanbell: Top athletes, singers have coaches. Why don't other professions? http://t.co/7l5hQ9HS Properly fascinating New Yorker piece #
Why GTD works! RT @PsyBlog: How to Avoid Being Distracted From Your Goals. Making specific plans creates mental space http://t.co/D6QY44sv #
My thoughts on Randy Olson's "Don't be such a scientist: talking substance in an age of style" http://t.co/dL2192xH #
UK Judge rules against use of Bayes' Theorum in court, unless we have "firm" knowledge of the priors http://t.co/r1SprMTT #
Textbook use of juxtaposition by the Mirror to suggest that Knox is pleased Kercher is dead http://t.co/zKJjWLi0 #
RT @PsychScientists I love how well Bad Lip Reading works bit.ly/mZ4Pls Match intonation and most of the obvious lip movements and viola! #
And while we're talking about who expectation drives perception: "I Kissed a Girl" (backwards) http://t.co/2u54RgF8 #
But my favourites are on Jeff Milner's backmasking site (and the one I use in PSY101 lectures) http://t.co/5V5bCF0u stairway to heaven! #
RT @andybrownphoto: My work is featured in this month's Now Then magazine – if you're in Sheffield, pick up a copy ! #

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Tweets for 2011-09-29

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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Tweets for 2011-09-22

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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Tweets for 2011-09-15

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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Tweets for 2011-09-08

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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Tweets for 2011-09-01

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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Tweets for 2011-08-25

Writing is like sculpture, not painting : you should focus on taking away the unnecessary #
Interesting post from @PsychScientists about the nature of representation in cogntiive science http://t.co/c9SsyB9 #
Here's a summer project if ever I saw one @xkcdfeed Depth Perception: xkcd.com/941/ #
Psychology at @unsheffield named best in the UK for employability by the Daily Telegraph http://t.co/bHNN06L #
Revisting code I wrote 4 years ago. Can't decide if this is a beautiful thing, reflecting academia's long view, or a terrible curse #
Now I am re-reading my thesis. If this trend continues i'll be revisiting my GCSE maths notes by the end of the afternoon #

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Tweets for 2011-08-18

Workshop on Cold Reading at #Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub, 26 Sep http://t.co/vKCLozT #
NASA astronaut flew with a secret: a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease http://t.co/uTDTwrR story broken by Houston journo with PD himself #
Kidnap negotiator has never lost a hostage, and trusts his gut instinct http://t.co/I7GrkNW #
Scatter charts of Somali pirate hijack negotiation times http://t.co/eDSuqeP I love the internet #
This exercise finding from the Lancet is equivalent to "if you do NOTHING physical all day you will die sooner", right? @BBCr4today #
Cosma Shalizi is bang on here: Capitalism requires state intervention http://t.co/OVAdwFV #
Should I spend the next half hour reading this paper, or watching clips from Watership Down on youtube? http://t.co/r3g7Pcr #
trying to write about lucid dreaming, but the implications for understanding consciousness are twisting my melon. Any good reads on this? #
individuals who do better at a vmPFC-related task have more lucid dreams http://t.co/26JSDrS (told ya @mariapage !) #
here we go: "Lucid Dreaming as Metacognition: Implications for Cognitive Science " http://t.co/bgeZn0p #
Something more recent from LaBerge http://t.co/jy3Hul1 Dream content is weird, but the cognitive processes are common to waking #
re-reading the chapter on lucid dreaming from Jeff Warren's "The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness" awesome awesome book! #
RT @dansumption @tomstafford Only time I ever managed to lucid dream was the day after Sue Blackmore's lecture on lucid dreaming 🙂 #
.@dansumption the well known "beginner's luck" phenomenon! #

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Tweets for 2011-08-18

Workshop on Cold Reading at #Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub, 26 Sep http://t.co/vKCLozT #
NASA astronaut flew with a secret: a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease http://t.co/uTDTwrR story broken by Houston journo with PD himself #
Kidnap negotiator has never lost a hostage, and trusts his gut instinct http://t.co/I7GrkNW #
Scatter charts of Somali pirate hijack negotiation times http://t.co/eDSuqeP I love the internet #
This exercise finding from the Lancet is equivalent to "if you do NOTHING physical all day you will die sooner", right? @BBCr4today #
Cosma Shalizi is bang on here: Capitalism requires state intervention http://t.co/OVAdwFV #
Should I spend the next half hour reading this paper, or watching clips from Watership Down on youtube? http://t.co/r3g7Pcr #
trying to write about lucid dreaming, but the implications for understanding consciousness are twisting my melon. Any good reads on this? #
individuals who do better at a vmPFC-related task have more lucid dreams http://t.co/26JSDrS (told ya @mariapage !) #
here we go: "Lucid Dreaming as Metacognition: Implications for Cognitive Science " http://t.co/bgeZn0p #
Something more recent from LaBerge http://t.co/jy3Hul1 Dream content is weird, but the cognitive processes are common to waking #
re-reading the chapter on lucid dreaming from Jeff Warren's "The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness" awesome awesome book! #
RT @dansumption @tomstafford Only time I ever managed to lucid dream was the day after Sue Blackmore's lecture on lucid dreaming 🙂 #
.@dansumption the well known "beginner's luck" phenomenon! #

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Tweets for 2011-08-11

Wot I wrote on the looting: RT @mindhacksblog: When explaining becomes a sin http://t.co/MCqmm5c #

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Tweets for 2011-08-04

Agree to talk to NPR, but having hard time getting PDF of paper they want to talk about. Perhaps I should only discuss open-access science? #
Fascinating discussion on @BBCr4today about ME. Normally the anti-establishment groups are anti-biological explanations, not pro! #
Prolonged exposure to television can kill chipmunks! http://t.co/X716Znj #
Good news day (1/2): PhD student Tom Walton (@totalshowman) has won a ESPRC/UoS 1 year post-doctoral fellowship. Well done Tom! #
Good news day (2/2): I have been given a place on the Royal Society parliamentry pairing scheme http://t.co/yLsc0R6 #
Also, I am about to go on Radio Sheffield to talk about "Internet Addiction" #
Not live on Radio Sheffield it turns out, but I've been recorded for Drive Time, being skeptical about the idea of internet addiction… #
does anyone remember/have that Posy Simmonds cartoon showing alternating generations of maternal neglect/suffocation? #longshot #
and actually, while I'm at it, that Michael Leunig cartoon "the economy says". A copy ideally, but a reference to which book would do… #
Amen! RT @mathewe Happy 30th birthday to @HeeleyFarm ! A fantastic achievement for a cherished institution. #
And of course neuroplasticity is lifelong… RT @MLERULES Brain maturation goes on 'til 30something http://t.co/m3dHEi4 (neuroskeptic blog) #

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Tweets for 2011-07-28

Motivational sign WIN http://t.co/bsHtskv #
Nice summary and context of Murdoch corruption scandal. Moral: get outraged, stay outraged http://t.co/RqVQY7D #
Sad, lyrical, story of mental illness and reclusion by @michaelkruse http://t.co/nqUpCfo (via @oliverburkeman) #
RT @PsychologyNow: Methamphetamine And Amphetamine-Like Stimulant Abuse Raises Parkinson's Disease Risk http://t.co/XVnmO2u #

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Tweets for 2011-07-21

RT @criener: I'm too busy learning new things on the Internet to worry about how it is making me stupid. #
Wise words RT @deevybee: New blogpost. How to survive in psychological research. http://t.co/IF5rtAt #
just over 99 now! @dougald RT @darkmtn: Just over 100 tickets left for this year's festival http://t.co/CtBYsxy #
.@TomCommon advertising is a 24/7 war on truth and a sense of proportion http://t.co/Fqk9JmT #
So pleasing RT @DMReporter BREAKING: top cop gets chop after redtop belly flop. (Via @js_simons) #
The world needs this RT @danlockton: "Math needs a new interface" http://t.co/jgoJ5jq by @worrydream. #
After Woods and Water: "searching for the ghosts of this vanished Europe, and exploring what has grown up in its place" http://t.co/sp3Mp62 #
Guardian "The NFL star and the brain injuries that destroyed him" http://t.co/5rfZVcb #
I've been listening to CBC's "How to Think About Science" http://t.co/FfCScwG thanks @dougald for the recommendation! #
RT @AlecPatton Malcolm Gladwell did a good piece on the ethical implications if brain damage is inevitable in football http://t.co/x0VYw3G #
RT @sfcockburn: #amaconf why when the future comes is it always broken #
Nearly half most uni's fees! @timeshighered: Low fee puts OU and partners primed to snap up ‘biddable’ places http://t.co/zP19TLS #
So i'm using a course wiki to, in part, teaching academic writing skills. Has anyone else done this and/or written about it? #

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Tweets for 2011-07-14

Over at mindhacks.com "Against Neuroethics" http://t.co/PMvd1SY thanks for the tip @researchdigest #
I really want a copy of the NART or the NART-R for testing tomorrow, but have just discovered that our dept's copy has walked. Am sad #
NART problem resolves. I loves teh intertubes! #
"They're Made out of Meat!" Full audio recording of the story now up on blog http://t.co/UCZi2nY #
From the dept. of WTF : "Shocking illusion – Pretty girls turn ugly!"
http://t.co/2RO4FhB ref:
http://t.co/83LwMv8 #
Today: off to Lugano, Switzerland for the review meeting of our big European project http://t.co/I9tMgPV #
It's just body lotion FFS! http://t.co/mKic64G #
Profound psychological truth from xkcd "Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit" http://t.co/0AEw4Lm #
Brain training RT @utafrith: RT @deevybee: PNAS study shows indiv diff crucial – gains only for some. http://t.co/WTFpm80 #
"Reasonable doubts about the Brain on Trial" great post from @criener about that Eagleman article http://t.co/3VbtwvU #
RT @GeorgeMonbiot: Really, no one should be let loose in a planning dept until they have seen and understood this graph: http://t.co/YoyvDPH #
AKA whose civilisation will collapse fastest when the oil runs out RT @GeorgeMonbiot http://t.co/YoyvDPH #
I want to break out of the twitter bubble. Who can I follow that has a completely different world-view from all of you lot? #
Good point! RT @PsychScientists: @tomstafford Ironically we may be the wrong people to ask 🙂 #
Fantastic RT @thundercauldron Excellent article on why the NI scandal didn't end with the #NOTW http://t.co/7xVdEpV #
The hero's return = we need the past as much as the future. @dougald on what's wrong with Brand's 'Whole Earth' mythos http://t.co/70IANDo #

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Tweets for 2011-07-07

Estimates of the totals spent globally on the component processes of scholarly communication and research, http://t.co/ByVXwdZ #
Is there anything interesting to say about neuroethics other than "knowledge of the brain may make us question our ideas of responsibility"? #
The Research Digest is dead, long live @ResearchDigest ! RT @christianjarret Hi everyone. I've made this my own personal feed. #
Today: Town meeting for BBSRC call on skill acquisition and high performance in sport, in Camden Town, London #
DHL have a bizarre idea of how science works (but are obviously keen to bask in it's reflected glory) http://t.co/ciPO3Qc #
Today: sharing the bill with Elizabeth Loftus, and others, talking to prospective University psychology students in Sheffield #
My talk title is "Thinking Meat: putting brain and mind together", and is inspired by Terry's Bisson's story http://t.co/cs33Org #

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Tweets for 2011-06-30

Wrong-headed report bracingly rebutted in comments @timeshighered: Academic offices just not efficient, says report http://t.co/eTwXt2M #
At the exploratorium. Possibly the best science museum in the world? #
The restrooms at the exploritorium are tiled with the Bristol cafe wall illusion! http://t.co/FoZpfMW #
Good things coming up at skeptics in the pub #Sheffield http://t.co/qFTfpw4 including @jonronson next monday #
I interviewed @jonronson once. The text is on his website: http://t.co/7nJQpJM #
“there's a reason why "wired" – means both "connected to the internet" and "high, frantic, unable to concentrate" http://t.co/8K6KWTU #
RT @vaughanbell: 30-Second Psychology is available http://t.co/xft1b1Z Edited by @researchdigest contributions from me @mocost @tomstafford #
Back in the hot UK #
We're hiring an RA http://t.co/1TaTa4r if you're a psychologist with a bent for signal processing (or vice versa) get in touch #
The next Psychology in the Pub event, 20 July, in Sheffield, on Media Violence, looks good http://t.co/pGZ81iu #
Get yer prism googles and giant fluffy model neurons here http://t.co/s2PHLi5 hot tip via CVNet #
PhD student? Fancy taking your psychological experience to parliament? BPS POST scheme is for you http://t.co/QrfvQxT #
an unpublished thought is an unfinished thought RT @alexfradera: Quote: http://t.co/8sAaP2P #
Thumbs up! TMS used to demonstrate rapid cortical plasticity for recently practiced movements, Classen et al 1998 http://t.co/TDutRwH #
Come and work with me on augmenting human sensory-motor capacity – only 12 days left to apply http://t.co/1TaTa4r #
RT @PsyBlog Why Concrete Language Communicates Truth. Use unambiguous language and people will believe you http://t.co/PBLgqXE #
RT @jonahlehrer: The virtue of realistic simulators, or why flying is so safe http://t.co/2uvz7Ft #

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Tweets for 2011-06-23

I will be in Berkeley, California, and environs, for the next ten days #
Keynes vs Broken Window Fallacy: if govt refuses to spend during recession, should you break the windows of govt offices? @TimHarford #
Calculation vs perception in expertise; chess grandmaster edition: http://t.co/zsEO3tq via @TimHarford #
“We believe caffeinated coffee is the best current option for long-term protection against Alzheimer’s memory loss" http://t.co/MiE86MV #
Via @mathewe, fantastic footage of -and reflection on – a moment of sublime motor expertise http://t.co/Rh6YoxK #
Stallman: ebook readers "take away the traditional freedoms of readers" "ending friendship between people who read" http://t.co/OIZdSKw #
The Overton Window visualises the range of policies that are currently within the bounds of public acceptability http://t.co/rA1hZfh #
including Sheffield @timeshighered: 7 UK universities plan to ditch degree classifications & adopt GPA http://t.co/1yLOMPm #

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Tweets for 2011-06-16

RT @tomwalton: Prince Philip looks like Quentin Blake drew him #
Today: York for the Yorkshire Vision Network meeting #
University of Sheffield Psychology Department graduate Jessica Ennis made MBE – http://t.co/myF7Y4a Well done @J_Ennis ! #
Didn't think it was possible for @jonmsutton to go up in my estimation, but it turns out he's a Sheffield psych grad like me & @J_Ennis ! #
Videos of psychologists talking about their research – professionalpsychology.tumblr.com 'Psychology according to psychologists' #
European rail travel made easy http://t.co/0D7u0rr @loco2 #
RT @jonahlehrer: Can a stupid mental exercise really make us smarter? http://t.co/kJoNO4d <– for some value of 'smarter', yes #
5 summer students starting today. Remembering Daniel's pep-talk "Show them its about the work, it'll be about the work" http://t.co/YBxqlBG #
RT @mikedewar How a climate skeptic asks for the time: bit.ly/j5Z7vm #
University of Sheffield "Real Stories" http://t.co/dJNT29c Local aspects of the work of our arts and humanties deptartments #
It happens to the best of us: Study of Nobel prize winning research rejected by journals http://t.co/t1oaEcV (which was itself rejected) #
Considering submitting to the Journal of Universal Rejection http://t.co/v8Ibge0 "the most prestigious journal (judged by acceptance rate" #
Just got my reminder email that I signed up for in November, from http://t.co/n6YZ17L Love these guys #

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Tweets for 2011-06-16

RT @tomwalton: Prince Philip looks like Quentin Blake drew him #
Today: York for the Yorkshire Vision Network meeting #
University of Sheffield Psychology Department graduate Jessica Ennis made MBE – http://t.co/myF7Y4a Well done @J_Ennis ! #
Didn't think it was possible for @jonmsutton to go up in my estimation, but it turns out he's a Sheffield psych grad like me & @J_Ennis ! #
Videos of psychologists talking about their research – professionalpsychology.tumblr.com 'Psychology according to psychologists' #
European rail travel made easy http://t.co/0D7u0rr @loco2 #
RT @jonahlehrer: Can a stupid mental exercise really make us smarter? http://t.co/kJoNO4d <– for some value of 'smarter', yes #
5 summer students starting today. Remembering Daniel's pep-talk "Show them its about the work, it'll be about the work" http://t.co/YBxqlBG #
RT @mikedewar How a climate skeptic asks for the time: bit.ly/j5Z7vm #
University of Sheffield "Real Stories" http://t.co/dJNT29c Local aspects of the work of our arts and humanties deptartments #
It happens to the best of us: Study of Nobel prize winning research rejected by journals http://t.co/t1oaEcV (which was itself rejected) #
Considering submitting to the Journal of Universal Rejection http://t.co/v8Ibge0 "the most prestigious journal (judged by acceptance rate" #
Just got my reminder email that I signed up for in November, from http://t.co/n6YZ17L Love these guys #

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Tweets for 2011-06-09

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 #

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Had forgot that the full text of my article in Prospect about confabulation is here http://idiolect.org.uk/notes/?p=894 #

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RT @mariapage: Interesting: Futuristic Strobe Eyewear May Improve Your Game – http://t.co/OsL2c90” #

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Congratulations – well deserved! RT @mariapage I got the scholarship. It's official. Too many good things happening lately!!!! #

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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! #

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London calling #
RT @StoryingShef: Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ~H. Arendt. #