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• 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 #

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• Classic paper: Can a Fly Ride a Bicycle? Wolf et al, 1992 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/337/1281/261.short #

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• 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 #

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• 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 #

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• Absolutely stoked to be hosting dataist @mikedewar this week. Tonight : exploring Sheffield town #

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• If anyone needs a databank of spurious evolutionary thinking and politically motivated science, ask Satoshi Kanawawa http://bit.ly/10WE73 #

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• 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! #

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• 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 #

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• 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 #

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• 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/ #

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• 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 #

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• 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" #

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• 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… #

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• "at no time is it permissible to sit idle and observe the poetry of life" http://chzb.gr/eklXv7 #

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• 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 #

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• 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! #

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• 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) #

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• From @almostandy : Why Experimental Psychologists hate psychoanalysis http://t.co/rihxyQI #

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• 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 #

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• Psychology in the Pub, 18th of May in #Sheffield on Facebook and friendship over social networks http://bit.ly/kGQ4Kn #

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• Egypt's foreign minister says Cairo will permanently open the Rafah border crossing to ease Israel's blockade on Gaza. http://bit.ly/iCnWQ9 #

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• 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 #

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• 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) #

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• 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 #

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• Introduction to library skills via zombie apocalypse graphic novel http://bit.ly/gFUNmd via @seatrout (the librarians kick zombie ass) #

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• 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 #

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• 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 #

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• 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 #

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• 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 #

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• Now I want to #comedinewithTHE so i can find out what the beef between @timeshighered and @wesstreeting is #

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