Category: tweets

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Tweets for 2011-04-15

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 #

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Tweets for 2011-04-14

The most accurate estimate of voting intention you should be able to find: http://bit.ly/gn9gIC from the Uni of Nottingham (thanks WJJ!) #

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Tweets for 2011-04-13

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 #

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Tweets for 2011-04-12

3 Phd "demonstratorships" available in Psychology, University of Sheffield http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/psychology/prospectivepg/demonstrators #

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Tweets for 2011-04-11

RT @timeshighered: Surprise! Sheffield has announced £9k fees. We will grant that this is possibly not that much of a surprise. #

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Tweets for 2011-04-10

On using games rather than facts or narrative in museums bit.ly/fPcIMW (via @StoryingShef) #

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Tweets for 2011-04-08

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) #

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Tweets for 2011-04-07

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/ #

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Tweets for 2011-04-06

i-perception, an open-access journal of human, animal, and machine perception http://i-perception.perceptionweb.com/ #

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Tweets for 2011-04-05

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" #

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Tweets for 2011-04-04

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) #

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Tweets for 2011-04-03

RT @SciCafe: 04 April #Autism epidemic disease, psychosocial disorder or post-modern condition http://t.co/wzTWoLI #SciCafe #Sheffield #

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Tweets for 2011-04-02

Am interested in arguments for/against AV – can anyone recommend any research-based resources? #

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Tweets for 2011-04-01

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 #

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Tweets for 2011-03-31

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? #

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Tweets for 2011-03-30

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 #

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Tweets for 2011-03-27

RT @kevgillan: Posted 'Reminder: the budget deficit was not caused by welfare spending!' http://t.co/yFYRWEk #

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Tweets for 2011-03-26

#Sheffield Publicity Department flag still up at Pye Bank at 0900 this morning @TomCommon @andybrownphoto http://t.co/mrWCdAZ #

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Tweets for 2011-03-25

This! RT @johannhari101: "Glib, cheap pessimism is the enemy of progress” #

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Tweets for 2011-03-24

.@tomwalton the archers is the marmite of radio #

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Tweets for 2011-03-23

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 #

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Tweets for 2011-03-22

So, will today's UCU strike be associated with a downspike or upspike in subsequent papers published? #

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Tweets for 2011-03-21

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 ) #

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Tweets for 2011-03-20

RT @PsyBlog: 10 Rules That Govern Groups. What most groups of people have in common http://t.co/GMLlnxq #

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Tweets for 2011-03-19

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! #

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Tweets for 2011-03-18

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 #

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Tweets for 2011-03-17

RT @jonahlehrer The Virtues Of Play, or why that preschool lawsuit is insane http://bit.ly/eNsuHa #

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Tweets for 2011-03-15

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 #

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Tweets for 2011-03-10

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 #

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Tweets for 2011-03-09

"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 #