No idea! - just remembered reading articles that honey is the only food that always remains edible no matter how old!

World's Oldest Honey – Bee Mission share.google/M4wwPk0ctgaA... 😀

Atkinson and Shiffrin’s (1968) influential model overshadowed their contemporary theory of human memory Although every student of memory knows about the Atkinson-Shiffrin (1968) model, few know that it was advanced as a general-purpose modeling framework…

Paper with many surprises: inc working memory and depth of processing

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Atkinson and Shiffrin’s (1968) influential model overshadowed their contemporary theory of human memory
#memory #psychskyence #neuroscience #cognition #amnesia

1. Steve Jobs realized that "People hate their phones". Apple invented a better one, made bank, & changed the world.

Academics hate their scientific publishers. Bluesky invented a better publishing platform, & could bank some of the ~$20B/year sci pub revenue, changing science 🧪 @toni.bsky.team 🧵

Vatican City Is Overrun with Crime Thanks to Its Woke Pope by Carlos Greaves

open.substack.com/pub/mcsweene...

We're hiring! 4 New Job opportunities in Academia within the School of Psychology - scroll through to see the positions. Application deadlines mid April, learn more at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

#Psychology #TrinityCollegeDublin #Job #Opportunity #Hiring #Academia #PHD #Masters #AssistantProfessor

Brilliant, as usual 👏

so that'll earn about $400 total then

I can foresee no problems with this at all. None. All will be fine. Promise.

What have I just read? 🤷‍♂️
Orban will win again and the Leftist chatterati just doesn’t get why share.google/wpOee1fFITQW...

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused.

Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

And this too!

Get with the programme, people!

Why I went to Moscow

1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis.

You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me.

An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life.

unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

The Perils of Presidentialism | Journal of Democracy Read the full essay here. Image credit: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images…

It's the system. Parliamentary democracy disperses power more effectively, with better accountability.
The Perils of Presidentialism | Journal of Democracy share.google/ZtJXcYKiFV8r...

But not all for the worse, by any means...

Talking Heads From neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and communication. 'Delightfully well-written' IRISH TIMES 'Intriguing ... Makes for an enjoyable read' ...

www.penguin.co.uk/books/442354...
Talking Heads
by
Shane O'Mara
How Conversation Shapes Us

An excellent piece on B. F. Skinner's strange lack of intellectual curiosity which also highlights why, on the other hand, Operant Conditioning is such a tempting tool when looking at organisational behaviour.

Viz. the UK Home Office for one.

the (forgotten) ancestry of reinforcement learning, part 1 skinner, hebb, and what lies within

latest post: the (forgotten) ancestry of reinforcement learning: skinner, hebb, and what lies within

Some thoughts on why the originator of reinforcement learning is overlooked today...

www.brainpizza.com/p/the-forgot...

#reinforcementlearning #bfskinner #dohebb #psychskyence #neuroskyence

the (forgotten) ancestry of reinforcement learning, part 1 skinner, hebb, and what lies within

latest post: the (forgotten) ancestry of reinforcement learning: skinner, hebb, and what lies within

Some thoughts on why the originator of reinforcement learning is overlooked today...

www.brainpizza.com/p/the-forgot...

#reinforcementlearning #bfskinner #dohebb #psychskyence #neuroskyence

Prof Micheál Ó Siochru – Genocide? Oliver Cromwell and Ireland YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin

Have a look at Micheál Ó Siochrú is a Professor in Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, known for his work on 17th-century Irish history, specifically regarding Oliver Cromwell.
youtu.be/Vp7ZahTpa-M?...

Ireland gives Trump a lesson on Europe share.google/RHyeSQZlhFUL...

Dublin Neighborhood Map Dublin Neighborhood Map: City Centre South: Oh god, the tourists, Ranelagh, Rathmines and Rathgar: Mortons, need I say more?, Clontarf, East Wall and Fairview:

Dublin as you've never seen it: hoodmaps.com/dublin-neigh...

Fabulous results:

Re-upping! I have a new ERC Synergy grants, & have PDF positions available for a research programme bringing together fNIRS brain imaging, public policy, neuroAI & cognitive forensics. Please forward to anyone who might interested 😀

Look at these numbers. Nature Comms and Sci Reports - approx $180,000,000 between them in APCs.

The oligopoly’s shift to open access: How the big five academic publishers profit from article processing charges Abstract. We aim to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Spri...

How the big five academic publishers profit from article processing charges
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Maybe use these supernormal profits to employ an actual peer review college wi/ appropriate public professional guidelines & ethics? & create a new professional scientific pathway?

Love this: 'Uninterrupted thought cycles are the fundamental resource that universities are mining. The more uninterrupted thought a university mines, the more successful it will be.'
Cal Newport. Source: archive.ph/Kdtfm#select...

Thanks, Hugo - it was a long-ish road, but delighted we got there 😊

I want to recruit 3 postdocs at Trinity College Dublin for the neuroscience arm of JUSTICE, a new @erc.europa.eu Synergy project.
Focus:
• fNIRS hyperscanning
• deliberative groups under pressure
• silence, dissent, conformity, status, and coercive drift
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