The Psychologist homepage looking fine today…
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Our new study explored how well various AI chatbots responded to health questions on various topics.

Sum: not great.

Nearly half (49.6%) of responses were problematic.

See study: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4... via @bmj.com

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.

This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab:

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex
@nature.com

"..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Call for people to participate in ME/CFS research: ME Association's Clinical Assessment Toolkit (MEA-CAT) Project - The ME Association As you may be aware, Prof Sarah Tyson from the […]

Call for people to participate in ME/CFS research by completing survey: ME Association's Clinical Assessment Toolkit Project

Read more and complete the survey: https://meassociation.org.uk/qglp

#MECFS #pwME #MyalgicE #Survey #ClinicalAssessmentToolkit

How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.

“In a system where synthetic content moves faster than it can be verified, the only real defense may be behavioral: hesitation. A pause before the repost. A few minutes of scrutiny in a system designed to reward none.” www.wired.com/story/how-th...

I taught about the Gaulldet 11 alongside this article for the future of human evolution. Disability in space is a good way to think about what traits that are considered “dis” -ability in one context maybe a “super”-ability in another context.

gizmodo.com/why-we-need-...

Delivering tactile stimuli via mobile browsers: A method for remote multisensory research - Behavior Research Methods Online methods are becoming an essential part of the behavioral scientist’s toolkit. While the remote presentation of visual and auditory stimuli has been shown to be reasonably accurate (Bridges et a...

Do you want to use vibration stimuli in remote research studies? 👀 📳🤳🏼

Our latest paper in Behaviour Research Methods might be of interest to you!

Coauthors include: @kalvinroberts.bsky.social @peircej.bsky.social @multisensorylab.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Traditional: "The mammalian cortex is composed of 17 billion neurons and we're not even sure of how many types there are"

Revised: "The mammalian cortex is five neurons and they're all roomates"

Are you a parent of a 12-15 year old young person who experiences chronic musculoskeletal pain? Please share our study details (see below) with your child as we are eager to hear from more 12-15 year olds on how they manage their pain. For more information, see inspiremsk.stir.ac.uk

Are boys really in crisis? What the science says in the age of the manosphere Some data suggest that boys and young men are struggling with school, health and masculinity. But does talk of a male crisis further sideline women and girls?

Thoughtful piece: “Rather than focusing on a crisis of boys or girls, many specialists say the priority should be supporting young people overall, sometimes in a gender-neutral way”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Been ages since I've seen a case study... Realisations that hit you at 3pm, I guess.

Neuro’s ark: Sounding out the evolution of hearing with geckos Catherine Carr explains her discovery that geckos retain a vibration-sensing pathway previously thought to be lost when animals moved onto land.

Catherine Carr explains her discovery that geckos retain a vibration-sensing pathway previously thought to be lost when animals moved onto land.

By @helenak.bsky.social

#neuroskyence"
www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/n...

A reminder that we used to do the odd April Fool, but we had to stop because the media would pick up on them as serious stories... wonder what that says about Psychology…

www.bps.org.uk/search?term=...

A photograph of the front cover of the book. It’s dark orange with yellow and lilac stripes. The title reads: Who Wants Normal? Life Lessons from Disabled Women. At the top of the book are three endorsements. British Vogue: “Exceptional.” Jameela Jamil: “We all need this book.” Rosie Jones: “I’ve never related to a book more.”

I’m so excited to say that the WHO WANTS NORMAL? paperback is now available to pre-order.

This edition has a brand new forward and all the interviews with 50+ of Britain’s best known disabled women, from Ruth Madeley to Rosie Jones.

Pre-order from a range of stores here: linktr.ee/WhoWantsNorm...

New work could pave the way for objective assessment of cognitive fatigue across multiple conditions: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

I noticed the UK government's estimate of CO2 from future AI data centres was implausibly low.

I asked for the methodology underpinning the analysis, but got nowhere.

When I wrote an article about it they just... deleted the analysis.

Now, @adamvaughan.bsky.social has covered this for the Times.

Your annual reminder that in this day and age, posting hoax paleontology (and other science) "discoveries" on April Fool's Day **will be misinterpreted by MANY people** unless the discovery is incredibly absurd.

A grey rock that has a beautiful fossil trilobite. The rock is rough, but the trilobite sections are smooth. One of the main features is a compound eye, made of of many lenses.

The beautiful preservstion of trilobite compound eyes will never cease to amaze me. On this little 400ish million year old Phacops you can see all the little lenses - each one a rigid calcite mineral crystal! Together they had excellent 360° vision, perfect for finding lunch on the seafloor.

The image is a recruitment poster for a survey study - the text reads: Hearing loss, wellbeing and music do you have first hand experience of hearing loss? do you regularly listen to music? are you interested in taking part in a research study? You are eligible to take part if you: are 18 years old or older have experience of hearing loss listen to music in your day-to-day life The study will involve taking part in an online survey (about 20 minutes) answering questions about your hearing, how you engage with music, and questions about mental health and wellbeing For more information: Please email Addie Beckwith, PhD student at the University of Salford - a.m.beckwith@edu.salford.ac.uk Supervisors: Dr Duncan Williams and Dr Robert Bendall

The image is a QR code which links to the survey

Friday bump for my survey - still recruiting and only a few weeks left now #hearingloss #hearingdifference #music #musiclistening #everydaymusic #mentalhealth #wellbeing #qualityoflife #researchstudy #survey #musicscience #psychology #phdlife #phdsky #academicsky #psychscisky

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships.

There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

I hear that, it's not easy and I'm glad we have a few organisations to help. Oo, and anecdotally, I found daily turmeric supps helped with the pain a fair bit when I was younger. Might be worth bringing up with your doctor, if you're into it

This is a core peril of connectome-body models: behavioral fidelity ≠ biological fidelity.

Virtual animals are powerful, but ONLY if brain-body interfaces are grounded in biology. A model that walks like a fly might just be a worm in disguise. 👀

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social

We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked

What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective

We call it the digital sphinx

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@sedsconnective.org or potentially the EDS Society might have some insights. www.ehlers-danlos.com Wishing you both the best!

I hope no one needs an MRI this year.

The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half.

No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

Scientists tried to clone mice indefinitely – and made a grave discovery Scientists cloned 1,206 mice from one female donor over 20 years to test the limits of cloning

Bad news for all those Tech Bros.

"It was once believed that clones were identical to the original, but it has become clear through this study that mutations occur at a rate three times higher than in offspring born through natural mating."

shorturl.at/DMQuY

Anatomical representation of Braak stages in Alzheimer’s disease (with a focus on stages I to III associated with preclinical AD) and spatial navigation computations.

⚠️New review straight out of the oven!
"Spatial navigation in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: A review"
arxiv.org/abs/2603.23082

We focus on spatial navigation as a sensitive cognitive marker in preclinical AD, compiling evidence from cognitively unimpaired individuals with positive AD biomarkers.

LLMs are imputation machines. They pull patterns from text data; Useful for things like coding, especially coding that has been done before.

Academics work in knowledge generation, which goes far beyond imputation. If you think LLMs can replace grad students, you are telling on yourself.

How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions? The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery…

Why is the #cerebellum (known for coordinating motor functions) also engaged in #cognition? @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @actlab.bsky.social investigate the problems that have made it so difficult to answer this question and outline strategies to make progress. 🧪 #NeuroSky