Teaching Human Biology, with air drying clay to model the inner ear ossicles.

Does anybody under 40 even know what this is-

Psychology conference, Kazakhstan, April 16th.

www.kimep.kz/college-huma...

In my >25 years as a researcher, this is one of my favorite and most personally meaningful studies to come out of my lab:

𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚: 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝

Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Using pipe cleaners to add the circle of Willis to brain models in a human biology class today.

Sadly, I think the CRediT taxonomy is being misused. Anyone can just make stuff up about paper contributions. Here we have an article where 5 authors were credited with "visualisation" in a paper with no figures. pubpeer.com/publications...

Model brains and skulls.

Got the first parts of a neuroannatomy teaching lab.

Psychology conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, April 16th, 2026
Abstract submission deadline: 22 March.

www.kimep.kz/college-huma...

Solo se quedan pocos dias para completar este estudio tan interesante de una de mis estudiantes, sobre el tema de toma de decisiones morales. Gracias por vuestra ayuda! edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/.../SV_2nUBt...

Today's class- teaching anatomical planes by dissecting gummy bears.

More Than Kin: DNA Reveals 5,500-Year-Old Stone Age Clans in Sweden’s Gotland - Arkeonews DNA analysis of 5,500-year-old Stone Age graves at Ajvide on Gotland reveals that hunter-gatherers buried close relatives together,

More Than Kin: DNA Reveals 5,500-Year-Old Stone Age Clans in Sweden’s Gotland ⛏️🧬🇸🇪 arkeonews.net/more-than-ki...

Today weve been doing DNA extraction in my Human Biology course (on the BSc Psychology). It's a relatively simple procedure that can be done even without access to wet labs.

Taste, olfactory, oral texture and visual processing of food reward in the brain Flavor reflects taste, olfactory, and oral texture inputs, and can be influenced by the sight of food, by cognitive descriptions, and by attention. Th…

Nothing to do with me, but this stood out to me as well-written, accessible neuroscience paper. If only more people wrote to communicate, rather than to impress.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Teaching human biology this semester.

Edible eyes, optic nerves, and chiasm. Home practice for a class activity for teaching Human Biology in the coming semester.

Fancy something a bit different? We are hiring for the psychology faculty at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. All teaching is in English.

Be quick, deadline in 2 days:
hr.kimep.kz/en-US/Home/V...

Strange lighting on snow makes my shadow yellow.

What Should We Do About Sex Differences? The fifth excerpt of my forthcoming book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences

What Should We Do About Sex Differences?

The fifth excerpt of my forthcoming book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences

www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/what-shoul...

Our study of cognitive factors around infants becoming locked in vehicles was recently published.

It's open access.

Pluck, G., Kittikamron, P., Cerone, A., Garcés, M. S. (2025). False memories in pediatric vehicular heatstroke. Psychology International, 7(4), 90.

doi.org/10.3390/psyc...

Presenting last week in a classic sala of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, in the heart of the ancient city of Toledo. The University was hosting CIFMA - 6th International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications.

Do you recognise her? It's because we're related. Just like you and me she has thoughts, emotions, desires, friendships, joy, grief and everything in between. When we learn about what it means to be human we are also learning what it means to be ape.

Last day of the rather excellent 1st International Conference on Neuroscience and Neurology, Astana, Kazakhstan.

Conference time, in Astana.

Teaching Marr's theory of object recognition based on axis identification, using pipe cleaners.

Since it was first described in the 1940s, autism has been blamed on mothers, in one way or another (based on no evidence). Plus ça change

Poster this week on my pediatric vehicular heatstroke research, at Nazarbayev University Annual Research Conference.

Concave/convex illusion noticed in a shopping mall in Astana:

Cognition Workshop, in Toledo, Spain, November 11th, 2025. Still time to submit. Accepted and presented papers published in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (Q2). I’m on the program committee and have attended this several times. Highly recommended.
cifma.github.io

The folder given to me on the first day of my PhD at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London. That was in 1996, even before the Institute became part of University College London. Folder is still in remarkably good nick.

First week of teaching as a full professor at KIMEP University completed.