Come work at the Bristol Baby Lab! Postdoc recruitment starting soon; read up and get in touch with relevant people now. (I’m not involved in recruitment, but always happy to informally chat about what the Bristol developmental psychology scene is like.)
Peppa pig font: “Mediation: Three regressions in a trench coat.”
Peppa pig font: “Reviewer 2: I see PROCESS macro, I reject”
Lego font: “LASSO”
Bluey font: “Null hypothesis significance testing”
Absolute goldmine for stats classes. Same website also has other generators?!
Students awkwardly wait for lecture to start. They unexpectedly hear the upbeat tones of the Bluey theme song. What is this?! "This episode of Bluey is called… NULL HYPOTHESIS SIGNIFICANCE TESTING!"
Peppa Pig and her family (Daddy Pig, Peppa, George, Mummy Pig) at a picnic. The picnic cloth in the centre has a bowl of sweets and a tea pot. The caption reads “I use AI for essays” and the sub-caption “Eat my slop, piggies!”
Thanks for sharing. My students are about to be flooded.
Accept that you'll be doing a worse job for at least a couple of years, likely more. Prioritise what's best for your career (papers, grants) and down-weight what isn't (form-filling, admin, reviews).
Especially for low-priority stuff, strategically half-arse things that don't need to be perfect ;)
Wait, are these streams different from the hashtags? Because I don’t see brain-emoji-tagged posts when searching for “neuroskyence” on here. Have I been doing bluesky wrong?!
Seems to work? You testing a bot or some more complicated way to post? :)
The next generation might again! Bit niche, but my kids have a folder just like this with NFC cards for an audiobook player.
True, which is in part a worrying trend across software EULAs, in part potentially unenforceable, and in part sometimes just fair enough.
That said, Dropbox sells a real product. It isn’t branded as fancy “AI” while in its EULA going “lol, this is just for jokes actually”.
Reads like an April Fool’s joke, but the last update to this was in October 2025. In brief: the Terms of Use suggest that Copilot is not a serious tool, can fuck up at any given point (no warranty), and users are solely responsible for any consequences (indemnity for Microsoft).
Great software!
Amazing PhD project with a wonderful set of supervisors! This is a rare topic of study, so if you’re into it, embrace this opportunity!
Funded PhD position at the @exeter.ac.uk with your time split between Exeter and Queensland (Australia)
Digital Haptics and Proprioceptive Learning in Surgery
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(warning, slightly gory VR surgery video from our industrial partner)
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Isn't it astounding how it primarily addresses a problem of our own making? Organisations dislike departmental credit cards, so we have to pay for travel ourselves and reclaim. Finance is slow, so we're out of pocket for ages. Key Travel solves that, so we pay it handsomely for our own incompetence.
Congratulations!! Not to brag, but I have a very neat feature on my car that automatically adjusts the time! It takes about 6 months to do it, so I guess it’s quite a heavy computation.
Cue the fMRI study on the neural correlates of paradoxically appropriate compassionate responses.
Agree with Sarah! Has anyone tried talking to these monsters, to see if maybe we’re much more alike than it seems? If I’ve learned anything from @aptshadow.bsky.social’s science fiction and also from How To Train Your Dragon, it’s that we should probably be looking towards healing over hurting.
I had the HUGE privilege of seeing this in Bristol, in a talk from an involved scientists. It stunned the room, and it was all we could talk about afterwards. How are we still allowing these creatures to be hunted?! (See here for a gorgeous illustration of that awful history: youtu.be/rTgwZR3T_uo)
Sperm whale pods came together to support (literally) the birth of a conspecific. There are only a handful of recorded sperm whale births in human history, and none with footage like this. Stop whatever you’re doing, and watch these videos: www.projectceti.org/whalebirth
I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models.
A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐
Although with the added irony that a university is highly likely to have an expert in exactly the thing it’s buying or doing, but they aren’t consulted by the senior and/or central teams who make these decisions 🙃
The exception is in ERP software. All of it is awful, regardless of buyer.
They called it “malus” and the whole website reads of satire. That said, I share your concern that someone somewhere will do this in a more serious capacity without it being a joke.
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
Come work with me and @dr-appie.bsky.social in Amsterdam!
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You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL)
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Now, I’m not a native English speaker and a producer of many typo’s. I get it. Some of my mistakes made it into published work, I’m sure of it. But in the title?! Four authors, at least one editor, peer reviewers, and professional copy-editors ought to have looked at this. Did everyone miss this?
Screenshot of a paper in The Journal of Educational Research, published by Taylor & Francis, with the title “Dose local students’ presence affects remote students’ performance in blended synchronous learning?” “Dose” should have been “Does”; “affects” should have been “affect”.
The one thing I really appreciate about modern academic publishers is how much value they add. Their copy-editing is of such a high standard that they wouldn’t, for example, publisher a paper with two errors in the title.
I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de
Transparency is the default for windows, but we typically make an exception for those in bathrooms.
So if you’re reading Psych Science on the toilet, you don’t have to preregister. Fully agree with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci: I don’t see what people find so hard about this.
