Tomorrow I begin a new chapter in my career heading up the psychology program at Norwich University of the Arts. I am really looking forward to taking on this exciting role.

John Searle obituary American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... This man dominated heated debates with my peers back in the day

The UK Government has announced £10 million in funding to support the next generation of leaders in addiction research. Find out more about the Addiction Healthcare Goals Research Leadership Programme: tinyurl.com/2sveeum8

Current and future trends in the consumption, sale and purchasing of alcohol‐free and low‐alcohol products in Great Britain, 2014 to 2023 Background and Aims The UK Government has committed to reducing alcohol consumption by 2025 through increasing the availability of alcohol-free and low-alcohol (no/lo) drinks. This study estimated c...

📢 New SARG paper 📢 Led by Luke Wilson and @abi-stevely.bsky.social this paper was published as part of our ongoing No/Lo Project and reports on trends in alcohol-free and low-alcohol drink consumption in Great Britain. They found that consumption is increasing but predicted to remain low in 2025.

The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals - Nature Communications To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals have begun publishing peer review reports. Here, the authors show how this policy shift affects reviewer behavior by analyzing data from fi...

The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals