Sorry to rain on your parade The Telegraph

1. We haven't issued a denial
2. We aren't cloud seeding in UAE
3. Our weather and climate scientists are providing evidence-based comments to explain what happened
4. Read more from them at rdg.ac/49GVsW3
5. Jog on

Wow, fantastic work.
Findings may enable us to be more imaginative in theories of amygdala function with respect to learning and intertemporal cognition.
nature.com/articles/s4159…

How are the 'avatars of the establishment' in *your* sector hampering problem-solving and progress?
As Paul Krugman once said: 'Sounding serious and being serious are by no means the same thing'.

The danger of the very serious person ft.com/content/07dae7… via @ft

London is warming up for the TCS London Marathon

As thousands descend on the UK capital to raise millions for good causes, we're sharing an important reminder that no corner of the globe is immune from the effects of global warming.

How will you make a difference? #ShowYourStripes

📢 Join us this June 20th and 21st for another edition of Reading Emotions!
Mechanisms of Resilience; from bench to bedside
Our chair this year is Prof Nazanin Derakshan bringing together a fantastic lineup of keynotes.
Find out more on the #ReadEmo24 website: sites.google.com/site/readingem…

How to defend substance dualism through physicalism 👏

Fascinating theme issue on complexity science approaches to both analysing and implementing law and governance: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/2024/…

Wise intervention by Marcus Munafò illustrating the explanatory weakness of ever larger research studies.

📢 Calling mid-degree students from all disciplines with an interest in integrative neuroscience!
Join us in CINN for a paid summer research placement through the UROP programme: reading.ac.uk/internal/urop2…

Can we get from Schultz et al. 1997 to Grill et al. 2024 in class today?
Strap in everyone...
nature.com/articles/s4146…

A very intersting take by Dr. Walter Veit on how to think about consciousness on an evolutionary continuum, taking us on a journey from animal welfare, to hedonics, and Daniel Dennett-flavoured physicalism.

Superb opportunity for a talented individual to bridge our research frontline with our computing infrastructure and services, and play a strategic role in the Uni of Reading
Could this be you? Apply by 4-Feb.

'Distributional reinforcement learning in prefrontal cortex', using data from neurons that encoded prediction errors as well as reward probability at feedback with an opposite sign to that at choice.
'Forty-one ACC neurons met this criterion'
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Important call to action for researchers working on young people's mental health.

QT with the oldest photo of you on your phone.

It has been a pleasure to have you around as always Paul Mullins - we learned an absolute stack, and we can't wait to have you visit again!

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'Teach me how to pronounce your name...' I say, a little distracted, in my otherwise magnanimous jesture to multiculturalism.
'Um, sure, it's... Claire' she says, and I can *hear* the eye roll in her voice.
She is not who I thought she was... I am undercaffeinated.