Very excited to share that our book "Placebo Effects in Sport and Exercise" will be available in September A collection of 15 chapters from some of the best authors in the field on topics related to mechanisms, emotions, ethics etc. More info to come! routledge.com/Placebo-Effect…

Yet more evidence that the UK Higher Education sector is broken. It has been failing for years, hidden by a mountain of lovely new buildings, obsessive metrics and league tables. Root and branch changes needed with education at the centre.

Artificial lawns should be banned. In the face of a biodiversity crisis, we should be creating habitats, not covering our gardens in ugly plastic where no life can exist. They're non-recyclable, dangerous to pets, the negative list goes on... please sign!! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6331…

The British Academy today responds to proposals to limit the number of students taking so-called "low-value" degrees in England. The Academy has long argued that graduate destinations and salaries alone are limited proxies for the value of higher education thebritishacademy.ac.uk/the-british-ac…

#Wildlife hivemind, does anyone know what these two #hares are up to? They are frequent visitors to the garden and we see this behaviour a lot - like a quick kiss and sniff, as though communicating. We'd love to know 🙏 #irishhare #ulsterwildlife #banharecoursing

‘The Body Keeps the Score’ offers uncertain science in the name of self-help. It’s not alone. - The Washington Post - a terrific critique of neuro-self-help bullshit washingtonpost.com/books/2023/08/…

Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut, but first and foremost a physician and explorer of the human condition. In this clip from a lecture he gave at Vanderbilt University in 1999, he talks about how many different "ways of being" there are.

🎉 New article out (and first from my PhD)🎉 In this paper, we examined differences in the distribution of physical activity between girls and boys in the multi-national ICAD dataset 🧵doi.org/10.1186/s12966…

Really nice to see to see our commentary paper with Dr Bahar Tuncgenc @DrCFawcett and Emma Cohen has just been published! Hopefully this will serve as a useful contribution to the discussion around controlling bias in synchrony-prosociality studies. doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a…

!POST DOC ALERT! We have a multi-year NSF funded project investigating the effect of physical activity on pregnancy energetics and outcomes. Join us! Please RT! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26280

The preprint on my PhD research establishing stable and reliable individual variation in the efficiency of wild chimpanzee nut-cracking is now out, co-authored with Emma Cohen, Arran Davis, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, and Prof. Susana Carvalho: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We have a new PhD studentship available on biodiversity and health with me and Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 working with Connswater Greenway GroundsWell Consortium and SPACE QUB findaphd.com/phds/project/e… Deadline: 23rd Jan 2024

NI is coming to an unparalleled public sector general strike standstill tomorrow. Hospitals, Schools, Social Services, Public Transport, Civil Service, Road gritters on the coldest day for years. And not a cheep on main GB broadcasters/newspapers. Astonishing-not astonishing.

As NI's politicians belatedly start to grapple with Lough Neagh's dire predicament, shoreline residents reflect on ecological collapse, loss of culture and local knowledge - and the dispossession undergirding it all. My latest on the lough for The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

colleagues working on culture and cognition, please spread the word on the 👇PhD studentship to work on perceptual diversity with Anil Seth sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…

Frans de Waal’s passing is very sad and a huge loss for the field of animal behaviour 🙁 news.emory.edu/features/2024/…

Kahneman and exercise science? What is the relevance of the scientific legacy of the great Israeli psychologist and Nobel laureate to the science of physical activity? It's much more than you think. A thread -- and a tribute...

Couldn’t be more delighted for Sophie Berdugo! Grateful for the opportunity to work with and learn from such brilliant students and colleagues 🙌👏🥳 Keep on cracking!! 🤩

Very lucky to have worked with BBC Ideas💡 and University of Oxford to create a short video about our research! We explain why exercising with friends can reduce fatigue and improve performance, while also helping us to build and maintain the social bonds we need to be happy and healthy.