The Department of Computing, in collaboration with the The Alan Turing Institute, is presenting the latest applications of AI to creativity in a one-day symposium and exhibition! 🦋 The event will be held on the 8th of September! Don't miss it! 📅🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/creative-mac…

The Department of Computing is working on a new GamesLab, which will serve all students studying or working in a game-related field! 🎮 This is a call for anyone who has old consoles or gaming devices and would like to donate them! 🕹️ (it does not matter if they work or not!)

The huge benefit cuts we are facing make a tiny impact on the financial health of the USS pension scheme 😡#USSmess

Last words on leaving Goldsmiths from the THE today thanks Jack Grove Jack Grove and Paul Jump @pauljump

The Horniman Museum and Gardens has agreed to return ownership of its Benin bronzes – looted in 1897 – to Nigeria. horniman.ac.uk/story/horniman…

📢New online first📢Using network modelling Dr. Katherine N. Cotter, PhD and colleagues find that museum professionals want more emphasis on visitor wellbeing as an outcome of museum visits 🎨journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Job alert: Two positions Dept of Psychology to join Ryan P. Doran and me on project on cognitive effects of aesthetic experiences, funded by Templeton Religion Trust. Deadline: Sept. 5. Contact me if you have questions. Post-doc: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/36456/ Research Assistant: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/36454/

There are some FANTASTIC teachers on this course! Rebecca Chamberlain Fiona gabbert Ashok Jansari Alice Gregory Robert Chapman

BREAKING: The #USS pension plan has reported a SURPLUS of £1.8bn - nearly 18 months after reporting a £14bn deficit. The surplus is disclosed in the scheme's June monitoring report published today. Details to follow

We're heading to The Visual Science of Art Conference 2022 Amsterdam🚄where PANC student Liv will present an EEG study on embodiment of drawings, alumnus Sasha on mindfulness in the gallery, and directors Guido Orgs and Rebecca Chamberlain on live experiences and emotional expression in art!🤓GoldsmithsPsychology

Some more excellent #creativity research from the team at #Goldsmiths. Congratulations Kaile Smith, Alan Pickering, Joy(deep) Bhattacharya

Our The British Academy Small Grants scheme has opened. We are doing a 3 year trial of partial randomised assessment, because we receive so many good applications. Awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

Massive status bias in peer review. 534 reviewers randomized to review the same paper revealing the low status, high status, or neither author. 65% reject low status, 23% reject high status. Amazing work by Juergen Huber and colleagues. #prc9

Several funded PhD studentships are available this year at GoldsmithsPsychology. Apps due Dec 2022 - start date Sept 2023. I'm looking for a candidate to apply with me for a project on curiosity, aesthetics, and patient populations. Contact me directly if interested. Please RT!

Fascinating episode on the role of mental imagery in psychological distress podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Trying out Mastodon (@[email protected]) as it feels wrong to continue on here since the Musk takeover, follow me @[email protected]

Wonderful to hear that our collaborative grant on embodied creativity in robotics and AI got funded, can't wait to get started 🥳