Apparently this is from a CIA guide to disrupting Leftist meetings. Isn't this just a standard academic meeting? 😉

Sneering at people who didn't want to get a Covid vaccine and then died of Covid does not make you a very nice person. Just saying.

Downing Street officials offered to waive restrictions on mourners for Prince Philip’s funeral. The Queen refused, on the grounds she wanted to set an example rather than be an exception to the rules. So they threw two parties instead. Full story in the brand new Private Eye.

Great to see some of our Psychology at Lincoln reps at the Student Tea this morning! Lots of great ideas put forward - which we are going to make happen!

When your company does the performative Women’s Day tweet and up pops the Gender Pay Gap Bot and cites the paygap in the organisation. The speed with which some of those tweets are deleted is dizzying. And deeply gratifying.

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1/ Mast Cell Monday. What are ‘mast cells’? They are part of the immune system and constantly looking for trouble! Handy wee things when you need them- they release histamine+ other things to draw other cells to the area. The problem is when they go rogue…

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I think this is important enough that it bears repeating: You can't detect ChatGPT content if people spend any real effort. I know because I had my students "cheat" & use AI; when they co-created essays with the AI, GPTZero failed & the essays read well. oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/my-class-req…

No spoilers, but this is the cleverest football advert I've ever seen.

Once, we ran a study on Prolific and a participant wrote on Reddit that the study “Felt like I was losing the will to live.” I went on the Prolific Subreddit (24k members!) and asked what matters. Here is what they told me. A thread on happier participants and better studies 1/9

A NEW MENTAL MODEL MEGATHREAD HAS ARRIVED! In 20 tweets I’ll summarize 20 of the most useful principles I know. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Value: A lifetime. Thread:

1. Hot off the press: Taboos & Self-Censorship In a sample of psych profs, we identify points of conflict & consensus regarding (1) controversial empirical claims & (2) normative preferences for how controversial scholarship & scholars should be treated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

TLDR: 1. Interventions aiming to boost mental health aren’t necessarily positive or even neutral, and need careful planning to avoid negative impacts. 2. Doing nothing is sometimes better than doing something. /Ends #edutwitter

You probably know the start of this Olympic story, but do you know how it finished? This photo is of Eric Moussambani, aka 'Eric the Eel' from Equatorial Guinea, competing in the 100m Freestyle event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, alone. Why? /1

Look, here’s the thing about free speech: YES, it’s not “absolute”. Even the most hardcore free speech advocates agree that there are exceptions. Extreme case: telling e.g. Russia about UK military secrets is “just” a speech act, but it is (and should be) illegal in UK law.

"Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country" - Salman Rushdie

One of many moving moments in the BBC’s excellent series ‘The London Bombings’ is this recollection by Julie Nicolson of the reaction of a London cabbie when he learned her daughter Jenny was a victim.

This only happens to you once.