Remarkable. And so, so true.

The 1in5 project (1in5project.info) has picked up momentum so we thought we’d put out a press release, bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/june… 🧵(16 tweets) for quick reminder of the idea behind 1in5 and some quotes.

It's always the lack of accountability that jumps out. Promises made, smiles all round, pat on the back. Nothing delivered. This 12 YEAR strategy document delivered nothing. Absolutely nowt.

Why is everyone so negative, so jaded, so grumpy, so downright unsupportive? Just look at what we were promised. 4m WIDE. All the way to Millers Bridge - uninterrupted.

This afternoon I slept and dreamed it had all slipped away , that we were all ambling to the funeral of life . We were sobbing over Swallows and Small Coppers , crying about Cuckoos and porpoises , choking and gasping about rivers and meadows . And when I woke up . . . the world

Great talk by Sahal Sahal Al Dahas in structural brain changes due to learning #ECVP

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أظهرت نتائج الدراسة أن المخ يتأثر إيجابياً بالتعليم و بـ اكتساب مهارة جديدة (لغة جديدة على سبيل المثال)، و ينعكس ذلك على تطور في الصحة الذهنية للإنسان. الملفت ان مجرد ثلاث ساعات من التعليم يعتبر كافياً لملاحظة التغييرات في المخ.

Finally out now in Human Brain Mapping! Open access paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hb… Thank you to the reviewers for helping us improve the paper.

"We found Susan [not her real name] in tears at this car park. She was trying to do a bit of shopping, but none of her seven parking apps worked in this town." Dispatches from the frontline of the war on motorists: ft.com/content/37e8e8…

Our noses dictate more than we realize! A new study explores how smells secretly shape our color world, offering a vibrant dive into the crossroads of sensory experiences. How does your scent-scape shape you? neurosciencenews.com/olfaction-colo… 1/2

Why laws of thermodynamics don’t apply to Britain is beyond me. Another poor piece on heat pumps by the Telegraph. It’s full of lines from vested interest groups who say heat pumps don’t work in Britain because they want to keep their fossil fuel-based business model alive.

People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It

A research team from Liverpool Uni EEE and LivUni Psychology are part of a new study that reveals how particular scents can influence our perception of colour bit.ly/3rEiX2k

Link to the journal article: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Fantastic, balanced thread on the pros (yes, pros) and cons of roads and driving in urban spaces

New book! I'm excited to be one of the authors of this book on color science applications. I wrote Chapter 19: Colour [sic] in AR & VR! #MCSL #ColorScience College of Science at RIT goodreads.com/book/show/1561…

It's been great fun to participate in Meet the Scientists with Emmanuel Biau, Cesare Parise, Yi Hao and Eszter Demirkan! Thank you World Museum 🌎 and Health and Life Sciences Public Engagement for making this possible! LivUni Psychology #MeetTheScientists #Liverpool

Petition: Introduce national restrictions on pavement parking. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6429…

You like multisensory speech, brain rhythms, memory and neurostimulation -Come work with Yuki Kikuchi, Sophie Wuerger, Chris Petkov and me on a @NLD_BBSRCDTP PhD between University of Liverpool and Newcastle University! More information and how to apply: findaphd.com/phds/project/b…