Testing yields better memory than studying. Based on three experiments and computational modeling, this study provides evidence that predictive (error-based) learning underpins the testing effect. Haopeng Chen Cathy Ergo Kate nature.com/articles/s4427…

Forst foil of the year. Honkiebonkie time

It was a good theory: That calling Elon "President Musk" would get under Trump's famously thin skin, causing division. But it's not working. I have a theory why — and it helps explain why Republicans in Congress are okay with giving up power, too. salon.com/2025/02/07/why…

It seems suboptimal that the people who regulate education really hate universities

Today has basically been the worst. I hate everything.

it's very common for deeply dysfunctional employers to staff extremely young because anyone more experienced will see right through their bullshit

Re-upping this. The indirect cost rate cut is step 1 to defund American science. This is not the time for nuance. Steps 2-4 include shelving NIH (via state block grants), defunding unis (tax endowments, remove non profit status). If efficiency was the goal, DoD would be first 🎯

Co-authors, 3 years into their 3 week project

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/

✨My essay in The Lancet this week has made the front page!✨ (I didn’t know about this 🤗) ‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient - doctor relationship. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Up to 14 days of strike action to hit Newcastle University in March Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social says: “The Vice Chancellor has two weeks to protect jobs and resolve this dispute to avoid sustained strike action across campus” Full story: ucu.org.uk/article/13915/…

This afternoon, UCU informed the Vice Chancellor that we will be formally balloting for local industrial action at The University of Sheffield in relation to proposed cuts to the staffing budget and the threats to staff jobs due to restructuring.

There is some data here timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univer… "University of Central Lancashire paid £10.5 million to 264 employees". So average payout £40k Just the average, so some higher (p'haps much higher) Looks like range of £20 k to £60k might be usual, depending on job, service

Call for Papers: Special Collection on Scientific Racism! EHS is inviting submissions for a special collection examining the historical and contemporary implications of scientific racism. Learn more and submit your work: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

In 2013, Thomas Piketty had an unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) *Capital in the 21st Century*. 1/

Despite a longstanding scientific rumor, girls are not more socially-attuned at birth. Our systematic review and meta‐analyses found no #gender difference in neonates' social perception or discrimination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/so…

Robert Gordon University lecturers go on strike. Reputation damage. Recruitment risk. Redundancies #SaveHE #StopTheCuts bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Surely you have heard of/ used novel object paradigms to assess animal personality? In this paper we validate exploration behavior through a battery of stimuli in both social and individual conditions and across a longer period of time. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Five thousand one hundred forty! Ah ah ah!

Object manipulation by chacma baboons in Gorongosa National Park varies by age, sex, and habitat type. This study contributes to current discussions about the emergence of habitual tool use across the primate order #AJBA #baboons #tools doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.7…