The wonder of Voyager: This is the most beautiful thread I’ve read in a long time.

DocAtCDI@docatcdi.com · last yr.

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

Essential reading for all UK academics (and almost certainly applies elsewhere too) - thank you @masudhusain.bsky.social for articulating so clearly the risks that are posed to our core research and education work by this direction of travel

Masud Husain@masudhusain.bsky.social · last yr.

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

The bendiness does not change THE BENDINESS DOES NOT CHANGE!! Behold, the curvature blindness illusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

Just back from a fascinating day discussing #humanfactors in accident investigations with the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Academy of Forensic Sciences - interesting to see key cognitive factors like distraction and vigilance decrements coming up so frequently @roysocmed.bsky.social

Whew! Popping back here briefly to discuss a very eventful few days. On Sat, a SNOW BUNTING appears at Hayward Regional. 😱 The bird is stunning & super-rare in the East Bay. Many birders go to see it. It's living its best life on a white/brown plastic culvert that it maybe thinks is snow? 1/

Hello, Bluesky community! We're thrilled to make our first post and what better way to debut than by announcing exciting news? We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (full-time, research & teaching), starting 12 August 2025! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology

(Full-time, Permanent)Applications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 12 August 2025. The post is open to ambitious, res...

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Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.

Absolutely this 👇. One of the best explanations about this describes how 'nice culture' can be as harmful as 'nasty culture'- and much harder to call out because it casts the dissenting person as 'not nice'. But 'nice culture' stifles cognitive diversity. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

From Nasty To Nice And Back Again: Seven Tips For Encouraging Cognitive Diversity | The King's Fund

Susie Perks-Baker and Ben Fuchs explore the challenge facing both 'nasty' and 'nice' cultures: failing to work constructively with conflict.

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Simon Fleming 🔨@orthopodreg.bsky.social · 2y ago

If one more person reminds me to #BeKind I will… …not Toxic kindness is as bad as all the other grim behaviours I talk about It’s performative, rhetorical & often weaponised to mean “don’t do things I don’t like” It’s discretionary,silences marginalised voices & maintains the status quo #MedSky

Looks like nobody has made a Cognitive Psychology starter pack yet, so I made one! Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome. go.bsky.app/NsFhnV #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsych

Do you ever get the feeling the world’s gone crazy? With this in mind, I play the Flintstones theme in the style of the Russian classics.

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)

Are you a psychologist or neuroscientist who completed your PhD after 1st October 2022, or about to submit your thesis? Consider applying for the **4-year Career Research Development Fellowship** at St John's College, Oxford. Please share! #psychscisky #neuroskyence www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

Career Development Research Fellowships 2025

Career Development Research Fellowships for full-time research offered by St John’s College to early career researchers who have recently completed or are close to completion of a doctorate (and will ...

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What better way to celebrate this holiday season than to apply for a CHAIR IN MENTAL HEALTH (or to forward the ad to someone who would)? 🎄🎄🎄 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/chai...

🔔New Postdoc Position 🔔 Do you love computational modelling and mental health? We're recruiting a postdoc on a Wellcome Trust-funded project to lead the development of a new open-source platform: Hypatia. w/ @alexandrapike.bsky.social, Lei Zhang and Catia Oliveira Read on 👇👇👇

3x Lecturer/Senior Lecturer jobs in Psychology at Leeds Beckett (please share!) Post 1 (Health Psychology) - tinyurl.com/3kpvwfur Post 2 (Occupational Psychology/ Human factors) - tinyurl.com/42mamx7c Post 3 (Open)- tinyurl.com/5fz8t3rz Come join us, we're nice!

**POSTDOC KLAXON** We are have *FOUR* postdoc positions. Come and work with myself, @danakarca.bsky.social , Petra Vertes and a host of great scientists. We'll be working on computational models of network formation, learning how early environments shape development. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/

Very excited that StoryFutures at Royal Holloway has partnered with Uni of Surrey’s Institute for People-Centred AI to create a new doctoral training centre focused on AI for Digital Media Inclusion. We will have PhD opportunities coming soon! More details here: www.surrey.ac.uk/news/ukri-ce...