The land of the free - in designated areas only

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

University finds new way to spend yet more money so as to reduce what should be an educational opportunity into a bureaucratic form filling exercise. Students find ways to game system.
Rinse and repeat

Wright said: “Solar initiatives and other energy efficiency schemes have benefited Tice’s property companies whilst he was in charge, but now … there is a political advantage to gain Tice is all too happy to label these schemes as ‘perilous’ for investors.”

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New paper! - I was wrong! We checked and checked again we were definitely wrong.

And I couldn't be happier that we are able to publish these findings at QJEP - Satchell, Hall & Jones 🧵

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🖍️ Register your interest for the NABS+ Creative workshop to explore fresh and accessible ways to share your research. Tues 25 November, 10:30 - 15:00, London. Find out more: crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/opportu...

excellent essay: The Origin of the Research University open.substack.com/pub/asterisk...

“We want our international students to continue to feel welcomed for the positive social and cultural and economic contributions they make in Wales, and we're very keen to ensure that that continues so there will not be a levy in Wales.” (Welsh education secretary Lynne Neagle)

Lucy Pickering and I first talked about research ethics nearly 30 years ago. Now we’re launching a call for chapters on experiences of ethics review.

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

More here 👉 helenkara.com/2025/10/08/e...

#ResearchEthics #CallforChapters #EthicsReview

The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Hmm, you don’t suppose all this kerfuffle might be because the manufacturers have expiring patents, and need to redesign products so as to forestall cheaper, generic manufacturers?

Follow the money….

www.raps.org/news-and-art...

Adding my voice to the chorus battling to retain an increased focus on people, culture, and environment in the next REF... wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ba...

Seen comments (mainly from the US but not all) where approach letter fawns over hallucinated articles …

Thanks!
Maybe worth considering an update specifically with “avoid using an LLM to write to a prospective supervisor”.
More generally, to emphasise the value of authenticity in reaching out to a potential supervisor?

OK - but this is UK and we have one of the highest per capita consumptions of chocolate in the world (and not much behind Switzerland at the top)

Relatedly, this is the UK and the chocolate is waaay nicer :-)

Given the ease with which high numbers of imposter or fake accounts can be created, and populated (eg with text from bots)... I mean what could possibly go wrong here?

The constant stream of BS and lies from the US regime is exhausting.

Levers Watter on the way home from climbing Coniston Old Man, Brim Fell, Swirl How, and Wetherlam (via Prison Band) with a pal last Monday. My legs have only just returned to normal.

I'm going to mark this as yet another data point for the hypothesis that, generally, OS engagement in psychology for applied areas < basic areas. Fits the data sharing pattern in the figure.

Tagging @liamsatchell.bsky.social specifically into this post as the lead-author on the paper.

The Network Plus for Analytical Behavioural Science for Security and Defence (NABS+) has a call for Visiting Fellowships. Part of our commitment to develop the next generation of behavioural science for security & defence through x-fertilisation of knowledge & skills.
Submission deadline: 20/10/25

Terrific sleuthing and deep background research by @alex23.bsky.social into the horrors of "research" on autism conducted by none other than the person RFK Jr put in charge of ... you guessed it, the (non-existent) link between autism and vaccines: