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Prof Neil Martin

@thatneilmartin.bsky.social

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I suppose I'd best get on and fill this in. Psychologist, Prof, writer, former head of department and university research integrity advisor. Research and consultancy: smell/taste; food; horror; comedy; the brain. Email: [email protected]

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · Jul 14

And so, it begins! (again). NEWS. The 8th edition of Psychology will be out in 2026! This means, I think, that I should start writing it.

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 4h

This clip show about bawdy 70s UK comedies is on TPTV and I will never have a go at Channel 5 ever again.

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 4h

Very much. Me and another keen observer on here are particularly joyful about pop psychology bollocks masquerading as scholarship.

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone writing about the influence of these thinkers really needs to provide detail on what they have actually written. Most of it is incoherent, lacking any substance and often downright weird.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 6h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 5h

This does nothing to undermine the hypothesis that the 1970s was a decade of sex offenders.

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 6h

Can't help feeling this is an ad.

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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 17h

"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?"
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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 6h

If you've never heard of Molly Mae outside that washing powder advert, who else have you never heard of?

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6h

So much talk of economics and far right radicalisation but my increasingly view is we are all - myself included - underestimating the impact of both internet culture and (more importantly) the economics of the internet/social media on politics and radicalisation

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 9h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 6h

Clip c/o BFI www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI1P...

THE DEAL clip | BFI London Film Festival 2025 – 8-19 October

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 6h

PPS. One of the producers produced Anatomy Of A Fall.

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 6h

PS. I think this is the most people I've seen onstage outside a musical.

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 6h

...true, it does take some libertes avec les actualites but that comes with suspending disbelief. Bring a bungee rope. According to director, Jean-Stéphane Bron, you can see the whole thing @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social next week though nothing's coming up on the cinema Lumiere website.

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 6h

The Deal, a six-part drama about the 2015 Iran-Iraq nuclear deal (yes, I know this is unlikely to get your fruits fermenting, but bear with me), is a very gripping hotel-based psychodrama mixing politics, social niceties and barbarism...

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 6h

Evening.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 6h

Including this good doc about HandMade Films www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-_Z...

An Accidental Studio

YouTube video by YouTube Movies

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 6h

Speaking of inane, charmless Herberts, if the catastrophically bad customer meerkats now bobbing all over @berthadochouse.bsky.social or fixed behind their little desks are anything to go by, that will be my last visit. Generally, awful.

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 7h

Bond fans! There are artistic reimaginings of the film poster art on display and for sale at the gallery at the Brunswick Centre, Russell Sq. Next door to the execrable Skoob.

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 7h

*chortle*

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 7h

Who are all these people still using mastodon?

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 16h

I was wondering whether anyone had written a history of Methuen's hugely prolific adventures in comedy book publishing in the 70s/80s and found this on the design of the Python books: www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...

Eye Magazine | Feature | Understanding silly books

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 1d

This will turn heads.

Rob T @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 1d

Debenhams is selling idols of Pazuzu, in case you were wondering what stage of late capitalism we’re in…

Pazuzu idol pendant for sale at Debenhams

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 1d

This will be the worst thing to happen to letters since rain.

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t get this. Surely all Royal Mail has to do is send recipient a text saying they have a letter which they can pick up from the sender’s address? bit.ly/4nLsex1 Sorted. Or rather not sorted because it is too expensive.

Why Royal Mail could axe stamps and addresses on letters

Handwritten envelopes may become a thing of the past as the new boss moves to modernise the business

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Someone at the Deputy Business editing desk of The Times seems a bit baffled by means and medians...

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The Content Apologist @contentapologist.bsky.social · 1d

No wonder the North Koreans are cheering if they're going to share in the world's biggest Colin the Caterpillar cake.

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 1d

Dracula and Frankenstein's monster on the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon! Halloween has started early at the House of Terror... 🎃🍂

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Second-Hand Book Stall Find Of The Day

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 1d

He won’t sell many ice creams going at that speedy Gonzales #mexicanmorecambeandwise