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Jon May

@profjonmay.bsky.social

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Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Plymouth. Researching the role of mental imagery in behaviour change. A bit keen on open science, using R and making shiny apps.

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 5d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 7d

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 8d

How does Jenkyns define ‘the British people’?

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 13d

Agreed - similar slopes but the intercepts differ.

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Jackie Andrade @profjackieandrade.bsky.social · 22d

40 minutes of functional imagery training reduced anxiety and motivated students with high anxiety achieve their goals. Here's the evidence: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 23d

at least it is non exclusive otherwise you’d have a bigger problem

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 23d

Yay! Daniela Austin has been awarded her PhD for her thesis on Engaging Student Nurses in Lifestyle Management: The Role of Technology-Based Interventions and Mobile Health Applications'. @plymouthpsychology.bsky.social

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · Sep 8

Back our campaign today to balance the BBC 👇www.libdems.org.uk/BBC

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Sep 4

jd vance might have had a fling with them

Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Aug 28

or put them all together in the same class?

Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Aug 28

The wonders of FPTP would make the fourth party the official opposition

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Aug 28

Reform UK: “Free speech! You can’t say anything these days!”

Also Reform UK: “You’re banned from reporting on our council because we don’t like what you said.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK Nottinghamshire council leader bans local newspaper's reporters

The Nottingham Post describes the ban as

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Aug 28

just another way to blame their mothers?

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Calum Miller @calummillerld.bsky.social · Aug 26

I have written to Nigel Farage in response to his visit to my constituency of Bicester and Woodstock today.

Dear Mr Farage

Welcome to Oxfordshire. You came here to talk about “mass deportations” but made no effort to understand the people or challenges of this community.

Your proposals offer no costed plan. Daily flights, new detention centres and vast surveillance systems would cost billions. Empty slogans are not a substitute for serious policy.

It did not go unnoticed that you spoke just minutes from Campsfield House, where a detention centre is being rebuilt despite local opposition and past scandals. Yet you chose not to meet residents living with those consequences.

You often invoke Winston Churchill, born here in Oxfordshire. He spent his career grappling with difficult truths and forging alliances in our national interest. Instead of sowing division, we should build on that legacy.

Our immigration system is broken after years of Government failure. It needs urgent, practical reform: fair, managed migration to meet workforce shortages, a faster asylum system and support for those fleeing war and persecution. That requires cooperation and honesty, not division.

If you return, I would be glad to show you Oxfordshire’s real story: businesses thriving thanks to home and overseas talent, health and care services desperate for staff and residents supporting refugees with compassion. You would see a community interested in solving problems, not fuelling conflict.

Yours sincerely

Calum Miller MP

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Dr Aly Norman @dralysonnorman.bsky.social · Aug 26

Reconnecting to the person before acquired brain injury: A continuing bonds grief intervention
Introducing a new paper testing a letter writing technique to support family members after brain injury
#braininjuryawareness #FamiliesAfterBrainInjury

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Atlantic categorises you as ‘Humor’ but you are the only commentator to have pointed the true source of the lawlessness in DC. And it isn’t funny.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Aug 13

Stephen Miller is right: crime is rampant in DC www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Instead, the National Guard ought to focus on tackling the major terror on the streets of this city! Why, at any moment you or your neighbor could get yanked into an unmarked van by a masked man, without any regard for habeas corpus. Los Angeles all over again! How can anyone feel safe while this keeps happening? People who are trying to do everything the right way, snatched from hallways after their court hearings. Professors, detained after expressing their views. Americans who just want to work hard and support their families, petrified to go to work every day because of the shameless wrongdoers in D.C. and what they have unleashed. And whoever masterminded the abduction of so many people-seized without due process and whisked away to a foreign gulag-is still at large, and staring back at Stephen every time he looks into a mirror. Not safe, not safe!

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ever have a symptom & assume the worst? That’s the Inverse Base Rate Effect—we over-focus on rare outcomes. A new #psynomPBR study by Dome @lenarddome.bsky.social & Wills finds distraction & time pressure can reduce this bias. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/FTDQE25

Don’t think too much … it might make you irrational

Every so often, I get random chest pain and immediately spiral – is this it? Am I having a heart attack? Then I remind myself that I’m 25, probably overcaffeinated, and maybe just a little stressed…

buff.ly

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Aug 12

but synthetic compound values violate another principle, of only one piece of data per value. what is the aim of having a unique key?

Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Aug 11

having just spent two hours balsam bashing that’s all I can see

Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Aug 11

doesn’t ‘no duplicate unique identifiers’ rule out tidy data?

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Aug 7

‘No electric cars at all were sold last Wednesday between 10:45pm and 11:12’ (nb - made up)

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Jul 30

if you try to use orcid it asks you to log in to em to approve access to orchid

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Jul 29

For a second day running, Sky News has broadcast a Reform UK press conference live from their new 'briefing room'.

No other political party receives this special treatment.

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Change Minds → Change Politics

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · Jul 25

beautiful image. I wish I were still teaching so I could use this (with credit to Rebekah)