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John Wilkins
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Now semi-retired educational psychologist. Interested in autism, ADHD, children’s early learning & behaviour, parental counselling,the science of reading — other interests — politics, football (Everton), poetry, neuroscience, history. Grandfather!
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a3minutewonder.bsky.social @a3minutewonder.bsky.social · 1d
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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 3h
Though could there be a confounding impact of IQ difference upon schooling extreme difference — bidirectional causation?
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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 3h
www.psypost.org/people-on-th... unsurprising really given that some people switch extremes easily!
People on the far-right and far-left exhibit strikingly similar brain responses
New research shows that people with strong political beliefs react more emotionally to political content. Brain activity patterns were similar among ideological extremists, whether liberal or conserva...
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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 3h
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What we’ve learned about the psychology of narcissism over the past 30 years
Narcissism has two surprisingly different faces: one is bold and grandiose, the other is vulnerable and hypersensitive. Both stem from a common core of self-importance, but their emotional experiences...
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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 4h
www.psypost.org/major-iq-dif... heritability
Major IQ differences in identical twins linked to schooling, challenging decades of research
A new study in Acta Psychologica reveals that schooling largely explains IQ differences in identical twins raised apart. When their educations are very dissimilar, their IQ scores can be as different ...
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h
There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6h
Journalist, "What's harder, peace in the Middle East or a gov shut down?"

President Trump, "This, it's been going on for 3,000 years"

Technically not true

They had peace for 400-500 years under the Ottoman Empire
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23h
Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect

Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one

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Hour-long queues in Prague airport as EU entry-exit system comes into effect
Exclusive: Czech Republic vowed to introduce 100% EES checks on day one
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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 21h
This is your field, not mine, but I would have thought that pain being innate was necessary. Pain thresholds can be altered, but unless I’m mistaken pain can’t be learned? I share your interest from a lower knowledge base. As with other senses, pain is linked to consciousness. Unconscious pain??????
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d
UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d
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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 22h
Back to qualia?
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 22h
The first time an infant (or any creature) feels a painful stimulus... *it hurts*! They don't need to learn that it hurts - it just feels painful! Not just bad, but bad *like that*.

I find this very hard to deal with...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

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Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 22h
The Conservative big beast delivered a stinging attack on Reform at a fringe meeting, and called for Britain to rejoin the EU

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
While Jenrick defended his own racist language, Heseltine was schooling the Tories on fascism, Farage and Brexit
The Conservative big beast delivered a stinging attack on Reform at a fringe meeting, and called for Britain to rejoin the EU
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d
The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
The empty horror of Robert Jenrick
We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d
They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)
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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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John Wilkins @wilkinspsych.bsky.social · 3d
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England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
Prof Christina Pagel breaks down the latest Covid and NHS stats
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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 5d
Comfortable Fictions: The Myth of Multiple Intelligences carlhendrick.substack.com/p/comfortabl...
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Paul Cline @paulclinepsy.bsky.social · 5d
We run a psyc trip for y12 to a zoo where one of the seminars focuses a lot on MI. There's this really odd bit where they say "there's no empirical support, but maybe that doesn't matter" (at which point I want to scream to my students "yes it does!")

This will be useful to share with them, thanks!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d
no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!
NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.
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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 4d
Why can adults understand larger timescales than children? Join Inner Cosmos this week for some mind-bending ideas about our perception of time.
eagleman.com/podcast/124
#brain #time
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 4d
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d
Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."
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