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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 27

How did a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery hand absolute power over to Hitler, someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following?

The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers

The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · Aug 21

Really amazing work that challenges some long-held beliefs about cortical plasticity.

"We show adult sensory body maps are unaltered after amputation, suggesting deprivation-driven plasticity is even more marginal than argued by the strongest opponents of cortical reorganization."

Hunter Schone @hunterschone.bsky.social · Aug 21

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · May 27

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Funded PhD opportunity.pdf

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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · May 24

Respect!!!

@harvard.edu 😍

The link to the FREE GOVERNMENT COURSES is ...

pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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Pablo Romero Sanchiz @pablorom.bsky.social · May 21

This is a very important issue, because it might sound like "trashing" psychological interventions or prevention efforts, but it is not. This is how science should work. We have a good idea, we test it, if it works, great, if it doesn't, rethink and retest. With enough evidence against, we drop it.

Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · May 21

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools

I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.

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Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes

All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Apr 10

Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports
#AcademicSky

‘Mountain of small things’ killing academia, warns Oxford scholar

Overly cautious institutions pushing ‘bullshit jobs’ on their staff ‘destroying academia from within’, says neuroscientist

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · Mar 6

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...

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Dr Liat Levita @drliatlevita.bsky.social · Mar 26

Yap! Important read

Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫 @eberllab.bsky.social · Mar 25

This is one of the most important papers published in years.

"On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities"

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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities

You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

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Dr. Jessie Stern @jessastern.bsky.social · Mar 22

In this era of political suppression, I'm especially glad to see this paper among the top 10 most cited papers published in Child Development Perspectives in 2023!
Grateful to our team: Stephanie Irby Coard, Oscar Barbarin & Jude Cassidy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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British Neuroscience Association @britishneuro.bsky.social · Mar 14

We are so excited to be taking the #BNA2025 International Festival of #Neuroscience to #Liverpool !
A city where history, culture and innovation collide - the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable neuroscience gathering. Join us! bna2025.org

#cpd #careerdevelopment #medicalresearch #networking

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · Mar 12

#SfNHillDay momentum builds!

Today, SfN members and fellow #NeuroAdvocates continue meetings with members of congress and their staff to advocate for crucial initiatives that protect and advance #neuroscience research.

#NeuroSky

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Claudia Hammond @claudiahammond.bsky.social · Mar 12

Why do our senses give us such different experiences of the world and is there a way of having supersenses? Come to Think Again at Ironworks Studios in Brighton at 7pm on Mar 13th where 3 brilliant Sussex University psychologists will explain all to me. www.ironworks-studios.co.uk/whats-on

What's On in Brighton - Ironworks Studios Brighton

Want to know what’s on in Brighton? Ironworks Studios is the home of top-quality entertainment and live music in Brighton. We showcase the best names in drag

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Claudia von Bastian @cvonbastian.bsky.social · Mar 11

🚀 Thrilled to share the stellar #ESCOP2025 satellites lineup! From @psychopy.org to Bayesian modelling, fNIRS, eye-tracking, gen AI in teaching, Knowledge Exchange & the @wicseurope.bsky.social 25-year anniversary!🥳🎂
www.escop2025.com/satellite-ev... @escop.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Satellite Events | ESCOP 2025

View the satellite event programme for the ESCOP 2025 conference.

www.escop2025.com

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · Mar 8

"Our difference was really magnified" - Waveney Bushell, often referred to as the first black female educational psychologist in the UK.

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‘Our difference was really magnified’ | BPS

Educational Psychologist Dr Melernie Meheux in conversation with Waveney Bushell, Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

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Armelle Rancillac 🔬 @rancillac.bsky.social · Mar 7

#StandUpForScience
Science not silence!

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Gilly Forrester @gillyforrester.bsky.social · Mar 3

Imagine an apple... what does it look like? Imagine the months of the year... what shape do they take? We'll discuss how we sense the world in the next Think Again! at Ironworks Studios #Brighton hosted by @claudiahammond.bsky.social with expert psychologists @sussex.ac.uk Tickets from Ironworks

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Feb 27

Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree

University announces new BA, after survey found most 14- to 18-year-olds want more rigorous climate change education

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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · Feb 27

Latest Ep of Inside the Teen Brain 'A Second Chance'.

@drjanegilmour.bsky.social talks to Prof Rosie Meek exploring the role of risk-taking, peer influence, and emotional regulation in adolescence, particularly among young people in the criminal justice system.

bit.ly/Prof-Rosie-M...

Inside the Teen Brain - A Second Chance

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Jenny Terry @jennyterry.bsky.social · Feb 26

Calling all #StatsEd researchers!

@rosenetwork.bsky.social are recruiting new committee members… 👀👇

RoSE Network @rosenetwork.bsky.social · Feb 25

Want to have a say in the RoSE network? We're recruiting for the following roles:

Co-Director- Communications
Co-Director- EDI
Co-Director- Finance
Social Media Officer
Geographic Reps

Follow the link below to find out more & apply by the 23rd March!

www.rose-network.org/about-us/vac...

RoSE Network - Vacancies

vacancies

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Feb 11

And the Association for Psychological Science now also out with a statement to members (I have not found a public link): @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

Dear APS Member,

As a member of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), you value scientific research and education. As scientists, we do important work. We ask and answer questions that create new knowledge, develop new tools, solve real world problems, provide evidence-based interventions, and support informed decision-making.

Science is a global, collaborative endeavor that is strongest when scientists are free to participate, engage, share findings, and learn from colleagues. In recent weeks, scientific research and education in the United States has been disrupted and censored. Government scientists have been encouraged to quit their jobs and directed to not participate with their professional communities. We recognize that these recent attacks on U.S. science have been or are currently threats encountered by scientists in other countries. United, we have an opportunity to strengthen science around the world.

APS is working alongside scientific organizations representing the breadth of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine to promote science. We are a home where you can gather to advance psychological science. We recently invited members of the APS community to participate in a short survey to identify the science policy issues of greatest concern to you. We have also asked for volunteers to participate in future advocacy efforts in Washington, DC, as well as in your local community and state capitals. We have been energized by the hundreds of individuals who responded within hours of the request.

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · Feb 11

The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain & behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations,urge reversal of this policy & implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure.

Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL

Statement on the NIH Imposed Standard Indirect Cost Rate

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Dr Liat Levita @drliatlevita.bsky.social · Feb 11

Much needed, in todays world more then ever

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Feb 10

🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures!

Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not!

Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Screenshot of petition to join EU as full member.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · Feb 11

19 doctoral positions within the European VOCS Training Network in which Doctoral Candidates will engage in groundbreaking collaborative research in cognitive neuroscience, acoustics, phonetics, and computing science

www.vocs.eu.com/index.php/do...

The Doctoral Projects – VoCS

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