A great week at #s4sn2025 in beautiful Lisbon ☀️

Outstanding talks, engaging discussions, brilliant colleagues and unforgettable pasteis de nata. Lisbon was a real highlight!

A huge thank you to the organizing team for putting together such an engaging, and beautifully run conference.

One of my favorite neuroscience lessons:

When you start something new, it feels like a struggle and requires your entire focus. But it gets easier and you need far less brain power. Things become automatic.

The brain becomes more efficient in a single hour: mrbartonmaths.com/resourcesnew...

✨ Exciting news for our upcoming S4SN Lisbon meeting! ✨

Join us from September 23-26 for a dynamic program filled with inspiring talks, poster presentations, and networking opportunities. Get ready to connect, learn, and share ideas in the beautiful city of Lisbon!

The program is out 😍

"...the failure even to be curious about what it is young women are trying to say, just because their chosen revolt against the mainstream takes a less aggressive or destructive form than young Reformers’, feels profoundly unfair." by Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Honoured to speak at Pint of Science 2025 - sharing brain research beyond the lab with a fantastic, curious audience.

Great questions, inspiring conversations, and a brilliant lineup of fellow speakers.

Grateful, energised, and excited for what’s ahead!

#pint25 #neuroscience #cognition
#research

🔬Talk prep in full swing - with a little help from my co-author 🐶

Join @pintofscience.uk to explore:

👀 How we imagine what other see
🧠 How we make sense of the beliefs and motives of others
🤝 How cognition shapes social interactions

📆 20th May at The Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath

#pint25

Today is International Fact-Checking Day ✔️

Independent fact-checking is more important than ever.

Before you share:
✅ Is it from a reliable source?
🔍 Can it be verified elsewhere?
📢 Is it informing or manipulating?

No justice, no peace. Solidarity (and in awe) with the people showing up everywhere to protest the state coverup of the fatal and criminal train wreck that killed 57 people two years ago at Tempi, Greece. A tragedy due to years of neglect and degradation of our railway because of austerity.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

📖 Open Social Psychology Textbook 📖
Call for Contributors 🙋🏻‍♀️

New FORRT initiative to develop an open-access textbook on social psychology. Goal: summarize 🏛️ classical findings 🏛️ and discuss them in light of replication attempts.

🧵 Find out how you can get involved below 👇

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

I have written a blog entry for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

In it, I discuss the argument in my book about the normalization of the radical right.

I also discuss how that argument can explain the rapid, and often unforeseen, rise of politicians with this ideology.

In my new op-ed for @newstatesman.com I discuss how Elon Musk became the biggest far-right propagandist, openly espousing neo-Nazi views and shaping an Aryan vision for Europe too. This is just the beginning, considering that Trump has not even entered the WH yet www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...