don’t buy this book! despite the title, cover, etc, this is a super nerdy monograph written for researchers for a general audience, there are gazillion better popular books also it is open access. so - i repeat: don’t waste your $$!! please RT global.oup.com/academic/produ…

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". John, Caldwell, McCoy & Braganza (2023) cambridge.org/core/journals/… We need #slowscience.

My feed js full of adverts and fewer and fewer scientists. Are others finding this? If so, what do we do?

Prior Knowledge Uses Prestimulus Alpha Band Oscillations and Persistent Poststimulus Neural Templates for Conscious Perception doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO… #neuroscience

"X" will soon start a program of invasive data collection on users. "the new privacy policy takes effect 09/29/23, giving X the right to use your posts & all of your data to train musk's "AI." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… as pointed out also by Sandberg, Frassle, Pitts (2016), the PCI "is equally predictive of conscious states whether it is measured at Brodmann area 8 (BA8; frontal lobe) or at BA19 (occipital lobe)" how can this be so laughably simple as 'front vs back'?

Sunak giving his own money to schools in California while not giving public money to schools in this country really not a good look is it?

Join us on Bluesky. I am now there as @dickreired

A lot to unpick here. Rishi Sunak manages to be wrong on so many levels simultaneously... 1) Sunak told us this morning that there are around 22,000 schools. At his admitted pace of repairs of 50 schools a year, that's 440 years to refurbish them all. How can he possibly think

Reduce benefits? How about starting with the six figure ex-PM allowance you get for the rest of your life as a reward for reaching a job you should never have had and clearly couldn’t do?

Great news. The Royal Society is offering 5 bursaries for young black scientists!

PM doubles down on climate policy

Mel Stride Senior Tories could and should be more critical of Farage over Southport and its aftermath.

Every word …. These riots are more than thuggery: they’re the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting | Far right | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

BREAKING: While Donald Trump is hosting an empty and miserable rally, Kamala Harris just entered the arena to thundering applause. Retweet so all Americans, and especially the media, see this powerful clip.

Just re-upping this blogpost by Dead Neanderthals (also on bsky.app) whose experience as a peer reviewer for MDPI left him frustrated deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-… Anyone else found themselves ‘stood down’ as reviewer at Round 2 after delivering a negative review at Round 1?

It is clear from the book on Freud by Frederick Crews that he hid not know how to experiment or interpret evidence, and that he claimed cures that were not cures. Yet there are still believers!