Old but good (2016): "we perform a 2,000 user, 250,000 trial online experiment to study the effects of slider appearance [Likert vs VAS]. We find that decorations along the slider considerably bias the distribution of responses" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/28…

The portals for #EPSLondon25 are now open! Portals will remain open for at least 24 hours, please see the below page for more info and to submit! eps.ac.uk/submit-an-abst…

It's just two days to go until The Dungeon on Blood Island Ian Livingstone is out! Read the story, roll the dice and decide your destiny! Are YOU brave enough to enter the Dungeon on Blood Island?

Last night at The Cartoon Museum celebrating #MagicRealms! 🧙 Ian Livingstone talked all things Fighting Fantasy, Dice Men, AND his invite-only gaming club, which has published over 600 weekly newsletters! Discover the magic on unbound.com: unbound.com/books?search=d…

Anyone interested in studying a PhD at Teesside University in Psychology, specifically in the field of Face Perception / Recognition, get in touch with me 👇

strictly speaking, all singing involves the tongue, but this remains epic.

Me on AI in HE: A powerful and ubiquitous phenomena that seems promising but could go either way. It's much like being given a wolf puppy, with huge potential and power, having previously only ever looked after a goldfish. Floor coverings out, and pick up anything chewable.

"This dramatic decline isn't just about numbers – it represents a critical threat to how we prepare young people to engage with and shape our increasingly technological world." Associate Prof Alison Hardy NTU School of Social Sciences on why D&T education is so vital👉ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/…

Our new video looks at Donald Trump's January 6 pardons. 6 minutes on the President's decision, the reaction to it and the broader questions all of this raises about how politics and justice intertwine in America. Produced by Catherine Karelli.

Great PhD Studentship opportunity: The Role of Sleep Disturbances and Psychological Processes in Self-injury: Implications for Suicide Prevention at Loughborough University jobs.ac.uk/job/DLY277/phd…

“We throb knowledge, we pulse excellence.”

Head to head with Tony #lastonelaughinguk #primevideouk

Happy birthday to Ewan McGregor*, born today in 1971! (*file photo)

Heating bill

this could be cat-astrophic.

Billionaires make bad politicians. Musk and Trump think business smarts translate to government, but politics isn’t about ego, speed, or winning at all costs. It’s compromise, not control. And history shows: when entrepreneurs enter politics, chaos usually follows. Full story by

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

The articulacy , analysis and intelligence of this lady from London’s East end discussing television’s impact is such a delight. She’s brilliant.