Anthony McGregor

Along with John’s cousin, Fast Eddie, we’ve nearly known the greats

President’s Commendation for Student Posters – EPS London 2025 We are pleased to announce the joint winners of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS London 2025 meeting are Artie Graham and Levi Kumle. Artie’s Research Study Poster is entitled …

We are pleased to announce the joint winners of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS London 2025 meeting are Artie Graham and Levi Kumle.

Congratulations to Artie and @levikumle.bsky.social!

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It does suck. We used to have the former and it was great. Now we have a helpdesk and rarely see someone to come and help do something.

We should just reply ‘regression to the mean’ whenever universities boast about their rankings

Patrick Haggard and co-authors have some nice results related to this. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Devastating news that Eleanor Maguire has passed away. She was my mentor for many years. She was a wonderfully thoughtful and kind person and a brilliant scientist. Her research inspired so many of us and her legacy of incredible discoveries will continue to inspire far into the future.
RIP Eleanor

One stimulus

That’s amazing! Your face is a picture. There’s probably a meme of you already.

I tried zotero and Mendeley but both seemed too hard to start from scratch. I use endnote. It’s fine. I can put all my pdfs there and read them and make notes. Making reference lists is easy

Universities do not exist to 'train', produce 'skills' or generate 'impact'. They exist to create new knowledge and teach about it. Any assertion to the contrary is in error, and is destroying everything it touches.

I hope he’s searching his name and finds this

Get you, Laurence Llewelyn-fucking-Bowen

Stick Mozart’s Requiem on drunk ….

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A very sad day for music and the arts in Newcastle. J.G.Windows has closed permanently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not a criticism of you - the literature understands ‘simple’ in this context. I think it needs a firmer pushback from associative learning field in general to get people to understand better

Yes, but what we mean by simple isn’t just S-R learning and behaviourism, and that’s the perception the associative learning suffers from. So a powerful mechanism ends up being ignored.

It’s always associative learning!

My only issue is the ‘simple’ bit, because associative learning produces really clever behaviours. People need to stop thinking it’s a simple mechanism.

⬆️ This is the answer.

Sorry, that should say all vertebrates are chordates

Oh yes! I think some things like hagfish are officially chordates but not vertebrates, but most vertebrates are chordates

Teleosts tend to lay eggs externally, but sharks retain them internally.

Admittedly it’s 30 years since my zoology degree, but my memory is that lampreys, sharks and rays (cartilaginous), and teleosts (bony), are all generally classed as fish, but obviously there are big differences between them. Swim bladders, scales, gill covers and skeletons all differ

Life is a continuum. Our classifications are artificial. It just depends what our definitions are

They’re cartilaginous fish, whereas things like cod and guppies are bony fish. Both are types of fish

You’ve got to drink through the tiredness. It’s the professorial way

Room to spread out. Are we off to the pub afterwards?