Matthew Rodger

“The one weird trick no one knows about”

I think you're probably right that there isn't a single term in movement science that's used in the way you're getting at, even though I suspect that many would share the intuition that there should be someting to describe the experience of 'moving well'. Look forward to seeing what you come up with

Kinaesthesia is the word for the sense of movement (as opposed to proprioception as the sense of relative joint positions), but it probably doesn't have the conotations you're after.

I think Maxine Sheets-Johnstone has written quite a bit about the aesthetic and emotional experience of movement

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So, who's still left in the Tory party now?

Completely! Can't tell you how many times I've been nervously swiping about on a slightly raised stage with some other doofuses, only to look at Gwendolin dancing her socks off and feel reassured that we were on the right track. If you're in the 'Fast next Friday, come celebrate her with us!

GWENDOLINS 60th Birthday Party Friday, January 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM

A scene is made up of so many parts, some of which doń´t get the credit they deserve. The DIY-alt-punk community of Belfast has been supercharged over the years by the inimitable Gwendolin Patterson. Come help us celebrate her and her 60th birthday next Friday - www.facebook.com/events_invit...

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

The Replacements' Tim (Let it be edition)

Festivalgoers are worried about Beck after the singer repeatedly calls himself a loser in rambling performance

All statistical models are wrong, but some are stupid

Oh man! Reeling from this news!

I was lucky to have Dave as my degree project supervisor, and enjoyed so many chats with him subsequently. His lectures on Bernstein and Gibson got me into the science I still do today. His gleeful curiosity about a prismatic range of topics was so infectious.

RIP

Wow, interesting! Sounds like a good discussion despite the mean photoshopping 😃

Ouch, poor Will! 😅 What's the Yes/No debate that's got everybody name-calling like this?

Is that Will on that rock?!? What is going on?!!

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RIP Brian Wilson. For all his faults and troubles, he gifted the world an immeasurable treasure chest of harmonious gems. I am grateful to continue enjoying a life soundtracked by these jewels, especially during my formative teens. How deep is the ocean? youtu.be/X76ejh4EIV4?...

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youtu.be/wXFxWDaxj54?... I was thinking of this

Archie Bell and also the Drells

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

That's a beauty! I remember a department seminar consisting entirely of consecutive slides about reciprocal 'short report' rebuttals in some cog sci journal. A boring airing of griveances about whether left thumb pressure reduces liberal views or whatever, inflating the h-index of both parties by 8

Well spotted Andrew! 😀

This paper describes our first stab at using principles of motor abundance as the basis for designing augmented feedback (movement sonification) for skill learning

Any comments/suggestions, particulalry about where to go next with this approach, are very welcome!

Affordances Constrain Motor Abundance: A Hypothesis and A Research Programme osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is a new preprint by me, where I have written down my affordance based approach to UCM and similar methods for the first time in one place. Feedback very much appreciated!

Tired of calls for unlocking AI's full potential. Time to unlock the full potential of investing in public health and public education so nurses and teachers are no longer underpaid and overworked.

PhD opportunity: I'm recruiting a PhD student in digital musical instrument design at Imperial College London. Applications now, start date in the autumn. Funding is limited to UK home students. More topic details to follow. Interested? Email me with a CV! andrew.mcpherson@imperial.ac.uk

Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

Great presentation by @adw.bsky.social today on movement, skill, synergies, affordances and the uncontrolled manifold! Excellent to hear about his work and current thinking on these topics!

Looking forward to this!!

Just arrived on Blue Sky, and at first glance it really reminds me of the good old days at the other place. Looking forward to the info and chats to come, but in the meantime, I'll recommend the recent @cravenfaults.bsky.social LP as a mesmerising escape from a hard day