Steve Most

PSA: With recent spikes in the news, I decided to get tested for my immunity to measles. Results came back saying I had none. If you got your vaccination back in the 1970s like me, you might want to check too.

YouTube video by Steve Most Change How You Study: Secrets from Cognitive Science

For families like ours — who have a kid moving into middle school / high school — thought I’d reshare these science-backed tips on how to study and learn more effectively. Good luck, everyone!
#EduSky #PsychSciSky #scicomm

YouTube video by City of Sydney Sydney New Year's Eve 2025 midnight fireworks – the official full-length video

I wonder if any alien civilizations out there celebrate another revolution around their sun like this. Sydney really does do New Year's Eve spectacularly. Happy New Year!

Things aren’t always black and white. These horses are identically bright.

Turning knowledge into influence: the case for outreach Outreach is often framed as something “extra”, a nice addition to an academic career, but not the core of it. Yet for many researchers, sharing their work beyond the university is one of the most valu...

Academics who love doing public outreach and #scicom don't always get this level of support from their universities. That's a shame because the more we share knowledge and passion, the more it encourages investment in what we do. Thanks to #UNSW for investing energy and time in this profile!

Breaking: PM announces 'largest' gun buyback scheme since Howard era Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national gun buyback scheme, days after a deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration.

Within a week of the tragic and terrorist events that targeted the Jewish community here in Sydney, the Australian Prime Minister has announced a gun buy-back scheme to get guns off our streets.

This is just one action item, there are more in the works (like license regulations, max caps, etc.)

Super figure-ground confusion here!

Compare this to the United States, where the 1st graders shot at Sandy Hook in 2012 could have been students at Brown shot 13 years later, and where we have done nothing.

It's not impossible to make gun violence rare.
We just keep choosing not to try.

Who needs brain training apps when, for free, I can just never use reference management software?

YouTube video by Rai Adriano Celentano canta "Prisencolinensinainciusol" da "Formula due" del 1973

Picture this: You're teaching a cognitive psychology class and decide to show this clip of the 1972 hit song, 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘶𝘴𝘰𝘭.

What's the topic of the day, and what point are you illustrating with this song?

𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘦's idealization of 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦's energy and competence is a problem. Because 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘦 is 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦 to 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦, and AUGHH, 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦 has left 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘦 a sh%t ton to do.

**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Fantastic day for a lab hike!

From Spit Bridge to Manly Beach, featuring all stages of the lab life cycle: 1st year undergrad -> honours thesis student -> PhD scholar -> visiting international student -> old professor.

#LabLife #UNSW #Sydney #Australia

Why yes, I did just try to reverse pinch the back of a cake mix box in order to increase the font size of the directions.

I have refined
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge

And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation

Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death

These clips are great

YouTube video by UNSW eLearning Building Community with 3 minute Q and A - Steven Most

UNSW maintains a 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘜𝘴𝘦 repository where teachers share 2-minute videos describing something they've tried that seems to work.

Here's my contribution this year: a little something to help build interpersonal connection even in large lectures.
#EduSky

Schools Are Accommodating Student Anxiety — and Making It Worse Removing stressors robs students of growth opportunities, writes TC's Ben Lovett and his co-author Alex Jordan

Food for thought: "Students are more capable than their anxiety tells them they are."

It is our great honour to announce the APCV Keynote at #epc-apcv-2026: Prof. Hakwan Lau from the Institute for Basic Science in Korea!
The call for member-initiated symposia & abstracts is now open: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026

#psychscisky #visionscience #neuroskyence

To clarify, that was not a remark of enthusiasm. This is an irresponsible and terrible idea.

YouTube video by OTTOCAST Ottocast | New Plav2Video Ultra! Wireless CarPlay & Android auto with pre-installed apps. #carplay

Seriously???!!!

If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

Eek! Let’s not mention this if I ever apply to work for Sydney Tourism… 😬

Ha! In fairness, I live in one of the outlying, bushy suburbs of the city, and this is the second one I've seen in my 13 years here. 😀

Funnel web spiders

One of the world’s most dangerous spiders: the Sydney funnel-web! This large one seems bereft of life. Otherwise, the done thing is to scoop it into a container and bring it where its fangs can be milked to create antivenom.

Love this.

But maybe,
like islands,
we are connected underneath,
more deeply than we care to look

Bad news, folks. I just discovered something 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗴. Notice a common pattern among these (and other) supposed giants of literature?

My gawd. Look at the em-dashes.

They all used ChatGPT!

The world seems even larger when family is on the other side of the globe. But every now and then, something makes the distance feel smaller — like when a class assignment led my niece to ask me for a letter of life advice.

Heck, I even got to build on my childhood love of the computer game #Zork.

YouTube video by New Order New Order - True Faith (1987) (Official Music Video) [HD REMASTERED]

I like to start and end my lectures with music to set the energy level — often selections that students aren't like to have heard. This week's was an oldie but a goodie, and I can't get it out of my head. Enjoy!

Edible fractals!