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Using computers to better understand people. Social psychologist. Bristol to Singapore via Oxford and UNC.

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Gender-affirming policymaking

25.11.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely has a Hegelian ring to it. What is the self but a dauerbaustelle?

19.11.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Five and seven are also available

19.11.2025 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You don't have to embarrass our guest. It's not like he's Zelenskyy.

19.11.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh really? I'm quite enjoying all the usual roles getting shaken up

19.11.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Suspicious foreign-sounding names like "Saxe-Coburg" and "Farage", for example

18.11.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just going to leave this here

bsky.app/profile/joes...

18.11.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They should stick to travelling via large green pipes, as is tradition

18.11.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeted < yeeted < yeeeted

18.11.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(p < .05)

18.11.2025 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once you go idiographic you never go bathic

18.11.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The War on The

18.11.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Once I ran to you.
Now I run from you.
This demonstrates the dangers of extrapolating past observations into the future"

18.11.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The set of properties ascribable to both you (denoted p) and a summers day (denoted s) is non-empty"

18.11.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is what happens when analytic philosophers try and write lyrics

18.11.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

H. P. Lovecraft: "Huge and inhuman, you say? Might they also be coldly indifferent?"

19.10.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Psychologists when n > 10k

17.11.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Primals Project The Primals Project The Primals Project, based at the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center, promotes empirical research on the origins and psychological impact of primal wo…

One of Jer Clifton's findings (as part of the Primal World Beliefs project) is that conservate political leanings are far more associated with seeing the world as hierarchical than as seeing it as threatening / dangerous

myprimals.com/primalsproje...

16.11.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, but I think there is also a version of that drive-to-transgression which is much more orientated towards solidarity and attenuation of hierarchical relationships

16.11.2025 07:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol my first connection was "Huh. Birthday greetings seem a little off-brand for Denver's leading doom metal outfit. And what's that photo got to do with it?"

15.11.2025 08:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And you definitely shouldn't trust them if they switch to using a marker. The plot has thickened.

15.11.2025 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Starmers of Silence

13.11.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone came up with the idea at Barrelfest 1239CE, to help manage the crowd of 20,000 guys called Cooper

13.11.2025 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Guilds. Given surnames were derived from professions, labour organizing was really hard without personal names.

13.11.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know about fanfics but my bet is that he mains Rebel Grots

12.11.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Never Mind the Pollock

12.11.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know why you are making such heavy weather of this, Julia:

"Please imagine the following scenario. Take a moment to concretely visualize what it would be like if this were the case:

[Cond 1] You are able to speak and read two languages

[Cond 2] You are able to speak and read one language"

11.11.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Age of Sigmar taking quite a turn in the latest edition

11.11.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

10.11.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2507    πŸ” 855    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 48

"Poot poot" mumbled Mr Toad, accumulating yet another point of Stress

10.11.2025 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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