Polly Dalton

The wonder of Voyager: This is the most beautiful thread I’ve read in a long time.

Essential reading for all UK academics (and almost certainly applies elsewhere too) - thank you @masudhusain.bsky.social for articulating so clearly the risks that are posed to our core research and education work by this direction of travel

Wow interesting, thanks

Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

The bendiness does not change

THE BENDINESS DOES NOT CHANGE!!

Behold, the curvature blindness illusion

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree.
Ate it.

Me (Polly Dalton) talking at a lectern next to a slide entitled “the balance of attentional control”. Some audience members are visible in the foreground.

Just back from a fascinating day discussing #humanfactors in accident investigations with the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Academy of Forensic Sciences - interesting to see key cognitive factors like distraction and vigilance decrements coming up so frequently @roysocmed.bsky.social

Absolutely stunning white bird with brown/black markings. In the background is a wide grey plastic sheet that's streaked with brown.

Whew! Popping back here briefly to discuss a very eventful few days.

On Sat, a SNOW BUNTING appears at Hayward Regional. 😱 The bird is stunning & super-rare in the East Bay. Many birders go to see it. It's living its best life on a white/brown plastic culvert that it maybe thinks is snow? 1/

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Full-time, Permanent)Applications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 12 August 2025. The post is open to ambitious, res...

Hello, Bluesky community!
We're thrilled to make our first post and what better way to debut than by announcing exciting news?

We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (full-time, research & teaching), starting 12 August 2025!

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Photograph of book page which contains a short poem by Raymond Carver which reads 'And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.'

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.

Absolutely this 👇.
One of the best explanations about this describes how 'nice culture' can be as harmful as 'nasty culture'- and much harder to call out because it casts the dissenting person as 'not nice'. But 'nice culture' stifles cognitive diversity.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Looks like nobody has made a Cognitive Psychology starter pack yet, so I made one!

Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome.
go.bsky.app/NsFhnV

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsych

Do you ever get the feeling the world’s gone crazy? With this in mind, I play the Flintstones theme in the style of the Russian classics.

Beautiful crow against a black background

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)

Career Development Research Fellowships 2025 Career Development Research Fellowships for full-time research offered by St John’s College to early career researchers who have recently completed or are close to completion of a doctorate (and will ...

Are you a psychologist or neuroscientist who completed your PhD after 1st October 2022, or about to submit your thesis? Consider applying for the **4-year Career Research Development Fellowship** at St John's College, Oxford. Please share! #psychscisky #neuroskyence www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

What better way to celebrate this holiday season than to apply for a CHAIR IN MENTAL HEALTH (or to forward the ad to someone who would)? 🎄🎄🎄 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/chai...

🔔New Postdoc Position 🔔

Do you love computational modelling and mental health?

We're recruiting a postdoc on a
Wellcome Trust-funded project to lead the development of a new open-source platform: Hypatia.

w/ @alexandrapike.bsky.social, Lei Zhang and Catia Oliveira

Read on 👇👇👇

3x Lecturer/Senior Lecturer jobs in Psychology at Leeds Beckett (please share!)

Post 1 (Health Psychology) - tinyurl.com/3kpvwfur
Post 2 (Occupational Psychology/ Human factors) - tinyurl.com/42mamx7c
Post 3 (Open)- tinyurl.com/5fz8t3rz

Come join us, we're nice!

**POSTDOC KLAXON**
We are have *FOUR* postdoc positions. Come and work with myself, @danakarca.bsky.social , Petra Vertes and a host of great scientists. We'll be working on computational models of network formation, learning how early environments shape development.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/

Very excited that StoryFutures at Royal Holloway has partnered with Uni of Surrey’s Institute for People-Centred AI to create a new doctoral training centre focused on AI for Digital Media Inclusion. We will have PhD opportunities coming soon! More details here:
www.surrey.ac.uk/news/ukri-ce...