Mahmoud Elsherif

Application Form Senior Editor Clinical/Associate Editor Social Section Collabra: Psychology Starting from 1 July 2026, Collabra: Psychology is on the look-out for a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interest...

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"working class" to politicians and pundits is an aesthetic, characterized by rolled up sleeves and rugged manual labor

to the rest of us, it just means we can't afford to tell our abusive bosses to kick rocks, because we have lofty aspirations to maybe get our teeth fixed some time this year

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

A pioneer of autism research is asking us to rethink the diagnosis, only viewing as autistic those diagnosed in early childhood (usually before 3 or 5) with severe intellectual/language impairments. Everyone else with the label may be suffering from something else...
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Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.

Young offenders 'with DLD were more likely to have their behaviour interpreted as non-compliance.'
Which of course has serious implications for them!
This is why we need far greater awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
#DevLangDis

Well supported families = better outcomes for young people with DLD.
Join us next week for the award winning 'DLD Together' so you can empower families about DLD.
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Additional dyspraxia resources you need to know about Additional dyspraxia resources you need to know about Prefer to hear about this in video form? Check out this video I did on dyspraxia books and resources. Need help right now? · If you...

Some women-led resources and books on #dyspraxia and #neurodivergence that are worth checking out during and after #IWD26 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Salma Yaqoob @SalmaYaqoob Almost feel sorry for the haters who are trying to spin Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man is evidence of Islamist sectarianism In fact it's evidence of genuine tolerance, rejection of superficial identity politics and ability to prioritise tackling common concerns of cost of living, protecting public services and rejecting war mongering. And the promotion of mutual respect and individual freedoms. The coming together of people is terrifying for the ruling elites.

Totally this.

The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.

“When I began teaching, I joined UCU because the people in the union seemed cool – and because I quickly realised I needed to organise with my peers. If you’re feeling isolated or precarious at UoB, BUCU is where you’ll find your people.”

Betsy Porritt - BUCU Anti-casualisation officer
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New newspaper headline for your Intro to Causal Inference lecture just dropped

This whole thread is a very important insight as to why getting information from an LLM, even if you are dutiful and vigilant, corrodes your ability to ascertain what is true or not

** LLMs do not provide the info you need in order to evaluate truth. **

I agree with a lot of the criticism about how universities work these days and their marketing. But I find it funny that the loudest critics are often people who've never even been to one.

It's clear that unis have been yielding diminishing returns over the last 20 years, and that's probably going to get worse. But if you go around telling everyone that spending five years learning the bases of the knowledge in your field is a total waste of time, that really says something about you.

And people also kill babies sometimes! Why is it bad only when a machine does that?? A baby-murdering machine is so much more useful than a baby-murdering human!

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science

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Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.

This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.

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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

I keep telling anyone who will listen: the students in my classes are starving for knowledge, for big hard ideas, and for opportunities to actually think and challenge themselves harpers.org/archive/2026...

how much more food and years does he need because the first 20 didn't do it for him

Generating units of cultural analysis with large language models: methods and validation for scalable cross-cultural research Abstract. We present a transparent, human-in-the-loop framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to transform ethnographic texts into binary, structu

Paper 🚨 We found that LLMs can match or exceed human coders on theoretical variables assessing the form and function of ritual fasting. Guided by theory and ethical human oversight, LLMs can generate units of cultural analysis for cross‑cultural theoretical tests. #BioAnth doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

The Times has a leak of the White Paper & Labour’s terrible, damaging SEND plans. Children’s legal right to support will be reviewed by stricter criteria when they move to secondary school (+ worse) We’ll fight It. #SaveOurChildrensRights #AreYouWithUs bit.ly/4rpvmAv

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Ramadan Mubarak everyone

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

i don't know how to put this politely but stating that your work is approved/supported by companies like open ai, google and anthropic doesn't give you the credibility you think it does.

for me, this is a clear sign that i am not interested in engaging or working with you

Check out our preprint: "What Pilot Studies Can (and Cannot) Do for Validity in Psychological Research"

Great job @yashvin.bsky.social and @mbneff.bsky.social for leading!

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EPS 80th Anniversary Symposium – Call for Proposals To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium that reflects on the current state of experimental psychology and its fu…

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory.

Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!

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Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

The fact that Bannon coordinated the global far-right in 2010s with Cambridge-Analytica has been known for years. The role Epstein, Mandelson, Wolff and many other politicians, ceos, and journalists is what's we're learning from the Epstein files. Don't forget to write to your MP about it today.

An Effective Altruist writing about AI should be taken as seriously as a Scientologist writing about L Ron Hubbard webworm.co/newgods

Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson pictured with women in Epstein’s house: Report Watson's controversial claims linking race and intelligence caused him to be isolated from the scientific community, with his honorary titles revoked in 2019 - Anadolu Ajansı

Watson and Crick steal ideas of Rosalind Franklin. Claim discovery of DNA. Win (ig)Nobel prize.

Watson, now pictured with women in Epstein’s house

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Oh a last point is judging a study by sample size without evaluating sample quality (or sampling process) is basically saying "oh we just want more of that, regardless of what *that* is even if it is garbage." Power doesn't magically turn any input into evidence.