Matt Goodwin has been sent back to Substack. The Conservatives have lost their deposit. Keir Starmer has been told left wing voters are not a guarantee for Labour. Overall, British politics could do worse than follow Gorton and Denton.
Would dedicated mental focus prevent us noticing an outrageous visual anomaly, even if we what we focused on wasn't strictly visual? Probably.
My student Malte Bieler and I followed this up a while later, asking participants to try to detect changes to displays of just 2-4 colored shapes while doing a quick tone judging task. Same outcome: even trying to remember a little bit of visual detail was impaired.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
We asked participants to remember lists of 2-7 digits while trying to detect changes to patterns of colored squares. Trying to remember a 7-digit list (as opposed to just reciting a known 7-digit phone number) impaired change detection a lot.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Q&A after Dan Simon's @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social One World Seminar- Must attention capture be visual to miss the gorilla? I doubt it. Dan mentioned research about verbal memory impairing visual change detection. Sounds like my first work with @ncowan51.bsky.social! References in the thread🤓:
Exciting that Simons showcased Ding et al’s @jcgntn.bsky.social paper showing theoretically interesting null effects of familiarity on inattentional blindness in his @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social OneWorld seminar. Some null effects matter! Paper here: journalofcognition.org/articles/10....
Cardiff UCU Casework co-ordinator David Wood and I posing with a table full of Union propaganda and cheap plastic tat. Still love our Union’s hot pink colour scheme. Gotta say.
Attended a Cardiff Uni “wellbeing” event for @cardiffucu.bsky.social today.
Argued that the best way to improve staff wellbeing is to save jobs, improve pay & conditions, join a union, and become an active member.
Recruited well, had lots of great conversations, & actually listened to colleagues.
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I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.
Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you
Poor political decisions, a broken funding model, managerial leadership, and metric‑driven governance, which together are transforming the sector into something barely recognisable as a public university system by Constantinos Alexiou and George Saridakis
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
AI does not magically infuse knowledge into people.
"We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand"
I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
Utterly wild behaviour from management.
Cutting hard earned pensions based on ‘vibes’ is as terrifying as it is absurd.
are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion?
Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"
www.tiktok.com/@birdsofoz/v...
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
Call each other out, even if someone tells you it's not polite or respectful.
Dear sir Keir, wishing you a very hopey Christmas. I wanted to wish you good luck with your relaunch in January. I heard you want to focus on three things. So here's my advice. Tax billionaires, cut bills, stop scapegoating migrants. Zack.
Dear Wes, wishing you a very hopey Christmas. When you're not measuring the curtains in downing street, our hopes for you are that you can finally reduce NHS waiting lists in 2026 and stop taking donations from private healthcare. Peace and love, Zack.
Dear Yvette, Christmas should surely be a time to think about peace - and the governments role in prosecuting those calling for it. Peace and love, Zack.
🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there.
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
Right let's breakdown this new poll for Wales because there is a lot going on below the headline figures.
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in the pit
This entire weekend
Pies on cooling rack dusted with sugar
Festive mince of currant, hotdogs, apple, candied orange peel in a white baking dish
Smells like Christmas!
“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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