greg_j_davis
@gregorydavis.bsky.social
‘Never knowingly Reviewer 2’
https://www.viscog.psychol.cam.ac.uk/
Attention, Visual Cognition, Social Cognition, Security Screening, Decision-making
Uni of Cambridge, DfT College of Experts
Consciousness Myster ̶i̶a̶n̶on
ATLAS Task: https://rdcu.be/dU4sr
https://www.viscog.psychol.cam.ac.uk/
Attention, Visual Cognition, Social Cognition, Security Screening, Decision-making
Uni of Cambridge, DfT College of Experts
Consciousness Myster ̶i̶a̶n̶on
ATLAS Task: https://rdcu.be/dU4sr
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As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
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Reviewer 2, seeing my paper!
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reviewer 2, seeing my paper!
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Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […]
[Original post on social.vivaldi.net]
[Original post on social.vivaldi.net]
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […]
[Original post on social.vivaldi.net]
[Original post on social.vivaldi.net]
It is a lovely place to be fair...
And friendly too.
And friendly too.
From the spires to the River Cam, beautiful #Cambridge glows in the autumn light 🍂
For everyone who studies, works, visits or lives here, this is your Cambridge from above.
For everyone who studies, works, visits or lives here, this is your Cambridge from above.
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It is a lovely place to be fair...
And friendly too.
And friendly too.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
👏👏 brilliant common sense
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
👏👏 brilliant common sense
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Occasionally, a great pity we're not allowed to say:
'No reading before the class please'
'No reading before the class please'
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Occasionally, a great pity we're not allowed to say:
'No reading before the class please'
'No reading before the class please'
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Job Klaxon!
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), within the Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH), is seeking a full-time Research Assistant to contribute to an ongoing two-year
www.cam.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Job Klaxon!
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
It’s just stopped being October.
John Lewis ad kickstarts Christmas countdown to the tune of 90s club classic
John Lewis ad kickstarts Christmas countdown to the tune of 90s club classic
Department store chain banks on nostalgia to get customers into festive mood with Where Love Lives
John Lewis is hoping that a dash of nostalgia will get consumers into the festive mood this year as it officially kickstarts the countdown to Christmas with the launch of its 2025 advert to the tune of the 1990s club classic Where Love Lives.
The department store chain is appealing to ageing clubbers – and their teenage kids – with this year’s ad focused on a middle-aged dad transported back to his clubbing days after receiving a vinyl record from his son. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It’s just stopped being October.
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Counter-terror police investigate claim UK university halted research after Chinese pressure
Counter-terror police investigate claim UK university halted research after Chinese pressure
Sheffield Hallam University ordered professor to cease human rights study into Uyghurs forced labour in China
An investigation into allegations that a British university was subjected to pressure from Beijing authorities to halt research about human rights abuses in China has been referred to counter-terrorism police.
The Guardian reported on Monday morning that Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC) research institution, had ordered professor Laura Murphy to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in the country in February. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Counter-terror police investigate claim UK university halted research after Chinese pressure
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Scientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ into a person.
The procedure — the first of its kind — could improve access to donor organs, specialists say, because the blood type of the donor would no longer matter.
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The procedure — the first of its kind — could improve access to donor organs, specialists say, because the blood type of the donor would no longer matter.
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
First human transplant of kidney modified to have ‘universal’ blood type
Recipient diagnosed with brain death received a type-O organ, which is compatible with all blood types.
www.nature.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Scientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ into a person.
The procedure — the first of its kind — could improve access to donor organs, specialists say, because the blood type of the donor would no longer matter.
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The procedure — the first of its kind — could improve access to donor organs, specialists say, because the blood type of the donor would no longer matter.
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here
Humanoid robot:
Humanoid robot:
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here
Humanoid robot:
Humanoid robot:
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‘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.’ x.com/anitaleirfal... #AI #criticalthinking #philosophysky #philsky
Anita Leirfall on X: "‘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.’ https://t.co/C0NlvIS00Z #AI #academia #criticalthinking" / X
‘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.’ https://t.co/C0NlvIS00Z #AI #academia #criticalthinking
x.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
‘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.’ x.com/anitaleirfal... #AI #criticalthinking #philosophysky #philsky
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Another #VisionScience demo for your Halloween over at my teaching website. This time, a very basic version of the Gelb Staircase. This one has a reputation for being tricky, but I've found it to be pretty successful.
Vision Demos: Gelb Staircase
Vision Demos: Gelb Staircase Things you will need: Paper in a range of grayscale values, ideally spanning black to white. Lots of art vendors will have these, but it’s useful to have a heavier weigh...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Another #VisionScience demo for your Halloween over at my teaching website. This time, a very basic version of the Gelb Staircase. This one has a reputation for being tricky, but I've found it to be pretty successful.
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New paper finds that selective reporting remains the most replicable finding in science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... I especially like their new exploratory metric 'p-values per participant'. Some papers had 11 p-values per participant! 🤯
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October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
New paper finds that selective reporting remains the most replicable finding in science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... I especially like their new exploratory metric 'p-values per participant'. Some papers had 11 p-values per participant! 🤯
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Any journal article title incl "?" or "may"
can be answered with "We still don't know".
Also "Panel Discussion" or "Consciousness"
can be answered with "We still don't know".
Also "Panel Discussion" or "Consciousness"
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Any journal article title incl "?" or "may"
can be answered with "We still don't know".
Also "Panel Discussion" or "Consciousness"
can be answered with "We still don't know".
Also "Panel Discussion" or "Consciousness"
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40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images
Red flags during a literature review led to the discovery of over 200 papers on animal models of stroke with duplicated images, which is likely an underestimate.
www.the-scientist.com/40-percent-o...
Red flags during a literature review led to the discovery of over 200 papers on animal models of stroke with duplicated images, which is likely an underestimate.
www.the-scientist.com/40-percent-o...
40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images
Red flags during a literature review led to the discovery of over 200 papers on animal models of stroke with duplicated images, which is likely an underestimate.
www.the-scientist.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images
Red flags during a literature review led to the discovery of over 200 papers on animal models of stroke with duplicated images, which is likely an underestimate.
www.the-scientist.com/40-percent-o...
Red flags during a literature review led to the discovery of over 200 papers on animal models of stroke with duplicated images, which is likely an underestimate.
www.the-scientist.com/40-percent-o...
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“To leave our students to their own devices—which is to say, to the devices of #AI companies—is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought.” #HigherEducation #academia www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“To leave our students to their own devices—which is to say, to the devices of #AI companies—is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought.” #HigherEducation #academia www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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" If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
October 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
" If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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Another nice example of centre and left votes lining up behind the best candidate to beat Reform.
Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Another nice example of centre and left votes lining up behind the best candidate to beat Reform.
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“Bonferonni correction”, an invaluable method in #statistics, refers to the act of repeatedly correcting misspellings of the word Bonferroni at multiple places in a draft manuscript.
#science #academia
#science #academia
November 11, 2024 at 2:52 PM
“Bonferonni correction”, an invaluable method in #statistics, refers to the act of repeatedly correcting misspellings of the word Bonferroni at multiple places in a draft manuscript.
#science #academia
#science #academia
When studies report:
Nation X is happer than Nation Y..
they're not solely referring to 'happiness' ratings
surely?
Nation X is happer than Nation Y..
they're not solely referring to 'happiness' ratings
surely?
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
When studies report:
Nation X is happer than Nation Y..
they're not solely referring to 'happiness' ratings
surely?
Nation X is happer than Nation Y..
they're not solely referring to 'happiness' ratings
surely?