Mark Haselgrove
@markhaselgrove.bsky.social
Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Interested in associative learning, and its application to all manner of stuff. Not really interested in brains. He/him.
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=fObPQPsAAAAJ&hl=en
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=fObPQPsAAAAJ&hl=en
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New paper 😀
"Mechanisms underlying the accuracy of stimulus representations: Within-event learning and outcome mediation."
By Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and Me
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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"Mechanisms underlying the accuracy of stimulus representations: Within-event learning and outcome mediation."
By Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and Me
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
1/7
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Icy cold, but beautiful blue skies as we walked through Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire today...
February 14, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Icy cold, but beautiful blue skies as we walked through Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire today...
Icy cold, but beautiful blue skies as we walked through Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire today...
February 14, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Icy cold, but beautiful blue skies as we walked through Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire today...
It is quite the peculiarity that, as far as I can tell, all the winter olympic sports are variations on sliding.
No ice climbing, igloo building, snowball fights, snow shovelling, ice block lifting.
No ice climbing, igloo building, snowball fights, snow shovelling, ice block lifting.
February 13, 2026 at 1:13 PM
It is quite the peculiarity that, as far as I can tell, all the winter olympic sports are variations on sliding.
No ice climbing, igloo building, snowball fights, snow shovelling, ice block lifting.
No ice climbing, igloo building, snowball fights, snow shovelling, ice block lifting.
Reposted by Mark Haselgrove
Only one week left to apply for this ESRC PhD studentship with me and @alexhendry.bsky.social. If you are interested in how to improve executive functions through caregiver-child play interactions in neurotypical and neurodiverse families, consider applying!
Two weeks till the deadline for this fully funded ESRC DTP studentship with me and @alexhendry.bsky.social looking at play interactions and executive functions in neurotypical and neurodiverse families. Please share!
Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts-psych.bsky.social and @alexhendry.bsky.social on play interactions to improve executive functions. Application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely with interested students!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/e...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/e...
February 11, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Only one week left to apply for this ESRC PhD studentship with me and @alexhendry.bsky.social. If you are interested in how to improve executive functions through caregiver-child play interactions in neurotypical and neurodiverse families, consider applying!
A very nice resource to have - Particularly happy to see it confirmed that my recent experiments on latent inhibition (and its reversal) cause a significant headache for Pearce-Hall and Hybrid models.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
New preprint and simulator of associative learning attentional models. Have fun! 👁️
arxiv.org/abs/2602.07519
cal-r.org/index.php?id...
#simulation #associative_learning #attention
arxiv.org/abs/2602.07519
cal-r.org/index.php?id...
#simulation #associative_learning #attention
PALMS: Pavlovian Associative Learning Models Simulator
Simulations are an indispensable step in the cycle of theory development and refinement, helping researchers formulate precise definitions, generate models, and make accurate predictions. This paper i...
arxiv.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:22 PM
A very nice resource to have - Particularly happy to see it confirmed that my recent experiments on latent inhibition (and its reversal) cause a significant headache for Pearce-Hall and Hybrid models.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
Not sure about the bloody gravestone ChatGpt!
February 8, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Not sure about the bloody gravestone ChatGpt!
Time to watch Wales' annual game when they actually play rugby.
February 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Time to watch Wales' annual game when they actually play rugby.
So, I have been asked (cold emailed) to evaluate the novelty of (at least) one paper that overlaps with one of my own.
It's part of something called the meta science unit...
noveltyindicators.challenges.org
Has anyone else been part of this? I'm struggling to find any reason why I should do this.
It's part of something called the meta science unit...
noveltyindicators.challenges.org
Has anyone else been part of this? I'm struggling to find any reason why I should do this.
February 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
So, I have been asked (cold emailed) to evaluate the novelty of (at least) one paper that overlaps with one of my own.
It's part of something called the meta science unit...
noveltyindicators.challenges.org
Has anyone else been part of this? I'm struggling to find any reason why I should do this.
It's part of something called the meta science unit...
noveltyindicators.challenges.org
Has anyone else been part of this? I'm struggling to find any reason why I should do this.
February 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Trouble is, just like people slow down to see a road trafic incident, when something is famed for being objectively this bad, then people *will* go to see it. Lining the orange-faced grifter's pockets even more.
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Trouble is, just like people slow down to see a road trafic incident, when something is famed for being objectively this bad, then people *will* go to see it. Lining the orange-faced grifter's pockets even more.
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As someone with an interest in 1) ways of enhancing extinction learning to attenuate recovery and 2) assessing the evidence for memory erasure, I read this preprint from the Namboodiri lab with attention. Here are a few thoughts on the preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...
doi.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
As someone with an interest in 1) ways of enhancing extinction learning to attenuate recovery and 2) assessing the evidence for memory erasure, I read this preprint from the Namboodiri lab with attention. Here are a few thoughts on the preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...
Who got The University of Nottingham in the Top Trumps vanity-project-failure card set?
Castle meadow campus purchased for £37.5M, £40M spent in refurbishment.
Estimated sale value ... £14.5M. Maybe £18M with a bit of luck.
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Castle meadow campus purchased for £37.5M, £40M spent in refurbishment.
Estimated sale value ... £14.5M. Maybe £18M with a bit of luck.
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
University's disastrous new campus could be sold for just £14m
It was previously decided to sell the short-lived campus
www.nottinghampost.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Who got The University of Nottingham in the Top Trumps vanity-project-failure card set?
Castle meadow campus purchased for £37.5M, £40M spent in refurbishment.
Estimated sale value ... £14.5M. Maybe £18M with a bit of luck.
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Castle meadow campus purchased for £37.5M, £40M spent in refurbishment.
Estimated sale value ... £14.5M. Maybe £18M with a bit of luck.
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk
More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci #neuroskyence
More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci #neuroskyence
PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk
More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci #neuroskyence
More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci #neuroskyence
Busy at the swimming pool today due to a large aqua-aerobics class. Swim lanes running well though ... until a chap uses the fast lane to walk down the middle with outstretched splashing hands.
And then stops, mid pool, to do a handstand.
And then stops, mid pool, to do a handstand.
February 1, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Busy at the swimming pool today due to a large aqua-aerobics class. Swim lanes running well though ... until a chap uses the fast lane to walk down the middle with outstretched splashing hands.
And then stops, mid pool, to do a handstand.
And then stops, mid pool, to do a handstand.
At some point in history somebody decided that stairs just weren't dangerous enough and therefore invented footwear that does not wrap around the heel.
Crocs, many designs of slippers, and flipflops - you can all do one.
Crocs, many designs of slippers, and flipflops - you can all do one.
February 1, 2026 at 9:04 AM
At some point in history somebody decided that stairs just weren't dangerous enough and therefore invented footwear that does not wrap around the heel.
Crocs, many designs of slippers, and flipflops - you can all do one.
Crocs, many designs of slippers, and flipflops - you can all do one.
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Re-amplifying great work I somehow missed—nicely showing what many of us suspected (and then some). #TeamRL 🔥
New paper in QJEP with Dave George, Dom Dwyer and @markhaselgrove.bsky.social. We discuss a recent claim to have shown complex statistical reasoning in crows, and show the simplest S-R learning would give the same behaviour. A fun paper to write with old friends.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning - David N George, Dominic M Dwyer, Mark Haselgrove, Mike E Le Pelley, 2024
Johnston et al. report results which they argue demonstrate that crows engage in statistical inference during decision-making. They trained two crows to associa...
journals.sagepub.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Re-amplifying great work I somehow missed—nicely showing what many of us suspected (and then some). #TeamRL 🔥
Amazon media devices and streaming platforms are the worst of the lot.
I will die on this hill.
I will die on this hill.
January 31, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Amazon media devices and streaming platforms are the worst of the lot.
I will die on this hill.
I will die on this hill.
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What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 29, 2026 at 8:29 AM
What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Mark Haselgrove
Three weeks until the deadline for the fully funded ESRC DTP position with me @notts-psych.bsky.social and @alexhendry.bsky.social. Please share with colleagues and interested students.
Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts-psych.bsky.social and @alexhendry.bsky.social on play interactions to improve executive functions. Application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely with interested students!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/e...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/e...
ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: Adopting a Research-Informed Approach to Develop Play Interactions to Improve Executive Functions in Neurotypical and Neurodiverse Families. at Midlands Graduate ...
Find a ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: Adopting a Research-Informed Approach to Develop Play Interactions to Improve Executive Functions in Neurotypical and Neurodiverse Families. on jobs.ac.uk,...
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Three weeks until the deadline for the fully funded ESRC DTP position with me @notts-psych.bsky.social and @alexhendry.bsky.social. Please share with colleagues and interested students.
Reposted by Mark Haselgrove
Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1
January 21, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
EEG, TMS and medial nerve stimulation.
I have all the electrodes
I have all the electrodes
January 20, 2026 at 4:32 PM
EEG, TMS and medial nerve stimulation.
I have all the electrodes
I have all the electrodes
LOL.
100% a Current Biology paper
100% a Current Biology paper
I saw this headline and was like "sounds like a curr bio paper lol" and ...... it is in fact published in current biology
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
January 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
LOL.
100% a Current Biology paper
100% a Current Biology paper
Listening to a local radio station, during which the DJ admitted to secretly being a bigger fan of Wings than The Beatles.
Beyond Alan Partridge, I didn't actually believe that these people existed.
Every day is a school day.
Beyond Alan Partridge, I didn't actually believe that these people existed.
Every day is a school day.
January 17, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Listening to a local radio station, during which the DJ admitted to secretly being a bigger fan of Wings than The Beatles.
Beyond Alan Partridge, I didn't actually believe that these people existed.
Every day is a school day.
Beyond Alan Partridge, I didn't actually believe that these people existed.
Every day is a school day.
I am trapped in a house with occupants who think The Traitors is worthwhile foveating for protracted periods of time.
Am establishing an escape committee.
Am establishing an escape committee.
The three main reasons I cannot tolerate watching #traitors are:
(1) It stretches about 20 min worth of content to 60 min. So tiresome
(2) It seems to attract the same kind of utter arseholes as contestants that were on the apprentice. I couldn't tolerate that either
(3) The fringe is so stresful
(1) It stretches about 20 min worth of content to 60 min. So tiresome
(2) It seems to attract the same kind of utter arseholes as contestants that were on the apprentice. I couldn't tolerate that either
(3) The fringe is so stresful
January 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am trapped in a house with occupants who think The Traitors is worthwhile foveating for protracted periods of time.
Am establishing an escape committee.
Am establishing an escape committee.