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Simon Blackwell
@blackwellse.bsky.social
Post-doctoral researcher in clinical psychology at the University of Göttingen, focussing on positive mental imagery and translational research methods. All tweets are in a personal capacity. He/him.

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Making a Christmas pudding (late, I know) using my grandmother's recipe, which calls for 1/8 th pint of stout. This year I used a stout brewed using cake; if I can use some of this pudding to make a next stout, potential is there for setting up an infinite stout-pudding loop...
November 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Playing Talisman on holiday, our younger daughter has decided that the Philosopher is the best character; I hope she will not be disappointed when she meets one in real life.
October 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Follow-up: Googling "Eierlöffel" eventually led me to the following:
October 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Just in case you needed any more examples of AI giving false information: I asked Google why German people* eat boiled eggs with a plastic spoon, and the AI answer flat-out denied this fact:
October 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Weendebräu: Brewed with fresh hops from the garden and water drawn directly from the river Weende, for that (very) local flavour
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Venus and Jupiter hanging on in there as the sky brightens this morning
September 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
And the poster prize! #EABCT2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
And BABCP's own Joshua Buckmann winning the EABCT 2025 Scientist Practitioner Early Career Award! #EABCT2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Kate Davidson receiving the EABCT lifetime contribution award - very well deserved! #EABCT2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Arnold van Emmerik starting the closing ceremony for #EABCT2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Dixon Chibanda starting to explain the friendship bench project in his keynote at #EABCT2025
September 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Looking forward to Lars Klintwall's EABCT Early Career Award keynote #EABCT2025
September 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Absolutely packed room for imagery rescripting skills class by Rachel Manser #EABCT2025
September 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Surprise bagpiper to wrap up the opening ceremony for #EABCT2025 !
September 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
... And the pre-congress workshop day is now well under way - first coffee break just now! #EABCT2025
September 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Made it! Glasgow's looking good!
September 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
On the way to Glasgow for #EABCT2025!
September 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Nothing quite like introducing your children to the classics
July 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Cribbage time
May 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cambridge never disappoints @cambeerfest.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
13-leaf clover - is that good or bad luck...?
May 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Easter baking done!
April 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Making something for next winter...
April 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today in posts not related to anything really, 2025 marks 100 years since the publication of Patrick Hamilton's first novel, "Monday Morning" (and 20 years since I first read it).

You may have not read his novels, but you might be aware of him as providing the source for the term "gaslighting" /1
April 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Marking 20 years since the official opening of the Longwall Brewery with the (newly brewed) 3rd edition of the "Winterreise" winter beer.
February 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM