Harry Farmer
@psychfarmer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University of Greenwich. Interested in studying self, body and social cognition using behavioural, neural and VR methods.
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** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
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Why are these uppity students demanding we move the statue of the slaver, why are people willing to vote against brutal austerity, why are the transgenders *at all*, on and on, and the only explanation is: Demons have infected the public via their mobile phones.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Why are these uppity students demanding we move the statue of the slaver, why are people willing to vote against brutal austerity, why are the transgenders *at all*, on and on, and the only explanation is: Demons have infected the public via their mobile phones.
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This is obviously funny but I do also think the last sentence is pretty much how the effective altruism people justified hanging out in giant castles with rich people all the time.
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is obviously funny but I do also think the last sentence is pretty much how the effective altruism people justified hanging out in giant castles with rich people all the time.
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I can only complain about this so much because "getting paid outrageously to say whatever stupid shit comes to mind to dumbasses" is a dream job, tbh
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I can only complain about this so much because "getting paid outrageously to say whatever stupid shit comes to mind to dumbasses" is a dream job, tbh
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"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising".
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising".
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“I do not want to be taught by GPT.”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Grim reading as someone who was taken in by Hewstone’s “charming public persona”.
One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Grim reading as someone who was taken in by Hewstone’s “charming public persona”.
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This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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I mean, have there been any examples of people *at that specific organisation, within the commentary section of the papers* witnessing bad behaviour that they did not take any kind of action against and still refuse to speak openly about now
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I mean, have there been any examples of people *at that specific organisation, within the commentary section of the papers* witnessing bad behaviour that they did not take any kind of action against and still refuse to speak openly about now
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The UK outright engaged in stationary banditry, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, all in order to appease the most petty xenophobe bigots on earth. And I feel sure it won't even work on the Home Secretary's terms, ultimately all this will strengthen not weaken Reform.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The UK outright engaged in stationary banditry, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, all in order to appease the most petty xenophobe bigots on earth. And I feel sure it won't even work on the Home Secretary's terms, ultimately all this will strengthen not weaken Reform.
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Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
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Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
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I followed the chain back and I don't think the claim is really consensus belief on here, I just think the relevant nexus of beliefs highly correlates with "likely to get in a fight with Will Stancil" and that is distorting his perception somewhat.
This is literally the consensus belief on this website. And because everyone knows it’s the consensus belief, big tastemaker accounts completely refuse to challenge it, because their game is to say things that they know the majority of their audience will agree with. So the falsehood spreads.
defining the economy is capitalist propaganda, as is measuring it with graphs. also, the economy is bad and used to be better and everyone knows it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I followed the chain back and I don't think the claim is really consensus belief on here, I just think the relevant nexus of beliefs highly correlates with "likely to get in a fight with Will Stancil" and that is distorting his perception somewhat.
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“There she goes again with her psycho fascist rants!” we used to laugh. “In the Spectator and, uh, on Radio 4. And now, as a columnist in the Times. Why is she on TV? A mass-murderer has quoted her in his wacko manifesto and now she’s being RT’d by Michael Gove. Wait, what exactly is going on here?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“There she goes again with her psycho fascist rants!” we used to laugh. “In the Spectator and, uh, on Radio 4. And now, as a columnist in the Times. Why is she on TV? A mass-murderer has quoted her in his wacko manifesto and now she’s being RT’d by Michael Gove. Wait, what exactly is going on here?”
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This is why they won’t let the priests in to distribute the Eucharist.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This is why they won’t let the priests in to distribute the Eucharist.
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“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
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It's almost like maybe the ones who've been driving the fascism all along were the chattering class "centrist" elite who resented their loss of control over bourgeois propriety to the damn millennial filthy proles on Twitter, and the crass egoist kleinburger bosses who resent being judged by anyone
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It's almost like maybe the ones who've been driving the fascism all along were the chattering class "centrist" elite who resented their loss of control over bourgeois propriety to the damn millennial filthy proles on Twitter, and the crass egoist kleinburger bosses who resent being judged by anyone
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this is honestly my main argument against AGI hype
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
this is honestly my main argument against AGI hype
Very sad to hear of Prof Pulvermüller’s passing. I only met him a couple of times but he always seems an incredibly nice man as well as a deeply insightful thinker.
The FU Berlin has published an official obituary for Prof. Friedemann Pulvermüller: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
Obituary for Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de
October 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Very sad to hear of Prof Pulvermüller’s passing. I only met him a couple of times but he always seems an incredibly nice man as well as a deeply insightful thinker.
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Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
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There’s no mystery about whose fault this is, is there? It’s been there on in Parliament, on TV, on the radio and next to the cigarette counter in Asda every day of this century so far. It could not possibly be more crystal clear who created this shitshow, and who continues to profit from it.
October 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
There’s no mystery about whose fault this is, is there? It’s been there on in Parliament, on TV, on the radio and next to the cigarette counter in Asda every day of this century so far. It could not possibly be more crystal clear who created this shitshow, and who continues to profit from it.
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In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan
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mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan
mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...
mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...
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📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly
🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ
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What a great time to be a werewolf
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
What a great time to be a werewolf
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Britain right now is like the deity did some vibe coding, flipped the sign on the national loss function, and it’s finding the least optimal set of parameters minimizing the number of satisfied individuals…
October 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Britain right now is like the deity did some vibe coding, flipped the sign on the national loss function, and it’s finding the least optimal set of parameters minimizing the number of satisfied individuals…