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🎉 The Call for Submissions for IAPS 2026 Conference is now open!

📅 Submission deadline: 9 January 2026 (23:59 GMT)

📝 For guidance on how to submit, and full details of the conference, visit our website: surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026

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It’s people…

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If they talked too much about the top two causes of death they might lose advertising revenue…

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More time to think
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Once spent an entertaining train ride with a nurse who worked in A&E. The stories she had! Which included one of someone who needed an organ transplant being told by the specialist that since it was a nice day out they’d probably have one from a biker in a few hours.
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🍂🌞

October is here! Time to start thinking about your conference plans for 2026?

In a couple of weeks we’ll be launching our Call for Submissions. Stay tuned to our website: www.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026

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IAPS Conference 2026
29 June - Friday 3 July 2026, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. The theme of IAPS 2026 is Sustainability as Wellbeing: Towards healthy, green, and equitable communities.
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🤖🌳 Inspired by a Hutton project, Aberdeen teens Anjishnu Bhaduri, Adwait Sharma & Jayawant Sivarajan built ThistleDroid—a robot that tests land for reforestation & plants seeds!

🥇 Winners at #WROUK2025, they’ll rep GB in Singapore this Nov.

👉 ow.ly/tr9X50X4nYe
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You know when a piece of software does not work when its advocates start saying the problems aren’t with the software, they’re with people.
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Fascinating! Does growing rice on peat keep its carbon locked in?

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⏳ Just one week to go until the 46th #TBMacLecture!

World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics

📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist!

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Or maybe something that messes with the minds of the sorts of people who’d give something up just in case it did cause autism. Whole foods?

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I’m wondering what else could be found to cause autism and whether any of them are things I don’t like. Cauliflower, for instance.
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Not sure about Apple’s ‘glass’ UI thing in 26.0. But maybe I’m just getting retraumatized from Aero in Windows 20+ years ago.

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Stew: the dish that cannot make up its mind whether it’s the soup or main course.

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CSSSA September Webinar
Join us Wednesday, September 24, at 10 am (ET) or An Open Discussion on Education Needs for Agent-based Simulation with Dr. Rob Axtell and the CSSSA Team. Register here! (www.tickettailor.com/events/compu...)
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Windows and Office are productivity vampires. Fun little UX today in Outlook. A pop-up over a tab that ‘helpfully’ tells you the same text as the tab title (but in a slightly smaller font), obscuring the cursor where I’m typing. Moving the mouse interrupts my train of thought.
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🌾 #Flax, once a staple of Scottish agriculture, could play a key role in sustainable textiles and low-impact #farming today.

We’ve been working with Soil Association Scotland through the Flax Field Lab to test this crop’s potential.

More: ow.ly/1Spp50WT7Cr
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So what do you do when you cannot sleep?

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I wonder what that means for CCTV…?

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Hmmm. If people put physical posters up everywhere bragging about their luxurious lifestyles, so HMRC wrote code to read the posters on StreetView and check the tax records were commensurate, would we find that as creepy?

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Not sure everyone in Scotland would agree the Oxford Cambridge London area is absolutely optimum as a region where the UK does its R&D.

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As long as it tastes good I don’t care.

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Do you want to know why Britain's university system is imploding? Well, if you do... Make yourself a nice coffee, pull up a chair and take a look at what I wrote back in the summer for Prospect magazine. Please repost if you agree! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
Crash course
The UK’s universities are among the best in the world. So why do many appear close to collapse?
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🌱 What happens when economic theory meets local action?

Ahead of the #TBMacLecture, explore how our speaker, Kate Raworth’s, #DoughnutEconomics is shaping a Swedish town, and join us in Edinburgh to hear more.

🎟️: ow.ly/lAcp50WrKpv

📖 @theguardian.com : ow.ly/mbqo50WrKpt
46th TB Macaulay Lecture - with Kate Raworth
46th TB Macaulay Lecture - Kate Raworth
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Reposted by Gary Polhill, Jessica A. Gephart

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We're looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Horizon Europe project INSPIRI!

Help co-create imaginative, stakeholder-driven visions for Europe's ocean and water systems.

Learn more and apply by 31 August: www.stockholmresilience.org/4.aeea46911a...
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For your next trick, go to an Italian restaurant and ask for some ketchup to go on your main course.
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No, I didn’t
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It seems now the sole qualification for being doomed to watch history repeating itself is simply to live long enough

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If it would help, I could stand on my doorstep and talk continually about addressing the climate crisis, reducing wealth inequality, and welcoming immigrants — just on the offchance a politician happens to come by who wants to do one or more of those things.

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