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Gavin Buckingham

@drgbuckingham.bsky.social
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Cognitive psychologist interested in perception, illusions, sensorimotor control, and virtual reality. I also blog for early-career academics: gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you can spare ~20 min on an online study on perception & #mentalimagery please consider participating: #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence tstbl.co/131-782
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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is one hell of a flex.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We’re in the middle of a clash of values about what universities are for; it’s less that these people are wrong and more than what we say doesn’t make sense to them (and vice versa). I mean, they are wrong, but that’s not the slam dunk argument people think
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Pictorial cues to depth create a nice effect on this cabbage (found of Facebook)
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I eat a lot of yoghurt. This is the best yoghurt I've had. Tastes richer and better mouthfeel than most 10% fat yoghurts. No garbage thickeners. 95 cal and 9g protein per 100g.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People who do high quality audio and video recording in their homes, give me your top tips for hardware, software, and room design
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 09/09/2026
University of Exeter staff have delivered a huge mandate to keep fighting cuts. 91% voted for industrial action on a 74% turnout. The fight to defend jobs and education at Exeter continues.
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University of Exeter staff back industrial action in redundancy fight
Staff at the University of Exeter have overwhelmingly backed a mandate for industrial action in a battle to save jobs, the University and College Union (UCU) has announced today.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Guardian appears to have a review of The Bayeux tapestry 😐
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My 3rd thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. What are we fighting for? Is it just to save jobs? No. We need a workplace that is run by the expert professionals that make up the staff body. This 🧵 explains the governance reform proposals we have put to Council, Senate and the Uni Exec #DefendExeterUni
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sign our petition if you haven’t already (39k have!) www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Kids made a Pokémon card inspired by me #summerholidayfun
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This new genre of AI-generated rage-bait signs is fascinating to me. It is an almost artwork doubling down on the most useless elements of genAI and the most useless elements of social media
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Mandatory training life
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We looking for a postdoc with NHP electrophysiology experience to do simultaneous Neuropixel recordings across the corticothalamic motor circuit to better understand the neural control of reaching and grasping. We start looking at applications on August 31st. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I sure read hella Warhammer 40k lit
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Classic
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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Important work by a world leading spatial geographer and climate scientist. Pity that @exeter.ac.uk has decided to remove the Geography programme from the Cornwall campus and Karen - and other colleagues - are currently at risk of redundancy.
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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Why does Tucker Carlson always look as if you've told him that Boots doesn't actually sell boots?
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
No AI will tell me how to live my life!
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
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eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
'Geography courses at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall campus have been shuttered, with staff and students only learning of the decision on A-level results day.' And it's not 'just' Geography. The week that 'doing an Exeter' entered the UK higher education lexicon. Don't do an Exeter.
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Exeter shuts geography courses in Cornwall on A-level results day
University closes programmes just as applicants find out if they have gained a place, with students told to transfer to other courses or study 80 miles away
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
what a missed opportunity to do a Christ Air though
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My fitbit and google fitness coach throwing some shade my way
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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Great lists/resource if you are looking for women and underrepresented scholars in philosophy and philosophy of neuroscience—created by @morgankthomp.bsky.social (1) www.apaonline.org/mpage/theupd... (2) philneurounderrepresented.weebly.com
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Philosophers of Neuroscience From Underrepresented Groups
Philosophers of Neuroscience From Underrepresented Groups
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/08/2026
Remember, no teen will see your A-Level results post here, but your middle-aged friend who got straight As and went on to a crashingly disappointing career anyway will. #bekind
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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's #BinDay in Clacton, UK! You can vote for a climate-change-denying, fossil-fuel-funded, crypto-funded frog-faced racist. Or you can put your vote in the Bin 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Clacton byelection polls open with Farage up against slew of fringe candidates
Longest ballot in UK voting history features likes of Count Binface and Howling Laud Hope alongside Reform leader
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Feck off, cloud
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Were the proposed cuts to be implemented, the entire philosophy of science community in the UK would suffer." #UKHE #AcademicSky #PhilSci #PhilSky #HistSci
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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@olivia.science Here's a first draft of what your piece on anxiety made me think about. I will post it properly next week as a quote post to that. I've put all the "an old academic wistfully remembers" into accordion items so they can be avoided. wattstuff.wordpress.com/prompted-by-...
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Prompted by Olivia Guest “Anxiety”
A few clear words make an immense punch in this blog piece by Olivia. It doesn’t need a response; there’s nothing to question or amplify. But it moves me to think and then write about a…
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Captain Bavaria
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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“I’m afraid there is a chance this child may become an academic.”
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As a keen follower of narratives around academic integrity, I note that such cases (of which there are MANY) have never been headlining the BBC and Guardian websites until someone with dark skin was at the centre of the narrative. Ardaygate is pretty mild stuff IMO...
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
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andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
great illusion, the "right" and "wrong" interpretations are simultaneously superimposed right before your eyes without any alternation. very nice.
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sam blickhan @snblickhan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's really hard to see this news about the MCW team facing redundancy risk from Exeter. They've set an incredibly high bar for participatory research & engagement with their contributors. I regularly use MCW as an exemplar for teams who want to use @zooniverse.bsky.social. Solidarity with the team.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Bavaria loves Harry Kane
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In my department, the university is proposing to close down the entire Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC). Pool of 4, with 4 positions redundant. Nightmare scenario for those involved docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter in Support of the Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC) at the University of Exeter
To the Vice-Chancellor, University Executive Board, and Council of the University of Exeter, We write to express our extreme concern regarding the proposal to close the Children's Health and Exercise...
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New Yorker cartoon feels about right
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Always happy to capture a magical milestone on the Little Leaf that Could
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Bastard!
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The flashback to teenage life when Toby McGuire walks through the portal in Spiderman No Way Home is an incredible bit of film making
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Great visual illusion, accompanied by a lovely variation on Shepard Tones if you have the sound on Posted on Reddit by bigjobbyx, who is a bit of an artist genius
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nearly at 300 signatures!
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.
experts.exeter.ac.uk
Discovery
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When your cool-sounding company name becomes gibberish to psychologists
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Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Do please consider signing this... how can a university threaten to fire an entire research group because they focus on basic (rather than applied) research?
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Note also a lot of the new ESRC schemes are about new innovative ideas, which definitely embraces discovery science www.ukri.org/councils/esr...
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Types of funding we offer – ESRC
We provide a range of funding, covering smaller awards to support early career researchers and larger research awards enabling both individuals and larger teams to access funding through our applicant...
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