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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 17h

Kudos to my colleague who took advantage of an ongoing Email reply-all storm at my institution to make everyone's day with:

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I still like getting my hands on a real copy...

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunday morning Ethel bagging in the Peak District. Lots of geological sights, a good trig point, and then a pint and a packet. Wardlow Hay Cop, high above Cressbrook Dale. Ethel number 37/95.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly APA Editorial Manager, why does this take sooooooooo long. I folded two piles of washing in the time it took you build it

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Using a simple delta rule (Rescorla-Wagner) tweaked so that the associative strength of the common elements is weighted by its exposure-dependent activation we can simulate our results, showing latent inhibition, and its reversal:

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To explain this, we propose that novelty and familiarity are common elements, permitting generalization between context and cues. As stimuli are exposed, rather than become less salient overall, activity in one element is replaced with another:

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When the context (operationalsed as distractors) sustains familiarity, then learning is more successful to a novel than a familiar cue - latent inhibition But the opposite is observed when the context sustains novelty, ever changing - reversed latent inhibition (see also: Haselgrove et al., 2025)

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Quite excited by this one. Coming soon to a pre-print server near you...

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

After weeks of nagging from B&Q for feedback from me after I bought a door from them, I have finally relented...

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Other times you are looking miles away and either hours ahead or behind you on your walk, thinking about the bigger picture of your route, or even just appreciating the view.

A border collie stands on a path upon the side of a landscape. Other moorland, hills, woodland and fields can be seen in the distance

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sometimes you are looking no further than a few meters ahead, working out where to place your feet so you don't sink in a bog or tumble over a rock.

Flagstones sunk into moorland heading off into the distance, running adjacent is a dry stone wall and heather.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Excellent day trip to York, to meet old mates, talk science, plan writing, drink beer, swap gossip, remember the good old days, and then down a curry.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I asked Claude for a link to the Widrow-Hoff ADALINE model, which it did, but then added a "fun" fact. Maybe we should be worried about the end of the world!

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

90 s of guinea pig ASMR for you from Coffee and Toffee (sound on)

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's taken me decades to get the point of avocado, and I'm still not fully sold on it, but it added something (smashed and with lemon juice) to my garlic mushrooms on toast.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The holidays are coming...The holidays are coming... #Christmas

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hi, my name is Alfie. I like to stand in my water bowl and then flick water over the floor. Can anyone explain to my owner why I do this?

A tabby cat standing with their front right paw in a water bowl

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It was this review that sold it (p.s. that's not me)

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

But what is it? (penknife for scale). Correct answer will be rewarded with a picture of the exciting information-sheet that came with it.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Squeeze stile with a view. The ever popular Dove Dale in the background.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fabulous purple heather in bloom on Kinder Scout, Derbyshire.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In the paper we suggest that novelty and familiarity are representational elements shared by stimuli and context and which can compete for associative strength, just like any other element. I pushed this idea through the Rescorla-Wagner model to simulate our experiment:

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think it is going to be OK, rather than spectacular.

Copy of a headline from the Guardian describing the coming eclipse as "spectacular"

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Benefits of having a colleague who is also a bee keeper...

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Tagging the excellent @jialinshi.bsky.social who ran this exp. The full time scores are now in. We reproduced Haselgrove et al. (2025). When contexts sustain familiarity learning is more successful to novel than familiar stimuli (LI). When the context sustains novelty, though, the reverse emerges.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Our first pilot with these stimuli shows we are again seeing more successful learning about a preexposed (i.e. familiar) stimulus than a non-preexposed (i.e. novel) stimulus.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

They look weird, but are great stimuli for studying novelty and familiarity, and come with a load of metrics to balance the cues on.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Remembered, today, this classic bit of figure captioning from the original Thatcher illusion paper in 1980 by Thompson. Was this the peak of entertaining figure captioning?

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

University open day with Haselgrove jnr. Always quite a predatory experience, so it was nice to have this vibe confirmed upon arrival...

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Definitely not a negatively framed question. Also, really hard to find the data from previous years to compare the methodology.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Fish pie. Definitely in the top 3 of pies.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Half term camp in the Lake District. Only day two was cloudy, during which I had this conversation at a bus stop in Great Langdale: Random Man: where is the start of the Crinkle Crags Mountain? Me: Well, you can start over there near the entrance to Stool End Farm. 1/2

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Waterfowl along the River Trent today.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Fax? Let me just close AOL instant messenger, find my Nokia, and I'll be right down.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Walking into work this morning with a general sense of reluctance and nausea. Today 2797 members of staff will receive letters informing them that they are at risk of redundancy. By my guess somewhere between 60 and 70% of academic staff.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This guy was strolling in the opposite direction as I walked along the lakeside on my way into work.

A heron against a green background of plants.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Saturday morning. Canal walk and a pint. Bliss.

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