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Jon May

@profjonmay.bsky.social
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Plymouth. Researching the role of mental imagery in behaviour change. A bit keen on open science, using R and making shiny apps.

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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The BBC News live feed from the Manchester Mayor be-election is the political equivalent of the Swedish elk migration broadcast
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Opinionated Crone @jeannekc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Let me get this straight.

A team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA peace prize winner? ☮️
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SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
tinyverse vs ....
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
instead of watching the winter olympics I made flatbreads
a pile of just cooked flatbreads, some still puffed up
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 16/01/2026
"Couldn't have put it better ourselves."
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Jason "Moominpappa era" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
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US Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, Isolated
What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries?
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
When you see it…
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 06/11/2025
Which one is more English?
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Yeah, but those are low priorities compared with Hertfordshire sorting out this positively scary road name in Royston.
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 27/10/2025
I am so tired of 24 hour news about small boats. I simply don’t care how many migrants arrive in the UK any more. No matter how many, they’ll never be as big a threat to British values, our way of life, or indeed women‘s safety, as the bigots who make yelling about migrants their entire personality.
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...
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10 AI Prompts for Academics
making those hard jobs a little easier ...
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Jackie Andrade @profjackieandrade.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
40 minutes of functional imagery training reduced anxiety and motivated students with high anxiety achieve their goals. Here's the evidence: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Yay! Daniela Austin has been awarded her PhD for her thesis on Engaging Student Nurses in Lifestyle Management: The Role of Technology-Based Interventions and Mobile Health Applications'. @plymouthpsychology.bsky.social
Photo of Dani Austin
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 08/09/2025
Back our campaign today to balance the BBC 👇www.libdems.org.uk/BBC
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Reform UK: “Free speech! You can’t say anything these days!” Also Reform UK: “You’re banned from reporting on our council because we don’t like what you said.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform UK Nottinghamshire council leader bans local newspaper's reporters
The Nottingham Post describes the ban as
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Calum Miller @calummillerld.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I have written to Nigel Farage in response to his visit to my constituency of Bicester and Woodstock today.
Dear Mr Farage  

Welcome to Oxfordshire. You came here to talk about “mass deportations” but made no effort to understand the people or challenges of this community. 
  
Your proposals offer no costed plan. Daily flights, new detention centres and vast surveillance systems would cost billions. Empty slogans are not a substitute for serious policy. 

It did not go unnoticed that you spoke just minutes from Campsfield House, where a detention centre is being rebuilt despite local opposition and past scandals. Yet you chose not to meet residents living with those consequences. 

You often invoke Winston Churchill, born here in Oxfordshire. He spent his career grappling with difficult truths and forging alliances in our national interest. Instead of sowing division, we should build on that legacy. 

Our immigration system is broken after years of Government failure. It needs urgent, practical reform: fair, managed migration to meet workforce shortages, a faster asylum system and support for those fleeing war and persecution. That requires cooperation and honesty, not division. 

If you return, I would be glad to show you Oxfordshire’s real story: businesses thriving thanks to home and overseas talent, health and care services desperate for staff and residents supporting refugees with compassion. You would see a community interested in solving problems, not fuelling conflict. 

Yours sincerely 

Calum Miller MP
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Dr Aly Norman @dralysonnorman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Reconnecting to the person before acquired brain injury: A continuing bonds grief intervention Introducing a new paper testing a letter writing technique to support family members after brain injury #braininjuryawareness #FamiliesAfterBrainInjury
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Stephen Miller is right: crime is rampant in DC www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Instead, the National Guard ought to focus on tackling the major terror on the streets of this city! Why, at any moment you or your neighbor could get yanked into an unmarked van by a masked man, without any regard for habeas corpus. Los Angeles all over again! How can anyone feel safe while this keeps happening? People who are trying to do everything the right way, snatched from hallways after their court hearings. Professors, detained after expressing their views. Americans who just want to work hard and support their families, petrified to go to work every day because of the shameless wrongdoers in D.C. and what they have unleashed. And whoever masterminded the abduction of so many people-seized without due process and whisked away to a foreign gulag-is still at large, and staring back at Stephen every time he looks into a mirror. Not safe, not safe!
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Ever have a symptom & assume the worst? That’s the Inverse Base Rate Effect—we over-focus on rare outcomes. A new #psynomPBR study by Dome @lenarddome.bsky.social & Wills finds distraction & time pressure can reduce this bias. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/FTDQE25
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Don’t think too much … it might make you irrational
Every so often, I get random chest pain and immediately spiral – is this it? Am I having a heart attack? Then I remind myself that I’m 25, probably overcaffeinated, and maybe just a little stressed…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/07/2025
For a second day running, Sky News has broadcast a Reform UK press conference live from their new 'briefing room'. No other political party receives this special treatment. Will you make a complaint to Sky News? ✍️ Use the tool below ⬇️ www.bestforbritain.org/complaint_sk...
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Take Action: Make a complaint to Sky News about excessive coverage of Reform UK
Change Minds → Change Politics
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Mila Mileva @mmileva.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
After entirely too many months of stalking and hoping, I finally did it! Got a selfie with the bus that has my face on it! Score! Here's to making it count!
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P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann @patkanngiesser.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
My (very) short story "Family Recipe" about food--past, present, and future--is out today in Nature Futures.
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jonathanrhodes.bsky.social @jonathanrhodes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A Row Through Time for Nature’s Future | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/imag...
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A Row Through Time for Nature’s Future
At 89, a legendary explorer takes to the water—not to relive past glories, to fight for the forests of the future. This is a story of purpose, passion, and a thousand-year vision.
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Jackie Andrade @profjackieandrade.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Looking for a better way to empower clients to change? Functional imagery training uses evidence based multi-sensory imagery to supercharge motivation. Learn more here: functionalimagery.org
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Plymouth's Centre for Health Technology @plymouthcht.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🎉Congratulations Leonie Cooper, our July #CHTResearcheroftheMonth! 🔬 Leonie is currently working on the ASKDIPaC Project and previously worked as a researcher on the GOALD project. Leonie also recently defended her PhD, which explored how social robots can deliver behaviour change interventions.
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Had a lovely lunch to say goodbye to my colleagues at @plymouthpsychology.bsky.social youtu.be/Tuhjw9xQMUA
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Tears in the rain (revised)
YouTube video by Jon May
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
just finished my last day in HE at University of Plymouth so tx to everyone
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/06/2025
It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.
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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Himalayan Balsam has invaded a valley nearby. There was too much to pull plant by plant but with a scythe I could cut it low down, below the first node. Fingers crossed. #invasivespecies
A lot of himalayan balsam around a pondafter scything, a pond with no himalayan balsam standing
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New paper using imagery to reduce anxiety - free access until 2 Aug 25 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lG2Q1KMdl... Functional Imagery Training reduced anxiety compared with waitlist control. Imagery practice was calming and empowering Data and Markdown at osf.io/rtcyu/
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Early phase testing of functional imagery training as an intervention for anxiety
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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European Centre for Environment & Human Health @ecehh.org · 14/05/2025
New research published in the journal Health and Place suggests green spaces could help to reduce smoking & drinking. The study could be "hugely important because it goes some way to levelling the playing field in terms of reducing health inequalities." ecehh.org/news/green-space-smoking-drinking
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Green spaces linked with less smoking and drinking | ECEHH
People who live in greener neighbourhoods smoke and drink less according to data from 18 countries.
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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Excited to share a new paper I collaborated on during my research stay at the University of Heidelberg! A systematic review of (semi-)automatic tools for studying early speech and language development! Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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From data to discovery: Technology propels speech-language research and theory-building in developmental science
Research on speech and language development has a long history, but in the past decade, it has been transformed by advances in recording technologies,…
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
and the video is stunning!
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@trainline.bsky.social have added a @justparking.bsky.social link to their app. For my station in Ivybridge it does not mention the free park and ride at the station, just paid for places. I wouldn’t rely on it elsewhere!
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
just asked chatgpt to make me a mock data frame of Title, Name, Sex… no problem but guess what sex all the Dr. people were
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Shachar Hochman @hochmanshachar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
1/6 Hello Bluesky! 👋 Excited to join this community and share my new blog. First post: Using Bayesian hierarchical models to rescue "unreliable" cognitive tasks, with the dot-probe task as my case study. cogpsychreserve.netlify.app/posts/dotpro...
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The Dot-Probe Task is Probably Fine – CogPsych Reserve
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’d already cancelled my @washingtonpost.com sub but after seeing them say Zelenskyy ‘mishandled the meeting’ with Trump I deleted their app too.
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
51 weeks ago and today
27 jars of marmaladeone jar of marmalde snd a preserving pan
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
On #BBC Radio 4's World at One today an interviewee from the #Conservative Party today repeatedly claimed that there had been too much low-skilled immigration. Here are data. Only 11% of all foreign-born immigrants in 2022 were low-skilled. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
In 2022, immigrants were 36% high skill, 23% medium high, 31% medium low, and 11% low-skill
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
10 PRINT"GOODBYE WORLD" 20 GOTO 10 RIP DR KURTZ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/t...
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Thomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC programming language, dies at 96
At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world.
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Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I am on the 1356 departure from Sheffield to Plymouth. There are only five carriages instead of eight, and trains south before and after this one have been cancelled so all of their passengers are on this one too. All seats are occupied, all the aisles and spaces are packed. /1
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