Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The BBC News live feed from the Manchester Mayor be-election is the political equivalent of the Swedish elk migration broadcast 4150
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026instead of watching the winter olympics I made flatbreads 150
Reposted by Jon MayLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 16/01/2026"Couldn't have put it better ourselves." 312670
Reposted by Jon MayJason "Moominpappa era" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 09/01/2026zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...zeteo.comUS Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, IsolatedWhat if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries? 14720
Reposted by Jon MayReform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 25/11/2025When you see it… 1420643
Reposted by Jon MayTrades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 06/11/2025Which one is more English? 7736641427
Reposted by Jon MayJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Yeah, but those are low priorities compared with Hertfordshire sorting out this positively scary road name in Royston. 69631
Reposted by Jon MayGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 27/10/2025I 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. 17764171
Reposted by Jon Mayprofserious @profserious.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Here 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...profserious.substack.com10 AI Prompts for Academicsmaking those hard jobs a little easier ... 712338
Reposted by Jon MayJackie Andrade @profjackieandrade.bsky.social · 18/09/202540 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... 154
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Yay! 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 031
Reposted by Jon MayLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 08/09/2025Back our campaign today to balance the BBC 👇www.libdems.org.uk/BBClibdems.org.uk 27037
Reposted by Jon MayPaul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Reform 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...bbc.co.ukReform UK Nottinghamshire council leader bans local newspaper's reportersThe Nottingham Post describes the ban as 42477200
Reposted by Jon MayCalum Miller @calummillerld.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I have written to Nigel Farage in response to his visit to my constituency of Bicester and Woodstock today. 46489154
Reposted by Jon MayDr Aly Norman @dralysonnorman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Reconnecting 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 055
Reposted by Jon MayAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Stephen Miller is right: crime is rampant in DC www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... 15565131
Reposted by Jon MayPsychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Ever 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/FTDQE25buff.lyDon’t think too much … it might make you irrationalEvery 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… 043
Reposted by Jon MayBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/07/2025For 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...bestforbritain.orgTake Action: Make a complaint to Sky News about excessive coverage of Reform UKChange Minds → Change Politics 46441234
Reposted by Jon MayMila Mileva @mmileva.bsky.social · 17/07/2025After 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! 1173
Reposted by Jon MayP. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann @patkanngiesser.bsky.social · 25/06/2025My (very) short story "Family Recipe" about food--past, present, and future--is out today in Nature Futures. 166
Reposted by Jon Mayjonathanrhodes.bsky.social @jonathanrhodes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025A Row Through Time for Nature’s Future | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/imag...psychologytoday.comA Row Through Time for Nature’s FutureAt 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. 033
Reposted by Jon MayJackie Andrade @profjackieandrade.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Looking 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 042
Reposted by Jon MayPlymouth'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. 042
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Had a lovely lunch to say goodbye to my colleagues at @plymouthpsychology.bsky.social youtu.be/Tuhjw9xQMUAyoutu.beTears in the rain (revised)YouTube video by Jon May 161
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 27/06/2025just finished my last day in HE at University of Plymouth so tx to everyone 020
Reposted by Jon MayHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/06/2025It 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. 761329408
Reposted by Jon MayPaper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Welcome to your personalized Paper Skygest, a curated feed showing posts from your network. 📌 To pin this feed, select the pin icon at the top right of the feed. When you pin it, you'll see it up above here! ➡️ Follow this account for Skygest updates! 212335
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Himalayan 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 040
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 13/06/2025New 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/osf.ioEarly phase testing of functional imagery training as an intervention for anxietyHosted on the Open Science Framework 032
Reposted by Jon MayEuropean Centre for Environment & Human Health @ecehh.org · 14/05/2025New 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-drinkingecehh.orgGreen spaces linked with less smoking and drinking | ECEHHPeople who live in greener neighbourhoods smoke and drink less according to data from 18 countries. 031
Reposted by Jon MayAnna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Excited 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...sciencedirect.comFrom data to discovery: Technology propels speech-language research and theory-building in developmental scienceResearch on speech and language development has a long history, but in the past decade, it has been transformed by advances in recording technologies,… 032
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! 000
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025just asked chatgpt to make me a mock data frame of Title, Name, Sex… no problem but guess what sex all the Dr. people were 011
Reposted by Jon MayShachar Hochman @hochmanshachar.bsky.social · 07/03/20251/6 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...cogpsychreserve.netlify.appThe Dot-Probe Task is Probably Fine – CogPsych Reserve 76417
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I’d already cancelled my @washingtonpost.com sub but after seeing them say Zelenskyy ‘mishandled the meeting’ with Trump I deleted their app too. 010
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 28/11/2024On #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... 051
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 18/11/202410 PRINT"GOODBYE WORLD" 20 GOTO 10 RIP DR KURTZ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/t...nytimes.comThomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC programming language, dies at 96At 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. 031
Jon May @profjonmay.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I 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. /1 110