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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My weekly emails to postgrads during the Covid lockdown, started when it transpired that they were not getting any thoughtful official contact. These tell a story that we might reflect on. All, the thoughts are mine and they serve to sum up what I stood for. wattstuff.wordpress.com/covid-lockdo...

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Covid Lockdown Contact

A sequence of emails I sent out to postgraduate students in Psychology at Stirling during the Covid lockdown of 2020. Someone had pointed out to me that these students, dispersed to wherever they w…

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whatever problem the REF was invented to solve, it is nowhere near as big as the problems the REF is making.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today is on the dreich side. But I just saw the osprey flying through it. Most mornings this summer but it’ll be off south soon.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just checking Spam folder and wondering what it will look like when AI gets good at scams.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just came across this in an email I wrote in March 2020: "PS. If you got this far…Outlook is asking me Is this email important? and then offering to give me feedback on it. WTF."

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just came across this from 10 years. It was a response to a request from a journal for a brief bio to go with some paper or other. I feel it is pretty authentic.

Roger Watt has been a Professor of Psychology for way too long and is beginning to outstay his welcome. His decades of experience have led him to believe that he knows everything there is to be known about (i) simple cells in V1 visual cortex and (ii) how to educate the type of student we get at Stirling. He lives in an office that is deliberately on a different floor in the building from everyone else: it’s a sort of a care facility.

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Dominika Noworolska @dominikanow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aw best thing about an end to a long(ish) term project is all the nice feedback that you get. A new recommendation just landed on LI 💚

Dom took on a large organisation with extremely guarded viewpoints and through focused, engaging User Research, challenged the prevailing narrative. This made people wake up to the value of good User Research and changed the way new work was approached for the better.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 30/09/2026

I have a Big Thing in an hour and a half and I am so anxious and nervous and please say nice things about me and my scholarship to boost my confidence. Thanks in advance.

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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

ok if everyone could just say this when they read my papers that would be great thanks

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But I don't know anything about tapes or digitisation or anything like that. I don't even know how I would play this. I don't even know if it's still in good enough condition to play. So my question is... How? How do I take these two tapes, this two part performance, and make the choir live again?

An open box of scotch polyester tapes, showing the reel inside

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Old age conundrum. My wife found something in the sink that looks like it's half a decayed tooth. Both checking our mouths now to find out whose. No-one is owning up to it...

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You've got to agree that the Trump strait is one of the most crooked bits of water on the planet.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Hm I think I think something somewhat orthogonal. There are so many fairy stories that are currently the more broadly accepted state of the art in our understanding of early cog dev - all include some degree of innateness. And this leads to harms.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 28/09/2026

This is the thing I come back to again and again, as (esp. undiagnosed) adhd folk we are constantly told our failures are due to not caring enough / not trying hard enough, and Jesus wept we could not be trying harder if we had a literal gun to our heads. The sheer fucking stubborn effort we put in.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 27/09/2026

Can someone explain to me like I’m five why Cornell, and not the police, are dealing with the punishment of seven students for drugging and gang-raping a female student?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For @loreandordure.com as I can’t find the post I saw from her that sent me off to dig this out.

Front 2 pages of old book from MDCCXIV
A history of the old and new testaments

The history of the Old Testament in verse with one hundred and eighty sculptures

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Request! I am the advisor for a group at VU for women interested in psych. We are hosting a virtual event in October and are looking for speakers who could give a 15-20 minute talk on a panel about the psychology of crime. We are especially interested in work that involves women victims/offenders.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today, Alison Ann-Dowling, a Scottish Labour councillor who is a member of the party's ruling body the SEC, together with fellow Scottish Labour Women's Declaration activist Norma Austin Hart, will take their trade union, Community, to court to try to overturn its trans-inclusive policy.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 25/09/2026

I propose that we should call them the PeePees.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People, 2 things... 1. None of these cows is the product of AI (artificial insemination). 2. Animals the size of cows isn't natural. 3. Callander is a small place. Some of these comments will get me banned from the annual pensioners Xmas lunch.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spent this afternoon watching Mozart's Magic Flute from the Paris Opera. As always, it gets to me and now I am in floods of tears.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can we have this guy for prime minister in the UK, please.

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Anna Stesia @onlychyld.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

I’m not mean I’m direct. And a whole lot of people (men) cannot handle that. Sounds like a them problem.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm part of an amazing team looking at what autistic children want from their speech and language therapy. Nobody has asked them before! We're currently using some brilliant materials, developed with and by autistic people, to make interviews accessible to all children, not just those who speak

What we want: how can Speech & Language Therapy best meet the needs of autistic children?

We are looking for autistic children (9 – 15 years 11 months old) to take part in an adapted interview about their priorities and preferences in Speech & Language Therapy.

We hope our findings will support the development of services in this area.

We are looking for children who can express a choice on these matters, using a total communication approach. They should have a formal autism diagnosis which follows national clinical guidance on best practice.

If want to ask any questions about eligibility or to find out more generally, please contact us: NDSpeech-LanguageTherapy@manchester.ac.uk

Our team includes experienced & DBS checked autistic researchers & Speech & Language Therapists. Our interviews will be adapted to meet your child’s needs.

Funded by: National Institute for Health Care and Research (NIHR)
Sponsored and conducted by: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Conducted with collaborators: The University of Manchester, The University of Sheffield

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The second clause of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 26, reads especially relevant in today's world.

Second clause reads:

Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Honestly got up this morning expecting to see reactions to a high profile arrest in the UK.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

10. if you are defining a process by what it produces, and i am defining a process by how it changes me, we are not talking about the same thing 11. arguing about what tasks LLMs can or cannot do keeps LLMs at the center of the conversation

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Panic attack from ~2500 years ago. Job 4, 12

A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people,
fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.
It stopped, but I could not tell what it was.

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Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Successful first day! Keep the momentum going - donate to our crowdfunder to cover the legal costs for a judicial review of the governance decisions that led to the threat of compulsory redundancies. No donation too small, anonymous donations possible. PLZshare. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/judicial-r...

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Judicial Review of Governance at Dundee University

DUCU is raising funds for a Judicial Review of the governance decisions that led the University Court to approve compulsory redundancies.

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Kat is ✨phenomena✨ @kathryndeplume.com · 21/09/2026

So listen, this shit does make me angry and I'm not quiet about it, but there's another side to me that I feel also needs to be aired, which is that this shit just makes me fight harder, because I /refuse/ to be defined by other people's opinions on these subjects. I deserve to /live/ my life.

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Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre (SMRC) @salvesenresearch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Article showcase: Kilgallon, @drmbothapsych.bsky.social, Dwyer, Bottema-Beutel, Milton, Sasson and @cjcrompton.bsky.social. This article lays out the Double Empathy Problem as a sociological account of autistic and non-autistic interactions. Link to full article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This really is going to stick in mind. First comment below. It's stuff I need to get off my chest. Apologies to the OP for blatantly using her post.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anne Bonny (1697? –1782?) was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of several noted women in piracy. #CelebratingWomen

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@k2mey.eurosky.social is right, please watch. and then go and smash things.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have just dug my childhood encyclopedia set out. Published in 1933, it was my mother's childhood reading before me. It is very interesting.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Breezy with added rainbow. I’ve never understood the veiling luminance inside the rainbow.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This thread, but especially from this point is powerful. Few words but enormous meaning.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Back again. Sorry for the dramatics

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm very much enjoying looking around me at my white, male, abled contemporaries getting their professorships

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr. Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday. I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇

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The Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’

The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong in our inst...

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