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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 18h
It was a treat working with @philipcball.bsky.social on this piece about how CH Waddington's prescient ideas about epigenetics and developmental biology hold up to modern cell data - with art by @markabelan.bsky.social
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Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 17h
Autism and ADHD Finally, a helpful intervention in the ‘overdiagnosis’ wars. But where’s the money to answer this tragedy? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Finally, a helpful intervention in the ‘overdiagnosis’ wars. But where’s the money to answer this tragedy? | John Harris
There is much to agree with in the Fonagy review into mental health support. Without serious public funding, however, its approach won’t work, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 17h
The book “Psychiatry after Kraepelin” is available open access via link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Psychiatry after Kraepelin
This Open Access book lays out the ambiguities relating to E. Kraepelin’s legacy and highlights developments in psychiatry since his death.
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Pathway @pathwayuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Is that choice?” This #WorldHomelessnessDay, hear directly from people with lived experience of homelessness, trauma and recovery. 📖 Read the blog: tinyurl.com/vbh4vjde 🎥 Watch the films: tinyurl.com/y8e84pd8 #InclusionHealth #HealthInequalities #Homelessness
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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 09/10/2026
Friday, October 9, 2026: The Beirut Book Fair opens, Lebanon’s first electric train begins running and judge Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Apparently, you can expect neurodivergent youngsters to be “written off”, but not neurotypical youngsters. It is the full neurotypical embodiment script written into education policy as “good behaviour” that should be “written off”. There lies the pathology. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Prof Peter Fonagy, who chaired the review, tells Radio 4's Today programme there has been a "very real" rise in "distress and mental ill health among young people".
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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 08/10/2026
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former Bashar al-Assad regime General, accused of involvement in chemical weapon attacks and slaughtering of Syrian civilians (including women and children), living in Lebanon at US taxpayers expense. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US and Lebanon protecting wanted Syrian general, BBC finds
Bassam al-Hassan, linked to reporter Austin Tice's abduction, is being sheltered in return for information.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Department for Work and Pensions. “Neuroinclusion in the Workplace.” Expert Academic Panel on Neurodiversity: Final Report and Recommendations www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Expert Academic Panel on Neurodiversity: Final Report and Recommendations
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
First-wave neurodiversity neurodissidence.org.uk/2026/09/11/f...
Photograph of Terracotta Warriors
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Much talk about Universal Design at the moment. Universal Design does not address structural socioeconomic inequalities.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Need for Merleau-Ponty in Foucault’s Account of the Abnormal Hannah Lyn Venable Pdf: diatothaumazein.com/wp-content/u...
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
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Imperfect Cognitions @imperfectcognitions.com · 01/10/2026
What happens if two psychiatrists assess the same patient? On today's post, Mateo Boberg, Julie Nordgaard and Mads Gram Henriksen explore how reliable psychiatric diagnoses are in the 21st century. imperfectcognitions.... #newresearch #phisky #philpsy
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The Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis
A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.
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Meghan Wilson Duff 🦑 @mwduff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Educational Resources by Nonspeakers | I-ASC
Step into the world of nonspeakers and see nonspeaking communication through their eyes with I-ASC's resources by nonspeakers
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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am doing a series of articles (“Therapeutic Window”) for the Science desk at The New York Times. The first article is about whether ADHD is better understood as a disorder of “attention” or something else: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/s...
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What If A.D.H.D. Isn’t About Attention at All? (Gift Article)
Evidence suggests that it really affects what psychiatrists like me call sustained engagement — an important difference in understanding how to think about the condition.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Pinochet technocrats deploying World Bank models reenacted subject-object separations Maturana identified as dominative at root—epistemological violence preceding physical violence (Maturana & Varela, 1980).” jfsdigital.org/2026/09/28/e...
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Enactive foresight from the Global South * Journal of Futures Studies
by Pablo & Lorenza Reyes Introduction: Used futures internalized as epistemology Latin America’s contemporary history reveals itself not only through material interventions—from the Monroe Doctrine’s ...
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mj @malthusjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Mother of All Paradox gets around. The excluded middle is never as likely as people first believe. #reductionism #MOAP #1&M
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“unprecedented educational dependence on technology often resulted in unchecked exclusion, staggering inequality, inadvertent harm and the elevation of learning models that put machines and profit before people.” Mark West, UNESCO www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
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An Ed-Tech Tragedy? | Educational Technologies and School Closures in
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies at a pace and scale with no historical precedent. For hundreds of millions of
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What could come before time? Intertwining affectivity and temporality at the basis of intentionality Juan Diego Bogotá link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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What could come before time? Intertwining affectivity and temporality at the basis of intentionality - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
The enactive approach to cognition and the phenomenological tradition have in common a wide conception of ‘intentionality’. Within these frameworks, intentionality is understood as a general openness ...
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exploring the Perspectives of Siblings of Autistic Adults With Distressing Behaviour: Perceptions of Positive and Negative Impacts link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Exploring the Perspectives of Siblings of Autistic Adults With Distressing Behavior: Perceptions of Positive and Negative Impacts - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Purpose Siblings of individuals with disabilities, including autism, often plan to assume future caregiving roles. Yet, most extant research relies on convenience samples wherein the autistic brother/...
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Digital phenotyping and behaviour analysis Berlin tests AI-powered video surveillance system ua.news/en/world/u-b...
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Berlin tests AI video surveillance system — The Local Germany
Berlin police are testing an AI-based video surveillance system at Kottbusser Tor for four weeks. The system analyses behaviour without using facial recognition.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As usual, little or no discussion of co-occurring physiological conditions such as hypermobility syndromes, immune dysfunction, dysautonomia, etc. Public health aspects of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder Itoro Udo, Peace Gabriels & Henry Orewa www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Public health aspects of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder | BJPsych Advances | Cambridge Core
Public health aspects of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Literally the ROOT of this extinction theory is Nick Bostrom, who, in his list of 20 or so or whatever potential "existential risks," he had dysgenic pressures, along with so-called super intelligence. This is public information, he wrote it in a "paper."
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I couldn't live with the agony of migraines anymore but my GP called me dramatic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Swansea woman's migraines dismissed by GP as 'dramatic'
Lauren had to abandon her career in the NHS after being left "in agony" due to her migraines.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Does the experience of autistic savants, congenital hyperphantasics, synaesthetes and aphantasics point to a lessening of mental imagery accompanying human evolutionary acquisition of language? As for this synaesthete, synaesthesia and aphantasia can co-occur. www.cell.com/trends-open/...
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Aphantasia and the evolution of language
Based on findings about congenital aphantasia and a functional characterization of language as an evolved ‘technology’ for the instruction of imagination, we propose a novel approach to the evolution ...
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Paul Middlebrooks @braininspired.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Would Hegel get along with AI "agents"? Would he use their agency to explain their abilities? He would for humans and brains, qua the enactivist approach. Andrea Gambarotto explains. @dialecticalsys.bsky.social braininspired.co/podcast/246/
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wrote about the Pelicot case and medical misogyny when I first heard her story. Disabled people face a greater risk of abuse and are often ignored by the healthcare system. We must do everything we can to push for change: www.disabledginger.com/p/gisele-pel...
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Gisele Pelicot, Medical Misogyny and How Disabled People Face Increased Risk of Abuse
Most of us have heard Gisele's story. It's a reminder that even men you trust can harm you. Did you know that she went to her doctors for help? A look at how medical misogyny contributed to her abuse.
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Iona Craig @ionacraig.com · 22/09/2026
And let’s not forget, that “defensive support” for Trump’s air war ended in RAF fighter jets carrying out direct strikes in Yemen.
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Stacey Wing @staceynwing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This too ha ha
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The Youth Justice Board and Ministry of Justice, looking at children who had been sentenced in 2019 to 2020, found that the proportion of the total number of children assessed who had a speech, language and communication concern was 71%." www.judiciary.uk/about-the-ju...
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Equal Treatment Bench Book - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Read the up-to-date version of the Bench Book
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
"For a man whose academic field was built largely on faulty studies to ignore the intellectual fraud in his circle and lash out at people like Arday for bad scholarship – well, psychologists used to call that projection" @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...
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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Zoology student Sarah-Marie Da Silva sits at the back of a University of Hull lecture hall, 2020. Source: Sarah-Marie Da Silva. From Troubles online : ableism and access in higher education / edited by Chelsea Temple Jones, Fady Shanouda, and Lisanne Binhammer. www.aupress.ca/books/120330...
Photo of Sarah-Marie Da Silva in her wheelchair at the back of University of Hull lecture hall, 2020.
“When she arrives at the lecture, there is only one place for her to sit, in the doorway at the back of the room. That doorway has a push-button entrance and an automatic door, allowing her to get into the room. But when she gets in, there is nowhere to go. There are stairs immediately in front of her, and they lead down to an amphitheater in which other students are seated at tables arranged one after the other, descending every three steps.”
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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 17/09/2026
#Medsky🧪 #Neurosky #publichealth In a 2025 @sciimmunology.bsky.social Review, The study discussed how interactions between the nervous and immune systems could impact neurological disorders and allergy-related behaviors like food avoidance. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fig. 1. Interactions between the nervous system and type 2 immunity occur across multiple organs depending on the context of allergic triggers or injury.
The nervous system comprises the CNS and associated sensory nerves (blue) and the autonomic nervous system, which includes sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves (red) and the ENS (purple). The immune system is composed of cells that span the entire body. This includes the meningiocranial immune system, which comprises immune cells important for neural development, brain repair, and brain border protection. Repeated exposure to allergens at mucosal sites (for example, lung, skin, and gut) can trigger local type 2 immunity. Type 2 immune cells signal to neurons across the periphery and brain through cytokines, whereas neurons signal to immune cells via neurotransmitters and neuropeptides. This is not an exhaustive list of cellular players, given that other tissue resident cells (e.g., fibroblasts and glial cells) may also respond to these signals.
CREDIT: A. FISHER/SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY
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Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‘It was a mess. I had to do something’: the personal struggle that inspired rap star Giggs to start a special needs school www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘It was a mess. I had to do something’: the personal struggle that inspired rap star Giggs to start a special needs school
After a battle to get his autistic children properly assessed, the London MC has co-founded a specialist centre in Kent to help neurodivergent kids realise their potential
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
9,500 years old! And still intact! A Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry. Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000. 🧵/1/2 📷 me
Woven cylindrical basket displayed against a black background, with a wide rim and rounded base illuminated by a spotlight.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No More Exclusions Open Letter: Call for an Immediate Moratorium on School Exclusions drive.google.com/file/d/1em6X...
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NME An Open Letter to The Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education
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Dialectical Systems @dialecticalsys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🆕 New paper by William Bechtel & Leonardo Bich Physiological control is not a top-down hierarchy, but heterarchical architecture in which multiple control mechanisms act on the same production mechanisms www.dialecticalsystems.eu/publications...
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New paper (2026): The last-step integrator thesis: Heterarchical control of themammalian gastrointestinal tract - Dialectical Systems
Abstract. To perform the work necessary to maintain themselves in diverse situations, organismsorchestrate the operations of a host of production mechanisms that individually performspecific physiolog...
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
according to these school discipline policies, children who use these language patterns are ‘misbehaving’. open access article exploring this in depth: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Andrea Gambarotto: Cognition Requires Agency braininspired.co/podcast/246/
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BI 246 Andrea Gambarotto: Cognition Requires Agency | Brain Inspired
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Weeping willow by chalk stream
Photograph of a weeping willow on the bank of a chalk stream.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“On Monday, at the request of the Turkish authorities, X blocked the accounts of Amnesty International Turkey, the left-wing Evrensel newspaper, Academics for Peace, and the Media and Law Studies Association.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkish...
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'A new level of oppression': Turkish authorities launch sweeping crackdown on LGBTQ+ community
Journalists, campaigners, HIV organisations and members of public among hundreds detained in 'My Family is Safe' crackdown
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bianet English @bianet-eng.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Private messages of detained LGBTI+s cited as obscenity evidence after ‘unauthorized’ phone searches, lawyer says bianet.org/haber/privat...
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Private messages of detained LGBTI+s cited as obscenity evidence after ‘unauthorized’ phone searches
Police allegedly obtained the detained individuals' phone passwords without a court order and then added messages and photos in the phones to the investigation file as evidence.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong with attempts to neuronormalise emotions and their expression? www.gold.ac.uk/news/2026/ai...
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Access to UK supercomputer will power pioneering facial recognition research
Dr Georgios Mastorakis’ research has secured prestigious access to the UK’s AI Research Resource (AIRR) to advance pioneering work on facial emotion recognition systems using synthetic dat...
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Graeme Irvine, the Senior Coroner for East London, said it was like "ground hog day" as he heard evidence of "the same" errors, "over and over again,”” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Staff slept while patient killed at NHS mental health unit
Inquest hears how Rolando Torres-Pena, 22, was able to strangle and kill Hugo Flint-Cahan on a hospital ward in east London.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Patients with both ASD and ADHD had a 438% higher likelihood of a heritable structural connective tissue disorder and 340% higher likelihood of a hypermobility spectrum disorder compared with matched patients who had no neurodevelopmental diagnosis” media.epic.com/epicresearch...
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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's free and open access. Biosemiotics is a hugely important nascent field.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More Bayesian bollocks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Suboptimal but intact integration of reward information during perceptual decision-making in autism
Alterations in reward processing have been proposed as a contributing factor to social and communication symptoms in autism. However, the nature of th…
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