Matt Roser
Cognitive neuropsychologist at the University of Plymouth and the Brain Research and Imaging Centre @bricplymouth.bsky.social plymouth.ac.uk/research/psychology…
Also @MattNeuropsych at that other site.
- Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.
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- I'll just add here that the @libdems.org.uk have put social care front and centre of their platform www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...
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- I don’t understand why the gov isn’t shouting this from the rooftops, unless it’s saving it for a post white paper and closer to election moment when voters might be more likely to attribute the fall to gov action.
- Here's the UK government announcement on the India trade deal. Very much a tariff reduction deal, with no mention of data or financial services. That's always been the most realistic landing zone, talk of incredible levels of ambition always seemed unwise. www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Does the limitation to tariff reduction only mean that this deal does not make further UK-EU reintegration more difficult?
- Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
- This is the very opposite of the lazy journalism seen elsewhere. Thank you for it.
- Got back last night from focus groups this weekend in Beverley, Hull,Scunthorpe & Peterborough and without doubt the disillusionment was the worst I’ve heard, in every group it was anger; despondency or misery about the state of Britain that doesn’t feel sustainable.
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- This is terrifying, but surely addressing these attitudes and world views must involve politicians not just pandering to them ('I hear your legitimate concerns..etc') but also pushing back to help Gary realise that they are not all the same or in it for themselves, and that democracy matters.
- Grant application submitted! Now to marking.
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- Do you have a link to an article that best summarises a grand plan for actually getting it right?
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- This thread is beautiful. YNWA.
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- As a university employee at an institution moving towards redundancies this is what I’ll be focused on.
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- It was always worth watching when Zbig appeared on the PBS News Hour.
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- Shouldn't the headline be 'torturous', not 'tortuous'?
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- Is this in The Times?
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- It wasn't until some time after the second episode, 'The Oner' about the shooting of a one-take scene, that I realised the whole episode was a oner. With bookends.
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- Both of them deeply unserious people.
- Springtime bumblebee bum.
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- This plate of hands and smush looks appetizing.
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- This was the most alarming element in the article. There seemed zero awareness that outcomes may be worse.
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- Excellent, thank you.
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- Clear enough!
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- Not having read beyond the excerpt myself, isn't he merely noting the limitations of govt control without advocating that they be changed?
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- Daily Express in should know better shock.
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- I really like these posts of you doing the unglamorous graft of representation.
- I've had this personally recommended. If you're nearby do check it out.
- Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.
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- Thanks.
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- Make it make sense.
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- You also forgot personally fixing America's birthrate.
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- What though if he got Musk’s $100m?
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- This has genuinely encouraged me to keep honing my mediocrity.
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- Rupert Lowe sticking to his Rupert Lowe talking points.
- Obviously no simple/single/right answer. But I'd say it's a combination of: a) Extreme (Ayn Rand) libertarianism [Musk] b) Looting the state/blatant corruption/rent extraction [Musk & Trump] c) "Know-Nothing" anti-immigration/anti-globalisation/protectionism [Trump & Vance] [1/2]
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- This suggests that Vance and Musk might at some point try to pull Trump in their direction, like sons vying for their Father's love and attention, which is a dynamic that Trump has experience with.
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- Thank you.
- For St David’s Day we present our latest Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration. Ciaran Jenkins (cello) is in Glasgow and I’m in Moscow (on the piano). Together we play Myfanwy. @c4ciaran.bsky.social
- Lovely
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- Yes.
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- Yes, I think that is right in general and in this case in particular.
- I had a drink with my Reform voting neighbour recently. He complained that politicians just talk and what we need is a disrupter, like Trump, who he admires. I pointed out that part of Starmer’s appeal was relief from years of disruption. I think disruption means different things to different people
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- No, it achieves great soft power bang for the buck and is even more important following the slashing of USAID. It’s dwarfed by pension liabilities. Reform the triple lock instead.
- Doh - #neuroskyence
- Really looking forward to giving this preprint a proper read. A new cohort of callosotomy patients is exciting. The application of interhemispheric functional-connectivity analysis, diffusion imaging and a radically new model of hemispheric interaction is very intriguing. #neuroskyance #splitbrain
- Really looking forward to giving this preprint a proper read. A new cohort of callosotomy patients is exciting. The application of interhemispheric functional-connectivity analysis, diffusion imaging and a radically new model of hemispheric interaction is very intriguing. #neuroskyance #splitbrain
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- Farage is increasingly required to recalibrate how weirdo-adjacent (to Musk, Trump, Peterson et al.) he wants to be as they self radicalise.
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- It's nice to see a couple of non-London examples here.
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- It’s not just you. I don’t have confidence in what they return so find myself checking everything and then conclude that I might as well just write it from scratch.
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- See this Starter Pack for Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS/TUS) people bsky.app/starter-pack... and follow @efouragnan.bsky.social and @bricplymouth.bsky.social
- Great fun this week at BRIC Plymouth @bricplymouth.bsky.social as we begin collecting data on a combined fMRI/EEG/Theta-burst study of pre-SMA contributions to inhibitory processing with our MSc Human Neuroscience students. #neuroskyance #neuroscience #neuropsychology #brain #neuroimaging
- We are looking for new external examiners for our Master's-level programmes in Psychology at the University of Plymouth. Please RT and alert those who might be interested. They can message me, or email me matt.roser@plymouth.ac.uk. Thank you. #EduSky #AcademicSky #neuroskyence #CogPsych
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- Those rates are astonishingly low.
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- They should at least change the headline to reflect the denial, rather than implying a fact.
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- It could be.
- Labour's rivers policy is unbelievable. 1. Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has decided our rivers are insufficiently polluted with chicken shit, so he’s loosening the rules. Never mind that it's the primary cause of rivercide in the Welsh border region. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵
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- Right at the bottom of the article it quotes a govt source as saying that this is categorically untrue.
