Senior lecturer in psychology at Nottingham Trent University, research focus on primate social behaviour, ecology and endocrinology
Dr Chris Young
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1/ 📢 We’re hiring at Brunel Psychology!
We have ✨TWO sparkling ✨ new permanent roles in Clinical Psychology as we grow our clinical provision, including our new MSc in Clinical Psychology launching this September.
Come and help shape what we’re building 👇
@brunelgradschool.bsky.social 🧪
Dr Chris Young
"While geophagy may serve as a coping mechanism, a more effective management approach is to reduce or eliminate the provisioning of human foods,” said @ppebsworth.bsky.social
🚨Want to work with us? We’re hiring a Lecturer! Check out the details 👇🏽
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Brunel Psychology
Introducing meta-🔼! (meta-delta)
Really excited about this one. We provide a principled, performance-corrected measure of metacognitive bias, placing it on an equal methodological footing with meta-d, and showing robust test-retest reliability to boot.
Check out Kevin's thread for more details! 🧠🧪
Bristol Anthro & Archaeo
We have an *extremely* important announcement to make.
From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long.
In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.
📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social!
We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏
You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net
Macaques have learned to eat soil to avert gut irritation caused by salty and sugary snacks, researchers believe
In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Ape Shit the zine
Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — As a new wave of large-scale solar energy projects take shape along the fringes of Sri Lanka’s Managed Elephant Range, or MER, in the southern district of Hambantota, activists...
