Polly Dalton
Cognitive psychology, attention, human factors, immersive technologies
- Reposted by Polly DaltonThe wonder of Voyager: This is the most beautiful thread I’ve read in a long time.
- About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
- Essential reading for all UK academics (and almost certainly applies elsewhere too) - thank you @masudhusain.bsky.social for articulating so clearly the risks that are posed to our core research and education work by this direction of travel
- Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
- Reposted by Polly DaltonDo you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
- Reposted by Polly DaltonThe bendiness does not change THE BENDINESS DOES NOT CHANGE!! Behold, the curvature blindness illusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Polly DaltonOn the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
- Just back from a fascinating day discussing #humanfactors in accident investigations with the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Academy of Forensic Sciences - interesting to see key cognitive factors like distraction and vigilance decrements coming up so frequently @roysocmed.bsky.social
- Reposted by Polly DaltonWhew! Popping back here briefly to discuss a very eventful few days. On Sat, a SNOW BUNTING appears at Hayward Regional. 😱 The bird is stunning & super-rare in the East Bay. Many birders go to see it. It's living its best life on a white/brown plastic culvert that it maybe thinks is snow? 1/
- Reposted by Polly DaltonHello, Bluesky community! We're thrilled to make our first post and what better way to debut than by announcing exciting news? We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (full-time, research & teaching), starting 12 August 2025! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
- Reposted by Polly DaltonLate Fragment by Raymond Carver.
- Reposted by Polly DaltonAbsolutely this 👇. One of the best explanations about this describes how 'nice culture' can be as harmful as 'nasty culture'- and much harder to call out because it casts the dissenting person as 'not nice'. But 'nice culture' stifles cognitive diversity. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
- Reposted by Polly DaltonLooks like nobody has made a Cognitive Psychology starter pack yet, so I made one! Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome. go.bsky.app/NsFhnV #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsychat://did:plc:hnlkil4ehrr65qrjzhdvjuwp/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb3ie3csak2d
- Reposted by Polly DaltonDo you ever get the feeling the world’s gone crazy? With this in mind, I play the Flintstones theme in the style of the Russian classics.
- Reposted by Polly DaltonIt seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)
- Reposted by Polly DaltonAre you a psychologist or neuroscientist who completed your PhD after 1st October 2022, or about to submit your thesis? Consider applying for the **4-year Career Research Development Fellowship** at St John's College, Oxford. Please share! #psychscisky #neuroskyence www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...
- Reposted by Polly DaltonWhat better way to celebrate this holiday season than to apply for a CHAIR IN MENTAL HEALTH (or to forward the ad to someone who would)? 🎄🎄🎄 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/chai...
- Reposted by Polly Dalton🔔New Postdoc Position 🔔 Do you love computational modelling and mental health? We're recruiting a postdoc on a Wellcome Trust-funded project to lead the development of a new open-source platform: Hypatia. w/ @alexandrapike.bsky.social, Lei Zhang and Catia Oliveira Read on 👇👇👇
- Reposted by Polly Dalton3x Lecturer/Senior Lecturer jobs in Psychology at Leeds Beckett (please share!) Post 1 (Health Psychology) - tinyurl.com/3kpvwfur Post 2 (Occupational Psychology/ Human factors) - tinyurl.com/42mamx7c Post 3 (Open)- tinyurl.com/5fz8t3rz Come join us, we're nice!
- Reposted by Polly Dalton**POSTDOC KLAXON** We are have *FOUR* postdoc positions. Come and work with myself, @danakarca.bsky.social , Petra Vertes and a host of great scientists. We'll be working on computational models of network formation, learning how early environments shape development. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/
