When did academic pay go wrong?
There’s been a lot of discussion about the decline in UK academic pay. I recently wondered when, exactly, it happened to me.
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Hi, I'm Andy J. Wills, Ph.D. (he/him) and a Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology , University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. I have researched cognitive processes in biological intelligences (mostly humans), and taught psychology to undergraduates, for 30 years.
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Almost anything can be above average, depending on what you value
ChatGPT-assisted analysis of quality of life and university rankings
This morning, I was having breakfast in London when I came across this Visual Capitalist post on quality of life in cities. Three of the cities I consider to be among the greatest in the world (Paris, New York, and - of course - London) came below the median on...
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Don't think too much ... it might make you irrational
Psychonomic Society blog covers our research
In addition to the excellent g-distance paper, recently published in Psychological Review, the other main output from Lenard Dome’s Ph.D. was a paper on the effect of concurrent load on the inverse base-rate effect (IBRE). In the IBRE, one pair of cues (AB) predict a common outcome, while an overlapping...
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The decline of physical communities
What research culture in UK universities has lost, and what will replace it.
I’ve been based at the University of Exeter this week, a place I worked for 12 years and where I’ve maintained good relationships with several people ever since. In the 12 years I worked here, it was a good, bad, and indifferent experience for me, at various points. But there...
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Why I'm currently declining some unpaid peer-review requests
Industrial Action in UK Higher Education
TL;DR: Due to Industrial Action, I am currently limiting the number of new, external, unpaid peer-review jobs I take on. I will still take on some unpaid reviews, proportionate to my own use of the peer review system. Beyond that, I’ll decline requests for unpaid reviews. If you’d like to...
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