Prof Neil Martin
@ThatNeilMartin
Professor of Psychology, author, bad at playing spoons. 7th edition of best-selling, Psychology, out now! Get him. DM for projects #horror #smell #comedy
And so, it begins! (again). NEWS. The 8th edition of Psychology will be out in 2026! This means, I think, that I should start writing it.
Researchers have claimed that the number of redundancies being made in UK higher education could be much higher than previously thought, potentially impacting more than 20,000 jobs timeshighereducation.com/news/universit…
Next Monday evening in the @BFI #Library... New Writings: Kate Bush and the Moving Image Stephen Glynn will be discussing his recent book, Kate Bush and the Moving Image, which examines her valuable contribution to visual arts. Tickets | info: tinyurl.com/2ztrp4m9 #katebush
There are few more disingenuous and lazy questions than "why should the taxpayer pay for...?"
A few people questioning "why write The State when you mean taxpayers"... ...because that's a whole other can of worms. How the state funds things is a big question - taxation is one option, so is borrowing, so is creating money. I decided far better to avoid that issue!
Pizza costing £25.99 👍🏽
tell a stupid story in 3 words
On the other hand, nobody shot my kids today, we don't have the largest prison population on the planet, we aren't the worst polluter in history, our bacon isn't fucking weird, we don't have Florida, our leader isn't a batshit candied yan, and our cheese is ACTUALLY CHEESE.
Hot take: Europe is a bunch of third-world countries with better branding. No A/C. No dryers. Ice is a luxury. You’ll sweat through dinner while the waiter ignores you for 2 hours. Say what you want about America, but at least eating out doesn’t feel like hot yoga with bread.
I'm guessing the great Atlantic explorers of the past were very tiny.
To be clear about this the £100 billion to nationalise the water industry being branded about by govt this morning does indeed come from a think tank report commissioned, bought and paid for by; @AnglianWater, @stwater, @SouthWestWater and @unitedutilities It also uses a…
Interesting analysis @TheEconomist on why 'Britain's bankrupt universities' need reform. 'Non-academics make up about half the university workforce; between 2006 and 2018, the numbers of managers and professionals swelled by 60%.' Might this be relevant? economist.com/britain/2025/0…
Beach find, 11th March 2022. A beachcombing first for us - a string of plastic pork sausages with faces.
Finished the last but one issue of @The_Fence_Mag and there was an excellent chronology of the strained conditional by @shockproofbeats. Immodesty compels me to offer my own contribution. Anyway, Seamas's piece is being directly cited in an academic article I'm just revising.
NEW! from the Hey Kids shop (link in bio): BIG DADDY & GIANT HAYSTACKS!
As the cowards at @CBS appear to have gone all Larry Sanders on his bottom, here's Stephen Colbert's very catchy, and possibly show-cancelling musical tribute: Billionaires Are Actually Good. youtube.com/watch?v=YYjT_r…