Guy Fletcher

Dale Dorsey’s latest and, sadly, final book is now available. The topic is painfully fitting, given the wonderful company that he was. academic.oup.com/book/63481?s...

Excellent article on the book scam industry by an expert in the field.

Maybe Brighton fans feel differently but in their shoes I’d be kinda regretting having Europe this season. Otherwise they’d have a chance of a real title tilt.

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

New post by me on @bewellco.bsky.social's wellbeing explained substack about why happiness hacks are overrated. Come for the swings at Huberman, stay for the structural determinants of wellbeing. Top it off with applications to your workplace. wellbeingexplained.substack.com/p/why-you-do...

@declanogara.bsky.social I’m intrigued by Zirkzee as a player. Based on my limited impressions, he seems physically elite and very skilful but also quite unusual in style. Why does he never force his way into the first team?

@nathanaclark.bsky.social how much do spurs’ struggles this season resemble the early part of De Zerbi at Brighton? Wondering if we’re getting those growing pains everyone mentioned when appointed but just delayed (cos we didn’t do De Zerbi ball last year).

she is making it possible for the public to understand academics on levels never before seen. "the kind of person who would translate the odyssey twice, two separate times" is the personality type i'm afraid

Spurs comfortably dispatching lower league opposition in the cup

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

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@windycoys.bsky.social a fantastic day for your Bergvall doubts, so far. (Esp the first goal which was exactly the fault you described).

Yeah, no one likes pleasure.

wake up babe, new Nikhil Krishnan just dropped. (As fantastic as ever).

Tried and failed to read the whole daily nous thread about the AI generated paper.

A short story about dry eyes, heartbreak, and lubricant. benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/l...

In my 9th year of sending at least one child to school at this time of year and I still find it weird. Will basically never stop thinking that that’s a thing for September.

when you absent-mindedly check the price of a Charlie Binghams

Sometimes your non-academic interest in unsolved mysteries turns into a philosophical interest: why is it bad not to know what happened? blog.apaonline.org/2026/08/03/h... many thanks to the APA blog for inviting me to do this.

“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” Emily Wilson 🤝 Alex Rails.

You would never get the "£50 doesn't even buy a meal quote if the topic was the benefit system, then you would have a guy going "sack of potatoes and a carrot, and you can feed a child for a month at just 3.2 pence per meal"

Incredibly disorientating to have worked on welfare since grad school, where (some) people used to snort derisively, or look puzzled, when I told them I worked on it, and now see near-daily articles about AI welfare in mainstream publications.

Abolish VAR

I saw the best teams of my generation destroyed by Martinez

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All this full back chat but that goal looked like a team with no centre backs.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a game so obviously over at ~50 mins as when France got their second.

Officially out on Thursday but these arrived today. So happy with how it looks. 🎉

have Germany deliberately gone for a kit that blends with the referee‘s kit (at least in peripheral vision)?

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

Bought some headphones recently and fascinated by the discovery that so many people are walking around wearing headphones that cost £200-400. When did that become normal?

@liamshields.bsky.social very keen to hear your thoughts on Everton’s performance on Sunday. I expected a *much* harder game.

@nathanaclark.bsky.social will you ever release the X Files (= our championship squad in the other timeline)? Would be intrigued to see it!

Tottenham today

Spurs conjuring up another monumental goal that no one is quite sure who scored 🤝😃

Just heaping more embarrassment upon themselves www.scottishfa.co.uk/news/scottis...

www.theguardian.com/football/202.... Some of this is good but somehow even this author can't bring themselves to care that the game wasn't allowed to finish. Claiming that "Celtic won the game fairly and squarely where it should happen, on the field". Not if the match didn't finish they didn't.

what an abysmal week of scottish football, topped off by fans preventing a match being completed.

this VAR possibly deciding the season in the Premier League is the purest expression of 2025-26 Premier League football

""It's not a con. It's an attempt to set up a new distinction in the world of academia - an attempt that failed," he is reported as saying."

spurs ahead by two goals for the first time since beating Brentford on December 6th?!

no kidding www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Edinburgh weather currently making for a simply incredible ranges of outfits. Pretty much everything from full winter to summer

Just an easy, fun one. I hope Mr Beast makes Beast Games for a thousand years. I am maybe never happier than I am when I get to write about it youtu.be/xEvDZn95E3s?...