Jade Pickering, PhD

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The National Emergency Briefing and a quiet wave of community action… Psychologists Richard Clarke & @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social explore what happens when climate communication becomes a shared experience, and what might follow when the film ends. @nebriefing.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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I bought a house 🥳 In *the* mostly lovely of little Yorkshire towns. Mixed excitement yet also anxiety that I am now solely responsible for the whole thing. Every brick, every pipe... 🤯 🫣

This is deeply fucked

I said in my speech to conference, the RNLI are the best of us. For those lucky enough to have parents volunteering with RNLI, I hope they feel nothing but pride in their parents.

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

There should be a law that anyone using the speaker on their phone in public can have their phone snatched from their hands by a member of the public and thrown as far and hard as possible with the intent to destroy the phone. The thrower is not liable for any damage to the phone itself.

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

🚨 WRITE TO YOUR MP! On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, Rejoin polling at 61%, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU... ...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign & share everywhere please. 👇

This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.

Humaning.

It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time

Hot Take Saturday: I think we are on the cusp of a MASSIVE humanities revival. I’m talking handmade, craftsmanship, maximalism, art collection for everyday folks, rich music, unfettered written masterpieces, deep thought experiments…all in rejection of AI and our corporate overlords.

How could any psychiatrist equate "not diagnosable on brain scan" with "doesn't exist"? Or find any meaning at all in "lied my way to a false diagnosis and then took meds not meant for me and felt terrible"? The problem is in the complete disingenuity. (haven't watched, just read the article)

I read this recently 👇 it was a really good and personal reflection of life as a late diagnosed ND adult - not just from Robin but input from many others too - with plenty for ND and NT people alike to find value in. I ended up scribbling down a few paragraphs of reflections afterwards!

At Bennett we value transparency, and that includes sharing bts looks at some of our user research and product decisions! Here I share a high-level overview of a sprint where we followed a curiosity in our data, made some reasonable assumptions, and had them challenged during user testing 💪

New @cosmicshambles.com podcast up discussing the framing of Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? And some warnings about what lies within #adhd #channel4 #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #podcast

He didn’t change. They did.

Sorry but I don't think that's a proper use of the emergency alert

Got something to share? 🚀 Submissions are open for the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science! Posters, 5-min lightning talks and 10-min talks are welcome. 📩 Submit by 21 September: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wBc4b0oH7pOQ61Ne6ioVDiUR_XP1C5PVudXf1f-NPaY/

We just published our call for submissions for this years Bennett Symposium on Open Code in Science! If you're doing something cool in the open code/open source space we want to hear from you! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/08...

Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

I've felt a strong pull back to the offline world for the last 6 to 12 months, after about 20 years of the internet being a safe refuge for me I'm just constantly overwhelmed by the combination of the worst of humanity, and the rise of tat and slop *everywhere* I look Completely exhausting

“Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn’t come.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

Hey #UK friends. Do you get annoyed by fireworks? Do your pets find them distressing? Do you think anyone should be able to buy them? The UK Government is running a consultation and want your views. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Apparently, something happened 57 years ago in, like, space or something? I think the best take on it is still probably that of Dinah Hall...

Why The Monkey Escaped the Cage has been released on media.ccc.de #emf2026 #talk #StageA #emf2026eng https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-296-1-why-the-monkey-escaped-the-cage https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/296-why-the-monkey-escaped-the-cage

"you come to an event like EMF and you wonder, why can't everything be like this..." @kestral #EMFCamp

Never underestimate the power of organised nerds. Null Sector never fails. #emf #emfcamp

HYPED #EMF2026 #EMFCamp

WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

We are looking for autistic people (with and without a diagnosis) for an online study about how people experience and imagine different sounds. If you're interested please contact: stanley.jones@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

How is this a real animal? 😍 Weirdly I had a dream last night featuring an abornally large rodent with a long blue tail that had gotten in through the catflap.

I'm not easily moved, but @expedition33.bsky.social had me in tears as the credits rolled. Just the most beautiful game I've ever played. Lorien Testard and Alice Duport-Percier can live rent free in my head for the rest of my life as far as I'm concerned. Man.

A #poem for #transpride in Plymouth today #lgbtq #lgbt Back in Devon and Cornwall for ten gigs from Monday www.robinince.com

In his inaugural lecture, @bacon.boutique  argues that we don't need to choose between between saving lives and protecting privacy when it comes to health data. 🔗bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/06/professor-seb-bacon-delivers-inaugural-lecture-on-why-health-data-should-always-leave-a-public-trace/

This International Women in Engineering Day, read Senior Developer Nishtha Kalra’s story on confidence, coding and women in engineering: https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/06/international-women-in-engineering-day-nishtha-kalras-take-on-confidence-coding-and-women-in-engineering/ #INWED26

I was very fortunate to work as a visiting scholar at the Bennett Institute at University of Oxford for 6 months. Below I reflect on that experience, what we achieved, and what's yet to come! It's a privilege to get to continue to work with these great folk. www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/06...

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23