Will Gervais

THAMES Time, MFers!!

Episode 3 of the blog series, all about the SIX SECRET LETTERS FOR CRITICAL THINKING THAT THE SCIENTISTS DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW

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#psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

The single best horror-comedy Ive ever seen. Its in the history books for the one of the longest one-shots in a film (37 min) and for making 1,000x its budget (cost $25,000 USD, made $30.5 million worldwide)

Masterclass of a film. And do not read anything about it going in.

Please do! Hope it's useful!

THAMES Time, MFers!!

Episode 3 of the blog series, all about the SIX SECRET LETTERS FOR CRITICAL THINKING THAT THE SCIENTISTS DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW

willgervais.com/blog/2026/3/...

#psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

Parts of a kiwi bird as fruit

1. New in-press paper on religion's functions, co-authored with amazing lab manager James Nesbit! Full text here, more info in thread below: columbiasamclab.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/....
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc @socphilpsych.bsky.social 🧪

holy shit

Cheers!

Godless Polemics: Atheist Pamphleteering and the Specter of Emancipation in the United States Godless Polemics examines the role of pamphleteering as a medium for radical critique in the intellectual and cultural history of American atheism, focusing on its function as oppositional and counter...

Succinct and a very interesting open access book on atheist pamphleteering in the United States: "Godless Polemics" (2026) by Florian Zappe. www.routledge.com/Godless-Pole...

Wilde

Surveys that find British young adults have high levels of Christian belief & practice have two things in common:
1. They survey opt-in panels that accept volunteers.
2. They don't make the underlying survey datasets publicly available for researchers to analyze.

My Beautiful Bullshitty Baby:

Episode 2 of our blog series on methods renovations. Diving into my Science and Critical Thinking module - layout, rationale, & the first few weeks.

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NEW: Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz, Ruud Luijkx, The Faith Factor. How Scholars’ Religiosity Biases Research Findings on Secularization sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

On the publication bias discourse, I regret that metascience has become a source of decontextualized, low-res, bean-counting-focused `science is in crisis' narratives. It is largely uncurious abt science, desperately lacking in theory & measurement. I'll quote a few takes I liked & add my thoughts🧵

Petition - Free Civil Legal Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence Support free civil legal support for sexual violence survivors. Help create a fair, accessible path to justice when the system fails to act.

97% of r@pists walk free in the UK. Survivors don't. Let's change that!

This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time.

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stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

ARTE

Ooooof. Miss the phenomenon but not so much the experience.

Stay hunkered & safe!

Ice storm?

Don’t Send A Magician To Do A Scientist’s Job: A New Blog Series About Our Experiments In Teaching Science to Young Scientists — Will Gervais We’re doing some exciting and innovative things with our methods, stats, and skills curriculum and we want to tell y’all about it! Debuting our new bespoke 9-module statistics, methods, and skills cu...

Dusted off the ol' blog after years of heavy disuse because I'm h*ckin' excited to tell y'all about some of the exciting things we're trying in our stats/methods/skills curriculum at Brunel!

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Thanks!

They're effectively 10s, with the three simultaneous ones bundled as a big 30

All the build up to 9 module things happened before I was involved and I think that's where a lot of the BPS considerations came in. This year we were mostly spreading out the stats & methods curriculum a bit differently and repurposing some blocks that had been BPS-orthogonal anyways.

Thankfully!

Ran out of characters but shout outs to @abbeyepage.bsky.social @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and Bskyless (I think?) Elena and Caro!!

Don’t Send A Magician To Do A Scientist’s Job: A New Blog Series About Our Experiments In Teaching Science to Young Scientists — Will Gervais We’re doing some exciting and innovative things with our methods, stats, and skills curriculum and we want to tell y’all about it! Debuting our new bespoke 9-module statistics, methods, and skills cu...

Dusted off the ol' blog after years of heavy disuse because I'm h*ckin' excited to tell y'all about some of the exciting things we're trying in our stats/methods/skills curriculum at Brunel!

Read! Share! Tell us what you think!
#psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

The most majestic fucking dog you've ever seen resting her lil black tan and white face on her new reindeer squeaky toy she got for Christmas with a sneaky lil smile on her face

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Haha, yup. Bit belabored

Slightly diminish a game:`

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