Emily Mather

Psychology academic interested in language, learning, and development. #FirstGenUni

[Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @o_guest]

‼️ new preprint out with @andrea_e_martin on connectionism: the framework that uses artificial neural networks to model human cognition: we split it into Modern and Classical (see figure) to show how the (meta)theoretical commitments (see table) changed dramatically after 2010 1/

[Merideth Gattis @MeridethGattis]

Two full-time postdoc positions & two part-time research assistant positions @CardiffBabylab @CUCHDScardiff @PsychCardiffUni funded by UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships awarded to Hana & Dean D'Souza
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[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Universities across the UK are in crisis. Our members hard work and research has laid that bare.

We need the government to intervene.

Front page of tomorrow’s Sunday Times.

[Hull University UCU @hulluniucu]

Fears that our employers decision to sack 1 in 6 academics from the University of Hull will ultimately bring the University to its knees. For some reason, never explained, senior managers prefer to spend money on branding, software, and campus in London. #VoteYes #SaveJobAtHull

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Social class is a fundamental career barrier in academia!

First generation college graduates are less likely to end up as a faculty member—especially at a top-ranked university—largely because they simply don’t have the same elite social networks as kids from highly educated families.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Congratulations @AngelaRayner

She held her head high when the disgraceful Daily Mail came for her with their bullying, front page after front page

Tory MP James Daly who reported her to the police

He’s gone 👍🏼

Karma

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Presumably Question Time will have Nigel Farage on every single week now that he is actually an MP, rather than only every other week when he was just a grifting gobshite.

[Andy Hazel @Andy_Hazel]

Based on Labour’s shadow cabinet, 84% went to comprehensive schools, 10% went to private schools and 6% to state grammar schools.
That would mean for the first time the cabinet closely reflected British society. https://t.co/CuFcvtuJ7z

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: BBC new forecast at 07:50am with 9 seats left to declare

Labour: 413
Conservatives: 122
Lib Dems: 71
SNP: 10
Reform: 4
Greens: 4
Others: 26

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote.

Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else.

Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.

[Owen Winter @OwenWntr]

Quite staggering disproportionality at this election. ~64% of seats on ~34% of the vote

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Rishi Sunak meanwhile becomes the biggest loser in British political history. He has lost more Tory seats in one election than any election in history, more even than the Liberal landslide of 1906.

The Tory vote share is easily the lowest in history at 24%. That's down 20%pp since 2019. It's lower than Major's 30% of 97.

His decision to fight the election now, with the strategy he chose was catastrophic.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

They pulled it off by having a highly efficient vote distribution. They got the right votes in the right places (as opposed to piling votes up in the same places, a la Corbyn in 17)

In many places Conservative vote collapsed and Reform was the beneficiary. Labour didn't necessarily gain that much but came through the middle.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

IF YOU'RE JUST WAKING UP 🧵

LABOUR LANDSLIDE.

THE WORST TORY DEFEAT IN HISTORY. COLLAPSE EVERYWHERE

LIB DEMS REVIVE BEST RESULT FOR THIRD PARTY SINCE 1923

SNP IMPLOSION. LABOUR DOMINANT IN SCOTLAND AGAIN.

MUSLIM VOTE FOR LABOUR COLLAPSES

INDEPENDENTS ELECTED IN SAFE SEATS

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

will always remember how liz truss almost brought USD to GBP parity ♥️🫶

[Richard Osman @richardosman]

Worth remembering that the Tories worst ever seat count was 156, and that was 118 years ago.

[Emily Mather @EmilyLMather]

Fantastic news, was hoping it would be even less for Tories - and Reform on 13?! #GE24

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

GENERAL ELECTION 2024 EXIT POLL

*LABOUR MAJORITY OF 170*

LAB: 410
CON: 131
LD: 61
SNP: 10
REF: 13
GREEN: 2

The worst Conservative result in their history.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

This is what the front page of the Daily Mail website looks like right now.

You're going to have to do a little bit of work for the whole story, so please read the rest of the thread...