Dr Yan Kristian Birch

Assistant Professor at Durham University. Evolution, rumination, metacognition, emotional face processing. Occasional programmer. All views are my own.

[Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya) @twlldun]

Not - i concede - the main point tonight, but in this photo Yevgeny Prigozhin looks like he’s narrating an early noughties straight to DVD documentary about London’s tastiest football hooligan firms

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@PaddyRoss1 Has he ever really stopped though?

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

I ask you, where else could you be sat in a bar and have someone play acoustic covers of Gnarls Barkley, Bruce Springsteen, and then Bomb Track by RATM?

Never change, Edinburgh. Never change.

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

@lukeawilkinson @DurhamPsych Thank you, Luke! We really need to catch up at some point; it has been far too long!

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

Annual attempt at Twitter. Delighted to have joined @DurhamPsych as an Assistant Professor and I am incredibly excited to see what the future holds!

[Durham Psychology @DurhamPsych]

📢 Exciting News! @YBirchPsy has officially joined our team as an Assistant Professor (Education)! Starting in a new role, @YBirchPsy will lead our career development initiatives, revamping content, and empowering students to recognize their skills early on 🌟 #CareerDevelopment

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

@CanuckInEngland @DurhamPsych Thank you so much! Hope you're keeping well 😁

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"Run an online study" they said. "It'll be fun and easy" they said.

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

@TPEassist @TPExpressTrains I appreciate the effort here, but as a regular passenger on your trains, I assure you I have used that link every time but to no avail. It becomes a circular process of entering an email address to access, then the connection timing out and returning to the same screen.

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

@TPExpressTrains I was just wondering if it is now policy to have non-functional WiFi on your trains? It says it is there but keeps returning errors. What's the point in offering something that basically doesn't exist?

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Academia hasn't worn me down yet, apparently. Still being asked if I have a student ID after all this time.

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Head into the office to try and get caught up on some work. Leave a couple of hours later because it is FREEZING and there no accessible radiators. There goes that bright idea...

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@PaddyRoss1 At least you didn't have tofu substituted for batteries...

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

@Palgrave @SN_CustService Thanks for getting back to me. That's the webpage I used which forwarded my request to Springer. If you provide an email I can forward those details on because the webpage gives the impression that requests go to you, but this hasn't happened in my experience.

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

@Palgrave any way of requesting education copies of Palgrave texts for lecturers? The copy request link on your site forwards to Springer who don't deal with Palgrave titles and so naturally refuse requests.

[Anna Grubert @grubert_anna]

A 3-year postdoc position is available at @DurhamPsych. The project is funded by the @LeverhulmeTrust and aims at understanding the cognitive and neural underpinnings of memory-guided visual attention.
Details and application form can be found here:
https://t.co/JGaSHqAU4a

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

Update: depending on your viewpoint, the back of a bookshelf is an excellent/terrible choice for a safe spot.

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

Easy steps for academic profit:

1. Place work USBs in appropriate container for easy access

2. Keep container in safe place.

3. Forget safe place.

4. ???

5. Panic/profit.

Results may vary!

[Dr Yan Kristian Birch @YBirchPsy]

@DrBFernandes *honestly have no idea.

I need more sleep...

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@DrBFernandes If I ever saw one of these out in the wild, I honestly know idea how I would react.

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@Anth_McGregor @PaddyRoss1 When the Vic opens back up, we need to have a frank discussion about this statement