David George

Head of #Psychology @HULLPSY | Interested in associative learning and animal behaviour #canine #cognition

[David George @davidngeorge]

@elonmusk If anyone still thinks that anything musk says is worth listening to, this must make you pause for thought. Either he means it in some future value of the dollar, in which case: sure, inflation happens. Or else he means in today's value which is 8 billion times global GDP. Loser.

[David George @davidngeorge]

If you have a dog, please consider taking 10 minutes to complete my student's questionnaire. She's interested in whether deafness affects dogs' personality and behaviour, but she really needs owners of hearing dogs to take part, too!
https://t.co/fPgLVhzE2Z

[David George @davidngeorge]

@meeleepeeleey @ExpPsychSoc Congratulations, Mike!

[Anna Wilkinson @coldbloodedcog]

Some cool jobs available with a great team at Hull

Lecturer in animal behaviour and cognition:
https://t.co/c5KlNiaBaQ  

Senior lecturer / Reader in environmental psychology: 
https://t.co/4kqkVEXPPX

[David George @davidngeorge]

@diervilla Hi Pam, we distribute it to all our new students.

[David George @davidngeorge]

@MarkHaselgrove Congratulations

[David George @davidngeorge]

@DrBlakeMorton and @davidngeorge have an opportunity for a full funded #PhD on #psychology, human-wildlife conflict, and public attitudes to wild British #carnivores @HULLPSY @UniOfHull
https://t.co/ispcGyIHMn
Please retweet and share!

[David George @davidngeorge]

@HULLPSY has launched the Deaf Dog Project.
We want to understand how deafness affects dogs' experience of the world and relationships with people.
If you want to help, please retweet or contact us.
@deafdogproject
#DogsofTwittter #CitizenScience #DeafDogs #dogs

[David George @davidngeorge]

@GrahamEvans2 @kyfcheung @JosephineCumbo Obviously. That does not change the fact that the USS final salary scheme has been closed (in 2011 for new members, in 2016 for all members). Your original tweet was obviously intended to conflate USS with final salary public sector schemes (do any still exist?). Dishonest.

[David George @davidngeorge]

@GrahamEvans2 @kyfcheung @JosephineCumbo You are simply being dishonest. CARE scheme like USS do not define a 'final pensionable salary'. Because USS IS NOT FINAL SALARY (or public sector, which you seemed to imply yesterday).

[David George @davidngeorge]

@GrahamEvans2 @kyfcheung @JosephineCumbo 'Well into the first decade of the 21st century'. We're in the third decade now, so even if what you say is true (it isn't), why on earth are you still doing it?

[David George @davidngeorge]

@GrahamEvans2 @JosephineCumbo Something on which we can agree.

[David George @davidngeorge]

@GrahamEvans2 @JosephineCumbo Universities and colleges are not 'technically' independent. They are independent. And they are not underwritten by the state. USS most certainly is not.

[David George @davidngeorge]

@GrahamEvans2 @JosephineCumbo I'm well aware of what USS is. I'm a member. What it is not is final salary or public sector. Which is why I was asking why you mentioned the closure of final salary schemes outside the public sector in reply to a tweet about USS.

[David George @davidngeorge]

@GrahamEvans2 @JosephineCumbo DB is not the same as final salary. The DB component of USS is career average revalued earnings. So what is the relevance here of talking about closure of final salary schemes outside public sector when USS is not public sector and has closed its final salary scheme?

[David George @davidngeorge]

@GrahamEvans2 @JosephineCumbo Not sure how this is relevant to USS which is neither public sector nor final salary.

[David George @davidngeorge]

@RuthHolliday1 @ProfAMV @TPRgovuk Not much hope of that when the Times Education Commission report included this snippet: "The former Universities minister Lord Johnson of Marylebone said: 'Abolishing student number controls has been the standout levelling-up policy of the last decade.'"

[David George @davidngeorge]

@chloew1970 @HullLecturer To be fair to them, the OfS only seems to be upset that poor kids have done better at university than they did at school. We can't have universities acting as engines for social mobility!