Ryan Blything

Welcome to my Twitter Page! I tweet about #CogPsych #LanguageAcquisition #Psycholinguistics #DevPsych ...plus #tennis

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

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[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Breaking news: Harvard faculty votes to cap the number of A's awarded in course grades, a big step in combatting the grade inflation that has been dumbing down our courses, conveying the wrong message to students, and making universities a national laughingstock.

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

@WestMids_CA @BhamCityCouncil Interesting Developments. What is the purpose of the yellow perimeter, specifically for unshaded areas that are still within the yellow perimeter? (e.g., East of Knowledge Quarter; East & South of Digbeth?)

[Jane Haynes @JaneRockHouse]

@Bradford_St_Bhm Thanks for sharing this - following on from my story @WMPolice have responded: "We’re investigating after 4 trees were cut down in Digbeth High Street on Friday.
CCTV footage has been obtained and is currently being reviewed." Any info via Live Chat quote crime ref 20/253045/26.

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

“The time has come for the silent majority to raise their voices!”

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

'We will kill you and burn your house': Council staff under attack from High Street gangs https://t.co/vgI1ROm7zQ

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

@AstonPress @AstonUniversity Have these facilities been designed with flexibility for other racket-sports, particularly tennis? Aston has a new Student Tennis Club so it would be amazing to offer tennis facilities, too.

[Henry @brianpiehouse]

Central Hall. Just no words.

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum https://t.co/bHYuHVWo8t

[Reiss 🦩 @ReissOmari]

Well do I have news for you!

As a part of the Sprint City Centre project, Corporation St will indeed see the removal of most parking spaces, narrowing of the road, widening of the pavements along with a new zebra crossing. Hopefully new paving too rather than tarmac!

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

What an absolute waste of a Birmingham icon.

Get rid of the cars
Pedestrianise the street (or buses only)
Restore Central Methodist Hall into Birmingham’s St Pancras Hotel
Fill those closed retail units with small cafes and restaurants

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

@BhamCityCouncil Good luck 👍

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

Surely, it is time to enforce serious regulations (speed limits and restricted zones) and penalties on electric "bicycles" (which are basically being used like motorbikes without the same regulations)?
@UKLabour

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

CCTV captures 'brutal' electric bike hit-and-run https://t.co/QR5WuJnOHR

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

“Autism has become so diluted, we can’t really tell what we’re talking about anymore" - a seemingly obvious yet important distinction between "profound" and "nonprofound" autism that, oddly, few media reports acknowledge...

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

After hearing the umpteenth perfectly functioning Harvard student tell me she's "autistic," and also teenagers who shriek uncontrollably, self-mutilate, and never look at another person, I've seen firsthand how the ever-expanding "autism spectrum" diagnosis is worse than useless, particularly with RFKJ and Trump claiming there's an explosion of cases. It also corrupts research by lumping heterogeneous people, foiling the search for a cause. https://t.co/yPQYyuUsPl

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

@BuildsWeAre Can't wait! Such a fantastic resource for all Bham residents :D

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

@OldStationSt @thevicsoc Agreed; and just to stress its current state, here are photos I took *today* (23/5/25) from @AstonUniversity
campus. Thanks to @thevicsoc for spotlighting the decline of this building, and I hope @BhamCityCouncil
can now see the urgency to address it, as well as @MayorWestMids

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Decades of Birmingham Civic Leaders should feel eternal shame that Methodist Central Hall is on @thevicsoc's 2025 Top 10 endangered buildings wall of shame list

You could have also included The Electric, The Crown and many others in Brum on that list.

https://t.co/oH8kvwSUqH

[Ryan Blything @RyanBlything]

@brumdispatch And for context, here's a shot of the building from this week. What will
@BhamCityCouncil
@ShabanaMahmood
@MayorWestMids @RichParkerLab do about this?

[Birmingham Culture @brumculture]

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[BBC Midlands @bbcmtd]

Female MPs call harassment an assault on democracy https://t.co/5OGXL0kiTW

[Rebecca Broadbent @STEM_Becky]

With you on the virtual picket line @AstonUCU #TogetherStronger💪🏼 #UCUrising