Mark Haselgrove

The new book project is a Go!

Meeting up with my co-author to discuss content and structure*

*Drink beer in York and catch up on old times.

The new book project is a Go!

Meeting up with my co-author to discuss content and structure*

*Drink beer in York and catch up on old times.

Milldale, being stupidly quaint. Jack not caring that much.

It truly is. I love the contrast between the dark and white peak. Totally different landscapes, sometimes only a few miles apart.

Quality fingerpost in Milldale, Peak District.

Timeline cleanse.

The river Dove, border to Staffordshire and Derbyshire, babbling down its valley

Quality fingerpost in Milldale, Peak District.

For the full 12 months - out in the sun. Not one of those pretend 6 monthers.

Academia is a system in which extensive feedback is provided to UGs for a one paragraph piece of coursework that was probably written by Chat GPT, but no feedback is provided to researchers for a 30 page, £0.5M funding application that took months of effort. 🤔

Timeline cleanse.

Nottingham University Park looking very pretty in early morning sunlight.

Reflecting today on the excellent conference I attended last year in San Sebastian, Spain, which I went to because it's excellent and the USA is now, in so many ways, not.

#BeMoreLikeSpain

From our experience with this paper, I would say that it was duplicity, hyperbole AND the researchers not knowing the very first thing about associative learning.

Nigel Trump, seems appropriate..?

Beastly mud and oomska...

...but I can use English language to ask Claude AI to read a paper, extract its data from git hub and simulate it with a neural network, with visualisations, and then write a report on what it's just done.

Go figure?

It is 2026 and...

- Google scholar still doesnt know the page range of APA publications

- Editorial Manager still hasn't worked out how to deal with passwords.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed...

Record grain harvests.

Automatic captioning can cope with most of my nasal whine it seems. However it systematically fails to understand it when I say "Rescorla", which it takes some amazing guesses at.

Particularly like "The skull of Wagner", which sounds like a "choose your own adventure novel" for learning theorists.

Automatic captioning can cope with most of my nasal whine it seems. However it systematically fails to understand it when I say "Rescorla", which it takes some amazing guesses at.

Particularly like "The skull of Wagner", which sounds like a "choose your own adventure novel" for learning theorists.

Yeah, we've had this for a while. The great irony is that the major systemic IT issues we face as an institution have been caused by our own institution investing in shite software, not some terrifying email from outside.

I think the best part of the health and safety training course i just did was the 5 minute description of the institutional health and safety committee structure and reporting procedure.

This definitely made me feel healthier and safer

"Breakdown of trust' at University of Nottingham as Vice Chancellor told to quit".

a man is typing on a computer keyboard while making a face . ALT: a man is typing on a computer keyboard while making a face .

Publisher's contract signed.

New* book project is underway. Exciting times

*ish

Jesus. England are playing absolutely terrible. Even worse than last week.

Portuguese, I believe.

Not sure if I was part of a psychology experiment on imitation, or whether I have met a person who, like, Alexa, only communicates after an activation phrase.

5 min prior to deportation on a nice holiday boat trip I pop into a nearby coffee shop...

Me: Hi. Do you do coffees to go?
Waitress: Good morning.
Me: Hi! Do you do coffees to go?
Waitress: Good morning!
Me: Good morning.
Waitress: No, we don't.

call me when the chicks can scratch themselves with a broom