Although I call myself a psychologist, my PhD was in vision science, which isn’t something you’d normally think of when you think of psychology. When you ask most people what they think psychologists do, they’ll say something like mind-reading, or they’ll be scared you’re analysing them or something. Or they’ll say something like “ooh I wonder if you know what’s going on inside my head.” If they’re a daily mail reader, they’ll ramble incoherently that you’re spending their tax money... Read more

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  Exciting news! Next month, at SpotOn London, fellow blogger and scientist Suzi Gage and I are co-ordinating a discussion session on academic misconduct. There's been tons of stuff in the news about this recently, and we feel that now is the time to actually start doing something about it. Over the next month, Counterbalanced and Sifting the Evidence will be hosting guest posts from some of our session panellists, as well as insight, analysis and links from around the... Read more

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Aric Sigman is back in the news today, with a number of media outlets picking up that he has written a review for the Archives of Disease in Childhood on the need to set limits on the amount of time children spend watching TV and playing video games. This is a clearly a hugely important issue - as I've noted before, there is a good deal of evidence to suggest that hours spent watching television are correlated with negative health... Read more

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