Hi Benja, thanks for the reply / encouragement. :) I will seriously consider making it to this or another Bristol meetup (I may well in fact be away that weekend, as it's the bank holiday weekend).
I am indeed doing my MSc in experimental psychology, as a precursor to a PhD in psycholinguistics which I should be starting in the autumn (in the same department). So it's sort of a shift in fields, but not an especially dramatic one - I took a reasonable amount of experimental psychology during my linguistics undergrad. The decision-making project is really cool! Decision-making is definitely an interest of mine within psychology - I did some work with Simon and Guarav on one of their projects last term (edit: no, actually, I forgot we had another term in there; it was in the autumn), so we have some people in common. It definitely sounds like we could have a fun conversation.
Ah, the bank holiday -- drats, I could have thought of that... But great that you're considering coming! :-) And really cool to hear that you've been working with Simon and Gaurav!
BTW, if you're interested in decision making, you should consider coming to some of the Thursday seminars -- we often have really interesting people visit (e.g. recently we've had Mike Shadlen, who did some of the ground-breaking work on the neuroscience of decision making that Luke mentions in his crash course).
Discussion article for the meetup : First Bristol meetup
WHEN: 25 May 2013 03:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Friska Queens Road (on the Clifton triangle), Bristol
Back in 2010, Bristol had 4000+ unique LW visitors, but we've never had a meetup -- let's try and see what happens! I'll be in the Friska on Queens Road (on the Clifton triangle, right next to the university campus) on Saturday the 25th at 3pm, with a LessWrong sign and a paperback of HPMOR. Anyone going to join me? :-)
Discussion article for the meetup : First Bristol meetup