Science in the public eye

Time Lab in the media

Interviews, broadcasts and features exploring the psychology of time, with contributions from Dr Luke Jones at The University of Manchester.

This archive brings together dated and identifiable media coverage, listed from most recent to earliest. Links lead to the original publisher or broadcast wherever possible. Media and public-engagement appearances without a traceable publication or recording may not yet be represented.

Press & magazines Radio & podcasts Web & video
Inc. · Online press

Feel Like Time Is Speeding Up? Scientists Have Figured Out Why—and What to Do About It

Jessica Stillman discusses why modern life can make time feel compressed, drawing on Luke Jones’s comments about memory and retrospective duration from an earlier interview in Noema. This is secondary coverage, not a separate interview.

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Noema · Magazine / online

Your Perception of Time Is, In Fact, Warped

An interview with Luke Jones for Mike Mariani’s feature about the changing experience of time, memory, digital technology and the lasting effects of the pandemic.

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The Psychophiles Podcast · Video / podcast

Dr. Luke Jones: Psychophysics, Internal Clocks & Passage of Time

A video conversation about experimental approaches to time perception, internal clocks and the experience of the passage of time.

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Philadelphia Magazine · Magazine / online

How COVID Warped Our Sense of Time

Luke Jones is interviewed about prospective and retrospective duration judgements and why the pandemic seems to have lasted such an unusual length of time.

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The Courier Journal / USA Today Network · Newspaper / online

How the COVID-19 pandemic has changed time perception

Coverage of changes in the experience of time during the pandemic. The lab’s January 2022 news report records an interview with the Courier Journal and USA Today.

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BBC — Unusual Times · Radio / podcast

The experience of time in lockdown

A BBC interview with Luke Jones exploring the distortions to subjective time experienced during COVID-19 restrictions.

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VICE · Magazine / online

There’s a Reason This Lockdown Feels So Much Worse

Nana Baah interviews Luke Jones about why the third English lockdown felt longer and more difficult than earlier restrictions.

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The Naked Scientists · BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire · Radio / podcast

Time: It’s all relative

A live discussion of why time seems to speed up with age, why waiting drags, and how attention and memory influence our experience of time. Luke’s segment begins at approximately 48:46 in the podcast.

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New Scientist · Magazine / online

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

Douglas Fox’s feature discusses Luke Jones’s work with John Wearden on repetitive auditory stimulation, mental processing and time perception.

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