What should Europe do when demand for #ERC funding keeps rising?
Restrict access or invest in excellence?
Please read our open letter calling for reconsideration of the ERC 2027 resubmission restrictions & for constructive alternatives that preserve openness
Consider to share & sign - see below 🧪
pretty much aligned with how i have come to think about this subject but stated way more clearly than the chaos my mind often produces. i enjoy how jessica genuinely engages with all sides of the issue in good faith.
How on earth do we manage to navigate through our social networks? See new paper by Teoh ... & FeldmanHall:
Medial temporal lobe encodes cognitive maps of real-world social networks | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I apologise to the entire equine community. I was wrong and I will regret my previous choice of words for the remainder of my days.
They clearly know their audience
Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇
New preprint!
Prefrontal brain-to-brain synchrony during human group hunting: Evidence from fNIRS hyperscanning
Heroic work from @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social and team
fNIRS & minecraft combined to reveal PFC synchrony during human group hunting
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Advice for @erc.europa.eu :
Prohibit the use of LLMs for grant writing. Let applicants sign a declaration that they have not used such systems and that the text is written by them and them alone.
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
Milquetoast both sidesism substack about how machine learning was pretty cool before LLMs came along and ruined everything, where I unsubtly mention I once met Demis Hassabis and ended up fanboying him because I liked Republic: The Revolution
Tiktok dance that results in Gen Zers putting fullstops at the start of their posts in ironic retro fashion
First substack probably about how the flat white is the optimum morning coffee drink, although I'm starting to want a bit less milk/dairy, so I ideally want something in between that and a macchiato but I can't summon up the courage to order a cortado as I'll sound like a douchebag
Thinking of starting a substack and/or tiktok account that is so wildly popular I earn lots of money. Probably mix some niche psych/neuro theoretical views with centrist dad-leaning, but occasionally surprisingly left-wing, politics. Should work right?
Tomorrow is the 8th (out of 10) seminar of the final year Memory and The Brain module. We'll be discussing forgetting: why and how do we forget? I don't really know the answer, but hopefully we'll spend the 2 hours at least persuading ourselves that it is an interesting and important question
Beach, sea and sky in North Yorkshire
North York Moors coastline looking particularly splendid in the sun today
This really is an interesting read! One of those longer reads where I read the whole thing without the usual distractions.
"never be the same again" sounds like a threat more than anything
📣 Job alert: We are recruiting a Prof in Neuroscience with MRI expertise to join us at @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social and @unirdg-psych.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/2kdjph8v for details. Contact me for info/chat. Please spread the word
#neuroskyence #neurojobs
Congrats!
Everyone should hear this: it is ALWAYS a privilege and a treat for professors to hear from former students and trainees. I love to hear what you have been up to since you were in my lab, class, whatever.
Exciting news for ICOM7 (International Conference on Memory), in Glasgow, 26th-30th July 2027. The conference website is live and we can announce our keynote speakers!
The Obleser lab will be hiring soon!
New postdoc (fully funded) and
new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded).
Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct.
Watch out for official announcements!
Please be in touch.
auditorycognition.com
obleserlab.com
hoerhanse.de
lemmi.uni-luebeck.de
LOL, nope. Wembley for England vs Spain
England!!!
Inside Wembley Stadium. Lionesses and Spain are warming up on the pitch
Exciting times!
Super excited to share this preprint! How do we disentangle underlying structure from the particular features of a learning episode to benefit future learning? We find that memory reactivation during sleep promotes this structure abstraction process.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Wife's sticky toffee pudding on point this evening, with extra sauce that @stpguy3.bsky.social would hopefully award extra points for
Sourdough loaf on wooden chopping board from above
Sourdough loaf on wooden chopping board from side
Weekend bake, in collaboration with an old school friend (a mix of both our starters)
Last time I checked, yes
