Today marks World Parkinson's Day 🔵
At #QUBPsych, we are proud to conduct research on Parkinson's, spanning movement and balance, mental health and wellbeing, stigma, and the role of exercise and dance in improving quality of life for people living with the condition.
Posts by Matthew Rodger
A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.
There is no McTry.
"No matter how you feel about ketamine, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms"
Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.
to take another London example, the Thames is a clean river! do you know how astonishing that would have seemed to our grandparents
New Palestine fundraiser comp featuring lots of Northern Irish artists including David Holmes, Phil Kieran, Róis, Autumns, Deathbed Convert and Rory from ASIWYFA.
rudimentary.bandcamp.com/album/occupi...
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer posts (x 2) in Music (specifically SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...) at Queen's University Belfast: hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
It's a great centre with some brilliant colleagues!
Join Dr Mihalis Doumas TODAY for a discussion about the fully funded PhD project: Dance Interventions for Parkinson's Disease.
Monday 23 February 2026
11am, GMT
Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/32306149117749
“The one weird trick no one knows about”
I think you're probably right that there isn't a single term in movement science that's used in the way you're getting at, even though I suspect that many would share the intuition that there should be someting to describe the experience of 'moving well'. Look forward to seeing what you come up with
Kinaesthesia is the word for the sense of movement (as opposed to proprioception as the sense of relative joint positions), but it probably doesn't have the conotations you're after.
I think Maxine Sheets-Johnstone has written quite a bit about the aesthetic and emotional experience of movement
Silhouettes of a family holding hands at sunset with text about a fully-funded PhD on child to parent violence at Queen's University Belfast.
Close-up of an adult hand gently holding a newborn's hand, promoting a fully-funded PhD on mobile health tools for postpartum depression at Queen's University Belfast.
Three pairs of dance shoes—black sneakers, tap shoes, and pink ballet pointe shoes—arranged on a stone floor beneath text about a fully-funded PhD on dance interventions for Parkinson’s disease.
Close-up of a person walking on railway tracks with text about a fully-funded PhD on cognitive and motor set-shifting in aging at Queen's University Belfast.
We are offering x4 fully-funded PhD opportunities working with Dr Katrina McLaughlin, Dr Anna Truzzi, Dr Mihalis Doumas and Dr Andrew Monaghan.
Closing date: 13 February 2026
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We are delighted to be able to offer 13 #FundedPhD opportunities within QUB Psychology.
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So, who's still left in the Tory party now?
Completely! Can't tell you how many times I've been nervously swiping about on a slightly raised stage with some other doofuses, only to look at Gwendolin dancing her socks off and feel reassured that we were on the right track. If you're in the 'Fast next Friday, come celebrate her with us!
A scene is made up of so many parts, some of which doń´t get the credit they deserve. The DIY-alt-punk community of Belfast has been supercharged over the years by the inimitable Gwendolin Patterson. Come help us celebrate her and her 60th birthday next Friday - www.facebook.com/events_invit...
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
The Replacements' Tim (Let it be edition)
Festivalgoers are worried about Beck after the singer repeatedly calls himself a loser in rambling performance
All statistical models are wrong, but some are stupid
Oh man! Reeling from this news!
I was lucky to have Dave as my degree project supervisor, and enjoyed so many chats with him subsequently. His lectures on Bernstein and Gibson got me into the science I still do today. His gleeful curiosity about a prismatic range of topics was so infectious.
RIP
Wow, interesting! Sounds like a good discussion despite the mean photoshopping 😃
Ouch, poor Will! 😅 What's the Yes/No debate that's got everybody name-calling like this?
Is that Will on that rock?!? What is going on?!!
RIP Brian Wilson. For all his faults and troubles, he gifted the world an immeasurable treasure chest of harmonious gems. I am grateful to continue enjoying a life soundtracked by these jewels, especially during my formative teens. How deep is the ocean? youtu.be/X76ejh4EIV4?...
youtu.be/wXFxWDaxj54?... I was thinking of this
Archie Bell and also the Drells
but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine
That's a beauty! I remember a department seminar consisting entirely of consecutive slides about reciprocal 'short report' rebuttals in some cog sci journal. A boring airing of griveances about whether left thumb pressure reduces liberal views or whatever, inflating the h-index of both parties by 8