We're hiring! FT research assistant @ UT Dallas
Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging.
Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk.
App. deadline May 6.
Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31680
PS wouldn’t be my first choice of journal, but it is a protocol paper that follows a previous protocol published there
A “fun” experience with BMC Neurology @bmc.springernature.com who sat on our submission for over 10 months without ever sending for review, despite repeated reminders… we have now retracted to submit elsewhere…
Code (python) is available at github: github.com/rl671/heterorc
Should be readily applicable to your own EEG/MEG decoding pipelines!
Great collaboration with @alexwoolgar.bsky.social @rhens.bsky.social , Sichao, Yanan, and John, during my time at @mrccbu.bsky.social & @theneuro.bsky.social ! (6/6)
We're hiring! 4 New Job opportunities in Academia within the School of Psychology - scroll through to see the positions. Application deadlines mid April, learn more at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
#Psychology #TrinityCollegeDublin #Job #Opportunity #Hiring #Academia #PHD #Masters #AssistantProfessor
Our latest results on bioRxiv!
Our EEG study shows that human brain activity consecutively supports both Bayesian integration and prediction‑error signalling.
Plot twist: prediction‑error signalling appears to be consistent with the Reverse Hierarchy Theory!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
So he doesn’t agree with Equal Marriage
He doesn’t want to see kids grow up free of cigarettes
He wants to get rid of the NHS & replace with insurance
He thinks banning handguns was ludicrous
He would reverse the Online Safety Act
Some horrible views there 😢😡😬
3 new fellowships 👇🏼
Brilliant analysis of current madness…
I know reviewer fatigue is a real problem but giving so much power to editors has always worried me. That fatigue would be better addressed by properly rewarding reviewing in terms of career progression, grant eligibility etc
This is really worrying and would impede all the great science being done through sharing data (including testing reproducibility). It would be yet another blow to the US position as an international leader in science.
We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Nice review by @rhens.bsky.social of the >300 papers using CamCAN data to study the cognitive neuroscience of aging rdcu.be/e73yS - thanks to the authors of all those papers!
Will the barista also tell you whether your genes allow you to add a pastry?
See you there Moataz!
Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In some ways I'm philosophical about The End these days. It is what it is. But for the final wave to hit because of the crisis when we worked the hardest we possibly could, we nearly broke ourselves, and did exactly what the govt told us to do? It seems.. painful.
We have the vaccine, we have the means to distribute it. We need to redouble efforts to tackle the slow loss of confidence in vaccines.
No quick way to do this but we have the tools – it needs effort, outreach, listening to people’s concerns, answering questions, & working within communities. 8/8
…pls excuse missing colon before “the importance”…
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
Gradually, then suddenly: the precarious position of UK preclinical #neuroscience
Professor Mark Walton’s new opinion piece in @brain1878.bsky.social highlights the funding and workforce pressures facing UK preclinical neuroscience.
academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
#PreclinicalResearch
Over half of Britons say it would be a bad outcome if the assisted dying Bill runs out of time in the Lords.
Over a quarter of opponents agree.
The public don’t want the Bill blocked by delay.
Add your name to the petition urging the Government to intervene:
www.dignityindying.org.uk/petition
A bit old now, but great Registered Report by Maya Raza (not on here)
In a vague attempt to lighten mood (and possibly even with educational benefit), I have added a couple more cartoons about the tools of cognitive neuroscience (with brief explanations): www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h.... Thanks to @iancooketapia.bsky.social for prettifying.
Really important points…
Do you sometimes think "oh boy, I would really like to hear Julia ramble some more about the topics about which she doesn't stop talking to begin with?"
The wait is finally over! @guruspod.bsky.social and had a chat about open science, causal inference, and apparently birth order effects.
