Amazing talk from @sjblakemore.bsky.social at #flux2025 - childhood and the age of legal responsibility; voting age; graduated driving licenses.

Wearable TCD brain scanner a 'gamechanger' for research www.rte.ie/news/ireland... @trinityneuro.bsky.social

Finally got around to this interesting exchange. Much to like! However, in my view neonate cortex is building a foundation model while sub-cortical sensorimotor routes support newborn behaviours and, importantly, bias the inputs to the foundation model (e.g. orienting toward faces).

Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

Very pleased that my commentary on Jonathan Birch's fantastic "The Edge of Sentience" has finally appeared. @birchlse.bsky.social and I agree on many things, but there was enough distance between our views to make this a productive exchange.

Thank you very much for the discussion, Martin, @marielgoddu.bsky.social and Ruthe! Look forward to discussing more. Will any of you make it to CCN in Amsterdam?

Thanks to fellow defenders @clionaod.bsky.social, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, and @charvetcj.bsky.social Defending the foundation model view of infant development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Not just one, but two fantastic chances to discuss how infant development can inform machine learning and vice-versa at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam!!! Satellite workshop sites.google.com/view/child2m... and Generative Adversarial Collaboration sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/...

Excited to see our response published www.cell.com/trends/cogni... to Zettersten at al's thoughtful commentary www.cell.com/trends/cogni... on our TiCS perspective "Helpless infants are learning a foundation model" www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @trinityneuro.bsky.social @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

Great to see this award to Peter Gorman, from Trinity-Columbia's joint BA programme. www.tcd.ie/news_events/... @trinityneuro.bsky.social

We are recruiting for 5 permanent staff positions (Prof, Senior-, Lecturer) including for 7T-MRI. Please have a look and share widely. (Closing date: May 12) www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Fabulous chance to study brain health in athletes!

Very pleased to share the fMRI pipeline paper from the fetal release or the developing human connectome project, a true labour of love and incredible work from Slava Karolis #dhcp #connectome #fmri direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Join us as an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology. my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers? With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Announcing a new endowed Chair in Young People's Mental Health at @campsydept.bsky.social. An exciting opportunity to shape mental health strategy and conduct world-leading research in one of the most intellectually vibrant places in the world. Please share!

Heading to #BCCCD25. Looking forward to the meeting and our symposium New Insights in Infant Neuroscience on Saturday, put together by Moritz Koester with Barbara Pomiechowska, Giulia Orioli, Marlena Baldauf and discussant Stefanie Hoel.

Congratulations to my colleague Ruth Byrne @tcddublin.bsky.social #tcin #tcdpsychology. What an achievement!

More beautiful work from Vlad.

🥁 FIT'NG is thrilled to announce our 2025 destination is 🌎 Dublin, Ireland. Join us next fall September 7 - 8, 2025! 🌐 Learn more about this beautiful and historic city by visiting: fitng.org/destination/ #FITNG2025 #RSNA2024 #BrainDevelopment

If you are a member of the FIT'NG society then please consider voting for me! To vote, check for the email, and here is a link describing the candidates... fitng.org/elections/ I can't believe this is my first ever election!! @fitngin.bsky.social

Neuroscience research: it's all in the prompt👇. rdcu.be/d1DPa

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Huge influx of neuroscientists migrates to Bluesky www.thetransmitter.org/community/hu... #Neuroscience

i've been thinking about this story all day and can't get over it she took a massive pile of cash and rather than putting up fancy buildings or spending on some risky moonshot, she just went and made it free for young people to learn to be doctors, in the Bronx, in perpetuity what an utter badass

Dorothy Bishop Prize Three £500 prizes for people who have improved research or promoted open research practices Nominate yourself or your pals by 28th January www.ukrn.org/2023/12/11/d...

We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/ Please share widely! 1/4

I am hiring a postdoc to start this summer in my lab at Indiana University, on an NSF-funded project on preschoolers’ flexible attention to magnitudes (intersection of numerical cognition and executive function). Apps can be submitted here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22188. Please share!

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Silicon Valley billionaires are creating a future we were all warned about by dystopian novels that they mistake for instruction manuals. 🧪 Lots of painful & funny insights here from science fiction author @cstross.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech...

🚨 Publication Alert! 🚨 Now out in Mind, Brain, and Education: "Common Content, Philosophy, and Programming Support Thriving Collaborations Between Cognitive Science Labs and Museums" by me and MoMath Director, Cindy Lawrence! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We’re excited about our first paper looking at speech encoding in single neurons across the depth of human cortex. Out today in @nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY! Very excited about this new paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120 Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk? How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬 INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14

We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Job ad here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Feel free to reach out with Qs

In our new paper out today at Trends in Cognitive Science, @lisik.bsky.social and I argue that social interaction perception is a visual process–computed by the visual system. (1/3) tinyurl.com/nhh2dhx #PsychSciSky #CogSci #CogPsyc #compneuro