My thrill for today - cave wetas, on the Coromandel Peninsula, NZ 😳

Why is it easier for me to log in to my bank account than to freaking Scopus?😡

Are and have been from the get-go. The pollution is rapid and pervasive

Happy to announce the 2nd Hippocampus Green Meeting 📍 Barcelona, Spain 🗓️ May 11–12, 2026 Organized together with Manu Valero, Lisa Roux and Dan Bendor 🎤 Keynotes: Nachum Ulanovsky & György Buzsáki ‼️ Call for abstracts now open 🔗 hippocampusgreen.net/wp/ #HippocampusGreen

ChatGPT has started offering me product recommendations- is this new? It feels a little off

This made me laugh way too hard

Best advice is to wear little bells, so the bears know you're coming, and carry bear spray. It also helps to be able to identify scat. Black bear scat has undigested bits of berries and twigs. Grizzly bear scat smells like bear spray and has little bells in it.

do i have this about right? university admins claim that they know (somehow) that AI is “the future” and that we have to train students to have the skills to work in environments that (will) require AI, but ...

This is brilliant advice

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Life Sciences PhD studentships available in amazing Glasgow! Deadline Jan 12 General details here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... My project, on cognitive mapping in 3D space in mice and humans, available here: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

So, PayPal is being automatically linked to our FB accounts - I feel we should have been asked if we wanted that? 🤔

O.M.G.

Are any data protection experts reading this? This seems really unethical to me (use of a passenger manifesto for immigration status assessment): www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Deadline Dec 1!

ChatGPT and me having trust issues

In case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers: @openmindjournal.bsky.social The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.

World's largest rays may be diving to extreme depths to build mental maps of vast oceans

Vivid memories are all over the BBC website front page! It takes just a few minutes to complete our public survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

👉Also Sorbonne bsky.app/profile/sorb... pulled out of 'THE' University Ranking 👇 Important step in times of massive, systematic gaming by Universities, being a main incentive for Hyperprolific Publishing, Citation Cartels, Paper Mills & Junk Science! #researchintegrity, #Chemsky, #CompChemSky

My squirrel friend is getting bolder

There's method acting, and there's method academia... wishing the Bray family well in their new life

Doing a little WFH rodent behaviour experimentation

This has been my most-ever-liked Bluesky post - seems we all love a bit of corvid chaos!

More on lawn-digging corvids today, this time in Inverness.

The normally placid Kelvin looking very full and fast today #glasgow #stormamy

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Today's Wordle 😡

New from @katejj.bsky.social group!

Oh wow, this is fascinating

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁 We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Survey of 813 scientists finds that Bluesky is the more useful social media platform for professional scientists. As anecdotal support, this journal article itself is references by 2731 Bluesky users and has 43 X posts (Altmetrics data, when posting this). #sciencesky #academicsky #science

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

Very few people seem to understand university finances and, distressingly, this includes many academics and most policymakers. This is an attempt to condense the key points you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/profseri...

great opportunity to work with Marco using exciting new methods!

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

Love this building! #Glasgow

Beautiful evening #Glasgow

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for Imbizo.Africa is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear. #africa #neuro

Lovely balmy Hertfordshire evening

I have 564 3s and 422 4s. This sounds impressive until you see my mum’s stats. She has >100 more 3s than me despite having played for less time (by literally 5 games). My 6s are 35 while hers are single digits (8 iirc). The only thing I have over her now is I’ve never had an X/6 while she did once

Idle question - those of you who are Wordlers, do any of you have more 3's than 4's in your guess distribution? (Not me - but we have family members who are more left-shifted than others so I'm curious)

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl, made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in mold. Timeless beauty! Dating late 1st BC–early 1st AD, found in Cuora, Cavarzere, Italy Photo: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 🏺

#academicsky #philsky #edusky