Here's a list of the questions my 4-year-old asked in a 5 minute window this morning. Weekends are so exhausting right now 😄

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

Open postdoc position👈 We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

The Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN) is looking for people who'd like to share their experience with the discovery of Open Science - how this changed your way of doing science, or seeing science, what kind of challenges you had to face and overcome, etc.

Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉. @willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data meegsim.readthedocs.io I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!) #brainmovies

Stirling Uni campus is looking gorgeous right now ☀️

It was such a wonderful experience to present our work on my birthday here at #ICON2025!!

With wonderful colleagues from Dundee, Glasgow, and Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from controls and highlight the importance of network context of motor cortical activations. buff.ly/489DYfB #Parkinsons

Our new study - pseudoneglect is partly explained by structural hemispheric asymmetries in putamen 👇👇👇

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Online Now: Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

We're looking to appoint a new administrator for our Social Sciences Impact Acceleration Account. This would be a great role for a graduate with good administrative skills who wants to learn a lot more about the non-academic impact of research www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Hemispheric laterality of the putamen predicts pseudoneglect https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676561v1

I love baby EEG, so had to check this! here, a dichotomy is drawn between theta & alpha rhythms, but this is tricky. the posterior dominant rhythm emerges in the infant at 3-4 Hz & increases until ~10 Hz in adults. I think there is much evidence that this 'theta' rhythm is the equiv of adult alpha.

Presented our work at #BACN2025. That was a very great time to meet many lovely and smart people around!

Check out the latest from Mike and I on how to be a scientist in a post-journal world 9/9 thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

I need a #mathematician to help with a project. Ideally UK-based. I've emailed a few folks in my uni, but none replied... Anyone interested? My need is nonlinear modelling of brain and muscle signals, optimisation, decomposition. Anyone?

Our contribution to an upcoming book on teaching open science was "how to teach reproducible research". There are plenty of lesson plans or individual courses out there but less on how you can build skills across a whole degree. osf.io/preprints/ps...

And there's an excellent Feminist literature collection too.

The Mitchell Library carpets are always worth a visit if you're in Glasgow.

Here's a new one from us. I originally got funding for this public engagement project way back in March 2020 (what a month that was!), and one pandemic plus two maternity leaves later, we finally have a pre-print! @kotiusheva.bsky.social 🎉

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

If you'd like to hear the preliminary insights from our 'Voyage to Aur' science expedition in the pacific ocean, I will be giving a hybrid lecture next Friday 12th 4pm UK time at the amazing @memoryplace.bsky.social Centre in Stirling Register here: mailchi.mp/stir/spring-...

Universities and 'indirect costs' when it comes to grant apps man. Daylight robbery.

Excellent news (and about damn time). I shelled out £150 to vaccinate child #2 after child #1 was horrifically ill and permanently scarred with chickenpox. It's not just a mild virus for everyone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s been reported in The Courier that the University of Dundee’s Recovery Plan called for the loss of another 450 jobs (390 FTE) in the next year. 50 Voluntary Severance 170 Voluntary Redundancies 170 Compulsory Redundancies With 110FTE leaving since March and 300FTE now, this would be 800FTE

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

This is such a great new song from AFI. I'm enjoying their 80s goth phase. youtu.be/p8XqTOhST-I?...

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 🙏

Mobile Eye Tracking in the Real World: Best Practices https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.669631v1

Just managed to catch a whole stomach load of toddler vomit in a frisbee! It was honestly so impressive #Momademia

There's greed and then there's Springer Nature greed. No wonder some people are smiling!

Come along to the next talk in the Neurotechnology Seminar Series! 🧠 Dr Allan McCay, Co-director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology will discuss Neurotechnology, policing and criminal justice. Join in person or online on 12 Aug ⬇️ gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Oh so the Powers That Be have gone back on loads of changes to the Research Excellence Framework. Maybe I'll chuck loads of this prep work in the bin then. Why on Earth we bother engaging with the UK authorities is beyond me. Timewasters. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation induced pupil dilations can serve as a cortical excitability measure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668303v1

Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639

High-frequency transcranial random noise stimulation (hf-tRNS) targeted at motion processing region hMT+ does not improve visual motion discrimination. Failed #replication in #registeredreport @ryanruhde.bsky.social Mica Carroll @cibaker.bsky.social #trns #nibs #NIMH doi.org/10.1016/j.co... 1/6

in Oxford, a grade 7 (entry-level) postdoc costs about £180K for 3 years, including fringe. For UKRI grants, the university now adds **£460K** in overheads. is that normal? do other UK universities impose such outlandish FEC?

Does anyone know of a (preferable accessible) guide to understanding / building cognitive tasks? You have software specific books like Building Experiments in PsychoPy, but I'm looking for more of a dummy's guide to tasks to think about trial structure, responses etc.

Huge congratulations to Simon Hanzal for passing his PhD today 🎉 And to @jamiemurray86.bsky.social and @drgbuckingham.bsky.social for examining (and most excellent post-viva chat)👌🏻 @ccniuofg.bsky.social

Here's a new pre-print from our team 👇🏻 Led by the very excellent Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social

Here's a new pre-print from our team 👇🏻 Led by the very excellent Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social

"The median wage of all 1652 University of Stirling employees is £45,053 Thirty...make between £100,000 and £229,999 Ten people take home salaries of between £130,000 and £139,999, and six between £140,000 and £149,999 Collectively, the university pays these 30 individuals more than £4m per year"

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Don’t miss the final talk in the Neurotechnology Seminar Series! Prof. Andrew Jackson and Dr. Estelle Cuttaz will discuss Next-Gen Bioelectronics and Adaptive Neural Interfaces. Join in person at the Advanced Research Centre (ARC) or online tomorrow, Tues 1 July, 4PM ⬇️

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