It's out! Such a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of A TRICK OF THE MIND at Pushkin House. So lovely to see so many, and to be able to thank everybody who made my first book happen. Thank you! Available in all good bookshops now! www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...

This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty. It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭 www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...

1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

🧠 If you missed last week's Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB webinar, the MathWorks landing page has everything: 60-min recording, slides, and a comprehensive resource hub. content.mathworks.com/viewer/69047...

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Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities. Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter. 1/2

Dopamine ≠ reward but turns out, also not the learning molecule we thought. If DA RPE is the emperor, this work SCREAMS it was running naked all the time. This paper got quite some attention recently. Let's simplify it a bit. A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI

"The cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky was reported to have said: ‘Theories are not refuted. They are embarrassed.’ Today the Modern Synthesis does seem to be somewhat embarrassed, but history tells us that scientists can live with embarrassment for a remarkably long time." Jablonka & Lamb (2020)

Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help? New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨 Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook (and me!) MIBTP-funded PhD - more details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... @thechbh.bsky.social Get in touch if interested, and please share!

🎯 Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB 🎯 *TODAY* 📅 29 Oct 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM GMT 🔗 uk.mathworks.com/company/even... #MATLAB #MATLABambassador

Many thanks to all the researchers who have told us about how they use #TMS - the results are looking really useful and very interesting! We'll keep the survey open until 31st October, so if you can please spare 5 minutes: Complete the #TMS User Survey! forms.gle/95EW1PVC3JQV... 🙏 🧠 🧲 ⚡ 🙏

Finally 10 years into #Birmingham Cycle Revolution an outline plan for a segregated cycle lane for a stretch of the dangerous but key Hagley Road Corridor. Here’s what #PushBikes thinks. Please respond to consultation link in the article emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

oooh native MATLAB raincloudplot Function: Visualize grouped numeric data by using rain cloud plots.

🎉 The MATLAB Special Interest Group at UoB is back! We're relaunching with an exciting event on **Wednesday 26th November at 13:00**. There’ll be a keynote talk from me — the new MATLAB-SIG Chair & Student Ambassador — plus speakers from across UoB and MathWorks 💻.

UNCG PhD in Cognitive Psychology: Research-focused, 5yrs funding. No GRE req. Apply by Dec 1: psy.uncg.edu/phd-in-cogni... #Hiring #PhD #CognitivePsych #Science @uncg.edu

Claude code sucks... but it's still very useful! Check out this blog post that details how Claude is deployed to solve problems in the #Julialang #SciML open source scientific computing infrastructure. stochasticlifestyle.com/claude-code-... #llm #vibecoding #physics #opensource #oss

Scientific Modeling Cheatsheet: #MATLAB vs #Python vs #Julialang Side-by-side comparison for: • Differential equations • Optimization • Automatic differentiation • Symbolic computing • More! Highlights ecosystem differences & best practices. sciml.github.io/Scientific_M...

The number of academic software tools in the world only grows with time, and learning new ones is daunting. Here, my postdoc @rgast.bsky.social spoke about PyRates, a model translator that lets you study dynamical systems with a whole suite of tools built in Python, Julia, Matlab, and Fortran.

Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏 1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's all 'High Performance Computing this' 🧠, 'supercomputing cluster that' 🖥️, and embarrassingly parallel* code on Big Iron 💪 these days… But what about a more understated, perhaps quintessentially British 🇬🇧, Reasonable Performance Computing? ☕🧐 #MATLAB #MATLABambassador #RPC-SIG

Ever needed to visualise overlapping data regions with proper transparency and clean legends? Javier's 😎 ‘shade’ is an absolute lifesaver - showing overlapping bounded regions without turning your figure into an illegible mess 🎨✨ #MATLAB #MATLABambassador

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

Ever wonder how you read so fast? Your brain gets a head start—processing the next word before your eyes move. Our MEG + eye tracking study out in Nature Communications study from @thechbh.bsky.social reveals orthographic & semantic previews predicting reading speed www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries benharrap.com/post/2025-10... #statssky #episky #academicsky

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

🤔 Curious about Positron, the next-gen IDE from posit? R-Ladies Gaborone with @ivelasq3.bsky.social 💜 from @posit.co for “Positron for RStudio Users.” takes us through Positron tour, tips & tools 🚀 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/2fOQzgkxi6g 💬 Join: meetup.com/rladies-gabo... #RLadies #rstats #DataScience

You could not ask for a better supervisor; all singing, all dancing... literally!

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨 Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook - @thechbh.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social MIBTP-funded PhD, using behavioural, computational and pharmacological approaches. Get in touch and please share!

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood. If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

This is incredibly handy when sharing code from a paper, with reviewers and the eventual audience.... less worry about packages and environments. Try mine here - github.com/dagmarfraser... #MATLAB #MATLABambassador

Whether you're wrangling MEG data 🧲, running fMRI analysis pipelines 🧠, or just starting with MATLAB for neuroscience 📊 - MathWorks is hosting a free webinar that might be exactly what you need! 🎯 Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB 🎯

For anyone else who's two weeks into the term and wondering if it was ever thus. This is "H2O", aka John Logie Baird, writing for his student magazine in November 1912.

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg: #psychskysci #neuroscience doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are excited to launch SHAREing — a new UK-wide initiative that empowers research and innovation through accelerated computing. #SHAREing #Research #Innovation #AcceleratedComputing #RTPs #Collaboration #HPC

Psychophysics meets moral psych! In the best possible way! I worry what this means for clinical research and patient reported outcomes, which often measure things like pain on a very simple 1-10 scale, often without clear anchoring. Such important work by @vladchituc.bsky.social!

#MATLAB R2025b has dropped - a quick intro to the new desktop. R2025b delivers quality and stability improvements, building on the new features introduced in R2025a. Thank you for all the feedback you provided to make R2025b possible. If you are using R2025a, you should switch to R2025b.

Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) has new series of in-person training courses scheduled for the autumn term: Software Carpentry – MATLAB: 4th AM & 5th PM November (attend both days) There is a load of other useful ones, beside MATLAB;

Individual variation in #sociability is a central feature of every society, including #HoneyBees. This study shows that specific genetic variants & #brain gene expression patterns are linked to variation in the social act of sharing liquids (trophallaxis) in bees @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3VjjXnJ

-cease and desist -null and void -aid and abet -free and clear -ways and means Why is law stuff like this always two words? These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans. 🧵⬇️

What drives behavior in living organisms? And how can we design artificial agents that learn interactively? 📢 To address these, the Sensorimotor AI Journal Club is launching the "RL Debate Series"👇 w/ @elisennesh.bsky.social, @noreward4u.bsky.social, @tommasosalvatori.bsky.social 🧵[1/5] 🧠🤖🧠📈

Your article was just published in a journal—what’s next? Join this upcoming webinar to hear tips and strategies to promote your work. Register now! 🔗 vist.ly/47abu #neurosky #neuroskyence

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

I fear change... 😅 I learned MATLAB last century... millennium even! However, MATLAB hasn't stood still since - unfortunately I have! 🕰️. Everything added after 2000 is mysterious and powerful!

Why what is happening in the United States shows the need for the United Kingdom to repair its own constitution Our polity is there for the taking Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-pointl... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky

The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked