Oh, wow, climate change is really messing up the seasons. Looks like it’s April 1st already! This one wins for me: “Oxford does advertisement for shitty product on main” is a great joke.

From their newsletter, I learned that @bpsofficial.bsky.social is on Bluesky! They're also on Twitter still, which is a bit weird, but I'm sure following them here will encourage a proper break. Also, @bpsdevsection.bsky.social is on here too! 👶 As is @researchdigest.bsky.social! 🤓

We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

🧠 Publish your neuroscience research with Brain and Neuroscience Advances! Open-access, peer-reviewed, and featuring diverse article types – from original research to Insights & Journal Club. journals.sagepub.com/home/bna #PublishWithBNA #BrainAndNeuroscienceAdvances

Woah! Amazing PhD positions on children as agents of cultural evolution with one of the foremost experts on the topic.

Don't forget to add this white text to all your publications.

Very much looking forward to #BACN25 in Edinburgh this week. We'll have five posters from the lab on the first day of conference, so come check them all out! #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition

Stomach–brain synchronisation is associated with poorer mental health www.cell.com/trends/neuro... insightful TINS commentary by @dalmaijer.bsky.social

In this @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social Spotlight, I describe how a recent paper by @leahbanellis.bsky.social, @brainandstomach.bsky.social, et al. opens new avenues in interoception research, including those focussed on the subjective interpretation of internal signals: www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The warmest summer of your life so far!

New parenting experience yesterday: having to reassure nursery staff that I do not own a "collection of guns" or go "hunting for people on the weekend", but that my toddler might in fact be a liar. Don't even know where he gets it from; only guns he sees are Lego Star Wars and Jurassic Park.

Very interesting set of null findings! TL;DR: no direct link between rigorously tested interoception across various domains and mental health. Read the whole thread (and/or preprint!) for nuance behind why there might be a null effect here.

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

So excited for this disgust-focussed meeting! 💩 Abstract and registration deadline coming up soon!

My favourite approach to teaching statistics to people in my lab is to explain how any given method we use is actually just a number of regression analyses in a trench coat.

This neat review paper from 2023 compares interoceptive accuracy tasks, and is worth sharing: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Also three out of four authors are named Olivier. Accidental, or did all Oliviers at UCLouvain's psych department do this on purpose? Anyways, fellow Edwins, what are we writing?

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Do you have experience turning amateur data analysis scripts into robust, scalable code? I’m hiring (hourly pay) to professionalize Python scripts for scientific data analysis, making them reusable across multiple datasets. Tromsø/Norway-based candidates preferred, but all are welcome! DM me!

Super agree! In fact, I made the same point with the exact same joke here: www.dalmaijer.org/2024/05/shou...

📣 Interested in cultural evolution and artificial life? Call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop at @alife2025.bsky.social. Accepted abstracts will be presented as flash talks, and are not archival. Deadline is the September 12, w/ rolling acceptance. Details: sites.google.com/view/planetx... 🧪

If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...

📢 We're hiring! We are looking for an enthusiastic Data Scientist to join our Research Engineering Team. The team comprises a pool of experts who can be deployed to research projects to provide technical support. Deadline: 23:59, 7 September Apply now: tinyurl.com/bdza4u3h

I've seen people use "clanker" in the wild, and others commenting how wild it is to live through the invention of the first anti-AI slur. Few seem to realise "clanker" is from a fairly niche Star Wars game and show, where battle droids ("roger, roger!") are called this by clone troopers.

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

You have to click the stupid URLs because an actual lack of response or an automated out-of-office email are not automatically picked up by the out-dated systems that academic publishers continue to use. Oligopolies don't inspire innovation 🤷

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New gender just dropped!

No, it's not a sulphur-crested cockatoo, but it is a clever cockie! Masters student Miro van den Berg is using light-weight BLE-tags to study the urban lives of the gorgeous gang-gang cockatoo. You can read more here: sites.google.com/site/lucymap...

Hiring a post-doc at Imperial in EEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics: neural networks & new AI accelerators from a HW/SW co-design perspective! w/ @neuralreckoning.bsky.social @achterbrain.bsky.social in Intelligent Systems and Networks group. Plz share! 🚀: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

I was reminded today of the heroic work done by @eikofried.bsky.social and @robinnkok.bsky.social to see what information Elsevier collects on academics and was re-horrified. 🧵 (1/5) eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-h... #academicsky

Good summary of student mental health and the role of universities. Many student-facing colleagues (academic AND admin!) do a heroic job of offering support to students, but we can only do so much to patch the missing investments into professional mental health care. More NHS for adolescents please!

Lecturer JOB! There is a fixed-term (2 years) teaching-focussed Lecturer position open in our department! Focus is on (human!) cognitive neuroscience. I'm not part of the recruitment process, but always happy to answer any questions about Bristol and our School. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

If you think this is funny, click on the post and scroll down to the Vogue(!) interview. Then scroll further to where it seems the Vogue interview might be an expensive advertisement. Then scroll through the “Brand” guidelines for a laugh and/or dose of despair: brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-sto...

🚨PhD student position in #cognitive_psychology and #neuroscience, on a project directed by André Knops and in collaboration with the Dugué Lab! @upcite.bsky.social | @cnrs.fr Funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social (Agence nationale de la recherche) www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

LECTURER jobs? In this economy?! If I didn’t already have a wonderful position, this is where I would be applying. Department seems filled to the brim with lovely people who do cool things (including, but not limited to, @aidanhorner.bsky.social and @alexandrapike.bsky.social).

Come and join us at the University of Sydney School of Psychology! 🦘 Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor position usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh for a project on “Instability After Adverse Parental Life-Course Events and Educational Inequality.” Open to applicants with the right to work in the UK, deadline Aug 4. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/r...

Listened to this album in the car the other day, driving through a heatwave. In captures the feeling of cruising down a freeway with the radio on while also having a minor existential crisis about the world and your own role in its demise.

NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models. It's a major privacy violation. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

Great to see this important topic covered in the Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Sciences! I hope they cover (Statistical) Power Rangers next.

I'm hiring 2+ 2.5-year postdocs over the next few months. Job 1: looking for someone with deep expertise in computational modelling (reinforcement learning, agent based modelling) on real-world/complex data (closing: 18 August, starting: October-December), www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52059/

I am advertising 2 positions in language evolution with my group at ‪‪@dondersinst.bsky.social: 📢 Fully-funded PhD position (Robotics/AI 🤖) www.ru.nl/en/working-a... 📢 Postdoc position (Virtual Reality 🎮) www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Deadline for applications is August 14th. Please RT! :)

🎨 Art Competition Deadline: TOMORROW 1PM! Still thinking about submitting? If a creative spark hits tonight, you're very welcome to join in last minute! meguk.ac.uk/art-competit... Let your imagination run wild — we can't wait to see what you create 💫 ✨ here’s last year’s winning piece:

Hanson believes the problem is not open access & APCs per se, but for-profit publishers that seek to publish as many papers as possible... the strain on academic publishing could be substantially alleviated if funding agencies stipulated... work they support must be published in non-profit journals.

What does everyday #neuroscience look like? We asked BNA members, and the results were truly inspiring. www.bna.org.uk/resource/exp... Congratulations to @cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social as well as shortlisted images including @kmujmer.bsky.social @mickcraig.bsky.social and @dalmaijer.bsky.social