1. My new E-bike 2. Riding my new E-bike 3. Riding any bike for that matter!

Two weeks on from buying this beauty, and so bloody glad I did. Such a nice ride, with more than enough artist to get up the hills on my commute pretty easily. Putting my old Brooks saddle on it this weekend was a great idea. If you are thinking about getting an E-bike for commuting - just do it.

A story of two halves for the E-bike commute today. Bright and clear on the way in and I did it in less than an hour despite taking it easy. The ride home however was very wet and windy, and cold. I wore the wrong gloves and my hands got a bit numb by the end. Still a blast on the Roci though.

Postdoctoral Associate position, the laboratory of Elan Eisenmesser at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (Anschutz Medical Campus) structural biology, incl advanced NMR and cryo-EM jobs.chronicle.com/job/37955321... #NMRjobs #NMRchat 🧲

I love my new E-bike (pedal assist). It makes the hills on my daily commute a lot more manageable, plus it’s a pretty comfy and fun ride. Shaves about 10 minutes off the commute (1 hr) as well. I’m still getting a workout, but I’m not totally cream crackered when I get to work. #OneLessCar

As we have gone down to being a one car Family, I jist upgraded to a E-bike with a bigger motor. The hope is the extra omph will make the commute a bit quicker, and allow me to carry groceries etc to replace the car.

Really happy to have been a part of this work. Great work by Sam Leech and @tiffanybell0.bsky.social. We hope this will help people to standardise and improve using MRS to estimate metabolite concentration.

🚀 New Publication Alert! 🧠 Using MRS, we tracked brain chemistry over time in youth (7–17) 🧠 Decreases in thalamic GABA were linked to new migraine onset and increased burden 🧠 First evidence linking longitudinal brain changes to pediatric migraine progression www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for an excellent #ECR to join our academic team as Lecturer / Assistant Prof. Multimodal imaging, neurostimulation, and interests linking physiology and cognition are great fits, as are cognitive and affective neuroscience, including in development. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

Man, those Epstien files must be pretty bad...

Our first real snow of the season at MullSkains manor. There is more snow on the mountains of Eryri which we can see in the background.

First Book of the year down. "Human Nature: Nine ways to feel about a changing planet." By @drkatemarvel.bsky.social - a really good book that lays out the state of knowledge about climate change. Being informed is the first step to making sure you can do your bit.

Want to master neuroimaging? 🧠 Learn more about this leading postgraduate course in the @psychbangor.bsky.social Visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/post...

Fishy, fishy, fishy, fish, And went where ever I did go.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

We're headed into the holiday season, so two things to know: - The only items in the store that are more expensive due to tariffs are: two leather bookmarks. The other 2,100 gift items and 47,000 books haven't gone up. thehauntedbookshop.com - A trip to a local bookshop is a present in itself 📚❤️

The sky turned pink in North Wales at 3 this morning.

British.

#1 of our BIU Research Highlights, 2024 Series. This one is from @charlie-wiltshire.bsky.social (from @psychbangor.bsky.social ) and colleagues. #stammering #stuttering #research @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Proud Supervisor moment 2. Ferrida Ponce presenting her fMRS work in therapeutic intermittent hypoxia.

Proud Supervisor moment 1. My Masters student Asare Adomako presenting our fMRS of exercise data at the 2nd fMRS symposium.

Jeff Stanley kicking off the methodology session at fMRS symposium in Bangor. @pgmm03.bsky.social

Good to see everyone is still able to maintain there attention towards the end of the first day of the fMRS symposium at Bangor Uni.

The 2nd Bangor fMRS symposium kicked off tonight, with a welcome dinner in Bwyd da Bangor. A good start I think.

This month at the BIU, our faculty are working hard on the final preparations for two major symposia/workshops that take place in early September. Our events attract international instructors, speakers, and we deliver once-in-lifetime experiences and unparalleled networking opportunities.

Tonight's sourdough.

🚨📄 New paper! Abstract words are hard to acquire: Does social relevance help? We tested if social experience helps children learn words—analyzing >4,000 words by socialness, valence, and concreteness. 👬 More social words were learned earlier 💭 Socialness particularly helped abstract words, but…

Sourdough loaf on the Weber Kettle, using a Pizza stone. It turned out pretty good. Good rise, but the crumb could have been a bit better, not as "chewy" as I would like it.

So happy to see this young man graduate today. He is going to go places!

We are pleased to share the Bangor Imaging Unit (BIU) Annual Report for 2024/2025, which shines a light on recent updates and achievements, and to unveil our renewed BIU website (where the report can be found): www.bangor.ac.uk/bangorimagin... #research #wales @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Pizza dogs, an experiment for July the 4th

Tried my hand at a bit of baking today. The sourdough looks okay.

Focaccia and pizza bread on the weekend.

Abstract submissions are now open for the fMRS symposium in Bangor, Wales, Sept 2025 : shorturl.at/Q1A5p come present your latest functional MR spectroscopy neuroscientific findings, method development or anything else related to fMRS.

For Brian Wilson, who has gone to see what's next. This song, which he wrote as a "teenager's symphony to God", here covered by just about everyone, including Brian himself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLT...

Did they ever use the most important device in the Universe in "The Expanse"? I fail to see how anything could work if they didn't...

From #TheExpanse and #Picard this lamp certainly gets around! 1975-ish in MA. This old #Trekkie and #Screamingfirehawks

🚨 New paper out! Presurgical brain dynamics (resting-state fMRI) predict short-term cognitive deficits after glioma surgery. Most recover by 3 months — deficits are transient and manageable. 🧠 Huge thanks to my PhD mentor Jorge Jovicich! 📄 Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Some days you just need to make some bread. Sourdough loaf, smells as good as it looks.

Man, the bots are out in force on threads today.

I love this view of Bangor University and one edge of the Menai Straight, especially when the sun is shining like it is today. Come and join us at the joint fMRS and Edited MRS symposium in September to see for yourself! pgmm03.uk/functional-m... pgmm03.uk/edited-spect...

I have had a great trip to Amsterdam, visiting Anouk Schrantee, and examining their PhD Student, now Dr, Daphne Boucherie. An excellent thesis, including phamarcologic MRS and MRI.

Amsterdam really knows how to get around by bike.

Saturday is a rugby day! Playing mixed ability rugby is great fun. If you are an ex player, looking for a way to get back into rugby, look to see if there is a Mixed Ability team in your area. A great way to get fit again.

The second fMRS symposium (Sept 2025) is now open for early registration and abstract submission. Hosted at Bangor Uni, situated in beautiful north Wales, not to be missed if you're into measuring dynamic neurophysiology/neurotransmitters and cutting-edge MR spectroscopy methods. shorturl.at/Q1A5p

I really hate being sick on the weekend, especially when it's sunny out.

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵