Happy Summer solstice. This is a pinhole camera 6 month exposure photo I took from Winter solstice 2024 (bottom line of the photo) to Summer solstice 2025 (top line of the photo). The lines are the Sun as it appears to move across the sky and gets higher and higher until we get to Summer solstice.

Very lucky to have the opportunity to think about the big picture from time to time

We're hiring a PhD Student! Under supervision of @sergedumoulin.net, you will investigate whether individual brain folding patterns reflect computational principles that optimize neural communication and brain organization. Learn more and apply on our website: nin.nl/vacancies/ph...

Entirely related, because nobody does effective policy around tech. Nobody.

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to [email protected]

Colourful predictive templates in early visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.11.731729v1

On Aberdeen campus, Jan has always been an anchoring figure. We are all left with a Jan-shaped hole in our hearts.

Devastating news for the community. He will be greatly missed.

"somewhere in Silicon Valley, a fruit fly is living its second life inside a computer, totally unaware that it is living in the insect Matrix." I cannot begin to tell you how utterly disgusted I am with the state of science reporting at the very few remaining venues with a veneer of respectability.

I feel seen www.science.org/content/arti...

Do I ever use cash? No. But did I vote for which animals should be on the new banknotes? Absolutely. You can too (🦔!) www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...

New PhD studentship available! Come join the excellent @neuromurphy.bsky.social lab for a very cool project exploring how the brain learns to make decisions that are not tied to specific sensory modalities or movements. In collaboration with @seanfw.bsky.social and myself! bsky.app/profile/neur...

but did the seminar comply with SP&BP on the use of abbreviations? 🤔

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

the fuck it will

I'm experiencing a very strong #VSS2026 FOMO at the moment. Please keep posting about your talks and posters, and add some beach pictures if you can 🕶️

Lovely morning visiting a National Garden Scheme garden. Sometimes sitting on a bench looking at green and listening to bees and leaves shuffling is the best reset.

New #EEGManyLabs paper out in Cortex! We asked whether contralateral delay activity, or CDA, can serve as a reliable EEG marker of visual working memory capacity. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Please spread the word! Two key jobs linked to the Gambling Harms Research and Evidence Centre: a) Programme manager: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/programm... b) Research relationship manager: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... #jobs #university

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

We’re running a short dog owner survey 🐶 examining dog social cognition & trainability - which could be used in future by assistance dog charities to help selection for breeding 🦮 £50 Amazon voucher if completed again in 1 week (eligibility UK residents only) york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

when you get tenure they finally tell you what attention is

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli

Spent an hour today trying videocall apps and vpns to reach my mum in moscow. They are either blocked, or work but drain her mobile data - and I can't help because no money transfer platforms work either. Got there in the end, but left with a knot in my stomach: will this work next week? next month?

been thinking a lot about this 1972 Weizenbaum paper a lot lately, especially when i hear people say things like access to llms reduce inequality by leveling the playing field, solve the mental health crisis & the loneliness pandemic, etc, all of which are problems rooted in very technology itself

Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years. Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*. Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥 Deadline May 3, please help by sharing: aspp.school

Exciting PhD opportunities in Aberdeen (inc. international)

Today was a good day

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Very excited to be at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting in Newcastle

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/

Science peeps! Excited to share first of two preprints just uploaded. This one concerns a person who hears sounds when she moves her eyes! We could actually record these sounds and verify they were connected to eye movements 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it

Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Glorious typo in a dissertation draft: psychEtoolbox. My students are an ambitious bunch!

OK vision friends, who's ready to break this tool 😜 www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

good morning everyone project your personal imposter syndrome onto this gif ur welcome

Some awesome suggestions in replies 👇

check out conduit conduit.psiphon.ca/en/ "[it] helps people in censored countries access unrestricted information by connecting to devices that serve as proxy nodes to the Psiphon Network. It empowers individuals worldwide to support users in regions that need secure, uncensored internet access."

I've registered and you should too. Deadline is March 2nd.

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. 1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social 2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method ➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

👋 Hello World! EEG101 is live! 🚀 🤝Join our global community for open, rigorous EEG science, academia & industry welcome! 🗓️ June 11–13, 2026: EEG101 Meeting at OHBM Brainhack, Bordeaux. 📢 Training & mobility funding coming soon! 🌐 www.eeg101.eu #EEG101 #OpenScience #Neuroscience #OHBM #Brainhack

Art. #frog #AAAAH #needlefelt #wool #art