Neuroscientists: "How natural should laboratory behavior be?" Pigeons: "fuck you, the world is a Skinner box"

Having a very intense time at work at the moment as my day job and four different extracurricular roles are all in a crunch period this month. For the sake of my mental wellbeing it has therefore become essential that I take on a fifth extracurricular proj--

Some thoughts from today's Women and the Future of Science conference at the @royalsociety.org: - Pretty impressive to get this many exceptional scientists in one room, never mind that most of them are women - Questions from secondary school pupils were brilliant and incisive, the future is bright!

What does the ongoing rupture in the world order that Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney referred to at Davos earlier this year mean for #ClimateChange?

Discussing importance of m & f scientists to take parental leave. Need better childcare. Dame Jocelyn: On site at unis. Prof Uta Frith: (with glee) and then the psychologists cd do experiments!

Everyone always says Sugababes are the Ship of Theseus but isn't it also just every sports team ever? (Brought to you by watching the Fulham game highlights for the first time in a while and recognising absolutely nobody)

in 2021 you'll read a cool paper by someone working at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing and you'll think about contacting them to set up a collaboration; it's very important that you send that email

Someone please tell me why, to find the commodity code that applies to laptops, I have to look in the chapter of the UK Online Tariff that deals with NUCLEAR REACTORS 😭 people who deal with import/export for a job must be on another level for lateral thinking

dudes rock

Been a wild 24hrs- kicked off Monday giving a talk at the Royal Society #FutureSciPub then headed home to miraculously pass my driving test?? Have spent a good chunk of the year so far so ill I couldn't travel and legally unable to drive for a bit so feeling v grateful for some glorious respite.

Well this is impressive!

jfc these predatory conferences get more alarming by the day

A "sex" that's immutable even if you change every single sex characteristic you have is not a biological one actually

22 March 2025 saw the 80th anniversary of the first women scientists being elected as Fellows of the Royal Society. Head to our YouTube channel to see our new short documentaries celebrating the lives and work of Marjory Stephenson FRS and Kathleen Lonsdale FRS:

Great fun to be in the House of Lords this evening with fellow @ukyoungacademy.bsky.social exec group member @smeekings.bsky.social, to celebrate 25 years of the @royalsociety.org's pairing scheme between scientists and policy makers. Lovely to meet so many interesting people from both spheres!

I'm also in this WhatsApp group. #UKYoungAcademy new members induction this morning includes a prize for most interesting hobby- making an early bid for supremacy here.

Meet Dr. Sophie Meekings, a speech neuroscientist studying what happens in your brain during a conversation. Despite growing up deaf and not taking science A-Levels, Sophie’s passion for language led her to a PhD in neuroscience. #SmashingStereotypes #BSW25 youtube.com/watch?v=YwGr...

Now in its 6th year, our #SmashingStereotypes campaign for #BSW25 is back! We're spotlighting remarkable individuals in diverse STEM careers who are breaking barriers -because there's no 'typical' path to STEM success! Read the full story! www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/bringin...

Home for the holidays and sharing my old room with my parents' replacement children:

Doing some UK Young Academy work on the train and feeling very lucky to be part of such a broad organisation filled with experts on cool things I didn't even know it was possible to be an expert in 🥰

I really like the idea of interviews on "current status and future challenges in brain imaging". I do NOT like that 14 of 15 interviews are with men. Who is missing from this list? We have lots of amazing neuroimagers who aren't men. #neuroskyence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

really the social media experience peaked with Beebo and has been downhill ever since

It's garden season again bitches 🌱

This sign clearly had a very specific backstory and I need to know what it is:

why did no-one tell me that quolls exist and they are so, so perfect

love to go on a little treasure hunt across the city for my medication thanks to a global shortage! Also love the clerical error that has led to my repeat subscription being half as much as I actually need, meaning I get to do this AGAIN in 14 days 🥰

Can't believe no-one came trick or treating, I was waiting by the door with my basket of treats all night 😥 🌱

Just spent a week taking kids caving in beautiful South Wales. Love to be on top of and/or underneath mountains. Just any orientation relative to a hillside really.

The courgette plants have been turning it OUT just in time for our kitchen to be out of action (the ceiling needs reinforcing so it's been full of scaffolding and mortar dust). Everyone who sees me is getting a compulsory courg, no opt-outs. 🌱

Just a reminder that there's a setting you can enable! bsky.app/profile/plut...

The difference between last month's basket "full" of veg and this month's 🌱 hauls is *extreme* 😅

This morning's harvest 🥰🌱 Tomatoes are "Sweet Million" and I've really neglected them so I'm pleased they're thriving anyway!

Time for my favourite bit of visiting a new city... Experiencing the public transport system 🥰

Basket I made filled with vegetables I grew! Friends say she is approaching dangerous levels of cottagecore 🌱 courgette = Zephyr beans = annelino di Trento cucumber = ??

the best part of academia is leaving work at 3pm to make a wicker basket

@eepy.bsky.social #AddGardener 🫛🥰

my son is ridiculous, part II (don't worry, the punnet was swiftly removed)

my son is ridiculous