Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

Trinity College unveils 'gamechanger' brain scanner. Watch the full interview with Professor Redmond O'Connell with RTE here: www.rte.ie/news/ireland... @redmondoconnell.bsky.social

Exciting news! 🎉 In 3 weeks I’m moving to Melbourne 🇦🇺 to finish my PhD remotely 🎓. While still a TCD student, I’ll be kindly hosted by the Bellgrove Lab at Monash University and getting involved in some applied research 🧠 Decision neuroscience folks—keen for a coffee? ☕🤓

New research study from my music and health psychology lab - Masters student Erin Smith is looking for adults to answer her 15 minute survey about musicality and neurodivergent traits. #music #autism #adhd #skills eu.surveymonkey.com/r/XL38HFY

Disentangling sources of variability in decision-making — a Review by Jade S. Duffy, Mark A. Bellgrove, Peter R. Murphy & Redmond G. O’Connell www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jduffy9.bsky.social @neuromurphy.bsky.social @redmondoconnell.bsky.social #neuroscience

I'm looking for a public dataset of young+older people doing a simple perceptual decision-making task, with sufficient trial + subject numbers. Ideally, multiple stimulus difficulty levels but no manipulations (conditions, task switching etc). This must exist - tips for where to look? 🧒👨‍🦳🧠

In life, 3 things are certain: death, taxes, and decision-making variability🧠. Our review tinyurl.com/4dcwafc4 explores how computational models 💻 explain variability, their limits, and recent advances. A thread🧵👇 @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @neuromurphy.bsky.social Mark Bellgrove (not on Bluesky)