Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Yesterday's bake

The KPop Demon Hunters' song Golden is currently playing in our kitchen, but sung by cats. Humanity can be deeply odd sometimes

Watching the quote tweets to Oxford's ChatGPT announcement

New book— just got my copy! I know people often don’t read book chapters but I think that’s a mistake. They are usually much more reflective and wide ranging than journal articles.

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Grid cell distortion is associated with increased distance estimation error in polarized environments www.cell.com/current-biol...

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Oh www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We may have made pancakes for breakfast and for dessert for dinner on the same day #noregrets

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

A march to "unite the kingdom" my arse. These people sow division and promote hate. It sickens me to see so many out in support of these poisonous political views.

On the train back from Edinburgh #BACN25 with my head buzzing from all the great cognitive neuroscience. Loads of enthusiastic, supportive discussion from everyone I talked to so a really great conference!

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Day 1 posters at #BACN25. @bethlongley.bsky.social @oliwiastecko.bsky.social @chatrins.bsky.social @wilsonlimph.bsky.social presenting a variety of work from the lab, interoceptive protocols, heart-memory, computational modelling & emotion regulation

One of the best things about Edinburgh is the magnificent views of the city, particularly from your hotel room if you're lucky

See you tomorrow at #BACN25!!

Crisis at England universities created by successive govts. Freeze on student fees Real cuts in govt grants Harder to enrol foreign students Home student numbers falling £267bn student debt Real wage cuts 40% of universities in trouble. Local economies decline with university decline

Quite a big deal this - there will be a few VCs and governing bodies across UK reading the fine print… @wonkhe.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/the-fi...

How might stories shed light on brain function? Check out this opinion piece by @alexbarnett.bsky.social and I about the DMN and "situation models" -- our understanding of the current "state of affairs" in a story (or even experience). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Rather than taking an 'abstinence-only' approach to AI, I decided to put the central, existential question to them directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice would be theirs." —Piers Gelly for @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/what-happene...

Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) who could use advice about navigating peer review? Are you stuck on a manuscript submission or revision? Have general questions about peer review? Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊

Things that are currently true in UK HE: 1. Uni staff pay has been decreasing in real-terms for years and pay should increase 2. Unis have zero additional resources and limited ways to increase income 3. Lots of staff have lost their jobs in recent cuts as a direct result of point 2

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

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Deadline is tomorrow so get your applications in people! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Very strange announcement. A three month "pause" in the REF process (but no change to the overall timeline). Just announced by Patrick Vallance at UUK conference.

Extraordinary resource! "Comprehensive recordings from 621,733 neurons in 297 brain areas of 139 mice (12 labs) performing a decision-making task with sensory, motor & cognitive components: a public dataset to understand how computations distributed across & within brain areas drive behaviour."👇🧪

New opinion piece! @amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

"Actually I didn't even apply to Stanford, yeah, they just wrote to me and said come and study here, yeah, and they weren't the only ones, either, and they said I was so good that I could probably skip a year, yeah. But in the end I went to Sussex because of my allergies."

reviewer 1: excellent work reviewer 2: burn it all down reviewer 3: why does this exist the editor: minor revisions i stared at the wall for forty minutes then changed "utilized" to "used" in seventeen places

I am officially "I have a child in secondary school" years old and it scares me

My dept at the University of Auckland (NZ) will be hiring in social psych at the junior level this cycle. Official ad to follow It's a big research-active dept with fun colleagues, plus you can commute to uni on a boat, paired with a pleasant walk thru Albert Park (this pic from heading home today)

I know it's a small thing, but the recent thing of England flags cropping up without warning is now happening in York and it just feels a bit weird and sinister given it's not really clear who is doing it.

During sleep, reuniens theta synchronizes with MEC provoking memory reactivation. rdcu.be/eCMfl

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

In case you missed it: our recent episode honors the legendary Dr. Eleanor Maguire, whose work transformed the science of memory. 🎙️Hear Dr. Michael Rugg reflect on her groundbreaking research and the legacy she leaves behind. 🎧 Catch up now: open.spotify.com/episode/5KLZ... #EleanorMaguire

We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory. Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!

Nice swimming spot to end the weekend on. Water was refreshing 🥶

View for the weekend

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Back in the office and only 199 emails to sift through!

Weekend bake

Always a pleasure walking round Dublin and seeing the sights

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting. Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Outrageous when organisations charge for access to a historic building to ensure they have enough money to maintain the building people want access to... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

I think this is true, and annoyingly probably reflected mine (and a lot of others), at least implicit, assumption (that competence would get us a decent chunk of the way there)

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Beach for the next few days