Guardian photo editor once again winning

A wonderful and slightly sinister birthday card my youngest child received on his 8th birthday

📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity – Neural control of movement in Parkinson’s (3 years) This fantastic three-year postdoctoral position at Cardiff University and funded by Parkinson's UK, has now re-opened for applications. Full details and application here: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Anybody else's yr7 kids watching Adolescence in school?😱

Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )

Probably the most interesting animal tool use I've seen

The book that Springer used in a targeted advert to me on Facebook

I'm looking for a dumb movie like ace ventura or dumb and dumber to watch with the kids (needs to be Amazon, Netflix, or Disney+ though)

We found that neither motor nor general visual imagery vividness predicted action understanding, Bayesian analyses provided moderate to strong evidence for the null hypothesis, and the results were stable across multiple robustness checks/ sensitivity analyses.

The most compelling null finding you're likely to see

Nice bistable effect here

Are you someone, or do you know anyone, who has pain in their arm/hand/shoulder (for any reason) and would be interested in contributing to ONLINE research on movement perception in upper limb pain? Participate/find out more here: run.pavlovia.org/Szekely/unil...

My thoughts on the matter: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Regarding the Australia social media ban I think it's unlikely that social media is causing harm to children But If you think your kid shouldn't be engaging with social media, then stop them engaging with social media. It's trivially simple with Google family (and the Apple equivalent).

Occasionally you get a peek into the union/university relationships in other countries and realise it's just the wild West out there

Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Watched Road House (2024) last night. Gylenhall was a good lead, and the fight scenes were well choreographed Film largely ruined by Conor McGregor, who is basically playing an even more awful version of himself, gurning all the way through the film All other characters weirdly non-existent

Good work everyone

Because the most powerful and effective collective action in UK academia is that which unites the Vice Chancellors (UUK, Russel group). No public in-fighting. Clear messages. Silent when necessary. #inspirational

Literally no one was provoked by this

Here's my provocation for the evening Animal communication is to human language what animal throwing is to human throwing Totally worlds apart, qualitatively

My kid gets scam text messages fairly frequently, but when I try to tell him the content of the spammy stuff I receive over email, he never believes me

Kids' school's chicken names Jeff Jerry Bob Golden nugget Bull Gladiator

I'm FURIOUS at this revelation. Hopefully resignation pending

Given the general apathy of UCU members around bothering to vote, I'm pretty much dreading Labour removing the 50% threshold If people don't like UCU left policies, vote for HEC members who support other policies. This isn't hard.

AI definitely increases productivity. Now I have 3x as many unfinished and abandoned projects.

The 'reflection' stage of the process cycle

If only there were historians around who could advise on appeasement.

New preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

Qualified ✅

Finally got around to playing the fans' favourite Assassin's Creed Black Flag (pirate one) Didn't like it that much - felt very clunky after playing Origins, and the story felt pretty hollow. But lots of nice sea shanty action, sailing about the ocean looking at sunsets

It took me a good 30 seconds of staring at this photo to realise that I wasn't absolutely hammered and/or hallucinating. #theashes

It's almost like old twitter is back again!

The catalogue from my wife's favourite clothes shop has the silliest images and I love it

Academics - who 'owns' the research data collected by you/your trainees? You? Your university? Nobody knows, nobody asks, no formal policy?

Are you a UK-based physiotherapist or occupational therapist working with hand and wrist conditions? Please take part in our short survey, about VR use in this specific discipline Link to study info: lnkd.in/dxBHP_Ht Link to survey: lnkd.in/d9VMzurH please RT

It's been more than 7 months since I alerted an APA editor to serious statistical impossibilities and discrepancies in papers published in their journal by the same set of authors. How can it take 7 months to "investigate" something that can be confirmed on the back of napkin in 5 minutes?

The Ponizsa illusion - Kanizsa triangle produces Ponzo illusion, but oddly it inverts apparent depth: the longer line looks closer! Also has an inversion effect like we studied in Altan et al 2025 Proc Roy Soc (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) but it's also in reverse! 🤔 #visionscience #psychscisky

Accidentally amazing photo from fireworks night a couple of years ago

My pup doesn't like videos. But he's a curious boy and sometimes I can get him interested for a few seconds. Do you have TV-watching dogs? What do they like? Drop your recommendations below:

If you're wondering why you're no longer seeing my posts, it's because the moderators have gotten to me (new advanced moderation settings in 'Sky)

Strong meme game in the kid's online homework platform

Social comfort beats biomechanical comfort. Cool paper, but annoying not to have data www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

before obtaining their degree, medical students have to pass their #OSCE - Objective Structured Clinical Exams, the gold-standard assessment, involving actors as standardised patients. Happy to share, we have created a #VirtualTwin of these exams, including auto-assessment: rdcu.be/eOzyX #medicalXR

Finally a school event I'm prepared for

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Not a lake