If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT

I’ve been a fully-fledged British citizen for just over a week now but the truest test to date will be if this scone recipe, adapted to be gluten&dairy free, will pass judgment of British friends this evening. 😬 especially since they’re laced with maple syrup. You can take the Canuck out of Canada…

Our Canada Day dog turned 12 today. A dozen years with this sweet boy 🫶 He spent it mostly napping, and trying to pinch food off the bbq.

Bonne fête du Canada, eh! 🍁 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Excited to announce I'm recruiting for my first two Postdoctoral Research Associates! These 5-year positions will allow the holders to dive into applying quantum foundations to understand and develop quantum advantage!

Come down to Newcastle, come up to Newcastle, come across to Newcastle — join the NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION in Newcastle on June 11th. Everyone who thinks HE needs to be supported and accessible to all is welcome! For your agenda's: 11 June, 12-2pm, Newcastle!

Now 5600 signatures strong. Add yours!

The next deadline for new PIs, within 5 years of their first faculty position, to apply for JEB's next round of Kickstart Travel Grants and ECR Visiting Fellowships is 6 June, so don't miss this chance to apply for helpful funding @biologists.bsky.social biologists.com/grants/#jeb Please repost

Please read and sign the petition below. Newcastle University are sacrificing staff whilst expanding infrastructure plans, including building a new campus. Support is appreciated. Please share widely.

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“Brooke Nichols has launched an online tracking tool assessing the consequences of the USAID cuts. She estimated that 103 people were dying every hour as a result. Former USAID chief Andrew Natsios estimates that two million will have died by the end of the year.”

If you haven’t signed @newcastleucu.bsky.social’s petition to end unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle Uni, please sign and share widely. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise. Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.

Sad, but totally necessary, that after the horrendous events in Liverpool, the police have to state the colour and nationality of the man arrested in order to silence the usual racists.

As the university's management escalates by pressing ahead with up to 38 compulsory redundancies, after losing over 260 of our colleagues through voluntary severance, our membership’s clear message remains: STOP this. Members are upset angry and aghast by the behaviour of university management.

The Higher Education crisis is spreading into the NHS, with nursing education being cut by two thirds of universities. Still want an unplanned system now? www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Our university is trying to save about £3.8M per year from their outgoings, and have decided that, even though this is only 0.5% of annual turnover, they need to fire academics, rather than cut down on major infrastructure plans. Anything you can do to support is much appreciated. chng.it/mdHVd8yRg6

Please read and sign the petition below. Newcastle University are sacrificing staff whilst expanding infrastructure plans, including building a new campus. Support is appreciated. Please share widely.

Limited Spaces available! Deadline for Applications: June 2nd! Join researchers and clinicians from around the globe for an opportunity to dissect and advance your knowledge of brain anatomy. www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/othe...

A bit of a silver lining amongst all of the current dystopian gloom. It would seem, Britain, that you are stuck with us. Always Canadian 🇨🇦 but now also British (as our ancestors before us).

What the hell just happened is the correct question. What the hell?! #uk #eurovision nil points

Happy Eurovision! Estonia has votes from here. Brilliant. Absolutely fantastic. #espressomachiato #eurovision

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And the thing that infuriates me is that Labour could actually do something meaningful to reverse the damage of the first two. It’s what we thought they stood for. They have a strong mandate to do it. We, the people who put them in power, are begging them to do it.

Thatcherism Brexit Immigration Of these three things, two have caused incalculable harm to the UK, and immigration isn’t one of them.

Why isn't the COVID inquiry headline news every week? The need to forget past/ongoing trauma & get back to "normal" is so strong that we ignore ~0.25M deaths and vast complex morbidity. Appointing folks with more experience of gymkhanas than genomics to run #NHSTestandTrace speaks volumes🤦‍♂️

Also a dodgy immigrant! 🙋‍♀️ sorry, dodgy migrant. Semantics matter.

All this while refusing to call out Brexit as one of the main factors for Britains low growth and the rise in immigration after “Brexit got done.” Which allows Farage to evade his responsibility for the situation he now so happily exploits. This all helps only Reform.

Not once have we had a government which is willing to openly state the benefits of immigration to our society and our economy, the way that diversity has made us a wealthier and culturally richer country. Not once. And yet we're constantly told that we've been living in an experiment of no borders.

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

Strike 2025 efforts: I developed a gluten-free sourdough starter and it has produced its first loaf 🙌🏻 it /almost/ tastes like /real/ bread.

I'm starting to like this chap.

I guess now's a good reminder that I wrote a thing on Ordo Amoris a few weeks ago www.hauntologies.net/p/ordo-amoris

PhD, Oct 25, me & @drboothroyd.bsky.social .. limb differences & body image… Please share!! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Or to put it another way, overseas students now subsidise the cost of teaching each UK undergraduate by an average of £2,500 each. Take them away and you've got an absolutely existential crisis for universities. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

This evening I will host a monthly gathering of a coven of ladies. I’ve chosen a theme of @nigella.bsky.social. The cake is sorted (pudding first, naturally) but I cannot make my mind up for something savoury and delicious, there are just too many lovely, lovely options.

This is what we're fighting for, and clearly, it's a fight that can be won. If that wasn't clear before, it is now. As one of our colleagues from Newcastle put it at our picket rally today: "The dominoes are falling".

come down on Friday 2 May!

Voted in two countries this week. 🗳️🇨🇦🇬🇧 #vote vote vote vote!! (But not for bloody Farage, please. Anyone but him).

Held up in cash machine queue as woman kept putting in wrong PIN, annoying but forgivable. She apologised blaming the blistering heat. It’s 24C and ridiculously gorgeous in Durham today. How you English dominated so much of the planet for so long is a constant marvel to me.

Status: on strike. ✊

To the good people of Peterborough, my home riding and the most excellent people of Carlton, I doff my chapeau. #elbowsup

To prevent deer from being hit by cars Finland has tried using reflective paint. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/avoid-deer-strikes-finland-painting-deer-antlers-reflective-paint-180949792/) File this under "solutions to modern problems that summon the old gods."

Evidence of what leadership and vision can bring, and quickly.