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Jenny Bizley
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Auditory neuroscientist, UCL Prof, trail runner, landlocked boaty, mum was @bizifer elsewhere
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Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme.

Join us in London!

🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social

Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
September 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist (anything from cognition to NeuroAI) to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year.

Drop me a line if you want to know more

Deadline September 14th

www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....
MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board (NMHB) member vacancies
Closing date 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm (UK time) Number of positions Six Length of term Two years, plus additional two years after review Time commitment Two days per month Remuneration £160 per da...
www.ukri.org
September 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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🚨 MILLIONS at higher risk will lose NHS Covid vaccines this autumn.

Lives will be at risk. The NHS will face more pressure. Covid is as serious as 'flu and also requires updated seasonal vaccines.

We can stop this!
Sign + share our petition (on next post)

1/ #KeepCovidBoosters
August 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
UCL Ear Institute's external fellowship sponsorship scheme is open for applications - come and start your research group with us!
Important dates: 28th August: intention to submit.
1st September, 5pm: Application deadline

Further information: lnkd.in/ehmuJp96
Career Development Pathways at the Ear Institute
The Ear Institute at University College London (UCL) invites Expressions of Interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships.
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Fully funded (UK rate) studentship with the awesome @emmaholmes90.bsky.social ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/emma...
Deadline extended for my fully-funded #PhD position - apply by 7th May! Come and work with me & join the UCL Cognitive Hearing Lab: bit.ly/3RAEYZ8 The studentship is funded by RNID and will help make noisy environments easier for people with hearing loss
April 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Took the 9yo for an amazing bat walk this evening with saveleatherlane-wp.org.uk . Saw or heard at least 4 different species and now wondering if it’s too late for the lab to switch to echolocation 🤔 if you’re in or near the #chilterns you should go too! 🦇 👂
Leather Lane Conservation Group – Preserving and Protecting Leather Lane
saveleatherlane-wp.org.uk
April 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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as an experiment in academic internet stuff I made a 'new-auditory' list for folks interested in audition, hearing, speech, music etc

anybody can join at groups.google.com/g/new-audito...

the 30-year-old AUDITORY list is v cool but has many drawbacks, not least that it runs on 30-yr-old tech
April 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Skills needed for a systems #neuroscience PI: carpentry, micro-soldering, surgery, coding, analysis, writing, people management... and yoga moves -- to get into a testing arena, and then fix stuff while balancing on the only non 'acoustically transparent' (i.e. fixed) part of the floor 🤷‍♀️ #neverbored
April 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Had a wonderful day of science yesterday at the @champalimaudr.bsky.social giving a talk and being part of a thesis Jury. Big congrats to Mafalda and the Renart Lab! #🧠 #neuroscience
April 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
March 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Checked one off the trail-running bucket list yesterday - Ashridge boundary run - 17+ miles of stunning(ly hilly) "fun" #chilterns #trailrunning #ridgeway
March 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Using my gran’s ancient (vintage?) sewing machine to hem a new curtain for our speaker grid setup. Love the contrast between state of the art behaviour/tracking/neuropixels and my dodgy sewing skills — and so excited for the data beginning to emerge 🤓 🧠 #neuroscience
March 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Abstract submission for ICAC 2025 is still open!
We are looking forward to see you in Maastricht in September.
March 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Great episode of inside health www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... exploring hearing and age related hearing loss, featuring multiple non-bluesky Ear Institute contributors @uclbrainscience.bsky.social #neuroscience #hearing
Inside Health - Why do we lose our hearing with age? - BBC Sounds
Is hearing loss taken as seriously as eyesight loss, and what can we do about it?
www.bbc.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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This #BSW25 we're excited to announce two new trustees have joined BSA Council!

Welcome Dr Rachel Williams @sciwithrach.bsky.social & Professor Turi King @turiking.bsky.social, brilliant scientists committed to public communication and engagement:

www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/british...
British Science Association Council welcomes two new trustees
The British Science Association has announced that two new trustees, Professor Turi King and Dr Rachel Williams, have joined Council – the governing board of trustees for the organisation.
www.britishscienceassociation.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I keep reading such things and want to mention applications are open in the German Lise Meitner program for excellent female scientists, who typically already have leadership experience. It is the breeding ground for future MPI directors. Maybe you can point some folks to it that may match.
Lise Meitner Excellence Program
Since 2018, up to ten further Lise Meitner Groups will be advertised to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists as part of the new Lise Meitner Excellence Program.
www.mpg.de
March 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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One of the NIMH PIs whose name is the termination list: Sooyhun Lee, whose lab just published this beautiful @nature.com paper (that has received too little press because comms at NIH are down). Read! Cite!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"We should communicate our passion & curiosity, connecting with those who share our wonder about the world, but must also showcase the practical significance of basic research, demonstrating how seemingly arcane investigations yield transformative applications." Great piece by @tonyzador.bsky.social
How to communicate the value of curiosity-driven research
The burden of proof is on us, as researchers, to explain why what we do is valuable to society.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
#interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience
Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
February 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Signature tally now closing in on 3000. Please keep discussing, sharing and signing to put as much pressure on the Royal Society to respond as possible. forms.gle/AuYvuWqytx8K...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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February 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Save the date!

UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London
9 July: ECR day
10-11 July: main meeting

9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters

Abstract & registration opening soon

Pls share!

neuralcomputation.uk
UKNC25 |
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January 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Watched the 9 year old (and 8500 of her primary age friends) rock the O2 tonight 🌟 #youngvoices #urbanstrides
January 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Cheeky pre-work trail run #bluesky 🏃🏻‍♀️
January 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM