Barbara-Anne Robertson (she/her)
@canuckinengland.bsky.social
🇨🇦Canadian expat; scientist; outlook: dogs are better than people; unrepentant leftie. Research: emotional memory processes, hippocampal processes, spatial memory. Current status: Waiting out the storm.
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If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT
July 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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…
July 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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.
July 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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! 🍁 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁
a group of cartoon characters are sitting at desks and one of them is wearing a hat that says canada
ALT: a group of cartoon characters are sitting at desks and one of them is wearing a hat that says canada
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July 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Bonne fête du Canada, eh! 🍁 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁
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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PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.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...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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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!
June 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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!
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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!
June 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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!
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...
June 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Now 5600 signatures strong. Add yours!
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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
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biologists.com/grants/#jeb
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June 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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
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biologists.com/grants/#jeb
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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.
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
chng.it/mdHVd8yRg6
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
May 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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.”
Former USAID chief Andrew Natsios estimates that two million will have died by the end of the year.”
Musk’s reign of incompetence and cruelty is over. Now fuck off
inews.co.uk/opinion/musk...
inews.co.uk/opinion/musk...
Musk’s reign of incompetence and cruelty is over. Good riddance
He waded into Doge without the slightest idea what he was doing
inews.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“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.”
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...
May 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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...
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PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise.
Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.
Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
Funded PhD opportunity.pdf
drive.google.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise.
Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.
Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.
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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.
Liverpool parade live: Man detained after car driven into crowd
Merseyside Police say the man is white, British and from the Liverpool area. It is not clear if he is thought to be the driver.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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.
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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.
May 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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.
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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...
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Nurse lecturer cuts ‘explode’ as domestic workforce plans put at risk, new report shows | Royal College of Nursing
Nurse lecturer cuts ‘explode’ as domestic workforce plans put at risk, new report shows
www.rcn.org.uk
May 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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...
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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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
chng.it/mdHVd8yRg6
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
May 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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
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.
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
chng.it/mdHVd8yRg6
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
May 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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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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...
www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/othe...
May 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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...
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).
May 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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
May 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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
May 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Happy Eurovision! Estonia has votes from here. Brilliant. Absolutely fantastic. #espressomachiato #eurovision
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Analysis of electoral trends confirms that swing voters increasingly switch WITHIN 2 blocks (of right/nationalist & of left/liberal) not between them.
=> Labour risks losing voters to LibDems/Greens/nats much more than to the Tories/Reform.
academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...
=> Labour risks losing voters to LibDems/Greens/nats much more than to the Tories/Reform.
academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...
May 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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.
May 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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.