Dagmar Fraser
@dagmarfraser.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher: Autism, Social Cognition & Bodily Movement Lab (jencooklab.com), Senior Centre Technician: CHBH (birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-for-human-brain-health) & MATLAB Ambassador. X @dagmarfraser He/Him (orcid.org/0000-0002-9241-7772)
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🎉 New paper alert! 🧠 The velocity-curvature power law is one of the 'kinematic laws of nature' (Flash 2021), a 'fundamental law of human control' (Zago et al. 2016), and one of the 'kinematic regularities' (Frith & Frith 2023) thought to underlie all biological motion.
🚨 MATLAB EXPO starts TOMORROW (Nov 12-13)! 🚨
Two days of FREE online sessions covering everything from AI to robotics, all from the comfort of your screen.
MathWorks engineers, academics and industry leaders sharing the latest in MATLAB (and Simulink).
Two days of FREE online sessions covering everything from AI to robotics, all from the comfort of your screen.
MathWorks engineers, academics and industry leaders sharing the latest in MATLAB (and Simulink).
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 MATLAB EXPO starts TOMORROW (Nov 12-13)! 🚨
Two days of FREE online sessions covering everything from AI to robotics, all from the comfort of your screen.
MathWorks engineers, academics and industry leaders sharing the latest in MATLAB (and Simulink).
Two days of FREE online sessions covering everything from AI to robotics, all from the comfort of your screen.
MathWorks engineers, academics and industry leaders sharing the latest in MATLAB (and Simulink).
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It's out! Such a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of A TRICK OF THE MIND at Pushkin House. So lovely to see so many, and to be able to thank everybody who made my first book happen. Thank you!
Available in all good bookshops now!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
Available in all good bookshops now!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
June 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It's out! Such a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of A TRICK OF THE MIND at Pushkin House. So lovely to see so many, and to be able to thank everybody who made my first book happen. Thank you!
Available in all good bookshops now!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
Available in all good bookshops now!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
Reposted by Dagmar Fraser
This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
Reposted by Dagmar Fraser
1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
1 year residency program at Apple. Cogsci/neuro/ling folks studying neuro interpretability, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty to help Apple make progress on similar questions in LLMs. Recent PhD or more senior jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
🧠 If you missed last week's Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB webinar, the MathWorks landing page has everything: 60-min recording, slides, and a comprehensive resource hub. content.mathworks.com/viewer/69047...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
🧠 If you missed last week's Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB webinar, the MathWorks landing page has everything: 60-min recording, slides, and a comprehensive resource hub. content.mathworks.com/viewer/69047...
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DEAR FOLLOWERS - LINKEDIN POSTING SURGE REQUESTED
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
DEAR FOLLOWERS - LINKEDIN POSTING SURGE REQUESTED
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Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.
Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.
Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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Dopamine ≠ reward but turns out, also not the learning molecule we thought.
If DA RPE is the emperor, this work SCREAMS it was running naked all the time.
This paper got quite some attention recently. Let's simplify it a bit.
A🧵with my toy model and notes:
#neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI
If DA RPE is the emperor, this work SCREAMS it was running naked all the time.
This paper got quite some attention recently. Let's simplify it a bit.
A🧵with my toy model and notes:
#neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Dopamine ≠ reward but turns out, also not the learning molecule we thought.
If DA RPE is the emperor, this work SCREAMS it was running naked all the time.
This paper got quite some attention recently. Let's simplify it a bit.
A🧵with my toy model and notes:
#neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI
If DA RPE is the emperor, this work SCREAMS it was running naked all the time.
This paper got quite some attention recently. Let's simplify it a bit.
A🧵with my toy model and notes:
#neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI
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"The cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky was reported to have said: ‘Theories are not refuted. They are embarrassed.’ Today the Modern Synthesis does seem to be somewhat embarrassed, but history tells us that scientists can live with embarrassment for a remarkably long time."
Jablonka & Lamb (2020)
Jablonka & Lamb (2020)
October 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"The cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky was reported to have said: ‘Theories are not refuted. They are embarrassed.’ Today the Modern Synthesis does seem to be somewhat embarrassed, but history tells us that scientists can live with embarrassment for a remarkably long time."
Jablonka & Lamb (2020)
Jablonka & Lamb (2020)
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Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help?
New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others
New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help?
New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
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🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨
Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook (and me!) MIBTP-funded PhD - more details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
@thechbh.bsky.social
Get in touch if interested, and please share!
Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook (and me!) MIBTP-funded PhD - more details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
@thechbh.bsky.social
Get in touch if interested, and please share!
October 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨
Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook (and me!) MIBTP-funded PhD - more details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
@thechbh.bsky.social
Get in touch if interested, and please share!
Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook (and me!) MIBTP-funded PhD - more details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
@thechbh.bsky.social
Get in touch if interested, and please share!
🎯 Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB 🎯
*TODAY*
📅 29 Oct 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM GMT
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#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
*TODAY*
📅 29 Oct 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM GMT
🔗 uk.mathworks.com/company/even...
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🎯 Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB 🎯
*TODAY*
📅 29 Oct 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM GMT
🔗 uk.mathworks.com/company/even...
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
*TODAY*
📅 29 Oct 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM GMT
🔗 uk.mathworks.com/company/even...
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
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Many thanks to all the researchers who have told us about how they use #TMS - the results are looking really useful and very interesting!
We'll keep the survey open until 31st October, so if you can please spare 5 minutes:
Complete the #TMS User Survey!
forms.gle/95EW1PVC3JQV...
🙏 🧠 🧲 ⚡ 🙏
We'll keep the survey open until 31st October, so if you can please spare 5 minutes:
Complete the #TMS User Survey!
forms.gle/95EW1PVC3JQV...
🙏 🧠 🧲 ⚡ 🙏
October 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Many thanks to all the researchers who have told us about how they use #TMS - the results are looking really useful and very interesting!
We'll keep the survey open until 31st October, so if you can please spare 5 minutes:
Complete the #TMS User Survey!
forms.gle/95EW1PVC3JQV...
🙏 🧠 🧲 ⚡ 🙏
We'll keep the survey open until 31st October, so if you can please spare 5 minutes:
Complete the #TMS User Survey!
forms.gle/95EW1PVC3JQV...
🙏 🧠 🧲 ⚡ 🙏
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Finally 10 years into #Birmingham Cycle Revolution an outline plan for a segregated cycle lane for a stretch of the dangerous but key Hagley Road Corridor. Here’s what #PushBikes thinks. Please respond to consultation link in the article
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Hagley Road cycle track | Push Bikes
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has put out a preliminary consultation on improvements to Hagley Road from Five Ways to the junction with Portland Road, which includes a segregated cycle track on t...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Finally 10 years into #Birmingham Cycle Revolution an outline plan for a segregated cycle lane for a stretch of the dangerous but key Hagley Road Corridor. Here’s what #PushBikes thinks. Please respond to consultation link in the article
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oooh native MATLAB raincloudplot Function: Visualize grouped numeric data by using rain cloud plots.
#MATLAB R2026a prerelease is available for download for eligible users
You can find it here www.mathworks.com/downloads/pr...
You can find it here www.mathworks.com/downloads/pr...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
oooh native MATLAB raincloudplot Function: Visualize grouped numeric data by using rain cloud plots.
🎉 The MATLAB Special Interest Group at UoB is back! We're relaunching with an exciting event on **Wednesday 26th November at 13:00**.
There’ll be a keynote talk from me — the new MATLAB-SIG Chair & Student Ambassador — plus speakers from across UoB and MathWorks 💻.
There’ll be a keynote talk from me — the new MATLAB-SIG Chair & Student Ambassador — plus speakers from across UoB and MathWorks 💻.
October 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🎉 The MATLAB Special Interest Group at UoB is back! We're relaunching with an exciting event on **Wednesday 26th November at 13:00**.
There’ll be a keynote talk from me — the new MATLAB-SIG Chair & Student Ambassador — plus speakers from across UoB and MathWorks 💻.
There’ll be a keynote talk from me — the new MATLAB-SIG Chair & Student Ambassador — plus speakers from across UoB and MathWorks 💻.
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UNCG PhD in Cognitive Psychology: Research-focused, 5yrs funding. No GRE req. Apply by Dec 1:
psy.uncg.edu/phd-in-cogni...
#Hiring #PhD #CognitivePsych #Science @uncg.edu
psy.uncg.edu/phd-in-cogni...
#Hiring #PhD #CognitivePsych #Science @uncg.edu
PhD in Cognitive Psychology | Department of Psychology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONSBY CURRENT/RECENT STUDENTS Adams, R. L., & Delaney, P. F. (2022). Long-term working memory and language comprehension. In J. W. Schweitzer & Z. E. Wen (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook o...
psy.uncg.edu
October 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
UNCG PhD in Cognitive Psychology: Research-focused, 5yrs funding. No GRE req. Apply by Dec 1:
psy.uncg.edu/phd-in-cogni...
#Hiring #PhD #CognitivePsych #Science @uncg.edu
psy.uncg.edu/phd-in-cogni...
#Hiring #PhD #CognitivePsych #Science @uncg.edu
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Claude code sucks... but it's still very useful! Check out this blog post that details how Claude is deployed to solve problems in the #Julialang #SciML open source scientific computing infrastructure.
stochasticlifestyle.com/claude-code-...
#llm #vibecoding #physics #opensource #oss
stochasticlifestyle.com/claude-code-...
#llm #vibecoding #physics #opensource #oss
Claude Code in Scientific Computing: Experiences Maintaining Julia's SciML Infrastructure - Stochastic Lifestyle
Claude Code in Scientific Computing: Experiences Maintaining Julia’s SciML Infrastructure So it’s pretty public that for about a month now I’ve had 32 processes setup on one of the 64 core 128gb RAM s...
www.stochasticlifestyle.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Claude code sucks... but it's still very useful! Check out this blog post that details how Claude is deployed to solve problems in the #Julialang #SciML open source scientific computing infrastructure.
stochasticlifestyle.com/claude-code-...
#llm #vibecoding #physics #opensource #oss
stochasticlifestyle.com/claude-code-...
#llm #vibecoding #physics #opensource #oss
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Scientific Modeling Cheatsheet: #MATLAB vs #Python vs #Julialang
Side-by-side comparison for:
• Differential equations
• Optimization
• Automatic differentiation
• Symbolic computing
• More!
Highlights ecosystem differences & best practices.
sciml.github.io/Scientific_M...
Side-by-side comparison for:
• Differential equations
• Optimization
• Automatic differentiation
• Symbolic computing
• More!
Highlights ecosystem differences & best practices.
sciml.github.io/Scientific_M...
Scientific Modeling Cheatsheet – MATLAB – Python – Julia Quick Reference
sciml.github.io
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Scientific Modeling Cheatsheet: #MATLAB vs #Python vs #Julialang
Side-by-side comparison for:
• Differential equations
• Optimization
• Automatic differentiation
• Symbolic computing
• More!
Highlights ecosystem differences & best practices.
sciml.github.io/Scientific_M...
Side-by-side comparison for:
• Differential equations
• Optimization
• Automatic differentiation
• Symbolic computing
• More!
Highlights ecosystem differences & best practices.
sciml.github.io/Scientific_M...
Reposted by Dagmar Fraser
The number of academic software tools in the world only grows with time, and learning new ones is daunting.
Here, my postdoc @rgast.bsky.social spoke about PyRates, a model translator that lets you study dynamical systems with a whole suite of tools built in Python, Julia, Matlab, and Fortran.
Here, my postdoc @rgast.bsky.social spoke about PyRates, a model translator that lets you study dynamical systems with a whole suite of tools built in Python, Julia, Matlab, and Fortran.
This month’s Discover ASAP features @rgast.bsky.social, PhD, of CRN Team Surmeier 🧪
He introduces PyRates, an open-source tool for generating code across languages to model complex biological systems. See how it advances computational neuroscience and #Parkinsons research.
📺 Watch: bit.ly/4h7Y5Wk
He introduces PyRates, an open-source tool for generating code across languages to model complex biological systems. See how it advances computational neuroscience and #Parkinsons research.
📺 Watch: bit.ly/4h7Y5Wk
October 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The number of academic software tools in the world only grows with time, and learning new ones is daunting.
Here, my postdoc @rgast.bsky.social spoke about PyRates, a model translator that lets you study dynamical systems with a whole suite of tools built in Python, Julia, Matlab, and Fortran.
Here, my postdoc @rgast.bsky.social spoke about PyRates, a model translator that lets you study dynamical systems with a whole suite of tools built in Python, Julia, Matlab, and Fortran.
Reposted by Dagmar Fraser
Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏
1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >>
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >>
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏
1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >>
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >>
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's all 'High Performance Computing this' 🧠, 'supercomputing cluster that' 🖥️, and embarrassingly parallel* code on Big Iron 💪 these days…
But what about a more understated, perhaps quintessentially British 🇬🇧, Reasonable Performance Computing? ☕🧐
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador #RPC-SIG
But what about a more understated, perhaps quintessentially British 🇬🇧, Reasonable Performance Computing? ☕🧐
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador #RPC-SIG
October 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's all 'High Performance Computing this' 🧠, 'supercomputing cluster that' 🖥️, and embarrassingly parallel* code on Big Iron 💪 these days…
But what about a more understated, perhaps quintessentially British 🇬🇧, Reasonable Performance Computing? ☕🧐
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador #RPC-SIG
But what about a more understated, perhaps quintessentially British 🇬🇧, Reasonable Performance Computing? ☕🧐
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador #RPC-SIG
Ever needed to visualise overlapping data regions with proper transparency and clean legends? Javier's 😎 ‘shade’ is an absolute lifesaver - showing overlapping bounded regions without turning your figure into an illegible mess 🎨✨
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
October 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ever needed to visualise overlapping data regions with proper transparency and clean legends? Javier's 😎 ‘shade’ is an absolute lifesaver - showing overlapping bounded regions without turning your figure into an illegible mess 🎨✨
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
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TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain
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Ever wonder how you read so fast? Your brain gets a head start—processing the next word before your eyes move. Our MEG + eye tracking study out in Nature Communications study from @thechbh.bsky.social reveals orthographic & semantic previews predicting reading speed www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fast hierarchical processing of orthographic and semantic parafoveal information during natural reading - Nature Communications
Combining MEG, eye-tracking, and representational similarity analysis, this study shows that readers rapidly and sequentially extract orthographic and semantic information from upcoming words before fixation, supporting efficient reading.
www.nature.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Ever wonder how you read so fast? Your brain gets a head start—processing the next word before your eyes move. Our MEG + eye tracking study out in Nature Communications study from @thechbh.bsky.social reveals orthographic & semantic previews predicting reading speed www.nature.com/articles/s41...