Michel Belyk
@michelbelyk.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University. The human voice, all the things that it says, and how it is able to say them.
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Come watch us be silly on stage for @britishneuro.bsky.social #BNA2025 Festival of Neuroscience! It’ll be v fun, prob a bit strange & it’s for charity! 🧠🪩
📅 Thu 24 Apr @ 7pm
📍 LEAF, Bold St, Liverpool
🎟️ www.eventbookings.com/b/event/neur...
@painreliefteam.bsky.social
@lng.org.uk
📅 Thu 24 Apr @ 7pm
📍 LEAF, Bold St, Liverpool
🎟️ www.eventbookings.com/b/event/neur...
@painreliefteam.bsky.social
@lng.org.uk
April 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Come watch us be silly on stage for @britishneuro.bsky.social #BNA2025 Festival of Neuroscience! It’ll be v fun, prob a bit strange & it’s for charity! 🧠🪩
📅 Thu 24 Apr @ 7pm
📍 LEAF, Bold St, Liverpool
🎟️ www.eventbookings.com/b/event/neur...
@painreliefteam.bsky.social
@lng.org.uk
📅 Thu 24 Apr @ 7pm
📍 LEAF, Bold St, Liverpool
🎟️ www.eventbookings.com/b/event/neur...
@painreliefteam.bsky.social
@lng.org.uk
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Elisabeth Bik has donated her $200k Einstein Foundation Award to create a fund to train and support research integrity investigators
Renowned scientific integrity investigator endows fund to support fellow sleuths
Microbiologist Elisabeth Bik donates $200,000 to support training, travel
www.science.org
February 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Elisabeth Bik has donated her $200k Einstein Foundation Award to create a fund to train and support research integrity investigators
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Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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We all know how to stop a bully. But when it's a powerful bully, fear takes center stage and people come with arguments saying that resistance is futile or counterproductive. That is exactly what the bully wants. And gives him even more power. And the cycle repeats.
Thanks Dorothy for speaking up
Thanks Dorothy for speaking up
Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org
Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society
Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...
deevybee.blogspot.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We all know how to stop a bully. But when it's a powerful bully, fear takes center stage and people come with arguments saying that resistance is futile or counterproductive. That is exactly what the bully wants. And gives him even more power. And the cycle repeats.
Thanks Dorothy for speaking up
Thanks Dorothy for speaking up
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Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Language-like efficiency in whale communication
Whale vocalizations follow efficiency rules seen in human language, revealing striking similarities in communication systems.
www.science.org
February 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Adobe's spellchecker apparently has an opinion to share.
February 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Adobe's spellchecker apparently has an opinion to share.
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postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
January 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
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A very interesting paper on "Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing" by @michelbelyk.bsky.social and S. Kotz www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The right sound at the right time: Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing
Acting on the world requires the right action at the right time. This is perhaps most easily seen in music where the meaning of a piece is encoded exp…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A very interesting paper on "Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing" by @michelbelyk.bsky.social and S. Kotz www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New preprint chapter on voice motor control for an upcoming Oxford Handbook of Language and Music live now (doi.org/10.31219/osf...). Just some stuff we know about voices and the brains that control them.
OSF
doi.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New preprint chapter on voice motor control for an upcoming Oxford Handbook of Language and Music live now (doi.org/10.31219/osf...). Just some stuff we know about voices and the brains that control them.
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For more context, see the excellent commentary by
Daniela Sammler at science.org/doi/10.1126/... and media coverage, including:
The New York Times by Carl Zimmer: nytimes.com/2024/05/15/s...
Forbes by Eva Amsen: forbes.com/sites/evaams...
Daniela Sammler at science.org/doi/10.1126/... and media coverage, including:
The New York Times by Carl Zimmer: nytimes.com/2024/05/15/s...
Forbes by Eva Amsen: forbes.com/sites/evaams...
Signatures of speech and song: “Universal” links despite cultural diversity
Equitable collaboration between culturally diverse scientists reveals that acoustic fingerprints of human speech and song share parallel relationships across the globe.
science.org
May 16, 2024 at 5:03 AM
For more context, see the excellent commentary by
Daniela Sammler at science.org/doi/10.1126/... and media coverage, including:
The New York Times by Carl Zimmer: nytimes.com/2024/05/15/s...
Forbes by Eva Amsen: forbes.com/sites/evaams...
Daniela Sammler at science.org/doi/10.1126/... and media coverage, including:
The New York Times by Carl Zimmer: nytimes.com/2024/05/15/s...
Forbes by Eva Amsen: forbes.com/sites/evaams...
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What better occasion for a first post here!
Happy to share this fun new paper that came out today at #ScientificReports. In this online behavioral study we showed that facial signals allow us to predict the nature of an upcoming response.
@judithholler.bsky.social
rdcu.be/d5F2r
Happy to share this fun new paper that came out today at #ScientificReports. In this online behavioral study we showed that facial signals allow us to predict the nature of an upcoming response.
@judithholler.bsky.social
rdcu.be/d5F2r
Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses
Scientific Reports - Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses
rdcu.be
January 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
What better occasion for a first post here!
Happy to share this fun new paper that came out today at #ScientificReports. In this online behavioral study we showed that facial signals allow us to predict the nature of an upcoming response.
@judithholler.bsky.social
rdcu.be/d5F2r
Happy to share this fun new paper that came out today at #ScientificReports. In this online behavioral study we showed that facial signals allow us to predict the nature of an upcoming response.
@judithholler.bsky.social
rdcu.be/d5F2r