Solya Székely
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Solya Székely
@solyas.bsky.social
PhD Student at the University of Bath | Neuropsychology | Movement Perception and Understanding | Brain Stimulation | Open Science | https://tms-rat.org/
Who wants to be a postdoc in Cardiff?

Great place, great looking project, fantastic PI✨
**Come work with us!!**

Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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Research Associate: Neural Control of Movement in - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Research Associate: Neural control of movement in Parkinson's Disease School of Healthcare Sciences, Card
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October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Reposted by Solya Székely
To find out about how #TMS #BrainStim users collect, analyse & share their data, we've made a very brief TMS survey:

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It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.

We'll use the answers to plan our future work.

Please share!

🙏🙏🙏

TMSMultiLab survey
TMSMultiLab is a community of ~70 researchers using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). We aim to share methods code and data, to reach consensus & encourage best practice in TMS research methods...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Friday is a big day for the TMS-RAT🤩
This Friday's Monthly Meeting is given by Solya Szekely @solyas.bsky.social who will tell us about the TMS-RAT 🐀 Project.

In this project, 18 members of TMSMultiLab created, developed & tested a tool for #SystematicReview #MeyaAnalysis & reporting in #TMS research

Join us!

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September 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Solya Székely
This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility

Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/
September 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Had a wonderful time at #BACN last week. I’m very grateful for all the in-depth discussions, and so excited that our project with @mmarneweck.bsky.social was awarded the poster prize 🏆
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reposted by Solya Székely
We're now up to 29 labs across 16 countries for our replication project! There is still room for more labs to join us. We are particularly seeking labs capable of testing native English speakers, though all labs are welcome to participate. For more information: rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This year, I spent March–June at the University of Oregon, working with @mmarneweck.bsky.social on an fMRI analysis of the representational pattern similarity of lip and hand movements after upper-limb amputation.
Excited to share this at #BACN25 ✨ Find me at the datablitz/poster sessions on Friday!
September 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Reposted by Solya Székely
Over the last few months, members of TMSMultiLab have read, analysed & assessed #TMS research papers to produce a new tool:

17 people
333 papers
80 criteria
2 raters per paper

The dataset contains 53,280 ratings!

It's an immense piece of work, the first empirical contribution of TMSMultiLab...

☺️
August 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Solya Székely
The *final* stage of the TMS-RAT 🐀 v1.0 is happening... data are being compiled. 😬...

#TMS #BrainStim #SystematicReview

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August 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reposted by Solya Székely
New preprint out, where we show that TMS-induced pupil dilations can be used as a measurable proxy of cortical excitability.

With:
@frasermacrae.bsky.social
@freekvanede.bsky.social
@daspainbrain.bsky.social
@drsmschabrun.bsky.social
et al.

Details below 🧵 [1/n]
Transcranial magnetic stimulation induced pupil dilations can serve as a cortical excitability measure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668303v1
August 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
For TMS studies to be reproducible and for us to build on each other’s findings, we need to report what we actually did during the experiment.

We've built and now are evaluating the TMS-RAT (Reporting Assessment Tool).

Check out our website! - built by @thehandlab.bsky.social
The TMS-RAT v1.0 is now being tested!

It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses

All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned!

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June 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬?

We're running a ~20-min study on visual imagery & movement perception. Your participation would really help, and you can enter a prize draw to win one of three £50 Amazon vouchers.

Participate/find out more: run.pavlovia.org/Szekely/acti...
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Reposted by Solya Székely
Happy 40th Birthday #TMS 🥳🧲🎈

Published in the Lancet on 11th May 1985, a 1-page report of a new device & the 1st TMS-evoked MEP changed brain stimulation research & treatment forever

We celebrated with Professor Barker two weeks ago in Birmingham

Here's to 40 more years!

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May 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM