Nick Holmes
@thehandlab.bsky.social
handy neuroscientist | touch & movement | brain stimulation | neurobiography.info | pod @theerrorbar.bsky.social theerrorbar.com | @tmsmultilab.bsky.social https://tms-rat.org https://tms-smart.info | b. 335ppm C💚2 | pro birds | Associating with Professors
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Nick Holmes
@thehandlab.bsky.social
· Aug 11
I'm happy to report that @valedichiaro.bsky.social 's 2nd PhD paper is in press! :-). Brief explainer...
- 2-coil #TMS over left & right primary motor cortex
- TMS in the ~300ms before one hand responds
- corticospinal excitability increases before response
- no changes in non-responding hand
1/n
- 2-coil #TMS over left & right primary motor cortex
- TMS in the ~300ms before one hand responds
- corticospinal excitability increases before response
- no changes in non-responding hand
1/n
The tech that enables Grok to make sexualised images against peoples' will is here to stay and we're just going to have to bring it into the classroom and ensure that all our students are genporn literate as they enter the marketplace.
January 7, 2026 at 6:58 AM
The tech that enables Grok to make sexualised images against peoples' will is here to stay and we're just going to have to bring it into the classroom and ensure that all our students are genporn literate as they enter the marketplace.
Cheaterly-AI: Why do your work and think when you can pay a mediocre, error-prone, plagiarising, slop machine to do it for you? That's how jobs get out-sourced.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Cheaterly-AI: Why do your work and think when you can pay a mediocre, error-prone, plagiarising, slop machine to do it for you? That's how jobs get out-sourced.
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I've been Flight-Free for 7 years!
Is this year your first without flying..?
🛩❌️ 🚄✔️ 🚢✔️ 🚃✔️ 🌍✔️
@flightfreeuk.bsky.social
youtu.be/GE-myiSC2ew?...
Is this year your first without flying..?
🛩❌️ 🚄✔️ 🚢✔️ 🚃✔️ 🌍✔️
@flightfreeuk.bsky.social
youtu.be/GE-myiSC2ew?...
Flight Free 2026 is now live!
YouTube video by Flight Free UK
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January 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I've been Flight-Free for 7 years!
Is this year your first without flying..?
🛩❌️ 🚄✔️ 🚢✔️ 🚃✔️ 🌍✔️
@flightfreeuk.bsky.social
youtu.be/GE-myiSC2ew?...
Is this year your first without flying..?
🛩❌️ 🚄✔️ 🚢✔️ 🚃✔️ 🌍✔️
@flightfreeuk.bsky.social
youtu.be/GE-myiSC2ew?...
Postdocs: you will not find a better opportunity than this 👇
If your New Year’s resolution is to find a fantastic 3-year post doc position in a great city with a small, friendly lab group and national collaborators… you’re in luck!!!
Open for applications until Tuesday. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
@ispgr.bsky.social @ncmsociety.bsky.social
Open for applications until Tuesday. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
@ispgr.bsky.social @ncmsociety.bsky.social
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
krb-sjobs.brassring.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Postdocs: you will not find a better opportunity than this 👇
Reposted by Nick Holmes
“Accidentally, open science advocates have been party to one of the most widespread and successful attacks on science in human history.”
www.the-geyser.com/open-science...
www.the-geyser.com/open-science...
Open Science Comes Up Empty
A “major” study reveals little to no benefit, but fails to examine the harms
www.the-geyser.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
“Accidentally, open science advocates have been party to one of the most widespread and successful attacks on science in human history.”
www.the-geyser.com/open-science...
www.the-geyser.com/open-science...
Oh great, another Special Military Operation.
January 3, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Oh great, another Special Military Operation.
Reposted by Nick Holmes
Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...
sneak preview of the #TMS #MetaAnalysis I've been working on for two years...
this isn't the main result, but it's one of the prettiest graphs I've made in some time, so it's worth bragging about.
there's a *lot* going on in this graph - to be explained in a (near?) future thread..!
#BrainStim
this isn't the main result, but it's one of the prettiest graphs I've made in some time, so it's worth bragging about.
there's a *lot* going on in this graph - to be explained in a (near?) future thread..!
#BrainStim
December 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
sneak preview of the #TMS #MetaAnalysis I've been working on for two years...
this isn't the main result, but it's one of the prettiest graphs I've made in some time, so it's worth bragging about.
there's a *lot* going on in this graph - to be explained in a (near?) future thread..!
#BrainStim
this isn't the main result, but it's one of the prettiest graphs I've made in some time, so it's worth bragging about.
there's a *lot* going on in this graph - to be explained in a (near?) future thread..!
#BrainStim
Reposted by Nick Holmes
An experiment conducted in my department …
Student Evaluations Can’t Be Used to Assess Professors. They’re Discriminatory.
And that means they’re illegal.
slate.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
An experiment conducted in my department …
Reposted by Nick Holmes
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and please complete your mandatory e-learning by 31 December.
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and please complete your mandatory e-learning by 31 December.
Reposted by Nick Holmes
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
Thanks to slop-generating machines, I no longer believe that any electronic interaction (e.g., with my electricity provider, which prompted this message) is genuine. Sigh.
Longing for the bubble to burst in 2026!
Longing for the bubble to burst in 2026!
December 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Thanks to slop-generating machines, I no longer believe that any electronic interaction (e.g., with my electricity provider, which prompted this message) is genuine. Sigh.
Longing for the bubble to burst in 2026!
Longing for the bubble to burst in 2026!
How to Academic: Check your sources
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
How to Academic: Check your sources
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Reposted by Nick Holmes
Are you interested in a MSc/PhD in human sensorimotor neuroscience? Learn to design experiments, analyze data, read & write papers, present at conferences, & work with a vibrant group of students & faculty in a world-class research environment.
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
gribblelab.org/join.html
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
gribblelab.org/join.html
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Are you interested in a MSc/PhD in human sensorimotor neuroscience? Learn to design experiments, analyze data, read & write papers, present at conferences, & work with a vibrant group of students & faculty in a world-class research environment.
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
gribblelab.org/join.html
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
gribblelab.org/join.html
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Felt compelled this morning to write a 600-word defense of human writing, to argue against the use of 'ai' to structure & expand feedback on our students' work.
Yes, it has come to this: Academics need to make arguments for we should still be writing & thinking. #ai
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Yes, it has come to this: Academics need to make arguments for we should still be writing & thinking. #ai
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Should academics use 'AI' to assist in writing feedback on students' work?
Should academics use ‘AI’ to assist in writing feedback on students’ work? I felt compelled to write this in response to an email discussion at work on whether or how to use ‘ai’ (large language mode...
docs.google.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Felt compelled this morning to write a 600-word defense of human writing, to argue against the use of 'ai' to structure & expand feedback on our students' work.
Yes, it has come to this: Academics need to make arguments for we should still be writing & thinking. #ai
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Yes, it has come to this: Academics need to make arguments for we should still be writing & thinking. #ai
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
If technology improved education, surely students would understand the p-value by now, 300 years after its invention?
After the mechanical calculators and punch card computers and difference engines and Boolean logic and tabulating machines and the logical abacus and the analytical engines and the
After the mechanical calculators and punch card computers and difference engines and Boolean logic and tabulating machines and the logical abacus and the analytical engines and the
December 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If technology improved education, surely students would understand the p-value by now, 300 years after its invention?
After the mechanical calculators and punch card computers and difference engines and Boolean logic and tabulating machines and the logical abacus and the analytical engines and the
After the mechanical calculators and punch card computers and difference engines and Boolean logic and tabulating machines and the logical abacus and the analytical engines and the
Reposted by Nick Holmes
An already severely lacking system is now facing debacle.
Perhaps it would be easier to understand thus way: you are biting the hand that feeds you. Stop.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Perhaps it would be easier to understand thus way: you are biting the hand that feeds you. Stop.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
Policies should reflect the ‘new reality’ of researchers’ increasing reliance on tools that can summarize manuscripts and draft reports.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
An already severely lacking system is now facing debacle.
Perhaps it would be easier to understand thus way: you are biting the hand that feeds you. Stop.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Perhaps it would be easier to understand thus way: you are biting the hand that feeds you. Stop.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Important disambigpooation 💩👇 #ai
Slop is the rubbish that we produce with AI tools.
Enshittification is the process of a commercial product or platform (e.g. Google or chat GPT) getting worse, in particular because the makers/owners want to extract more profit.
Enshittification is the process of a commercial product or platform (e.g. Google or chat GPT) getting worse, in particular because the makers/owners want to extract more profit.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Important disambigpooation 💩👇 #ai
Reposted by Nick Holmes
Today I'll be arguing that AI tools (specifically LLMs and AI agents) are NOT the future of health and social science but are more likely to be the death of health and social science.
Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.
Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Today I'll be arguing that AI tools (specifically LLMs and AI agents) are NOT the future of health and social science but are more likely to be the death of health and social science.
Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.
Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.
Reposted by Nick Holmes
Spinal motor neurons in dazzling detail. ✨
Each green dot is a spinal motor neuron - crucial but rare cells making up just 1% of neurons in the spinal cord. In diseases like ALS, they are selectively damaged, making them of special interest to neuroscientists.
#neuroskyence #FluorescenceFriday
Each green dot is a spinal motor neuron - crucial but rare cells making up just 1% of neurons in the spinal cord. In diseases like ALS, they are selectively damaged, making them of special interest to neuroscientists.
#neuroskyence #FluorescenceFriday
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Spinal motor neurons in dazzling detail. ✨
Each green dot is a spinal motor neuron - crucial but rare cells making up just 1% of neurons in the spinal cord. In diseases like ALS, they are selectively damaged, making them of special interest to neuroscientists.
#neuroskyence #FluorescenceFriday
Each green dot is a spinal motor neuron - crucial but rare cells making up just 1% of neurons in the spinal cord. In diseases like ALS, they are selectively damaged, making them of special interest to neuroscientists.
#neuroskyence #FluorescenceFriday