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
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Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Cut out the middle man:
"AI could replace minister with savings of £100k per year"
"AI could replace minister with savings of £100k per year"
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.
Lord Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the “green light” to use artificial intelligence (AI) after a specialised team was sent in to find “some quick fixes”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Cut out the middle man:
"AI could replace minister with savings of £100k per year"
"AI could replace minister with savings of £100k per year"
I finally found an actual use for CoPilot!
When updating a file on GitHub (e.g., a readme file), the AI summarises the changes so i don't have to write a commit message. It does a good job.
That's about 20 seconds saved today :-)
(it took me 3 minutes to write this post)
When updating a file on GitHub (e.g., a readme file), the AI summarises the changes so i don't have to write a commit message. It does a good job.
That's about 20 seconds saved today :-)
(it took me 3 minutes to write this post)
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I finally found an actual use for CoPilot!
When updating a file on GitHub (e.g., a readme file), the AI summarises the changes so i don't have to write a commit message. It does a good job.
That's about 20 seconds saved today :-)
(it took me 3 minutes to write this post)
When updating a file on GitHub (e.g., a readme file), the AI summarises the changes so i don't have to write a commit message. It does a good job.
That's about 20 seconds saved today :-)
(it took me 3 minutes to write this post)
Hello #Bird lovers. What the hell is this big feathery thing flying through my garden at midday in Warwickshire UK?
Owl? Red kite? Buzzard? 🤔
At this position from the camera, this is a big bird!
#Ornithology #Birding #Twitcher
Owl? Red kite? Buzzard? 🤔
At this position from the camera, this is a big bird!
#Ornithology #Birding #Twitcher
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Hello #Bird lovers. What the hell is this big feathery thing flying through my garden at midday in Warwickshire UK?
Owl? Red kite? Buzzard? 🤔
At this position from the camera, this is a big bird!
#Ornithology #Birding #Twitcher
Owl? Red kite? Buzzard? 🤔
At this position from the camera, this is a big bird!
#Ornithology #Birding #Twitcher
Have asked my line manager for a £999,999,937,482 pay rise next year 🤞
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Have asked my line manager for a £999,999,937,482 pay rise next year 🤞
"GLMMs are black boxes into which stats-naïve authors can throw anything they like."
Discuss.
Discuss.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"GLMMs are black boxes into which stats-naïve authors can throw anything they like."
Discuss.
Discuss.
Can academics Take Back Control of publishing?
(Do we want to?)
👇
(Do we want to?)
👇
An important set of ideas to counter the growing burden of fraudulent scientific publications:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication. The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Can academics Take Back Control of publishing?
(Do we want to?)
👇
(Do we want to?)
👇
what fresh hell is this?
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November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
what fresh hell is this?
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
"The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns. They don’t exist. The solution is going to come from everyone else, using every tool to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists & the press." 🌏
"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns. They don’t exist. The solution is going to come from everyone else, using every tool to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists & the press." 🌏
How many Slack workspaces is too many? Currently on 5...
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
How many Slack workspaces is too many? Currently on 5...
Reposted by Nick Holmes
Many thanks to the 60 gorgeous #TMS researchers who took a few minutes to complete our user survey.
The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
A quick breakdown follows in this thread:
#PieChartHeaven
The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
A quick breakdown follows in this thread:
#PieChartHeaven
TMS User Survey
Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab
github.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Many thanks to the 60 gorgeous #TMS researchers who took a few minutes to complete our user survey.
The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
A quick breakdown follows in this thread:
#PieChartHeaven
The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
A quick breakdown follows in this thread:
#PieChartHeaven
Reposted by Nick Holmes
**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...
Please share!!
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...
Please share!!
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
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
**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...
Please share!!
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...
Please share!!
Has anyone made the "Andrew formerly known as Prince" joke yet?
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Has anyone made the "Andrew formerly known as Prince" joke yet?
Reposted by Nick Holmes
Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Reposted by Nick Holmes
Our next monthly meeting:
Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about:
Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS
bignibsdata.com
Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT
Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us!
#TMS #BrainStim #NIBS
Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about:
Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS
bignibsdata.com
Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT
Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us!
#TMS #BrainStim #NIBS
bignibsdata.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Our next monthly meeting:
Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about:
Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS
bignibsdata.com
Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT
Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us!
#TMS #BrainStim #NIBS
Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about:
Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS
bignibsdata.com
Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT
Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us!
#TMS #BrainStim #NIBS
The #Christmas Market is being set up in Birmingham city centre.
The Halloween-to-Christmas buffer gets shorter each year: it's now -3 days.
🎃🎅🤔
The Halloween-to-Christmas buffer gets shorter each year: it's now -3 days.
🎃🎅🤔
October 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The #Christmas Market is being set up in Birmingham city centre.
The Halloween-to-Christmas buffer gets shorter each year: it's now -3 days.
🎃🎅🤔
The Halloween-to-Christmas buffer gets shorter each year: it's now -3 days.
🎃🎅🤔
Reposted by Nick Holmes
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...
🙏 🧠 🧲 ⚡ 🙏
Every hour that I listen to YouTube while working, I am exposed to about 4 adverts for 'AI' tools encouraging me to stop reading, writing, editing & thinking for myself, and instead sign up to a "technosolution" to do it for me.
Here's why I shouldn't
👇
Here's why I shouldn't
👇
"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."
1/n
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
1/n
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
October 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Every hour that I listen to YouTube while working, I am exposed to about 4 adverts for 'AI' tools encouraging me to stop reading, writing, editing & thinking for myself, and instead sign up to a "technosolution" to do it for me.
Here's why I shouldn't
👇
Here's why I shouldn't
👇
Reposted by Nick Holmes
🎉 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🎉 50,000 listens! Thanks to everyone supporting The HPS Podcast, we're so grateful
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
We're proudly graduate-run— & work hard to provide episodes that reflect our community’s questions and passions, and the richness of ideas across HPS
Lots to come! Including some exciting developments for S6
(1/2)
Mice have hands!
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
October 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Mice have hands!
October 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
$50m to show a link between the gut microbiome and autism?
Trying to relate the gut to autism didn't turn out well in 1998.
Here's why it still might not:
Trying to relate the gut to autism didn't turn out well in 1998.
Here's why it still might not:
New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le...
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
A LEAP into the future, or off a cliff: Wellcome LEAP's new $50M program
A few days ago, I saw this post on LinkedIn: How does the gut microbiome shape early brain development? That’s what FORM, a new $50 million...
deevybee.blogspot.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
$50m to show a link between the gut microbiome and autism?
Trying to relate the gut to autism didn't turn out well in 1998.
Here's why it still might not:
Trying to relate the gut to autism didn't turn out well in 1998.
Here's why it still might not: