Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall
@tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social
Computational cognitive neuroscientist.
Assistant Professor, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK.
Views my own.
🏳️🌈
Assistant Professor, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK.
Views my own.
🏳️🌈
Pinned
a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
ALT: a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
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Passionate about women's mental health?
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
Stop what you're doing and apply for this job.
🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs
Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Stop what you're doing and apply for this job.
No position on the accuracy of these claims
BUT
I did a little happy dance at, 'I looked at the open code and I think this metric is meaningless.'
Because I'm old enough to remember when we didn't do open code and you had to take these things on trust 😬
This is how we get better people 💪💪💪
BUT
I did a little happy dance at, 'I looked at the open code and I think this metric is meaningless.'
Because I'm old enough to remember when we didn't do open code and you had to take these things on trust 😬
This is how we get better people 💪💪💪
A recent study purports to have found that multilingualism protects against accelerated ageing. I've taken a closer look at it, and it doesn't look good.
New blog post: "Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Some critical comments"
janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...
New blog post: "Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Some critical comments"
janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...
December 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
No position on the accuracy of these claims
BUT
I did a little happy dance at, 'I looked at the open code and I think this metric is meaningless.'
Because I'm old enough to remember when we didn't do open code and you had to take these things on trust 😬
This is how we get better people 💪💪💪
BUT
I did a little happy dance at, 'I looked at the open code and I think this metric is meaningless.'
Because I'm old enough to remember when we didn't do open code and you had to take these things on trust 😬
This is how we get better people 💪💪💪
Passionate about women's mental health?
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
ALT: a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Thanks so much everybody for reposting this 🙏🙏🙏
Please please continue to share it among your networks. I'm hoping there's somebody out there who is as excited about this project as I am.
Please please continue to share it among your networks. I'm hoping there's somebody out there who is as excited about this project as I am.
Passionate about women's mental health?
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
ALT: a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Thanks so much everybody for reposting this 🙏🙏🙏
Please please continue to share it among your networks. I'm hoping there's somebody out there who is as excited about this project as I am.
Please please continue to share it among your networks. I'm hoping there's somebody out there who is as excited about this project as I am.
Passionate about women's mental health?
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
ALT: a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Passionate about women's mental health?
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
Congrats Dr. Hommerson en Gefeliciteerd @dondersinst.bsky.social !
Any other Donders alumni remember their numbers?
I just checked; I'm 193.
Any other Donders alumni remember their numbers?
I just checked; I'm 193.
🎓✨ A milestone worth celebrating and framing! 🖼️
Today, the Donders Institute celebrates its #750th #PhD #thesis. The full mosaic of all those thesis covers looks so good, we believe it deserves a spot in a museum.
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
Today, the Donders Institute celebrates its #750th #PhD #thesis. The full mosaic of all those thesis covers looks so good, we believe it deserves a spot in a museum.
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Congrats Dr. Hommerson en Gefeliciteerd @dondersinst.bsky.social !
Any other Donders alumni remember their numbers?
I just checked; I'm 193.
Any other Donders alumni remember their numbers?
I just checked; I'm 193.
Neat! Folks arguing for a move from verbal theories into more formal theories in the context of environmental psychology.
Seems like something @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and friends would support... see neat tutorial paper here psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
Seems like something @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and friends would support... see neat tutorial paper here psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Neat! Folks arguing for a move from verbal theories into more formal theories in the context of environmental psychology.
Seems like something @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and friends would support... see neat tutorial paper here psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
Seems like something @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and friends would support... see neat tutorial paper here psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
These are great people. Go work with them.
There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!
Repetitive negative thoughts will be investigated using a range of cutting-edge brain science techniques as part of a new study led by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and funded by Wellcome @wellcometrust.bsky.social 👇
tinyurl.com/364es88k
tinyurl.com/364es88k
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
These are great people. Go work with them.
"Five people said they left Oxford in order to get away from Hewstone."
Appalling.
Appalling.
This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"Five people said they left Oxford in order to get away from Hewstone."
Appalling.
Appalling.
Hey, @thechbh.bsky.social: Isn't official 'Rising Star of Neuroscience' @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social scheduled to give a talk at our institute next month?
What's that?
She IS? 😮😮😮😮
What's that?
She IS? 😮😮😮😮
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hey, @thechbh.bsky.social: Isn't official 'Rising Star of Neuroscience' @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social scheduled to give a talk at our institute next month?
What's that?
She IS? 😮😮😮😮
What's that?
She IS? 😮😮😮😮
Reposted by Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall
Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
Reposted by Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall
We still have some places available for our thalamus workshop in January, including slots for attendee short talks (just submit a thalamus-related abstract).
uobevents.eventsair.com/emerging-tec...
@thechbh.bsky.social
uobevents.eventsair.com/emerging-tec...
@thechbh.bsky.social
Homepage - Emerging Techniques and Technologies to Understand the Thalamus
uobevents.eventsair.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We still have some places available for our thalamus workshop in January, including slots for attendee short talks (just submit a thalamus-related abstract).
uobevents.eventsair.com/emerging-tec...
@thechbh.bsky.social
uobevents.eventsair.com/emerging-tec...
@thechbh.bsky.social
An international collaboration fails to replicate one FUS (/TUS) protocol previously thought to change motor cortex excitability.
We're firmly in the phase of 'okay, so what *really* works?' with FUS. Great to see these kinds of efforts to find robust effects 👍
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
We're firmly in the phase of 'okay, so what *really* works?' with FUS. Great to see these kinds of efforts to find robust effects 👍
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
A Double-Blind Replication Attempt of Offline 5Hz-rTUS-Induced Corticospinal Excitability
Abstract. Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) is a promising new form of non-invasive neuromodulation. As a nascent technique, replication of its effects on brain function is important. Of parti...
direct.mit.edu
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
An international collaboration fails to replicate one FUS (/TUS) protocol previously thought to change motor cortex excitability.
We're firmly in the phase of 'okay, so what *really* works?' with FUS. Great to see these kinds of efforts to find robust effects 👍
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
We're firmly in the phase of 'okay, so what *really* works?' with FUS. Great to see these kinds of efforts to find robust effects 👍
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Always love seeing people make a big noise about their open M/EEG datasets.
Go have fun with this one 👍
Go have fun with this one 👍
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Always love seeing people make a big noise about their open M/EEG datasets.
Go have fun with this one 👍
Go have fun with this one 👍
Love this. Congrats Sage 🙂
🌟 We’re delighted to announce Dr Sage Boettcher (@ox.ac.uk) as the Rising Star: Early Group Leader winner at the #WiNUKAwards2025!
Sage leads the Dynamic Cognition Lab, studying how attention and memory interact to guide behaviour. A dedicated mentor, teacher, and advocate for inclusive science.
Sage leads the Dynamic Cognition Lab, studying how attention and memory interact to guide behaviour. A dedicated mentor, teacher, and advocate for inclusive science.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Love this. Congrats Sage 🙂
Reposted by Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall
The brain represents the world around us as a series of neural states - stable patterns of activity that change as we move from one event to the next.
New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky
nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4
New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky
nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4
Temporal dedifferentiation of neural states with age during naturalistic viewing - Communications Biology
Movie fMRI data reveals age-related lengthening of neural states in visual and prefrontal regions, reflecting reduced temporal differentiation while preserved alignment with perceived events suggests stable coarse event segmentation.
www.nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The brain represents the world around us as a series of neural states - stable patterns of activity that change as we move from one event to the next.
New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky
nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4
New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky
nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4
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I'm looking to create an advisory group for a project on Monotropism, an attention-based theory of autism and potentially ADHD. If you or anybody you know is interested, please fill out the form below. Thank you!
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Microsoft Forms
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October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm looking to create an advisory group for a project on Monotropism, an attention-based theory of autism and potentially ADHD. If you or anybody you know is interested, please fill out the form below. Thank you!
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Doing a lit search and finding many recent papers still using the jet colormap 😭😭😭
Please don't use this colormap for anything because it's not perceptually uniform (changes of equal size don't look equal) and not friendly to people with variant colour vision.
Some alternatives below... <thread>
Please don't use this colormap for anything because it's not perceptually uniform (changes of equal size don't look equal) and not friendly to people with variant colour vision.
Some alternatives below... <thread>
a man singing into a microphone with the words " maybe it 's time to let the old ways die " above him
Alt: a man singing into a microphone with the words " maybe it 's time to let the old ways die " above him
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October 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Doing a lit search and finding many recent papers still using the jet colormap 😭😭😭
Please don't use this colormap for anything because it's not perceptually uniform (changes of equal size don't look equal) and not friendly to people with variant colour vision.
Some alternatives below... <thread>
Please don't use this colormap for anything because it's not perceptually uniform (changes of equal size don't look equal) and not friendly to people with variant colour vision.
Some alternatives below... <thread>
Reposted by Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall
S-CCS Lab PhD Position
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
S-CCS Lab PhD Position
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
"<student> has asked you to provide a reference...
✅...click this easy link right here in the email and we'll take you right to the place where you can write it."
❌...here is a two part reference ID. Go to this website, then tediously copy the two parts of the reference ID without error, then..."
✅...click this easy link right here in the email and we'll take you right to the place where you can write it."
❌...here is a two part reference ID. Go to this website, then tediously copy the two parts of the reference ID without error, then..."
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"<student> has asked you to provide a reference...
✅...click this easy link right here in the email and we'll take you right to the place where you can write it."
❌...here is a two part reference ID. Go to this website, then tediously copy the two parts of the reference ID without error, then..."
✅...click this easy link right here in the email and we'll take you right to the place where you can write it."
❌...here is a two part reference ID. Go to this website, then tediously copy the two parts of the reference ID without error, then..."
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Looks like a great opportunity for someone with a background in brain stimulation.
The Maastricht brainstim gang are very kind and collaborative and Maastricht is a lovely city🙂
The Maastricht brainstim gang are very kind and collaborative and Maastricht is a lovely city🙂
Open assistant professor position in noninvasive brain stimulation in cognition at Maastricht University: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3557...
Assistant Professor in Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Cognition
Welcome to the Brain Stimulation and Cognition lab at Maastricht University! Our goal: The Brain Stimulation and Cognition group at Maastricht University aims to unravel the psychological and neural m...
www.academictransfer.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Looks like a great opportunity for someone with a background in brain stimulation.
The Maastricht brainstim gang are very kind and collaborative and Maastricht is a lovely city🙂
The Maastricht brainstim gang are very kind and collaborative and Maastricht is a lovely city🙂
Two framings
1: We're proud of <researcher> for getting <grant> because it's prestigious and really hard to get.
2: We're proud of <researcher> for getting <grant> because it enables them to do research that's really important.
I see versions of 1 a lot but think 2 is MUCH better.
Here's why 1/4
1: We're proud of <researcher> for getting <grant> because it's prestigious and really hard to get.
2: We're proud of <researcher> for getting <grant> because it enables them to do research that's really important.
I see versions of 1 a lot but think 2 is MUCH better.
Here's why 1/4
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Two framings
1: We're proud of <researcher> for getting <grant> because it's prestigious and really hard to get.
2: We're proud of <researcher> for getting <grant> because it enables them to do research that's really important.
I see versions of 1 a lot but think 2 is MUCH better.
Here's why 1/4
1: We're proud of <researcher> for getting <grant> because it's prestigious and really hard to get.
2: We're proud of <researcher> for getting <grant> because it enables them to do research that's really important.
I see versions of 1 a lot but think 2 is MUCH better.
Here's why 1/4
Really looking forward to reading this from @eelkespaak.bsky.social
I love this kind of fundamental-assumptions-about-what-the-brain-is-doing stuff.
I love this kind of fundamental-assumptions-about-what-the-brain-is-doing stuff.
🧠 Regularization, Action, and Attractors in the Dynamical “Bayesian” Brain
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
(still uncorrected proofs, but they should post the corrected one soon--also OA is forthcoming, for now PDF at brainandexperience.org/pdf/10.1162-...)
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
(still uncorrected proofs, but they should post the corrected one soon--also OA is forthcoming, for now PDF at brainandexperience.org/pdf/10.1162-...)
Regularization, Action, and Attractors in the Dynamical “Bayesian” Brain
Abstract. The idea that the brain is a probabilistic (Bayesian) inference machine, continuously trying to figure out the hidden causes of its inputs, has become very influential in cognitive (neuro)sc...
direct.mit.edu
October 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Really looking forward to reading this from @eelkespaak.bsky.social
I love this kind of fundamental-assumptions-about-what-the-brain-is-doing stuff.
I love this kind of fundamental-assumptions-about-what-the-brain-is-doing stuff.
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Is the the neuroimaging community (broadly conceived) submitting to 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 again?????
Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago.
Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more.
Curious about thoughts of the community.
Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago.
Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more.
Curious about thoughts of the community.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Is the the neuroimaging community (broadly conceived) submitting to 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 again?????
Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago.
Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more.
Curious about thoughts of the community.
Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago.
Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more.
Curious about thoughts of the community.