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UofG crows showing our incoming new students the values of hard work, focus and perseverance
The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
UofG crows showing our incoming new students the values of hard work, focus and perseverance
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UK neuroscience graduates! PhD opportunity here at Glasgow SPN: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date July 4
Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
UK neuroscience graduates! PhD opportunity here at Glasgow SPN: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date July 4
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Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing:
What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)
Who are you arguing against?
What alternatives are you rejecting and why?
What follows if you’re right?
These are also good questions for Q&A.
What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)
Who are you arguing against?
What alternatives are you rejecting and why?
What follows if you’re right?
These are also good questions for Q&A.
May 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing:
What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)
Who are you arguing against?
What alternatives are you rejecting and why?
What follows if you’re right?
These are also good questions for Q&A.
What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)
Who are you arguing against?
What alternatives are you rejecting and why?
What follows if you’re right?
These are also good questions for Q&A.
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Please distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia
May 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Please distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia
We love a collaboration between our School and the Learning Scientist. Go have a read at an applied neuroscience perspective of stress and its impact on learning!
NEW GUEST POST: "A Neuroscientific Perspective on Understanding and Managing Stress" by Dr Julie-Myrtille Bourgognon @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social
www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/5/...
www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/5/...
GUEST POST: A Neuroscientific Perspective on Understanding and Managing Stress — The Learning Scientists
Stress significantly impacts university students, affecting their mental and physical health. There has been a constant rise of mental illnesses reports in UK Universities over the last decade (1) –...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We love a collaboration between our School and the Learning Scientist. Go have a read at an applied neuroscience perspective of stress and its impact on learning!
Congratulations to the new Dr Chris Turner! Well done to his supervisors too for supporting him all the way to the other side
Huge congratulations to @chrisjturn.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva today! ☀️ Thanks to Kathy Ruddy & Simon Hanslmayr for examining, Matteo Ceriotti for convening, and Alex Vuckovic and Alessio Fracasso for their expert co-supervision 🥳 @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @uofgengineering.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Congratulations to the new Dr Chris Turner! Well done to his supervisors too for supporting him all the way to the other side
Always great having such great visitors!
just returned from a wonderful visit @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social hosted by the great @katejj.bsky.social very much enjoyed hearing about the growing psychology / neuro community and discussing our work w a diverse audience. forgot to take photos until the train home, but the weather was lovely ☀️
May 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Always great having such great visitors!
Hot off the press: provocative but plausible findings from SPN 😁 - "older adults are intrinsically motivated to do well on tasks whereas younger age groups perform optimally only after incentivisation"
Age differences in motivation drive performance during the sustained attention to response task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651857v1
May 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Hot off the press: provocative but plausible findings from SPN 😁 - "older adults are intrinsically motivated to do well on tasks whereas younger age groups perform optimally only after incentivisation"
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A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651738v1
May 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651738v1
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I just heard Peter Latham give a presentation on this terrific African summer school. 2/3rds students from Africa, 1/3rd from Europe/Asia, and the most exceptional faculty on the planet (like their new director, Adrienne Fairhall, just elected into the US National Academy). 🤩
🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
📈Apply until July 1st!
🔗https://imbizo.africa/
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
📈Apply until July 1st!
🔗https://imbizo.africa/
May 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I just heard Peter Latham give a presentation on this terrific African summer school. 2/3rds students from Africa, 1/3rd from Europe/Asia, and the most exceptional faculty on the planet (like their new director, Adrienne Fairhall, just elected into the US National Academy). 🤩
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I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026!
I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory!
RT appreciated!
(1/5)
I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory!
RT appreciated!
(1/5)
May 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026!
I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory!
RT appreciated!
(1/5)
I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory!
RT appreciated!
(1/5)
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Very lucky to have some posts to fill @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social. Come join the team.
We are hiring @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social with 5 posts including a teaching focused role so if you fancy joining our excellent team get applying by May 12th www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
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May 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Very lucky to have some posts to fill @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social. Come join the team.
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Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc...
#neuroskyence #neurojobs
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc...
#neuroskyence #neurojobs
Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
www.nature.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc...
#neuroskyence #neurojobs
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc...
#neuroskyence #neurojobs
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Here's our article @braincomms.bsky.social
Practical Routes to Preregistration: A Guide to Enhanced Transparency and Rigour in Neuropsychological Research
@rjbinney.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social @neledemeyere.bsky.social @britishneuropsych.bsky.social
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Practical Routes to Preregistration: A Guide to Enhanced Transparency and Rigour in Neuropsychological Research
@rjbinney.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social @neledemeyere.bsky.social @britishneuropsych.bsky.social
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April 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Here's our article @braincomms.bsky.social
Practical Routes to Preregistration: A Guide to Enhanced Transparency and Rigour in Neuropsychological Research
@rjbinney.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social @neledemeyere.bsky.social @britishneuropsych.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
Practical Routes to Preregistration: A Guide to Enhanced Transparency and Rigour in Neuropsychological Research
@rjbinney.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social @neledemeyere.bsky.social @britishneuropsych.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Great productive initiative where we had an ECR writing day within the psychology school! Combined with a break in the middle to identify our strengths and weaknesses to identify collaboration opportunities.
April 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Great productive initiative where we had an ECR writing day within the psychology school! Combined with a break in the middle to identify our strengths and weaknesses to identify collaboration opportunities.
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Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems - Robert S. Chavez, Taylor D. Guthrie, Jack M. Kapustka, 2025
Knowing the similarities among others is critical for navigating our social environments and building relationships. However, people can evaluate the similarity...
journals.sagepub.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We are hiring @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social with 5 posts including a teaching focused role so if you fancy joining our excellent team get applying by May 12th www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
www.nature.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We are hiring @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social with 5 posts including a teaching focused role so if you fancy joining our excellent team get applying by May 12th www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Anyone looking for a PhD in NeuroAI (models of the visual system to spatial system)? @amansaleem.bsky.social and I are looking for someone to start in October. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!
Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!
Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Anyone looking for a PhD in NeuroAI (models of the visual system to spatial system)? @amansaleem.bsky.social and I are looking for someone to start in October. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!
Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!
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BTSP, but not STDP, can account for place field changes in hippocampus, out in Nature Neuroscience today:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠📈 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Synaptic plasticity rules driving representational shifting in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Madar et al. report that behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), not spike-timing-dependent plasticity, explains heterogeneous place fields shifting in the hippocampus. The probability of BTS...
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April 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
BTSP, but not STDP, can account for place field changes in hippocampus, out in Nature Neuroscience today:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠📈 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧠📈 🧪
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Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel, professor in cognitive psychology talking about spaced and retrieval practice #IATEFL2025
April 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel, professor in cognitive psychology talking about spaced and retrieval practice #IATEFL2025
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New preprint ✍️🚨
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups
tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc
👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups
tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc
👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
New preprint ✍️🚨
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups
tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc
👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social
✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling
-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups
tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc
👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social
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Amid the Trump admin's dismantling of the US scientific ecosystem, Nobel Prize-winner @ardemp.bskyverified.social writes on @cnn.com: "I’ve already been approached with an offer to relocate my lab to China, complete with a promise of 20 years of stable research funding." www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Amid the Trump admin's dismantling of the US scientific ecosystem, Nobel Prize-winner @ardemp.bskyverified.social writes on @cnn.com: "I’ve already been approached with an offer to relocate my lab to China, complete with a promise of 20 years of stable research funding." www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Drawbacks to writing your own course book: you can make mistakes.
Upside: a student can let you know they think you’ve made a mistake and you can quickly update it.
Thank you to the student who let me know I mixed up a logit and probit link in an ordinal regression demo 🫡
Upside: a student can let you know they think you’ve made a mistake and you can quickly update it.
Thank you to the student who let me know I mixed up a logit and probit link in an ordinal regression demo 🫡
April 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Drawbacks to writing your own course book: you can make mistakes.
Upside: a student can let you know they think you’ve made a mistake and you can quickly update it.
Thank you to the student who let me know I mixed up a logit and probit link in an ordinal regression demo 🫡
Upside: a student can let you know they think you’ve made a mistake and you can quickly update it.
Thank you to the student who let me know I mixed up a logit and probit link in an ordinal regression demo 🫡