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Dagmar Fraser

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Doctoral Researcher: Autism, Social Cognition & Bodily Movement Lab (jencooklab.com), Senior Centre Technician: CHBH (birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-for-human-brain-health) & MATLAB Ambassador. X @dagmarfraser He/Him (orcid.org/0000-0002-9241-7772)

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · Apr 3

🎉 New paper alert! 🧠 The velocity-curvature power law is one of the 'kinematic laws of nature' (Flash 2021), a 'fundamental law of human control' (Zago et al. 2016), and one of the 'kinematic regularities' (Frith & Frith 2023) thought to underlie all biological motion.

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

🛠️ The hardware support section alone is worth a browse; there's always a new shiny toy to add to the next grant proposal! ✨

#MATLAB #MATLABambassador #Neuroscience #PsychSciSky

Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Bonus that I saw in passing when browsing the resources… CANLab’s mediation analysis package is particularly useful for me right now - uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentra.... (I am too old to learn newfangled JASP, too MATLAB pilled to learn R! 😅)

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

And you can try these immediately in MATLAB Online (free 20 hours a month for any and all).

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

🔬 automated cell extraction for calcium imaging EXTRACT community toolbox with full tutorial pipeline & worked examples, all runnable in MATLAB Online

🤖 AI-driven signal denoising – adversarial learning denoiser model, demonstrated live

Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

But there's far more treasure here... spanning elements I haven't encountered even after 15 years as a neuroscience technician! 🔍

🎯 What the demo inlcuded:

📊 mTRF Toolbox (Multivariate Temporal Response Function) – featured with live "Cocktail party decoding TRF example" you can run right now.

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

✅ The talk hit all the essentials I'd expect as a neuroscience centre technician—hardware integration (VPixx, Arduino, RPi), experiment creation (Psychtoolbox), and analysis staples (EEGLab, Fieldtrip).

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

🧠 If you missed last week's Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB webinar, the MathWorks landing page has everything: 60-min recording, slides, and a comprehensive resource hub. content.mathworks.com/viewer/69047...

Home | Highspot

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 2d

DEAR FOLLOWERS - LINKEDIN POSTING SURGE REQUESTED

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 2d

The lobbying has started!

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 8d

Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.

Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.

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Attention graph in various colours showing where research from Rhodes University has been mentioned in various locations online including Twitter, Bluesky, podcasts and news.

Twitter mentions of any research from Rhodes University = 1,275 mentions

Bluesky mentions of any research from Rhodes University = 1,306 mentions

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neurosock @neurosock.bsky.social · 7d

Dopamine ≠ reward but turns out, also not the learning molecule we thought.

If DA RPE is the emperor, this work SCREAMS it was running naked all the time.

This paper got quite some attention recently. Let's simplify it a bit.

A🧵with my toy model and notes:

#neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 7d

"The cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky was reported to have said: ‘Theories are not refuted. They are embarrassed.’ Today the Modern Synthesis does seem to be somewhat embarrassed, but history tells us that scientists can live with embarrassment for a remarkably long time."
Jablonka & Lamb (2020)

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Kübra Fethiye Karataş @kubrafkaratas.bsky.social · 7d

Does dopamine modulate the willingness to help?

New Psychology Today post, "How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others", written by me, with special thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social and @thepsychologist.bsky.social

www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...

How Dopamine Affects Our Motivation to Help Others

New research shows patients with Parkinson's disease were more willing to help others after taking their dopamine-boosting medication.

www.psychologytoday.com

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alicia-rybicki.bsky.social @alicia-rybicki.bsky.social · 20d

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🚨

Come investigate the mechanistic role of dopamine in emotion processing with Prof Jennifer Cook (and me!) MIBTP-funded PhD - more details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

@thechbh.bsky.social

Get in touch if interested, and please share!

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 9d

🎯 Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB 🎯

*TODAY*

📅 29 Oct 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM GMT

🔗 uk.mathworks.com/company/even...

#MATLAB #MATLABambassador

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TMSMultiLab @tmsmultilab.bsky.social · 11d

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...

🙏 🧠 🧲 ⚡ 🙏

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Dave Cox @davidcox65.bsky.social · 23d

Finally 10 years into #Birmingham Cycle Revolution an outline plan for a segregated cycle lane for a stretch of the dangerous but key Hagley Road Corridor. Here’s what #PushBikes thinks. Please respond to consultation link in the article

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Hagley Road cycle track | Push Bikes

Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has put out a preliminary consultation on improvements to Hagley Road from Five Ways to the junction with Portland Road, which includes a segregated cycle track on t...

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 15d

oooh native MATLAB raincloudplot Function: Visualize grouped numeric data by using rain cloud plots.

Creative Sushi @creative-sushi.bsky.social · 21d

#MATLAB R2026a prerelease is available for download for eligible users

You can find it here www.mathworks.com/downloads/pr...

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 16d

📌 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/matlab-spe...

#MATLAB #MATLABambassador #MATLAB-SIG

MATLAB Special Interest Group

Join us for the relaunch of this SIG!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 16d

Whether you're a seasoned MATLAB user or just MATLAB-curious, this is your chance to hear how it's being used in research across the University 🔍 and get your voice heard.

There’ll also be an optional hands-on workshop 🛠️, delicious food 🍕, and exclusive MATLAB merch 🎁.

Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 16d

🎉 The MATLAB Special Interest Group at UoB is back! We're relaunching with an exciting event on **Wednesday 26th November at 13:00**.

There’ll be a keynote talk from me — the new MATLAB-SIG Chair & Student Ambassador — plus speakers from across UoB and MathWorks 💻.

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OBU Cognitive Neuroscience & Psychology @obu-cogneuropsych.bsky.social · 18d

UNCG PhD in Cognitive Psychology: Research-focused, 5yrs funding. No GRE req. Apply by Dec 1:
psy.uncg.edu/phd-in-cogni...
#Hiring #PhD #CognitivePsych #Science @uncg.edu

PhD in Cognitive Psychology | Department of Psychology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONSBY CURRENT/RECENT STUDENTS Adams, R. L., & Delaney, P. F. (2022). Long-term working memory and language comprehension. In J. W. Schweitzer & Z. E. Wen (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook o...

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Chris Rackauckas @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social · Oct 6

Claude code sucks... but it's still very useful! Check out this blog post that details how Claude is deployed to solve problems in the #Julialang #SciML open source scientific computing infrastructure.

stochasticlifestyle.com/claude-code-...

#llm #vibecoding #physics #opensource #oss

Claude Code in Scientific Computing: Experiences Maintaining Julia's SciML Infrastructure - Stochastic Lifestyle

Claude Code in Scientific Computing: Experiences Maintaining Julia’s SciML Infrastructure So it’s pretty public that for about a month now I’ve had 32 processes setup on one of the 64 core 128gb RAM s...

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Chris Rackauckas @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social · Sep 22

Scientific Modeling Cheatsheet: #MATLAB vs #Python vs #Julialang

Side-by-side comparison for:
• Differential equations
• Optimization
• Automatic differentiation
• Symbolic computing
• More!

Highlights ecosystem differences & best practices.

sciml.github.io/Scientific_M...

Scientific Modeling Cheatsheet – MATLAB – Python – Julia Quick Reference

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 23d

The number of academic software tools in the world only grows with time, and learning new ones is daunting.

Here, my postdoc @rgast.bsky.social spoke about PyRates, a model translator that lets you study dynamical systems with a whole suite of tools built in Python, Julia, Matlab, and Fortran.

Aligning Science Across Parkinson's @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org · 23d

This month’s Discover ASAP features @rgast.bsky.social, PhD, of CRN Team Surmeier 🧪

He introduces PyRates, an open-source tool for generating code across languages to model complex biological systems. See how it advances computational neuroscience and #Parkinsons research.

📺 Watch: bit.ly/4h7Y5Wk

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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 20d

Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏
1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >>
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous

www.nature.com

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