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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · 12h

Beautiful work. Such a big job and results are unsurprising, but definitely important to show on this scale.

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JJ @jjodx.bsky.social · 13h

One of my two last (ever) papers on tDCS:
Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans

Background Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is one of the most widely used noninvasive neuromodulation methods. Despite its popularity, some recent studies highlighted issues about the r...

www.medrxiv.org

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Tomas Ros @neuromeditate.bsky.social · 1d

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Code: github.com/neurotuning/...

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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 3d

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 4d

📣 “Peer Review and its Diversification” Webinars
15-16 October 2025

👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 7d

It's 15:30 on 4th October 2025. Britain is getting almost 90% of its electricity from clean energy sources. grid.iamkate.com

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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · 7d

👇🏻 Fantastic 3 year postdoc opportunity here at Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

S. Craig Roberts @scraigroberts.bsky.social · 7d

We are advertising for a postdoc with skills in psychophysiological measurement for a project on smell and emotions. Closing date is 30th October. Please spread the word.
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

www.stir.ac.uk

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S. Craig Roberts @scraigroberts.bsky.social · 7d

We are advertising for a postdoc with skills in psychophysiological measurement for a project on smell and emotions. Closing date is 30th October. Please spread the word.
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

www.stir.ac.uk

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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · 13d

They are going to run rings around us when they realise they can team up.

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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · 13d

So true. Although exhausting, it's amazing to hear their train of thought and understand how 4 year olds make sense of the world.

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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · 13d

Here's a list of the questions my 4-year-old asked in a 5 minute window this morning. Weekends are so exhausting right now 😄

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Tessa Dekker @tessamdekker.bsky.social · 14d

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

Research Assistant at UCL

Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Gregor Thut @gregorthut.bsky.social · 14d

Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 15d

The Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN) is looking for people who'd like to share their experience with the discovery of Open Science - how this changed your way of doing science, or seeing science, what kind of challenges you had to face and overcome, etc.

ESCOP - Share your Open Science experience

ESCOP is a dynamic scientific society that provides a venue within which current research in cognitive psychology and neighboring disciplines can be presented, discussed and encouraged.

www.escop.eu

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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · 15d

Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉.
@willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data
meegsim.readthedocs.io
I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!)
#brainmovies

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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · 17d

Stirling Uni campus is looking gorgeous right now ☀️

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Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social · 21d

It was such a wonderful experience to present our work on my birthday here at #ICON2025!!

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Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social · 21d

With wonderful colleagues from Dundee, Glasgow, and Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Brain Communications @braincomms.bsky.social · 22d

Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from controls and highlight the importance of network context of motor cortical activations.
buff.ly/489DYfB
#Parkinsons

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 22d

Our new study - pseudoneglect is partly explained by structural hemispheric asymmetries in putamen 👇👇👇

Tara Ghafari @ghafaritara.bsky.social · 22d

🧠✨ Preprint alert!

Ever noticed how most people (without realizing it) tend to see the left side of space a bit more strongly? In our new study, we show that this subtle quirk—called pseudoneglect—is linked to the asymmetry of putamen, a deep subcortical structure.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hemispheric laterality of the putamen predicts pseudoneglect

Healthy individuals tend to exhibit a subtle leftward attentional bias, a phenomenon termed pseudoneglect. While this bias is thought to reflect a right-hemisphere dominance when allocating spatial at...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 23d

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 23d

Online Now: Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize across tasks and laboratories. We call for community-driven efforts to systematically test and validate connectivity metrics using shared datasets and protocols, aiming to establish robust, replicable frameworks for cognitive and clinical applications.

dlvr.it

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 23d

We're looking to appoint a new administrator for our Social Sciences Impact Acceleration Account. This would be a great role for a graduate with good administrative skills who wants to learn a lot more about the non-academic impact of research
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

www.stir.ac.uk

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 23d

Hemispheric laterality of the putamen predicts pseudoneglect https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676561v1

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 26d

I love baby EEG, so had to check this! here, a dichotomy is drawn between theta & alpha rhythms, but this is tricky. the posterior dominant rhythm emerges in the infant at 3-4 Hz & increases until ~10 Hz in adults. I think there is much evidence that this 'theta' rhythm is the equiv of adult alpha.

Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 26d

In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha).

👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz
👩‍🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz

Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Infant Brains Tick at 4Hz - Resonance Properties of the Developing Visual System

Neural rhythms of the infant brain are not well understood. Testing the rhythmic properties of the adult visual system with periodic or broadband visual stimulation elicited neural resonance phenomena...

www.biorxiv.org

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