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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 1m

The Pennydrops - Nightblindness - Little Garden

From the opening moments of ‘Nightblindness’ the duo invites you into a world suspended between light and shadow — a fitting sonic landscape for their newfound partnership. The Pennydrops, hailing fro...

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.

A neural state space for episodic memories

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

A neural state space for episodic memories

Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …

www.sciencedirect.com

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2d

A semantotopic map in human hippocampus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685959v1

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 3d

#JNeurosci: Lu et al. show that two brain regions—retrosplenial complex and superior parietal lobe—represent facing direction when people perform a naturalistic navigation task in a virtual-reality city. @russellepstein.bsky.social @gkaguirre.com @zhenganglu.bsky.social
vist.ly/4chuk

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 8d

Super pleased that we are doing a @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Postdoc and RA showcase today! Thank you so much to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and @arimoccia.bsky.social for doing all the hard work and bringing the humorous comics.

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 8d

Another lovely effect a bit like the last one (but maybe even more distressing!), for those seeking illusory content. No idea who made this one I'm afraid - if you happen to know, let me know so I can credit them!

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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 8d

Nightblindness by The Pennydrops. I produced it! Have a listen.

youtu.be/I8nH4PeVbdo?...

Nightblindness

YouTube video by The PennyDrops - Topic

youtu.be

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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 11d

A Friday afternoon repost for this. It would be a good one to listen to in the car or in your earpods if you are commuting this evening.

Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 11d

Really proud and excited about this:

Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.

This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.

open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...

[I mixed & produced it]

The cover of Nightblindness by the Pennydrops shows a match being struck in a spooky dark outdoor location.

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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 8d

Nightblindness by The Pennydrops. I produced it! Have a listen.

youtu.be/I8nH4PeVbdo?...

Nightblindness

YouTube video by The PennyDrops - Topic

youtu.be

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 10d

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

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rachelphysics.bsky.social @rachelphysics.bsky.social · 10d

open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...

Happy Friday!
My daughter's got a single out today with The Pennydrops. Please give it a listen and share.

It is folky and catchy and a bit exciting.

You can follow them here:
www.instagram.com/the_pennydro...

Enjoy
🎸🎇💃

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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 11d

Thanks Mike!

Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 11d

A Friday afternoon repost for this. It would be a good one to listen to in the car or in your earpods if you are commuting this evening.

Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 11d

Really proud and excited about this:

Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.

This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.

open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...

[I mixed & produced it]

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Josephine Flockton @jflockton.bsky.social · 11d

My first first-author paper is out now in Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience!🎉 A model to explain ASMR's neural mechanism & clinical potential via predictive coding of CT-touch, linking LC-vagus dynamics & the PPS network... 1/5

w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social

Frontiers | The Proximity Prediction Hypothesis: How predictive coding of CT-touch explains Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and its therapeutic applications

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a pleasant tingling sensation felt across the scalp and neck, widely reported to reduce anxiety and improve sl...

www.frontiersin.org

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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 11d

Really proud and excited about this:

Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.

This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.

open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...

[I mixed & produced it]

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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 11d

Really proud and excited about this:

Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.

This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.

open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...

[I mixed & produced it]

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12d

I mean this isn’t what I’m saying. I don’t think we should even discuss reducing migration because a) I think migration is a good thing and b) nobody has ever been able to show me evidence that reducing it would have a positive effect on anything

amontin.bsky.social @amontin.bsky.social · 13d

This whole debate has become absurd. Obviously forced deportation of settled residents is deeply unjust and completely unnecessary. But the idea promoted on this site that one cannot even discuss reducing immigration lest it helps fascists is irrational and counterproductive. /1

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 13d

I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 12d

My performance (and employability, let alone promotability) is based on my ability to win these grants. Even if i did nothing but wrote them (+ all the networking & other prep work) I could easily go years - decades - without winning one, according to these stats.

ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 13d

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%

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 13d

New preprint from Satoshi Kuroki & Sébastien Royer

Grid cells encode reward distance during path integration in cue-rich environments

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 13d

Are you thinking of starting a #PhD in 2026? 🎓 I'm keen to hear from potential applicants interested in #language, #learning, or #literacy! Visit the website to find out more about developing a proposal ahead of the January deadline sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"

with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social

Summary 👇

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Jon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · 14d

Vivid memories are all over the BBC website front page! It takes just a few minutes to complete our public survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 14d

Agree. Too many worrying about other people being wrong ("crazies"), too few concerned about whether they themselves are wrong.

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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 15d

Just finished this digital painting of a local 14th Century church.

Digital painting of Holy Trinity Church, Acaster Malbis near York, UK

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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 17d

There is a thing called Hugin that might be worth looking at.

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