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FraserWSmith
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Cognitive Neuroscience - interested in minds, brains, emotions
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fraserwsmith.bsky.social
Can anyone recommend the best available tactile glove systems currently? We are looking for something like the below at a reasonable price ;-)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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#VisionScience
#PsychSciSky
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@stephanierossit.bsky.social
Learning the signatures of the human grasp using a scalable tactile glove - Nature
Tactile patterns obtained from a scalable sensor-embedded glove and deep convolutional neural networks help to explain how the human hand can identify and grasp individual objects and estimate their w...
www.nature.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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resprofnews.bsky.social
MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates.

Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates - Research Professional News
Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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psychologyuea.bsky.social
We’re excited to kick off our Spring Research Seminar Series!
January 27, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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cogcompneuro.bsky.social
🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open!
CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
January 28, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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drswijeakumar.bsky.social
Three weeks until the deadline for the fully funded ESRC DTP position with me @notts-psych.bsky.social and @alexhendry.bsky.social. Please share with colleagues and interested students.
January 28, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Ignorance is power.
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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cianodonnell.bsky.social
Scary news filtering through about a several-months pause to MRC applicant-led grant calls. BBSRC possibly to follow

Anyone know what's going on??
January 24, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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nschawor.bsky.social
📆 updated for 2026!

list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
fraserwsmith.bsky.social
Great PhD opportunity at UEA!
psychologyuea.bsky.social UEA School of Psychology @psychologyuea.bsky.social · Dec 16
🚨 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Interested in how expectations shape what we see? Apply for a fully funded PhD at UEA, supervised by Dr George Malcolm and funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

⏰ Deadline: 18 Jan 2026

www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
PhD What's around the corner? How expectations affect visual scene processing (MALCOLMG_U25PSYLEVERHULME) 2025/26 | UEA
PhD What's around the corner? How expectations affect visual scene processing (MALCOLMG_U25PSYLEVERHULME) 2025/26 | UEA
www.uea.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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koumurayama.bsky.social
We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!!

uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
PhD Position on computational modelling and neuroscience (m/f/d)
uni-tuebingen.de
December 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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stephanierossit.bsky.social
Was a great pleasure to record this podcast with James - thanks for having me @psychologyuea.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
@thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a portrait of the state of neuroscience in 2025 through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding. Each view features analyses of major trends and more. Explore the end of year report: bit.ly/4oNeTVC

#neuroskyence #StateofNeuro
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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cogcompneuro.bsky.social
We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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damiancruse.bsky.social
🚨 Fully funded PhD scholarship to work with me, Ali Mazaheri, Dhruv Parekh, and Katrien Segaert at the University of Birmingham on new brain-based tools to improve diagnoses of consciousness after severe brain injury.

🚨 Deadline: 9th January 2026

Full details and application form: lnkd.in/ejZkfFbW
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December 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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sushrutthorat.bsky.social
🚨New Preprint!
How can we model natural scene representations in visual cortex? A solution is in active vision: predict the features of the next glimpse! arxiv.org/abs/2511.12715

+ @adriendoerig.bsky.social , @alexanderkroner.bsky.social , @carmenamme.bsky.social , @timkietzmann.bsky.social
🧵 1/14
Predicting upcoming visual features during eye movements yields scene representations aligned with human visual cortex
Scenes are complex, yet structured collections of parts, including objects and surfaces, that exhibit spatial and semantic relations to one another. An effective visual system therefore needs unified ...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o...
novaramedia.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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cjhodgetts.bsky.social
We’re hiring a permanent Lecturer (R&T) in cog neuro and development / lifespan psychology at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social. Join a supportive, research-intensive dept - with a new MRI scanner on the way 🙂

Info below - and get in touch to learn more!

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November 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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martinhebart.bsky.social
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Hello, @rspb.bsky.social, @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk.
Where the hell are you?
October 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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gilesyb.bsky.social
"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work"

on.ft.com/43eYeRZ

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work.

It's not just AI. And education still matters
What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong
People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts
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October 10, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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danxduran.bsky.social
If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall
kojamf.bsky.social KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Oct 5
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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neuromatch.bsky.social
NeuroAI Course
📆 13–24 July 2026
🌍 Online & accessible worldwide across 5 time zones

Already taken our #ComputationalNeuroscience and #DeepLearning courses (or have equivalent experience)? Then you’re ready for the next step: Neuromatch Academy’s #NeuroAI Course!

➡️ neuromatch.io/neuroai-cour...
October 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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premnsikka.bsky.social
Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.

90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.

90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.

Public ownership would make a difference.
If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership
Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.
leftfootforward.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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neural-reckoning.org
UK theoretical neuroscience workshop - Dec 16 in London. I'll be speaking at this alongside a load of other cool people. Come along! (It's free.) 🤖🧠🧪

dpinotsis.wixsite.com/uk-theoretic...
Home | UK Theoretical Neuro
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September 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social understand what early-career neuroscientists need. Take just a few minutes to fill out the survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

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September 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM