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Tom Hartley
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Former Academic. Neuroscience/Psychology. Retired. Interests: Recording and mixing music; The Beatles; currently learning to play drums. tomhartley.me.uk
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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 8d
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops. I produced it! Have a listen.

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Nightblindness
YouTube video by The PennyDrops - Topic
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 2d
#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
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 10d
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.
tomhartley.me.uk 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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Reposted by Tom Hartley
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 9d
For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
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rachelphysics.bsky.social @rachelphysics.bsky.social · 10d
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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 · 10d
Thanks Mike!
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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 10d
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.
tomhartley.me.uk 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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Josephine Flockton @jflockton.bsky.social · 10d
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]
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 · 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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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 11d
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 · 12d
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
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12d
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 · 11d
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.
anavaldi.bsky.social ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 12d
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 · 12d
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 · 12d
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 · 13d
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 · 14d
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 · 16d
There is a thing called Hugin that might be worth looking at.
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Tom Hartley @tomhartley.me.uk · 17d
My mashup has now been played 32768 times. That is 2^15. It's worth a listen! The Who vs Young MC - Know Baba O'Riley (Tom Hartley Mashup) by tom_hartley on #SoundCloud
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The Who vs Young MC - Know Baba O'Riley (Tom Hartley Mashup)
Listen to The Who vs Young MC - Know Baba O'Riley (Tom Hartley Mashup) by tom_hartley #np on #SoundCloud
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Jordan Theriault @jtheriault.bsky.social · 20d
Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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