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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 6h

As much as this is potentially good news, maybe the Chancellor shouldn't be leaving themselves with such little headroom that these errors make an appreciable financial and political difference?

Rachel Reeves given extra £3bn for budget after VAT error fixed

ONS says public borrowing estimates have been out by £200m-£500m a month since January

www.theguardian.com

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 20h

When is work not work? What is the workiest work?

gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/w...

Work that isn’t counted as work

An interesting LinkedIn post from some colleagues musing on the “expectation of free service” has been stuck in my head for a few days now. In my university, we have a workload model wh…

gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 8h

Good start to the day. Cycled half way to work, got a text from my wife saying I had forgot my glasses, suddenly realised everything did look a little blurry this morning, cycled all the way home and then to work again.

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, not really. There are so few international studentships about, at least at my institution, that they have to be absolutely stellar to be in with a chance. That said, other unis might still have them, and the best way of finding out is still to contact potential supervisors to find out

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes, scary that this needs to be said explicitly but definitely a good point

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 1d

Note: Unfortunately funding for international students is currently terrible, so if you are an international student you'd need to have a good idea of funding mechanisms already. I know, it sucks.

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 1d

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 1d

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

How to get PhD funding in the UK

It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...

aidanhorner.blogspot.com

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 1d

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

How to get PhD funding in the UK

It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...

aidanhorner.blogspot.com

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 1d

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Why I left academia and neuroscience

Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

mikexcohen.substack.com

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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 2d

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu

tinyurl.com

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! In this case all reviewers from first round were very nice and provided useful comments (and I'm not just saying that because this is a public forum...)

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

Paper resubmission day 🎉

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 5d

Spineless

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 5d

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?

Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.

9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

northwestern.zoom.us

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 6d

Lovely article in @uk.theconversation.com by Maria Ahmad who is doing her PhD research supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk in my lab on oceanic navigation in the Marshall Islands.

This is her coverage of our voyage to Aur atoll this summer:

theconversation.com/my-voyage-to...

My voyage to explore how Marshallese sailors find their way at sea without technology

Scientists have been exploring the role that neuroscience plays in ocean navigation.

theconversation.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 7d

** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Applications are invited for a 3-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.This position is funded by an ESRC resear...

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 9d

Good for fish and chips before you get to Whitby for more fish and chips

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 9d

I'm just reeling from the fact you specifically name-dropped the scrap box. Putting Dunnington on the map!

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 10d

Classic UK Sunday train journey, although only 1 hour late in the end so not as bad as it could have been

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 10d

It's been a while since I've had to sit on the floor of the train that is absolutely rammed because of an earlier train cancellation. Best get as comfy as possible for 2 hours of no proper seat

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 10d

Chris Sutton?

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Dominika Varga @dkvarga.bsky.social · Sep 4

So happy to share our paper on the role of the hippocampus as a mismatch detector:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We show that the hippocampus detects mismatches between ongoing experiences and episodic memories but not generalised schematic knowledge.

See 🧵for how we got here:
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 13d

Great day at Bristol yesterday. Interesting questions after my talk that require more thought from me, which is exactly what you want as a speaker. Thanks again for hosting @dalmaijer.bsky.social and I'll start my Mario Kart training so I can get you next time!

Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 14d

Such a lovely talk, and I’m glad our admin upgraded the venue as there was standing room only! I particularly enjoyed Aidan’s perspective on hippocampal and non-hippocampal encoding as independent processes, and flexibility of memories within that space. (I also enjoyed the brief Mario Kart break.)

Photo of a projector screen showing the results of a Mario Kart race. Two players are shown, one as Wario in first place and another as Peach in third place.

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · Sep 7

Back by popular demand: supplemental material. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#suppl

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