A quick reminder that the Sluckin Lecture is happening next week, at the University of Leicester.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Sophie Scott as this year’s speaker.

The event is open to all, and we warmly encourage students, academics, and members of the public to attend.

📢 Sluckin Lecture 2025 📢

Join us at the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences, University of Leicester, for this year’s Sluckin Lecture!

🗓 21st May 2025
🕔 5 PM
🎙️ Professor Sophie Scott

All welcome!

#Psychology #Neuroscience #SluckinLecture

It's a great privilege to have Professor Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social (UCL) as our next speaker on Thursday 20th March, at 1pm. Steve will talk about his mind-blowing research on the boundary between reality and imagination. If you're near Leicester, please consider attending.

Still a few days left to apply for this fully-funded #PhD #PhDposition. Deadline: 24 February.

There is still plenty of time to apply for this. Please share with potential candidates.

If you're applying for Senior Fellowship of the HEA (SFHEA) and want to see a completed application, here's my one from a couple of years back

osf.io/jg4ef/

🔔🗣️NEW #PhD opportunity in #Psychology and #Neuroscience with Prof Neil Roach (Nottingham) and me (Leicester):

This ESRC-funded project aims to use individual differences to study the socially relevant components of time perception.

Application deadline: 24 February

My TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳

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#CogSci
#Neuroskyence
#SciComm

Well this is interesting. Why does time feel like it flies by in our lives? Turns out, out theories may have been totally wrong. Nostalgia and satisfaction are the best predictors of "fast times"
#PsychSciSky #mentalhealth
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How selective are neurons?

Why can't you tickle yourself? And what does this have to do with the brain predicting sensory data by sending out internal copies of its motor actions? Learn the secrets of perception on Inner Cosmos: "How do we operate in the present when we perceive the past?"
eagleman.com/podcast/87
#brain #time