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Doctoral Researcher: Autism, Social Cognition & Bodily Movement Lab (jencooklab.com), Senior Centre Technician: CHBH (birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-for-human-brain-health) & MATLAB Ambassador. X @dagmarfraser He/Him (orcid.org/0000-0002-9241-7772)

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · Apr 3

🎉 New paper alert! 🧠 The velocity-curvature power law is one of the 'kinematic laws of nature' (Flash 2021), a 'fundamental law of human control' (Zago et al. 2016), and one of the 'kinematic regularities' (Frith & Frith 2023) thought to underlie all biological motion.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 1d

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT!? That's fantastically useful... *googles* Ooooh! blogs.mathworks.com/deep-learnin...

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

This is incredibly handy when sharing code from a paper, with reviewers and the eventual audience.... less worry about packages and environments. Try mine here - github.com/dagmarfraser...
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some resources from my previous threads on these open source tools.
EEGLAB: bsky.app/profile/dagm...
FieldTrip: bsky.app/profile/dagm...
SPM: "SPM, FSL, AFNI ... false-positive rates of up to 70%" 😱 x.com/dagmarfraser...
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience

Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Here at the CHBH neuroimaging centre 🏛️, we're heavy users of MATLAB-based open source packages like Fieldtrip, EEGLAB, and SPM. We're slowly spinning up our documentation for NeuroScience on our HPC - BlueBEAR 🐻: chbh-opensource.github.io/chbh-on-bear...

MATLAB - CHBH User Handbook

chbh-opensource.github.io

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

📅 29 Oct 2025, 2:00-3:00 PM GMT
🔗 uk.mathworks.com/company/even...

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Whether you're wrangling MEG data 🧲, running fMRI analysis pipelines 🧠, or just starting with MATLAB for neuroscience 📊 - MathWorks is hosting a free webinar that might be exactly what you need!

🎯 Navigating Neuroscience with MATLAB 🎯

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 4d

For anyone else who's two weeks into the term and wondering if it was ever thus.

This is "H2O", aka John Logie Baird, writing for his student magazine in November 1912.

The Lecturer’s Lament
Woe! unto ye. Woe! Woe! Woe! for ye have hidden the chalk, and have omitted the dates from your exercises, and ye are all utterly condemned, save only Mr Brash, who hath gotten him full marks.

Woe! unto ye. Woe! for the day of the final examination cometh, and all of ye stand unprepared except only Mr Brash, who hath full marks.

Verily I say unto you, there shall be lamentation and great weeping, and many shall cry “Sir, Sir. Give unto me a class certificate,” and there shall be none given unto them.

And there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Ye laugh and make merry; ye make a great tumult with your feet; and one among you hath smitten me with a pea.

But woe unto Mr Russell, who sitteth on a back bench and doeth his mathematical exercise. Verily it shall be exceeding hard for him on the day of the examination.

What came ye here for to see? Fain would I have shown you crystals of Perthalium Tetroxide, very beautiful. Yea, and the Rhomboidal crystals of Formaloid, like unto which there are none others, and ye would not; putting me to confusion with your tumult.

And when I would have shown you Alums, very precious, ye mocked me, singing, “I care not for the stars that shine.”

Depart ye far from me. Get ye hence unto monkey houses; depart ye unto breweries, for I, having suffered long, will tarry here no longer with you.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 6d

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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SHAREing @shareing.bsky.social · 9d

We are excited to launch SHAREing — a new UK-wide initiative that empowers research and innovation through accelerated computing.
#SHAREing #Research #Innovation #AcceleratedComputing #RTPs #Collaboration #HPC

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Marlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social · 9d

Psychophysics meets moral psych! In the best possible way!

I worry what this means for clinical research and patient reported outcomes, which often measure things like pain on a very simple 1-10 scale, often without clear anchoring.

Such important work by
@vladchituc.bsky.social!

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Creative Sushi @creative-sushi.bsky.social · 20d

#MATLAB R2025b has dropped - a quick intro to the new desktop.

R2025b delivers quality and stability improvements, building on the new features introduced in R2025a. Thank you for all the feedback you provided to make R2025b possible.

If you are using R2025a, you should switch to R2025b.

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 14d

Sign up to BEAR’s self-enrol Canvas course to access the recordings - canvas.bham.ac.uk/enroll/TRPBDB
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador

canvas.bham.ac.uk

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 14d

BEAR have recorded some of the Carpentries (Git, MATLAB, Python and R) training sessions to make them accessible for anyone who is unable to attend a live session, or for researchers who would like a refresher.

Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 14d

NVIDIA Fundamentals of Deep Learning – 20th November full day
NVIDIA Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA Python – 4th December full day

Full details and booking on the BEAR website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/bear-training

BEAR Training

BEAR Training, Advanced Research Computing

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 14d

Introduction to Linux: 12th November PM
Introduction to BlueBEAR: 18th November AM
Advanced BlueBEAR: 2nd December AM

NEW! Software Carpentry – R for Social Sciences: 22nd PM & 23rd AM October (attend both days)
NEW! Software Carpentry – Introducing Computational Thinking: 11th November AM

Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 14d

Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) has new series of in-person training courses scheduled for the autumn term:

Software Carpentry – MATLAB: 4th AM & 5th PM November (attend both days)

There is a load of other useful ones, beside MATLAB;

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 15d

www.coursera.org/learn/matlab... if you couldn’t make it along to the webinar. There is a free course.

Introduction to MATLAB Copilot

Offered by MathWorks. MATLAB Copilot is a new AI-powered assistive tool that helps you enhance your coding efficiency, without the need for ... Enroll for free.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 19d

Individual variation in #sociability is a central feature of every society, including #HoneyBees. This study shows that specific genetic variants & #brain gene expression patterns are linked to variation in the social act of sharing liquids (trophallaxis) in bees @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3VjjXnJ

Left: Barcoded honey bee workers share liquid food via trophallaxis. Credit Tim Gernat. Right: A barcoded honey bee worker sitting on a flower during a foraging trip. Credit: Zachary Huang.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20d

-cease and desist
-null and void
-aid and abet
-free and clear
-ways and means

Why is law stuff like this always two words?

These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans.

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Hadi Vafaii @hadivafaii.bsky.social · 21d

What drives behavior in living organisms? And how can we design artificial agents that learn interactively?

📢 To address these, the Sensorimotor AI Journal Club is launching the "RL Debate Series"👇

w/ @elisennesh.bsky.social, @noreward4u.bsky.social, @tommasosalvatori.bsky.social

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🧠🤖🧠📈

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 20d

Your article was just published in a journal—what’s next?

Join this upcoming webinar to hear tips and strategies to promote your work.

Register now!

🔗 vist.ly/47abu

#neurosky #neuroskyence

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 22d

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 22d

Or if you might be teaching others to use it, there's one on the 23rd 👩‍🏫 uk.mathworks.com/company/even...
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador #AI #Copilot

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