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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 5d

Bit later:

"You think I'm p-hacky, baby
Stop talking dirty to me"

Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to see Swift enter her academic era: "Actually Romantic" is about peer review. Chorus:

"But it's actually sweet
All the time you've spent on me
It's honestly wild
All the effort you've put in
It's actually scholarship
I really got to hand it to you
No man has ever reviewed like you do"

Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 5d

Happy new Taylor Swift album day, for those who celebrate! (Which now includes the postgraduates who work in the offices opposite mine.)

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 5d

Happy new Taylor Swift album day, for those who celebrate! (Which now includes the postgraduates who work in the offices opposite mine.)

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 5d

It feels like we’re going back to one-to-one chats and smaller groups. Like MSN back in the day, but through Snapchat or Fortnite (or whatever newer thing I’m unfamiliar with). Or Signal and the like for us olds, for sharing kids photos or planning military strikes.

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 5d

Thames Water creditors offering to save their own skins with 25% debt write off while carrying on polluting your rivers for the next 15 years?!

NO NO NO

Special Administration NOW. Cut the debt by 50%, invest every penny of your bills in stopping sewage

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules

Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

www.theguardian.com

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 6d

Hahaha, because it’s you, I assumed the humblebrag was genuinely completely unintentional. That’s what makes it funny ;)

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 6d

a man in a floral shirt is smiling with his hands on his shoulder

Alt: Macklemore (in a floral shirt, smirking) using his hands to brush imaginary dirt off his shoulder.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 7d

Term has started here, so I'm once again inundated with emails addressed "Sir" (used in UK secondary schools), "Mr" (same), and "heyyyyy" (??). Seems this brief blog for new students is still relevant: www.dalmaijer.org/2022/03/how-...

Feel free to use, if you find yourself in the same position!

How to email your lecturer / professor – Quantitative Exploration of Development (Q.E.D.)

www.dalmaijer.org

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 7d

Hahaha! I don't know, mate, I'd love to see "cheesy thing" enshrined in international law... 🤔

That said, given the mainstream vegan naming conventions, I think "burgyr" is a more likely (and much less desirable) alternative.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 7d

Agree that this is nuts*, but "cheesy thing" was exactly how we described a class of veggie burger alternatives in our household ;) Also, just to clarify: the UK left because we like our bananas curved and our crisps prawn-flavoured.

* Has the peanut lobby managed to outlaw this use yet?

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 7d

Term has started here, so I'm once again inundated with emails addressed "Sir" (used in UK secondary schools), "Mr" (same), and "heyyyyy" (??). Seems this brief blog for new students is still relevant: www.dalmaijer.org/2022/03/how-...

Feel free to use, if you find yourself in the same position!

How to email your lecturer / professor – Quantitative Exploration of Development (Q.E.D.)

www.dalmaijer.org

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, lovely! You’ll have to introduce me to them sometime ;)

Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 7d

All-around clever stats person @bignardi.bsky.social has come up with a clever way to estimate reliability for many measurement models. Informative thread; worth a read!

Giacomo Bignardi @bignardi.bsky.social · 7d

New preprint with @rogierk.bsky.social @paulbuerkner.com - we introduce "relative measurement uncertainty" - a reliability estimation method that's applicable across a broad class of Bayesian measurement models (e.g., generative-, computational- and item response theory-models osf.io/h54k8

OSF

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Sara Mehrhof @saramehrhof.bsky.social · 13d

Mental and metabolic health are closely linked - but what drives this connection? In our new theory paper, we (w/ @camillanord.bsky.social & @hugofleming.bsky.social g.bsky.social) propose dysregulation of interoceptive energy allostasis as a key mechanism.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵 1/n

An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health

Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.

www.science.org

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 13d

a cartoon of luigi driving a kart with the words it 's on written below him

Alt: An animated gif in which Luigi slowly rotates his head to sternly look towards the camera as he’s driving his kart. The subtitles say “it’s on”. The gif then cuts to Donkey Kong staring equally sternly (presumably back at Luigi) while driving, with the subtitles “on like Donkey Kong”.

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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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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 14d

Really enjoying this new focussed work feature in Microsoft's enterprise software suite!

Logging into Outlook sends you into a login loop: you log in, it automatically logs you out immediately, you log in again, etc. Keep going to hit a rate limit, and then you're locked out of email distractions!

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 14d

Amazing postdoc job with absolutely lovely Jelle Van Dijk in Twente, Netherlands

Closing date October 10th

Please shared widely on academic jobs lists.

www.linkedin.com/posts/jellev...

Postdoc Neuro-Inclusive Participatory Interaction Design - Looking for a job that matters? | Jelle van Dijk | 10 comments

Please share widely: We are hiring! Are you the Postdoc we are looking for? 📌 Deadline: Oktober 10! Design for Neurodiversity! University of Twente is looking for a Postdoc on a project about co-de...

www.linkedin.com

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 15d

My favourite Dutch analogy is “straks”. In the ~hands~ mouths of my southern family, it could mean “in a few moments” (“straks”), later today (“straks”), later this week (“straks”), and in the recent past (“toen-straks”).

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 15d

S-CCS Lab PhD Position

3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...

Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de

Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy

EEG system photographed with backlight and glowing electrodes

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 15d

Please feel free to DM me for details, especially if you're not at Bristol.

Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 15d

Come see Aidan's talk on the remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events! There's something for everyone: retrieval, forgetting, behaviour, neuroimaging, computational modelling, young and aging samples.

We had to upgrade the venue because of how popular @aidanhorner.bsky.social is here!

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 15d

Looking forward to visiting @bristoluni.bsky.social School of Psychological Science tomorrow and presenting some of our work on memory, forgetting and consolidation. Big thanks to @dalmaijer.bsky.social for the invite!

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 19d

Oh, wow, climate change is really messing up the seasons. Looks like it’s April 1st already! This one wins for me: “Oxford does advertisement for shitty product on main” is a great joke.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 19d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 19d

I, too, think that the right way to pronounce things is your native accent, Seán ;)

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