Gemma Learmonth
@gemmalearmonth.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling 🏴 www.gemmalearmonth.com
Yes I agree with this. There are similarities. But with conferences it's less about prestige, and more about maximising opportunities to hear about new research and meet/speak to people.
January 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Yes I agree with this. There are similarities. But with conferences it's less about prestige, and more about maximising opportunities to hear about new research and meet/speak to people.
I also saw yesterday that the cheapest special rate rooms for VSS are now $235 per night! A week's trip there would cost about £3,000 per person. It has become a luxury for rich labs. I feel terrible guilt for not being able to give my students this experience.
January 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I also saw yesterday that the cheapest special rate rooms for VSS are now $235 per night! A week's trip there would cost about £3,000 per person. It has become a luxury for rich labs. I feel terrible guilt for not being able to give my students this experience.
It's a very good artistic representation. Wee stout body and wedged beak. Enjoy your puffin pie!
December 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It's a very good artistic representation. Wee stout body and wedged beak. Enjoy your puffin pie!
This is so awful, and happened to me too during postdoc. I was given the post in the end but it involved a bit of discussion and negotiation.
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is so awful, and happened to me too during postdoc. I was given the post in the end but it involved a bit of discussion and negotiation.
Reposted by Gemma Learmonth
I'm skeptical it's "metabolic" in terms of straight-up brain energy consumption: the visual system uses masses of energy but people don't get tired watching films like they do with cognitive control. Pessiglione has data on glutamate buildup, but it's early days pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35961314/
A neuro-metabolic account of why daylong cognitive work alters the control of economic decisions - PubMed
Behavioral activities that require control over automatic routines typically feel effortful and result in cognitive fatigue. Beyond subjective report, cognitive fatigue has been conceived as an inflated cost of cognitive control, objectified by more impulsive decisions. However, the origins of such …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I'm skeptical it's "metabolic" in terms of straight-up brain energy consumption: the visual system uses masses of energy but people don't get tired watching films like they do with cognitive control. Pessiglione has data on glutamate buildup, but it's early days pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35961314/
Exactly! And it's mostly women who are forced into dropping hours or giving up work completely to cover childcare when the costs become this high. It gives me the rage just thinking about the wider situation.
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Exactly! And it's mostly women who are forced into dropping hours or giving up work completely to cover childcare when the costs become this high. It gives me the rage just thinking about the wider situation.
It's so unsustainable! And nobody seems to have a plan to improve the situation either. I'm very jealous of the countries that properly fund childcare. Hope your mat leave goes well!
December 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It's so unsustainable! And nobody seems to have a plan to improve the situation either. I'm very jealous of the countries that properly fund childcare. Hope your mat leave goes well!