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UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social · 6d

UofG crows showing our incoming new students the values of hard work, focus and perseverance

Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 7d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · Jun 2

UK neuroscience graduates! PhD opportunity here at Glasgow SPN: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date July 4

Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · May 29

Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing:

What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)

Who are you arguing against?

What alternatives are you rejecting and why?

What follows if you’re right?

These are also good questions for Q&A.

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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · May 27

Please distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia

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UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social · May 21

We love a collaboration between our School and the Learning Scientist. Go have a read at an applied neuroscience perspective of stress and its impact on learning!

The Learning Scientists @learningscientists.bsky.social · May 9

NEW GUEST POST: "A Neuroscientific Perspective on Understanding and Managing Stress" by Dr Julie-Myrtille Bourgognon @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social

www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/5/...

GUEST POST: A Neuroscientific Perspective on Understanding and Managing Stress — The Learning Scientists

Stress significantly impacts university students, affecting their mental and physical health. There has been a constant rise of mental illnesses reports in UK Universities over the last decade (1) –...

www.learningscientists.org

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UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social · May 21

Congratulations to the new Dr Chris Turner! Well done to his supervisors too for supporting him all the way to the other side

Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · May 13

Huge congratulations to @chrisjturn.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva today! ☀️ Thanks to Kathy Ruddy & Simon Hanslmayr for examining, Matteo Ceriotti for convening, and Alex Vuckovic and Alessio Fracasso for their expert co-supervision 🥳 @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @uofgengineering.bsky.social

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UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social · May 21

Always great having such great visitors!

Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · May 16

just returned from a wonderful visit @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social hosted by the great @katejj.bsky.social very much enjoyed hearing about the growing psychology / neuro community and discussing our work w a diverse audience. forgot to take photos until the train home, but the weather was lovely ☀️

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UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social · May 9

Hot off the press: provocative but plausible findings from SPN 😁 - "older adults are intrinsically motivated to do well on tasks whereas younger age groups perform optimally only after incentivisation"

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · May 9

Age differences in motivation drive performance during the sustained attention to response task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651857v1

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · May 9

A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651738v1

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · May 8

I just heard Peter Latham give a presentation on this terrific African summer school. 2/3rds students from Africa, 1/3rd from Europe/Asia, and the most exceptional faculty on the planet (like their new director, Adrienne Fairhall, just elected into the US National Academy). 🤩

Lisa Schmors @lisaschmors.bsky.social · May 8

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!

💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty

📈Apply until July 1st!

🔗https://imbizo.africa/

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Qihong (Q) Lu @qlu.bsky.social · May 8

I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026!
I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory!
RT appreciated!
(1/5)

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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · May 6

Very lucky to have some posts to fill @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social. Come join the team.

Heather Cleland Woods @clelandwoods.bsky.social · Apr 12

We are hiring @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social with 5 posts including a teaching focused role so if you fancy joining our excellent team get applying by May 12th www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283

University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · May 8

Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc...

#neuroskyence #neurojobs

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283

University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · Apr 30

Here's our article @braincomms.bsky.social

Practical Routes to Preregistration: A Guide to Enhanced Transparency and Rigour in Neuropsychological Research
@rjbinney.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social @neledemeyere.bsky.social @britishneuropsych.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

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UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social · Apr 29

Join us Wed 7 May for the 2nd Neurotechnology Seminar at @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social

Dr Ines Violante & Prof Simon Hanslmayr will explore brain stimulation & memory, with insights into future wearable tech for clinical use.

📍62 Hillhead St | 🕒 3–5pm | 🍷 drinks after!
#Neurotech #Memory

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UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social · Apr 29

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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · Apr 28

Great productive initiative where we had an ECR writing day within the psychology school! Combined with a break in the middle to identify our strengths and weaknesses to identify collaboration opportunities.

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UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social · Apr 18

eiko-fried.com/nl-psycholog...

Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science » Eiko Fried

Dutch universities decided to throw international bachelor programs under the bus to appease the government. This is a terrible idea.

eiko-fried.com

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · Apr 17

Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems - Robert S. Chavez, Taylor D. Guthrie, Jack M. Kapustka, 2025

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Heather Cleland Woods @clelandwoods.bsky.social · Apr 12

We are hiring @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social with 5 posts including a teaching focused role so if you fancy joining our excellent team get applying by May 12th www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283

University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · Apr 12

Anyone looking for a PhD in NeuroAI (models of the visual system to spatial system)? @amansaleem.bsky.social and I are looking for someone to start in October. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!

Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · Apr 8

BTSP, but not STDP, can account for place field changes in hippocampus, out in Nature Neuroscience today:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Synaptic plasticity rules driving representational shifting in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience

Madar et al. report that behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), not spike-timing-dependent plasticity, explains heterogeneous place fields shifting in the hippocampus. The probability of BTS...

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Bruno Leys @brunoleys.bsky.social · Apr 9

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel, professor in cognitive psychology talking about spaced and retrieval practice #IATEFL2025

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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · Apr 9

New preprint ✍️🚨

✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling

-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups

tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc

👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social

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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · Apr 9

Amid the Trump admin's dismantling of the US scientific ecosystem, Nobel Prize-winner @ardemp.bskyverified.social writes on @cnn.com: "I’ve already been approached with an offer to relocate my lab to China, complete with a promise of 20 years of stable research funding." www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

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