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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Jun 23

Had a cracking week at the @expsyanz.bsky.social & APCV conference hosted at UNSW 🙌🏼
Was good fun presenting some prelim findings from my 1st PhD study + chat with some cool researchers 🤓
Thanks for the opportunity to present + see the great work being done in experimental psych! 🧠

#ActiveBrainUC

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Jun 16

Very excited to present some preliminary findings from my first #PhD study at the EPC & APCV Joint Meeting held by @expsyanz.bsky.social at UNSW! 🔎

Catch me at tomorrow's poster session from 6-8pm at the John Niland Scientia Building: Leighton Hall 👀

#attention #sport #ActiveBrainUC #AcademicSky

Screenshot of the EPC & APCV 2025 Joint Conference programme, reads as follows:
1 - 27 - Investigating the use of selective attention to induce mental fatigue in team sport - Yleia Mariano - University of Canberra, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Science

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Apr 8

This is me! I'm back into my #RecruitmentEra and looking for participants 👀🏆

My PhD is investigating how #attention can influence the development of #MentalFatigue in #TeamSport

Got questions? Hit me up! 🫡

#SportScience #SelectiveAttention #ActiveBrainUC #AcademicSky

ActiveBrain Research Group @activebrainuc.bsky.social · Apr 8

Think you’ve got a keen eye for tracking players in a game? 👀 Then we want you!📣
We’re interested in whether #SelectiveAttention can influence #MentalFatigue in adults who play team #sport.
Get in touch with @ylmariano.bsky.social for more or click the EOI link: buff.ly/fPWKdeB

#ActiveBrainUC

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · Mar 31

ABRG, research by/for women is being censored in the US. Help us ✊ this kind of #censorship by ✒️ the Declaration to #defendresearch from censorship.

We're working to educate the public on the consequences of #censorship on #science. tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

SIGN/SHARE/RAISE the 🚨🚨🚨📣📣📣

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship

This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

tinyurl.com

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Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · Mar 30

It's Transgender Day of Visibility, and I have mixed emotions. So I wrote something about it 😊

(this is the first in a series; the next one is in a few weeks and is about disinformation campaigns)

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/my-...

My mixed emotions on Transgender Day of Visibility

Around the world, trans people are under attack. So, while Transgender Day of Visibility is a celebration, we need to talk about the dread as well, says a University of Melbourne expert.

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · Mar 29

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Mar 26

Me, when a code chunk works in R:

#AcademicSky #coding #Rcoding #Rstudio

a man singing into a microphone wearing a yellow sweater with the letter g on it

Alt: Reggie Watts singing into a microphone wearing a yellow sweater with the letter g on it does a double fist pump

media.tenor.com

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Mar 21

Me: There's no way removing a pair of quotation marks will change the output of my code that much!
*Removes quotation marks*
*Completely changes my output*

Man I love coding 🫠

#AcademicSky #Rcoding #coding #PhDLife

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Mar 10

Oh no! It's such a challenge trying to balance making yourself available because the participant is only available for a certain date and actually making time for yourself 😅

I'm definitely in the middle of learning that lesson as a PhD student!

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Mar 10

Oh 100% lol
But all's well that ends well- we were both happy to come in, so we rolled with it!

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Mar 9

Everyone in Canberra: *is on holiday because it's a public holiday*
Me: *in the lab because I forgot it was a public holiday today and I scheduled a participant*

Tldr: Bless this participant for agreeing to come in on a public holiday 🙏🏼

#PhDLife #AcademicLife #AcademicSky

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R-Ladies @rladies.org · Mar 8

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Mar 8

Happy International Women’s Day.

This message was sent via WiFi, the invention of Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr.

Here Lamarr, a dark haired Hollywood classic beauty with a large star covered headpiece-tiara thing. She invented WiFi when she wasn’t being a movie star.

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Mar 7

I'm sure you did a great job! 😊

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Mar 7

Good luck, Thy! Hope you enjoy/enjoyed the chance to present your awesome project! 🙌🏼

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Jessica Mills Davies @byjessicadavies.bsky.social · Feb 28

I will die on this hill...

Rosalind Franklin was the first to theorise the physical structure of DNA and Watson and Crick did some fancy interpretation of base pairing.

Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · Feb 28

#OnThisDay 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson discover the chemical structure of the DNA molecule (double-helix polymer) using X-ray diffraction studies developed by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins.

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Feb 20

I struggle enough as it is calculating dates, but it's almost the end of February and I'm still forgetting that it's already 2025 🤦🏻

#PhDLife #AcademicLife

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Feb 16

THREAD

Things that didn't make the news that will likely change our lives for the better

The news is not an accurate reflection of the world.

Good news doesn't get reported as much.

Here are the wonderful things researchers have achieved recently.
1/24

Sunrise over the Tyrol alps

It will be alright in the end. And if it's not alright, it is not yet the end.

#AcademicSky #ClimateSky #Altmetrics

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Feb 17

As someone who is currently recruiting in a team sport space, this sounds like a great resource!

Christopher McCrum @chrismccrum.bsky.social · Jan 29

Preprinted today 🎉 Our chapter:

Participant identification, selection and recruitment

of the upcoming #openaccess book:
Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Science: An Open Access Primer from the Society for Transparency, Openness and Replication in Kinesiology

sportrxiv.org/index.php/se...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Jan 15

A little challenge for neuro/cog sci (/psych/comp-sci/bio/philosophy!) blueys:

How would you define "cognition"?

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Jan 15

FYI #TeamSport is surprisingly hard to define

Image is a picture of the definition of team sport from the Merriam-Webster dictionary website. Text reads as follows

Team sport (noun)
: a sport played by teams

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Nov 24

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Nov 29

It was a blast to talk #attention and #TeamSport at #ACNS2024 🏀 So cool to connect with different researchers & expand my perspectives on the #brain & #cognition 🧠
Thank you to @acnsau.bsky.social & UON for hosting a brilliant conference!

📸 @tinotoufexis.bsky.social
#ActiveBrainUC

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Nov 28

You smashed it, Annaliese!! Super engaging and interesting work 🙌🏼 Based on your pres, I'm willing to bet your students love you!! 💃 Was awesome meeting you and best of luck with the rest of your PhD!! 🤗

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Yleia (they/them) @ylmariano.bsky.social · Nov 27

Can't go to Newcastle without seeing Beach™️ ╮⁠(⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)⁠╭

Good rejuvenating walk before my Fast Talk tomorrow at #ACNS2024

⚙️ #Cognition, 3:10pm, X320 🤟🏼

Picture of a path going down to a beach. There is a rocky outcrop in the distance

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