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Jenny Bizley

@bizleylab.bsky.social
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Auditory neuroscientist, UCL Prof, trail runner, landlocked boaty, mum was @bizifer elsewhere

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
SWC & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social are inviting expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external career fellowships in computational neuroscience. A unique opportunity to work at the intersection of neuroscience and computation. Apply by 16 July.
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Fellowship Sponsorship | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour & Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, are looking to sponsor early career researchers in theoretical or c...
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
New low for the BBSRC @ukri.org this week - 596 ECRs put their blood, sweat, tears and Easter vacation into a -pretty involved- postdoc fellowship preapplication only for the ALL to be rejected because they *didn’t foresee* applicant numbers and will therefore impose institution caps. Not cool.
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UCL Ear Institute @uclearinstitute.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
📣Scholarship opportunity📣 We are pleased to announce that the EI is offering a full fee waiver to support outstanding home candidates for MSc Advanced Audiology 2026-27 admissions. Further information here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
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UCL Ear Institute MSc Excellence Scholarships
Full Fee Waiver (UK Fees Only) – MSc Advanced Audiology 2026–27 Admissions
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🧠 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist (anything from cognition to NeuroAI) to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year. Drop me a line if you want to know more Deadline September 14th www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....
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MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board (NMHB) member vacancies
Closing date 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm (UK time) Number of positions Six Length of term Two years, plus additional two years after review Time commitment Two days per month Remuneration £160 per da...
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
UCL Ear Institute's external fellowship sponsorship scheme is open for applications - come and start your research group with us! Important dates: 28th August: intention to submit. 1st September, 5pm: Application deadline Further information: lnkd.in/ehmuJp96
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Career Development Pathways at the Ear Institute
The Ear Institute at University College London (UCL) invites Expressions of Interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships.
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Fully funded (UK rate) studentship with the awesome @emmaholmes90.bsky.social ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/emma...
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Took the 9yo for an amazing bat walk this evening with saveleatherlane-wp.org.uk . Saw or heard at least 4 different species and now wondering if it’s too late for the lab to switch to echolocation 🤔 if you’re in or near the #chilterns you should go too! 🦇 👂
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Leather Lane Conservation Group – Preserving and Protecting Leather Lane
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 17/04/2025
as an experiment in academic internet stuff I made a 'new-auditory' list for folks interested in audition, hearing, speech, music etc anybody can join at groups.google.com/g/new-audito... the 30-year-old AUDITORY list is v cool but has many drawbacks, not least that it runs on 30-yr-old tech
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Skills needed for a systems #neuroscience PI: carpentry, micro-soldering, surgery, coding, analysis, writing, people management... and yoga moves -- to get into a testing arena, and then fix stuff while balancing on the only non 'acoustically transparent' (i.e. fixed) part of the floor 🤷‍♀️ #neverbored
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Had a wonderful day of science yesterday at the @champalimaudr.bsky.social giving a talk and being part of a thesis Jury. Big congrats to Mafalda and the Renart Lab! #🧠 #neuroscience
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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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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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Checked one off the trail-running bucket list yesterday - Ashridge boundary run - 17+ miles of stunning(ly hilly) "fun" #chilterns #trailrunning #ridgeway
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Using my gran’s ancient (vintage?) sewing machine to hem a new curtain for our speaker grid setup. Love the contrast between state of the art behaviour/tracking/neuropixels and my dodgy sewing skills — and so excited for the data beginning to emerge 🤓 🧠 #neuroscience
Sewing machine and black fabric
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The International Conference on Auditory Cortex @icac2025.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Abstract submission for ICAC 2025 is still open! We are looking forward to see you in Maastricht in September.
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Great episode of inside health www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... exploring hearing and age related hearing loss, featuring multiple non-bluesky Ear Institute contributors @uclbrainscience.bsky.social #neuroscience #hearing
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Inside Health - Why do we lose our hearing with age? - BBC Sounds
Is hearing loss taken as seriously as eyesight loss, and what can we do about it?
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British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This #BSW25 we're excited to announce two new trustees have joined BSA Council! Welcome Dr Rachel Williams @sciwithrach.bsky.social & Professor Turi King @turiking.bsky.social, brilliant scientists committed to public communication and engagement: www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/british...
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British Science Association Council welcomes two new trustees
The British Science Association has announced that two new trustees, Professor Turi King and Dr Rachel Williams, have joined Council – the governing board of trustees for the organisation.
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Alina Peter @alinapeter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I keep reading such things and want to mention applications are open in the German Lise Meitner program for excellent female scientists, who typically already have leadership experience. It is the breeding ground for future MPI directors. Maybe you can point some folks to it that may match.
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Lise Meitner Excellence Program
Since 2018, up to ten further Lise Meitner Groups will be advertised to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists as part of the new Lise Meitner Excellence Program.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
One of the NIMH PIs whose name is the termination list: Sooyhun Lee, whose lab just published this beautiful @nature.com paper (that has received too little press because comms at NIH are down). Read! Cite! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brain-wide presynaptic networks of functionally distinct cortical neurons - Nature
Behavioural-state-dependent pyramidal neurons have a distinct pattern of long-range glutamatergic inputs, with a larger proportion of thalamic versus motor cortex inputs compared with non-behavio...
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"We should communicate our passion & curiosity, connecting with those who share our wonder about the world, but must also showcase the practical significance of basic research, demonstrating how seemingly arcane investigations yield transformative applications." Great piece by @tonyzador.bsky.social
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How to communicate the value of curiosity-driven research
The burden of proof is on us, as researchers, to explain why what we do is valuable to society.
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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 19/02/2025
Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a... #interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience
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Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Signature tally now closing in on 3000. Please keep discussing, sharing and signing to put as much pressure on the Royal Society to respond as possible. forms.gle/AuYvuWqytx8K...
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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk
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UKNC25 |
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Watched the 9 year old (and 8500 of her primary age friends) rock the O2 tonight 🌟 #youngvoices #urbanstrides
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Cheeky pre-work trail run #bluesky 🏃🏻‍♀️
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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 07/01/2025
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Attempting to brighten up the last day of the school holiday with cinnamon buns
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Last week staff in our facility got worried that the acoustic foam that lined the lab was flammable. Today I’m filming myself burning acoustic foam on my hob amidst the sourdough and gingerbread. It doesn’t 🔥 quoting @amitkhandhadia.bsky.social, it’s a christmas miracle🎄 🧠
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Audrey Drotos, PhD 🧠 🔬 @audreydrotos.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
If you are an auditory neuroscientist attending ARO 2025, please check your inbox for an important survey from ARO regarding strategies for safety and inclusion at the MWM this year in Florida. 🧠 👂 🏳️‍🌈
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We're excited to join BlueSky! Make sure to follow us for the latest news from the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences! We'll be posting about our cutting edge research, Faculty events and opportunities!
We're on BlueSky
UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences over the top of a BlueSky logo with the picture of a brain inside.
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Huge congrats to Jules (not on 🦋) for his successful PhD defense yesterday - watch out for his trademark Breton top, and beautiful work looking at how auditory cortex deals with noise (hopefully early next year 🤞🏻) #neuroscience #neuroskyence 🧠
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Today we said goodbye to an RA who has a new position elsewhere. His first job was to train a DLC model to track ferrets so I made him this cake (it tasted better than it looked!)… #neuroscience #neuroskyence 🧠
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Want to start your own lab at the @uclofficial.bsky.social Ear Institute? You have 8 days left to apply to this round of our fellowship sponsorship scheme! www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research... #neuroscience #neuroskyence #hearing #auditoryneuroscience
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Gorgeous morning to sneak out on the trails 🏃🏻‍♀️ #trailrunning #chilterns
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇
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Maria Geffen @geffenlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Deadline for applying to the EARS trainee seminar is Nov. 25. If you would like to submit an abstract, but need more time, please reach out to me.
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My life is a barrage of lab/child related WhatsApps, but the ones that brighten my day are the literal screen shots students send when they first see if their experiments worked out. This week some beautiful viral tracing and signals from two implanted neuropixels #neuroskyence 🧠👩‍🔬
Labelled terminal fields in auditory cortexDual neuropixels 2 implant
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
University College London has joined Bluesky today! Give them a follow - great to see academic institutions joining the platform as well as academics! bsky.app/profile/uclo...
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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Applications are open for the James McCune Smith (JMS) Scholarships here @uofglasgow.bsky.social. which fund Black UK students to undertake PhD research in Glasgow in any field. They provide an enhanced experience and are very well-supported. www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships.... Please share this widely
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Alex Chu @alexechu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our team at deepmind is hiring! boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
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Laboratory Research Scientist, Protein Design, Science
London, UK
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
My dept (UCL Experimental Psychology) has 12 funded PhD studentships for next academic year (Sept 2025 start)! These are only for UK citizens or with right to remain. I would be happy to support applications from students who would like to join my lab. See: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...
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Thinking about a PhD?
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We were asked to write a piece about what makes the ferret a great model for sensory systems research... and here it is! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧠👩‍🔬👂 [we need a bluesky #ferretbrain emoji to add here!]
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Ferret contributions to the business of sensory neurobiology
In this brief review, we will highlight the ferret Mustela putorius furo as an increasingly utilized animal model for sensory systems and cognitive ne…
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Guido Meijer @guidomeijer.com · 11/11/2024
I made a systems neuroscience starter pack, focused on experimentalists who study the brain at the level of populations of neurons! Also want to be on the list? Reply or DM me a picture of your ephys rig or 2p setup and I'll add you 🤭 go.bsky.app/UiqX7ry
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
The UCL Ear Institute has launched its next round of career development sponsorship opportunities - we support you to come and set up your group in london's vibrant auditory neuroscience community! Deadline December 6th (noon, GMT). www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research...
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Career Development Pathways at the Ear Institute
The Ear Institute at University College London (UCL) invites Expressions of Interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent researc...
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
We are recruiting a PhD student! The project will define the sensory strategies that freely moving animals use to chase sounds. The ideal candidate will have an engineering / neuroscience background and strong coding skills. Reach out to learn more! shorturl.at/cNu0p
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
There 1 week to apply for the PhD studentship in my lab (4 years, paid as an RA, fees at UK rate) to contribute to understanding how the brain constructs auditory space. shorturl.at/adoJN Post will require great coding skills so background in engineering, datasciences or neuroscience is ideal!
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Jenny Bizley @bizleylab.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
The Royal Society have launched a new postdoc career development fund - initally for those of black heritage royalsociety.org/news/2023/09... please circulate widely (and if you're eligible and interested in auditory neuroscience reach out!)
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
The Maths of Life: Fantastic description of cochlear amplification, otoacoustic emissions and the paradigm shift arising from the work of David Kemp at the UCL Ear Institute by Sophie Scott on BBC 6Music (~09.50am). 👂🦻👶 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Radio 6 Music - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 6 Music on BBC Sounds
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