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Barbara Pomiechowska

@bpomie.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist fascinated by human development. Interested in learning, creativity, compositionality, abstract knowledge. Assistant professor @thechbh.bsky.social @bbabylab.bsky.social Uni of Birmingham

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're hiring! 2 postdocs + 3 PhD students to join InfantNeuroAI at Trinity College Dublin: awake infant fMRI & OPM-MEG, plus computational models of how infants learn. Aims: understand infant visual cognition, infant neuroimaging methods, more energy-efficient learning 🧵 www.cusacklab.org/vacancies
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
😔“In 2005, about 7.5% of the UK’s front gardens were paved; by 2025 that had risen to 55%” “… changing paved gardens back to grass could reduce night-time temperatures by as much as 0.5C, and adding trees would double the benefit”
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Weatherwatch: Paving over front gardens is leading to hotter nights
Changing paved areas to grass and planting trees can reduce urban heat island effect by as much as 1C, study shows
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Birmingham Babylab @bbabylab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Prof Andy Bremner and our PhD researchers, Jieyi Liu and Rachel Martlew presented their recent work on infant development at ICIS2026 @infantstudies.bsky.social Thanks to the organisers, presenters, and attendees for a great week in Panama City 🌎✈️
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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
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Barbara Pomiechowska @bpomie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hi #CogSci2026 folks! Anyone into #compositionality #geometry and/or babies' minds? Karthika, an amazing PhD student from the lab is presenting some cool preliminary results. We use geometry as a case study for compositionality and program induction in babies. Do stop by her (virtual) flash talk!
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Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
How do animals cooperate when they aren't even the same species? Our recent review paper dug deep into the literature... 1/ Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Myself and colleagues from across Higher Ed have gathered under the auspices of @isrfoundation.bsky.social to think about new models for Higher Education... We'll be adding pieces as we go, and we've already published quite a few. We can't go on like this, and we shouldn't. isrf.org/projects/rec...
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Reconstructing the British University
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Two pieces from me this week you may have missed: (1) why no-one cares about Britain's university crisis. The only answer you get is 'yeah but apprenticeships' - not realising just how critical unis are to their provision. But what can one even say any more. 🤷‍♂️ www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Don't ask me anything about #dinosaurs.🦖🦕 I hardly know anything about them. But this one never ceases to amaze me: a clutch of Oviraptor, 80 million (!) years old! The eggs were laid pair-wise and covered with sand. On display at Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
A fossilized nest of Oviraptor dinosaur eggs arranged in a circular clutch embedded in reddish rock. The eggs are elongated and clustered closely together. In the upper right corner, one egg is displayed separately and partially open, revealing a curled, well-preserved Oviraptor embryo inside.
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵
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LAION-fMRI - a 7T fMRI dataset of human vision
LAION-fMRI (LfMRI / LAION MRI dataset): 5 subjects, 25,052 launch-release natural images, 165 acquired 7T fMRI sessions with single-trial GLMsingle betas, retinotopy, localizers, and diffusion.
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Andrew Beale @drbatmo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Since I moved to @mrclmb.bsky.social I’ve been trying to answer this: Why are some mammals active at night and others in the day? Today our answer is out @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... If you’re interested in circadian biology, evolution or how timing shapes physiology, take a look
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A cellular basis for the mammalian nocturnal-diurnal switch
Early mammals were nocturnal while dinosaurs dominated the daytime. Mammalian transition to daytime activity accelerated after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, but the underlying mechanisms remain...
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Milestones of Neurocognitive Development Lab @milestoneslab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🦊🧠 Hello Bluesky! We are the Milestones of Neurocognitive Development Lab, a joint research group at @mpicbs.bsky.social and the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN). Led by Prof. Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann, we explore the neural and cognitive milestones of the developing mind!
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Barbara Pomiechowska @bpomie.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Good morning UoB!
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A baby whale is born with 10 female whales and one male helping. During the most beautiful event that happens in life—birth—whales were very chatty. We found vowels during the birth event as well. @projectceti.bsky.social The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Max Elliott @maxwellelliott.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals? Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others. Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Study of 8M biomed & life science articles finds those led by women spent 7 to 15 days longer in review than those led by men. Over a career, women's papers could spend 350 to 750 additional days in review. Delays could slow promotion, esp to full professor. www.the-scientist.com/women-s-rese...
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Peer Review Timelines Show Gender Gap, Large Study Reports
A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between submission and acceptance.
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Barbara Pomiechowska @bpomie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
As if there were not enough bad news around:
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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We can use past experience to make predictions about the future. How do predictions affect our memory for the present? My own work (tinyurl.com/42kyukch) suggests that predictions compete with memory. But other recent work (tinyurl.com/2ekd4wr6) found the opposite--cooperation! What's going on here?
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Christina Bergmann @chbergma.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I love this metaphor for having AI take over key tasks like writing summaries, doing literature reviews, etc... Yes, please have your LLM buddy lift weights for you. You are now a gym nut
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Climate denialism, empowered by nihilists and know-nothings, undermining science & destroying the evidence that they previously just rejected. Meanwhile, out here in WA, roads are sliding into rivers (an unprecedented weather event) b/c it’s too damn warm to be raining this hard for this long.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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Friends of Bonobos @friendsofbonobos.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Thanks to you, Ekolo ya Bonobo Reserve’s 2024 mammal diversity study is complete. The team identified 28 additional mammal species, and the camera traps captured a thriving ecosystem! Learn more about your impact: savebonobos.org/2024 #YourImpact #EkoloYaBonobo #WildlifeConservation
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Tim Egan @timegan1995.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Comparing this with @a38cycleway.bsky.social shows how much more cycling infra investment is needed in Birmingham. Circa 4 times more people are cycling in Manchester. Andy Burnham with Chris Boardman & Sarah Storey have been ambitious and are delivering, same needed here. @brumgreens.bsky.social
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Minnie’s mum @minniesmum.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It’s a great podcast (Bold Politics)… reassuringly Zack Polanski is a rare host who knows how to listen deeply and if he disagrees he does it intelligently and respectfully. Very well worth a listen even if you’re not a Greens voter
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I had the joy of getting to meet some baby blue-winged parrots today 💚💙
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Super pleased with this one, led by the amazing PhD student and foraging expert @emmavscholey.bsky.social!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today. Streets for people. HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
Before and after, street filled with cars to a street for people including kids
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Public transport in Birmingham is lamentable, cycling is too dangerous for many by design, and our streets have been surrendered to speeding cars and gridlocked traffic. The saddest thing is that, as other cities have shown, it's not that difficult or expensive to fix this.
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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
We continue to live in a city created by the Victorians and Edwardians. Yet, we've chosen to prioritize only one type of Victorian and Edwardian transport technology, the automobile. Today, I'm talking at the @thevicsoc.bsky.social on why this came to be, and how the cycling city can exist again.
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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social
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A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Great BBC coverage of our 'dinosaur highway' excavation, featuring @kirstymedgar.bsky.social @djemurdock.bsky.social & @peterfalkingham.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ficn...
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One of the world’s longest dinosaur trackways uncovered in UK | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11
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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 04/10/2025
Brilliant effort from the Circle the City riders last night. 🌧💨 It was chucking it down and blowing a gale, but that didn’t stop them pedalling on. 💪 #CircleTheCity #KeepPedalling #TogetherWeRide #RainOrShine
A group of cyclists smiling in the rain during an evening ride through the city. Riders are wearing helmets, bright jackets, and waterproofs, with bikes of all sizes including children’s. Wet streets and umbrellas in the background show the rainy weather.
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Arkady Konovalov @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
📢 New (economics) preprint 📢 (with Jiaxin Yu) Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨 New paper in Nature Methods: HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG) Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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The Centre for Human Brain Health @thechbh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We’re excited to share some leadership updates at the CHBH! After three years, Dr @katjakornysheva.bsky.social stepped down this month, we're grateful to Katja for her leadership. Prof @bagshaap.bsky.social will continue as Co-Director and we welcome Prof Stephane De Brito as Co-Director into 25/26.
University of Birmingham announcement for new Centre for Human Brain Health Co-Director, Professor Stephane De Brito, with his headshot.
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Barbara Pomiechowska @bpomie.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Looking for a postdoc or RA position? Look no more! Consider applying (by Thu 2 Oct) to work with the wonderful Andy Bremner & team. Great impactful project, supportive & friendly lab with top-notch amenities. Join us in Birmingham ✨
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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
It was so great! Really lucky to have been able to listen and learn from Barbara, Liuba, & Benedek. Some of the most insightful research happening today, from just the absolutely nicest, coolest people.
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I hope those reporting on Alpha read this thread (or better yet, the article). bsky.app/profile/vauh...
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A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education
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Barbara Pomiechowska @bpomie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Heading for my last day of the ESPP in Warsaw. Amazing to see philosophers and psychologists in one room. It was a privilege to talk about how symbols and compositionality emerge in babies alongside @ljubapi.bsky.social and @benedek.bsky.social 💕 to @ericman.bsky.social for organizing the symposium!
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Barbara Pomiechowska @bpomie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
This was such fun!
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Gorgeously fuzzy regent parrot bub 🤩
Fuzzy grey parrot chick cradled in hands
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Junyi Chu @junyi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 02/06/2025
The quality of evidence in psychology publications has improved substantially over the last two decades, across all subareas. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Ecologists’ horror as nature reserves around the world are emptied of insects - with rising temperatures joining habitat destruction as likely causes: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻 ❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso, suggesting it was threaded onto a cord and perhaps worn as a protective amulet. Discovered in a peat bog near Slupsk in Poland. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin. #Archaeology
Photo by G. Solecki/A. Pietak of a small figurine of a bear carved out of amber between 9600 and 4100 BC. The amber is a deep translucent orange colour. The bear's head is carved to show ears, mouth, nostrils and eyes. A hole runs through the bear’s torso, suggesting it was threaded onto a cord and perhaps worn as a protective amulet. Dimensions: 10.2 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm.
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