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Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

These past few weeks the fight for our uni has taken a new turn. We've lost ~700 staff already. Will it be 1000 in the end, with the management's "Strategy to Recovery"? Unis as a business vs as a place of research & education - coming to a head in Dundee and across the UK. More ⬇️

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/06/2026

"Nobody needs convincing that a science of the Meaning of Life is the wrong project. I will argue that a science of phenomenal consciousness is wrong for exactly the same reason: neither is amenable to the third-person perspective science requires." by @profdata.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.00226

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Consciousness, AI, and the Limits of Scientific Explanation

Science is constitutively third-personal: its findings are in principle reproducible by any observer, independent of perspective, and answerable to measurement. This is the source of its power and als...

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EEG101 COST Action @eeg101costaction.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

👋 Hello World! EEG101 is live! 🚀 🤝Join our global community for open, rigorous EEG science, academia & industry welcome! 🗓️ June 11–13, 2026: EEG101 Meeting at OHBM Brainhack, Bordeaux. 📢 Training & mobility funding coming soon! 🌐 www.eeg101.eu #EEG101 #OpenScience #Neuroscience #OHBM #Brainhack

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Art at the Start @artatthestart.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Interested in support for babies & their caregivers & art therapy? We've a funded PhD opportunity to explore the role out of Art at the Start in Sheffield, embedded with the lovely Sheffield PaIRS team & supervised by Vicky and Josephine @dundee.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please share!

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PhD Studentship: Art at the Start – From Dundee to Sheffield at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - PhD Studentship: Art at the Start – From Dundee to Sheffield at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Join us for the first symposium of the OPM-MEG Action Scotland (OMEGAS) initiative - www.dundee.ac.uk/omegas, to take place at the University of Dundee, *9-10 Dec*, and funded by the Quantum ARC quantum-tech-alliance.co.uk #neuroskyence #meg #opm /1

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Optically pumped magnetometers MagnetoEncephaloGraphy Action Scotland

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Out today in Molecular Psychiatry our paper on multiverse computational factor modeling (i.e. a lotta lotta factor analyses). Thread below for the full rundown. Last PhD paper from @celinef.bsky.social YOU'RE FREE!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Cognitive arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Cognitive arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Alpha-Band Phase Modulates Perceptual Sensitivity by Changing Internal Noise and Sensory Tuning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Gregor Thut @gregorthut.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Open postdoc position👈 We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 27/08/2025

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

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Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

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Matthias Guggenmos @mguggenmos.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG. More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025 Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!

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Computation and Cognition @ HMU Potsdam

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Another blow to staff at Dundee Uni. They ensured security for those who let this crisis happen, but not for the staff who have been suffering months of uncertainty & the threat of job loss. (🧵1/2)

A screenshot of a digital article in The Courier. The headline reads: EXCLUSIVE: "Ex-Dundee University chief Iain Gillespie urged to hand back £150,000 pay-out", with a picture beneath of Iain Gillespie former Principal of University of Dundee in a black suit with a brown tie.

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Martina Kopčanová, Christian Keitel, et al: Characterising time-on-task effects on oscillatory and aperiodic EEG components and their co-variation with visual task performance doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Denis Engemann @dngman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🩺🧠 ✨Excited about our latest work published in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social! In the BioFIND dataset, we found that brain activity provided unique information about progression to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). #neuroskyence Paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...; Thread 🧶 ⤵️

Cover figure presenting main results from the paper. Left: altered spectral power and covariance difference between AD progressers and stable MCI patients. Right: multivariate analysis, highlighting the complementarity of MEG covariance spectra, MRI cortical volumes and baseline control measures.

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!

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Join the Lab

We're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellowship: Predictive Models for Cognitive Fluctuations Closing date: 12 noon (IST), June 1st 2024 We are seeking a Research Fellow to pioneer the development of passive s...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Longitudinal assessment of the conversion of mild cognitive impairment into Alzheimer's dementia: Observations and mechanisms from neuropsychological testing and electrophysiology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Maëlan Menétrey @maelanmenetrey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Interested in the rhythms of the brain? 🧠 Join us on December 11th for an exciting symposium! Accessible online—don’t miss out! #neuroscience

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Tom Donoghue @tomdonoghue.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I just preprinted a little perspective piece / mini review on the history of the study of aperiodic neural activity - arguing there is more out there in literature than one might expect! 📜 A historical overview of the study of aperiodic neural activity: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Chris Benwell @chrisbenwell.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Reduced confidence associated with aging increases information seeking under uncertainty, whereas confidence alterations associated with symptoms of psychopathology do not. Out now w/ Greta Mohr & @robince.bsky.social. #neuroskyence #compneuro #PsychSciSky: rdcu.be/dSPdz

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Information search under uncertainty across transdiagnostic psychopathology and healthy ageing

Translational Psychiatry - Information search under uncertainty across transdiagnostic psychopathology and healthy ageing

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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🌟PhD Opportunity🌟 Investigate the links between opioids, other analgesics, and cognitive decline/dementia. Supervisors include researchers at Edinburgh and Glasgow University and the Karolinska Institute! Learn more about this Precision Medicine PhD and apply below!⬇️ usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...

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Chronic pain, analgesic prescribing, and cognitive decline

Precision Medicine Project - Chronic pain, analgesic prescribing, and cognitive decline

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Tom Donoghue @tomdonoghue.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello again Bluesky - very glad to see people moving over here! If anyone works on / wants to connect on work related to analyzing / interpreting neuro-ephys signals - specparam / aperiodic / oscillation stuff, etc - drop a comment or msg and I'll follow back!

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Maëlan Menétrey @maelanmenetrey.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Following the trend, here's a starter pack of EEG researchers: go.bsky.app/H2URVjv. Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed. The list is very partial and still needs to be expanded, but I hope you find it helpful! 🧠 #EEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

Interested in the structure of psychopathology? We have a new preprint for you osf.io/preprints/ps... led by @celinef.bsky.social "Mechanistic arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology"

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

Mechanistic arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology: osf.io/7waey

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Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Application deadline coming up - 14 May. Have a look if you are interested in a fully funded PhD on brain oscillations and Parkinson's. #neuroskyence #EEG #PsychSciSky

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Raquel London @raquellondon.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

The EEG Newsletter is back! In this edition we look at why and how to simulate EEG data. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Chris Benwell @chrisbenwell.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Delighted to advertise a fully funded PhD project investigating EEG correlates of Parkinson's disease @ University of Dundee. The student will be supervised by @ckeitelsci.bsky.social, Dr Tom Gilbertson, Prof Douglas Steele and myself. For more details, please see keitelscience.com/2024/04/19/p...

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

New lab preprint! 💥 Topographical alignment of electrophysiological changes with proteinopathy & neurochemical systems along the AD continuum. Led by @alexwiesman.bsky.social. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alignments between cortical neurochemical systems, proteinopathy and neurophysiological alterations along the Alzheimer's disease continuum

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Audrey Mazancieux @audreymazancieux.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

🥳 I am really excited to share this project started in 2019 (when I was still a PhD student) with Katarzyna Hat, Renate Rutiku, Michał Wierzchoń, and @krsandberg.bsky.social on domain-general confidence! osf.io/preprints/os... 1/7

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Are you sure? Would you like another look? Here we find a double dissociation between the kinds of uncertainty that control information seeking & those that shape subjective feelings of confidence. w/ Georgie Edwards-Lowe, Elisa La Chiusa & Helen Olawole-Scott Link: t.co/bC7j2bEQ83 #neuroskyence

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Tom Donoghue @tomdonoghue.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

📜🎉 We have a new preprint! The fantastic Mohamed Ameen led this work on aperiodic neural activity during sleep - including time-resolved analyses and examining the ‘aperiodic knee’ across sleep stages - featuring me as (first time!) supervising author! Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The Temporal Dynamics of Aperiodic Neural Activity Track Changes in Sleep Architecture

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

We are recruiting for a Marie Curie "CODE" PhD student 💻🧠🚨 (sites.google.com/view/confide...) The project will focus on neurocomputational approaches to information seeking, offloading and metacognitive control across the lifespan www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline 22 Feb, pls share!

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 31/01/2024

New preprint! Do men and women differ in their metacognitive abilities? In a new preprint, we detail robust differences in global and local metacognition which span multiple cognitive domains. Read all about our findings in this thread! #psychology #neuroskyence osf.io/preprints/ps...

Figure 1 showing our multimodal metacognition battery. All participants completed measures of metamemory (semantic and recognition), vision (metadots), and recognition memory, together with pre and post self belief measures.

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Tom Donoghue @tomdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Our paper on periodic & aperiodic neural activity in Alzheimer's dementia is now published! We find in AD a specifically periodic change, different from aperiodic changes in healthy aging! w @mkopcanova.bsky.social, Luke Tait, @chrisbenwell.bsky.social & co! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Resting-state EEG signatures of Alzheimer's disease are driven by periodic but not aperiodic changes

Electroencephalography (EEG) has shown potential for identifying early-stage biomarkers of neurocognitive dysfunction associated with dementia due to …

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Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

New positions at Dundee Psychology (2xLect, Grade 8, T&R)! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEN380/l... Can neither confirm nor deny that this includes a strong expectation to do karaoke at our division's Christmas parties... Talk to us: www.dundee.ac.uk/psychology #neuroskyence #EEG #PsychSciSky #cogpsyc Plz RP

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Lecturer (Teaching and Research) - UOD1169 at University of Dundee

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer (Teaching and Research) - UOD1169. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Celine Fox @celinef.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

📢 Delighted to share the second preprint of my PhD work! 🎉 Across 2️⃣ experiments (N=3410 unpaid citizen scientists, N=52 paid participants), we developed a new smartphone game 📱👾 to measure metacognition 🧠 reliably, rapidly and remotely over time osf.io/preprints/ps... … 1/10

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Audrey Mazancieux @audreymazancieux.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

📜 New review article from the great metacognition team with @meaperei.bsky.social, @nfaivre.bsky.social, @mamassian.bsky.social, Chris Moulin & Céline Souchay: "Towards a common conceptual space for metacognition in perception and memory" in Nature Review Psychology! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Joost Haarsma @jhaarsma.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

New pre-print alert! Here we show that false percepts are preceded by an increase in beta power in an occipital parietal network, after which a shared neural code emerges between false and veridical perception in a parietal frontal network. A thread! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Anne Keitel @annekeitel.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

I'm excited to share our preprint on musical rhythm processing 🎵🎵 We show that cortical tracking is influenced by pitch predictability, expertise & enjoyment. 💙 Thanks to @johannarimmele.bsky.social @ckeitelsci.bsky.social and all the others in this huge project 💙 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Cannot quite explain how it feels to have this out - my first computational psychiatry project (though not the first published)! I've had so much support from my coauthors over the years I've been working on this, and we're finally there. #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Adaptive learning from outcome contingencies in eating-disorder risk groups - Translational Psychiat...

Translational Psychiatry - Adaptive learning from outcome contingencies in eating-disorder risk groups

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SCONe - Scottish-EU Critical Oscillations Network @scone-neuro.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Please welcome @scone-neuro.bsky.social to bluesky. The Scottish-EU Critical Oscillations Network connects brain rhythm researchers since Jan 2022. Based at University of Dundee Psychology. Funding: Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). More on sites.dundee.ac.uk/scone/ #EEG #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

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Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

1/ After a day of recovering from #CuttingEEG2023, time for a huge appreciation post for everyone who helped us made it happen: First, props to our fantastic venue who gave us shelter and kept us nourished - visit the DCA if you are in Dundee! www.dca.org.uk

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Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

3/ Microstates' @tanjucka.bsky.social was also involved in the local organisation together with the ever resourceful Bryony Buck and Rosanne Timmerman. We somehow failed to take a picture of the crew, @chrisbenwell.bsky.social, @annekeitel.bsky.social so here's a replacement shot instead:

Cutting EEG reception desk at the DCA. Tanja Atanasova at the helm, Anne Keitel "signing up" our youngest attendees.

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Christian Keitel @ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Two facets of our last two days of the#CuttingEEG2023 Dundee garden. Y'day evening conference social at our vegan local loco rita. Today, our meeting was cut short by a different kind of colourmap - safe travels to everyone! @cuttingeeg.bsky.social #EEG #neuroskyence

East of scotland weather map with a hotspot of more than 32mm of rain just north of dundee.

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