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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 9h

Bit of a random blog post, but sometimes my weird little hobbies and work coincide: How to build a watch to celebrate an academic milestone! www.dalmaijer.org/2026/10/maki...

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you're unsure about modern medicine and whether to vaccinate your kids, I recommend visiting a local church's old graveyard. Look at the ages of the deceased. It's utterly devastating just how many children are buried there. We don't have to repeat this.

Grave/memorial stone for three children from one family, who died aged 6, 7, and 1.

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏

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Ignacio Rebollo @brainandstomach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Please share! I will soon advertise a postdoctoral position in my Gut–Brain Interactions Lab at DIfE (Berlin–Potsdam), starting March–June 2027. I’m looking for candidates with expertise in human electrophysiology, ideally multimodal EEG–fMRI. Feel free to contact me informally if interested!

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Serious science question from one kid: "What happens to time in a black hole?" My highly inexpert answer was followed by the other kid: "What about if I threw a poo at a black hole?" Very relieved to know I only have to save up for one round of university tuition.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ah, yes, this is the well-known standard set by ISO666 for computer code: compressed images of plain-text files pasted into a proprietary text editor format.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So, ehm, what the fish is happening? This seems like a weird way to self-immolate for one of the world’s foremost* institutions in this space? *Previously, now apparently a fish shop.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Every single humans rights org — including Israeli ones — have been telling the same story. Given that Israel still bars journalists entry to Gaza, which in itself is bonkers, how about we trust any or all human rights orgs. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I’m not in a university senior executive team, but I don’t think “limited and specific” is how I would describe such a draconian cut…

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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🚨New preprint🚨 Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Do adolescents who report feeling addicted to social media share a single behavioural-emotional profile? We analysed data from >7,000 UK adolescents and found, strikingly, that **47%** feel addicted to social media.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

In this time of redundancies all across UK higher education, it feels a bit worrying when administrators take an interest in your work...

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I once had the embarrassing experience of someone gingerly noting that our supposedly "open" data was actually on a private repository. We simply forgot to set it to "public" and nobody had noticed. For MONTHS.

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Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Learn the basics of #Python in 4 days! Join @dalmaijer.bsky.social for "Introduction to Python for Data Analysis" on June 23-26 to explore how to use Python for data analysis, including handling datasets and writing full analyses.

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Live online Python for data analysis course for researchers to use Python in data science, statistics, regression & machine learning.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Average editor: Tick suggested names, send automated review requests. Good editor: Find relevant reviewers, send personalised messages. IEEE Systems Journal: Keep spamming the same potential reviewers even after they reject multiple times. One hundred “no” and one “yes” means “yes”, baby!

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

On the one hand, it's great to know people are using sunscreen. On the other, I would have preferred to learn this through other means than slipping off the building's greasy (but fresh-smelling!) door handle.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hahaha, this reads like one of those six-word stories. "Found true love. Married someone else." "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" "Hands in pockets, evaluations be damned."

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

These are wonderful. I love when they complain about timetabling as well, as I store those things away as ammunition when I get awful slots. But the best ones are those that insult your very being. Comments on appearance, voice, and other fundamental qualities of you as a person. Keeps one humble.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Yes. Student abuse in my evaluations is my favourite sub-genre of science fiction.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Big "for me, it was Tuesday" energy. Also, not all of us are like this! Some of us have a pathological need to be liked and will randomly wake up, drenched in sweat, stressing about that one slightly negative comment on an evaluation from 2021. Students can (and should) abuse these character flaws.

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Women in Cognitive Science + Europe @wicseurope.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

As part of the #InternationalWomensDay we had the pleasure to collaborate with @psychopy.org (@hirstrj.bsky.social @kimdundas) creating a workshop series to ensure everyone can get started with experimental design 🗣️ All materials are now open access! 🔗 wicseurope.github.io/WiCSeurope/r...

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thanks! This one isn't even automatic; hand-wound! (Used to have a lovely automatic, but my kids managed to break it…) I wouldn't want to put you off your plans! Will still wear it for exercise, for example :)

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Does it improve focus on writing? So far I'm back to regular self-inflicted distractions, as opposed to reacting to buzzing on my wrist. Progress?! 🙃

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Finally had enough of my smart watch. Constant notifications, patronising reminders, and low sleep scores for waking to attend children. I used to sell expensive watches. Disliked over-affluent customers, but loved the mechanisms. This one isn't particularly high-end, but so much less disruptive!

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Can't believe you're making fun of a former testicular cancer patient, Aidan.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Actual email I just received: "🔥 NEW! Equine Castration Surgical Simulator 🐴" (emoji’s very much included)

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Come work at the Bristol Baby Lab! Postdoc recruitment starting soon; read up and get in touch with relevant people now. (I’m not involved in recruitment, but always happy to informally chat about what the Bristol developmental psychology scene is like.)

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Absolute goldmine for stats classes. Same website also has other generators?! Students awkwardly wait for lecture to start. They unexpectedly hear the upbeat tones of the Bluey theme song. What is this?! "This episode of Bluey is called… NULL HYPOTHESIS SIGNIFICANCE TESTING!"

Peppa pig font: “Mediation: Three regressions in a trench coat.”

Peppa pig font: “Reviewer 2: I see PROCESS macro, I reject”

Bluey font: “Null hypothesis significance testing”

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Thanks for sharing. My students are about to be flooded.

Peppa Pig and her family (Daddy Pig, Peppa, George, Mummy Pig) at a picnic. The picnic cloth in the centre has a bowl of sweets and a tea pot. The caption reads “I use AI for essays” and the sub-caption “Eat my slop, piggies!”

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Accept that you'll be doing a worse job for at least a couple of years, likely more. Prioritise what's best for your career (papers, grants) and down-weight what isn't (form-filling, admin, reviews). Especially for low-priority stuff, strategically half-arse things that don't need to be perfect ;)

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Wait, are these streams different from the hashtags? Because I don’t see brain-emoji-tagged posts when searching for “neuroskyence” on here. Have I been doing bluesky wrong?!

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Seems to work? You testing a bot or some more complicated way to post? :)

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The next generation might again! Bit niche, but my kids have a folder just like this with NFC cards for an audiobook player.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

True, which is in part a worrying trend across software EULAs, in part potentially unenforceable, and in part sometimes just fair enough. That said, Dropbox sells a real product. It isn’t branded as fancy “AI” while in its EULA going “lol, this is just for jokes actually”.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Reads like an April Fool’s joke, but the last update to this was in October 2025. In brief: the Terms of Use suggest that Copilot is not a serious tool, can fuck up at any given point (no warranty), and users are solely responsible for any consequences (indemnity for Microsoft). Great software!

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Amazing PhD project with a wonderful set of supervisors! This is a rare topic of study, so if you’re into it, embrace this opportunity!

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Funded PhD position at the @exeter.ac.uk with your time split between Exeter and Queensland (Australia) Digital Haptics and Proprioceptive Learning in Surgery www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... (warning, slightly gory VR surgery video from our industrial partner)

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disgust-nerds.bsky.social @disgust-nerds.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Isn't it astounding how it primarily addresses a problem of our own making? Organisations dislike departmental credit cards, so we have to pay for travel ourselves and reclaim. Finance is slow, so we're out of pocket for ages. Key Travel solves that, so we pay it handsomely for our own incompetence.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Congratulations!! Not to brag, but I have a very neat feature on my car that automatically adjusts the time! It takes about 6 months to do it, so I guess it’s quite a heavy computation.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Cue the fMRI study on the neural correlates of paradoxically appropriate compassionate responses.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Agree with Sarah! Has anyone tried talking to these monsters, to see if maybe we’re much more alike than it seems? If I’ve learned anything from @aptshadow.bsky.social’s science fiction and also from How To Train Your Dragon, it’s that we should probably be looking towards healing over hurting.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I had the HUGE privilege of seeing this in Bristol, in a talk from an involved scientists. It stunned the room, and it was all we could talk about afterwards. How are we still allowing these creatures to be hunted?! (See here for a gorgeous illustration of that awful history: youtu.be/rTgwZR3T_uo)

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Whale Hunting Was Absolutely Crazy

YouTube video by Nightshift – Kurzgesagt After Dark

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Sperm whale pods came together to support (literally) the birth of a conspecific. There are only a handful of recorded sperm whale births in human history, and none with footage like this. Stop whatever you’re doing, and watch these videos: www.projectceti.org/whalebirth

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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Although with the added irony that a university is highly likely to have an expert in exactly the thing it’s buying or doing, but they aren’t consulted by the senior and/or central teams who make these decisions 🙃 The exception is in ERP software. All of it is awful, regardless of buyer.

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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

They called it “malus” and the whole website reads of satire. That said, I share your concern that someone somewhere will do this in a more serious capacity without it being a joke.

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Mariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

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Aysu Okbay @aysuo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Come work with me and @dr-appie.bsky.social in Amsterdam!

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