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Gemma Learmonth

@gemmalearmonth.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.gemmalearmonth.com

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Environmental Demands Outweigh Age Effects in Cortical Dynamics During Walking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Amirreza Bahramani @amir137.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Four months ago, US sanctions shut Iranian students out of Neuromatch. So we built our own! 180+ students, 9 TAs, 14 mentors, and an incredible team made NeuroCONNECT happen. Proud to have been part of it. A reminder that sometimes, together, we can break the barriers and injustices imposed on us.
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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CONNECT @lets--connect.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is where it all started... For students in Iran, this meant losing access to a program that had become an important part of their scientific training and community. So, we asked ourselves: could we build something ourselves? And that’s how the idea for the NeuroCONNECT began!
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Jonas Obleser @jonasobleser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
new results from the lab! Judith Kunze and Dept of Anaesthesiology’s MD Justus Student provide more evidence that pushing around the E:I balance (using ketamine vs propofol) can be read off non-invasively from EEG’s spectral slope. Controlling for (counteracting) heart rate effects only helps!
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'Student advocates have raised concerns over UK universities’ commitment to introduce work experience into degrees, arguing that students cannot be expected to undertake unpaid placements amid a cost-of-living crisis.' Own goal, UUK.
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Work placements for all plan ‘risks widening student divisions’
If the logistics of mass placements require students to organise their own, those without their own networks will suffer, advocates warn
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Applications for our PhD programme now open:
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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolute beta power is different between patients with Parkinson's disease and healthy controls, but not periodic beta power. Turned out what is different between patients and controls is the aperiodic offset and slope. Nice!👏 Lesson from that: always plot the full spectra and actually look at it.
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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More data to enable more discoveries in the fight against Parkinson's disease. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @crchum.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social
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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'The word traceability, in place of reproducibility, [...] refers to the extent to which the decisions made by the researcher are transparently documented, allowing readers to see how conclusions were reached' @maddipow.bsky.social in new paper 'Can open science speak qualitative?' ⬇️
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Can open science speak qualitative? Rearticulating open science vocabulary for qualitative research
‘Open research’ (or ‘open science’) has substantially reshaped conversations surrounding rigor, transparency, and accountability, yet its vocabulary remains largely rooted in quantitative, positivi...
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Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our works is finally published. In this study, we re-analysed 6 open M/EEG dataset. We found higher beta activity in people Parkinson's compared to age-matched healthy controls, but this differene was not present after subtracting aperiodic activity. Read our work here 👇
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 💫 💥 Interested in PhD / Postdoc opportunities in computational psychiatry / cognitive neuroscience? My lab at University College Dublin 🇮🇪 is currently accepting expressions of interest for internally funded PhD/Postdoc applications for positions starting in September 2027 (!). 1/
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're hiring! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist to support & develop MRI. This is a new role to reflect our commitment to pushing forward MRI research at York. Come join the team! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #neurojobs #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Jobs - The University of York
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Hamzeh Norouzi @hamzehn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@gemmalearmonth.bsky.social, @danishta.bsky.social, and I were delighted to welcome Dr Ondřej Sitek from Masaryk University, Czechia, to our campus last week and exchange our experiences and ideas around mobile EEG and Parkinson’s disease.
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Alessandro Gifford @alessandrogifford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
(1/2) The EEG Moments Dataset (EMD) is now public! EMD is a large-scale dataset of simultaneous EEG and eye-tracking recordings of 6 participants for 1,102 naturalistic 3-second videos (while maintaining central fixation), together with rich video metadata. arxiv.org/abs/2608.28768
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Another week another job posting 🤓 We are currently offering a fully-funded 6-years post-doc position in the domain of environmental neuroscience 🌳🧠 Applications are open until 20.09.2026 Details can be found under: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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University Assistant postdoctoral
University Assistant postdoctoral
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Come join my team at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social! I have an open PhD position (3 years fully funded) for a project investigating interoception and mental health, using lots of fun methods (EEG, EGG, tACs, TMS). More info and applications here: ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor... #NeuroJobs
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Doctoral Researcher, RCF project
Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit a Doctoral Researcher to work in the RCF project starting 1 November 2026, or as soon as possible after that for three years. The fixed-term position is ...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some colleagues received 5 minutes notice for their online at risk meeting and had not yet received their letter informing them they were at risk. Executive staff did not bother to turn up to the meeting. This is the true face of executive leadership at the University of Dundee.
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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hello #ecvp! We are so happy to be with you yet again. Here is our #ecvp2026 schedule, please come see us. 🚨We are looking for a doctoral student🚨 -- let's chat! #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cogsci
IVL ECVP scheduleWe are looking for a doctoral student
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
New paper alert! "Mini-Many Analysts: Using Registered Reports to Learn About Analytical Flexibility" in Teaching of Psychology! Want to teach about #OpenScience in undergrad psychology classes? We propose a project that integrates #RegisteredReports and #ManyAnalysts! doi.org/10.1177/0098...
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Mini-Many Analysts: Using Registered Reports to Learn About Analytical Flexibility - Amanda Kay Montoya, Gareth Ong Yu, John Tawa, 2026
Introduction Analytical flexibility describes the multiple defensible analytic strategies researchers can use. Registered reports reduce analytical flexibility ...
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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
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Vacancy — PhD position (4 years) on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention
Are you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise...
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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Universities should take their staff’s caring responsibilities seriously, especially in the early years of parenthood, and recognize that not everyone has the same freedom to travel or work long hours. " www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The three-and-beyond-body problem: juggling kids, travel and careers in academia
The issues faced by scientist-couples can be multiplied once they start a family, making conference travel a logistical trial.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
From periodic/aperiodic to static/dynamic: rethinking the decomposition of neural power spectra www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Research Assistant Position in the Consciousness Group, BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain Application deadline: 5 September 2026
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS GROUP 2026 (D.S)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu       The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Co...
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter
To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...
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School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We are advertising for www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG131/l...
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Lecturer in Developmental Psychology - AC2882 at University of St Andrews
An academic position as a Lecturer in Developmental Psychology - AC2882 is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Three!! teaching and research jobs in the lovely School of Psychology at the University of Leeds. Please pass on to anyone you know who might be interested. Its a lovely department, with great colleagues and some really interesting stuff going on jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology
Lecturer in Psychology x3School of Psychology These roles will be based on the university campus, with scope for them to be undertaken in a hybrid manner.   We are also open to discussing flexible wor...
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Ulrich Ettinger @ulrichettinger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Exciting job opportunity for a Research Group Leader to establish and lead a new OPMEG facility at the University of Bonn! karriereamukb.de/jobs/researc...
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Research group leader/Head of OPMEG - Karriereamukb | Jobs & Karriere an der Uniklinik Bonn
At the newly founded Core Facility OPMEG at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn, the following full-time (38.5 hours/week) position is to be filled as soon as possible:   Research group lead...
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Jacob Lab @jacob-lab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Technical University of Munich @tum.de is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Implantable Brain–Computer Interfaces! We’re looking for someone to help build the next generation of robust, clinically scalable #implantable #BCIs. portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess... 🧵👇
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TUM - Tenure Track Assistant Professor in » Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces «
Studierenden- und Mitarbeiterportal der Technische Universität München
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James Dowsett @james-dowsett.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In healthy awake brains, visual flicker at 40 Hz produces a greater peak response than 30 Hz. This pattern is reversed in unconscious coma patients. Gamma band visual stimulation could be used as a marker of consciousness. Our first attempt is now published: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Stirling University campus is stunning right now 👌🏻
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3
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Gemma Learmonth @gemmalearmonth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In hindsight, today was probably the worst possible day of the year for my sauna spa break.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Large-scale academic redundancies at my employer, University of Exeter, with up to 200 being released to 'rightsize and reshape' the institution 🤮
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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback, fMRI/fNIRS/EEG, and ML to study how subjective experience can be shaped. 2-yr contract, starts Sept. 2026. Deadline: June 30. Apply here shorturl.at/Xw4pn Please RT! @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social
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JOB OFFER RESEARCH ASSISTANT - CONSCIOUSNESS Research group (D.S.)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Country,...
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions.
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Mike Le Pelley @mikelepelley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
FIVE academic jobs currently open in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, across a variety of areas; see links below. Please come and join us! It's an outstanding department with excellent people. tinyurl.com/4p6tp2j3 tinyurl.com/yxm565xs tinyurl.com/2u8m77z8 tinyurl.com/3wu9hnb5
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor - Psychology
A Lecturer (Level B) / Senior Lecturer (Level C) is expected to carry out activities to develop their scholarly research and professional activities both nationally and internationally and to contribu...
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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Question to any attention researchers following this account: Do you know of ANY theory/model of visual attention that defines or explains what is "attentional selection"? Anything that comes to mind will do. Extra points if they're detailing a mechanism that underlies it.
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Alex Sanchez-Amaro @alex-primate.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Happy to share a short article I wrote for @theconversation.com , where I highlight our recently published EVApeCognition Dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and discuss how it can help advance research into great ape cognition and behaviour theconversation.com/great-apes-w...
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Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research
A database of great ape research promises to unlock deeper understanding of their cognition, intelligence and social behaviour.
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Jonas Obleser @jonasobleser.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/05/2026
‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’ Stefan Collini on universities www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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Olaf Dimigen @olaf.dimigen.de · 29/05/2026
[3] We used thermal imaging to illustrate this problem: When you show bright stimuli for long durations (i.e., seconds), the OLED's pixels heat up locally. This warming then causes *subsequent* stimuli to be shown brighter at these locations. A small and slow, but devious form of image persistence!
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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Interested in research integrity, reproducibility, open science, or research culture? Join the King's Open Research Summer School for five days of talks, workshops, and discussion with leading researchers trying to improve science. Register free; open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kings-...
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Redmond O'Connell @redmondoconnell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New PhD studentship available! Come join the excellent @neuromurphy.bsky.social lab for a very cool project exploring how the brain learns to make decisions that are not tied to specific sensory modalities or movements. In collaboration with @seanfw.bsky.social and myself! bsky.app/profile/neur...
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tips for becoming a better mentor/supervisor, based on survey of 2,600 early-career researchers; eg. regular meetings are super-important Includes tips for institutions and funding bodies to promote good supervision doi.org/10.64898/202... #AcademicSky HT @science.org
What hurts, what helps: mental health in supervisor - ECR relations. Perceived impact of supervisor behavior on mental health and frequency of particular behaviors.

A) Overall perceived impact of supervisors’ behavior on respondents’ mental health. B) Percentage of respondents reporting specific supervisor behaviors with a negative impact. C) Percentage of respondents reporting specific supervisor behaviors with a positive impact. Respondents selected their top three behaviors each category (positive or negative).Communication as a core element of supervision. Perceived value, quantity, and quality of supervisory meetings.

Bars show respondents’ ratings of A) the importance of regular meetings, B) their frequency, and C) the perceived usefulness of meetings.
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Daniel Borek @danielborek.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
What happens when your specparam model specification doesn’t match your actual neural signal? I built a small WASM Python app to explore on simulations how model misfit can skew PSD shape and parameter estimates. Try it online here: danielborek.me/code-spectra... #EEG #MEG #Python #shiny
Screenshot of an interactive SpecParam knee simulation dashboard. The app shows controls for simulated spectral parameters, an explanation of knee parametrisation, and a log-log PSD plot comparing the true spectrum, noisy spectrum, knee model fit, and fixed 1/f fit. The knee model follows the curved spectrum, while the fixed model fit deviates as a straight line.
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Eddy Rhodes @eddycurrents.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Recruiting a #PhD researcher for my new lab at the University of Liverpool 🧠 The PINT Lab: temporal interference stimulation, real-time EEG, and closed-loop neuromodulation, clinical translation to Parkinson's, depression and stroke rehab. Details: tinyurl.com/3cn5knhp #neuroskyence #neurojobs 🧵
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Job Specification
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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hello, some of you formerly on Twitter may remember that during the pandemic, someone had a thread with the (usually quite old) most inspirational, ground-breaking, seminal papers. I am no longer on Twitter, forgot to save it, but I would love to get back to it. Did anyone save it, by any chance?
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