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Dr Liz Tunbridge

@liztunbridge.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist, bookworm, recovering academic, landlocked beach obsessive, permanently curious, open to the randomness of the universe #neuroskyence || #mentalhealth || #psychiatry || #books || #WomenInSTEM

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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ross Kemp thinking everyone is murdering him 🤣🤣🤣
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Optimal selection #CelebrityTraitors
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heartbreaking. I hope she had a peaceful death 💔
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is utterly lovely 🦋
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is this what it is to have hope again? #burnham
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m pretty sure she’s using ancient magic to summon an unscheduled delivery of treats #caturday
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
But what about the quiet bat people?
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@nigella.bsky.social is breathing fresh air into #GBBO „None of us are finished articles“ ❤️
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 01/09/2026
A chemical odour produced by naked mole-rat queens may suppress reproduction in other females, reports a study in @nature.com. The finding reveals a mechanism behind one of the most extreme social systems known in mammals: spklr.io/63325ErZKv #AnimalBehaviour #Neuroskyence
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 01/09/2026
Making models disagree to learn how brains compute — a Review by Tal Golan, Heiko H. Schütt & Nikolaus Kriegeskorte @talgolanneuro.bsky.social @heikoschuett.bsky.social @kriegeskorte.bsky.social #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Making models disagree to learn how brains compute - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Neural network models can express computational hypotheses about brain information processing, but their high parametric capacity makes discriminating model alignment to experimental data challenging....
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
First Dolly and now this. Seriously universe? 💔 www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80
A prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock’n’roll musical in which he made his breakthrou...
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The immigration line was long today
Horses get passportsBadgers do not get passports
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Beautiful and amazing pictures www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Unprecedented images may explain one of greatest mysteries of the sun
Highest-ever resolution pictures of our star could help show why its corona is millions of degrees hotter than its surface
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Denied #spellingbee
Spelling Bee does not have Oompaloompa in its dictionary
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A superb quote. I’ve a feeling that @countbinface.bsky.social is going to get his deposit back this time. #VoteBinface
A picture of a man in a ridiculous costume and also Count Binface. Underneath, a quote from Rachel Reeves on her approval of Nigel Farage‘s resignation: „If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him“. 

Chef‘s kiss. No notes
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Too hot to function #caterday
A very hot and bothered kitty tries to get some sleep by maximising her surface area to volume ratio
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Only a few days left to apply for our unique interdisciplinary course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Fellowships & scholarships available. Apply by April 10: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
Group photograph of faculty and participants of the fourth Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Genetics and Neurobiology of Language in 2022, taken as the sun was going down at the Banbury Campus, Lloyd Harbor.
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Enjoyed meeting this goofy little guy today. He was minesweeping for snacks #catsofbluesky
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British Association for Psychopharmacology @bapsych.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The deadline has been extended to 30th April for BAP Members to put forward proposals for #BAP2027 in Newcastle
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The British Association for Psychopharmacology | 2027 Summer Meeting – Newcastle
The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) promotes research and education in psychopharmacology, and brings together people in academia, health services, and industry
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE
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Red kite with sausage roll snapped by Banbury photographer
Mark Hopkins managed to get some pictures of the bird from his back garden.
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Here's a striking visual illusion - the 9 purple dots. Focus your eyes on the top left dot. That one is more purple than the others, right? Now try another dot... that one becomes the purple one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744429/
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 27/02/2026
I should be in this film. I can be the human who annoys the ghosts by always asking questions about tiny details about daily life before they died. www.radiotimes.com/movies/ghost...
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Ghosts feature film officially confirmed as cast and crew unveiled in huge production update
Button House is reopening its doors as the BBC comedy favourite Ghosts returns in a big-screen adventure featuring the original cast.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Incredibly sad news - a massive loss to science
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Experiments in chili sauce making: I thought I’d combine charred Scotch Bonnets with sofrito & blood orange juice as a sauce base. So far, this has led to large scale evacuation of anywhere vaguely near the kitchen in my apartment and all windows open in -7 degree temperatures. On the bright side…
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a dragon with fire coming out of it 's mouth
Alt: A dragon with fire coming out of it’s mouth. We all have fire in our lungs right now from the capsaicin fumes. Turns out you can desensitise all your gastrointestinal TRPV receptors but the ones in the lungs remain unaffected by simple chili consumption.
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Daughter just marched out her room livid that someone is throwing snowballs at her window and demanding to go outside and fight back Reader, the snowball flinger was me
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This is a very impressive list (which I seriously covet). I’ve not seen anywhere near this many shows, but The Glass Menagerie @theyardtheatre.bsky.social blew my mind and broke my heart. I can’t wait to see what this extraordinary venue does next ❤️ www.theyardtheatre.co.uk/events/the-g...
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The Glass Menagerie | The Yard Theatre
Reimagines theatre to reimagine the world
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com
The neuroscience laboratory is closed for the holidays, but a staff member is on hand to answer the Consciousness Hotline.

Scientist on the phone in an otherwise deserted office:
"So, to summarise: No, I can't say with complete certainty that you exist. But yes, you probably ought to go back to work after the holidays anyway."
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
And now it’s Christmas… 😀
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David Tomkins 🦋 @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...
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Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose
Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I am reading Project Hail Mary as part of my #book group and…wow… I may well not have found this by myself but it is *brilliant*. I am going to have serious book grief when I finish it
An excerpt from Project Hail Mary featuring communication between two species who do not share language or sensory perception, and yet share (for want of a better word) humanity. It’s so so good - I cannot recommend highly enough
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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I agree. For me, at first, Academia was very much an identity and a calling. Years later, after some experience of terrible university management, it is "a job". Some other reflections (which turned out to be about workload management, and ways of working)
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I have gone from zero to fully festive in 2 days. Bring on the Christmas crafting!
A Christmas lamp made with dried oranges, star anise and cinnamon sticks, backlit with fair lights
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Nicola Sambuco @nicolasambuco.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Check this out! Wonderful resource for grant hunting #neuroskyence #science #neuroimaging
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
In a surprise to absolutely no one, the mum she’s describing is not claiming benefits as a “lifestyle choice”. This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄 🧵 1/9
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Jared Young @jaredwyoung.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Thank you so much to @acnporg.bsky.social for this absolute honor! Grateful to all I've worked with particularly mentors who've given such amazing examples, to brilliant mentees, & my friend for such kind words! The work is the important thing & I'm so grateful we get to promote it this way!
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Timothy Syndrome Alliance (TSA) @cacna1c.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New expert-led guidance clarifies terminology for pathogenic CACNA1C variants, defining Timothy Syndrome and introducing CACNA1C-Related Disorders (CRDs). Read the preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... #CACNA1C #TimothySyndrome #RareDisease
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Is Italy ok? I’ve not had any of these phrases in German #duolingo
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Sophie Hall @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The true winner is men being kind to each other #celebritytraitors
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
It’s Saturday night and the UCSC genome browser is grindingly slow, because that’s how cool we are 🫤
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two men dancing in front of a computer monitor
Alt: Nerd party
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...
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Huntington's progression slowed by experimental gene therapy
An experimental gene therapy slowed Huntington’s by up to 75 percent in a small clinical trial. While not a cure, it may give patients longer lives.
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I joined a newly-formed book group today and met a group of smart, lovely, super interesting people, as well as getting several exciting new recommendations #Book people are the best people 😀
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Loving #TraitorsIRL Also, the amount of tea being drunk/pushed on others is truly brilliant
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a white cup with flowers on it sits next to a teapot
ALT: a white cup with flowers on it sits next to a teapot
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Neurofrontiers @neuro-frontiers.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Want to help us break down language barriers in neuroscience communication? Join our project. Details below. #neuroskyence #skyence #language #inclusive #neurosky #academicsky #academia #neuro #communication
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Dr Liz Tunbridge @liztunbridge.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Go Michi 🚀
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Just removed the date label from an old book and discovered that someone has drawn a design for a teapot that can serve either tea or poison how's your day going?
A withdrawn library book. Under the date label there is a biro drawing of a teapot divided to serve either tea or poison
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