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Nadine Dijkstra

@nadinedijkstra.bsky.social
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PI of the imaginerealitylab.org @uclbrainscience.bsky.social where we investigate the neural and computational mechanisms of mental imagery and reality monitoring. Activist about mental health and EDI in academia. She/her.

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is excellent; a truly balanced read on the use of 'AI' in science.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!
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Crockett Lab Statement on AI and Scientific Research
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Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science @mesec-community.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How can students and postdocs shape their field of research? We're excited to share our TiCS piece, showcasing MESEC as a case study for exactly this question! So grateful for our wonderful community of MESECeers 🤗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... *Free access* link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1njPQ4sIRv...
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It is IRL-lab poster day today @ecvp.bsky.social ✨ Please come check out the beautiful work by @giuliacabbai.bsky.social, @pazbartal.bsky.social and @aozsu.bsky.social!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
When is distinguishing imagery from perception really a problem? Is this ever just trivial? In this paper, together with philosopher Nick Shea and @smfleming.bsky.social, we aimed to answer "Why do we need imagination-reality monitoring?" -now out in #NCONSC! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
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Why do we need imagination–reality monitoring?
Abstract. The ability to imagine scenarios decoupled from the immediate environment supports a wide range of cognitive functions, such as planning, memory,
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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:
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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour
Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
And by "this excellent recent paper" I of course mean this one! bsky.app/profile/rodb...
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Excited to share our Preview about this excellent recent paper. In this Preview, @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and I explore how these findings connect with the rich literature on sensory reinstatement during imagery, and outline important questions for future imagery research! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The PhD position in our lab closes 31 July - apply now!
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Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida @n41c0.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
well on time for my bi-yearly post I'm sharing the final version of this very cool work we started with @cjungerius.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @svangaal.bsky.social @fahrenfort.bsky.social in 2021, when I was young and full of hope. Now out in @natcomms.nature.com 1/11
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The act of detecting a stimulus contaminates measures of conscious experience with decision biases - Nature Communications
A central challenge in consciousness research is determining whether people truly experience a stimulus. Here, the authors show that context biases traditional detection measures, whereas continuous r...
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Very cool work! This makes sense to me, and it would be very interesting to learn more about the mechanism that usually overrides this dream confusion and leads us to adaptively forget our dreams/
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Why do we forget our dreams? Dreams are the kind of experiences that in principle should stick well in memory: emotional and often bizarre. If we would encounter typical dream content during wakefulness, we would likely never forget it. Yet, we forget most dreams soon after awakening. (1/3)
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Jason da Silva Castanheira @jasondasilvac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Out now in eLife, our new and improved paper on Attention and planning. Here, we explore how attention acts like an inductive bias that selects relevant information on which to plan. 📍🗺️👀 (1/5) elifesciences.org/articles/108... @smfleming.bsky.social
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How attention simplifies mental representations for planning
Spatial attention controls the information people become aware of and, in turn, incorporate into simplified perceptual representations for use in multi-step planning.
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Make sure to catch her other talk on the neural correlates of aphantasia tomorrow (July 2nd) at 2pm during the symposium organized by @jianghaoliu.bsky.social!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'm so sad to miss ASSC this year! If you're there, please go check out @giuliacabbai.bsky.social's talk presenting our new work on the role of volitional control in perceptual reality monitoring on Friday at 5pm at session 22! And also...
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Come be my colleague! Associate Professor level teaching position available at UCL in Experimental Psychology: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB720/a... Primary role: lead development of a flexible portfolio of undergraduate modules for non-BSC/MSci Psychology students. Closes 19th July.
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Associate Professor (Teaching) at UCL
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thanks, Keisuke!
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49
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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We are hosting a special issue on "Is There More to Consciousness Than Computation?" in @nconsc.bsky.social. Full information here: academic.oup.com/nc/pages/cal... With @krysdolega.bsky.social and Yair Pinto.
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Call for Papers | Neuroscience of Consciousness
Neuroscience of Consciousness (NCON) is a peer-reviewed, fully open access journal that provides a unique forum for the interdisciplinary fields of consciousnes
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thanks, Charlotte!!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thanks, Shervin, you too still!! :D
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thanks, Megan!!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thank you!!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Feeling incredibly honored to receive the William James Prize from the @theassc.bsky.social for our paper on how the brain distinguishes imagery and perception! Thank you to the committee and thanks @smfleming.bsky.social for being the best mentor!
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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇
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Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions
Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Interested in human replay and solid methods? Jointly with @skjerns.de we're releasing a benchmark dataset with known ground-truth neural sequences in MEG & fMRI, for developing & validating replay methods. First test: existing methods show similar effect sizes, but room to improve shorturl.at/6TgIr
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FASTIMAGES: Validating replay detection methods in human neuroimaging using a combined MEG and fMRI dataset
Studies in rodents and humans using invasive electrophysiology have established that neural replay is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the brain that is associated with a wide range of cognitive functions, ...
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I could not be more excited for this!
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Taraz Lee @tarazlee.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Super excited by this manuscript led by the amazing @brissend.bsky.social By combining fMRI, TMS, and modeling, we finally have causal evidence that the cerebellum is contributing to brain-wide working memory representations and recall performance! 1/n
Plot showing that the read-out of visual working memory information from cerebellum is degraded following stimulation to cerebellum, IPS, or FEF
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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New paper with @paulm-k.bsky.social and Mark Stokes on how we switch internal attention between working memory contents. Beta-band oscillations tracked the magnitude and success of these switches. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... #neuroskyence
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Human Beta Oscillations Reflect Magnitude and Fidelity of Priority Shifts in Working Memory
Flexible prioritization in working memory (WM) is supported by neural oscillations in frontal and sensory brain areas, but the roles of different oscillations remain poorly understood. Recordings in h...
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A short highlight of the beautiful recent work by @varunswadia.bsky.social, Doris Tsao et al., providing single-neuron evidence of the overlap between imagery and perception! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A neuronal basis for mental imagery - Cell Research
Cell Research - A neuronal basis for mental imagery
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A neuronal basis for mental imagery www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @smfleming.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social; #neuroscience
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A neuronal basis for mental imagery - Cell Research
Cell Research - A neuronal basis for mental imagery
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jane-yang.bsky.social @jane-yang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life. What do the inputs to this learning process actually look like? New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2605.14990
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Characterizing the visual representation of objects from the child's view
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life. What do the inputs to this learning process look like? We analyzed first-person videos ...
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Daniel Anthes @anthesdaniel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Excited about our new preprint: “The illusory simplicity of the feedforward pass: evidence for the dynamical nature of stimulus encoding along the primate ventral stream” arxiv.org/abs/2604.12825 Work with Sushrut Thorat, Anna Mitola, Paolo Papale, Peter König & Tim Kietzmann 🧵 thread below
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The illusory simplicity of the feedforward pass: evidence for the dynamical nature of stimulus encoding along the primate ventral stream
In studying primate vision, a large body of work focuses on the first feedforward sweep. During this initial time window, information is thought to pass through ventral stream regions in a stage-like ...
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Can’t wait to see everyone at #VSS2026! We hope you can make it to our lab’s presentations! (see below) Come and visit us at the talks and posters, and make sure you come to our workshop about the community replication initiative re:vision. Low bar for entry! Details on the day of each presentation!
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Jianghao Liu @jianghaoliu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - MIABRIDGE workshop* We are now accepting abstract submissions for poster presentations, and you can submit your abstract here: sites.google.com/view/miabrid... Deadline for abstract submission: 31/05/2026 (23:59, CEST) Looking forward to hopefully seeing some of you in Paris!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Researching visual imagery? Consider submitting to this new cross-journal special issue on visual imagery at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology, and Scientific Reports! We welcome a broad range of topics and methods - more info below 👇 www.nature.com/collections/...
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Zejin Lu @zejinlu.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Now out in Nature Machine Intelligence @NatMachIntell “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision”: doi.org/10.1038/s422.... A wonderful case where brain inspiration improved AI. With @martisamuser.bsky.social, Radek Cichy and @timkietzmann.bsky.social .
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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
We wrote a book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... Consciousness science is a fascinating but bewildering field: many competing theories, little consensus, and big open questions. If you are looking for an accessible guide through this complex landscape, this book is for you.
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Scientific Theories of Consciousness
Cambridge Core - Neurosciences - Scientific Theories of Consciousness
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Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Paper now published in Neuroscience of Consciousness and led by @chkhaidze.bsky.social: From dots to faces: individual differences in visual imagery capacity predict the content of Ganzflicker-induced hallucinations academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
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From dots to faces: individual differences in visual imagery capacity predict the content of Ganzflicker-induced hallucinations
Abstract. A rapidly alternating red and black display known as Ganzflicker induces visual hallucinations that reflect the generative capacity of the visual
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasound Neuromodulation | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD 'Computational Affective Neuroscience and Neuromodulation' at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Link to the paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... And check out Ataol's post above for a thread 🧵!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I am SO excited to share our new preprint, spearheaded by the brilliant @aozsu.bsky.social! We use ANNs to show that the brain might build internal models of the world by learning to distinguish imagery from perception, and that this could explain why imagination seems so vivid in children ✨
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Ataol Burak Ozsu @aozsu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘Building world models by learning to distinguish imagination from reality: why childhood imagination feels so real’ with Nora Petrova, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Anna Dornhaus @dornhaus.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Preprint: What good is modeling? Introducing biology students to theory - arxiv.org/abs/2604.13344 - how to teach and think about what modeling contributes to science. How does it fit into the scientific method? This is often misunderstood.
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What good is modeling? Introducing biology students to theory
Theory and empirical science should be in constant dialogue, but often find it hard to understand one another. Here we describe a graduate-level university course we developed to improve matters. The ...
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Ben Griffiths @benjamingriffiths.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New paper out in J. Neuro! We used MEG and pattern classifiers to ask: if a memory is reactivated in the brain, does that mean you'll recall it? Short answer: no. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... Read on for the details! [1/7] #neuroscience #memory
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Alpha Oscillations Track the Projection of Reactivated Memories into Conscious Awareness
By definition, episodic memory is a conscious phenomenon. Memory traces reactivated by the hippocampus and reinstated in the sensory cortices need to enter conscious awareness for them to be re-experi...
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Introducing meta-🔼! (meta-delta) Really excited about this one. We provide a principled, performance-corrected measure of metacognitive bias, placing it on an equal methodological footing with meta-d, and showing robust test-retest reliability to boot. Check out Kevin's thread for more details! 🧠🧪
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Exciting job opportunity! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a new Lead Technical Specialist to manage the facility and the amazing team of techs. YNiC is an brilliant facility with 3T MRI, whole-head OPM-MEG, TMS, and EEG. Please RT! #neurojobs #psychjobs #psychscisky 🧪
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Jobs - The University of York
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL
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