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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 4d

OTD in 1881, Charles Darwin published his last book, on earthworms.

It reflected a long interest in animal minds: “One alternative alone is left, namely, that worms, although standing low in the scale of organization, possess some degree of intelligence.”

🧪 🌱🐋🦋🦫 #HistSTM #philsci #pschsky #cogsci

Caricature by Edward Linley Sambourne from Punch in 1882 titled “Man is but a Worm,” depicting human evolution, commencing with Chaos, through worm, monkey, culminating in Darwin himself.

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 Help my lab at @skeriresearch.bsky.social advance innovative research on the technology, perception, and neuroscience of accessibility! The Teng Lab has launched a pair of campaigns through @experiment.com.
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho

Brain dynamics in braille reading: Letters to language

Blind and low-vision readers read and write text using braille, a tactile system of raised dots. In this project, we will monitor braille readers' hand movements and electroencephalographic (EEG) brai...

experiment.com

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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 9d

This bird is a neuroscientist

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 9d

A painting of a bird beside the text "where in the fuck is your brain"

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Veda Scott @vedascott.bsky.social · 14d

PSA: you don’t “deserve a little treat”

The world is endless horrors.
You deserve endless treats of all sizes.

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 22d

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · 19d

Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉.
@willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data
meegsim.readthedocs.io
I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!)
#brainmovies

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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 20d

🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

Open Research Manager

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 21d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Magdalena W Sliwinska @sliwinskamagdalena.bsky.social · 27d

We are thrilled to have our documentary selected for @londonbreeze.bsky.social & International Reflection of Disability in Art 2025! Check out the movie trailer www.bonsaipictures.co.uk/what-is-blin... and enjoy the movie at the festivals.

Image presenting a close up of one of the movie participants reciting his poem with other participants listen behind him in the background. In the top right corner, there is a symbol saying: official selection iRoDi festival 2025.

Image presenting hands typing a poem using a Braille notetaker. In the top left corner, there is a symbol saying London BREEZE official selection 2025.

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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 26d

Now that every meeting and conversation inevitably involves AI 🤢 I find myself enjoying live classical music even more than I used to. It’s not embracing, not enhancing and not optimising — certified organic creation and execution.

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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 28d

I'm diving into the history of computers in cognitive experiments for next week's introduction to PsychoPy. Sadly, chronic computeritis is not a problem we give much thought to any more :)

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 28d

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 29d

For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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RetINaBox: A hands-on learning tool for experimental neuroscience

An exciting aspect of neuroscience research is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, this compelling part of neuroscience research is...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · Sep 9

Wrote this on the train home from Metascience. Can’t quite believe this one needed saying, but I really think that if conversations about research integrity and open science don’t take academic bullying seriously, we’ll keep perpetuating the same system that science reform was trying to change.

Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced."

By @maddipow.bsky.social

Research integrity needs a kindness agenda or we will lose ECRs

Responding to early-career researchers’ honest questions with accusations of misconduct is a travesty of open science, says Madeleine Pownall

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · Sep 7

I guess we need CC-BY-NO-AI, which has a pleasing rhyme and rhythm to it.

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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · Sep 5

0_0 I'm struggling to come up with a charitable explanation of this behaviour...

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · Aug 30

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks to @achetverikov.bsky.social my #ECVP ended with a wonderful night at Mainzer Weinmarkt 🍷Thanks everyone for a fantastic conference and for really good conversations. See you next year!

Nika in front of her poster on distractibility and time course of sustained attention

Still water with blue sky and a pretty boat

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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · Aug 26

my tired conference brain found Google's dog day animation very soothing 🤪

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Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social · Aug 21

Excited to finally have in my hands a copy of our new book Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective (written with Alasdair Clarke, not on bsky) !!

📘 www.mheducation.co.uk/statistics-f...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #statistics #statssky
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Physical copy of the book “Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective” by Alasdair Clarke and Matteo Lisi, with a red title block and abstract network graphic.

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ashlee, mph @avs.bsky.social · Jul 27

i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 27

Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.

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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · Jul 27

Tom Lehrer always felt like an immortal constant :( Fun fact: my home town was mentioned in “Lobachevsky”.

“If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worthwhile.”

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jul 22

Werner Reichardt, credited with discovering the neural circuitry for motion detection in the retina in the 1950s, did so on borrowed time.

As a young student, Werner Reichardt was a pupil in the laboratory of Hans Erich Hollmann, a pioneer of ultra-shortwave communication. Because of his knowledge he was drafted in 1941 to the German air force as a radio technician.There he met members of the resistance and established a covert radio connection with the Western Allies. In 1944 Reichardt was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to death, but escaped, and hid in Berlin until the end of the war.

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Jul 16

We invite psychology researchers at any stage of their career and at any type of institution to consider submitting their proposal formatted as a Stage 1 Registered Report for consideration to receive research funding from SIPS and a recommendation decision from PCI-RR!

#PsychSciSky

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · Jul 23

And it’s off! A Puffling experiencing the power of flight for the first time as it fledges off the Isle of May

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