Dagmar Fraser
@dagmarfraser.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher, Senior Centre Technician @thechbh.bsky.social, Birmingham Transformative Humanities Doctoral Fellow, MATLAB SIG Chair & Ambassador
https://linktr.ee/dagmarfraser
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🎉 New paper alert! 🧠 The velocity-curvature power law is one of the 'kinematic laws of nature' (Flash 2021), a 'fundamental law of human control' (Zago et al. 2016), and one of the 'kinematic regularities' (Frith & Frith 2023) thought to underlie all biological motion.
*TODAY 9th December 2025 4:00 PM GMT* MathWorks is hosting an interactive session on their new integrated AI assistant - MATLAB Copilot
Featuring a live Q&A with Seth DeLand, product manager for Generative AI at MathWorks.
Featuring a live Q&A with Seth DeLand, product manager for Generative AI at MathWorks.
uk.mathworks.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
*TODAY 9th December 2025 4:00 PM GMT* MathWorks is hosting an interactive session on their new integrated AI assistant - MATLAB Copilot
Featuring a live Q&A with Seth DeLand, product manager for Generative AI at MathWorks.
Featuring a live Q&A with Seth DeLand, product manager for Generative AI at MathWorks.
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This is probably the most useful thing in the piece... why LLMs are good at learning from code, and less good at learning from language. [and presumably video though they don't mention this].
December 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is probably the most useful thing in the piece... why LLMs are good at learning from code, and less good at learning from language. [and presumably video though they don't mention this].
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**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Both localized and distributed views on the functional organization of the brain have been put forward. In this Perspective, Rosen and Freedman examine the degree to which these two views account for ...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads.
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads.
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
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Thanks so much everybody for reposting this 🙏🙏🙏
Please please continue to share it among your networks. I'm hoping there's somebody out there who is as excited about this project as I am.
Please please continue to share it among your networks. I'm hoping there's somebody out there who is as excited about this project as I am.
Passionate about women's mental health?
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
Interested in brain stimulation?
Excited by cutting edge neurotech?
Come do a PhD with me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(thread)
a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
ALT: a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Thanks so much everybody for reposting this 🙏🙏🙏
Please please continue to share it among your networks. I'm hoping there's somebody out there who is as excited about this project as I am.
Please please continue to share it among your networks. I'm hoping there's somebody out there who is as excited about this project as I am.
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Next Wednesday Dec 10th, we are excited to have Dr @danieljamesyon.bsky.social join us for our last session of the year. Dr Yon will tell us about how our interactions with others alter metacognitive states of mind. Full details on our website (surl.li/mqtofs). All are welcome in person!
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Next Wednesday Dec 10th, we are excited to have Dr @danieljamesyon.bsky.social join us for our last session of the year. Dr Yon will tell us about how our interactions with others alter metacognitive states of mind. Full details on our website (surl.li/mqtofs). All are welcome in person!
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
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Come join us at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, a great place to do research!
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Come join us at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, a great place to do research!
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A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility.
osf.io/preprints/me...
osf.io/preprints/me...
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility.
osf.io/preprints/me...
osf.io/preprints/me...
I had dallied with AI chatbots before July 2024. It was only after reading Ethan Mollick's "Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold" www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gradually-... that I gave them a more thorough workout. It is interesting to revisit that article nearly 1.5 years later.
December 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I had dallied with AI chatbots before July 2024. It was only after reading Ethan Mollick's "Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold" www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gradually-... that I gave them a more thorough workout. It is interesting to revisit that article nearly 1.5 years later.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
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This letter to the British Journal of Psychiatry tells us everything we need to know about current thinking in #autism research. Concise, accessible & powerful. Read it if you think autism = social deficits! #DoubleEmpathyProblem www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Autism diagnosis and the double empathy problem | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Autism diagnosis and the double empathy problem
www.cambridge.org
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This letter to the British Journal of Psychiatry tells us everything we need to know about current thinking in #autism research. Concise, accessible & powerful. Read it if you think autism = social deficits! #DoubleEmpathyProblem www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Fascinating that #EEG is one of the top trends, while #fMRI is declining.
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p...
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using our interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Fascinating that #EEG is one of the top trends, while #fMRI is declining.
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence
MATLAB SIG relaunch tomorrow!
Wednesday 26th November
I really should prepare my slides....
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
Wednesday 26th November
I really should prepare my slides....
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
MATLAB Special Interest Group (re)launch event at the University of Birmingham. Just over a week away! Join us on the 26th of November from 1300.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
MATLAB SIG relaunch tomorrow!
Wednesday 26th November
I really should prepare my slides....
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
Wednesday 26th November
I really should prepare my slides....
#MATLAB #MATLABambassador
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Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club, Wed 19th at 11am UK time!
Jianghao Liu
A neural model of conscious mental imagery and aphantasia
All welcome!
For more info please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Jianghao Liu
A neural model of conscious mental imagery and aphantasia
All welcome!
For more info please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club, Wed 19th at 11am UK time!
Jianghao Liu
A neural model of conscious mental imagery and aphantasia
All welcome!
For more info please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Jianghao Liu
A neural model of conscious mental imagery and aphantasia
All welcome!
For more info please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Reposted by Dagmar Fraser
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
MATLAB Special Interest Group (re)launch event at the University of Birmingham. Just over a week away! Join us on the 26th of November from 1300.
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
MATLAB Special Interest Group (re)launch event at the University of Birmingham. Just over a week away! Join us on the 26th of November from 1300.
Reposted by Dagmar Fraser
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Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation?
Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
🚨 MATLAB EXPO starts TOMORROW (Nov 12-13)! 🚨
Two days of FREE online sessions covering everything from AI to robotics, all from the comfort of your screen.
MathWorks engineers, academics and industry leaders sharing the latest in MATLAB (and Simulink).
Two days of FREE online sessions covering everything from AI to robotics, all from the comfort of your screen.
MathWorks engineers, academics and industry leaders sharing the latest in MATLAB (and Simulink).
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 MATLAB EXPO starts TOMORROW (Nov 12-13)! 🚨
Two days of FREE online sessions covering everything from AI to robotics, all from the comfort of your screen.
MathWorks engineers, academics and industry leaders sharing the latest in MATLAB (and Simulink).
Two days of FREE online sessions covering everything from AI to robotics, all from the comfort of your screen.
MathWorks engineers, academics and industry leaders sharing the latest in MATLAB (and Simulink).
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It's out! Such a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of A TRICK OF THE MIND at Pushkin House. So lovely to see so many, and to be able to thank everybody who made my first book happen. Thank you!
Available in all good bookshops now!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
Available in all good bookshops now!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
June 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It's out! Such a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of A TRICK OF THE MIND at Pushkin House. So lovely to see so many, and to be able to thank everybody who made my first book happen. Thank you!
Available in all good bookshops now!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
Available in all good bookshops now!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...
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This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...
It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭
www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...