Tom Hartley
@tomhartley.me.uk
Former Academic. Neuroscience/Psychology. Retired.
Interests: Recording and mixing music; The Beatles; currently learning to play drums.
tomhartley.me.uk
Interests: Recording and mixing music; The Beatles; currently learning to play drums.
tomhartley.me.uk
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Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood
www.cbs.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
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New digital painting. Sunset from the rooftop of the Giotto apartment building in Leeds, UK. Part of the former factory site Tower Works. It includes 3 listed towers. The big one in the picture is based on Giotto's campanile in Florence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_W...
November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New digital painting. Sunset from the rooftop of the Giotto apartment building in Leeds, UK. Part of the former factory site Tower Works. It includes 3 listed towers. The big one in the picture is based on Giotto's campanile in Florence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_W...
New digital painting. Sunset from the rooftop of the Giotto apartment building in Leeds, UK. Part of the former factory site Tower Works. It includes 3 listed towers. The big one in the picture is based on Giotto's campanile in Florence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_W...
November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
New digital painting. Sunset from the rooftop of the Giotto apartment building in Leeds, UK. Part of the former factory site Tower Works. It includes 3 listed towers. The big one in the picture is based on Giotto's campanile in Florence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_W...
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happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding
We perceive continuous speech as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear acoustic boundaries. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes …
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November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
happy to share our new paper, out now in Neuron! led by the incredible Yizhen Zhang, we explore how the brain segments continuous speech into word-forms and uses adaptive dynamics to code for relative time - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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A semantotopic map in human hippocampus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685959v1
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A semantotopic map in human hippocampus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685959v1
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#JNeurosci: Lu et al. show that two brain regions—retrosplenial complex and superior parietal lobe—represent facing direction when people perform a naturalistic navigation task in a virtual-reality city. @russellepstein.bsky.social @gkaguirre.com @zhenganglu.bsky.social
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November 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#JNeurosci: Lu et al. show that two brain regions—retrosplenial complex and superior parietal lobe—represent facing direction when people perform a naturalistic navigation task in a virtual-reality city. @russellepstein.bsky.social @gkaguirre.com @zhenganglu.bsky.social
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Super pleased that we are doing a @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Postdoc and RA showcase today! Thank you so much to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and @arimoccia.bsky.social for doing all the hard work and bringing the humorous comics.
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Super pleased that we are doing a @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Postdoc and RA showcase today! Thank you so much to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and @arimoccia.bsky.social for doing all the hard work and bringing the humorous comics.
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Another lovely effect a bit like the last one (but maybe even more distressing!), for those seeking illusory content. No idea who made this one I'm afraid - if you happen to know, let me know so I can credit them!
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Another lovely effect a bit like the last one (but maybe even more distressing!), for those seeking illusory content. No idea who made this one I'm afraid - if you happen to know, let me know so I can credit them!
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A Friday afternoon repost for this. It would be a good one to listen to in the car or in your earpods if you are commuting this evening.
Really proud and excited about this:
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
October 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A Friday afternoon repost for this. It would be a good one to listen to in the car or in your earpods if you are commuting this evening.
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For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
October 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
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open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
Happy Friday!
My daughter's got a single out today with The Pennydrops. Please give it a listen and share.
It is folky and catchy and a bit exciting.
You can follow them here:
www.instagram.com/the_pennydro...
Enjoy
🎸🎇💃
Happy Friday!
My daughter's got a single out today with The Pennydrops. Please give it a listen and share.
It is folky and catchy and a bit exciting.
You can follow them here:
www.instagram.com/the_pennydro...
Enjoy
🎸🎇💃
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
Happy Friday!
My daughter's got a single out today with The Pennydrops. Please give it a listen and share.
It is folky and catchy and a bit exciting.
You can follow them here:
www.instagram.com/the_pennydro...
Enjoy
🎸🎇💃
Happy Friday!
My daughter's got a single out today with The Pennydrops. Please give it a listen and share.
It is folky and catchy and a bit exciting.
You can follow them here:
www.instagram.com/the_pennydro...
Enjoy
🎸🎇💃
A Friday afternoon repost for this. It would be a good one to listen to in the car or in your earpods if you are commuting this evening.
Really proud and excited about this:
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
October 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A Friday afternoon repost for this. It would be a good one to listen to in the car or in your earpods if you are commuting this evening.
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My first first-author paper is out now in Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience!🎉 A model to explain ASMR's neural mechanism & clinical potential via predictive coding of CT-touch, linking LC-vagus dynamics & the PPS network... 1/5
w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social
w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social
Frontiers | The Proximity Prediction Hypothesis: How predictive coding of CT-touch explains Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and its therapeutic applications
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a pleasant tingling sensation felt across the scalp and neck, widely reported to reduce anxiety and improve sl...
www.frontiersin.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My first first-author paper is out now in Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience!🎉 A model to explain ASMR's neural mechanism & clinical potential via predictive coding of CT-touch, linking LC-vagus dynamics & the PPS network... 1/5
w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social
w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social
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Really proud and excited about this:
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Really proud and excited about this:
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
Really proud and excited about this:
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Really proud and excited about this:
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.
This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.
open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...
[I mixed & produced it]
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I mean this isn’t what I’m saying. I don’t think we should even discuss reducing migration because a) I think migration is a good thing and b) nobody has ever been able to show me evidence that reducing it would have a positive effect on anything
This whole debate has become absurd. Obviously forced deportation of settled residents is deeply unjust and completely unnecessary. But the idea promoted on this site that one cannot even discuss reducing immigration lest it helps fascists is irrational and counterproductive. /1
I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I mean this isn’t what I’m saying. I don’t think we should even discuss reducing migration because a) I think migration is a good thing and b) nobody has ever been able to show me evidence that reducing it would have a positive effect on anything
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My performance (and employability, let alone promotability) is based on my ability to win these grants. Even if i did nothing but wrote them (+ all the networking & other prep work) I could easily go years - decades - without winning one, according to these stats.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
My performance (and employability, let alone promotability) is based on my ability to win these grants. Even if i did nothing but wrote them (+ all the networking & other prep work) I could easily go years - decades - without winning one, according to these stats.
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New preprint from Satoshi Kuroki & Sébastien Royer
Grid cells encode reward distance during path integration in cue-rich environments
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Grid cells encode reward distance during path integration in cue-rich environments
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
October 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
New preprint from Satoshi Kuroki & Sébastien Royer
Grid cells encode reward distance during path integration in cue-rich environments
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Grid cells encode reward distance during path integration in cue-rich environments
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...