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Auditory neuroscientist, UCL Prof, trail runner, landlocked boaty, mum was @bizifer elsewhere
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Checked one off the trail-running bucket list yesterday - Ashridge boundary run - 17+ miles of stunning(ly hilly) "fun" #chilterns #trailrunning #ridgeway

Using my gran’s ancient (vintage?) sewing machine to hem a new curtain for our speaker grid setup. Love the contrast between state of the art behaviour/tracking/neuropixels and my dodgy sewing skills β€” and so excited for the data beginning to emerge πŸ€“ 🧠 #neuroscience

Abstract submission for ICAC 2025 is still open! We are looking forward to see you in Maastricht in September.

Great episode of inside health www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... exploring hearing and age related hearing loss, featuring multiple non-bluesky Ear Institute contributors @uclbrainscience.bsky.social #neuroscience #hearing

This #BSW25 we're excited to announce two new trustees have joined BSA Council! Welcome Dr Rachel Williams @sciwithrach.bsky.social & Professor Turi King @turiking.bsky.social, brilliant scientists committed to public communication and engagement: www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/british...

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

One of the NIMH PIs whose name is the termination list: Sooyhun Lee, whose lab just published this beautiful @nature.com paper (that has received too little press because comms at NIH are down). Read! Cite! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We should communicate our passion & curiosity, connecting with those who share our wonder about the world, but must also showcase the practical significance of basic research, demonstrating how seemingly arcane investigations yield transformative applications." Great piece by @tonyzador.bsky.social

Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a... #interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

Signature tally now closing in on 3000. Please keep discussing, sharing and signing to put as much pressure on the Royal Society to respond as possible. forms.gle/AuYvuWqytx8K...

Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk

Watched the 9 year old (and 8500 of her primary age friends) rock the O2 tonight 🌟 #youngvoices #urbanstrides

Cheeky pre-work trail run #bluesky πŸƒπŸ»β€β™€οΈ

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

Attempting to brighten up the last day of the school holiday with cinnamon buns

Last week staff in our facility got worried that the acoustic foam that lined the lab was flammable. Today I’m filming myself burning acoustic foam on my hob amidst the sourdough and gingerbread. It doesn’t πŸ”₯ quoting @amitkhandhadia.bsky.social, it’s a christmas miracleπŸŽ„ 🧠

If you are an auditory neuroscientist attending ARO 2025, please check your inbox for an important survey from ARO regarding strategies for safety and inclusion at the MWM this year in Florida. 🧠 πŸ‘‚ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

We're excited to join BlueSky! Make sure to follow us for the latest news from the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences! We'll be posting about our cutting edge research, Faculty events and opportunities!

Huge congrats to Jules (not on πŸ¦‹) for his successful PhD defense yesterday - watch out for his trademark Breton top, and beautiful work looking at how auditory cortex deals with noise (hopefully early next year 🀞🏻) #neuroscience #neuroskyence 🧠

Today we said goodbye to an RA who has a new position elsewhere. His first job was to train a DLC model to track ferrets so I made him this cake (it tasted better than it looked!)… #neuroscience #neuroskyence 🧠

Want to start your own lab at the @uclofficial.bsky.social Ear Institute? You have 8 days left to apply to this round of our fellowship sponsorship scheme! www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research... #neuroscience #neuroskyence #hearing #auditoryneuroscience

Gorgeous morning to sneak out on the trails πŸƒπŸ»β€β™€οΈ #trailrunning #chilterns

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread πŸ‘‡

Deadline for applying to the EARS trainee seminar is Nov. 25. If you would like to submit an abstract, but need more time, please reach out to me.

My life is a barrage of lab/child related WhatsApps, but the ones that brighten my day are the literal screen shots students send when they first see if their experiments worked out. This week some beautiful viral tracing and signals from two implanted neuropixels #neuroskyence πŸ§ πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬

University College London has joined Bluesky today! Give them a follow - great to see academic institutions joining the platform as well as academics! bsky.app/profile/uclo...

Applications are open for the James McCune Smith (JMS) Scholarships here @uofglasgow.bsky.social. which fund Black UK students to undertake PhD research in Glasgow in any field. They provide an enhanced experience and are very well-supported. www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships.... Please share this widely

Our team at deepmind is hiring! boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

My dept (UCL Experimental Psychology) has 12 funded PhD studentships for next academic year (Sept 2025 start)! These are only for UK citizens or with right to remain. I would be happy to support applications from students who would like to join my lab. See: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...

We were asked to write a piece about what makes the ferret a great model for sensory systems research... and here it is! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... πŸ§ πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬πŸ‘‚ [we need a bluesky #ferretbrain emoji to add here!]

I made a systems neuroscience starter pack, focused on experimentalists who study the brain at the level of populations of neurons! Also want to be on the list? Reply or DM me a picture of your ephys rig or 2p setup and I'll add you 🀭 go.bsky.app/UiqX7ry

The UCL Ear Institute has launched its next round of career development sponsorship opportunities - we support you to come and set up your group in london's vibrant auditory neuroscience community! Deadline December 6th (noon, GMT). www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research...

We are recruiting a PhD student! The project will define the sensory strategies that freely moving animals use to chase sounds. The ideal candidate will have an engineering / neuroscience background and strong coding skills. Reach out to learn more! shorturl.at/cNu0p

There 1 week to apply for the PhD studentship in my lab (4 years, paid as an RA, fees at UK rate) to contribute to understanding how the brain constructs auditory space. shorturl.at/adoJN Post will require great coding skills so background in engineering, datasciences or neuroscience is ideal!

The Royal Society have launched a new postdoc career development fund - initally for those of black heritage royalsociety.org/news/2023/09... please circulate widely (and if you're eligible and interested in auditory neuroscience reach out!)