@bpomie
Cognitive neuroscientist fascinated by human development. Interested in learning, creativity, compositionality, abstract knowledge. Assistant professor @thechbh.bsky.social @bbabylab.bsky.social Uni of Birmingham
Study of 8M biomed & life science articles finds those led by women spent 7 to 15 days longer in review than those led by men. Over a career, women's papers could spend 350 to 750 additional days in review. Delays could slow promotion, esp to full professor. www.the-scientist.com/women-s-rese...
As if there were not enough bad news around:
We can use past experience to make predictions about the future. How do predictions affect our memory for the present? My own work (tinyurl.com/42kyukch) suggests that predictions compete with memory. But other recent work (tinyurl.com/2ekd4wr6) found the opposite--cooperation! What's going on here?
I love this metaphor for having AI take over key tasks like writing summaries, doing literature reviews, etc...
Yes, please have your LLM buddy lift weights for you. You are now a gym nut
Climate denialism, empowered by nihilists and know-nothings, undermining science & destroying the evidence that they previously just rejected. Meanwhile, out here in WA, roads are sliding into rivers (an unprecedented weather event) b/c it’s too damn warm to be raining this hard for this long.
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
Thanks to you, Ekolo ya Bonobo Reserve’s 2024 mammal diversity study is complete. The team identified 28 additional mammal species, and the camera traps captured a thriving ecosystem!
Learn more about your impact: savebonobos.org/2024
#YourImpact #EkoloYaBonobo #WildlifeConservation
Comparing this with @a38cycleway.bsky.social shows how much more cycling infra investment is needed in Birmingham. Circa 4 times more people are cycling in Manchester. Andy Burnham with Chris Boardman & Sarah Storey have been ambitious and are delivering, same needed here.
@brumgreens.bsky.social
It’s a great podcast (Bold Politics)… reassuringly Zack Polanski is a rare host who knows how to listen deeply and if he disagrees he does it intelligently and respectfully. Very well worth a listen even if you’re not a Greens voter
I had the joy of getting to meet some baby blue-winged parrots today 💚💙
Super pleased with this one, led by the amazing PhD student and foraging expert @emmavscholey.bsky.social!
Before and after, street filled with cars to a street for people including kids
It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today.
Streets for people.
HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
Public transport in Birmingham is lamentable, cycling is too dangerous for many by design, and our streets have been surrendered to speeding cars and gridlocked traffic.
The saddest thing is that, as other cities have shown, it's not that difficult or expensive to fix this.
We continue to live in a city created by the Victorians and Edwardians. Yet, we've chosen to prioritize only one type of Victorian and Edwardian transport technology, the automobile. Today, I'm talking at the @thevicsoc.bsky.social on why this came to be, and how the cycling city can exist again.
🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social
Great BBC coverage of our 'dinosaur highway' excavation, featuring @kirstymedgar.bsky.social @djemurdock.bsky.social & @peterfalkingham.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ficn...
Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
A group of cyclists smiling in the rain during an evening ride through the city. Riders are wearing helmets, bright jackets, and waterproofs, with bikes of all sizes including children’s. Wet streets and umbrellas in the background show the rainy weather.
Brilliant effort from the Circle the City riders last night. 🌧💨 It was chucking it down and blowing a gale, but that didn’t stop them pedalling on. 💪
#CircleTheCity #KeepPedalling #TogetherWeRide #RainOrShine
📢 New (economics) preprint 📢
(with Jiaxin Yu)
Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus
Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)
Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social
docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
University of Birmingham announcement for new Centre for Human Brain Health Co-Director, Professor Stephane De Brito, with his headshot.
We’re excited to share some leadership updates at the CHBH! After three years, Dr @katjakornysheva.bsky.social stepped down this month, we're grateful to Katja for her leadership. Prof @bagshaap.bsky.social will continue as Co-Director and we welcome Prof Stephane De Brito as Co-Director into 25/26.
Looking for a postdoc or RA position?
Look no more! Consider applying (by Thu 2 Oct) to work with the wonderful Andy Bremner & team. Great impactful project, supportive & friendly lab with top-notch amenities. Join us in Birmingham ✨
It was so great! Really lucky to have been able to listen and learn from Barbara, Liuba, & Benedek. Some of the most insightful research happening today, from just the absolutely nicest, coolest people.
I hope those reporting on Alpha read this thread (or better yet, the article). bsky.app/profile/vauh...
Heading for my last day of the ESPP in Warsaw. Amazing to see philosophers and psychologists in one room. It was a privilege to talk about how symbols and compositionality emerge in babies alongside @ljubapi.bsky.social and @benedek.bsky.social 💕 to @ericman.bsky.social for organizing the symposium!
This was such fun!
How exciting :) Congratulations. Is there a way to watch the stimuli? (sorry if I missed the relevant links)
If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!