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Hello, @rspb.bsky.social, @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk.
Where the hell are you?

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work"

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@jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work.

It's not just AI. And education still matters

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

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If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.

90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.

90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.

Public ownership would make a difference.

UK theoretical neuroscience workshop - Dec 16 in London. I'll be speaking at this alongside a load of other cool people. Come along! (It's free.) 🤖🧠🧪

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Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social understand what early-career neuroscientists need. Take just a few minutes to fill out the survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

#neuroskyence

Why you should leave X A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...

🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X

Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.

📝 latest Substack 👇🏻

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Welcome new followers! If the BIU is new to you, you might be surprised to know we’ve been operating at the leading-edge of MRI research for almost 20 years! ⭐️ Please check out the below infographic for more history, and read the full annual report on our website. @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Lecturer JOB! There is a fixed-term (2 years) teaching-focussed Lecturer position open in our department! Focus is on (human!) cognitive neuroscience. I'm not part of the recruitment process, but always happy to answer any questions about Bristol and our School. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Final week to apply: come join us in beautiful Norwich and lead our neuroimaging studies into vision and touch for material perception! (Deadline July 28th)

Learn how to integrate neuroimaging results with DNN modelling!

@timkietzmann.bsky.social, @stephanierossit.bsky.social

The image shows a graph showing how the percentage of schools visited by university scientists is lower the longer the drive is from the nearest university. Starting at 69% when it's up to a 15 minute drive, which goes down to 43% for a 15-30 minute drive, and coming down to 15% when it's over 60 minutes. Under the graph it says: "Nearly 70% of schools within 15 minutes of a university had visits from university scientists." And "Schools more than 30 minutes away were visited less than half as often". At the bottom of the picture it says "Initial date suggests likelihood of a visit decreases by around 1% per minute's drive".

A school 30 minutes away from a major research HEI is 2 TIMES LESS likely to receive a scientist visit than a school 15 minutes away 🏫🚗

That’s where I’m a… projects come in! They’re online, no travel involved, so students in any part of the country have the opportunity to connect with scientists.

Big week for the SIGHT trial!
Training kicks off at St George’s NHS Trust (Tues) and Cambridge University Hospitals (Thurs) – covering recruitment, intervention, and outcomes.
Huge thanks to our brilliant team for getting us here! 💪🧠 #SIGHTtrial #ClinicalResearch #StrokeRehab

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system.

Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government.

This week's column.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: University of East Anglia plans to axe THREE vital mental health training programmes, putting 19 jobs at risk. These programmes train frontline NHS mental health workers who work directly with vulnerable patients.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐄𝐀 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐛 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲!
𝐃𝐫. 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐭 is chairing the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ‪@opsyris.bsky.social — bringing together researchers and clinicians to share the latest in psychological stroke research.

Leadership A short (let’s see!) blog post about leadership, which has been on my mind lately. But first, a digression. Regular readers will have noticed I’ve not been posting much. This is because…

Remember that I used to write blog posts?? It's been an eternity, but I finally wrote another on. This time on leadership

gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/l...

Come use our excellent research dedicated 3T MRI scanner in Norwich, England @psychologyuea.bsky.social

Norwich is one of the top cities to live in the UK, close to beautiful beaches and surrounded by green countryside / waterways

Senior Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience at University of East Anglia Apply for the Senior Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

We are looking for a post-doc (3 yrs) to lead neuroimaging experiments (using fMRI & EEG) investigating the multimodal basis of material perception

deadline **July 28th**

#neuroskyence
#VisionScience
#PsychSciSky
#compneurosky

@timkietzmann.bsky.social, @stephanierossit.bsky.social

Motion Motion to approve the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025 - Yvette Cooper

This, to be considered by the House of Commons this afternoon, needs to cause as much political trouble for the government as the welfare bill. Ask your MP to stand up for the right to protest.

📢 Job Opportunity: Project Support ✅ Location: Beautiful Central Bath ✅ Hours: Full-time or Part-time ✅ Salary: £25,000 per year ✅ Start Date: September 2025 🗓️ Application Deadline: Friday 11th July

We're hiring. We're looking for someone to take the lynchpin role on @imascientist.org.uk

Based in our Central Bath office (with a/c today).

More info: mangorol.la/2025/06/job-...

YouTube video by Double Down News Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison

Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone.
You're going to need a bigger prison.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...

The School of Psychology has been awarded funding through the 𝐍𝐈𝐇𝐑 𝐢𝟒𝐢 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 to assess the clinical feasibility of the 𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩 (PI: Stephanie Rossit) designed to support attention rehabilitation in people with acquired brain injury.
www.nihr.ac.uk/news/over-ps...

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news

CCN 2025 Satellite Event Background The human visual system is full of optimisations—mechanisms designed to extract the most useful information from a constant stream of incoming data. The field of neuro-AI has made significa...

Not just one, but two fantastic chances to discuss how infant development can inform machine learning and vice-versa at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam!!! Satellite workshop sites.google.com/view/child2m...
and Generative Adversarial Collaboration sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/...

Comparing temperature anomalies in summer 1976 and summer 2024

As we seem to, yet again, be talking about the hot UK summer of 1976, a reminder that the UK is not the world.

Yes, it was hot that summer over our small region, but the bigger picture tells a different story.

And, we've had hotter UK summers since.

The government's Crime and Policing Bill is at Report Stage in the House of Commons. Yet scarcely anyone is alert to the implications of Sections 114 & 115, which (as everywhere's close to a place of worship), greatly increase police powers to shut down protest. Please tell MPs and friendly peers.

We got word from our distributor: Amazon has refused to stream THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE w/ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

🤔

We take it as a compliment.

You can however watch it on:
• Apple TV
• Google Play
• YouTube Movies
• Vimeo