#1 of our BIU Research Highlights, 2024 Series. This one is from @charlie-wiltshire.bsky.social (from @psychbangor.bsky.social ) and colleagues. #stammering #stuttering #research @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Or 600k if you consider the usual extensions.

We recently had visitors from New Mexico, whose kids had never seen Chestnuts. The kids called these "spike fruits". 😁

Proud Supervisor moment 2. Ferrida Ponce presenting her fMRS work in therapeutic intermittent hypoxia.

Proud Supervisor moment 1. My Masters student Asare Adomako presenting our fMRS of exercise data at the 2nd fMRS symposium.

Jeff Stanley kicking off the methodology session at fMRS symposium in Bangor. @pgmm03.bsky.social

Scientists paying attention to a talk at the Bangor fMRS symposium.

Scientists paying attention to a talk at the Bangor fMRS symposium.

Scientists paying attention to a talk at the Bangor fMRS symposium.

Good to see everyone is still able to maintain there attention towards the end of the first day of the fMRS symposium at Bangor Uni.

Scientists seated at a welcome dinner.

Scientists seated at a welcome dinner.

Scientists seated at a welcome dinner.

Scientists seated at a welcome dinner.

The 2nd Bangor fMRS symposium kicked off tonight, with a welcome dinner in Bwyd da Bangor. A good start I think.

Didn't Gary Linnaker get pillored from sunrise to sunset for making a "political post" as a BBC presenter? Where is a similar hue and cry over this?

This month at the BIU, our faculty are working hard on the final preparations for two major symposia/workshops that take place in early September.

Our events attract international instructors, speakers, and we deliver once-in-lifetime experiences and unparalleled networking opportunities.

I agree totally. Heading towards homemade for most stuff these days # even sausages.

Still, I'd be happy to try mushroom in my burgers (I like them on them after all). Which ones work best?

As green peas are not in the top 14 allergens, they do not have to be displayed. This doesn't make them any safer for me. Proper labeling, and full ingredient information on menus would help, but a lot of food companies only lost common allergens, probably because they don't always know.

This is a good idea, as long as the added ingredients are readily displayed. While I don't have an allergy to mushrooms, I do to green peas, and have been finding pea fibre, pea flour, and pea protien turning up on all sorts of unusual places. (Like ice creams).

A golden brown round loaf of sourdough, cooling on a black iron trivet, sitting on a black and white marble counter top.

A golden brown round loaf of sourdough, cooling on a black iron trivet, sitting on a black and white marble counter top. The reflection of an overhead lamp can be seen in the marble of the counter top.

A golden brown round loaf of sourdough, cooling on a black iron trivet, sitting on a black and white marble counter top. The slots cut to allow expansion stand out from the rest of the flour covered crust.

Tonight's sourdough.

Hey, at least they are looking for this sort of thing. I'm pretty sure this goes on in more than just frontiers (as the report actually says).
This sort of practice will continue as long as the academic paper is a unit in metrics of productivity and esteem.

It still plays in my head whenever I start to count...

🚨📄 New paper!

Abstract words are hard to acquire: Does social relevance help?

We tested if social experience helps children learn words—analyzing >4,000 words by socialness, valence, and concreteness.

👬 More social words were learned earlier
💭 Socialness particularly helped abstract words, but…

A golden round loaf of bread, on a dark walnut chopping board. A slice has been cut off the end. The bread knife is in the background, on the black Marble top. Blue kitchen cabinets underneath.

A golden round loaf of bread, on a dark walnut chopping board. A slice has been cut off the end. This view is from the front of the sliced end, showing the structure of the bread. All on the black and white Marble top of our kitchen island.

Sourdough loaf on the Weber Kettle, using a Pizza stone. It turned out pretty good. Good rise, but the crumb could have been a bit better, not as "chewy" as I would like it.

Two men in red and gold graduation gowns in a university courtyard. Professor Mullins on the right, giving his graduating PhD student Joseph Smith a hug in the inner quad at Bangor University.

So happy to see this young man graduate today. He is going to go places!

We are pleased to share the Bangor Imaging Unit (BIU) Annual Report for 2024/2025, which shines a light on recent updates and achievements, and to unveil our renewed BIU website (where the report can be found):

www.bangor.ac.uk/bangorimagin...

#research #wales

@bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Pizza dogs, an experiment for July the 4th

Yeah, British buildings really don't cope. Luckily I'm out on the western edge of the UK, in North Wales, so avoiding the urban heat effect in big cities. I do appreciate the heat, I just wish they were better set to deal with it.

A lovely golden brown, round cob loaf of sourdough, on a black marble counter top.

Another shot of the round cob loaf of sourdough, on a black marble counter top, with blue cabinet doors in the background.

Tried my hand at a bit of baking today. The sourdough looks okay.

Focaccia and pizza bread on the weekend.

I get the reason for the content warning, (nudes) I also get that this is art. Nice work.

Wonderful. Thanks, always happy to see a Perigrine.

Cafe Iruña, worth a visit, as is the old town section as mentioned.

Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Symposium II: 31st August – 2nd September 2025 To be held in Bangor Gwynedd, in lovely North Wales. This year the fMRS symposium will be held jointly (one after the other) with the 9th GABA and Edited MRS symposium. We therefore invite all inte…

Abstract submissions are now open for the fMRS symposium in Bangor, Wales, Sept 2025 : shorturl.at/Q1A5p come present your latest functional MR spectroscopy neuroscientific findings, method development or anything else related to fMRS.

YouTube video by BBC Music God Only Knows - BBC Music

For Brian Wilson, who has gone to see what's next. This song, which he wrote as a "teenager's symphony to God", here covered by just about everyone, including Brian himself:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLT...