Edwin Dalmaijer

Wonderful opportunity to read for a PhD with two of the most amazing cognitive and computational neuroscientists around!

Somewhat agree.

He used the David Attenborough pronunciation; he learned most obscure species from his narrations!

My 5-year-old is playing "Australopithecus" (pronounced correctly). This is pure luck of the draw, but expect a smug book on how to parent in a bookshop near you soon.

Great example! I'm going to steal this from my ever-increasing repository of gross parenting situations; thanks!

Parents Develop Long‐Term Disgust Habituation, but Only After Beginning to Wean Their Children Disgust helps humans avoid potentially pathogenic substances such as bodily effluvia. This reduces illness risks and is difficult to overcome with cognitive strategies or through short-term habituati...

After previously showing kids are gross (see doi.org/10.1177/2398...), we now find that parents get used to it! After starting the weaning process, they stop avoiding soiled diapers. This disgust habituation even generalises beyond child-specific stimuli.

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/sjop...

Parents stop finding diapers disgusting once babies are eating solids The extent to which parents feel disgust appears to come and go, which could be important for their children's health

If you'd like a more accessible write-up, @newscientist.com did an excellent article on the study: www.newscientist.com/article/2462...

Or if you prefer digestible science podcasts, @npr.org Short Wave featured it today: www.npr.org/2026/01/23/n...

Parents Develop Long‐Term Disgust Habituation, but Only After Beginning to Wean Their Children Disgust helps humans avoid potentially pathogenic substances such as bodily effluvia. This reduces illness risks and is difficult to overcome with cognitive strategies or through short-term habituati...

After previously showing kids are gross (see doi.org/10.1177/2398...), we now find that parents get used to it! After starting the weaning process, they stop avoiding soiled diapers. This disgust habituation even generalises beyond child-specific stimuli.

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/sjop...

Hahaha! I don't have a clear example directly at hand, there's a dataset here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Traces are in columns labelled "eeg_[i]". It's part of this preprint on EGG methodology: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

If you’d like further distraction from your analysis, ponder electrogastrography. The stomach’s pacemaker operates at 3 cpm, but we frequently pick up peaks at 6 and 9 cpm too. Harmonics? Pyloric activity? Signal bleed from intestines? WHO KNOWS 🤷

Zenodo is fantastic for this! You can use it to permanently host a snapshot of a GitHub repo (by creating a Release). You can do with the repo what you like (e.g. update later) without impacting the deposited code, and Zenodo meets journal requirements for code and data deposit.

ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: Adopting a Research-Informed Approach to Develop Play Interactions to Improve Executive Functions in Neurotypical and Neurodiverse Families. at Midlands Graduate ... Find a ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: Adopting a Research-Informed Approach to Develop Play Interactions to Improve Executive Functions in Neurotypical and Neurodiverse Families. on jobs.ac.uk,...

Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts-psych.bsky.social and @alexhendry.bsky.social on play interactions to improve executive functions. Application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely with interested students!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/e...

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳

We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r...

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Cumulative route improvements spontaneously emerge in artificial navigators even in the absence of sophisticated communication or thought Homing pigeons improve their route efficiency in consecutive generations, potentially through social interaction. This study uses artificial agents with a highly limited cognitive architecture to show...

Lovely overview! Great to see other applications mentioned. (I used my visual working memory tools in pigeon navigation: doi.org/10.1371/jour...)

BTW, looks like you already have a journal in mind, but just in case: Behavior Research Methods would be a great venue! link.springer.com/journal/1342...

Hahah, sorry, I didn’t mean “just” as “only socks”! It was an expression of surprise that adding socks and other useful stuff was a genuine possibility. This will forever change out party bags. (Which, honestly, were already quite amazing due to my wife’s creativity.)

Wait, you can just do this?!

*furiously makes notes*

I’m sorry; it sounds very stressful and demoralising. It’s such a terrible illness. Hope this round won’t be as bad as expected, and that you come out the other end.

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Such exceptions exist because 1) If enough people get it wrong enough of the time, it becomes accepted. 2) Historical weirdness is often grandfathered in. 3) English is actually three languages in a trench coat.

That fact that it’s the de facto lingua franca is a historical fluke (and a mistake).

Only a native speaker could be so confidently wrong about their own language 😜

For anyone else: the doubling-up rule suggests "focussed" as the correct version. However, in reality both "focussed" and "focused" are both accepted ways of spelling it.

I was 2 characters over the limit in a box on a grant proposal, so I did what any self-disrespecting English speaker would: removed the additional Ss (e.g. "focussed") and Us (e.g. "behaviour"). Now I’m 2 characters under.

I might apply for citizenship at some point, so nobody tell the Home Office!

Definitely true for a lot of my work, but at least I produce hand-crafted artisanal research blunders. Instead, this is auto-generated slop that sounds like the early stages of a spin-out company riding the AI bubble.

Regardless, I thought it offered nice context, even if not (as) problematic :)

This is beside your point, but I participated in this and the suggestions were gobshite.

So in addition to all of the objections you rightfully raise, the whole thing they’re testing is absolutely useless.

Also, while making light of this helps ridicule its dimwitted billionaire owner, the fact that Twitter now openly allows and encourages revenge porn is absolutely nuts. (Not to mention legally questionable in many countries: the UK’s intimate image abuse rules explicitly include realistic fakes.)

I left Twitter when Musk took over, and haven’t really kept up since. It looks like they’ve added two more Xs?

If I recall correctly, NICE guidelines come with similar warning. I assume it’s a liability thing.

So I looked at NICE to check, and now there’s a whole EULA to agree with: cks.nice.org.uk This one reads more like copyright (and AI?) protection.

This was worthy of clicking on your profile to find bakes 1 and 2. Did not disappoint. Well done! 🤤

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

A figure from our preprint showing ABR data as a line plot for sounds from the left and right at different sound levels.

1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...