Gemma Learmonth

📣 “Peer Review and its Diversification” Webinars
15-16 October 2025

👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's 15:30 on 4th October 2025. Britain is getting almost 90% of its electricity from clean energy sources. grid.iamkate.com

👇🏻 Fantastic 3 year postdoc opportunity here at Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We are advertising for a postdoc with skills in psychophysiological measurement for a project on smell and emotions. Closing date is 30th October. Please spread the word.
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

They are going to run rings around us when they realise they can team up.

So true. Although exhausting, it's amazing to hear their train of thought and understand how 4 year olds make sense of the world.

Here's a list of the questions my 4-year-old asked in a 5 minute window this morning. Weekends are so exhausting right now 😄

Research Assistant at UCL Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

The Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN) is looking for people who'd like to share their experience with the discovery of Open Science - how this changed your way of doing science, or seeing science, what kind of challenges you had to face and overcome, etc.

Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉.
@willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data
meegsim.readthedocs.io
I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!)
#brainmovies

Stirling Uni campus is looking gorgeous right now ☀️

It was such a wonderful experience to present our work on my birthday here at #ICON2025!!

With wonderful colleagues from Dundee, Glasgow, and Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Kohl et al. report that sensorimotor network dynamics can distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from controls and highlight the importance of network context of motor cortical activations.
buff.ly/489DYfB
#Parkinsons

Our new study - pseudoneglect is partly explained by structural hemispheric asymmetries in putamen 👇👇👇

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize across tasks and laboratories. We call for community-driven efforts to systematically test and validate connectivity metrics using shared datasets and protocols, aiming to establish robust, replicable frameworks for cognitive and clinical applications.

Online Now: Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

We're looking to appoint a new administrator for our Social Sciences Impact Acceleration Account. This would be a great role for a graduate with good administrative skills who wants to learn a lot more about the non-academic impact of research
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Hemispheric laterality of the putamen predicts pseudoneglect https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676561v1

I love baby EEG, so had to check this! here, a dichotomy is drawn between theta & alpha rhythms, but this is tricky. the posterior dominant rhythm emerges in the infant at 3-4 Hz & increases until ~10 Hz in adults. I think there is much evidence that this 'theta' rhythm is the equiv of adult alpha.

Presented our work at #BACN2025. That was a very great time to meet many lovely and smart people around!

Not usually, particularly if you've not received reviews back yet. Each publisher has its own policy on this though and it's worth checking. Handily, there's a list on Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Yes you can!

How to be a scientist in a post-journal world When we created this site to write about things in science that need to be fixed, we chose not to start with publishing, even though it has been our preoccupation for decades.

Check out the latest from Mike and I on how to be a scientist in a post-journal world
9/9

thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

I need a #mathematician to help with a project. Ideally UK-based.

I've emailed a few folks in my uni, but none replied...

Anyone interested?

My need is nonlinear modelling of brain and muscle signals, optimisation, decomposition.

Anyone?

I had mine approved last week in about 24 hrs.

Our contribution to an upcoming book on teaching open science was "how to teach reproducible research". There are plenty of lesson plans or individual courses out there but less on how you can build skills across a whole degree.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

And there's an excellent Feminist literature collection too.