We had a look at a question I am really excited about: does an individuals intrinsic brain rhythm predict speech tracking and comprehension? And how do speech motor and auditory rhythms work together? by Christina Lubinus, @annekeitel.bsky.social @jonasobleser.bsky.social @davidpoeppel.bsky.social

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 2d ago

Speech comprehension is thought to depend on #auditory - #motor interactions via brain rhythms. This study by @johannarimmele.bsky.social &co links theta and motor rhythms to stronger #speech tracking, the latter among those with high auditory-motor synchronization. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4fDnKY0

In 50 days time our members will be taking 5 weeks of strike action. We call for the redundancy process to be stopped! Executives want 200 jobs to go (187FTE). Due to resignations and retirements, and non-staff savings, they are 35FTE from their staffing target. Stop this cruel, flawed process.

We're taking 25 days of strike action in September, unless the University Court and UEG make a decision to stop the cuts to staff and courses, and closures of services and cultural assets. Listen to Dundee City Council. Listen to the Scottish Government. Listed to the people of Dundee.

UCU Scotland@ucuscotland.bsky.social · 3w ago

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1458...

Join us tomorrow at this event organised by Dundee Trades Union Council. It is for everyone who supports staff and students at the University of Dundee and wants to see the cuts stopped. Please come along and show your support. Thursday 16th July - 12:30pm Outside Bonar Hall, Nethergate, Dundee

How much more evidence does the @scottishgov.bsky.social need to stop the redundancy process underway at University of Dundee? @qmucu.bsky.social @thecourier.co.uk @theferret.scot @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social @dundeewestend.bsky.social @maggiechapman.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Dundee UCU@ducuuo.bsky.social · last mo.

The Scottish Funding Council waved through the University of Dundee's Strategy to Recovery, even though it broke their funding conditions. The Scottish Gov need to ACT NOW and ask the SFC to reverse their decision, and stop the redundancy process TODAY. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

International students are supported by the fantastic people in the English for International Students team at the University of Dundee. The team is at risk of redundancy. Listen to our student talking about how the team helped them. Then sign this petition. www.change.org/p/save-engli...

Scotland is facing a wave of hyper-scale AI data centre planning applications. If all the data centres are built, they will consume more than 1.5 times Scotland’s total peak energy use. ✍️Write to the First Minister and demand a pause of mega data centre applications greens.scot/datacentres

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland

Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -

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If you are a Scottish tax payer, you may want to know - like us - what is happening with government funding made available to UoD. Read @ducuuo.bsky.social 's latest press release for more info.

Dundee UCU@ducuuo.bsky.social · last mo.

We are calling for - a forensic audit of the the finances of the University of Dundee - a review of University governance structures - a judicial review of the processes that led to restructuring of the University and proposal to close courses and services sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/

Last week at UoDundee: Celebrating our graduates 🎉 while fighting for jobs✊️. Help us save our uni from cutting staff, programmes and facilities. Many petitions are live and you can let your reps know that you oppose the cuts. Find all links ⬇️ linktr.ee/saveuod #StopTheCuts @ducuuo.bsky.social

c.org/JGxvMV2MPq Please sign this petition to save Philosophy and our wonderful colleagues under threat at the University of Dundee.

Sign the Petition

Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University

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Please tell at least one person about our public meeting to save jobs at the University of Dundee. We need to reach as many people affected by the closures to courses and services. Today, 6pm, Dundee Central Library.

Stop the Mass Cuts at the University of Dundee Thank you to our students for starting this petition. So proud. c.org/xsrmm2wdnD #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

Sign the Petition

Oppose University of Dundee mass cuts

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Join us at this Emergency Public Meeting to Save the University of Dundee. Open to everyone Monday 22nd June, 6pm. Dundee Central Library. @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social @dcadundee.bsky.social @vadundee.bsky.social @unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @ucu.org.uk @ucuscotland.bsky.social

Plans to build a hyperscale AI Dara Centre in Fife need to be stopped. The proposals could use up to 20% of Scotland’s energy and seriously local nature. 📣Tell Fife Council to block the proposals: greens.scot/stopfifeaida...

Join the campaign to save jobs at the University of Dundee. Emergency Public Meeting - Monday 22nd June, 6pm at Dundee Central Library.

We have written to the First Minister and deputy first minister. We have written and met with the SFC. We have asked local and regional MSPs to lobby on our behalf. We have informed SFC and UEG they have breached the conditions of funding. There has been no effective action to stop job cuts.

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

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We'll be protesting this ⬇️ peacefully today outside Court. #SaveHE #SaveUoD

Dundee UCU@ducuuo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

£20m more staff cuts being put to the University’s Court today. Around 250 people will be made redundant if the plan goes through and remove all of that £20m every year from the local economy and high street. Over 1000 staff gone. @dundee.ac.uk @thecourier.co.uk @eveningtelegraph.bsky.social

We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...

These past few weeks the fight for our uni has taken a new turn. We've lost ~700 staff already. Will it be 1000 in the end, with the management's "Strategy to Recovery"? Unis as a business vs as a place of research & education - coming to a head in Dundee and across the UK. More ⬇️

Dundee UCU@ducuuo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today members of the Dundee UCU branch protested against their voices not being heard. “We are disappointed to learn that a paper that Dundee UCU was invited to submit to Court for inclusion in the Court’s workshop on University’s recovery was rejected without appeal.” 1/4

Today members of the Dundee UCU branch protested against their voices not being heard. “We are disappointed to learn that a paper that Dundee UCU was invited to submit to Court for inclusion in the Court’s workshop on University’s recovery was rejected without appeal.” 1/4

Official petition for the UK to rejoin the EU, open to UK citizens and residents: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... Takes literally 1 minute, very quick. With changing political climate, worth making your UK voice heard if this is your view. Petition closes June 8th 2026.

Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

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Paper now published in Neuroscience of Consciousness and led by @chkhaidze.bsky.social: From dots to faces: individual differences in visual imagery capacity predict the content of Ganzflicker-induced hallucinations academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

From dots to faces: individual differences in visual imagery capacity predict the content of Ganzflicker-induced hallucinations

Abstract. A rapidly alternating red and black display known as Ganzflicker induces visual hallucinations that reflect the generative capacity of the visual

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Dr Reshanne Reeder@kerblooee.bsky.social · last yr.

Thousands of people have provided written accounts of their Ganzflicker hallucinations, so @chkhaidze.bsky.social used NLP and machine learning techniques to explore the different content described by individuals across the imagery spectrum - what did she find? ... 1/5 arxiv.org/abs/2507.09011

Many thanks for your support @maggiechapman.bsky.social - the townhall with the excellent presentation by @melchem.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social countering the doom & gloom narrative of uni exec finance, used as justification for further cuts, is still available as a recording to all staff.

Maggie Chapman (she/her)@maggiechapman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last week I attended the staff Townhall meeting @dundee.ac.uk. Dundee UCU told us about staff cuts, the impact of redundancies, & the urgent need for new direction. The University Executive Group must change course: compulsory redundancies are not the answer! open.substack.com/pu...

I'm very grateful for any support to help re-elect me as MSP for North East Scotland. Link in comments. 1/2

❤️‍🔥 Exciting new preprint ❤️‍🔥 #Pupil constriction causes, by itself and independently of visual stimulation, activity in the human #retina and #visual system. w/ @anavili.bsky.social @veerahelmisofia.bsky.social @hakankarsilar.bsky.social @olaf.dimigen.de 1/4 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Reminder if you support us to sign and share if you can! ✍🏻 We're coming up to a year since I sent this letter to my executive board and I will resend it on or close to the year mark with even more international and national support against AI. Thank you! openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4mo ago

I have a migraine, but I'm so done with seeing these everywhere every few months that I had to send an email — and I know others have too. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social Please, they must stop doing this. I'm so tired of this nonsense.

Very happy and proud about two recent preprints by talented PhD students Sümeyye Sen Alpay and Sarah Allen. 👀Pupil- and gaze dynamics track emotion content in natural speech doi.org/10.64898/202... 📖Cortical Tracking of Speech and Music Predicts Reading Ability in Adults doi.org/10.64898/202...

Our members turned out in the wind and cold this morning to ask the University of Dundee to rule out compulsory redundancies. #SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni