Heading to Barcelona for #FENS2026? 🧠 Here is your ultimate guide to connecting with the ALBA community and levelling up your #equity & #inclusion advocacy. 📍 All events take place at the Fira Gran Via, Barcelona @fens.org @sfn.org
Miguel Maravall
@mmaravall.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. EU immigrant in Brighton & Hove - Sussex - UK. Doomscroller. He/him
Delighted to share a new review written with @liviadehoz.bsky.social on the relations between statistical learning and other forms of sensitivity to environmental statistics including adaptive coding: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... 1/2
Setting the stage for statistical learning? Sensitivity to environmental statistics in early sensory processing
Our brains make sense of the world on a moment-by-moment basis despite its enormous complexity, largely because its overall statistical structure can …
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🌏 From Declaration to Action – Final Workshop! After exploring bias and inclusion, our last session will focus on how to make EDI change last. 🎥 Hybrid: Live streamed EDI panel from @ausneurosoc.bsky.social Meeting + interactive online workshop. 🗓 1 Dec – 12:40 AEDT (Hobart, AU) 🔗 loom.ly/wLQaW34
Posting this after some recent conversations with potential international applicants - still time to apply to our Masters courses and International PhD Academy for 2025 entry - join the diverse and vibrant Neuroscience community on our beautiful campus next to Brighton
Want to join our vibrant postgrad community? Discover all our Neuroscience courses here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/subjects/neuroscience Including: 🏫 International PhD Academy 🏫 Masters courses 🏫 Opportunities across several schools: Life Science; Psychology; Computer Science & AI; and BSMS
📢 2025 ALBA Board of Directors nominations are NOW OPEN! Are you passionate about EDI in neuroscience? This is your chance to shape the future of ALBA! Self-nominations are welcome. We strongly encourage candidates from underrepresented groups. 🔗 alba.network/elections ⏳ Deadline: 22 April 2025
Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!! Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience! 🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4 🗓️20 January 2025
Mix neuroscience with the seaside! 4 year PhD programme on the UK's south coast at the University of Sussex. Fantastic community of excellent researchers across the neuro field. Apply now. Please RT.
Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...
A huge pleasure to repost this announcement - over 40 students have graduated from our fantastic @sussexneuro.bsky.social PhD programme, and each year brings new perspectives and opportunities for both the new joiners and ourselves as their hosts. Do consider applying!
Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...