This is huge news. The Dorset population seemed to only be composed of aged birds, too old to reproduce. With declining food availability, it seemed like a doomed colony. Thrilling if they bounce back!

Mr Natural@neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Puffling! 😊

Over on X (the everything app) they will say it's "just summer" down there.

James Dinneen@jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Earth’s core may be as much as 1000°C cooler than thought, according to a new technique for measuring the temperature of molten iron under extreme pressures. Story in @science.org. 🧪⚒️🪐 www.science.org/content/arti...

Interesting, but waiting until it's confirmed by seraphim.

Keith Smith@drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 3w ago

Observing an atmosphere on a rocky #exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone: Cherubim et al. use transit spectroscopy to identify helium absorption by LHS 1140b. The results indicate a helium-dominated atmosphere that is undergoing transient escape. ☄️🔭🧪 #Exo6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@davidallengreen.bsky.social Constitutional question: Is Count Binface eligible to contest an election to be an MP, or would his noble title exclude him? Or, to put it another way, what sorts of titles exclude people, and would the removal of the hereditary lords from the Lords allow them to stand?

I just donated blood in this building in Oxford…

Five academic psychology jobs available here in Oz (not in my university) Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor - Perception external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54... Lecturer/Senior Lecturer – Statistics external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...

Lecturer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level B/Level CSalary package: $124,638 - $166,338 per annum plus 17% superannuation Term: Continuing, Full time   The Position:  This Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Level B/C) rol...

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · last mo.

Large-scale academic redundancies at my employer, University of Exeter, with up to 200 being released to 'rightsize and reshape' the institution 🤮

Research Assistant: Cognitive Neuroscience University of Oxford - Oxford, UK Read the full job description and apply⤵️ jobrxiv.org/job/research... #ScienceJobs

STOPPE SERVINGE BEER TO THE MOSQUITOES

Lovely story of a lad travelling to wales to take up an ancient right. Freemen’s rights have been around since before the Normans, and they are all bonkers and parochial, and seemingly all relate to fish weirs or grazing or firewood. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why a Gen Z Londoner can graze sheep in the Welsh valleys

Caleb Tutt travelled from Lambeth to a hilltop in Llantrisant to claim his ancient birthright.

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I wish the news would go back to reporting things that have happened, not things that may or may not happen at an unspecified point in the future, by a person who is not super reliable at doing the things they say they will do.

People like to dunk on MATLAB now, but it’s hard to overstate how large an advance it was at the time and the impact it has had on scientific computing. RIP Cleve Moler www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...

Cleve Moler, Who Unlocked the Power of Computing for Millions, Dies at 86

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Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions.

Great opportunity for someone quant-minded to join YSJ for a year. Quite a small faculty, but Nicola is there so it must be good!

Nicola Savill@nsavpsy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great opportunity for someone excellent post-PhD looking for a Psychology Lecturer position (in York, UK; fixed-term). Not long left to apply to join us (deadline: 18th June)! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU198/l...

Board game idea: BONOPOLY: like Monopoly but where the streets have no name.

We can be pretty pleased with this. We are a great university for students, and landing in the top 10 is excellent. New BSc Psychology and Neuroscience starting in October, in case any 18 year olds are wondering about transferring their UCAS application...

Manchester Metropolitan University@manmetuni.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great news! We've been ranked 8th for Student Life out of over 100 universities in the Uni Compare Rankings 2027 🙌 Alongside placing in the top ten, we also achieved increased rankings scores for accommodation and employability. #McrMetProud

Oh no Herc died 😢

Welp there’s no unseeing this

From the Queen of TMS Meta-analyses, @lysiannebeynel.bsky.social, evidence that psychotherapy paired with rTMS is clinically effective over sham Better results w/ non-concurrent pairing, a welcome finding for those of us with voices softer than a TMS machine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Super excited by this manuscript led by the amazing @brissend.bsky.social By combining fMRI, TMS, and modeling, we finally have causal evidence that the cerebellum is contributing to brain-wide working memory representations and recall performance! 1/n

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cerebellar perturbation impairs human working memory and degrades spatial tuning throughout cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.14.724968v1

Wake up babe, new Bobson Dugnutt just dropped

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sorry, I’m busy for the rest of the day, I’ll be in my office saying various names of players the Dutch national team in what I imagine a Dutch accent sounds like.

Mechanisms of transcranial magnetic brain stimulation by Massimini M et al 2026 doi.org/10.1152/phys... ⚡🧠 🧲 #TMS #BrainStim

Mechanisms of Transcranial Magnetic Brain Stimulation | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) non-invasively activates the human cortex through the intact skull and is now employed worldwide to interrogate physiological and pathological functions of the human brain, and to treat a variety of neurological and psychiatric brain disorders. Yet, the precise routes from the induced electric field to neuronal excitation including network effects remain not fully resolved, limiting the mechanistic basis of all TMS applications. This review deeply surveys how TMS activates the human cortex. We integrate evidence from physics, biophysics, computational modeling, neurophysiological studies in humans using electromyography, electroencephalography, and epidural spinal recordings, and converging non-human primate, rodent, and cortical-slice studies. Collectively, the data suggest that TMS preferentially depolarizes superficial large-diameter myelinated axons, likely at bends, thereby triggering near-instantaneous synaptic activation of local cortical circuits and the emergence of long-range corticocortical and cortico-subcortical network activity. Through this cascade––axonal excitation, cell and circuit recruitment, and network propagation––TMS provides a versatile probe of excitability, function, and dysfunction across spatial scales, from single axons to distributed human brain networks.

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You know that scene in Star Wars where the droids aren't allowed in the bar? I get it now.

Deadline for this job is Tuesday 26th May so you have one week left to get your application in! #neurojobs #psychjobs #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Aidan Horner@aidanhorner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Exciting job opportunity! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a new Lead Technical Specialist to manage the facility and the amazing team of techs. YNiC is an brilliant facility with 3T MRI, whole-head OPM-MEG, TMS, and EEG. Please RT! #neurojobs #psychjobs #psychscisky 🧪

This is a stunning level of data-driven pettiness, and I absolutely love it. variety.com/2026/film/aw...

The Oscars’ New Inclusion Rules Wouldn’t Disqualify Any Best Picture Nominee in History. So Why Is Elon Musk Melting Down Over ‘The Odyssey’?

Elon Musk says the Academy's inclusion standards are

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For anyone not following UK politics, the Health Secretary just resigned saying "I'm going to take on the Prime Minister, and all the lads are with me", and when he looked around all the "lads" are busily whistling and looking the other way. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Wes Streeting resigns as health secretary and calls for 'broad' leadership contest

Streeting tells Keir Starmer he has

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The new Welsh Assembly cabinet has been carefully selected to give English newsreaders a migraine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth reveals new Welsh government ministers

Ap Iorwerth said it was not just a change in administration but a change of approach for governing Wales.

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I agree with this position. Science should be apolitical. It's like Eurovision and the Olympics - you can exclude people for cheating but not for politics, and making it about politics ruins the fun (like this year's Eurovision).

Rolf Zwaan@rolfzwaan.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

Should we boycott researchers in large research projects? In this post I argue we should not. open.substack.com/pub/rolfzwaa...

Wales has a new First Minister in its devolved government. In case it comes up at your Islington dinner party, 'Rhun' is pronounced something like "Hreen". www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Wales election 2026: Rhun ap Iorwerth set to become first Plaid Cymru first minister

Plaid recorded a stunning victory in the Senedd election, replacing Labour as Wales' biggest party.

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Are we supposed to know who that graduation speech AI lady is? I sort of love that no one has bothered to name her. Best forgotten imho.