Ella Striem-Amit @StriemAmit@qoto.org

There's been far less response to my inquiry about tactile researchers here - but I'll try via

@tactile

rearchers in the field of #touch, tactile-motor, tactile-#multisensory, #tactile #neuroscience, sign up and paste the group name under your touch-related posts. All subscribers will see your post in their timeline.

Please spread via RT.

@TheHandLab @RochelleAckerley @Kkilteni_neuro

I’m feeling concerned that many of us have recently joined #Mastodon and that the long term visually impaired community are now inundated with beautiful photos with no #alttext to describe the photo. Only about 1 in 5 Toots describe photos on my timeline. We all need to curb our enthusiasm to share undescribed photos and embrace our descriptive writing. I’m not on my high horse just concerned that we’ve arrived en masse and need to do our very best to embrace #MastodonCulture.

So I created a #sensorimotor group: @sensorimotor

if you click on it, you can subscribe. When you post, paste the group name at the end of your post and all group followers will see it.

Please spread via RT...

@jjodx @paulgribble @aaronlwong @StriemAmit @opherdonchin @johannarimmele @rrangana1 @haar @Magda_Gippert @thartbm @Ferris_vball @pmedendorp @boisgontier @Bestmannlab

*Psychology Repository Update*

https://kaitclark.github.io/mastodon-psychology/

We've just crossed the 500 mark and now have 502 people on the Psychologists on Mastodon list!

Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. With so many new people having joined, you may want to review the updated list and see if you want to follow the new people.

To be added complete this form: https://go.uwe.ac.uk/psychmastodon

I update the list on at least a weekly basis. You can also let me know directly if you need your details updated.

As someone who regularly uses screen readers and works with blind colleagues who rely on screen readers to access the internet, please let me assure you that using #hashtags within the body of a post is not a problem.

You don’t need to move them to the end!

It is helpful to use #CamelCase to avoid gibberish for many word combos, but the extra # is so minimal as to disappear given how much else screen readers say & how fast they speak to experienced users.

new preprint from our lab:

Dynamic spatial coding in parietal cortex mediates hand movement planning towards touch

by former PhD student Janina Klautke (Brandes)
and postdoc Celia Foster

participants pointed to/away from tactile stimuli on (un)crossed feet (=pro/anti task). We find anatomical and spatial stimulus coding, pro/anti rule, and motor goal location in posterior parietal cortex. Spatial coding changes over the trial.

#neuroscience
#sensorimotor

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.12.516245v1