Wendy W @WendyW@qoto.org

#introduction 🙋‍♀️
I'm a interdisciplinary #cognitive and #neuroscientist studying how human brain structure supports it’s functions. I am particularly curious about the interplay between nature and nurture upon brain structure and what this means for cognition. #scaffolds is a word I like a lot right now.

Well hello Mastodon! It looks like people are doing #introductions, so, I’m Professor of Cognitive Development at the University of Leeds. A particular interest is #workingmemory and how to support children with working memory difficulties in the classroom. #developmentalpsychology #cognitivepsychology #education

Looking forward to welcoming @jorgemlg to give this week's Consciousness Club on "The Varieties of Metacognition" - should be fun!

*Note later time* of 3pm-430pm GMT, Wed 30th Nov. For more info and how to join see http://metacoglab.org/consciousness-club - all welcome!

@WCHN_UCL @EP_UCL #moa

Apparently an ex GBNews editorial director is now going to be director of news @BBCNews - parody is becoming more difficult by the day.

#OnThisDay, 26 Nov 1867, Lily Maxwell voted in Chorlton Town Hall, Manchester, UK.

At the time only men who where ratepayers could vote. A widow running a shop, Maxwell’s name was put on the electoral roll by mistake.

She marched down to the town hall and voted, becoming the first recorded woman to vote in the UK.
#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons @histodons

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

"Solar PV rapidly becoming the cheapest option to generate electricity", I wrote in 2011*. Controversial then, happened now!
https://grist.org/solar-power/2011-10-11-solar-pv-rapidly-becoming-cheapest-option-generate-electricity/

*) when @drvolts was still drgrist on the birdsite :)

Hyde park morning

#tw

@Murgledom Lovely. Is this the sculpture you can see from the M57 (maybe M62?) Motorway?

"A head full of stars"

*Click for the full image*

75 minutes of star trails behind Jaume Plensa's 'Dream' sculpture, a 20 metre high, 373 tonne monument to the mining industry on the site of Sutton Manor Colliery near St Helens in Northwest England

#sculpture #art #publicart #photography #longexposure #landscapephotography #stars #astro #astronomy #astrophotography #startrails

Should you buy an #eBike to replace your regular #bike? - Android Authority

Can an #electric bike replace my need for a regular bike? Is riding an e-bike #safe, #practical, and, most of all, #fun? There was only one way to find out, so I abandoned my regular #bikes and went all-in on an e-bike for two weeks.

https://www.androidauthority.com/buy-e-bike-opinion-3222874/

I don't yet know what the etiquette is here about announcing stuff you're doing. So I'll take a chance. If you like jazz you might like the JR Sextet. we're doing a bunch of shows in London in the New Year. All of them are listed here.

https://www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows

A good day for climate Mastodon: Katharine Hayhoe has arrived! Follow her here: @kathhayhoe

#climatescience #climate #climatejustice #ClimateChange #optimism #climateaction

#helloworld! I like it when the #internet is for everyone and am trying out the #fediverse. Please bear with me; I was told I should use lots of #hashtags and am trying out the features.

I'm using #fedilab on Android. I already have a #noobquestion: can I add hashtags in Fedilab to my home feed? Right now I have some hashtags in the top bar but I have to view them all separately. #thx!

How many characters are too many? Can I just go on forever? I heard there was a limit but I still haven't reached it. Maybe it's 600 characters? 1000? I guess at some point the numbers will just go red and I will know what's up. Ok it wasn't 600. I'll just search online then because this is getting way out of hand. ...GREAT SCOTT I'm glad I did: it's 65,535 characters on my instance. #qoto 😂

@BrentToderian I like this idea, without having any evidence that it is true. Vibrant creative cities are brilliant places to just be.

I’ve worked in and for hundreds of cities all over the world. The cities that are doing amazing and innovative things aren’t cities with ideal weather, or topography, or size, or demographics, or wealth, or regulatory systems/powers, or even politics.

They’re the cities that have stopped making excuses.

#cities #urbanism

Deactivate my account on the bird app today.
Appreciate the community on here @freemo and the @QOTO instance.

I'll be honest here, as a humble instance admin receiving all kinds of DMs and emails...

The abuse, excessive reports... folks our instance grew from 60 users to 22000 in the span of two weeks. I didn't expect to suddenly commit 6-8 hours of my day to this. Knowing I have other commitments like a day job and other things.

I'm burning the candle on both ends here. Look at this toot timestamp. Please save space for some patience.

Y'all clearly don't remember this image:

#mastoadmin #mstdnca

50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR TWITTER

You just pin your last tweet, Pete,
Request your archive, Clive,
You don’t need a blue tick, Vic,
Just get yourself free.

Hop on the tusk, Gus,
You don’t need to delete much,
Except your DMs, Jen,
And get yourself free.

Use Debirdify, Di,
Provide some alt tags, Mags,
Add a content warning, Tim,
To post sensitively.

Remember to boost, Ruth
You don't need to deny truth,
Just drop off the perch, Dirk,
And get yourself free.
#VerseThurday #TwitterMigration #FediTips

What’s the thinking on Fanny Mendelssohn v Fanny Hensel? I’m seeing more posts referring to her as Hensel now - is that thought to be more authentically how she thought of herself?
Planning a couple of talks about her in the new year and want to get it right!

@sarahfritzwritr @womencomposers