Steve Fleming @smfleming@qoto.org
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL
| Author #KnowThyself (2021)
| Dad of two mini humans 🇬🇧🇭🇷
Joined Nov 2022
Steve Fleming
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In the discussion between the value of exploration and testing some researchers like to pose the two as opposites. I've often heard people say 'but think of the lucky discovery of penicillin'. In 'Advice to a young scientist' Peter Medawar dispells this specific myth, and with it the straw man opposition of exploration and confirmation. Chance favours the prepared mind.
RT @SelinaWray
Another episode of @UCLBrainstories in the bag!
Coming soon - me & @smfleming discuss the Pope, sea urchins & Huntington's disease with Prof Ed Wild @UCLHD
RT @hippopedoid
Interesting paper by Jinke Liu & @martin_a_vinck in @PLOSCompBiol. Applying "distance-of-distance" transformation to the pairwise distance matrix of high-dim data separates signal from noise, making all noise points (grey) cluster together. Impressive!
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010764
RT @marcaurelbusche
My lab @ucl is looking for a postdoc to work on an @UKDRI funded cross-species project about neural circuits in early Alzheimer‘s, in collaboration w/ Ray Dolan @MPC_CompPsych, David Dupret @MRCBNDU, Nick Fox & Natalie Ryan @drcionucl. To apply please see: https://bit.ly/3ZrXNQS
RT @BillyVillano
Excited to share that new work with @helleryeahz, @arossotto, @BrittJaso, Noah Kraus, and Rick Reneau is now published in @ScienceAdvances:
“Individual differences in naturalistic learning link negative emotionality to the development of anxiety”
(1/11) https://twitter.com/ScienceAdvances/status/1611784763701952512
RT @caswellcaswell
Just finished recording the next episode of @UCLBrainstories ... with @TobiasUHauser and @smfleming - should be out in a couple of weeks!
RT @OxACClab
Junior Research Fellowship (postdoc position) at @UnivOxford deadline 20 Jan
https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Stevenson-JRF-in-Psychology-FPs-2023-26.pdf
RT @v_weilnhammer
Really looking forward to this. Thanks so much for inviting me! https://twitter.com/smfleming/status/1612526463692980224
RT @LHuntNeuro
Woot woot!
Helen Barron @HelenCBarron
Stan Dehaene @StanDehaene
Cate Hartley @cate_hartley
Jay McCelland @JLMcCelland
Tim Kietzmann @TimKietzmann
...and many more speakers to come, all at this year's CCN in Oxford at the end of August. Book your diaries now! https://twitter.com/CogCompNeuro/status/1612565583228293120
RT @MaireadMacS
New Research Fellow position @UCL_ICN & @DCAL_UCL leading longitudinal study of the role of visual language input in reading development in hearing children. Come and join us! Deadline 27th Jan. https://bit.ly/3ihx6xw
RT @UCLPALS
The deadline to apply is coming up! Want to study the #brain & #human #behaviour in the real-world using new methods and #digital #technologies? e.g. #VR, #fMRI, #WearableTech
Apply for one of our @ucl studentships! Find more information here: https://buff.ly/2DF3Pqz
RT @StePalminteri
I am also very happy that @NatureHumBehav is opting for transparent peer review. You can find the rebuttal here and see how helpful the reviews were.
Regular reminder that peer reviewing is useful (and I think necessary?) to improve science.
https://www.readcube.com/articles/supplement?doi=10.1038%2Fs41562-022-01496-3&index=2 https://twitter.com/StePalminteri/status/1611042024328675329
RT @maxdkozlov
'Disruptive' science has plummeted — and no one knows why.
Research in the 2000s is much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction.
Check out my latest for @Nature with @russellfunk, @dashunwang, @yian_yin
RT @WiringTheBrain
Is my study useless? Why researchers need methodological review boards https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04504-8
RT @emre_yavuz_21
A fantastic review by @hakwanlau,@MatthiasMichel_, @theamygdaloid and @smfleming!
'The resulting findings might help to reveal the functions of subjective experience and inform current theoretical debates on consciousness.' 🧠⚡️
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RT @quiltydunn
this is mind-blowing work; it looks at one of the most robust effects in cogsci, takes a super intuitive theory that some (i.e., me) assumed to be true, and carefully introduces controls to falsify it. please read! https://twitter.com/sparuniisc/status/1606639090862260224
RT @StePalminteri
Two open positions to work with us
(we are gathering applications till mid-January): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pkTinPufd7tBxhS5i9IqCxtqjHt9JGVp3ePiNEMi36M/edit?usp=sharing
RT @corradosinigagl
Contextual and pure time coding for self and other in the hippocampus | Nature Neuroscience https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01226-y
Steve Fleming
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Neuroscience Trend Forecasters
As 2022 draws to a close, the SNL Trend Forecasters have agreed to divulge their predictions for the most — and the least — exciting research fads for the New Year.
https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/12/neuroscience-trend-forecasters.html
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL
| Author #KnowThyself (2021)
| Dad of two mini humans 🇬🇧🇭🇷
Joined Nov 2022
