Always happy to capture a magical milestone on the Little Leaf that Could
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Gavin Buckingham
Профиль VivelyCognitive psychologist interested in perception, illusions, sensorimotor control, and virtual reality. I also blog for early-career academics: https://gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/
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Gavin BuckinghamThe Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.
Discoveryexperts.exeter.ac.uk
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Do please consider signing this... how can a university threaten to fire an entire research group because they focus on basic (rather than applied) research?
Gavin BuckinghamThe Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Note also a lot of the new ESRC schemes are about new innovative ideas, which definitely embraces discovery science www.ukri.org/councils/esr...
Types of funding we offer – ESRCWe provide a range of funding, covering smaller awards to support early career researchers and larger research awards enabling both individuals and larger teams to access funding through our applicant...www.ukri.orgThe Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of ExeterTo Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...docs.google.com
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Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM
Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of NeuropsychologyThere are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...tinyurl.com