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Excited to announce our recent grant @LeverhulmeTrust has been funded! Collaborating with @StephanieRossit @TimKietzmann and working with @everythingpau we’ll investigate the neural and computational mechanisms underlying material perception. PhD & postdoc adds early next year!

Did you know that neuroscience played a key role in AI’s development? Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine explores how brain research led to artificial neural networks, machine learning, and modern AI. Watch the full documentary: brainprize.org/winners/comput…

The FIFA Club World Cup starts this week with @CocaCola as a main sponsor. The evidence that fizzy drinks do harm is overwhelming - and the players are no more likely to consume them as a source of athletic energy than they are to light up a cigarette at half-time. My piece in…

The global neurorights movement continues to gain momentum: NRF's @yusterafa just returned from Uruguay, where he testified in Parliament in support of a neural data protection bill. We look forward to continue working with Uruguay's leadership to advance strong legal protections…

Please share; My lab at @UEAPsychology @uniofeastanglia is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/1511…

As an ambassador , I'm firmly behind @BigIssue's call for a ‘Poverty Zero’ law – the establishment of statutory poverty reduction targets . Please join me in my support by signing the petition at bigissue.com/poverty-zero – thank you !

📣It is our firm stance that protecting students and staff at UEA requires us to fight compulsory redundancies with every tool we have. 🥰We've had a fantastic turnout on the picket this week and are so grateful to everyone who has supported us. 🚩Together we can #SaveUEA

"Today's data confirms UK universities remain under severe financial stress." @DrJoGrady New HESA & OfS data confirms our universities are in crisis. Over 10,000 jobs are at risk and international student numbers are under threat from short-sighted immigration policy. Join…

"There would be something deeply perverse about celebrating the defeat of the extreme right on the battlefield on VE Day while ignoring the fact that much of the West is currently voting for its ideological descendants at the ballot box." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"The financial crisis facing English universities is the result of a failed free market experiment." Writes Philip Augar in the @FT 3⁄4 of English universities are expected to be in deficit by 2026. 10,000 jobs are under threat. Change is needed. ft.com/content/7514ea…

Compulsory redundancies remain on the table at @uniofeastanglia "It’s time for UEA management to do the right thing, drop the threats, engage meaningfully, and commit to real accountability." @DrJoGrady Solidarity with all striking staff. ✊ #SaveUEA #UCU

📣UEA UCU members have voted for 9 days of strike action to commence this week from Thurs 1st May. 📣This is in response to management's plans to continue progressing compulsory redundancies. 📣There is still time for the employer to change course. #SaveUEA

"There is a crisis in Higher Education in this country, and this crisis writ large in an institution in my own area - the University of East Anglia." Thanks @AliceMLabour for speaking up for UEA staff and students at today's parliamentary debate on university finances. #SaveUEA

A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu

I am in solidarity with the UEA staff who are now taking industrial action against plans to cut 163 full-time equivalent roles in addition to the 400 posts lost in 2023. I know UEA staff are angry that the university hasn't engaged in "meaningful negotiations" and urge it to…

Welfare cuts will mean another quarter million will fall into relative poverty, including another 50,000 children. Nobody remembers stats, but we remember stories. How about the Labour cabinet watch I Daniel Blake again, shamefully more relevant now that it was under the Tories.…

There is power in coming together and acting as a collective in moments of crisis, and we need to act together to support all our colleagues who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy. Join us on the picket this Weds 26th. #SaveUEA @ucu timeshighereducation.com/news/uea-staff…

‼️Huge vote for strike action by @CardiffUCU members 🚀83% YES vote 🚀64% turnout Time for management to protect jobs and courses! ucu.org.uk/article/13961/…

“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak. Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be far fairer & more effective than more cuts