Rebecca O’Neill
@sbectacular
'career student' | I work with brains at Monash Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab investigating pregnancy & sense of self, previously @NSB_Lab
Check this new work by @TrangCao2016 Massive analysis on multiple sites and multiple disorders. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
1000s of studies have been published mapping neuroanatomical changes in psychiatric disorders. Can we ever converge on robust disease phenotypes? Our latest PP led by @TrangCao2016 in a huge collab effort investigates this question... @NSB_Lab
THE MAGNET IS ALWAYS ON THE MAGNET IS ALWAYS ON THE MAGNET IS ALWAYS ON
this story is absolutely unremarkable except in how it managed to combine almost everything it's socially acceptable to hate brilliantly: HR, Coldplay, Cheaters, CEOs, millionaires.
The French dub of Emily in Paris rewrites the whole show so that instead of not knowing French Emily knows French but has a bad accent
Lovely Quanta piece featuring the fab work of @SharnaJamadar and team !
In a recent paper, the neuroscientist Sharna Jamadar reviewed studies from simultaneous MRI and PET imaging that measure the brain’s energy use. Her work shows that an active brain consumes just 5% more energy than a resting one. quantamagazine.org/how-much-energ…
Checking in on my number one and he continues to absolutely Get It 💛
Investing in communities instead of prisons and police can look like this: a place for young people to go at night where they can play a game of UNO or basketball and grab a feed. This country spends billions on child prisons and little on programs like this that actually work.
Genuinely don’t think I’ve seen a better, more open and honest approach from a company to a major stuff up. Some (all) of our larger corporate entities, and our politicians, could take a leaf out of this company’s book. Stuff up, own it, fix it. Kudos. 👍
How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech
If you are unemployed, looking for more work, between gigs or generally interested in seeing how elections and big projects work—these are good jobs, and they are for you.
Looking for some extra cash, to help out your community & have an interesting experience? We need approx. 100k Aussies to help out before, on & after election day. ✨ aec.gov.au/jobs
university witches be like "I've got so much hex debt it's insane"
I pre-registered my emdash intentions in my honours thesis tyvm
Just saw someone saying using the em-dash is a sign of something being written by AI, because real people rarely use it. This is terrible news for everyone like me who has an unhealthy emotional attachment to the em-dash.
PhD students are the engine room of research
🇦🇺 should be doing everything we can to attract & retain the next generation of ppl with big ideas PhD students shouldn’t be living in poverty to complete their study ⬆️ the stipend was recommended by the Universities Accord - govt should get on with it abc.net.au/news/2025-01-1…
An African-Australian beating Peter Norman’s record 56 years after this is honestly so fitting. He’d be so proud of how far we’ve come as a country since then, hope we all look after Gout Gout