Dr Liz Tunbridge

Here's a striking visual illusion - the 9 purple dots.

Focus your eyes on the top left dot. That one is more purple than the others, right? Now try another dot... that one becomes the purple one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744429/

Ghosts feature film officially confirmed as cast and crew unveiled in huge production update Button House is reopening its doors as the BBC comedy favourite Ghosts returns in a big-screen adventure featuring the original cast.

I should be in this film.
I can be the human who annoys the ghosts by always asking questions about tiny details about daily life before they died.
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ghost...

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

Incredibly sad news - a massive loss to science

Oh no - I’m so so sad to hear this. I found her (and indeed the whole VGCC field) to be so welcoming when I started research in that area. A brilliant mind and a wonderful woman 😢

Delicious 😋

a dragon with fire coming out of it 's mouth Alt: A dragon with fire coming out of it’s mouth. We all have fire in our lungs right now from the capsaicin fumes. Turns out you can desensitise all your gastrointestinal TRPV receptors but the ones in the lungs remain unaffected by simple chili consumption.

Experiments in chili sauce making:

I thought I’d combine charred Scotch Bonnets with sofrito & blood orange juice as a sauce base. So far, this has led to large scale evacuation of anywhere vaguely near the kitchen in my apartment and all windows open in -7 degree temperatures. On the bright side…

Daughter just marched out her room livid that someone is throwing snowballs at her window and demanding to go outside and fight back

Reader, the snowball flinger was me

This looks amazing - I will definitely add to my bucket list 😀

Ofc = orbitofrontal cortex?

This is a very impressive list (which I seriously covet). I’ve not seen anywhere near this many shows, but The Glass Menagerie @theyardtheatre.bsky.social blew my mind and broke my heart. I can’t wait to see what this extraordinary venue does next ❤️ www.theyardtheatre.co.uk/events/the-g...

The neuroscience laboratory is closed for the holidays, but a staff member is on hand to answer the Consciousness Hotline. Scientist on the phone in an otherwise deserted office: "So, to summarise: No, I can't say with complete certainty that you exist. But yes, you probably ought to go back to work after the holidays anyway."

My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com

And now it’s Christmas… 😀

Exceptional festive headwear. 10/10

Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...

This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027.
And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...

An excerpt from Project Hail Mary featuring communication between two species who do not share language or sensory perception, and yet share (for want of a better word) humanity. It’s so so good - I cannot recommend highly enough

I am reading Project Hail Mary as part of my #book group and…wow…

I may well not have found this by myself but it is *brilliant*. I am going to have serious book grief when I finish it

I agree.

For me, at first, Academia was very much an identity and a calling.

Years later, after some experience of terrible university management, it is "a job".

Some other reflections (which turned out to be about workload management, and ways of working)

A Christmas lamp made with dried oranges, star anise and cinnamon sticks, backlit with fair lights

I have gone from zero to fully festive in 2 days. Bring on the Christmas crafting!

Check this out! Wonderful resource for grant hunting
#neuroskyence #science #neuroimaging

In a surprise to absolutely no one, the mum she’s describing is not claiming benefits as a “lifestyle choice”.

This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄

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1/9

I was thinking of the train scene (much more appealing than driving…) but equally true for legs vs crop duster

North by Northwest?

Thank you so much to @acnporg.bsky.social
for this absolute honor! Grateful to all I've worked with particularly mentors who've given such amazing examples, to brilliant mentees, & my friend for such kind words!
The work is the important thing & I'm so grateful we get to promote it this way!

Duolingo Italian lesson teaching the phrase “Eight patients are dead”

Duolingo thinks Italian speakers should know how to say “Where are the bodies?”

It’s not getting any better

New expert-led guidance clarifies terminology for pathogenic CACNA1C variants, defining Timothy Syndrome and introducing CACNA1C-Related Disorders (CRDs). Read the preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
#CACNA1C #TimothySyndrome #RareDisease

Is Italy ok? I’ve not had any of these phrases in German

#duolingo

The true winner is men being kind to each other #celebritytraitors

I mean, did anyone check if they walked or if they flew?

Best of luck! I look forward to (hopefully) seeing the results 😀

Really interesting - thanks for sharing. If I understand correctly the homing pigeons had been trained and raced*? If so, is there any data on innate differences (ie in ‘unraced’ pigeons?)

*apologies for any naive misunderstandings or other errors - I work on humans, not birds 😀