Michel Belyk

Come watch us be silly on stage for @britishneuro.bsky.social #BNA2025 Festival of Neuroscience! It’ll be v fun, prob a bit strange & it’s for charity! 🧠🪩

📅 Thu 24 Apr @ 7pm
📍 LEAF, Bold St, Liverpool
🎟️ www.eventbookings.com/b/event/neur...

@painreliefteam.bsky.social
@lng.org.uk

The Roads Both Taken xkcd.com/3076

Renowned scientific integrity investigator endows fund to support fellow sleuths Microbiologist Elisabeth Bik donates $200,000 to support training, travel

Elisabeth Bik has donated her $200k Einstein Foundation Award to create a fund to train and support research integrity investigators

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

We all know how to stop a bully. But when it's a powerful bully, fear takes center stage and people come with arguments saying that resistance is futile or counterproductive. That is exactly what the bully wants. And gives him even more power. And the cycle repeats.

Thanks Dorothy for speaking up

Language-like efficiency in whale communication Whale vocalizations follow efficiency rules seen in human language, revealing striking similarities in communication systems.

Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Adobe's spellchecker apparently has an opinion to share.

postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

The right sound at the right time: Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing Acting on the world requires the right action at the right time. This is perhaps most easily seen in music where the meaning of a piece is encoded exp…

A very interesting paper on "Cerebellar and ventral striatal involvement in imitating pitch and timing" by @michelbelyk.bsky.social and S. Kotz www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint chapter on voice motor control for an upcoming Oxford Handbook of Language and Music live now (doi.org/10.31219/osf...). Just some stuff we know about voices and the brains that control them.

Signatures of speech and song: “Universal” links despite cultural diversity Equitable collaboration between culturally diverse scientists reveals that acoustic fingerprints of human speech and song share parallel relationships across the globe.

For more context, see the excellent commentary by
Daniela Sammler at science.org/doi/10.1126/... and media coverage, including:
The New York Times by Carl Zimmer: nytimes.com/2024/05/15/s...

Forbes by Eva Amsen: forbes.com/sites/evaams...

Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses Scientific Reports - Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses

What better occasion for a first post here!

Happy to share this fun new paper that came out today at #ScientificReports. In this online behavioral study we showed that facial signals allow us to predict the nature of an upcoming response.

@judithholler.bsky.social

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We seem to have made the same new years resolution!