Please RT. PhD students funded by UK Research and Innovation face a cash crisis. They are working full-time, yet earning less than living wage. With the rising cost of living and increasing pressure to deliver high quality research that benefits society, something needs to change. THREAD (1/10)

Listen to PSYCHSCIENCES@MQ's Prof Anina Rich explain the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon--aka Frequency Illusion/Bias--on *Tell Me How Tell Me Why* thelift.iradio.ie/episodes/the-b…

My lab is recruiting for a post-doc opportunity at Macquarie University, Sydney, investigating the neural basis of attention: tinyurl.com/2x7wzvsn Please feel free to share with your networks!

Kicking off an exciting day of talks at the ⁦The MARCS Institute⁩ with the amazing ⁦Hannah Rapaport⁩!

Is abdominal body fat good or bad for brain health of post-menopausal females? And does this depend on the nr of reproductive years prior to menopause? Body fat is found to be detrimental to the brain, but could also provide a source of (neuroprotective) oestrogen post-menopause.

Congratulations to our very own Anina Rich for being awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Student-Nominated Award yesterday! So we’ll deserved! PSYCHSCIENCES@MQ

What a great day for MQ Cognitive and Brain Sciences! CBS students held the first annual general meeting of their newly formed student society, followed by a fun get-together with students and staff to celebrate the end of a big year. Macquarie University

Was a lot of fun to present the findings from my first first-author paper in Oxford at #OxNeuro2023 today!

Maya Gumussoy presents on characterising and understanding food disgust using🦗as a test food!

CONGRATS to Sophia Shatek for winning the Best Student Poster Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology!!! The Ducks of the EPC2023 Posters! Making USYD Psychology proud! Special mention to Tabea-Maria Haase, representing the psychophysicists!

Prof Anina Rich from PSYCHSCIENCES@MQ will draw on expertise in sensory and cognitive processing to support a new cutting-edge research project that will help reduce motorcycle accidents and fatalities with an advanced rider assistance system. business.carsales.com.au/leisure_and_in…

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

It was an absolute pleasure to share some of my research findings on motion silencing with you, thank you for having me!

I will soon be advertising a PhD scholarship to work on vision+brains+AI at The MARCS Institute in Sydney, Australia. Start date: January 2024. Please tell interested students to get in touch (dm/email)

The Macquarie Minds & Intelligences Initiative holds free public seminars each month on topics related to cognitive science! Follow our Twitter to know what’s on 🧠⚡️ MQ Cognitive and Brain Sciences

The 23rd International Conference on Biomagnetism will be held in Sydney next year, August 26th - 29th 🎉 We are looking for student volunteers for the conference. Fill in this form by November 30 if you're interested! buff.ly/3R3YH44

📢DM or email me if you are interested in visiting us in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 in 2024. Happy to provide more details about this scholarship. We had fantastic people visit to do awesome science projects this year. Please share widely!! 🇦🇺🦘🐨

Thrilled to have presented my research on using MEG to uncover the neural pattern of motion silencing this week Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society & receiving a Best PhD Poster Award! Thank you to the society & organisers for providing the opportunity for a delightful week of scientific exchange!

The PSYCHSCIENCES@MQ's Prof Anina Rich joined ABC News's Richard Glover for Self-Improvement Wednesday: the Phenomenon of Synaesthesia. Listen here: abc.net.au/listen/program… Learn more about Anina's research: researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/ani…

Stolen Bike: A Bulls - Zarena Street 2 has been reported as stolen from York, YO10 #bikestolen