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📣 SO EXCITED to share with you all my third first-author paper from my PhD: “Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance.” ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.jenv… I am so grateful to the wonderful team who turned this dream into a reality! 🙌

Postdoc with me, 14 months from this autumn on our awesome VR x kids project… pls take a look and pass on! tinyurl.com/DurhamVRKids

Great times at the UCL PaLS PPG conference at Cumberland Lodge, a former royal residence in beautiful Windsor. A unique opportunity to meet fellow PhD students and present our Ecological Brain research. Also received the best poster award voted by my peers - now that’s royal to me!🫶

Two papers out on the same day! Using tasks from cognitive psychology we evaluate 7 LLMs and show that they display irrationality, but not in the same way humans do. They are often incorrect in ways that differ from human-like biases. Mirco Musolesi royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Our paper on a game-theoretic agent-based approach to conflict modelling is now out in PLOS ONE.

Would you like to carry out your PhD in our Ecobrain programme? These scholarships are an excellent opportunity and are open to applicants from any country

Amazing work by our PhD students and supervisors!!!

Very proud to see this paper in eLife - the journal! Great PhD work by Viktor Kewenig. Perhaps the first study (!?) that looks at word processing across situated and displaced contexts in naturalistic language. Ecological Brain The Leverhulme Trust

Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social Sandra Wachter [email protected] Chris Russell Wendy Hall Join us on Wednesday 16 October at 2pm (Europe/UK) to hear authors Sandra Wachter [email protected] and Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social discuss this article with #RSOS editor Mirco Musolesi - find out more & sign up here: cassyni.com/events/VFAWmoc… #LLMs #AI

My final morning in Melbourne. Our paper at MobileHCI 2025 received an honourable mention! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this project. If you’re interested in how people can re-imagine and change both technologies and themselves, give it a read dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

New Ecobrain work!

Apply for a studentship through the UBEL-DTP (Ecological Study of Brain and Behaviour Pathway) Online workshop, including presentations and guidance on the application process: Date: 17 October 2024 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM For more info - visit ubel-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-studentsh…

Are you looking for an exciting PhD? Stay tune the Doctoral Training Programme for the Ecological Study of the Brain will commence recruitment shortly!