Come and study for your PhD at Sussex! In the 1st year you get to try out labs before choosing who to do your PhD with. Comes with generous lab costs and UKRI-linked living stipend. Open to UK and non-UK applicants.

Please RT... Carl Philpott (Norwich Medical School) and I are hoping to recruit a PhD student (Oct 2023 start) UEA Psychology to work on the impact of smell loss on declarative memory uea.ac.uk/course/phd-doc…

There is still time to apply for this very special funded #PhD studentship investigating great #ape #wellbeing to aid conservation efforts and improve quality of life across settings - supervised by me, Prof Ben Garrod & GDonati - Deadline 23rd Jan! Please share 🦍🐵🦍🐵🦍🐵

We love this important project from Stagecoach South, Alzheimer's Research UK and University of Sussex – the Enviro400 #SussexBrainBus on dementia research and how to reduce your risk of Alzheimer's disease: sussexbrainbus.org 📸 Thanks to Steve Thorpe from Stagecoach South for the photo!

Problem: biological psychology textbooks are necessary but horrendously expensive for Unis and students Solution: write one with contributions from multiple experts and make it #OpenAccess! Spectacular acheivement by Catherine Hall and team openpress.sussex.ac.uk/introductionto… via Pressbooks

This is going to be amazing! Come see Edith Hamel Dr. Axel Montagne, PhD and the excellent chairs Dr. Silvia Anderle and @bethsbrainbites . Neurovascular contributions are KEY to understanding why dementia emerges.

It's #BrainAwarenessWeek and what better way to celebrate than to book yourself onto one of our free neuroscience events British Neuroscience Association BYOB in Brighton next month. There are a range of events from photo exhibitions to workshops to open science demos. meetings.bna.org.uk/byobbrighton/

I’m delighted to announce the lovely @orlabonbon and @kirashaw 's paper is out in @_jcbfm journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Haven’t got time to read it right now? Here’s a 🧵 to summarise it! 1/11

Very happy the Sussex Neuroscience has been selelcted as one of University of Sussex's Centres of Excellence! A testament to all of the amazing work being carried out by my wonderful colleagues!

Can you trust your memory of events? New research by psychologists from one of our Centres of Excellence, SussexNeuro, has found that human memories are unreliable because we like stories with predictable endings. #ImpossibleUntilDone ow.ly/h0ga50PHSRJ

Very proud to share news of our recent paper “False Memories for Ending of Events” by co-first authors Petar Raykov and Dominika Varga. Here’s a thread about it… psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

FLOW is flowing, Fishing Quarter Gallery, Brighton seafront. Pop by and reflect on brains, blood vessels and brain health! By William Lindley Supported by Research at ARUK

102 synaesthetic MRI scans available for others to use…nature.com/articles/s4159… Watch this space for our further analysis of this data…

The Ferrier Medal is for the advancement of knowledge on the structure and function of the nervous system. Seems to have only once been won by a woman?? How, e.g., was Elizabeth Warrington overlooked? Time to get nominating...

The FULL PROGRAMME is now available to view and download for the BNS Spring Meeting, taking place on the 24th & 25th April. 🧠the-bns.org/meetings Please register by 22nd April bns.wildapricot.org/events/ FREE for BNS members, £15 for non-members. RTs appreciated! 🔄

I'm really excited to announce that our brand new MRes in Advanced Artificial Intelligence is now available on the University of Sussex website sussex.ac.uk/study/masters/…! This course offers research focused training in how to be an effective and responsible AI scientist or engineer.

New in Cognitive Psychology, from Kasia Mojescik, Sam Berens, Flavia De Luca, Maureen Ritchey and Chris Bird: The Relationship Between Subjective Memory Experience and Objective Memory Performance Remains Stable Across the Lifespan doi.org/10.1525/collab…

Postdoc open in my lab at SussexNeuro in wonderful Brighton to investigate neural activity in mice during goal-directed whisker-guided behaviour. 2-photon imaging and/or computational analysis. DM, or email [email protected]

The first paper of my PhD is out! Here’s a thread of the findings from this pre-registered experiment on 100 young adults and 100 healthy older adults. (co-authors Chris Bird Flavia De Luca Sam Berens Maureen Ritchey) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial Brain If you agree with the sentiments please RT. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/issue/14…