Duncan Astle
@duncanastle
Neuroscientist, psychologist, European and blogger based in Cambridge, UK. Interested in cognition, the brain and education. Tweets are my views. He/him/his.
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https://www.astlelab.com 28-10-2014 12:26:53
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Happening tomorrow! From being scooped to critical career choices, our panel will offer valuable advice for early career researchers. Drinks and snacks will be provided for networking afterwards🥂 @KBGenesBrains, Michael Coleman, Duncan Astle, hosted by Hugo Fleming & Carly Hood
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
🔥 This is now out on eLife - the journal as a reviewed preprint. We got some really interesting comments that we’re planning to address, all public, and see how it goes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…
How do early life social environments impact white matter brain connections and subsequent cognitive abilities? Was fun working on this exciting project led by Sofia Carozza, Amar Dhand Duncan Astle Dr. Lee Schwamm Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Neurology
TWCF grantees Duncan Astle & Dan Klimes Cambridge used generative network modeling on HCP News's infant dataset to simulate network organization development. Preterm infants had reduced connectivity, shorter connections, & lower efficiency. nature.com/articles/s4146…
Funded PhD opportunity with Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvgoU…
We are honoured to welcome Duncan Astle from Cambridge University as keynote #CANDY_GA2025 His talk “Beyond the Label - A Transdiagnostic Approach to Neurodevelopment” explored how neuroinformatics can help to move past traditional diagnostic categories. Very inspiring insights🙏
Interested in exploring a transdiagnostic approach to #Neurodevelopment? Duncan Astle joins us to consider how this perspective might help us understand the foundational mechanisms that drive developmental change & differences. Book now to attend! bit.ly/4jujuJ6
Fantastic workshop on brain modes, gradients & components at #OHBM2025! Andrea Luppi ‘s talk just now was stunning. He covered effects of alterations in consciousness on structure-function coupling (ie on brain mode spectra) 1/2
How does the frontoparietal network encode information from auditory and visual tasks? Jade Jackson et al show it encodes rule information in both, with the same neural resources, but it does so using modality dependent non generalisable codes: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a…
Loic Menzies (CRO The Centre for Education Systems) chairs a panel on mental health & neurodiversity in young people. Expert insights from Prof Duncan Astle, Prof Professor Tamsin Ford 💙 & Charlotte Kume-Holland (Department of Health and Social Care) #sciencepolicy #csapconference2025
🚨 Funded PhD @CambridgeUni! Work with top minds — Duncan Astle & Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on the impact of #developmental differences on #education!🧠📚 A month to apply ⏰ For details see👇 🔗drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvgoU… Newnham-based 👩🎓💅 MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit #psycology #cambridge #opportunity
