A doctor took cancerous tissue from the uterus of a Black woman (Henrietta Lacks) w/o her consent. And scientists have used her cells and profited from it while her family (tricked & traumatised) have yet to be compensated. With your silence you have chosen a side.

Just in case you were wondering how senators are passing there time while people are fighting for change...

Protesting against police racism in the USA? Just 5 months ago, a UN committee warned the Irish government of a “high incidence of racial profiling by gardaí” and called for legislation to prohibit it. #BlackLivesMatter #Ireland #BLMIreland irishtimes.com/news/social-af…

I have a job opening for a fully funded PhD position in #decisionmaking and #confidence at the KU Leuven, together with Tom Verguts. More info here: tinyurl.com/y7jjffj2. #academicjobs #phdchat #PhD

LAUNCHING 2020! We are very excited to announce the launch of our new 5-year Instructor Incubator project, sending children in #DirectProvision on watersports courses #integration Read all about it here: safehavenireland.com/instructor-inc…

Call for nominations: The *NEW* Annual BiasWatchNeuro Award for Equity and Inclusivity. biaswatchneuro.com/bwn-award/ Trainees! This is your chance to let us know which department/institute/program is doing better and which is not. Letters due August 31st. Please RT More info: /1

You wait a while for a flexinico ACCLab paper... then two come along at once. Proud of our new preprint! "The role of decision confidence in advice-taking and trust formation" ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5…

So yesterday I asked you all what you wanted to hear about from me this week, and one answer stood out from all the others: the SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD). x.com/genomixgmailco… 1/

Hi Academic Chatter™ and OpenAcademics we are starting up our twitter and looking for researchers studying #psychology #cognitiveneuroscience #reward #motivation #gaming and more to follow!! We want to share how scientists keep their studies fun and participants alert!! 🧠🥱🛑

so #ConsciousnessRecruitment2020 is on & we're getting ready for the 1st session of the meeting for next Wed Aug 26 11am (PST) will feature Rachel Denison (Boston U), Tony Ro (CUNY), Jason Samaha (UC Santa Cruz), & Emily Ward (UW Madison) register via link below for zoom info

I am excited to share the first paper of my PhD! We looked at the representation of uncertainty in vmPFC during exploration and exploitation nature.com/articles/s4156… with Jacqueline Scholl,Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social,Elsa Fouragnan,Lev Tankelevitch & supervisors, Marco K Wittmann & MFS Rushworth at @OXfordWIN

If anyone is interested, here are the materials for my undergraduate class on building computational models of cognition. Includes detailed written notes, assignments, Matlab tips, and walkthrough videos. Assumes no prior experience with coding. u.arizona.edu/~bob/web_NSCS3…

Exclusive: The Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump extending over more than two decades. It shows his finances under stress, beset by losses that he aggressively employs to avoid paying taxes and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. nyti.ms/308oHAj

There is a person who has been in Direct Provision for 14 years. This is cruelty. #EndDirectProvision

3 postdoc positions and a PhD opportunity going in our lab, to work on two new decision neuroscience projects... 1/3 cogneusys.com/opportunities/

Where has k-means clustering been my whole life? [also there is a gif for k-means clustering] #Stats

Once again, the horror and scale of the rape and abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests is revealed. Estimated 330,000 victims of child sex abuse in French Catholic Church since 1950, commission finds #Stand4Truth news.sky.com/story/estimate…