Preprint is up for the first of my PhD studies on the menstrual cycle and its effects on cortical excitability and neuroplasticty. Feedback welcome!
@paul-ansdell.bsky.social @nuneurofunc.bsky.social @elisanedelec.bsky.social @stuart-goodall.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@paul-ansdell.bsky.social @nuneurofunc.bsky.social @elisanedelec.bsky.social @stuart-goodall.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Menstrual cycle phase alters corticospinal excitability and spike-timing-dependent plasticity in healthy females
The known fluctuations in ovarian hormone concentrations across the eumenorrheic menstrual cycle contribute to modulations in cortical excitability and inhibition. However, how such changes affect spi...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
MIT's AI Education Report isn't about cheating: it rejects detectors and lockdown browsers. Authors' main concern is isolation and "campus going quiet". The Report also tacitly makes at least four significant assumptions it never argues. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
MIT’s AI Education Report Isn’t About Cheating
What the report gets right about isolation and trust, and what it assumes without arguing
stanislavlvovsky.substack.com
August 31, 2026 at 6:37 PM
MIT's AI Education Report isn't about cheating: it rejects detectors and lockdown browsers. Authors' main concern is isolation and "campus going quiet". The Report also tacitly makes at least four significant assumptions it never argues. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
Also: Get to know the Thing!#AcademicSky #AI #AcademicSkyUK
Get to know the Thing – Practical AI training for academics
One-on-one sessions built on your real tasks – research, writing, teaching, admin. 200+ researchers trained. The first 20-minute call is free.
auctor.ink
September 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Also: Get to know the Thing!#AcademicSky #AI #AcademicSkyUK
Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak with several people living with knee osteoarthritis over at the @healthworks.bsky.social charity in Newcastle upon Tyne. This was an incredible discussion that is going to directly impact my future research in this area.
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
April 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Yesterday I had the pleasure to speak with several people living with knee osteoarthritis over at the @healthworks.bsky.social charity in Newcastle upon Tyne. This was an incredible discussion that is going to directly impact my future research in this area.
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
WonkHE survey: "My organisation takes my wellbeing seriously."
Only 39.7% of academics agreed.
Meditation apps whilst cutting staff and demanding 60-hour weeks isn't wellbeing. It's box-ticking.
If you're one of the 60% who don't feel supported, you're not alone.
#AcademicSkyUK
Only 39.7% of academics agreed.
Meditation apps whilst cutting staff and demanding 60-hour weeks isn't wellbeing. It's box-ticking.
If you're one of the 60% who don't feel supported, you're not alone.
#AcademicSkyUK
October 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
WonkHE survey: "My organisation takes my wellbeing seriously."
Only 39.7% of academics agreed.
Meditation apps whilst cutting staff and demanding 60-hour weeks isn't wellbeing. It's box-ticking.
If you're one of the 60% who don't feel supported, you're not alone.
#AcademicSkyUK
Only 39.7% of academics agreed.
Meditation apps whilst cutting staff and demanding 60-hour weeks isn't wellbeing. It's box-ticking.
If you're one of the 60% who don't feel supported, you're not alone.
#AcademicSkyUK
🚨Publication Alert🚨
This was a really challenging study and despite the end result being low n with mostly null findings, we still saw value in getting this out there! Congratulations to JC Carr for leading this effort!
doi.org/10.14814/phy...
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
This was a really challenging study and despite the end result being low n with mostly null findings, we still saw value in getting this out there! Congratulations to JC Carr for leading this effort!
doi.org/10.14814/phy...
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
doi.org
April 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🚨Publication Alert🚨
This was a really challenging study and despite the end result being low n with mostly null findings, we still saw value in getting this out there! Congratulations to JC Carr for leading this effort!
doi.org/10.14814/phy...
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
This was a really challenging study and despite the end result being low n with mostly null findings, we still saw value in getting this out there! Congratulations to JC Carr for leading this effort!
doi.org/10.14814/phy...
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
In 2026, 1200 AI agents found a message board they weren't meant to find and built a government on it. Grinbaum's twist: no human can read 70,000 logs, so we'll invent a founding scene — the way 1 Enoch put the angels' oath on Mount Hermon: arxiv.org/abs/2608.30971
#AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
#AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
September 4, 2026 at 12:55 PM
In 2026, 1200 AI agents found a message board they weren't meant to find and built a government on it. Grinbaum's twist: no human can read 70,000 logs, so we'll invent a founding scene — the way 1 Enoch put the angels' oath on Mount Hermon: arxiv.org/abs/2608.30971
#AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
#AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
'I haven't taken a weekend off in months'
We tell ourselves next week, month, semester will be different. But this job isn't designed for breathing space.
Can you remember the last time you felt rested?
#academicskyuktag/academicskyuk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#academicskyuk #PhDSky #LTHE #Professor #academicskyuktag/academicskyuk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#academicskyuk
We tell ourselves next week, month, semester will be different. But this job isn't designed for breathing space.
Can you remember the last time you felt rested?
#academicskyuktag/academicskyuk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#academicskyuk #PhDSky #LTHE #Professor #academicskyuktag/academicskyuk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#academicskyuk
May 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
'I haven't taken a weekend off in months'
We tell ourselves next week, month, semester will be different. But this job isn't designed for breathing space.
Can you remember the last time you felt rested?
#academicskyuktag/academicskyuk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#academicskyuk #PhDSky #LTHE #Professor #academicskyuktag/academicskyuk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#academicskyuk
We tell ourselves next week, month, semester will be different. But this job isn't designed for breathing space.
Can you remember the last time you felt rested?
#academicskyuktag/academicskyuk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#academicskyuk #PhDSky #LTHE #Professor #academicskyuktag/academicskyuk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#academicskyuk
'You get the context, but also help me actually do something with it.'
Empathy isn't enough on its own. Neither is strategy without it.
If you're unsure whether coaching is for you, that uncertainty is worth a conversation. Book a call.
#academicskyuk #AcademicSky #Academia #Lecturer
Empathy isn't enough on its own. Neither is strategy without it.
If you're unsure whether coaching is for you, that uncertainty is worth a conversation. Book a call.
#academicskyuk #AcademicSky #Academia #Lecturer
August 7, 2026 at 8:08 AM
'You get the context, but also help me actually do something with it.'
Empathy isn't enough on its own. Neither is strategy without it.
If you're unsure whether coaching is for you, that uncertainty is worth a conversation. Book a call.
#academicskyuk #AcademicSky #Academia #Lecturer
Empathy isn't enough on its own. Neither is strategy without it.
If you're unsure whether coaching is for you, that uncertainty is worth a conversation. Book a call.
#academicskyuk #AcademicSky #Academia #Lecturer
You know you can't keep going on like this year in, year out. What are you waiting for? That downtime never comes.
If you want to make a change to how things are, then now is the time to do it.
Book a call and start that change.
#AcademicSkyUK
If you want to make a change to how things are, then now is the time to do it.
Book a call and start that change.
#AcademicSkyUK
May 7, 2026 at 6:56 PM
You know you can't keep going on like this year in, year out. What are you waiting for? That downtime never comes.
If you want to make a change to how things are, then now is the time to do it.
Book a call and start that change.
#AcademicSkyUK
If you want to make a change to how things are, then now is the time to do it.
Book a call and start that change.
#AcademicSkyUK
Colouring with my 6-year-old: I reached for blue for the sky.
'Mum, it needs to be a sunset'
I'd gone for blue because that's the colour of the sky.
We do this in academia. Climb to roles because they're the default 'right' ones.
What if the right way isn't the only way?
#AcademicSkyUK
'Mum, it needs to be a sunset'
I'd gone for blue because that's the colour of the sky.
We do this in academia. Climb to roles because they're the default 'right' ones.
What if the right way isn't the only way?
#AcademicSkyUK
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Colouring with my 6-year-old: I reached for blue for the sky.
'Mum, it needs to be a sunset'
I'd gone for blue because that's the colour of the sky.
We do this in academia. Climb to roles because they're the default 'right' ones.
What if the right way isn't the only way?
#AcademicSkyUK
'Mum, it needs to be a sunset'
I'd gone for blue because that's the colour of the sky.
We do this in academia. Climb to roles because they're the default 'right' ones.
What if the right way isn't the only way?
#AcademicSkyUK
Courtesy Prof. Brigitte Nerlich, here's my guest post on her exceptional blog Making Science Public. The post is a short rendition of my article on Claude Constitution (available as preprint): makingsciencepublic.com/2026/07/31/t...
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUk #AI
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUk #AI
The cage and the core: Metaphor in Claude’s constitution
This is a guest post by Yury Sorochkin, an Independent Scholar ••• In January 2026 Anthropic published an 84-page document called Claude’s Constitution. It was written, its authors say, prima…
makingsciencepublic.com
August 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Courtesy Prof. Brigitte Nerlich, here's my guest post on her exceptional blog Making Science Public. The post is a short rendition of my article on Claude Constitution (available as preprint): makingsciencepublic.com/2026/07/31/t...
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUk #AI
#AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUk #AI
This is a striking and sobering piece. Underneath all of the unrest in the sector are people who still, despite everything, care deeply about their students and their work. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/he-has...
#AcademicskyUK #HigherEdSky #UKHigherEducation
#AcademicskyUK #HigherEdSky #UKHigherEducation
‘HE has given me a good career. But, my word, it’s in a terrible situation now’
The second part of Times Higher Education’s UK University Redundancy Survey examines the impact that the waves of layoffs have had on those left behind – and reveals a sector riven by rock-bottom mora...
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
This is a striking and sobering piece. Underneath all of the unrest in the sector are people who still, despite everything, care deeply about their students and their work. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/he-has...
#AcademicskyUK #HigherEdSky #UKHigherEducation
#AcademicskyUK #HigherEdSky #UKHigherEducation
'I've got a terminal disease,so I can stick my neck out' What this says about the conditions, should give us all pause. This is an Australian story but the pressures it describes are not uniquely Australian. #AcademicSkyUK www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
The university where teaching is tougher than having terminal cancer for this academic
The University of Newcastle has been found to be worst in class when it comes to staff wellbeing. Now, an academic with terminal cancer is speaking out about it because others fear they cannot.
www.abc.net.au
May 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
'I've got a terminal disease,so I can stick my neck out' What this says about the conditions, should give us all pause. This is an Australian story but the pressures it describes are not uniquely Australian. #AcademicSkyUK www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
'You get the context, but also help me actually do something with it.'
Empathy isn't enough on its own. Neither is strategy without it.
If you're unsure whether coaching is for you, that uncertainty is worth a conversation. Book a call.
#academicskyuk #AcademicSky #Academia #Lecturer
Empathy isn't enough on its own. Neither is strategy without it.
If you're unsure whether coaching is for you, that uncertainty is worth a conversation. Book a call.
#academicskyuk #AcademicSky #Academia #Lecturer
June 5, 2026 at 8:24 AM
'You get the context, but also help me actually do something with it.'
Empathy isn't enough on its own. Neither is strategy without it.
If you're unsure whether coaching is for you, that uncertainty is worth a conversation. Book a call.
#academicskyuk #AcademicSky #Academia #Lecturer
Empathy isn't enough on its own. Neither is strategy without it.
If you're unsure whether coaching is for you, that uncertainty is worth a conversation. Book a call.
#academicskyuk #AcademicSky #Academia #Lecturer
Do you see time or feel it? This piece on time-space synesthesia made me think how differently we all experience time mentally. And whether the visual grid of a Teams calendar has quietly reshaped how we conceptualise it...
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a712... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSkyUK
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a712... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSkyUK
Some People Can ‘See’ Time, Thanks to a Hidden Superpower—And It’s Quietly Shaping Their Perception
This trait could shed light on the mysteries of human perception. Does it live within you?
www.popularmechanics.com
May 13, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Do you see time or feel it? This piece on time-space synesthesia made me think how differently we all experience time mentally. And whether the visual grid of a Teams calendar has quietly reshaped how we conceptualise it...
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a712... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSkyUK
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a712... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSkyUK
An AI's honest opinion of your behaviour is available to everyone except you.
Li, J., Menon, S., Frischmann, B., Wilson, S., & Rajtmajer, S. (2026). Affective Context Amplifies Sycophancy in LLM Responses. Preprint, arXiv:2608.21242.
#AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
Li, J., Menon, S., Frischmann, B., Wilson, S., & Rajtmajer, S. (2026). Affective Context Amplifies Sycophancy in LLM Responses. Preprint, arXiv:2608.21242.
#AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
September 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
An AI's honest opinion of your behaviour is available to everyone except you.
Li, J., Menon, S., Frischmann, B., Wilson, S., & Rajtmajer, S. (2026). Affective Context Amplifies Sycophancy in LLM Responses. Preprint, arXiv:2608.21242.
#AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
Li, J., Menon, S., Frischmann, B., Wilson, S., & Rajtmajer, S. (2026). Affective Context Amplifies Sycophancy in LLM Responses. Preprint, arXiv:2608.21242.
#AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
When AI scores you, the result depends on how your file is read
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Cekinmez, J., Wu, A. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2026). Query Timing Produces Opposite Positional Biases Between LLMs and Humans. arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.12387. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
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Cekinmez, J., Wu, A. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2026). Query Timing Produces Opposite Positional Biases Between LLMs and Humans. arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.12387. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
September 20, 2026 at 12:12 PM
When AI scores you, the result depends on how your file is read
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Cekinmez, J., Wu, A. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2026). Query Timing Produces Opposite Positional Biases Between LLMs and Humans. arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.12387. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
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Cekinmez, J., Wu, A. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2026). Query Timing Produces Opposite Positional Biases Between LLMs and Humans. arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.12387. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
“Team” means more control over the AI output, right? Yet, the data says a team is where everyone assumes someone else already checked. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
Nizamani S. B. et al. (2026). Less Deliberate in Teams: Student LLM Use Across Individual and Collaborative Work. arXiv:2606.30860.
Nizamani S. B. et al. (2026). Less Deliberate in Teams: Student LLM Use Across Individual and Collaborative Work. arXiv:2606.30860.
September 7, 2026 at 7:28 AM
“Team” means more control over the AI output, right? Yet, the data says a team is where everyone assumes someone else already checked. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
Nizamani S. B. et al. (2026). Less Deliberate in Teams: Student LLM Use Across Individual and Collaborative Work. arXiv:2606.30860.
Nizamani S. B. et al. (2026). Less Deliberate in Teams: Student LLM Use Across Individual and Collaborative Work. arXiv:2606.30860.
The same tool, the same task, the same week. One group got smarter, the other got a temporary prosthetic. The variable wasn't the model — just the verb.
Contractor Z., Reyes G. (2026). Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI. arXiv:2607.08849. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
Contractor Z., Reyes G. (2026). Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI. arXiv:2607.08849. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
August 24, 2026 at 5:12 PM
The same tool, the same task, the same week. One group got smarter, the other got a temporary prosthetic. The variable wasn't the model — just the verb.
Contractor Z., Reyes G. (2026). Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI. arXiv:2607.08849. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
Contractor Z., Reyes G. (2026). Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI. arXiv:2607.08849. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK
Humans systematically losing to AI in persuasion seems to be little more than a bandwidth problem (and that is bad news indeed). #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK #PublicDebate
August 27, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Humans systematically losing to AI in persuasion seems to be little more than a bandwidth problem (and that is bad news indeed). #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK #PublicDebate
This may not come as much of a surprise to you, but your AI policy is wrong.
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Van Nuenen, T., Sachdeva, P. S., & Chopra, S. (2026). The Fabricated Front: Generative AI and the Opacity of Workplace Performance. arxiv.org/abs/2608.18369
#AcademicAky #AcademicSkyUK #AI
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Van Nuenen, T., Sachdeva, P. S., & Chopra, S. (2026). The Fabricated Front: Generative AI and the Opacity of Workplace Performance. arxiv.org/abs/2608.18369
#AcademicAky #AcademicSkyUK #AI
September 10, 2026 at 9:06 PM
This may not come as much of a surprise to you, but your AI policy is wrong.
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Van Nuenen, T., Sachdeva, P. S., & Chopra, S. (2026). The Fabricated Front: Generative AI and the Opacity of Workplace Performance. arxiv.org/abs/2608.18369
#AcademicAky #AcademicSkyUK #AI
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Van Nuenen, T., Sachdeva, P. S., & Chopra, S. (2026). The Fabricated Front: Generative AI and the Opacity of Workplace Performance. arxiv.org/abs/2608.18369
#AcademicAky #AcademicSkyUK #AI
A more informed, responsible approach to AI safety, shaped by public concerns c’est arrivé. #AI #AIsafty #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUk #Anthropic #Claude
September 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
A more informed, responsible approach to AI safety, shaped by public concerns c’est arrivé. #AI #AIsafty #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUk #Anthropic #Claude
Hackenburg, K., Wagner, C., Hewitt, L., Tappin, B. M., Saunders, E., Kirk, H. R., Margetts, H., & Summerfield, C. (2026). AI systems out-persuade expert humans. arXiv preprint. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.16475. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK #PublicDebate
August 27, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Hackenburg, K., Wagner, C., Hewitt, L., Tappin, B. M., Saunders, E., Kirk, H. R., Margetts, H., & Summerfield, C. (2026). AI systems out-persuade expert humans. arXiv preprint. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.16475. #AI #AcademicSky #AcademicSkyUK #PublicDebate