Jenny Bizley
Auditory neuroscientist, UCL Prof, trail runner, landlocked boaty, mum was @bizifer elsewhere
- Fully funded (UK rate) studentship with the awesome @emmaholmes90.bsky.social ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/emma...
- Deadline extended for my fully-funded #PhD position - apply by 7th May! Come and work with me & join the UCL Cognitive Hearing Lab: bit.ly/3RAEYZ8 The studentship is funded by RNID and will help make noisy environments easier for people with hearing loss
- Took the 9yo for an amazing bat walk this evening with saveleatherlane-wp.org.uk . Saw or heard at least 4 different species and now wondering if it’s too late for the lab to switch to echolocation 🤔 if you’re in or near the #chilterns you should go too! 🦇 👂
- Reposted by Jenny Bizleyas an experiment in academic internet stuff I made a 'new-auditory' list for folks interested in audition, hearing, speech, music etc anybody can join at groups.google.com/g/new-audito... the 30-year-old AUDITORY list is v cool but has many drawbacks, not least that it runs on 30-yr-old tech
- Skills needed for a systems #neuroscience PI: carpentry, micro-soldering, surgery, coding, analysis, writing, people management... and yoga moves -- to get into a testing arena, and then fix stuff while balancing on the only non 'acoustically transparent' (i.e. fixed) part of the floor 🤷♀️ #neverbored
- Had a wonderful day of science yesterday at the @champalimaudr.bsky.social giving a talk and being part of a thesis Jury. Big congrats to Mafalda and the Renart Lab! #🧠 #neuroscience
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyOK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Checked one off the trail-running bucket list yesterday - Ashridge boundary run - 17+ miles of stunning(ly hilly) "fun" #chilterns #trailrunning #ridgeway
- Using my gran’s ancient (vintage?) sewing machine to hem a new curtain for our speaker grid setup. Love the contrast between state of the art behaviour/tracking/neuropixels and my dodgy sewing skills — and so excited for the data beginning to emerge 🤓 🧠 #neuroscience
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyAbstract submission for ICAC 2025 is still open! We are looking forward to see you in Maastricht in September.
- Great episode of inside health www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... exploring hearing and age related hearing loss, featuring multiple non-bluesky Ear Institute contributors @uclbrainscience.bsky.social #neuroscience #hearing
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyThis #BSW25 we're excited to announce two new trustees have joined BSA Council! Welcome Dr Rachel Williams @sciwithrach.bsky.social & Professor Turi King @turiking.bsky.social, brilliant scientists committed to public communication and engagement: www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/british...
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyWhy academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyI keep reading such things and want to mention applications are open in the German Lise Meitner program for excellent female scientists, who typically already have leadership experience. It is the breeding ground for future MPI directors. Maybe you can point some folks to it that may match.
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyOne of the NIMH PIs whose name is the termination list: Sooyhun Lee, whose lab just published this beautiful @nature.com paper (that has received too little press because comms at NIH are down). Read! Cite! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE. 1/2
- Reposted by Jenny Bizley"We should communicate our passion & curiosity, connecting with those who share our wonder about the world, but must also showcase the practical significance of basic research, demonstrating how seemingly arcane investigations yield transformative applications." Great piece by @tonyzador.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyCome work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a... #interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience
- Reposted by Jenny BizleySignature tally now closing in on 3000. Please keep discussing, sharing and signing to put as much pressure on the Royal Society to respond as possible. forms.gle/AuYvuWqytx8K...
- Reposted by Jenny BizleySave the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk
- Watched the 9 year old (and 8500 of her primary age friends) rock the O2 tonight 🌟 #youngvoices #urbanstrides
- Cheeky pre-work trail run #bluesky 🏃🏻♀️
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyDo you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
- Attempting to brighten up the last day of the school holiday with cinnamon buns
- Last week staff in our facility got worried that the acoustic foam that lined the lab was flammable. Today I’m filming myself burning acoustic foam on my hob amidst the sourdough and gingerbread. It doesn’t 🔥 quoting @amitkhandhadia.bsky.social, it’s a christmas miracle🎄 🧠
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyIf you are an auditory neuroscientist attending ARO 2025, please check your inbox for an important survey from ARO regarding strategies for safety and inclusion at the MWM this year in Florida. 🧠 👂 🏳️🌈
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- Huge congrats to Jules (not on 🦋) for his successful PhD defense yesterday - watch out for his trademark Breton top, and beautiful work looking at how auditory cortex deals with noise (hopefully early next year 🤞🏻) #neuroscience #neuroskyence 🧠
- Today we said goodbye to an RA who has a new position elsewhere. His first job was to train a DLC model to track ferrets so I made him this cake (it tasted better than it looked!)… #neuroscience #neuroskyence 🧠
- Want to start your own lab at the @uclofficial.bsky.social Ear Institute? You have 8 days left to apply to this round of our fellowship sponsorship scheme! www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research... #neuroscience #neuroskyence #hearing #auditoryneuroscience
- Gorgeous morning to sneak out on the trails 🏃🏻♀️ #trailrunning #chilterns
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyWho should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyDeadline for applying to the EARS trainee seminar is Nov. 25. If you would like to submit an abstract, but need more time, please reach out to me.
- My life is a barrage of lab/child related WhatsApps, but the ones that brighten my day are the literal screen shots students send when they first see if their experiments worked out. This week some beautiful viral tracing and signals from two implanted neuropixels #neuroskyence 🧠👩🔬
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyUniversity College London has joined Bluesky today! Give them a follow - great to see academic institutions joining the platform as well as academics! bsky.app/profile/uclo...
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyApplications are open for the James McCune Smith (JMS) Scholarships here @uofglasgow.bsky.social. which fund Black UK students to undertake PhD research in Glasgow in any field. They provide an enhanced experience and are very well-supported. www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships.... Please share this widely
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyOur team at deepmind is hiring! boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyMy dept (UCL Experimental Psychology) has 12 funded PhD studentships for next academic year (Sept 2025 start)! These are only for UK citizens or with right to remain. I would be happy to support applications from students who would like to join my lab. See: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...
- We were asked to write a piece about what makes the ferret a great model for sensory systems research... and here it is! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧠👩🔬👂 [we need a bluesky #ferretbrain emoji to add here!]
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyI made a systems neuroscience starter pack, focused on experimentalists who study the brain at the level of populations of neurons! Also want to be on the list? Reply or DM me a picture of your ephys rig or 2p setup and I'll add you 🤭 go.bsky.app/UiqX7ryat://did:plc:vwg3hsc63gl3qaqlw4rdvkbg/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lansglfe3l25
- The UCL Ear Institute has launched its next round of career development sponsorship opportunities - we support you to come and set up your group in london's vibrant auditory neuroscience community! Deadline December 6th (noon, GMT). www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research...
- We are recruiting a PhD student! The project will define the sensory strategies that freely moving animals use to chase sounds. The ideal candidate will have an engineering / neuroscience background and strong coding skills. Reach out to learn more! shorturl.at/cNu0p
- There 1 week to apply for the PhD studentship in my lab (4 years, paid as an RA, fees at UK rate) to contribute to understanding how the brain constructs auditory space. shorturl.at/adoJN Post will require great coding skills so background in engineering, datasciences or neuroscience is ideal!
- The Royal Society have launched a new postdoc career development fund - initally for those of black heritage royalsociety.org/news/2023/09... please circulate widely (and if you're eligible and interested in auditory neuroscience reach out!)
- Reposted by Jenny BizleyThe Maths of Life: Fantastic description of cochlear amplification, otoacoustic emissions and the paradigm shift arising from the work of David Kemp at the UCL Ear Institute by Sophie Scott on BBC 6Music (~09.50am). 👂🦻👶 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- I'm editing the transcript of a demo I recorded our research methods class and so far "Jamovi" has become (in) 'Germany', (with) 'Jim over there' and (for) 'your movie'. Otherwise speech->text much better than 3 years ago and nice use of predictive coding to pick context dependent garbage 😅
- Reposted by Jenny Bizley🚀 Don't miss your chance join @thecrick.bsky.social PhD programme, including projects in my lab! Interested in how neuronal activity, connectivity and gene expression all relate to each other in vivo? Learn more and apply at crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... 🗓️ Deadline Nov 9! Please repost!
- We're hiring - a lab tech and fully funded (UK rate) PhD student! Join us at to figure out how the brain constructs auditory space! Adverts here (tech : shorturl.at/hmrFY) and here (PhD studentship : shorturl.at/adoJN). #neuroscience #hearing
