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! 🦇 👂
- 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
- 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
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- This is great news, but the weakest link in our circle is the primary age sibling who we cannot even pay to vaccinate…
- 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
- This #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...
- Congratulations @sciwithrach.bsky.social -- what a great addition you will be!
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- Beautiful work - congratulations!
- Watched the 9 year old (and 8500 of her primary age friends) rock the O2 tonight 🌟 #youngvoices #urbanstrides
- Cheeky pre-work trail run #bluesky 🏃🏻♀️
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- Rubbish, I’m sorry!
- Attempting to brighten up the last day of the school holiday with cinnamon buns
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- Welcome 😄
- 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🎄 🧠
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- According to the specs it is, but when someone took a tiny bit of it it lit with a lighter 🤷♀️
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- I’ve had this at work too 🤦🏻♀️
- 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 🧠
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- I'm trying to work out whether you were zip tying the balcony to the flat, or the cat to the balcony or .... ? In any eventuality, your cat is braver than mine if it had its paw out in that rain!
- 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 🧠
- Gorgeous morning to sneak out on the trails 🏃🏻♀️ #trailrunning #chilterns
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- tbh kids killed the morning person I used to be -- but at this time of year I need one hit a week of daylight before I head through the dark to my windowless lab/office!
- 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
- 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 🧠👩🔬
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- Ouch, seems rather harsh! I guess Reviewer 2 was having a bad day?!
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- 100% hear you (and am amazed at how well you do it!), the struggle is real. My littlest has a medical condition that sucks up time and emotional energy often to the exclusion of anything and everything else...
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- Hey, great to see you here #storiesofwin can I get added?
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- Awesome, thanks for posting!
- I did a search for auditory neuroscientists a week ago and came up with @auditorynerves.bsky.social and I, but since then many people have appeared... hopefully some of them auditory neuroscientists!
- 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!]
- 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!)
- 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 😅
- 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
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- Yup, totally this. Although because I don't really have the energy my feed is currrently mostly #WomensArt which is rather nice (if less useful for work!)
