I'm very grateful for any support to help re-elect me as MSP for North East Scotland.
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Official petition for the UK to rejoin the EU, open to UK citizens and residents:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Takes literally 1 minute, very quick. With changing political climate, worth making your UK voice heard if this is your view. Petition closes June 8th 2026.
We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
Many thanks for your support @maggiechapman.bsky.social - the townhall with the excellent presentation by @melchem.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social countering the doom & gloom narrative of uni exec finance, used as justification for further cuts, is still available as a recording to all staff.
bsky.app/profile/ducu...
#SaveHE
❤️🔥 Exciting new preprint ❤️🔥 #Pupil constriction causes, by itself and independently of visual stimulation, activity in the human #retina and #visual system. w/ @anavili.bsky.social @veerahelmisofia.bsky.social @hakankarsilar.bsky.social @olaf.dimigen.de 1/4 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Paper now published in Neuroscience of Consciousness and led by @chkhaidze.bsky.social:
From dots to faces: individual differences in visual imagery capacity predict the content of Ganzflicker-induced hallucinations
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Mark A. Hanson
We'll be protesting this ⬇️ peacefully today outside Court. #SaveHE #SaveUoD
Abstract. A rapidly alternating red and black display known as Ganzflicker induces visual hallucinations that reflect the generative capacity of the visual
These past few weeks the fight for our uni has taken a new turn. We've lost ~700 staff already. Will it be 1000 in the end, with the management's "Strategy to Recovery"? Unis as a business vs as a place of research & education - coming to a head in Dundee and across the UK. More ⬇️
Sebastiaan Mathôt
Dr Reshanne Reeder
Last week I attended the staff Townhall meeting @dundee.ac.uk.
Dundee UCU told us about staff cuts, the impact of redundancies, & the urgent need for new direction.
The University Executive Group must change course: compulsory redundancies are not the answer!
open.substack.com/pu...
Read about our latest protest about getting our members voices heard before crucial decisions are made at the University of Dundee Court.
Today members of the Dundee UCU branch protested against their voices not being heard.
“We are disappointed to learn that a paper that Dundee UCU was invited to submit to Court for inclusion in the Court’s workshop on University’s recovery was rejected without appeal.” 1/4
Maggie Chapman (she/her)
Dundee UCU
Thousands of people have provided written accounts of their Ganzflicker hallucinations, so @chkhaidze.bsky.social used NLP and machine learning techniques to explore the different content described by individuals across the imagery spectrum - what did she find? ...
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arxiv.org/abs/2507.09011
Dundee UCU
A rapidly alternating red and black display known as Ganzflicker induces visual hallucinations that reflect the generative capacity of the visual system. Recent proposals regarding the imagery spectru...arxiv.org
£20m more staff cuts being put to the University’s Court today.
Around 250 people will be made redundant if the plan goes through and remove all of that £20m every year from the local economy and high street.
Over 1000 staff gone.
@dundee.ac.uk @thecourier.co.uk @eveningtelegraph.bsky.social
