Lecturer @StirUni ~ Brains / bodies / movement. All opinions chosen by random number generator. Mastodon: @ArranReader@scholar.social ~ #ScienceForUkraine 🇺🇦

Stirling, UK
Joined May 2015
Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Looking forward to presenting our concurrent TMS-fMRI work on the role of the IPS in prioritising task-relevant visual information @AlexWoolgar @Runhao_Lu @Jade_BJackson
With a talk on the role of the right intraparietal sulcus in driving brain-wide focus, Dr Catriona Scrivener will be joining us from @UniOfEdinburgh this September in London Join us: shorturl.at/18Rxo #BBI2024 #Neuroscience #NIBS
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Do you have a congenital upper limb difference? Do you rarely use a functional prosthesis/assistive device? Please RT and get in touch if you would like to to help us better understand the experiences and needs of those with a limb difference!
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Day 4 of our strike. During the summer MAB, mgmt said it was a national dispute about which they could do nothing, and refused to call for UCEA negotiations. The current dispute is local, and could solved entirely by @StirUni alone. Will we hear from them today?
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Tomorrow marks the start of 10 days local strike action for our branch @StirUni . We desperately do not want to strike now, but have been left with no choice after suffering over 3 months of 50% salary deductions, some of the very harshest in all of Scotland @ucu @UCUScotland
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Keep clam and carry on: Misperceptions of transposed-letter neighbours dlvr.it/SvhRfY
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In this new project with @LineCaes we're aiming to better understand the needs of people with a congenital upper limb difference. Please RT and get in touch if you would like to participate!
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
the future is so beautiful xitter.cf/gcabanac/status/168933…
🤖 oopsie in a 2023 @ElsevierConnect journal paper: “Please note that as an AI language model, I am unable to generate specific tables or conduct tests, so the actual results should be included in the table.” 🤡 #ChatGPT
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
New paper out in Synthese (open access) claiming that lying does not require falsity, i.e. you do lie if you make a believed-false statement with the intention to deceive - even if if it turns out to be true. Short thread on the two main points. (1/6)
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Neither life nor academia is a meritocracy - academic success is to a considerable extent down to luck & correlates poorly with hours worked. Moreover, life is more than work. Do enjoy your weekends & evenings to do what you want. Your job will never love you back
Grad Students: If you aim to publish in middling journals, then sure… go to the park today and listen to the bumblebees pass. If you want to publish somewhere with a high impact factor, sit down and work. On Sunday, you’re free from teaching and otherwise. Use your time wisely.
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Happy to share a new theme issue of @RSocPublishing Phil Trans B, edited by myself and Uta Noppeney. It’s about multisensory integration but focusing on higher-order processes like decision making, top-down control/attention, and metacognition. Please RT! royalsocietypublishing.org/t…
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Reminder: your colleagues are fighting for: Fair pay Healthy workloads Closing the gender, ethnicity, and disability pay gap. And end to casualisation. We have already won your pension back. If you can, please donate to help sustain this action…
Replying to @UCU_Stirling
Donating to our hardship fund is a very real and powerful way to support @ucu colleagues sacrificing pay for the future of our sector. Details are: acc no: 20392141 sort code: 608301 swift: NWBKGB2L #ucurising #settlethedispute
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
NEW: The #USS pension scheme has published its annual report and accounts for the year ended March 2023. The Defined Benefit section's assets fell by £15.9bn due to negative asset returns, but this was offset by a larger fall in the scheme's actuarial liabilities
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
"VCs that I've spoken to privately say, yes, of course, we understand that we are throwing petrol on the flames by doing this [#MAB deductions]: staff are very angry, they say...they're exhausted, they're broken, they can't pay their bills..." @AnnaFazack1 theguardian.com/news/audio/2…
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
OK @UCEA1 time to #SettleTheDispute I don’t know what winning looks like to you, but it feels like your aim is to break staff. Have you thought about what a win looks like in that case? HE cannot work like that. Win by making things better for staff and therefore students
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
I've seen too many colleagues chewed up and spat out by #casualisation unreasonable #workload and #inequalities in academia. It affects everything we do. Things need to change. Now. It's time for @UCEA1 and @RKJethwa to #SettleTheDispute #UCURising @ucu @UCU_Stirling
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Right troops (@UCEA1 and @RKJethwa that means you too, babes), it appears it's time to #settlethedispute so here's some ✨thoughts✨ from everyone over at UCU Stirling. 🧵
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Dear @RKJethwa and @UCEA1. It's within your power to end #highereducation industrial action. Please #SettleTheDispute. We want fair pay & working conditions, not strikes, so we can focus on supporting the students we work hard for & care greatly about. #PayYourWorkers #ucuRISING
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
Just going to pop this iconic moment back up to the top of everyone's threads. It NEEDS the hashtag ✊ #SettleTheDispute
This is so powerful. Students are finishing university with TBC instead of grades and staff are still receiving punitive salary deductions. The bosses could have ended this dispute well before graduations. This is all on you, @UCEA1. #ucuRISING
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Arran Reader @arranreader.bsky.social retweeted
It’s official! @CollabraOA has gone from PCI-RR “interested” to PCI-RR “friendly”. See below for details, and submit your psychology Registered Reports to @PCI_RegReports! (You can still submit them directly to Collabra, too)
We're delighted to welcome @CollabraOA to our list of PCI RR-friendly journals, edited by @siminevazire and team! Full journal entry: rr.peercommunityin.org/about…
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