Everything they do to asylum seekers, they’re simply road testing to use on other vulnerable groups in society next.

Devastating Fergal Keane piece on BBC News (UK) 10 just now, using an American medic’s footage from Gaza. Children nearly dead from starvation-gaunt, lifeless, cadaverous. Unimaginable suffering for innocents.

'Only the best-performing universities should be allowed to issue visas to foreign students... a report endorsed by Michael Gove has recommended.'

Surely this is an awful idea & would cause much harm to many UK Universities?

thetimes.co.uk/article/foreig…

1.3 Million people who voted Tory in 2019 are now dead in 2024.

Over the past four-and-a-half-years, the 14m people who voted Tory in 2019 have splintered in various directions, with just 4 in 10 now saying they'll vote for the party - less than under Truss.

Here's how they've said and currently say they'll vote, each block 100k voters.

On the glass: Price of a coffee in London

The SNIRF steering committee (David Boas, S. Powell, Jörn M. Horschig, me) seeks maintainers to join us in maintaining and updating the spec + working with the community. Great opportunity to get involved in fNIRS & open science/data. Interested or have questions? Comment below!

Borges used to explain that English was a marriage of tough Anglo-Saxon and courtly French, which explains why there were two parallel English words for just about everything. An Eng-French dictionary is just about double the size of a French-Eng one. Lovely to hear his voice.

Scientists declare 'realistic possibility' of consciousness in animals including reptiles, fish, and insects. They urge considering this in decisions affecting these animals and call for more research. 🐝🐠🐊🐙 My latest story in nature: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Just three days between these two stories

The submission deadline is now extended -> 29th of April! 😊

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT FOR fNIRS2024 TODAY!
Deadline: 🚨Today 19th April 🏁

Be there for the biannual #fNIRS conference this September on the great campus of Uni of Birmingham Birmingham, UK

See below for the variety of topics covered 🔦🧠
submissions.fnirs.org

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Ready to apply to our Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 call? Get all the steps right!

1️⃣Learn about funding basics
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4️⃣Draft your application
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More info: europa.eu/!dB783t

Telegraph journalist Sophia Money-Coutts, of the Coutts dynasty, says young people have it too good.

Paul Nowak isn't having it.

Only 20 days left for submitting your contribution to this incredible special issue on BOE! 😉

#diffuseoptics

opg.optica.org/boe/journal/bo…

Optica Publishing Group Hamid Dehghani #OPG_BOEx #fNIRS #DCS #Diffuseoptics #biomedicaloptics #brain #muscle #hemodynamics #SWIR #DOS #DOT #SCOS

Imagine if we could use ultrasound to detect changes in tumor cells in real-time.

Mikhail Shapiro 🇺🇦 is #ImagingTheFuture by creating acoustic biomolecules—the first-of-its-kind contrast agent that will allow ultrasound #tech to image the functions of cells deep in the body

Happy to share that researchers from our team have represented fastMOT at the Optica Biophotonics Congress: #BiomedicalOptics from 7-10 April 2024 at Fort Lauderdale, USA, and took the opportunity to meetup 🙌

💡 More info: fastmot.eu

A chat GP (Guy Perkins) prediction for N (Number of abstracts submitted) as a function of time, with deadline 1 and (again chat GP prediction) deadline 2.

Submit to fNIRS 2024 folks!!

Opportunity alert! #fNIRS Respect4neurodevelopment UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering A fully-funded PhD in next-gen optical neuroimaging starting Sept 2024 with Prof. Ilias Tachtsidis from UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering.

Apply by May 24, 2024. Early applications are recommended.

More info ⏩ tinyurl.com/OpticalPhD