I was awarded Best Platform Presentation at
#AS4SAN
😮
So happy! What an end to a brilliant week.
Thank you all for an inspiring conference
@AS4SANinc
& to my PhD supervisor
@jesstaubert
Can't wait to welcome you all to Brisbane for AS4SAN 2025!
You know what? I'm very tired of having racist, sexist, out of touch rich evangelical white men in charge. I was born in Australia but I've never felt so alienated from my own country in my life.
Having studied a music degree, then
#opera
in London, I realise the
#LNP
would consider my training a waste of life. And in a way, it was, if my only metric was financial or employment. But wouldn't change a thing. I have travelled all over the world, sung for royalty...
@Geniusbastard
God, if I see another We Won't Endorse Biden tweet, I'll scream. No one thinks Biden was the best candidate (except all those Primaries voters who did??) but surely everyone wants to beat Trump? Apparently not. Seems many left voters think Biden is worse? Bizarre.
@StephenKing
No, we use numpties in a more affectionate way, for dumb clueless folk who arouse that strange combination of mirthful pity.
The word you're really looking for is: tossers.
@gregolear
I honestly suspect they are continuing to do nothing because the virus is disproportionately killing POC. It's moved on from partisan to blatantly racist and genocidal.
I am really good at my job. But guess what,
@ScottMorrisonMP
your disdain for the arts has made my talent irrelevant. You have the cultural sophistication of a beer-soaked football scarf. Not a cent to save Australia's arts workers or universities.
#notmyPM
#auspol
#QLDvotes
Build a vibrant arts AND science community here in Australia. Both depend on students trained to think creatively, critically, curiously, rigorously... qualities essential for a new economy. Australia can be so much more, if you had imagination
@DanTehanWannon
#auspol
#university
And even then, all that training means little to a man like Scott Morrison, impressed with such small virtues & easy wins. He will never value the arts because there's no certainty in it. We strive for beauty, even while others judge us to have failed.
#auspol
#arts
Art can't be measured with sales figures or monthly targets, but in memory, emotional impact, resonance. It brings community together, creates shared identity. It reminds us we are not what we do but how we feel about what we do. That we are not immortal. That we ARE immortal.
@cmclymer
I'm writing a book called "Loudhearted" that explores this - women's voices, their bodies and their breath & how much courage is found when all three are liberated together. Launched my Substack just this evening. It's such an important, empowering thing.
I want to emphasize this career was in spite of family trauma & having no family wealth behind me. If my plea sounded like the entitled wanderings of an elite woman cosseted in her arts bubble, I have much more to say on elitism & class... another thread to follow soon.
I've been fortunate to experience a career in the arts, to inspire joy & passion in others with sound... just my voice, my body, my *breath*. I've recreated voices Mozart once heard in his head. Do you know how it feels to sing Strauss over a massive orchestra? I do.
You have already showed your disdain for what I and so many valuable others do
@ScottMorrisonMP
by your policies towards artists during this pandemic. To beat the humanities further with uni fee increases is shameful. We should be more ambitious!
That
@JoeBiden
speech was woven MASTERFULLY.
The people who crafted it deserve:
1. a cookie.
2. a hug.
3. a flag.
4. a puppy.
And it was DELIVERED so well. You can't give a speech like that unless you BELIEVE IT. At a GENETIC level.
#DNC2020
#DemConvention
#BidenHarris2020
Yesterday, I graduated First Class Honours, Bachelor of Psychological Science at The University of Queensland. What a ride it has been! Huge love to my family & friends who helped get me over the line! ☺️
#uq
I've wept in dressing rooms because two tiny folds of cartilage in my throat wouldn't do what I wanted. I've struggled with colds on opening nights, sacrificed my social life, battled my weight... studied, listened, learned my craft obsessively to be as good as I could be.
I've received an unconditional offer for my Doctor of Philosophy at
@UQPsych
in 2024, with a full scholarship and Living Allowance support. The words thrilled and honoured tend to be overused here, but how else can I describe this? 🤗 🧵
@JoeBiden
To the gun loving Americans in this thread - Australians don't have high school shootings, or police shootings, or accidental toddler shootings. Our kids are safe. We are safe. I have no need or desire to carry around a weapon. But you guys seem to love policies that kill people!
Ok
#academictwitter
friends. Who is trying to
#phdlife
while juggling children? I have 4, all between 8 and 16, and I'm exhausted all the time. I yoga & sleep well & multitask like a queen... but I'm still struggling. How are you doing it?
@AcademicChatter
@oz_f
Special love time? An empty cinema still trying to make the movie Cats work? Listening to that lecturer sloooowly unwind was exactly what the world needed now.
@cmclymer
Just listened now and felt sick to my stomach. I know teenage daughters can be hard work but no one should speak that way with such hatred to their own child.
I'm sorry. Feeling I must step away from news & social media until the New Year.
#COVID19
is rising everywhere. The climate is sunk. And the US are so change blind they think hell is coming when it's already in the house. Feel helpless. Must preserve my work, health & sanity...
@jonathanvswan
Trump will break every norm he can in the next 30 days. Really hoping that Biden's team - and Congress - are not underestimating the potential actions of a delusional maniac with nothing to lose...
HI, I'm Natalie. This thread is for you to get to know me better 😊 Let's start with the basics. I identify as a woman, and I was born in Melbourne, Australia, in the days of Wham! and A-ha and Madonna... 1/
@GrogsGamut
This is awesome!! I sang my heart out in every school sing session circa '80-83 & still remember every word. I was always the loudest in class. 😊 Became an opera singer, starred at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, sang for Prince Charles 3 times. It was all Peter Coombs' fault!
So what exactly IS arousal, anyway? ❤️🔥
If (like me) this question drives you nuts, then check out this data-driven investigation from Catherine Tallon-Baudry and colleagues 👇
Different varieties of arousal converge on a shared cortical network
@vanOnselenP
This is not America, Mr Morrison. You can't deflect questions you don't like by attacking the integrity of the press. This is not Trump's America, your wife is not a First Lady... And you will be held accountable for your fraud, make no mistake.
@ScottMStedman
Can anyone explain to me WHY you are all even having this conversation? Don't give it oxygen. Please. There's already a madman on the Whitehouse. An entire family of corrupt grifters. Talk about THAT.
@SethAbramson
Trump will never talk rationally because he's mentally unfit. Reporters should flat out say "But that's a lie." They'll lose their job, but maybe they'll be the Rosa Parks of journalism, someone has to start.
Our sense of 'mind' seems strongly rooted in our heads. But this seems more a consequence of how we experience ourselves visually, with our minds lurking 'behind' our eyes. Do congenitally blind individuals experience this same sense of mind location?
@joelockhart
Which is why I think it's easier to believe it's a fake story. Solves all kinds of problems. Shows how little we can trust anything that comes out of the WH.
@MadFckingWitch
@BloggerMe3
This piece yesterday on the misery that is America is also a warning to Australia. By following the same path we can expect the same result...
Has anyone studying
#aphantasia
questioned whether the ability to introspect is accurate? How can we know for certain that a person reporting an image as "Perfectly clear and as vivid as normal vision" is genuinely seeing what they report?
@AlexanderDowner
Can we transport you to a New York ICU? Or perhaps London? Madrid? Perhaps you be trained to use one of the new hand-operated ventilators?
Your priviledge, ignorance & lack of empathy is staggering.
So I've just watched the 1st half of the 1st episode of Game of Thrones for the 1st time. Question for those who watched it all - was every episode as bad as that?
@carolecadwalla
Guardian and BBC headlines driving me nuts. When Italy was at 800 deaths it was huge news. NY and UK it barely gets a mention. All spin.
An invention called a Haptic Baton makes it possible for those who can't see to play in an orchestra! By feeling the conductor's movements as vibrations of different intensity, they can sense the energy and quality of the beat. So fantastic.
#musicscience
Percussionist Kyungho Jeon, who was born blind, used to think his dream of playing in an orchestra was impossible.
So he helped create a new type of baton that lets him feel, rather than see, a conductor's movements - and now he can play with an ensemble:
I love that Australia takes this virus and more importantly- the consequences of allowing it to spread - seriously. We are extraordinarily fortunate that despite the naysayers, our leaders take it on. Go Dan.
#COVID19Vic
@mattdpearce
Exactly - and because of this, it is entirely self-sealing. Nothing that contradicts the belief system can get in. Which is why the word 'cult' is not flippant.
I love doing my PhD. Love it. Love everything about it.
I have been writing at my desk all day and the only things that bugs me is the paradox of having to hydrate and then leave my desk to pee.
#phdlife
is awesome
@JaneCaro
@deniseshrivell
@Milliganreports
I completely feel for them. They're not babysitters nor should the weight of the entire economy be squatting on their child-minding shoulders. They have their own families, vulnerable partners, people they want to keep safe. Not to mention themselves.
"We are delighted to let you know that the above submission, which you co-authored, has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports..."
My first, co-first author paper is on its way, friends! One day I may not care so much, but right now this feels really damn fine.
@barriecassidy
@Jansant
@MrKRudd
Loving that both of you are using the word lies and not falsehoods, misinformation, disinformation etc. I appreciate these definitions have nuance and occasions for their use, but when a lie is a lie, better to call it what it is.
@itsmedoctorbrie
I once managed a classical music CD store. Gentleman asks me where the Wagner section is. I show him. "That's Wagner," he says, pronouncing it with a W, like Wag The Dog - "I want VARGNA." 😶
#mainsplainingformusicians
@cristyclark
@iMusing
The press and troll onslaught against my children, my family. The exposing of every mistake I have ever made, things that have made me stronger but could be twisted to fit an awful agenda. No way to balance my family & work (in fact active opposition to it).
Check out this interactive introduction to attractor landscapes! (Now can someone do Structured Flow on Manifolds and Markov blankets (hidden or otherwise) k thanks 🤪
@ashleyruba
I experienced exactly the same thing, only with my opera singing career. Very similar reasons. And releasing your Self from your Title (where it is singer or professor) is so liberating. There are so many ways to channel your expertise and curiosity beyond academia. Good luck!
“It’s very difficult to reflect on one’s own inner experiences, and most people aren’t very good at it when they start out."
Cool piece on subjective differences in inner voice featuring work by
@glupyan
&
@JohanneSKNed
(+comments from
@cfernyhough
)
Pupils size < at inhalation onset, > during exhalation suggests "visual perception itself might cycle between optimizing for discrimination during inhalation and detection during exhalation within a single breath."
The Respiratory-Pupillary Phase Effect:
@9NewsQueensland
1. How is this not intent to sexually assault?
2. Where is the victim in your headline?
3. What does being a promising footballer have to do with his appalling crime?
4. You are truly awful at doing your job.
Breathing is coupled with voluntary initiation of mental imagery: "breathing cycle is synchronized with the onset of self-initiated mental imagery performance which was preceded by the cortical readiness potential."
@SusaninRaraLand
@elyasgarad
@JaneCaro
Sorry, but in Melbourne as a 14 yr old I moved from a beautifully landscaped, stunningly resourced Catholic high school to one resembling a public toilet but was academically superior & cost nothing. Education doesn't depend on aesthetics or parental snobbery.
@vanOnselenP
His assertion that children don't really suffer badly from this virus, therefore schools should stay open, was truly bizarre. Like kids don't have parents, grandparents, teachers, aides, cleaners, volunteers... they just go to school and play carefree amongst themselves 🤣🤬
Seasonal variation in functional connectivity in human brains - "relevant environmental factors, including average temperature and day length, were found to be significantly associated with brain functional activities"
Never expected this thread to be so epic, but here I am. Singer, mum, yogi, breath obsessed, baby academic, still optimistic & probably too energetic for my own good. I'll start a PhD in 2023 - breathing, affect, interoception & embodiment. Thanks for staying till the end!💜
@GeoffRBennett
@Yamiche
Stunning. But also a perfect visual metaphor for how America seems so alone now, the centre of its own universe. 😥 Trusting that his legacy will lead to powerful, positive transformation one day soon.
#November3rd
We’ve updated the Australian Values Statement that people agree to when they apply for a visa. People coming to Australia should know, understand and respect our values. More details here:
Aphantasia = stringent reality monitoring?
"...imagined & perceived signals are in fact intermixed, with judgments of reality being determined by whether this intermixed signal is strong enough to cross a reality threshold."
@nadine_dijkstra
@smfleming
@CoriBush
Thrift shops are the bomb. Here in Australia we call them op shops and it's often a far better way to buy clothes. I find new things either cheap quality or ridiculously expensive for what you get. You go girl!
This metaphor in Buzsaki's "Rhythms of the Brain" is interesting - conducting an orchestra is not quite what he thinks. Musicians synch together by *anticipation*. If they just followed his baton, they're already late....