Emre Yavuz @Emre_Yavuz_21 Twitter profile

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Emre Yavuz

2 years

I am thrilled to announce that I will be starting a PhD in Human Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL this September, supervised by Professor Hugo Spiers, and funded by Ecological Brain Programme (The Leverhulme Trust). @Momademia @PhDVoice

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

3 years

I seriously believe in persevering. 30 PhD applications 25 rejections 4 interviews 2 PhD offers 3 places to hear from Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. @OpenAcademics @Momademia @AcademicChatter

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2 years

A really interesting article on rejection in academia! Never give up. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. @CouragePhD @AcademicChatter @Momademia @PhDVoice @ThePhDPlace @EP_UCL @UCLBrainScience @UCL_ICN @UCLPALS

Early-career setback and future career impact

Nature Communications - Little is known about the long-term effects of early-career setback. Here, the authors compare junior scientists who were awarded a NIH grant to those with similar track...

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2 years

A great review by @anilkseth and Tim Bayne! 'There is every reason to think that the iterative development, testing and comparison of ToCs will lead to a much deeper understanding of this most profound of mysteries.' 🧠⚡️

Theories of consciousness

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Various theories have been developed for the biological and physical basis of consciousness. In this Review, Anil Seth and Tim Bayne discuss four prominent theoretical...

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

6 months

Ready to start my 3rd dose of chemotherapy! 💪🌸 #courage #perseverance #uclh #macmillancancer @uclh @macmillancancer

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

20 days

A neuroscience experiment with over 100 people in one room? 🧠✨ It was an absolute blast contributing to this study on spatial navigation and social interaction. Massive thanks to @hugospiers @FionaZisch and all collaborators for making this happen. Stay tuned for more! 🙌

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2 years

@hubermanlab @UCLA There was a recent paper in Nature about sleep by @hugospiers and team: - definitely worth a read 🧠🙌

Reported sleep duration reveals segmentation of the adult life-course into three phases

Nature Communications - Sleep varies within and between individuals. Here, using self-reported sleep duration from a large sample of participants across 63 countries, the authors show three phases...

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5 months

📣 SO EXCITED to share with you all my third first-author paper from my PhD: “Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance.” ➡️ I am so grateful to the wonderful team who turned this dream into a reality! 🙌

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Emre Yavuz

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3 years

Psilocybin inspires today’s street art... @Imperial_PRG @BeckleyResearch @PsydelicsToday @psyinvest @PsilocybinAlpha @JHPsychedelics @phriucsd @RCarhartHarris

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3 years

This book has honestly saved me, allowed me to avoid all-nighters and I’ve started to enjoy using R because of it... Definitely get it 😍 Andy Field, Jeremy Miles and Zoe Field, words cannot express how grateful I am for your amazing book!

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2 years

A fantastic review by @hakwanlau , @MatthiasMichel_ , @theamygdaloid and @smfleming ! 'The resulting findings might help to reveal the functions of subjective experience and inform current theoretical debates on consciousness.' 🧠⚡️

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

3 years

I’ve had 2 PhD rejections within the last 2 days - every rejection is a redirection… I will never give up.

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Emre Yavuz

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7 months

We all love a beautiful neuroscience building! @Caltech

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Emre Yavuz

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18 days

Some Bach to ease the pressures of academia! 🎶🎼♥️

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2 years

A great paper by @Sam_D_Parsons et al.! "We have argued that researchers using cognitive-behavioral measures should adopt a standard practice of estimating and reporting the reliability of these measures." 🧠🙌

Psychological Science Needs a Standard Practice of Reporting the Reliability of Cognitive-Behavio...

Psychological science relies on behavioral measures to assess cognitive processing; however, the field has not yet developed a tradition of routinely examining ...

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

2 years

A new chapter! Any UCL students on campus - would love to meet up 🤩 #phdlife #PhDposition @AcademicChatter @CouragePhD @PhDVoice @Momademia

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Emre Yavuz

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3 months

Thrilled to be in Vienna for #FENS2024 !! Please come and see my poster ➡️ ‘Using Minecraft to Investigate the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Human Hunting Behaviour’ - poster session 03, Thursday morning (27th June), poster 590. Can’t wait to meet you all 🧠🙌💫

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Emre Yavuz

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3 months

Thank you to everyone who came to my poster on ‘Elucidating the Neurobiological Mechanisms underlying Human Hunting Behaviour’ at #FENS2024 ! So grateful for @hugospiers @antoniahamilton & co.’s support in making this happen. DM me if you want to collab + know more 🧠🙌

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Emre Yavuz

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2 years

I’m absolutely thrilled that my MSc Thesis work has been accepted for poster presentation at the FENS conference in Paris this July! 🎉✨

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

1 year

Really enjoyed presenting my poster on the association between GPS and human spatial navigation at the FENS Regional Meeting in Albufeira! 🧠🙌 Thank you everyone for helping me become the scientist I am today. @EP_UCL @at_RIN @UCL_ICN @AcademicChatter @FENSorg @seaheroquest

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Emre Yavuz

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3 years

I just watched The Psychedelic Drug Trial on BBC2. I was in tears by the end of it after seeing how the lives of those suffering from Depression were changed for the better. Thank you @RCarhartHarris , @ProfDavidNutt , @ros_watts and colleagues for your groundbreaking work ❤️

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Emre Yavuz

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1 year

📣Thrilled to announce that my first first-author paper from my PhD is now available as a preprint! 📣 Link to paper: Thank you to all my friends and collaborators who have provided me with endless support on this journey 🧠🙌 @seaheroquest @hugospiers

Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance

Recent evidence suggests that greater reliance on GPS-assisted devices is associated with poorer navigation ability. Contrastingly, studies have shown that video gaming can enhance navigation...

www.biorxiv.org

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Emre Yavuz

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8 months

I’m currently with a difficult situation regarding publication fees… Then I remember that I applied for 30 PhDs, got 29 rejections and ended up where I am - the best outcome 🙌🧠 Gritting through setbacks. @PhDVoice @CouragePhD @AcademicChatter

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Emre Yavuz

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3 months

Had a blast presenting ‘Using Minecraft to Elucidate the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Human Hunting Behaviour’ (my PhD work) at the iNAV conference! Thank you to all those who have supported me in getting to this stage 🧠🙌 #iNAV2024 @hugospiers @antoniahamilton @at_RIN

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4 months

Aren’t I lucky to have such thoughtful friends and labmates! Thank you so much for the extremely generous gifts ❤️🙌 I am extremely optimistic about my path to recovery 🍀💪

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Emre Yavuz

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4 years

The largest placebo-controlled trial on psychedelics to date was published in e-life today, showing that the psychological benefits linked with taking regular, small doses of psychedelic drugs are likely the result of users’ expectations. The article:

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Emre Yavuz

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3 months

Repeat after me: ‘Success does NOT ‘cure’ imposter syndrome! #FENS2024

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Emre Yavuz

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11 months

Had such fun delving into the world of Minecraft whilst discussing my poster on ‘The Neurobiological Mechanisms of Human Hunting Behaviour” at The Champalimaud Foundation Research Symposium! 🧠 So grateful to all those who came along. Really excited for the road ahead 🙌

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

2 years

Such a lovely Birthday surprise at our lab meeting this morning! 🎉🎁 Thank you so much @Dwaynica for the amazing cakes!!! ❤️❤️ Turning 25, I’m so excited for the year ahead…regardless of whether a p value is < or > 0.05! @UCL_ICN @UCLBrainScience @EP_UCL

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

3 years

Do not miss this amazing event below!! Please retweet :) @ProfDavidNutt @standrewsunion @ICLneuroscience @imperialcollege @ImpPsych @ImperialMed

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

8 months

Absolutely thrilled to have been accepted onto the RIKEN Centre for Brain Science Summer Programme this July 🧠 🙌 Very much looking forward to learning from and networking with world-leading academics, and visiting Japan for the first time! 🇯🇵

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

2 years

Delighted that my first PhD abstract has been accepted as a poster presentation at the FENS Regional Meeting in The Algarve, Portugal in May! My poster will explore how the navigation strategies one uses and their reliance on GPS use relates to navigation on @seaheroquest 🧠🙌

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Emre Yavuz

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3 months

After an amazing and busy week of #FENS2024 , I’ve been soaking in Vienna’s exquisite beauty! 🇦🇹♥️

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Emre Yavuz

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8 months

So so thrilled that my first first-author paper has now been published in Scientific Reports! I can’t thank enough the wonderful team who made this happen - @cgahnstrom @antoine_coutrot @hugospiers (and others not on X) 🙌🧠 @SciReports

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Emre Yavuz

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1 year

So greatly enjoyed every moment discussing my research on the link between sleep and human spatial navigation, the first poster presentation of my PhD! Thank you all for the thought-provoking discussion. 🧠🙌⚡️ @BritishNeuro #academia #neuroscience @CogNav_RIN @at_RIN @EP_UCL

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2 years

It’s a joy to be working on this for my PhD! To anyone working on Dementia out there, let’s connect 🧠🙌⚡️ @dem_researcher @AlzResearchUK @Momademia @PhDVoice @ThePhDPlace @thephdstory @seaheroquest @BritishNeuro @CouragePhD

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2 years

My time at Imperial College London has been unforgettable. Despite completing my MSc in Translational Neuroscience in the midst of a pandemic, the wonderful friends I’ve made have allowed me to have the best possible experience ❤️ #graduation @AcademicChatter #OurImperial

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Emre Yavuz

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4 months

Finally arrived in gorgeous Merano, Italy - a true gem - in time for the iNAV conference! 🇮🇹 Looking forward to giving my talk: ‘Using Minecraft to Elucidate the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Human Hunting Behaviour’ 🧠🙌 Navigation family - can’t wait to meet up! #iNAV2024

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Emre Yavuz

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10 months

This morning I woke up to a dream come true. Immensely grateful to have been awarded a fellowship to study at Caltech for 3 months in the lab of the amazing Prof. Dean Mobbs! Thank you to all those who’ve supported me on this journey, without who I wouldn’t have got here 🧠🙌

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

1 year

Want to take part in a study for my PhD, be compensated £15, and have your brain activity recorded whilst playing Minecraft? Then please come and take part in my study 🧠🙌 Link to register your interest:

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Emre Yavuz

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1 year

Absolutely delighted to have been accepted onto the Methods in Neuroscience at Dartmouth summer school on Interacting Minds this August! 🧠🙌🇺🇸 Really excited for my first trip to the USA, diving into the world of computational neuroscience and making new friends * collabs!

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5 months

Absolutely thrilled to be giving a talk at the iNAV conference in beautiful Merano, Italy, this June 🧠🙌 Can't wait for exciting idea-bouncing conversations with other members of the spatial navigation community 💡⚡️

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Emre Yavuz

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3 years

Absolutely thrilled that my MSc Thesis research has been accepted for poster presentation at the Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress 2022 in Edinburgh! 🎉😍✨

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Emre Yavuz

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3 years

Received another two phd rejections on the same day…but I’m still just as optimistic about the road ahead…when there’s a will, there’s a way 💪💪💪 The right thing is out there waiting for us all to find it ✨

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Emre Yavuz

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2 years

Wishing all my Twitter connections a wonderful Christmas and a year filled with good health, happiness and success🎄✨

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Emre Yavuz

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10 months

Had a fantastic time delivering my first PhD talk on ‘Dynamic Goal Tracking during Social Navigation using fNIRS + fMRI’ at the iSCAN Symposium in Magdeburg! I can’t thank enough all those whose incredible mentoring has allowed me to get here 🧠🙌 @hugospiers @antoniahamilton

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2 years

British Neuroscience Association rooftop party! No better way to spend an evening. Beautiful people. Beautiful location. @BritishNeuro @FENSorg #MyFENS2022

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4 months

The perks of driving through Europe! ♥️

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2 years

Preparing for weekly catch up with my PhD supervisor! I’m so lucky to have a supervisor who supports my academic and personal development. I can’t stress how important this is for enabling the nicest academic experience 🧠🙌 @Momademia @ThePhDPlace @AcademicChatter @PhDVoice

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Emre Yavuz

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1 year

When responding to emails is enjoyable… 🇨🇭 @Momademia @AcademicChatter @CouragePhD @thephdstory @ThePhDPlace

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10 months

Thesis upgrade passed ✅ Thank you to all those who have provided me with tremendous support on my journey so far! 🙌🧠🙏 @antoniahamilton @hugospiers @vigliocco_g @MatStangl @ZakDjebbara @doellerlab @lks_kunz @mark_ho_ @tammy_ttran Dean Mobbs @OlafBlankeLab @behrenstimb

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Emre Yavuz

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2 years

Introducing the newest member of the Spiers Lab, Elizabeth! 🎉 #phdlife #academia #mentalhealth @EP_UCL @ucl @UCLBrainScience @UCL_ICN @ECOLOGICALBRAIN @PhDVoice @CouragePhD @AcademicChatter @ThePhDPlace @seaheroquest @taxibrains @hugospiers

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1 year

Had a meeting with the undergrads I’m supervising. This semester, I’ll be supervising 8 undergrads - a learning curve💪 One of them said: “This is such an exciting project. I’m so glad I’m doing it”. So rewarding to mentor passionate students 🧠🙌 #motivation @PhDVoice

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2 years

Please join me in saying a big congrats to my wonderful PhD supervisor @hugospiers for being appointed Vice Dean (Innovation & Enterprise) in the Faculty of Brain Sciences @ucl from 1 January 2023! 👏👏 @UCLIoN @UCLPALS @UCLBrainScience @UCL_ICN @UCLPsychiatry @UCLMentalHealth

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1 year

“Science isn’t finished until it’s communicated” - Sir Mark Walport. A hugely exciting talk by Prof. Pedro Russo on ‘The academic context for science communication: theory & practice’! 🧠🙌 @UniLeidenNews @FENSorg @FENSRM #FRM2023

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1 year

Delight that my abstract on exploring the link between sleep and human spatial navigation has been accepted for presentation at the #BNA2023 International Festival of Neuroscience and publication in @BNAjournal ! See you in Brighton 🧠🙌 @BritishNeuro

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2 years

I saw this diagram in a post by Professor Hilal Lashuel from @EPFL_en this morning! Wanted to share… @LashuelLab @CouragePhD @AcademicChatter

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3 months

Amazing talk by @TseDorothyLab ! #FENS2024

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Emre Yavuz

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3 years

Just finished baking Coffee and Walnut cake for my Great Aunts 93rd Birthday today! Let’s hope she likes it 😍 Late night baking is always so much fun 😂 @Nigella_Lawson @bakingmedics

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3 months

A great visualisation from Prof. Hugo Spiers (my amazing PhD supervisor - no bias) demonstrating that London taxi drivers may be protected from the age-related decline in navigation we see in the literature… @at_RIN @seaheroquest @UCLBrainScience @ucl @EP_UCL #iNAV2024

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7 months

NEW PAPER ALERT!! 🚨 Delighted that my first-author paper has now been published in Spatial Cognition & Computation 🧠🚗 Thank you to the amazing team behind this - @hugospiers @antoine_coutrot @cgahnstrom @edthink @seaheroquest and others! 🙌 ⬇️

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2 years

Piloting our Minecraft game! The participant really enjoyed playing it too - looking forward to seeing what we discover 🙏

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2 years

Celebrating a fantastic year of Science with the Spiers Lab! 🧠🙌 Can’t wait to see what 2023 will hold… @EP_UCL @UCLBrainScience @UCL_ICN @ucl @NilsNyberg_ @LaraGregorians @seaheroquest @taxibrains @isabellesjovall

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3 years

It’s PhD application writing time!!!

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3 months

Loved presenting my PhD research to @KlausGramann ’s research team at @TUBerlin ! 🧠🙌 Thank you so much for the invitation ☺️🙏 #fNIRS #navigation #seaheroquest

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3 months

Fascinating plenary lecture by Prof. Onur Gonturkun! 🧠🙌 ‘Complex cognition seems to require more neurons in brain-equivalents of hidden layers.’ #FENS2024

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2 years

Sunset from the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL. @EP_UCL @UCLBrainScience @UCL_ICN @uclnpp @ucl

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2 years

Am so grateful to have received a bursary from the @BritishNeuro to find my travel to the FENS conference in Paris this July! 🎉 Being able to get my research out there and have a significant positive impact on the wider world means so much to me - can’t wait to network 🙏

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1 year

📣 Delighted that my preprint 'Individuals learning to drive solo before age 18 have superior spatial navigation ability compared with those who learn to drive later' is now available! 🧠 🚗 👉 @hugospiers @edthink @antoine_coutrot @cgahnstrom

Individuals learning to drive solo before age 18 have superior spatial navigation ability compared...

A challenge associated with driving vehicles can be navigating to the destination. While driving experience would seem beneficial for improving navigation skill, it remains unclear how driving...

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10 months

📣 Thrilled that my joint-first author paper with the amazing Rachel Rodrigues and team is now available as a preprint! Hugely grateful to the fantastic supervision of @martidisi and team for their endless support 🧠🙌 ➡️

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2 years

Found an email in my ‘sent’ box from when I contacted a professor at UCL whilst still at secondary school about an internship in spatial navigation research. It’s a great feeling to now be doing a PhD in the same place and field. Never give up. @PhDVoice @CouragePhD

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2 years

A great article by @danilobzdok , @leoschilbach and Carolin Kieckhaefer. Important to consider when designing social neuroscience experiments with groups of participants 🧠⚡️ @mcgillu @LMU_Muenchen @HHU_de @hugospiers @antoniahamilton

Social belonging: brain structure and function is linked to membership in sports teams, religious...

Abstract. Human behavior across the life span is driven by the psychological need to belong, right from kindergarten to bingo nights. Being part of social

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3 months

Enjoying lunch with Joaquin Castillo - another spatial navigation researcher! 🧠🙌 #FENS2024

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2 years

These last few days have taught me one thing: I’ve chosen the right career. @FENSorg #FENS2022 #MyFENS2023

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2 years

Sunset from the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL.

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3 years

Looking for something to read? Have a read of this review on MDMA published yesterday by Professor David Nutt and Professor Harriet De Wit! @ProfDavidNutt @Drug_Science @MAPSCanada @MAPS @imperialcollege @ImperialBrains @ImperialMed @Imperial_PRG

Putting the MD back into MDMA

Nature Medicine - A phase 3 study shows that MDMA may be a promising treatment for PTSD, which will require a shift in how this drug is perceived.

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1 year

Thank you IBRO for this amazing opportunity to present my work on the association between driving and human spatial navigation ability! Learning from neuroscientists from +83 countries - an unforgettable experience. Let’s together push forward the frontiers of neuroscience 🙌

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2 years

Sunrise shots during my flight to snowy London ✈️ Ready for another motivating day in the lab! #academia #phdlife #phdvoice

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1 year

Pina coladas with the BNA team! 🧠🙌 Lessons learnt from PIs: 1. Don’t do/have something just because you ‘can’. 2. Embrace the unexpected. Grab opportunities. 3. Learn to say ‘no’. You’re human, you have boundaries. Thank you for everything. @BritishNeuro #BNA2023

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1 year

I was talking to a PI whilst grabbing coffee. Lessons learnt: 1. Publications aren’t enough. Having the right supervisor who will understand the real you, and will write references that are not generic when applying for jobs is essential. 2. Never second guess in science.

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3 years

Got both my undergraduate and MSc Theses rung-bound 😍

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4 months

Beautiful Switzerland! ❤️🇨🇭

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Emre Yavuz

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6 months

Had an amazing time visiting Prof. Nanthia Suthana’s ( @SuthanaLab ) unbelievable lab at UCLA! Feeling energised and inspired after learning about the groundbreaking and innovative VR and real-world studies happening here. Can’t wait to collaborate. Thanks for having me! 🫶🧠

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Emre Yavuz

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2 years

Just had my first PhD Thesis Committee meeting. So much inspiration in the air. Having a thesis committee of 12 people is so great for hearing so many different perspectives on how to go about doing great research 🧠🙌 @ThePhDPlace @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter @Momademia

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1 year

I’ve lost my way to the lecture theatre… Hard not to feel a little sheepish as a human spatial navigation researcher 😅 @BritishNeuro 🧠

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@Emre_Yavuz_21

2 years

With FENS 2022 ending today, I want to express how amazing it’s been. I’ve met so many like-minded neuroscientists and made life-long friends. There’s no experience that’s made me realise the impact one can have on the world through neuroscience more. Bring on FENS 2024!

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

3 years

Have started reading this book by @StuartJRitchie and I’m loving it! Thank you so much @StuartJRitchie 😍

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

3 months

It was lovely seeing Harry Clark at my poster today! Harry was my fantastic supervisor - and PhD student - when I was an undergrad in Matt Nolan’s lab. One of the best things about conferences is reconnecting with those who helped you get where you are today 🧠🙌♥️ #FENS2024

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

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Great talk by @carmensandi10 on brain mitochondria and metabolism at the core of anxiety and related behaviors! 🧠🙌 @FENSorg #FRM2023

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

6 months

Hugely grateful to have my abstract accepted for the FENS 2024 Forum in Vienna! 🧠🙌🇦🇹

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

3 years

Thank you for the birthday wishes! #24 🎉🍾🎈

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

1 year

Delighted that my first-author paper - ‘Shorter reported sleep duration in men is associated with worse virtual spatial navigation performance’ - is now available online as a preprint! 🧠🙌 @seaheroquest @AlzResearchUK @ECOLOGICALBRAIN @LeverhulmeTrust

Shorter reported sleep duration in men is associated with worse virtual spatial navigation perfor...

Sleep has been shown to impact navigation ability. However, it remains unclear how different sleep-related variables may be independently associated with spatial navigation performance, and as to...

www.biorxiv.org

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

2 years

Fantastic talk by @hugospiers on the use of video games in neuroscience research, including @seaheroquest ! Very excited to be working in this area 🧠⚡️ @ECOLOGICALBRAIN @UCLBrainScience @UCLBrainScience @UCL_ICN @ucl

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

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A fantastic day so far discussing our research using @seaheroquest at @AlzResearchUK ’s Research Network day! Great to see younger generations showing great enthusiasm about playing Sea Hero Quest 🧠🙌🧭📱 #navigation #outreach #psych #neuroscience

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

2 years

Revisiting the path I would walk down every day to attend my morning lectures at undergrad… @EdinburghUni @AcademicChatter @BritishNeuro

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

2 years

Excited for the year ahead! Ready to continue striving to positively impact the lives of so many through neuroscience research. My dreams scare me, but that is a sign they are worth pursuing, and I will do whatever it takes to achieve them. #academia #phdlife #neuroscience

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

3 years

Absolutely delighted with the sweaters me and my friend arranged to be manufactured for our cohort! 😍

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

1 year

Poster printed! Ready for #BNA2023 🧠🙌

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

2 years

Paris sunset. #FENS2022 #MyFENS2022 @FENSorg @BritishNeuro

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Emre Yavuz

@Emre_Yavuz_21

2 years

Very inspiring to see the work of the @UKDRI Care and Technology Centre at @imperialcollege being mentioned in the Sunday Times today! @ImperialBrains @ImperialMed @HaarShlomi @nfletcherlloyd

Smart sensors to help dementia sufferers where they feel safest — home

For decades, scientists have focused — unsuccessfully — on finding a cure for Britain’s fastest-growing disease, dementia. While they wait for pharmacologists to develop a wonder drug, a team of...

www.thetimes.com

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