George O’Neill
Physicist. Neuroscientist. Alien.
- Look, we've all been overlooked for positions at the University of Nottingham, but you don't see me becoming an ethno-nationalist in response.
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- Yeah the Bears clearly have the big man on speed dial.
- Turns out the response was “New phone, who dis?”
- Locked out of my work's Google services as I didn't respond to the email sent at 11.40 pm on New Years Eve to enroll in something before New Years Day. Love it. 🙃
- Reposted by George O’Neillanother robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
- Reposted by George O’NeillAnd Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
- Berghain by Roaslía is screaming for someone to make an ABBA version of it.
- Happy 55th Anniversary of the time in Oregon they tried to use dynamite to dispose a beached whale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...
- SCORIGAMI!
- Reposted by George O’NeillThinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
- That Broncos game has aged me considerably.
- Saw my first lenticular clouds in person today. The lamination!
- I think I’ve spent too long looking at linear algebra that I thought this donut shop was celebrating the pseudo-inverse of 90 years.
- Reposted by George O’NeillWell don't I feel stupid
- Do it for the job security, or the mountain view. I’m not judging!
- University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n
- Reposted by George O’Neilla big hamburger
- Reposted by George O’NeillJust saw Mario turned 40 this week and so, once again, I present to you: the first level of Super Mario but all the sound effects are farts.
- I wouldn't normally link to an AI paper but the DeepSeek paper in Nature has one astonishing stat in the supplementary. The cost to train on top of the base LLM was below $300k. I think the cost of the original model was only 10x more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Why do I point this out? Well in the US, the dogma of hyperscaling to make the next big leap in model performance means capital expenditure on AI was larger than all consumer spending this year. finance.yahoo.com/news/spendin...
- At some point either cause VC funders or other realise this is a complete waste of money or AI growth falters in another way, its going to make the dot-com crash look like a picnic in comparison?
- You can tell SPM is uncomfortable about turning 30, it’s spent all year telling everyone it’s 25!
A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
- Laurent is fantastic to work with and never short of inspiring ideas. Please apply or spread the word!
- We are hiring ! 👩🏼🎓👨🎓🧑🏼🎓👨🏿🎓👩🏿🎓👩🎓 I am looking for a motivated person interested in a PhD in basic neuroscience, for a project at the edge between epilepsy and sleep. If you are interested, check the job announcement: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
- We've got a very jet-lagged niece staying with us for a fortnight, so this will be me for the forseeable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdC...
- Are we allowed to post Dave Grohl anymore, just trying to work out which of my teenage listening habits I am allowed to talk about.
- Reposted by George O’NeillSci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
- What a first six seconds for the Eagles, an injury and a sending off!
- Its a complex feeling to receive two papers in the same week for comments, both including authors who sadly passed away too soon in 2025. Hopefully these papers in small part help their names echo though the ages that little longer.
- I've got 99 problems and they are all related to how FreeSurfer stores mesh data.
- Turns out instead of just voxel and world coordinates, there's a secret third way too?
- One thing I wasn't expecting to have regularly to look up is what the Americans call paracetamol.
- Pleased to see this paper finally published. We investigated which conductive models are appropriate for source analysis of spine electrophysiology. Turns out modelling the bone is quite important! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by George O’NeillStanding perfectly still so I don't accidentally spend money
- This years @meguki2025.bsky.social is the first I’ve not attended since 2012. The fear of missing out is real!
- Just written what cnly be descriped as a response to reviewers... to the property disputing issues found with the flat I vacated last month. Less hoping for paper acceptance and more hoping I get some deposit back!
- WHY DOES MY MOUSE SOFTWARE INCLUDE ACCESS TO AN LLM, IN WHAT WORLD IS THAT EVEN A USEFUL IDEA?
- I once tried to offer Toby Jones some ear defenders when he was clearly having a bad time with the screeching of the Victoria Line.
- Reposted by George O’NeillA funded PhD position focused on spinal OPM recordings. Please share www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
- Spurs’ trophy drought entirely explained by my time academia (Sept 2008 - May 2025). Turns out I was the invisible hand of failure the entire time!
- Well that's it. Today was my last day at @ucl.ac.uk and my last day in academia. I just want to thank everyone from @uclnpp.bsky.social and @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social for making feel at home for the past (almost) 6 years. Its been the gift which kept on giving.
- I'm not leaving the MEG world just yet, I'm thrilled to announce I'm joining the team at Fieldline Medical next month. Been hard keeping that one on a need to know basis!
- If you fancy replacing me in Dan Bush's excellent research lab - he is currnetly hiring and applications are open until late May. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Apropos of the fact the pope might be on tumblr, Papal Mirror Selfie would have made a great name for a song or band in 2009.
- An important commentary on the state of M/EEG software and the perverse fact we all rely on something which there is little reward in writing and maintaining. This needs to change. That, or we never allow these authors to ever get on a plane together.
- Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within. This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵 bsky.app/profile/imag...
