RealityBending/Onboarding

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My name is Catriona, but you can call me Cat

I’m on the Sussex Neuroscience PhD Programme 🧠

Interests:

  • Ongoing activity, thought & experience
  • (En)active Inference
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Complex systems & criticality
  • Altered states of consciousness
  • Mental health, critical psychiatry
  • Evolution of cognition

Education:

  • BSc Neuroscience, 2021 (1st, academic prize. Project: Investigating pronociceptive role of neutrophils in development of chronic pain)
  • MRes Neuroscience, 2023 (Distinction. Project: Investigating the effects of neural activity on developmental gene expression)
  • Neuroscience PhD, 2023-

A few influences (maybe more than a few 😅):

  • Andy Clark
  • Douglas Hofstadter
  • Gabor Maté
  • György Buzsáki
  • Joanna Moncrieff
  • Kalina Christoff
  • Karl Friston
  • Michael Karchoff
  • Randy Gallistel
  • Stanislas Dehaene
  • William Uttal

Other interests:

  • Coffee and cooking 🌱
  • Walking, foraging, photography 🍄
  • Strength training, bouldering, slacklining & juggling 🏋️

Hi @CatrionaOM, welcome 👐 !!