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This is a really excellent piece, because it goes beyond shouting 'the Royal Society should revoke Musk's FRS!' – which at the surface level seems such an obvious course of action – and thinks about why they haven't, and why those arguments don't hold

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to the more than 1100 members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over. Please keep signing & sharing. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

PhD and job opportunities for vision scientists

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Useful list of resources for neurodivergent students

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#neurojobs #neuroimaging #neuroskyence 🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠 Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich? Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...

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📂 Open-access PDF of our new paper is here: dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/18...

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On Thursday March 27th, 2025 R4E has another educational webinar planned! This time we are going to talk about how to carry out a meta-analysis with @mikemalekahmadi.bsky.social 11 AM ET/ 4PM CET All are welcome! Register here -->

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

🎉 Join us for Session 4 of the Empowering Neurodivergence Speaker Series! 📅 Feb 10, 2025 🕠 5:30-7:00 MST / 7:30-9:00 EST 🎙️ Featuring Robert Lamont & Brooke Leifso Explore how neurodivergence, queerness, & creativity intersect in the arts. 🎟️ Register now: ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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The BNS is delighted to present this first look at the 🧠 SPRING MEETING 🧠 2025 programme, and announce we've an 🚨 EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE (Feb 17th)! 🚨 All this great science for just a £15 registration fee. Or for free if your a BNS member. Visit www.the-BNS.org. #neuroskyence #psychscisky

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Wow

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Great to know what our TA and conference budgets got sacrificed for💸

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

New paper from Yelda Semizer, Dian Yu, Qianqian Wan, myself and @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social nholtz.bsky.social! I'm really excited that this is out - mazes (and related visual connectedness judgments) are a really exciting problem domain for visual cognition. #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

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Very excited to share this 2year postdoc job, working on a co-produced model for autistic adults' social care Project led by & draws on work of the National Autistic Taskforce (especially Yo Dunn) with supporting cast of David Orr, @kathyleadbitter.bsky.social + me www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI718/r...

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

#neurosciences #neglect Great experiment. People with aphantasia cannot mentally picture a an apple, for instance, but their primary visual cortex records its image. When they try to visualize it in one side of their field of vision, they "show more activity on the same side of their brains, 1/2

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#Autscape (the European “autistic conference” in the UK) has a brand new account on BlueSky. Please spread the word! #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy”: 7th-9th Feb 2025, Zoom + Discord In-person #Autscape2025 “Evolving Autistic Space”: 4th-7th Aug 2025 @ The Hayes, Derbyshire

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Come work as a postdoctoral researcher in our research group at KU Leuven in Belgium and help us unravel the visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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Welcome to Bluesky, @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. The best society in the world.*

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Midwinter in Scotland is the only time I ever manage a sunrise swim 😂. 8.47am this morning. Blooming freezing but fun. Photo credit Felicity Martin

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1 year researcher in residence post at Scottish Autism. Closing date 2 January www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD959/r... #AutismResearch #jobs

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

@fovea-vs.bsky.social is on Bluesky now! Follow FoVea to learn more about ways we can advance the visibility, impact, and success of women in vision science!

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Asking the crowd: Who has used a LEGO construction task to measure children's persistence, and could you share your protocol and/or published articles using the task? I have a student considering using this sort of measure with 1st and 4th graders. #PsychSciSky

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Funded PhD studentship opportunity at University of Birmingham on attention allocation in autism and neurocomputational mechanisms, supervised by @paulm-k.bsky.social, me & Harriet Allen (Nottingham). Deadline Jan 10th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #NeuroJobs #PhDSky

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of neuroscience (and autism) PhD opportunities at Edinburgh

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

That was a rather... invigorating (and brief!) lunchtime swim (water 2c). Feeling energised #Scotland

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Hard agree

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My final year undergraduate student is looking for young people aged 16 to 30 years of age living with chronic pain for an exciting, creative study to learn more about pain management strategies! If you are interested please get in touch 👇🏻

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Apply now for fully funded #PhD studentships at the University of Stirling (Scotland, UK) #PsychSciSky #cogpscy #PhDSky #memory #neuroskyence #Psychology placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

December 9th we will run a new virtual Topic Workshop "Introduction to Eye Tracking in PsychoPy Builder" Basic Introduction to using eye tracking components in PsychoPy Builder for a range of eye tracking systems. 15:00 - 16:30 UK - Virtual Book tickets here https://buff.ly/421cfkt

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy! The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called BioArt. Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪

submitted 117 days ago • 30 comments

Your baby doesn’t just love looking at your face - they STUDY it. Eye tracking research suggests that babies focus their attention on two areas of special interest: the eyes and the mouth. (Thread 🧵)

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

Always happy to raise awareness of this common but little known condition #Prosopagnosia (apols if no alt text)

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New paper from colleagues in the Face Lab at Uni of Stirling #CogSci #PsychSciSky #cogpsych bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/Y3GNV5...

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