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Well! royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

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Birkbeck's offering fully-funded PhD studentships as part of its Diversity 100 scheme. If you qualify as a Home student, & come from an ethnic background that's underrepresented in academia, you're eligible! If that sounds like you, and you'd like to discuss PhDs in my lab, please do get in touch.

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Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...

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Research assistant position at UCL, contributing to study of the neural substrates of visual perception with 7T fMRI and MEG www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... via @peterkok.bsky.social @jhaarsma.bsky.social

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Paper🚨 "Objects, Faces, and Spaces: Organizational Principles of Visual Object Perception as Evidenced by Individual Differences in Behavior" by @heidasigurdar.bsky.social & @ingamariao.bsky.social JEP:G editor's choice ->free to read psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #visionscience #psychscisky 🧵1/13

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Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Congratulations to Dr Daniel Yon from Birkbeck Psychology, whose forthcoming book, 'A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality', has been highlighted by Penguin Random House as a highly anticipated title release in 2025 🥳 Read more: ow.ly/XiB450UQmNL @danieljamesyon.bsky.social

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We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Applied Vision Association meeting in Liverpool on the 28th of April www.theava.net/meetings.php...

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Thank goodness for cute animals to wake up to

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First, this is facism. It's not 'on the path' or 'a worrying precedent'. It's just facism. Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc. That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Nice review of the affordance hypothesis by @edbaggs.bsky.social & @diovicen.bsky.social! Especially liked how it situates Gibson’s ideas within their historical context while linking them to today. Great read for those interested in the link between perception and action! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Looks like there’s going to be a great crew of commentators on my paper “Visual attention in crisis“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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📚 A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Thanks to all who came to support and watched online! A recording is available here: www.youtube.com/live/6LSfkQk...

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Please consider sponsoring Mark Thompson's February run in support of Afasic - a charity that offers valuable support to families affected by speech and language difficulties fundraising.afasic.org.uk/fundraising/...

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Join us in beautiful Sicily this May to discuss about Cognitive Tools in Action & Embodiment CFP now out ! Full info here : cognitive-futures.com Thank you Valentina Cuccio for having me 🙏!

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Three funded PhDs at Birmingham Uni www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰 To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software. Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

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Open access research from Irish colleagues about he experience of having a brain injury over the long term. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Most impressive, she deserves a huge applause. 👏🏻👏🏼👏👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿

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I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)

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The saga continues: significant decoding of voluntary imagery in early visual cortex during aphantasia - but a lack of cross-decoding with perception, maybe suggesting different sensory formats? www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Very nice work by the @martinhebart.bsky.social lab shows that many across-exemplar effects in early visual cortex can be explained by low-level visual features, whereas LOC appears, in addition, to exhibit higher order category-specific information. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... 🧪 🧠

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Gabriel Weindel, Leendert van Maanen, and Jelmer P. Borst: Trial-by-trial detection of cognitive events in neural time-series doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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People keep rediscovering what is essentially the testing effect, which psychologists identified at least as early as the 1960's.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Very pleased to see the Experimental Psychology Society here. Their London meeting this week was great as always. Whether you’re a familiar or new member, or just a curious aspiring psychologist please follow the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and check out their meetings and support!

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Fantastic news that Andy Clark is the inaugural winner of the #DennettPrize, in honour of Daniel Dennett. Congrats Andy 🍾🍾🍾 super-well deserved @sussexuni.bsky.social hardproblem.it/projects/the...

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Really looking forward to the EPS London meeting this week - particularly our symposium on uncertainty w/ talks from Nick Yeung, @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social, Claire Sergent, Hanneke den Ouden, @philcorlett.bsky.social, @beckyneuro.bsky.social (& me) eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

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Visual experience contributes to separation of face and language responses in the ventral stream www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @nancykanwisher.bsky.social et al.; comparing vOTC (ventral occipitotemporal cortex) function across sighted and congenitally blind adults; #neuroscience

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Wishing psychological scientists a happy 2025 with ideas worth spreading, research worth doing and free and open science.

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MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Enjoy this wonderful essay by Tim Bayne on Dan Dennett that just appeared in Aeon. #consciousness #Neuroscience #philosophy aeon.co/essays/as-re...?

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Our paper on MouseGoggles - an open-source mini VR headset for mice - just came out! Really excited about finally integrating eye-tracking into the headset. Nice working with you @hongyuchang.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/sn-lab/Mouse... #neuroskyence

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I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying Free version of the article in the next post Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

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🚨A four-year making @naturehumbehav.bsky.social with @UmitKeles @markthornton.bsky.social @Ralph Adolphs Across large sets of mental states, traits, situations, faces, & participants in five continents🌎 face impressions shape mental state attributions in various situations doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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