Application review begins on 10/1; still time to apply!

We are running a virtual hackathon for #hacktober! Info and signup here: jspsych.github.io/hackathon/virtual_2025.html We will be hosting drop in office hours help during the hackathon, so this is a great chance to level up your jspsych skills!

Don't worry academics, it's still only August 32nd. Still plenty of time!

tryin' to be in the band, not the band manager. todd.gureckislab.org/2024/09/25/l...

Representing @vassar.bsky.social at #cogsci2025. My favorite part of the conference was catching up with all these amazing alums!

Vassar College is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in cognitive science. vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar... I'll be at #CogSci2025 - happy to chat about the position and life at Vassar.

Heading to #CogSci2025 🥳

paging @cogscisociety.bsky.social 👀

Want to know what kinds of studies webcam-based eye tracking can be used for? Here's our take on the current tech. This certainly isn't the first paper on this topic, but it provides some converging evidence about the viability of eye tracking with online methods. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

If you could change 1 or 2 things about the software used for academic journal editorial processes (e.g., manuscript submission, peer review, publishing), what would it be? 👀 #academicsky

If you could change 1 or 2 things about the software used for academic journal editorial processes (e.g., manuscript submission, peer review, publishing), what would it be? 👀 #academicsky

After a few days to fix some bugs, we will be holding another online Psych-DS tutorial on Wednesday, June 4, 12pm EDT. This is an informal workshop designed to help you convert a dataset to Psych-DS - BYO or find an open dataset at osf.io/mbvk4. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

That's a wrap on our first ever hackathon! Thanks to all of the wonderful people who attended. Lots of amazing projects and collaborations got started. 🥳

I feel this too, but I think it might be a context effect. My working memory in this context is just not very good compared to working with LLMs.

I made a page that lets you see hyperbolic teal - which could be olo. jodeleeuw.github.io/olo/

jspsych will soon* support generating psych-ds metadata automatically from an experiment timeline. we have done most of the implementation and are ironing out the final details. *probably summer 2025

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

Today's post is on @mcxfrank.bsky.social's book Experimentology, and specifically the chapter on Project Management experimentology.io/013-manageme... (full disclosure, I've collaborated on projects with Mike, specifically on ManyBabies, which gets a shout-out in this chapter)

I have a big update* coming next week for anyone that works with research data, especially in the social sciences. To warm up, I'm recapping resources that help you develop good intuitions for data management - if you have others you'd like to see, share below! (*It's about Psych-DS, get excited!)

🌍 Join the Heat & Cognition ManyLabs project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #ManyLabs #EnvironmentalPsychology

We still have space for a few more folks to attend. All expenses paid!

What a herculean lift by @karlinave.bsky.social and team! 👏 Some former @vassar.bsky.social cognitive science students contributed as one of the replicating labs. It was a great learning experience for us.

This sounds really awesome and I wish I could swing applying to this. The jsPsych library is great so definitely consider it.

We're hosting a hackathon in May! This is aimed at jsPsych users who want to learn how to contribute to open source software and extend jsPsych. It's free, and we'll cover travel expenses. Learn more and sign up here: jspsych.github.io/hackathon/sp...

We've launched a jsPsych newsletter 📬

I wrote a quick Python package, QuickEEG, to simplify processing EEG data. The core functionality is there but I need to build the documentation and specific use-case functionality. Would there be any interest if I develop this into a full fledged package? github.com/chadcwilliam...

📣 #PhD position announcement📣 (please share) We're seeking applicants for a joint venture with University of St. Andrews (lead by Thomas Otto) exploring how we can optimise measures of #multisensory #perception for remote data collection. Find out more here👇 https://buff.ly/3ZJk131

Grad admissions question: Some of the recommender portals don't require responses to the scales where I have to declare that this student is a once-in-a-generation talent. Am I hurting the student's chance of admission if I just leave those blank? (Please say no 🤞) #academicsky

Follow us for announcements about jsPsych, like our upcoming in-person hackathon. We'll be funding travel for folks to come and learn how to contribute to the jsPsych ecosystem. More info soon!

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

We're still doing this for the next 2 weeks, and looking for more volunteers. The interviews so far have been enormously helpful for us! Please consider sharing with someone who might be a good match for us to talk to, or send me their contact info via a DM and we'll reach out.

Save the date for our October Special: Creating an online experiment using jsPsych. Join us on Monday, October 7 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 4pm GMT for this session led by Vijay Marupudi.

Ironically this paper was titled No Laughing Matter: Humor in Titles results in Punderwhelming Citations

We are currently conducting interviews with jsPsych users to help us shape long-term project goals. We are interested in speaking with folks with all levels of comfort with jsPsych. The interviews are happening over the next four weeks. Each session is 20-30 minutes. We are paying participants $20.

We are currently conducting interviews with jsPsych users to help us shape long-term project goals. We are interested in speaking with folks with all levels of comfort with jsPsych. The interviews are happening over the next four weeks. Each session is 20-30 minutes. We are paying participants $20.

Comic sans, but just for the headers.

Goodhart's Law in action 😂 @mehr.nz what have you done?

We just released jsPsych v8.0! There's lots of behind-the-scenes improvements here thanks to a complete rewrite of the core code. There are also some user-facing changes. Changelog is here: github.com/jspsych/jsPs...

full-time RA job at Vassar on a project about jsPsych, online experiments, citizen science & gamification, etc pls circulate! (Josh is the supervisor for this one but in practice the RA will work with all of us on the project — @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social, @mekline.bsky.social, Josh Hartshorne, me)

DataPipe is a free tool for saving experimental data directly to the OSF, making it born-open by default. pipe.jspsych.org doi.org/10.31234/osf... @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social

I'm hiring an open-source community manager! This is a two-year, full-time position. Please share with folks who might be interested ❤️

Next time I am teaching ggplot the final assignment will be to create a pixel-perfect replication of this plot 😈

Just released: DataPipe now allows you to select what region (US, EU, Canada, Australia) the OSF data is stored in. I hope this resolves GDPR-compliance for researchers in the EU 🌍

I made this tool that I think is pretty useful if you are running online experiments and using the OSF. It's free. And open source. And you can use other free tools with it to run an online experiment for free. pipe.jspsych.org

Looking forward to having this as a resource for students running online experiments!

🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you! 🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.

A basic recognition memory experiment for pictures in jspsych www.crumplab.com/psyc2001/blo...

I made this tool that I think is pretty useful if you are running online experiments and using the OSF. It's free. And open source. And you can use other free tools with it to run an online experiment for free. pipe.jspsych.org

Coming soon: the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, an open access reference work devoted to the study of the mind. @asifa_majid and I are co-editors in chief – articles will be posted starting in 2024. oecs.mit.edu

Teaching a neural network oriented computational modeling class this semester, and I'm trying to implement Elman (1990) in Keras. Getting the "simple" XOR network to work in experiment 1 is hard! This pattern is also puzzling to me. How can the error on the unpredictable steps be anything but 0.5?