Please spread the word about GW's new Applied Psychology MS! 2/1 application deadline to be considered for merit-based awards. I am the DGS so you can send potential applicants my way if any questions. (FYI—NOT a therapist training/licensing program) psychology.columbian.gwu.edu/ms-applied-p...

OPAM is looking for new organizers! We are seeking three new team members to help us run the next two iterations of OPAM. If you are interested, check out our website for more info! Deadline this year will be March 1st. www.opam.net

For those looking for postdoc funding, keep in mind the ORISE ORAU intelligence community Fellowship Program.

Heads-up—The deadline for this Special Issue is moving to March 1, 2025. Please consider submitting your work that involves cognitive research related to a military context!

Now that GW's Ph.D. application deadline has passed, its time to remind people about our new MS in Applied Psychology! psychology.columbian.gwu.edu/ms-applied-p... This is for those interested in gaining skills to advance their non-academic careers (NOT designed for clinical practice training.)

Hi fellow cognitive- and neuro-scientists and language lovers. Just leaving X and joining bluesky. Looking forward to learning about each other's work and other matters, and building a wonderful network here.

hey -- i'm hiring a postdoc! the ad will be up shortly, but looking for someone with network neuroscience experience (very broadly). the position isn't tied to any specific project/grant, so lots of flexibility in terms of what you'd actually *do*. hmu if you might be interested/want to learn more!

Evolution of the GWU Cognitive Neuroscience Holiday Party! From 2016 to 2024 (with 2020 and 2021 lost due to a world-wide pandemic...).

Now that I have a lot of new followers (hi!), let me re-share this paper related to replication concerns and false discoveries that might be of interest (but hard to find on its own)— jrn.trialanderror.org/pub/quantify... See here for an interactive weblet! www.bigcogsci.com/post-hoc.html

The journals Perception and i-Perception are now on Bluesky! We’ll post here updates about articles published in the journals, calls for special issues, and any other exciting news related to perception research.

This was a great talk at Psychonomics, and Akira provides really useful insights on how to think about individual differences research in cognitive psychology!

I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

Hello, Psychonomics! Come share your work in Australia. I'm co-organizing the 2025 meeting of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psych, which will be joint with the Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. A week later, Human Brain Mapping is in Brisbane. There's never been a better time! #psynom24

Congratulations to Emma Siritzky for winning a best talk award at @opam.bsky.social !! Great job today by all of the presenters. Very cool work being done across the field.

OPAM will now also be on BlueSky!

Psychology Starter Packs See starter packs docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Submit Starter Pack forms.gle/pjAM8g1CSJtQ...

If you are at Psychonomics, come by OPAM tomorrow (Thursday) to see Emma Siritzky's awesome talk at 9:40am! it is titled: "Incidental learning of task-relevant and task-irrelevant information in visual search reveals nuanced effects of decay and associative processing" www.opam.net #psynom24

Are you working on a project/manuscript that involves cognitive research inspired by, or related to, a military context? If yes, submit to the special issue in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications! cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com Please share!

Excited to announce that I'll be starting a lab at the University of Montreal (psychology) and Mila (Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms) starting summer 2025. More info to come soon, but I'll be recruiting at the Masters and PhD levels. Please share / get in touch if you're interested!

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

We are likely to have new funding coming in and it will cover a Ph.D. student for 5 years! GWU's deadline is Dec 1st. If you are interested in visual search, eye tracking, and medical image perception, please reach out.

Anyone here going to OPAM and Psychonomics this coming week in New York? www.opam.net www.psychonomic.org/page/2024ann... Lots of great presentations from graduate students and postdocs from George Washington University! Make sure to come by!

We are excited to announce a new MS in Applied Psychology Program at GWU! See website for more info & questions can be sent to Steve Mitroff, the program’s Director of Graduate Studies. There is an info session 10/24 @ 2pm. psychology.columbian.gwu.edu/ms-applied-p...

Our group at George Wash. Univ. has a possible opportunity for a postdoctoral fellow to work with us and a US Army research team. The position needs to be filled *very* soon; if you (or someone you know) is interested, contact me! funding for 2 years. No need to be a US citizen

We’re excited to announce that the Psychonomic Society is now on Bluesky! Posts will begin in January. Please help spread the word by following us and reposting.

New Paper! Congrats to Emma Siritzky and the team! We discuss how standard study design choices and pressures can inadvertently introduce sampling biases. Open access; see link below. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dwight Kravitz and I recently published an article using big data to show how questionable research practices can lead to high false alarm rates. It is open access and you can see it here: jrn.trialanderror.org/pub/quantify... Here is an applet to test it yourself: www.bigcogsci.com/post-hoc.html

A huge congratulations to Dr. Samoni Nag for successfully defending her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience yesterday @ The George Washington University!