This is a fun Halloween update from @github.com, Happy Halloween! 🎃👻

Preprint alert🚨Excited to share my first first-author paper! Does playing first-person shooters relate to better multitasking skills? Not in our study, but we found experienced #Counter-Strike players are generally much faster in their reactions! 👉 osf.io/preprints/ps... @cvonbastian.bsky.social

For those of you heading to #escop2025, this gloriousness is the Peak District

Presenting my talk at #ESCOP2025 today at 4pm in the symposium "Cognitive Mastery in Play: From Board to Digital Games as Models of Expertise" in LT2 🎮🎲 Hope you see you there!

New #counter-strike available to participate in 🎮 Complete a 40-minute online cognitive task and questionnaire, and receive a £5 Amazon Voucher and be entered into a prize draw! 💸Read more and take part here 👉 coglab.xyz/publix/05ado... @cvonbastian.bsky.social @philippmusfeld.bsky.social #CS2

It was great to speak at this Open Research Conversation yesterday as an ECR, thank you @jenniad.bsky.social for the invitation!

🚀 Thrilled to share the stellar #ESCOP2025 satellites lineup! From @psychopy.org to Bayesian modelling, fNIRS, eye-tracking, gen AI in teaching, Knowledge Exchange & the @wicseurope.bsky.social 25-year anniversary!🥳🎂 www.escop2025.com/satellite-ev... @escop.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Excited that @sheffielduni.bsky.social has featured our 🎮 #counter-strike research 🎮 with @endpoint.gg and the cs community! 🤩 @erahyde.bsky.social and I explain how #counter-strike skill relates to better decision-making in high-pressure situations, which can benefit also other parts of life! 👇

Does playing Counter-Strike make you think faster? ⌨ Prof Claudia Von Bastian @cvonbastian.bsky.social and PhD student Eleanor Hyde are looking into the cognitive benefits of playing video games like Counter-Strike 2. Learn more 👇 #CS2 #CounterStrike

📣 We are recruiting a 1-yr neuroimaging postdoc @universityofleeds.bsky.social for our ESRC-funded project on strategies to support healthy cognitive ageing, working with Melanie Burke, @richjallen.bsky.social, @cvonbastian.bsky.social, Mario Parra Rodriguez, and me! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Had an amazing time at the @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Annual Meeting in NYC! 🍎 Enjoyed fantastic talks and presented work with @cvonbastian.bsky.social & @philippmusfeld.bsky.social on Hebb-repetition learning in #counterstrike players. Stay tuned for a follow-up study with a larger sample! 📊

Interested in how video game players perform in a Hebb-repetition learning paradigm? Come by poster #3126 at #psynom24 to find out about our work in #CounterStrike #cs2 players @philippmusfeld.bsky.social @cvonbastian.bsky.social

And also on the science menu tonight at ##psynom24: the role of gestures in learning novel words, work led by Liz Knight:

Tonight's science menu at #psynom24, part 1: Hebb-repetition learning in players of the FPS game #counter-strike, work led by @erahyde.bsky.social and with @philippmusfeld.bsky.social #cs2

Incredible view of Times Square from my Hotel room at Psychonomics! Super excited to hear talks and view posters here! Come view my poster Friday 6pm no.3126 #psynom24

Are you ready for the 2024 65th Annual Meeting in the Big Apple 🍎? We are! https://buff.ly/3YZbA1Q (photo by By Kozak4512)

Trev really enjoyed playing in the snow this morning ❄️

🚨Attention #workingmemory colleagues! 🚨 It's time to celebrate the fantastic women in our field via the Women of Working Memory (WomWoM) research fair award! 🧚🧚🏻🧚🏼🧚🏽🧚🏾🧚🏿 bit.ly/2024womwomfa... Please share it far and wide! Vote early and often before 30 September 🌟

Some personal news - we got married!💖It was an unforgettable day, made even more special by celebrating with the amazing CAP Lab team! Matty and I just returned from our fab Honeymoon in Portugal 🌞 and are excited to start this next chapter as The Hydes! Now, back to research!

Had a fantastic time at The 4th International Conference on Working Memory #ICWM2024 at the University of Leeds, where I presented my work on Hebb-repetition learning in #FPS players. Don't worry if you missed it, PDF below!

#CS2 players needed for research investigating how expertise in Counter-Strike relates to learning ability🧠Complete a 25-30 minute online task & questionnaire to enter into a prize draw for Amazon vouchers💸Read more and take part here: sheffieldpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e409IJ4ncIXZ5iK

📢Calling all #CS2 players! If you'd like to participate in research investigating how playing @CounterStrike relates to cognitive skills🧠, join our mailing list👇We have a study live now!

Interested in hearing about Counter-Strike research from the University of Sheffield? 🎮 Join our mailing list to receive an email when new research studies are available to participate in: forms.gle/ZG6d3biwu1GG...

🤩📣JOB, pls share! A 3-yr post-doc in our ESRC grant on strategy training in younger & older adults, based @ the Uni of Strathclyde, working with Louise Brown Nicholls, Mario Parra, @richjallen.bsky.social, Mel Burke, and me! 👀👇https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFK955/postdoctoral-research-associate-587514

We did it! 🎉🎉🎉

My first publication (and first bluesky post!) 🎉📝 Was a pleasure working in this review with @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @sjiang.bsky.social

It was awesome to have fellow womwoms @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @carohautekiet.bsky.social visit us at Uni Sheffield and give some excellent and intriguing talks! Thank you for sharing your exciting developments and lovely company 🤗 @cvonbastian.bsky.social @womcogdevlab.bsky.social