My Visual Attention in Crisis paper has finally appeared, along with 30 commentaries and response. I argue that it’s time to rethink attention from the ground up, and suggest key phenomena and possible directions. Requires access, alas. doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Delicious.

despite the questionable choice of keynote speaker, i think this is likely going to be a good conference

See also for instance: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

One of the few papers of my own that I enjoy reading is an analysis of a wonderful image database. But I'm a nerd. Harrison, W. J. (2022). Luminance and Contrast of Images in the THINGS Database: Perception, 51(4), 244–262. doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

This is wild!

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

Great thread and I wanna throw in my two cents too: increasing N does not increase the chance of a false positive per se (theoretically it'll always be alpha). However, increasing N, particularly with lots of DVs, makes very small confounds more likely to produce a statistically significant result.

*I* would never say this of course, but SOME people might say it's almost like university managements are in on the grift.

Huge career highlight for me: I got to chat about the psychological science of horror movies with legendary actor John Jarratt, and about how he created his iconic role in Wolf Creek. #RecreationalFear Article written by Thomas Fowles: www.usc.edu.au/about/unisc-...

As this is my final PhD paper to be published, I want to give a special shout-out to my supervisors, @willjharrison.bsky.social and Jason. There’s no way to do them justice in 300 characters, so I’ve attached an excerpt from my thesis acknowledgements that still rings true today. 11/11

The real pain won't be felt for another decade, not that I'm convinced the US will still exist then.

New paper looking at how manipulating a movie's static statistics can influence subsequent perceptual inference.

We got people to watch Casablanca after we manipulated the movie's image statistics in one of four ways. Emily came up with a cool way to probe people's orientation estimation during the movie. Paper now out - details in the thread 💪

Punny footnote: "It is not entirely clear what prompted the cow connection. Informally we referred to this project as the multi-site overview of oscillations (MOO) which got the ball rolling, after which we decided to milk it for all it was worth." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I'm only just learning about splitapply in matlab: au.mathworks.com/help/matlab/...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Why everyone needs to understand signal detection theory (or at least sensitivity versus specificity).

🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content. www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c... Translating in 🧵.

How does the prefrontal cortex flexibly adapt to different cognitive demands? New research from @benhamedlab.bsky.social shows that the prefrontal cortex flexibly encodes task identity and adjusts sensory processing based on the current task’s demands.🧪 #Neuroscience plos.io/41p9iLw

It’s not just what you read—it’s whether you chose to read it. In our new paper out at QJEP 🎉 we show that: 👉 Having a choice over what you read makes reading more enjoyable 👉 …and makes people willing to pay more for books

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The Flemingos are back in action for ECVP this week in Mainz with talks, posters, and even a keynote from our fearless leader. We're all very much looking forward to this year's program! 🦩 #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social

We are seeking people currently living in Australia to participate in virtual (i.e. over Zoom) focus groups. People under the age of 18 will need parental consent to participate. Follow the link to learn more: redcap.link/lzdud5ot

Excited to finally have in my hands a copy of our new book Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective (written with Alasdair Clarke, not on bsky) !! 📘 www.mheducation.co.uk/statistics-f... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #statistics #statssky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...

Very cool manipulation. Any predictions about group differences in interoception between smokers vs non-smokers?

Really interesting work! As you didn't ask them to imagine while reading, your results suggest to me they generated spontaneous visual representation and, together with the contrast fixation dur/subj experience, they seem in line with our spontaneous imagery condition in www.cell.com/current-biol...

wow ChatGPT 5 really working at the level of a PhD

1of2) #URochesterResearch has discovered that the retina responds differently than many other tissues in the body. When photoreceptor cells in the retina are damaged, microglia respond, and the neutrophils are not recruited to help despite passing through nearby blood vessels.

Interested in a cognitive neuroscience #postdoc down under? Come work with me at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social on an ARC Linkage Project aimed at understanding how people perceive objects in the Powerhouse Museum's digitised collection. Applications closing 13 August! 📅 seek.com.au/job/86079413

I wonder how many postdocs lost their jobs because they reported numbers their PI didn’t like.

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

I ultimately let my research students work how they want to work, except when it comes to Zotero, which is the only software I enforce in my lab. 100% satisfaction rate so far.

Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.

Sarah Thiele et al. from the University of Bonn evaluate early photoreceptor alterations after retinal detachment repair. doi.org/10.1167/iovs.66.9.32

We do really need to come up with other terms than "bottom-up" and "top-down" though. They have like 5 different meanings in neuroscience and they're usually not very precise

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! This turned out to be a very useful resource. For those interested, you can see a compiled version of the suggestions from this thread here: tinyurl.com/kaz445jh (The wiki page will be updated as we find more resources.) 🧠🤖 , 🧠📈

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

Can someone please identify the artist who created this wonderful painting??

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

"In lieu of a settlement, he would also accept an official apology and changes to the administration’s deportation policies."

Merz: "Germany represents just 2% of the problem in terms of climate emissions" Well, no

This is brilliant yet incredibly "simple" work. If we want to build seeing machines that are similar to humans, we have to train them in the same way humans were trained, which includes thinking about what babies can see. Low pass vision -> object vision.

This is probably the most impactful statement for our generation Australia! It’s so important to know the truth: 75% of native Australians were killed within the first 20 of colonisation in there state in living in. Thank you Yoorrook Commission. www.yoorrook.org.au/reports-and-...

Just added a few thousand new search datasets, bringing the total up to almost 6k museum visitors 😮‍💨 Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... Data: osf.io/kf4sb/

As a scientist and teacher I am happy to be the 324th signatory to this letter.

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Wtf true for my real and digital pianos Maybe this is why some keys are easier to learn than others (I only just mastered b flat minor!)