Very pleased to announce that my new personal website is live! I made it with @quarto.org and started from this template github.com/drganghe/qua... by @hegang.bsky.social (thank you Dr. He for providing this template!). Enjoy 🎉elinevg.github.io!

The beginning of December, we welcomed @fundayilmaz.bsky.social for a short research visit. Thank you Funda for sharing your cross-modal research on aesthetics with us @gestaltrevision.bsky.social!

We have made public #openscience materials from the Münster Center for Open Science, specifically flyers and cheatsheets on #OpenAccess, #OpenData, and #Preregistration. Flyers are already on Zenodo, Cheatsheets will follow: zenodo.org/communities/muecos/ and lukasroeseler.github.io/MueCOS-Infom...

Thank you @cognitionjournal.bsky.social for this recognition of my reviewing efforts!

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the Centre for Brain Research at the Jagiellonian University in Krakau, and giving a talk at the Institute of Psychology! Thank you very much @marekpedziwi.bsky.social and @antoniafranaszek.bsky.social for the invite and interesting discussions!

Very pleased to share that our article on preferences for complexity at different levels of order is now out in PACA! 🎉Not all types of complexity were appreciated similarly, but all were liked better under high order! 🔗 doi.org/10.1037/aca0... 📄 osf.io/preprints/ps... @gestaltrevision.bsky.social

PCI Psychology is open for submissions! Did you know that you can easily submit your recommended preprint to any of the 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals? See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

Congratulations, Dr. Pistolas!

We are just as thrilled! Our PhD student @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social received the Early Career Best Paper Prize for her paper published in @pec-ipe.bsky.social ⬇️

At @ecvp.bsky.social Demo Night, @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social and I held the OCTA-QIP challenge: use the OCTA toolbox to create the least balanced or most HOG complex stimulus as measured with the QIP machine of the Aesthetics Toolbox! Below we showcase some of the submissions for both contests!

It was a pleasure introducing PsyNet and its many applications at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology today! Thanks @felixhermans.bsky.social for the invitation and all PsyNet developers, incl. @pmcharrison.bsky.social and @norijacoby.bsky.social for creating such an amazing platform!

Looking forward to this discussion on how we can make peer review future proof!

It was a pleasure presenting my open-source toolbox OCTA for reproducible stimulus generation along the QIP machine from the Aesthetics Toolbox for computing quantitative image properties! Explore OCTA here: elinevg.github.io/OCTA/

The GestaltReVision Lab is headed to #ECVP2025! We are looking forward to a great conference and sharing our work! See below for more information on our contributions ⤵️

Looking forward to #ECVP2025 Demo Night om Aug 26th! Come challenge yourself to create the most complex OCTA stimulus and check its numeric complexity with the QIP machine of the Aesthetics Toolbox!

The GestaltReVision Lab is excited to be part of this years @vsac-social.bsky.social! We will be present all three days; come find us at the talks and posters to connect! 💬 Details on our contributions in the comments below ⬇️ #VSAC2025

Great news for psychology!

Last week I officially received the three-yearly ASL Research Award for Human Sciences. Thanks to Academische Stichting Leuven for granting me this important recognition for my PhD research. As winner I was invited to ASL's podcast, have a listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/07Zu...

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

At the 2025 Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences this week, I received the Best PhD Thesis Award 2025. I am very grateful for this recognition of my research combining theory and experimentation and of my commitment to open and reproducible science! @bapsciences.bsky.social

It was an honor to be interviewed about my doctoral research by @bdalile.bsky.social for #KarakterCast! This interview happened on the occasion of me receiving the ASL research award for Human Sciences for my PhD work. Check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/07Zu...

🎉Great news for everyone working in psychological research: soon we will have a Peer Community In for Psychology! Check the website for details on how this alternative community-based review system works and for how to get involved as author, reviewer, or recommender (= editor)!

Last day to register for the KULeuven Open Science Day and join us on a reproducible reporting adventure!

Ever wondered how to achieve more reproducible research outputs? On the Open Science Day at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, we will introduce you to @quarto.org as a tool to directly combine text and R/Python code into custom formatted documents! Register before 23/04 (see info below ⬇️)

Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are. Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Join our workshop "Reproducibility Made Easy: Open Resources for All Disciplines"! 🧪🔬 📅 Date: 6th May 📍 KU Leuven Open Science Day Dive into cross-disciplinary #openscience resources and boost your research #reproducibility! Sign up: tinyurl.com/tfs5n7kb Learn more: tinyurl.com/28pcr324

This month's advice for a successful journal club comes from ReproducibiliTea KU Leuven @leuventea.bsky.social ! You can find more information on their approach via their poster here: kuleuvenopenscienceday.pubpub.org/pub/i8eev32x...

While we sadly had to say goodbye to Eva in the EVAlabs, two new people will have the chance to say hello to her at her new lab in Tübingen @iwmtue.bsky.social www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri...

Don't forget to join our journal club on "The Quantity and Quality of Science" this aftenoon at Van Den Heuvel Institute in classroom 03.65 from 4pm! ⚛️🔬🧪

Are you looking for a Master's program? Are you interested in research on #art, #neuroaesthetics? 👀🎨🎹🏘️🧠 The new 1-year MSc in Cognition and Aesthetics at Liverpool Hope might be the perfect fit! rb.gy/pojlr1

Spotted any posters of ReproducibiliTea Leuven at a @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social campus? I did! Join us for our next session to reflect on quantity vs. quality in science! ℹ️https://forms.office.com/e/0vt4v0Du3C 📆Wednesday 26 March 2025, 16:00-17:00 📍VHI 03.65 Dekenstraat 2, 3000 Leuven

Really looking forward to this @leuventea.bsky.social session!

Come work as a postdoctoral researcher in our research group at KU Leuven in Belgium and help us unravel the visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

On November 27th, ReproducibiliTea Leuven organizes a journal club on Generative AI and Open Science! Join us for an interesting discussion, 16:00-17:00, VHI 01.40, Dekenstraat 2, Leuven. 📎 Read: doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🤖 Register: icts.kuleuven.be/apps/onebutt... @reproducibilitea.bsky.social

ReproducibiliTea Leuven organizes a next journal club on Oct.9, 16-17, featuring KU Leuven researcher Magdalena Kozula of the #OSIRIS project! Read the paper (here: osf.io/b64q8) and join us for an interesting discussion accompanied with tea and snacks! @BelRepro @KULeuvenOpenScience

I enjoyed giving an @ecvp.bsky.social tutorial on the OCTA toolbox yesterday, the open source Python toolbox and online app I created to generate high-quality, reproducible multi-element stimuli! More info on elinevg.github.io/OCTA/ and the workshop materials on github.com/ElineVG/OCTA_workshop

Making my way up to Aberdeen to attend #VSAC2024 and #ECVP2024! Will present on Prägnanz & art, efficient Bayesian observer models, and give a workshop on the #octatoolbox! Looking forward to meet you there :-) @vsac2024.bsky.social @ecvp.bsky.social

Do you speak German and are you interested in empirical aesthetics research? Dr. Gregor Hayn-Leichsenring has an open position in Jena for a (German-speaking) person who is interested in empirical aesthetics and neuroanatomy: ukj.mana-jobs.de/9153-mitarbe...

Excited to attend my first @cogsci_soc this week! If you are into perception, aesthetics, individual differences, context effects, Bayesian, open source programming, and more find me at #CogSci2024! On Saturday (Perception3) I present work I did with @norijacoby at the @MPI_ae ⬇️

We are so happy to share that the PCI board has unanimously voted to approve PCI Psychology! 🎉 There is a lot of work ahead -- stay tuned for more detailed updates and opportunities to get involved as we begin to draft editorial policies and reach out to journals! #PsychSciSky #ScientificPublishing

Excited to share “Using Gibbs Sampling with People to characterize perceptual and aesthetic evaluations in multidimensional visual stimulus space”, part of my 6-month research stay with @norijacoby @CompAudition @MPI_ae in Frankfurt #CogSci2024 🎉

Looking forward to present my work @IAEAPalma2024 this Thursday! Come to my poster 16 during lunch or register for the free #OCTAtoolbox workshop 16:00-18:00 (ask me in DM how!)

Interested in becoming a PCI Psychology recommender? I'm happy to share the 1st update about PCIP, which includes a form to express your interest in being a reviewer, a recommender, or a member of the future managing board! Read more about it here: groups.google.com/g/pci-psycho... #PsychSciSky

Congrats to everyone presenting at #IAEA2024 (www.iaea2024.com ), looking forward to meet you there! When registering, you can indicate potential interest to join the free workshop on OCTA, the open source stimulus generation toolbox I created. More info on the workshop here: shorturl.at/ptzAH

If you want to work on Open Science as a PhD student, consider this interesting opportunity in Rotterdam! www.eur.nl/en/vacancies...