JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...

Always nice to see papers out in the wild. Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning" By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social share.google/0IoZwV3sne1N...

Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.

Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?

It's been a week since we launched @chartle.cc with @adnaanj.bsky.social and we had an amazing start! - Average of 700 users/day - Record 1.2K users yesterday - From 78 countries - 66% win overall - 2m 18s average engagement Thank you to all who played + shared the game Any feedback, send our way!

Nice demonstration here of how interposing a delay between action and outcome can impact causal understanding of the instrumental relationship. www.instagram.com/reel/DKuFcFj...

Great start to the week. "Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation" by Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and me has been accepted for publication at JEP:ALC. Will get a preprint up and available soon.

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...

Later this week is #EPSLancaster25! ☀️🧠😎 For all the up to date information, please check our website. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Spent the morning talking about psychology my children's school. Now, I've given many talks to leading experts from across the world, but nothing prepares you for Qs from 6-7 year olds! Personal favourite, from my own son, "if you stepped on a bit of lego and didn't have a brain, would you feel it?"

The portal is now open for abstract submissions to the EPS meeting at Lancaster University (2nd - 4th April). eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

On the train home after a fantastic meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social . If you're an experimental psychologist (broadly defined) based in the UK (or can attend regularly) do consider membership (£30 pa). It's a wonderful society that provides fantastic support for UK psych, especially ECRs.

Brilliant mid-career prize lecture by @mikelepelley.bsky.social on "Prediction, Plasticity and Prioritisation" at the London meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social

Working on a presentation while parenting. It's going about as well as expected.

BlueSky tip: go to settings; go to "thread preferences"; turn on "Threaded Mode"; you're welcome. I've always HATED the weird twitter styling for replies. This is more like Reddit style.

Reading a paper where the rationale is that the processes haven't been studied in ecologically valid procedures. The paper then moves from this rationale straight to the results, with the "innovative methods" presented after the discussion! Does anyone actually enjoy reading papers in this format?

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉 Read the introductory blog post here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #RStats #StatsEd #DataScience

Our "eyetools" #R package is now available on #CRAN! It offers a toolkit for repairing data, analysing fixations & saccades, time on AOIs, and plotting. Designed to be simple to use, it offers an open source analysis pipeline for eye data. #rstats #eye-tracking tombeesley.github.io/eyetools/ind...

Here’s a good example of ChatGPT output that could help students better understand how it works and its limitations. #edusky #eduai

Get yourselves down to UCL 8th-10th Jan for the EPS meeting. Featuring symposium "Learning to attend and attending to learn" - in honour of Mid-career award 🎖️ for @mikelepelley.bsky.social

Excited to be presenting "Representational Accuracy is Mediated by Predictive Validity, but not Outcome Uncertainty" at the London EPS meeting in Jan. Part of the mid-career prize award symposium for @mikelepelley.bsky.social organised by @tombeesley.bsky.social eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Paper accepted and now in production at the QJEP! "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning" by David George, Dominic Dwyer, me and Mike Le Pelley.

Heading up to @lancastercognition.bsky.social to give a talk on "Learning about Novel and Familiar Stimuli: Cognitive Mechanisms and Developmental Trajectories". Afterwards, a catch up with @tombeesley.bsky.social and the team to talk about our unexpected uncertainty grant Fab views from the train

50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today! This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.

BlueSky tip: go to settings; go to "thread preferences"; turn on "Threaded Mode"; you're welcome. I've always HATED the weird twitter styling for replies. This is more like Reddit style.

Our "eyetools" #R package is now available on #CRAN! It offers a toolkit for repairing data, analysing fixations & saccades, time on AOIs, and plotting. Designed to be simple to use, it offers an open source analysis pipeline for eye data. #rstats #eye-tracking tombeesley.github.io/eyetools/ind...

New update to {bayestestR} expands support for a tidy workflow - working better with tidy inputs, `rvar`s, and post-modeling estimates, and generating tidy outputs! @easystats.bsky.social #rstats easystats.github.io/bayestestR/

Do you want more cognitive psychology in your Bluesky feed? Well of course you do! Starter packs are collections of accounts with a shared research interest, so you can find more of the conversations that you are interested in. Here are some we know about related to cognitive psychology ... (1/)

Final push for this position - closing tomorrow! Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Neuroscience at Lancaster University. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #neuroscience #psychology #cognition

reviewer 2 before entering manuscript central

Re-posting from the other site: Amazing new "surveydown" package that allows you to host a Shiny-based online survey a la Qualtrics (but open source!). surveydown.org

New paper in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, exploring how visual search is guided by memory (contextual cuing). Search can be disrupted considerably with no decrement to the acquisition or performance of CC. Early search is seemingly random and not guided by context. tinyurl.com/37bketj4

Dear all, I am looking for a postdoc for an ERC-funded project on meditation and the predictive brain in my lab. More details can be found here: heleenslagter.com/positions Feel free to reach out with any questions! Please help spread the word!

Still time to apply Senior Lecturer/Lecturer level (US equivalent: Associate/Assistant Professor) in Psychological Neuroscience at Lancaster University, UK. The search area is broad, including developmental neuroscience. Deadline: 30 September, 2024 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Dear all, I will soon formally advertise a postdoc position on meditation and the predictive brain in my lab. An ERC funded project. More details can be found here for now: heleenslagter.com/positions Feel free to reach out with questions! Please help spread the word! #neuroskyence #consciousness

New content: Mahlberg, J., Pearson, D., Le Pelley, M. E., & Watson, P. (2024). Prospective Distractor Information Reduces Reward-Related Attentional Capture. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 50, pp. 1–21. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

I started a UK Psychology academic starter pack go.bsky.app/JUgQGsP If you want adding, or taking out, let me know.

Come work with us! We’re lovely :-) For these two temporary posts we are particularly looking to appoint colleagues who will be able to teach in at least one of the areas of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, or research methods. #academicjobs #cogsci hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

We are looking for 2 x Teaching Associates. Fixed term Sep 2024 to July 2025. Ideally Cognitive, Neuro, Research Methods background. Would suit a recent PhD graduate. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Fun at The Nog with the lab. Another excellent few days of science at the Associative Learning Symposium #Gregynog

An excellent few days at the Associative learning conference at Gregynog Hall, Wales. Data from @tombeesley.bsky.social and my ESRC project got their first airing...

Again, we have four(!) new positions here in psychology at the University of Sydney. Like N. American tenure-track, but easier to get "tenure" (become permanent). Let me know of any questions! usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... photo: Alex Holcombe

A great day at LMU Munich for this workshop on Predictive attention. Oddly no mention of Mackintosh '75 (yet)...

No expense spared in Navon's classic 1977 paper

I've been developing a package in R to analyse eye data over the last few years. It does what I need for my simple analyses (detects fixations/saccades, time on AOIs, plots). It's not fancy, but hopefully it's simple and straightforward to use. Maybe useful to others: tombeesley.github.io/eyetools/