I revisited "The seductions of clarity" by @add-hawk.bsky.social, which points out mental clarity can prematurely stop us from deliberating. I reflect on how we might inflict this upon ourselves by accepting simplifications, and whether society is trending away from nuance and complexity.

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

Important work for pupillometry researchers! Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵3/3

Tomorrow afternoon at #vss2025 I will be presenting a poster on how expectations about future target stimuli shapes its WM encoding. Happy to hear your thougths on the project! (It’s at Pavillion, we have better AC!) www.visionsciences.org/view_pdf.php...

Interested in pupillometry, eye movements, visual attention, visual working memory, or related topics? Apply with our group in in beautiful, livable, and friendly Groningen! Reach out to @elkanakyurek.bsky.social, @van-rijn.org, @olaf.dimigen.de, @miles2708.bsky.social or myself to explore options!

Feeling incredibly honored to have been invited to present my PhD project at the University of Würzburg. It was a wonderful experience, and I hope everyone who attended enjoyed the talk as much as I did! 🤗

Preprint Alert!! In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please spread the word! A 24-month postdoc position is available in my lab. A 12-month extension may be possible. Experience in coding and data analysis is needed. Knowledge of memory, attention, or a related topic is preferred. Please get in touch via email if interested! gunselilab.com

Exciting News! Our new review paper explores the impact of divided attention on episodic memory retrieval, a topic with mixed findings. Often, studies discuss the relationship between attention and retrieval as if each is a unitary phenomenon. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...