Don't forget: the deadline to stand for election to the SARMAC board is October 31st

Don't forget to sign up to our mailing list to receive an invite to our first society talk of the season!

Start a new international collaboration with the help of SARMAC #funding. The 2025 call for applications to the Collaborative #Grant is now open! // www.sarmac.org/collaborativ...

Announcing our new Student Caucus! A huge congratulations and thank-you to our outgoing caucus committee, and welcome to our new committee for 2025-27 // mailchi.mp/62a3640972e2...

Students in psychology & law, don’t miss the EAPL Research Grant! Funding is available to support your research. 📅 Deadline: 30 Sept 2025 🎓 Open to: EAPL members (Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD) Details & how to apply 👉 eapl.eu/young-members/ Please share with students & colleagues who could benefit!

And we're back! Our first speakers of the season: Tim Levine (veracity effect), Ann-Kathrin Arui (sequence of case info), and Martha Serra-Garcia (why people don't lie more). Email [email protected] to join. Check your time zone here: tinyurl.com/42aun2pn // #deception #research

Keep up to date with your favourite little Society's journal @apajournals.bsky.social #JARMAC // mailchi.mp/addfbf094d3c...

That abstract deadline has crept up! If you are planning to present at Decepticon 2025, remember that abstracts are due TODAY! #Decepticon2025

“RFK, Jr., Demanded a Vaccine Study Be Retracted—The Journal Said No” This article cheered up my Sunday, and is well worth 4 mins of your time. Excellent work by the Annals of Internal Medicine. www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Nominate yourself or someone else to join the board of our friendly little society. See the link for details on how to nominate: it's really easy! #society #election // mailchi.mp/54fc1e93db0c...

This paper shows we should abolish the REF, which wastes £471 million, plus distracts vastly more from academic time. It has nearly identical outcomes in allocating funding as if we simply gave out money by citations (or indeed a per student formula). 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

The SARMAC XV Conference round-up is out now! // t.co/mXXmLESdEg

What an amazing 4 days! Thanks so much to everyone for attending and bringing such warm and friendly energy to #sarmac2025! We can’t wait for SARMAC 2027! ❤️☘️

Don't forget that #Decepticon25 is still accepting abstracts. Deadline: September 3rd

Join the Student Caucus committee @studentssarmac.bsky.social! You can self nominate to become a committee member. Deadline: July 31st. See link for details // mailchi.mp/e2d3ad7953fc...

Keen to contribute to @OfficialSARMAC ! Nominations are now open for 5 positions on the Student Caucus! Great opportunity to shape the future of the society and gain leadership experience. For info on the positions see here - sarmac.org/caucus

Delegates trying out the Irish sport of hurling after lunch on the rugby pitch ☘️ all welcome again tomorrow lunchtime! #sarmac2025

We had a fantastic time at our Lunch with Experts today! Great discussions, collaborations, and mentorships formed! Thank you to those who joined us! @officialsarmac.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social

We are well on our way into Day 3 of #sarmac2025 - keep up the energy and warm spirit, we're really enjoying bumping into everyone! A few more quick photos that have come our way: First up, @anneliesvrede.bsky.social's inaugural opening ceremony @sarmac2025.bsky.social 🧵

An early start this morning for the #sarmac2025 5k fun run!

We hope everyone is having a great time at SARMAC 2025! Here is a mini photo thread from Day 1 🧵@ciaragreene.bsky.social (left) and Gillian Murphy (right) welcoming us to #SARMAC2025

People have a hard time accurately recalling how depressed, anxious or stressed they felt in the past @apajournals.bsky.social #JARMAC doi.org/10.1037/mac0...

Very much looking forward to this opening keynote by Richard McNally on Memory and Trauma - a great start to SARMAC25 @officialsarmac.bsky.social

Aaaand we're off! #sarmac2025 kicks off in Ireland with Richard McNally's keynote, some fantastic and innovative workshops (huge thanks to the leads!!), the student caucus pitch event, and of course the barbeque! The organisers have worked hard to make this a truly inclusive SARMAC conference

This Tuesday (June 3rd, 4-5pm UK time), Lies and Allies returns to your screen. Talks cover AI models' detecting of deception, deepfakes, and an improved method for measuring dishonesty. To attend, joint the mailing list: email [email protected]

If interested in the intersection btwn #psychology & #law, there are starter packs with people working in the area. This pack has grown over time, so if you saw it last year it's fuller now (e.g., now has Am Psych-Law Soc'y bsky.app/profile/ap-l...! (lmk if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/KS4zG4s

So Harvard has officially revoked Francesca Gino’s tenure. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... This case was fascinating, especially re: how data fabrication was uncovered. Here was my attempt to summarize when this first came out: youtu.be/m3dDZKeCayk

Decepticon 2025 announced! 1-2 Dec 2025. Submit your deception-related abstracts by Sep 3 2025. Include title, authors' names. No more than 200 words. Submit to [email protected] with 'Decepticon abstract' as subject line. #Decepticon2025 #psychology #lie #deception #callforpapers

Very glad to see this out: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Special Issue Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Come and work with me! The XRCET TIPSS project is a deep dive into the future trust, identity, privacy, safety and security risks that may arise through the convergence of immersive tech and other emerging tech. #AcademicSky #VR #XR #AR

PCI Psychology is launching soon! https://psych.peercommunityin.org/ #scholarlyPublishing #psychology

Postdoctoral Position - ERC Consolidator Grant Project - BIBALANCE BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain The project aims to investigate the impact of early bilingualism on the brain’s resilience to dyslexia, through increased interhemispheric connectivity. Application deadline: 30 June 2025

Coming soon, a special issue of #JARMAC on #Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights, guest edited by Ulli Ecker. @apajournals.bsky.social

We are proud to announce that Prof Melanie Takarangi (@MelTakarangi) is the incoming Editor in Chief for JARMAC @APA_Journals. Read about the new EiC's vision for JARMAC and their research interests here // mailchi.mp/03eeef0ea939...

The @sarmac2025.bsky.social SARMAC XV conference programme has now been announced! Check your inbox for info :)

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

If you live near Crewe UK, there are still a few tickets left to get some science (inc. lie detection) and have a pint at this year's Pint of Science Festival @pintofscience.uk #forensic #cognition // pintofscience.co.uk/event/the-hi...

Do you want to host the next SARMAC 2027 conference? Submit a very brief expression of interest by May 16th! Details here // mailchi.mp/15a92edee850...

Study finds that highlighting a source’s lack of expertise can be more effective than directly correcting disinformation. This approach can reduce belief in false health claims and lower the source’s credibility. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39235890/ #MisinfoResearch

Just 8 weeks till we welcome you to Ireland for #SARMAC2025! We can’t wait to kick things off on June 11th with workshops, a keynote from Prof. Richard McNally and a welcome bbq in the (hopefully sunny) grounds of Killashee House ☀️

How do you detect lies that are embedded into truths? Are there nonverbal differences between autistic and non-autistic liars? And how does pro- and antisocial lying to siblings get socialised? Join us May 6th, 4-5pm UK time. Email [email protected] to join #forensky #deception

We are excited about our latest paper published in Nature Reviews Psychology: Psychological Insights for Judging Expertise and Implications for Adversarial Legal Contexts Read & share here: rdcu.be/edUCO @jasonchin.bsky.social @berengut.bsky.social #Law #Psychology #Expertise #Expert #psychscisky

Call for collaborators! We are launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB) to replicate a sample of findings relevant to public health, epidemiology, health policy, and behavioral science. Teams receive funding for conducting replication studies. Details: www.cos.io/rphb

If you are looking to fund a meeting in your area of decision making, cognition, memory, forensic, or other cognate experts (that brings together applied and basic researchers), up to US$3k is available from @officialsarmac.bsky.social. Deadline 30th April