Spent an hour today trying videocall apps and vpns to reach my mum in moscow. They are either blocked, or work but drain her mobile data - and I can't help because no money transfer platforms work either. Got there in the end, but left with a knot in my stomach: will this work next week? next month?

been thinking a lot about this 1972 Weizenbaum paper a lot lately, especially when i hear people say things like access to llms reduce inequality by leveling the playing field, solve the mental health crisis & the loneliness pandemic, etc, all of which are problems rooted in very technology itself

Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years. Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*. Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥 Deadline May 3, please help by sharing: aspp.school

Exciting PhD opportunities in Aberdeen (inc. international)

Today was a good day

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Very excited to be at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting in Newcastle

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Science peeps! Excited to share first of two preprints just uploaded. This one concerns a person who hears sounds when she moves her eyes! We could actually record these sounds and verify they were connected to eye movements 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it

Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Glorious typo in a dissertation draft: psychEtoolbox. My students are an ambitious bunch!

OK vision friends, who's ready to break this tool 😜 www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

good morning everyone project your personal imposter syndrome onto this gif ur welcome

Some awesome suggestions in replies 👇

check out conduit conduit.psiphon.ca/en/ "[it] helps people in censored countries access unrestricted information by connecting to devices that serve as proxy nodes to the Psiphon Network. It empowers individuals worldwide to support users in regions that need secure, uncensored internet access."

I've registered and you should too. Deadline is March 2nd.

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. 1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social 2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method ➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

👋 Hello World! EEG101 is live! 🚀 🤝Join our global community for open, rigorous EEG science, academia & industry welcome! 🗓️ June 11–13, 2026: EEG101 Meeting at OHBM Brainhack, Bordeaux. 📢 Training & mobility funding coming soon! 🌐 www.eeg101.eu #EEG101 #OpenScience #Neuroscience #OHBM #Brainhack

Art. #frog #AAAAH #needlefelt #wool #art

I'm in the Guardian today, writing about the question of overdiagnosis of mental illness. I argue we need to stop seeing this as a binary yes/no question - is overdiagnosis happening or is the increase real? - and acknowledge that multiple things can be happening at once tinyurl.com/yzsey97c

**Postdoc position in human category learning** @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social. www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

"What's the fastest town in Scotland? Naiiiiiiiirrrrrnnnnn...." Not the fastest? You've still got time: deadline extended to🚨March 2nd 🚨

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026! Deadline: 8 March 2026 www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/

One day I'll remember to check whether I commented out the line that 'shows a quick plot' before running the script with 5k iterations. Today was not that day. *sound of laptop being thrown out of the window*

Hey #Edusky COGSCISCI 2026 is coming back to London! Join us for a day of talking all about 'Implementing CogSci in the classroom' (That's sure to spark some online discussion 🤣) Fri 29/5/26 Call for speakers: cogscisci.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/c... PLEASE SHARE

Happy foodie day 🥰

# AcademicChatter

My favourite conference in the (visual) world 💕 Join us!

👩‍💻 We're commemorating Women's Month with @wicseurope.bsky.social 🧠 As part of their Building Inclusive Computational Skills initiative, you can sign up to PsychoPy training every Wednesday in March. Find out more 👉️ workshops.psychopy.org#women-in-cog... #DiversityInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #PsychoPy

free video for intro lectures on auditory perception

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Job alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

Today, for LGBT+ History month, I'm giving a talk - 'Hidden Stories of LGBT+ Scientists'. It's at 12:30 in the National Science Learning Centre on campus @york.ac.uk. You can also attend online! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hidden-sto... How many of my magnificent 7 do you recognise?

In better news, student asked why we use “ghost beans” for stimuli and I’m absolutely keeping this as my new term for Gabors 👻

If I know you use this I will literally never cite your work again, because there is literally no way to trust it or you

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

Fossil study suggests that early vertebrates had four eyes! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many, like we mammals, through evolution reduced to just two eyes and shifted from the pineal gland system. Meanwhile, some organisms like the tuatara lizard have maintained a third, pineal eye.

Have you ever wanted to study individual differences in attention only to be frustrated by prohibitive low reliability? If so, what a coincidence! Let me introduce you to the first study from the newly formed Sheffield PandA lab: Using RSVPs to measure the speed of attention: rdcu.be/e0t0A 1/

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Was 20 words over the limit. Edited for concision. Now 36 words over. I'm very good at this. <nods vigorously> #AcademicWriting

Nice to see the ICanHazPDF community is alive and well on Bluesky! Add this hashtag to your request, and once someone who has access to the article has sent it to you, delete the original post. #AcademicSky

☀️ 📚 Summer School open for applications! www.ru.nl/en/education... "This course is designed to foster critical AI literacies in participants to empower them to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices & social context” Learning goals 👇 3/🧵

Past couple of weeks have been filled with Difficult Things, and it will continue for a while. Time for cheese. Also, please send pet pictures?