BBS just issued the call for commentaries, and we would LOVE to get yours!! The deadline is October 15th, and the reference number is BBS-D-24-00489R2. Looking forward to hearing what you think about our suggestions for how to study unconscious processes!

Academic career symbolized in a picture. #Ichbinhannah #postdocchatter

Hot off the press in a special issue at CABN! Here, Brian A. Anderson and I show that suppressing salient distractors is more effortful when the distractors are less salient: It's easier to suppress more salient distractors! doi.org/10.3758/s134...

I have a feeling that most psychologists have no intution why reliablity (both within-session and test-retest) is critical for between-group comparisons. Which makes sense, I sure didn't think about it until earlier this year!

When calculating a correlation we sometimes apply a correction for attenuation due to reliability. Has anyone ever suggested a similar correction for a between-groups comparison? After all, reliability of the DV affects those the same way (and they are often just a dichotomised correaltion).

Movie theory: You know how there are androids in the Alien universe? And you know how humans in the Alien universe always make really bad choices? (sticking their heads in alien eggs) Hear me out: Alien describes a future where people became increasly dumber due to a century of exposure to LLMs

Trans Legal Clinic need your support in funding this case. We all have a duty to do something, even sharing this will help, share it other platforms and to allies. If you can please donate to help fund this case, this is the most important part of the restoration of the our rights:

Me: This project will distinguish between Theories A and B My data:

I've published a pre-registration with @cvonbastian.bsky.social, @alonzivony.bsky.social, and Alicia Forsberg for my study on the unity and diversity of binding! Check it out! doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

(1/7) What is the best way to estimate subliminal thresholds in unconscious processing research? In our new preprint, we present STEP, a novel calibration method designed specifically for estimating subliminal thresholds osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ok, vision scientists. Are we doing the international beer exchange again this year at #VSS2025 as pregaming to Club Vision? Who’s in?

Still time to apply (until 30/04)!! What are you waiting for?

Probably my geekiest ever: I just compared the now() function in Excel (which provide the time in hh:mm:ss) to Windows's clock. It turns out that, unlike Windows, the Excel second meter rounds up when milliseconds go over over 500! 🤯 So Now() is fully calibrated with Windows only half of the time!

Rob has closed quotes/replies now, but I wanted to expand on this: because I see it all the time from people who sincerely believe two things that are not supported by the evidence: 1) That biological sex is entirely immutable and entirely binary 2) That sex and gender are entirely distinct 1/?

Hey bluesky, does anyone know of any nice researchers studying trans issues in Amsterdam or not too far? I'm going to Amsterdam in June and I have some cool data about trans stereotypes and prejudice to share.

I have heard of so many LGBTQ+ grants terminated today. I am so sorry to everyone affected. This is devastating to our communities and to us as researchers. I have nothing more eloquent, comforting, or helpful to say. This is all just immeasurably horrible.

📣 Calling all Early Career Researchers (ECRs) at the postdoctoral level in the UK! 📣 We need your support to better understand and alleviate the precarious nature of fixed-term contracts. 🕑 10-15 mins survey 💷Donate £2 to a charity of your choice as a thank you 💻 redcap.link/ECR_job_pref

Come join us for some excellent science and the lovely Peaks at #ESCOP2025 @sheffielduni.bsky.social 🥰 Final day for submitting your abstract! 🤩

#ESCOP2025 deadline tomorrow (15 March)! @vmloaiza1.bsky.social & me refreshing the submissions portal👇😂 www.escop2025.com/abstract-sub...

🚀 Thrilled to share the stellar #ESCOP2025 satellites lineup! From @psychopy.org to Bayesian modelling, fNIRS, eye-tracking, gen AI in teaching, Knowledge Exchange & the @wicseurope.bsky.social 25-year anniversary!🥳🎂 www.escop2025.com/satellite-ev... @escop.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Do null group-level effects reflect the mixture of true subject-level effects at opposing directions? In a new paper, now accepted at Psychological Bulletin & Review (osf.io/preprints/ps...), we turn this question to the field of unconscious processing (1/14)

Spent another couple of hours this week responding to reviewers and defending our research studies that have - Shock! Horror! - 10 to 15 participants per experiment. In case anyone else was not listening during #stats classes: Small N ≠ Low power theerrorbar.com?e=37

Can't wait! Catch me discussing the last five years of my work on time-consciousness tomorrow.

It's a depressing time, but I have a cautiously optimistic take on science and LGBTQ+ issues To paraphrase: the arc of science bend towards truth. And queer people are not going anywhere They burned the books before. Eventually, we rewrote them and more In the long run, truth and justice will win

SO love this post from @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social! Real-world effects are awesome when you can get them, but psychologists run experiments in controlled environments "for the same reason that chemists keep their test tubes clean". YES!

🚀 The countdown is on! 🚀Just 2 weeks to go until the submissions deadline on ⏱️15th March⏱️for #ESCOP2025 at @sheffielduni.bsky.social! 🎉The programme is shaping up to be awesome: 4 keynotes, 35+ symposia, panels on EDI & careers, plus 7 satellites and workshops! www.escop2025.com/abstract-sub...

The good people of the Cambridge Research on Research group are looking for UK post-docs to complete a survey about the precarious nature of fixed-term contracts. Full message in pic. Survey: redcap.link/ECR_job_pref Further information on the project: www.arrc.group.cam.ac.uk/precarity-an...

Do you or anyone you know have a template/code for an e-prime experiment that integrates with a Smart Eye eye-tracker? I just realized I may save a lot of time if one of you just happens to have any example I can borrow from. Also: any leads would be appriciated. GIF of cat tracking for attention

Conservative psychologists exist. But if by "conservative" you mean a psychologist who thinks (for example) that stereotypes and prejudice aren't a big deal, or that LGBTQ ppl are inherently mentally ill... I'm sorry, that's just a person who is bad at their job

A while ago, I wrote a review on temporal integration as an adaptive process in perception, attention, and working memory. I’m very happy that it has now appeared (Open Access) in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews! 1/3 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am looking for a PhD candidate (3-years) and a Postdoc (2-years) studying serial effects in visual perception. Positions are funded by the Icelandic Research Fund. Join us at the Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social. If you are interested, reach out to me! #VisionScience #CognitiveScience

📣There are still a few days left to nominate yourself or a colleague for EiC at AP&P! 📣

1/3 Interested in brain rhythms and the orchestration of sensing & acting? Interested in neural mechanisms of natural exploration? This postdoc opportunity might be just for you! I am recruiting a post doc to work with me on an exciting project at UCL @uclpals.bsky.social

Our prereg study used sequential testing, ending data collection when main BF10>10 or <0.1. We reached that at the 2nd testing point with n=12. It surprised us, too, but that's the result. We were nonetheless asked to increase sample. What are people's thoughts? #PsychSciSky #VisionScience

Our very minimal obligation as researchers is to stick to the evidence and insist on the truth. If a government says that "there are no trans kids" or "there's no prejudice against trans ppl", it's up to us to answer "No. You're either wrong or lying, and you're hurting ppl in the process".

We're recruiting PhD students to begin in autumn 2025 at the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. Come investigate working memory with us: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The Newton fellowship changed my life, and I'm not exaggarating (allowing me to move to the UK, etc). If you want some information about the process, feel free to DM me.

Bayesian statistics: Does anyone know of any paper giving practical advice on selection of priors? All I see is variations on "you should make an informed decision" yeah, but like, how? How do I take my theoretical knowledge and connect it to a specific number?

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

New content: Micher, N., Mazenko, D., & Lamy, D. (2024). Unconscious Processing Contaminates Objective Measures of Conscious Perception: Evidence From the Liminal Prime Paradigm. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 71, pp. 1–16. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

I’ll be recruiting PhD students for next year. My research spans a range of domains, and I’m looking for highly motivated students with a strong interest in applying mathematical approaches (modeling and analysis) to understanding human cognition. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...

We should try something like this!

Are you a cognitive psychologist with some free time this September? Then plz consider spending your time with us in ESCOP, hosted in Sheffield, UK ESCOP is going to be brilliant, and Sheffield is so great. If you're unsure, just google "peak district" to give you some motivation www.escop2025.com

Methods question: We are trying to hide the purpose of a study to reduce social desirability. A very brief pilot showed about 25% are not fooled. What should we do with ppl who correctly guess the purpose of the study? Remove? Analyse separately? Include and note in limitations? What do you think?

Almost half of respondents who had retracted a paper due to accidental data-management errors "reported the process causes ‘extreme stress’, which could be because of the research community’s negative perception of retractions" #AcademicChatter #ScholarlyPublishing www.nature.com/articles/d41...

we've seen goal gradient like effects emerge in cognitive effort tasks but how does attention to goal progress ? a new study from our lab, by Sean Devine and others, uses eyetracking to answer this question link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Today I got a lovely email from a student to say that they've enjoyed my module. I taught many modules, and I will never ever take such personal feedback for granted. Students: if you really enjoyed a module/lecture, let your lecturers know. It will be more important for them than you might think.

Here's Paul Bloom: Two pieces of advice for academic interviews https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/two-pieces-of-advice-for-academic And that reminded me of this crowdsourced document on advice for PhD interview candidates […]

Hey scientists: what are your opinions on the relationship between science and advocacy (e.g., LGBTQ+ issues)? Do you know any opinion papers that summarize different points of view? I'm doing my slides for a lecture and I want to make sure that I don't miss out on important points of view.

If any new followers are unfamiliar with "national IQ" data, this thread will explain bsky.app/profile/rebe...