Dr Eben Daggett and I have a book chapter coming out very soon. It's on modeling similarity using MDS, and it can be found in the upcoming 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Measurement in Social Sciences.

We have a new young-audience science communication out in Frontiers for Young Minds. This one was led by Virginia Millsap and co-written by Dr Andras Zsido (of University of Pecs). It describes the science of phobia development, and you can find it here: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

The STEM Ed Research Institute is hiring a post-doctoral researcher to work on research, assessment, and more, in collaboration with NMSU Global, and the Institute for Applied AI and Machine Learning. Please share with interested parties and in your networks. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/post-do...

The OPAM conference is looking for new organizers, and senior grads and postdocs are eligible. Please share and post widely! This was one of the best things I ever did for my career, and as a service, and I cannot recommend it enough. Deadline 3/1/26; questions to me or [email protected].

This week I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion ("AI Everywhere: Empowering Educators and Students") at the AI & Energy conference put on by the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance. I believe a full recording is forthcoming. www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

The newest member of our lab is Michelle Kass, an undergraduate Discovery Scholar. Her project will involve examining memory performance as a function of congruent or mismatched feedback. She is already a research assistant in the lab, but welcome to DSP, Michelle!

The Psychonomic Society has posted about our paper out in BRM, focused on evaluating (and making recommendations for) open data sharing practices in the cognition literature (using visual search and eye movements as a bit of a case study). Link: featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/sharing-cari...

The procedures for what, where, and how to share materials can be wildly inconsistent. A BRM paper by @haywardgodwin.bsky.social @michaelhout.bsky.social et al. introduces the Find It, Access It, Reuse It scorecard to help standardize research sharing practices. Post by Lai

Just received the Primarius Academicus Socius recognition in from the University of Pécs (Hungary). Given for “outstanding collaborative scientific achievements,” by researchers “who attained international research excellence by reaching a scientific impact in the global top 10%.”

Graduation, Fall 2025 post (3 of 3): Last but most definitely not least, congrats to Dr Eben Daggett for the completion of his PhD. He is pictured here being hooded, as captured by the livestream. Thanks for always making me feel dumb in person (while looking smart in our published works), Eben.

Graduation, Fall 2025 post (2of 3): Congratulations to Dr. Bryan White, Ph.D. for receiving his PhD last night. He is pictured here, in classic Bryan style, with a laugh as wide as he is tall. Congrats, Bryan!

Graduation, Fall 2025 post (1 of 3): Congratulations to Ashley Mathis for not only receiving her master's degree this fall, but doing so with a perfect 4.0 GPA. She is pictured here at her Honor's cord ceremony. Well done, Ashley! Now get to work on that PhD.

Our upcoming (NSF-funded) OPAM workshop will feature Dr Johnny van Doorn (of University of Amsterdam) presenting on the theory and practice of Bayesian statistics (using JASP software). Please register and join us for the workshop (on January 26th), here: www.opamconference.com/online-works...

We have a new publication out in Behavior Research Methods; a large database of threatening images (and similar but nonthreatening ones) rated for similarity. It should be of use to visual attention/memory researchers, those studying fear/phobias, and more. Find it here: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

We are hiring for the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs position in the College of HEST. Please consider applying and/or sharing this post. Reach out if you have questions about working in the Dean's office as well! careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/associa...

The next installment of our NSF-funded OPAM workshop series will feature Dr Jason Tsukahara (of the University of Miami) presenting his workshop on researching individual differences (on December 9th). Visit the website (opamconference.com) to register for the free Zoom session.

UMass Lowell Psychology is currently hiring. Check out the job ad, and consider joining Megan Papesh in her home department. careers.pageuppeople.com/822/lowell/e...

I'm proud to announce that I'm taking over as Interim Director of the NMSU STEM+ Education Research Institute. My role here will be to support SERI’s mission to advance evidence-based STEM education, expand interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthen STEM learning pathways across New Mexico.

Academic friends... the NMSU Graduate School is currently looking for an Associate Dean to join their team. Please consider applying and sharing within your professional networks. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assc-de...

We also have a pair of presentations at the upcoming @opam.bsky.social conference. Dr Eben Daggett will be giving a talk on dynamics in the attentional blink. And Mayte Alonso Carrillo (with Dr Giovanna Del Sordo and Dr Megan Papesh) will be giving a poster on pupillometry and sustained attention.

We've got some presentations coming up at Psychonomics. Dr Giovanna Del Sordo will be giving a talk (on using pupillometry to explore active/passive sustained attention) and Dr Eben Daggett will be presenting a poster (on how AI can be trained on human similarity data). Come on by!

I’m very happy and proud to announce that Eben Daggett has successfully completed his PhD. His dissertation (involving a ton of behavioral data collection and modeling) was on similarity perception and representationally-aligned artificial intelligence. Congratulations, Dr. Daggett!

Friendly reminder that the Object Perception, Attention, and Memory conference has a new "Lunch with an Expert” initiative where you can be paired with an expert and have the chance to ask them questions while enjoying a free lunch! Register (and please share!): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We're hiring a 4H Extension Specialist. Please apply and/or share! careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/extensi...

I'm very proud of this effort to create collaborations between NMSU and UTEP researchers on areas in brain and behavioral health. newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu--u...

Congratulations to Dr Giovanna Del Sordo for her 2nd place research presentation award at the NMSU postdoc association meeting held recently! Gio presented on a new meta-science project she is leading, looking at the interpretability and usability of shared data in vision science.

Friends in Sociology (or with connections in Soc) that do AI... please consider applying for a position in Soc at NMSU, to be affiliated with the Institute for Applied Practice in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Please share this post widely. careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311031/...

Please consider donating, friends. I'd be happy to hit $250, but thrilled to hit a lot more. gofund.me/8a613a444

Yesterday we had our fall gathering of the Discovery Scholars Program (discoveryscholars.nmsu.edu), an undergraduate research and creative arts program supported by the NMSU Colleges of Arts & Sciences, and HEST. Below are the scholars and mentors who were able to join us.

Our VR lab is now opened for expanded use (beyond research). Through a partnership with NMSU Global, we're opening the space for student development and class projects. Our hopes for the future are to create capacity for students and faculty to work on developing VR environments for use in research.

The next installment (October 8th) of our OPAM Training Workshop series will feature Dr Caro Hautekiet (of Vrije Universiteit), who will be discussing pre-registration and registered reports. Visit this page for info on all our (free!) workshops: www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...

The keynote speaker at this year's @opam.bsky.social Object Perception, Attention, and Memory meeting will be Dr Joy J. Geng of UC Davis. We're thrilled to have Joy join us, discuss her research, and impart some wisdom that she's gained throughout her incredibly impressive career.

I'm very excited to be taking part in the HASS-RLN convening in DC next week, and I'm extremely grateful for the leadership of Shelome Gooden and Christine Mallinson who are organizing this event and who brought me into this important group.

Very nice to get a nod to the work that we just published in BRM, using MDS to model the similarity of 1200 objects that can be used to control visual similarity in experiments in attention, memory, and more. www.linkedin.com/posts/psycho...

Very proud of these HEST scholars, and of this program that supports the work of early career researchers in our College. newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/four-nm...

The NMSU Institute for Applied Practice in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is launching a cluster hire for 3 new faculty. The position is open to people doing applied AI in any area/field. Please share with your colleagues that might be interested. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assista...

Our newest lab member is Jon Art. Jon is joining as a Discovery Scholars (undergrad), and will be working on a pair of projects, exploring the dynamics of the attentional blink, and working on our recently funded grant from the NMSU Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Applied Machine Learning.

Ashley Mathis has published her first Frontiers for Young Minds paper on aphantasia and individual differences in mental imagery (co-authored by Dr Andrew Conway and myself). Congrats, Ashley! Check out the article here: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Our paper on data cleaning and analysis pipelines in eye movement and reading experiments is online! We used a multiverse analysis to map out different ways of examining the frequency effect. With @denisdrieghe.bsky.social. Open access link here: link.springer.com/article/10.3... (1/3)

We have a paper out at Behavior Research Methods. Led by Hayward Godwin, it examines sharing practices (using visual search as a case study) and makes recs for sharing data outputs in a manner that will enable others to better find, access, and understand them. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

I'm very happy and proud to announce that last week, Bryan White completed his PhD. His dissertation was on how different forms of experience impact the perception of complex visual stimuli. Congratulations, Dr. White!

In August, the OPAM conference will be offering another professional development workshop. Dr Jason Geller will discuss creating reproducible manuscripts in Quarto. The workshop will be recorded and posted to our website. Thanks to the NSF for funding support! www.opamconference.com