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

We have a new paper out at Behavior Research Methods (hosted on OSF: osf.io/yvb8h/). Arryn Robbins led this database of 1200 objects rated for similarity. Download the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Please join us for the second of our professional development workshops, which are always free to the community. And if you can't join us live, hop on our website to download the recording. www.opamconference.com/workshops-su.... @cjungerius.bsky.social @opam.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ashley Mathis for the successful completion of her master's thesis this week. Her ambitious project used eye-tracking and a Where's Waldo task to examine how individual differences in mental imagery abilities impact visual search performance. Congrats, Ashley!

Exciting news regarding NMSU's new bachelor's degree in AI, and on the AI Institute. newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-to...

Extremely proud to be taking the torch from Sarah Shomstein at such an amazing journal. Got my first publication here. And my first chance at being an AE (thanks to Mike Dodd). It’s incredibly exciting to be the next EiC. Thanks to Pnom society for giving me the opportunity.

OPAM33 is now accepting online abstracts until July 15th, 2025! Centered around the topics of Object Perception, visual Attention, and visual Memory, OPAM features the work of early-career scientists and embraces diverse approaches. Learn more and submit here: www.opamconference.com/opam2025

Part of our NM-INBRE funded project on simulated medical image perception has just been published at the ACM symposium on Eye-tracking Research and Applications. Dr Megan Papesh (of UMass Lowell) presented the work, co-authored by myself, Dr Giovanna Del Sordo, Bryan White, and Ashley Mathis.

The 2025 OPAM conference is shaping up. Please visit our new website to register and submit abstracts (www.opamconference.com). We will have professional development awards this year, thanks to our NSF funding. And our keynote speaker is the wonderful Dr. Joy Geng, of UC Davis. Join us in Denver!

Posting at a time when I think it's so important to show support/appreciation for those working at the NSF (and other agencies like NIH, Dept of Ed, and more). As a former Program Director, I can say from experience that it is a labor of love, a true public service. www.science.org/content/arti...

Dr Hirst's (@hirstrj.bsky.social) workshop on PsychoPy for @opam.bsky.social was recorded and is now available to watch on our new website. Check it out: www.opamconference.com/online-works...

Very excited that Rick is coming back to HEST (full-time) as the new leader of our College. newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-co...

The first OPAM (@opam.bsky.social) workshop features Dr Rebecca Hirst (@hirstrj.bsky.social of Open Science Tools) who will present "Running Online and In-Person Experiments Using PsychoPy." The workshop is free to attend. Please register and share!: www.opamconference.com/online-works...

Thanks to funding support from NSF, the Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) conference has a new website, a series of professional development workshops, and networking opportunities. More soon; please visit our website, sign up to receive updates, and share! www.opamconference.com

Mayte Alonso (an undergraduate Discovery Scholar) presented her work yesterday at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium. Her work includes Dr Giovanna Del Sordo and Dr Megan Papesh, and uses pupillometry to study the delineation between active and passive vigilant attention.

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

This is extremely troubling... www.science.org/content/arti...

Excellent news out of the College of HEST School of Nursing! newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-sc...

Local folks... please consider attending the 2025 Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium at NMSU during Research and Creativity Week. Learn more about this excellent display of undergraduate work. Read more and find the schedule here: honors.nmsu.edu/curca1/urcas...

Lots of really great events happening at Research and Creativity week this year! newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-s-...

Putting this back out into people's feeds... we're doing a special issue in Scientific Reports on eye-tracking in virtual reality. Please send us your best work and share this with your networks. Submission deadline: Nov 27, 2025. Full details: www.nature.com/collections/...

Dr. Giovanna Del Sordo has been selected to be a member of the Psychonomic Society Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee. Great work, Gio, and thanks for doing this valuable service.

Very happy to announce that Bryan White has accepted the position of College Assistant Professor in Psychology at NMSU, to start in Fall of this year (pending completion of his dissertation, this summer). Congrats, Bryan!

Last week, Rebecca Penn presented our poster at the Joint Symposium for Working K9s titled "Reading the handler: A location-based map of handler attention during detection work."

This is an NMSU initiative I'm very excited about... newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-ai...

NMSU makes the list of top grad programs again. HEST programs include nursing, public health, social work, and speech-language pathology! newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-ea...

Very excited to announce the College of HEST Emerging Scholars symposium, which will feature talks from our research proposal award winners in Kinesiology, School of TPAL, and School of Nursing. Local folks, please consider registering and attending. +Light snacks forms.office.com/pages/respon...

NMSU folks... please consider attending the "Ascent to R1" panel happening during the upcoming Research and Creativity Week. It costs to attend, but lunch is served and proceeds benefit graduate student prizes. Join us! (Registration via QR code)

The NMSU Discovery Scholars Program (open to students in the Colleges of HEST and Arts&Sciences) is now accepting its next cohort of undergraduate scholars. Learn more and apply here, and consider sharing, please! discoveryscholars.nmsu.edu/dsp-pages/ap...

Our Discovery Scholars page is now being updated to feature our current/ongoing scholars. Check out the impressive work they are doing in NMSU'S Colleges of HEST and Arts & Sciences. discoveryscholars.nmsu.edu/dsp-pages/cu...

I'm perpetually impressed by the work that the STEM Outreach Center is doing. newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-st...

We have a new paper out at the Journal of Medical Imaging. Led by Haoqi Wang, this paper is a perceptual map of breast reconstruction appearance outcomes and serves as a tool to help breast cancer patients visually express what they expect to look like after reconstruction.

Giovanna Del Sordo has joined our lab as a postdoc (co-supervised by myself and Dr. Megan Papesh). She has also been selected as one of the new organizers for the Object Perception, Attention, and Memory conference. Welcome and congrats, Gio! www.giovannadelsordo.com/about-me