Excited to introduce the CALM Lab at UNC Wilmington! @calmlab.bsky.social calmlab.science

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Excited to announce that I have accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor Position in Psychology at University of North Carolina Wilmington!

Excited to share a new preprint from my lab at the University of Kentucky looking at the activity and dynamics of EEG microstates during the maintenance of attention over short and long timescales. biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A multi-lab replication effort (@eegmanylabs.bsky.social) of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) has just been published online! In brief, the set-size effect appears to be robustly observed, but CDA correlation with VWM capacity is not reliably strong. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

“The results [output of LLMs]… don't matter. What matters is… the training of minds, the creation of people who know how to think about hard problems. If you hand that process to a machine, you haven't accelerated science. You've removed the only part of it that anyone actually needed.”

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.

Co-authorship with my colleague and friend Cody Mashburn. This was one of those studies I felt had to be done and Randy’s lab was an ideal place to do it right. Really enjoyed working on this.

The problem is not the existence of opposing worldviews, even extreme ones. Progress IS the existence of opposing worldviews. The problem is prescribing our worldview on others - which is an intolerance to diversity. Progress is accepting that people find meaning in things you find aberrant.

The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.

The problem is that would people choose misinformation that validates their views regardless of the algorithms that social media companies weaponize to keep us engaged in their platforms for the sake of profit. In the end… even on an open platform… “what we attend to is reality” - William James

Undergrad RAs presenting our work on attention control, brain networks, and pupil size. They did such a great job putting the posters together and presenting. Research is better, more productive, and rewarding when you get students involved.

Last week we had the pleasure to host a talk by @willngiam.bsky.social on "Rethinking attention in visual working memory (and its researchers)". If you missed it, the recording is now available on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8bg.... I highly recommend watching! #workingmemory #cogpsyc

𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗼-𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺! How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This just came out: Three experiments suggest that specific and difficult task goals enhance sustained attention performance. 👁️👁️ I like how these authors applied theory from work psychology to their cognitive paradigm. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Nice views out the office window tonight. Love to see how the view changes with the seasons. Hard to capture the large swarm of swifts flying around, and seems like you can’t post videos here.

First post. Excited to see how many people are over here already. Hi everyone! I am Jason. Currently a post-doc at Georgia Tech working with Randy Engle studying the nature and measurement of attention control ability. Looking for an asst. prof. position. Other interests include 🧘🏽‍♂️, 🚴🏼, 🏕️