In a new paper (with @kayritchie.bsky.social, Eilidh Noyes, Carl Bunce and Josh Davis) we investigated AI-face detection in super-recognisers and typical-ability participants, both with and without a short training procedure. See the link below for the results! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Good meetings include good cake! Very productive day in York with Eilidh and @drkatiegray.bsky.social

Probably the most joyous photo of two old friends drinking wine and making each other laugh through music 🥰

Hear me out. Who was the first dude on the podium at the Euros final there? Was it Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible mask? And if you’re saying no, are you sure? The face, the eyes, and the hands don’t match the face.

What a brilliant time at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social in Dundee last week! Huge congratulations to Mike Burton for his Sir Frederick Bartlett prize lecture and thank you for attracting so many awesome face perception researchers! 🥰🤓 Thank you to @lizziebradford.bsky.social for organising! 👏

Great day and a bit with Katrina and Ranbir in Huddersfield for the Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network meeting. Lots of networking, and lots of good ideas to be working on from an East Midlands perspective! 🤓

I had such a wonderful time recording this episode of The Movie Method with the brilliant Jenny @filmtherapy.bsky.social and Roger who I am so blessed to be able to call my friends. Can’t wait to listen - I know our friendship and our love of this film will come across 🥰 Thank you for having me on!

Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

Pint of Science has made the front cover of the Lincoln Independent magazine! 19-21 May, tickets here PintOfScience.co.uk/events/lincoln

Had a wonderful week in the merry old land of Oz playing in the band for MJH Productions in Grantham. Congratulations to everyone in the cast, crew, production and band!

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to present my Frith Prize talk at the EPS meeting yesterday — it was such an honour and a delight! I had some fascinating questions and conversations that will definitely help shape my next projects. Huge thanks to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for the fab conference!

A brilliant first meeting for me as a committee member of EPS. Thanks so much to everyone for making me feel welcome, and for sharing such great research 🤓

Delighted to be at the Lancaster meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. Great talks from members of @notts-psych.bsky.social, Lauren Marsh and Sandra Lagator.

Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!

Here’s my opinion - let’s stop saying a piece of work is from someone’s (the most well-known person’s) lab. Let’s credit the first author even if we haven’t already heard of them. How do PhD students and postdoc and other ECRs get known if we erase their names from discussions of their own papers?

Brill but exhausting sitzprobe for MJH Productions’ Wizard of Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁

What an absolutely brilliant concert with Stamford Chamber Orchestra! Mozart narrated a ‘children’s guide’ piece written specially for us by John Sturt, complete with kiddo violins & singers. Jupiter symphony was genuinely one of the best things I’ve played in a while - well done everyone!

The cartoon of this admin:

Ugh no. I met Mark once, a long time ago. He and his wife, Gabby Giffords, are absolutely amazing. Look them both up. Mark and Gabby have such a collective wisdom, they should be listened to.

"...there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created."

Delighted to be the new Director of the Lincoln Policy Hub connecting researchers with policymakers to generate research impact. It’s already been great learning about just some of the brilliant policy-facing research going on across the uni. Still in psychology just a bit less bit.ly/3QaiLjX

ITV commentary once again is totally unhinged - there’s clearly a bet on as to who can say the word “wardrobe” the most. “He is a nicely built, nicely aging French wardrobe”. Mad. Also strong choice from Twickenham to choose ‘Chumbaleze’ for their hanging around music. #EngFra #SixNations

I have a tshirt with this on it!

This is problematic. Our research shows the public, including a sample in USA, support facial recognition tech use in conjunction with other evidence, & when used specifically to find people on a watchlist. If used well it can be helpful. Full research article here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Finally caught up on Black Doves - absolutely brilliant! Every performance was captivating. Please say they’re making another series!

Very pleased to see the Experimental Psychology Society here. Their London meeting this week was great as always. Whether you’re a familiar or new member, or just a curious aspiring psychologist please follow the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and check out their meetings and support!

🚨 New funded PhD position at UCL 🚨 Funding is provided for a PhD student in our new centre to help work with Fiona Zisch & Sean Hanna to apply agent-based-modelling to analyse the crazy data set from 100+ people navigating a giant maze in PEARL. See details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...

We were just talking about this yesterday in the context of truth and facts. Who gets to decide that a piece of evidence is not ‘real’ or a fact? Peer reviewers and an editor. Thats a bit scary.

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.

Thanks to @lynnpickerell.bsky.social for sharing this with me - one of the biggest virals of the year indeed. I do need to say though, the amount of online abuse the ‘woman in red’ has received is shocking to me. Even on this post on this platform. We can disagree without name calling and hating.

Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️

UK all through Christmas

Last Christmas concert of 2024 done! Huge thank you and well done to the Northern Musical Theatre Orchestra, chorus and soloists. And my pal gave me a cute wee hat for my flute!

Huge thank you to Lincoln Cathedral for hosting our ‘dust off your instrument’ Christmas Carol session with Lincoln Symphony Orchestra today! We were expecting 5 people and a dog, but 77 members of the local community came to play! Sorry for my terrible conducting, well done all, Merry Christmas!

Lovely day playing for The Snowman at Lincoln Cathedral. I cry every time he melts! Two more to go tomorrow 🥰☃️🎶

I like the idea of framing blue skies research as being for problems “not yet imagined” ❤️

Earlier this year, Nature asked science-policy specialists which country is particularly good at ensuring science is factored into government decisions. The question mystified many respondents. Some of the responses were: “Not aware of any.” “None have enviable systems.” “Very hard to say.”

Oops. Priceless audience reaction to asylum comment on BBC Question Time - independent.co.uk/tv/news/bbc-question-time-asylum-reaction-b2659755.html

Ended up in the front row on tonight’s Question Time. Tried really hard to control my face when the woman beside me (who’d told me before hand she was there to see Farrage because she’d voted Reform) said she didn’t believe in migrants seeking asylum. You can judge whether I succeeded.

Absolute nonsense. I completely agree with everything Bethany has said here. What a poor decision.

Big cheer from me when Nick Robinson on Radio 4’s Today programme said “who ate all the pies”. Excellent stuff.

Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!

Here's a quick analog #VisionScience demo for your pre-Thanksgiving Wednesday: Instant binocular rivalry with crayons. Get yourself Crayola's "Scarlet" and "Yellow-Green" and draw overlapping shapes that are distinct from one another. Put on some red-green glasses watch 'em alternate!

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Which bit is the front?! 😻

Kristen @k-a-baker.bsky.social has made a starter pack of face perception researchers to follow 👇

The DOAJ directory of added/withdrawn journals is showing three MDPI journals withdrawn yesterday: Materials, Polymers, and Water. @pagomba.bsky.social @deadneanderthals.bsky.social

Has anyone done a face perception starter pack? If not, I may spend time tomorrow trying to figure out how you make a starter pack!

Colin and I have been on our holidays ahead of next week’s Science Live on Stage: A Journey Through The Brain. This fun kids’ science show should be a proper laugh. With some fun brain science! Tickets here - lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/scienc...

We are recruiting an RA for an eye-tracking project investigating human factors in forensic science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch NZ! There is also PhD scholarships available. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, hit me up or send me your CV! NZ pics for tax 🦜