New paper with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JoCN! "Real-world Objects Scaffold Visual Working Memory for Features: Increased Neural Engagement When Colors Are Remembered as Part of Meaningful Objects" doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

Our paper is now available online! Check out the Kudos summary here: link.growkudos.com/1ed9uhpo8w0

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Here is your chance to become an associate editor of a fantastic journal! The incoming editor of @jcgntn.bsky.social, @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social, is looking for associate editors. Check out this cool opportunity to self-nominate or nominate someone you know! www.escop.eu/about-us/jou...

I’ll be giving a 'Workshops for Ukraine' session on Building and Customising Statistical Models with Stan and R: An Introduction to Bayesian Inference — online on Nov 13. Open to all, with donations supporting Ukrainian organisations. 👉 sites.google.com/view/dariia-... #stats #rstats #statssky

The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

I am pleased to share that "the bird study" is now accepted at Psychology and Aging! A great collaboration with visiting intern Kishen Senziani, @leabartsch.bsky.social & @edamizrak.bsky.social 😀 Check out the pre-print below and a short thread on the study design and main takeaways 🧵👇

Congrats to @lauraklatt.bsky.social for being the #WomWoM research fairy of 2025! She is both a star researcher & incredibly generous and collegial with all in the field, especially the juniors! Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations & to @scannedfruits.bsky.social for making Laura's wand 🪄🧚‍♀️

Hey #memory folks, check out this new preprint by @joschadutli.bsky.social , @koberauer.bsky.social, and @leabartsch.bsky.social showing that elaboration benefits are likely driven by aiding in establishing efficient retrieval cues.

Yes, this was a really great experience! Thanks for @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @vmloaiza1.bsky.social for asking us to do this as part of #ESCOP2025! And if you are interested in having a similar workshop for your PhD Programm or similar, feel free to reach out!

Leeds WoMCog group at the #ESCoP2025 conference in Sheffield!

I’m going to present at the Blitz Talk on Friday, 6pm, at #ESCOP2025 @escop.bsky.social. The very last session, yet I’m sure with a lot of excitement! Come to listen whether engaging in your hobby predict your cognitive abilities. 🧠

Here is the paper that @mollyadelooze.bsky.social presented this morning at #escop2025 showing source amnesia for recently presented verbal information.

It’s been an excellent few days in Sheffield for #ESCoP2025! I have enjoyed so many talks, posters, and chats, and have come away feeling inspired and excited about research ideas and topics happening across labs 🤩

Tomorrow afternoon I'll be presenting my symposium talk at #ESCoP2025 titled "Meaningful and familiar stimuli support visual working memory for simple features"! See you there!

It's all starting soon 🥳 we can't wait to welcome you all to Sheffield for #ESCoP2025 🤩 @cvonbastian.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social

With less than week until #ESCOP2025, we're super excited to kick-off our conference with something truly special - an Algorave! 🤩 (1/12 👀)

Happy first day of classes! I had a stress dream that a cacophony of errors made me so late to work that I missed today's entire graduate seminar that I'm teaching this semester. But I live less than a mile away from work 🤣

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

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

📣 Tomorrow is the last day! 📣 Get those nominations in and celebrate those awesome female scientists in our field 🤩

Ubiquity Press is sponsoring #ESCOP2025 this year! As the publishers of the @jcgntn.bsky.social, @escop.bsky.social's journal, we believe in supporting our publications as much as possible. @vmloaiza1.bsky.social @cvonbastian.bsky.social journalofcognition.org

🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨

It's only cancel culture if it comes from the democratic regions of the U.S. Otherwise it's sparkling authoritarianism.

New paper with LaurenWilliams, @timbrady.bsky.social, and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JEP: General! "Limits of verbal labels in cognition: Category labels do not improve visual working memory performance for obfuscated objects" psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Are you an early-career researcher (or someone hoping to help ECRs) working in #openscience or #metascience? The @reproducibilitea.org podcast is looking for guests for our next season of episodes! We'd love to feature ECR voices foremost – the next generation of scientists should be heard the most!

Are you presenting a poster at #ESCOP2025? Why not have one less thing to travel with and have your poster printed on site to collect when you arrive in Sheffield! Send your poster no later than 17th August to take advantage of this option 🤓🧠 www.escop2025.com/poster-print...

Can you believe that WMS2025 (July 8-11) is less than a week away? If you are interested in Working Memory Research, WMS2025 is THE BEST online conference with THE AWESOMEST community of researchers across the globe! So DON'T FORGET TO CHECK IT OUT! www.wmsymposium.org/home

Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

#workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚‍♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...

New #counter-strike available to participate in 🎮 Complete a 40-minute online cognitive task and questionnaire, and receive a £5 Amazon Voucher and be entered into a prize draw! 💸Read more and take part here 👉 coglab.xyz/publix/05ado... @cvonbastian.bsky.social @philippmusfeld.bsky.social #CS2

👀 Did someone say... two day satellite event?... 🚨 PsychoPy at ESCOP 2025 in Sheffield! Join us for our satellite event on September 1st-2nd and dive deep into creating flexible, fun experiments for your research. Details here www.escop2025.com/satellite-ev... #ESCOP2025 @escop.bsky.social

<1 week to go before the early-bird deadline of 30th June for #ESCOP2025! Besides an exciting scientific programme, your registration includes multiple satellite events for professional development and networking 🤓 Act quickly as spaces are limited and filling up! www.escop2025.com/satellite-ev...

#ESCOP2025 is offering several funding opportunities, including the new family care grants and travel support for PhD students. Don’t miss the chance to apply! 👇

🚶‍♀️🎨🍰 We're thrilled to see the buzz building around the Saturday Social Events for #ESCOP2025 at @sheffielduni.bsky.social! ⏳ Don’t forget: Early-Bird registration closes 30 June. Grab your discount while you can! 🤩 @escop.bsky.social @vmloaiza1.bsky.social

Less than 2 weeks to go before the early-bird registration deadline of 30th June for #ESCOP2025! Please make sure to register with plenty of time ahead of the deadline: www.escop2025.com/registration... @escop.bsky.social

📣 The countdown is on! Early-Bird reg for #ESCOP2025 ends 30 June! ⏰ Join us in Sheffield - a city known for its innovation, green spaces, and vibrant culture - for an exciting scientific programme, headlined by four outstanding keynote speakers! 🤩 #Sheffield

🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁

It has been so exciting to see everything coming together for ESCOP 2025, which will be here before you know it! Are you aware that applications for family care grants and travel funding for PhD students is still available? Please have a look at this link and make sure to apply by 30th June!

New Preprint with @edamizrak.bsky.social! Performance in immediate memory tasks reflects a flexible mixture of contributions of #workingmemory and LTM. Distraction disrupts WM, while PI impairs retrieval from LTM; when both are in play, performance depends on the relative reliability of each system

A new paper (open access) by @eddiehj.bsky.social, @davidamodio.bsky.social, & colleagues. It's a useful methodological guide for researchers who want to conduct replication studies, peppered w/ some juicy (?) examples from the authors' personal experiences. (1/2) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Another q for the stats people! People worry about collinearity (cf blog post below). Consider a scenario in which the collinear predictors are just controls to account for confounding. Including both of them doesn't impair the precision with which the effect of interest is estimated, does it?

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

I've been keeping a mental list of things that I had 100% expected about moving back to the US. One I did not expect was the fact that if you email someone a question who is not the right person to ask, then there is a very high chance that you will just not get a reply at all 🤔😆

In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc ✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism) ✳️ poor construct validity ✳️ undermine standards and learning We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.

Registration for #ESCOP2025 in Sheffield, UK, opens today at 10 am BST! 📣 The first 50 ECRs (PhD students & postdocs) registering for either of the two 2-day workshops can secure 🤩free accommodation🤩 for the entire ESCOP programme! @escop.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @vmloaiza1.bsky.social

New post-doc Research Associate position at University of Sheffield with @cvonbastian.bsky.social on our ESRC-funded project exploring cognition, ageing, and strategy use! Details here -> www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML040/r...