Our May edition, available online now (with PDF for @bpsofficial.bsky.social members)

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

This Friday: designing & building software to analyse #TMS & EMG data, with Gleb Perevoznyuk.

14:00 GMT+1, ZOOM

See you there!

Home — Workshops

Join us for our free contributing to #OpenSource workshop.

📅 Thursday April 30th 12:00 - 13:00 UK time.

We're keen to help you make your first pull request to PsychoPy in a friendly space ❤️

workshops.psychopy.org#workshop-my-...

Webinar Event: All About Rare Earths Presentation by Prof Frances Wall OBE, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter. Note this is an online-only event.

Explore the world of Rare Earth with Prof. Frances Wall this Wednesday, 15 April at 7:30 PM! Join BCS Oxfordshire online to learn about the minerals powering our tech. 🌍🔋
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-ev...
#BCSOxfordshire #Tech #Sustainability

Nominations for the 2026 BPS Division of Neuropsychology Awards are open to members until 30 April 2026, with winners recognised this July at the conference in Dublin.
www.bps.org.uk/member-netwo...
#Neuropsychology #BPSDoN #Awards #Psychology

DoN webinar 14 Apr, 3-4 pm: Prof Ingram Wright talks with Dr Lorraine Haye about leadership in neuropsychology. Free for DoN members: www.bps.org.uk/event/suppor...
#Neuropsychology #Leadership #BPS

On #NationalWalkingDay don't get lost ...
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📣 Exciting news:
As we've been unable to decide which is the best open-source package for psychology (PsychoPy, Open Sesame or jsPsych) @peircej.bsky.social, @cogsci.nl and @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social have agreed to resolve this once and for all, in a live-streamed, three-way.....arm wrestle!

Registration for the INS 2026 Mid-Year meeting in Dublin is now open!
Early bird rates and registration ends 29th May.
Click the below link to register your place and for more information:
insdublin2026.com/registration/
#INS2026 #Dublin #Neuropsychology #Dublin @insneuro.bsky.social

Today! #TMS #Friday

PsychoPy for WiCS Series: Eye Tracking Experiments in PsychoPy We invite members of the Women In Cognitive Science (WiCS) Community to join us online for the final workshop in our WiCs series!

We have a couple of slots available on our free workshop tomorrow with @wicseurope.bsky.social

If you're interested in eyetracking experiments with PsychoPy sign up here 👇 (these may go quick 😅 )

www.eventbrite.com/e/1983763666...

This Friday!

Get the GoogleMeet link in the usual place, or ask someone who knows..!

#brainawarenessweek #fesn #neuropsychology #psychologyevents | British Psychological Society Division of Neuropsychology As part of Brain Awareness Week 2026, the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (FESN) is hosting a free online talk exploring the neuropsychology of criminal behaviour. 🎤 Speaker: ...

Join us online during Brain Awareness Week 2026 for a free FESN webinar on the neuropsychology of criminal behaviour with Gerardo Salvato.
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#BrainAwarenessWeek #FESN #Neuropsychology
@gerardosalvato.bsky.social

If you want to present some work, lead a discussion, review a paper, or anything else #TMS at one of our future meetings, then get in touch!

#BrainStim 🧠⚡

Cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms independently modulate motor corticospinal excitability in humans How do internal bodily rhythms influence brain activity and motor function? This study shows that cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct...

Meeting #14: March 27th, 12h GMT

Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social will tell us how:

"Cardiac, respiratory & gastric rhythms independently modulate motor corticospinal excitability in humans"

you can also read about it here:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

meeting link via Slack/GitHub: ask! 🧠⚡

Here is a brand new app for investigating Springs and an Elastic Band. I hope you find it useful 🙂
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪

sites.google.com/view/hookean...

#stats #brainstim #TMS #power 🧠⚡

In #TMS studies, how many repeats (r) do you need to get reliable measurements?

An important question for statistical #power !

One (wrong) answer involves calculating 95% confidence intervals around the estimate using all repeats (R), then finding the minimum r that has a mean within the CI...

🧵👇

Rasheedat Lawal’s talk on nutritional and genetic risk factors in mild cognitive impairment is tomorrow and online.
📅 Friday, 13 March 2026
⏰ 11:00–12:00 BST
💻 meet.google.com/ifz-kkwd-rdq
#CogPsych @obupsychology.bsky.social bupsychology.bsky.social @obu-hst-research.bsky.social #oxford_brookes

Revolution: How bold are we prepared to be? | BPS Diomidis Psomas writes in response to our March edition.

Revolution: How bold are we prepared to be?
Diomidis Psomas writes in response to our March edition.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!

想學習如何為開源專案做出貢獻嗎？ 👩‍💻👨‍💻
從未使用過Git？
快來參加PsychoPy的工作坊！學習如何為Psychop這一類的開源專案貢獻程式碼～
🗓 3月19日
⏰ 英國時間中午12:00
eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...
#心理學 #軟體 #開源 #工作坊 #Git @psychopy.org

Complexity, creativity, connection, change… and cake | BPS Our editor Jon Sutton reports from the Behavioural Science in Public Health Network conference at De Montfort University in Leicester.

Here, I attempt to write up yesterday's @bsphn.bsky.social #BSPHN26 event, but mostly bang on about liking cake.

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Hybrid Event: Towards Responsible Quantum Computing Recent developments in the national and international development of quantum computing from a societal impact perspective

Join 'Towards Responsible Quantum Computing', a free hybrid event in Oxford and online on Wed 11 March 2025, 7:30–9:00 pm. Register now.
oxfordshire11032026.eventbrite.co.uk
#quantumcomputing #responsibletech #ethics
@marenka.bsky.social @carolynth.bsky.social

"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!

Want to learn how to contribute to #opensource? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Never used #Git before?

Join us for our free beginner-friendly workshop and learn the basics of contributing to open source projects like #psychopy

🗓 March 19th
⏰ 12:00 PM (UK time)

Everyone is welcome 🚀
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...

來自「女性認知科學工作者（Women In Cognitive Science）」社群，參與Psychopy相關活動。他們在 「我的第一次 PR」工作坊 裡，為完善Psychopy的文檔貢獻了力量。相關貢獻資訊可查看連結：
github.com/psychopy/psy...
#心理學 #軟體 #PsychoPy #WomenInCogSci @psychopy.org

Congratulations @livinghealthy007.bsky.social! Revisit our @latitudefestival.bsky.social conversation… www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Yesterday was #InternationalWomensDay

Today we are running our first "My First Pull Request" workshop with the Women In Cognitive Science community.

Excited to hopefully encourage more contributors to #PsychoPy 🤞🏼🐍👩🏼‍💻

@wicseurope.bsky.social

git explained by cats 😹💻. #cat #develop #coding #fyp #cat

Want to contribute to #OpenSource but don't know where to start with #git?

Here is a fantastic primer to git for your enjoyment. #codingkitty

And remember, PsychoPy is an Open Source community driven tool - contributions are welcome!

www.youtube.com/shorts/fQ2xs...

‘Having access to languages everywhere seemed like a dream…’ | BPS Our editor Dr Jon Sutton meets Dr Kaitlyn Zavaleta, at De Montfort University.

"Having access to languages everywhere seemed like a dream…’

I met @dr-klzavaleta.bsky.social, at De Montfort University.

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Improving access to poverty data: what we heard at our latest workshop, and what might actually help

New blog from our Poverty Data Gaps project with the CPD and @jrf-uk.bsky.social 🌟

It highlights where the system is falling short and practical ideas to fix it🔗 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Add your own data gap to our Poverty Data Gaps Explorer 🔗 royal-statistical-society.github.io/poverty-data...