📢 Rare academic 💎 alert 📢

We’re hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Level B/C) in Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience @ Swinburne (Melbourne).

Teach a brand‑new degree + access MRI, MEG, EEG & TMS/tDCS.

⏰ Apply by 17 May 2026, 11 pm
🔗 swinjobs.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

Reach out for more info.

We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc to work at UNSW Sydney, studying impacts of reward and information on attention, using eye-tracking, EEG, and modelling - with Kelly Garner, Daniel Pearson and me. Application link below, please spread the word!
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

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Knowledge Mapper An interactive tool that maps out everything you know. Answer questions and watch your personalized knowledge map take shape.

Curious what a representation of "everything" you know might look like? Wonder how you might fill it in?

Check out our demo and paper (led by @paxt0n4.bsky.social and now out in @natcomms.nature.com ), or read on to learn more!

Demo: context-lab.com/mapper/
Paper: www.doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Assistant Professor A or B – Psychology Contribute to teaching, research and academic service with a focus on the Bachelor of Psychological Science and Honours Psychology program.

We're hiring! Bond University is looking for an Assistant Professor (A or B) in Psychology (equivalent to Lecturer or Senior Lecturer). It's an open-area call; applications from across the discipline are welcome. bond.edu.au/jobs/10572/a...

Applications close 19 April 2026.

A just noticeable difference score of 0.0019

Years of avoiding psychophysics pays off

cool people, follow them!

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods.

1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social
2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method
➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

Two days ago, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) released a joint statement about promoting research integrity. Let's hold them to it! www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...

Photos of the seven-strong committee for the Brisbane Experimental Psychology Student Initiative

Introducing @brisepsi.bsky.social - we're an experimental psychology initiative run by grad students in Brisbane (Meanjin) across UQ & QUT 🧠

We host a monthly dose of freshly baked research (students, ECRs, & bigwigs) followed by social goodness. Help us grow with a follow! 🤗 #neuroskyence

The Impact of Non-Neural Sources on Aperiodic EEG Activity

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Part 1: How do LLMs work? YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Fabulous talk by @dougangus.bsky.social here at #ACNS2025 @acnsau.bsky.social - Long-term reliability of parameterized
resting state EEG: Evidence from a 5 year follow-up 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#EEGManyLabs website is now live: eegmanylabs.org
A home for our global effort to test the replicability of influential EEG findings, share resources, improve methods in cognitive neuroscience, and grow an open, connected community.

I've not played around with it, so I can't speak to how easy it is, but it supports Zoom and Jitsi.

Zulip — organized team chat Zulip is an organized team chat app for distributed teams of all sizes.

We've been using zulip (project.zulip.com) for about 8 months now. Takes a bit of getting used to if you're more familiar with Slack, but it's pretty flexible, their unlimited message hosting is free for research groups, and it can be easily exported for self-hosting.

Come work with me at Bond University! We’re advertising two continuing positions - a Senior Teaching Fellow in Psychology, and an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology. Applications close 31/08.

bond.edu.au/jobs/9763/se...
bond.edu.au/jobs/9762/as...

I can plug vision scientists who want to work in Australia into an amazing research effort there out of Sydney.

Lemme know and perhaps we can help make something spectacular happen there.

New preprint commentary from me, @malte.the100.ci, and @ianhussey.mmmdata.io.

Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant.

THREAD BELOW 🧵

osf.io/preprints/ps...

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Do Naturalistic Emotional Facial Expressions Catch Our Eye Like Posed Ones? We know that people tend to notice emotional faces—like smiling or angry expressions—more quickly than neutral ones. But most research showing this uses “posed” faces: actors in a lab deliberately sho...

Do naturalistic emotional facial expressions catch our eye like posed ones? 👀😀😠😐

This was my first, first author paper which was published in Emotion - Kudos have done a wonderful job of helping spread the world to a wider audience! #faces #affectsci 🧵1/ (Pls share!)
link.growkudos.com/1dybshxtam8

Wessel Cognitive Neurology Lab | The University of Iowa Thanks for visiting the Cognitive Neurology Lab at the University of Iowa. The lab is directed by Dr. Jan R. Wessel. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Depa...

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods.

If you know anybody, please tell them to email me.

Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

Together with @macshine.bsky.social & @elimuller.bsky.social we have a cool interdisciplinary project on compositional cognition, and we’re looking for a PhD student.

More details here www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
DM or email any questions
Please RT or pass on to interested students. Thanks!

An Owner’s Guide to the Mind Unlock the secrets of your mind and learn how to study more effectively with insights from cognitive science!

Looking forward to giving this free public lecture next month.
Come join us!

📅 6:30pm, 19th June
📍 UNSW Sydney
🎟 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: bit.ly/43ncDuQ

𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢-𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯

Submissions are now open for the 2nd “Psychophys Is” Video Competition!
Help make psychophysiology accessible to all — and win cash prizes for doing it!
Showcase your science in 90 seconds or less.
More info 👉 sprweb.org/spr-video-co...
#PsychophysIs #SPR2025

ARC Postgraduate Research Scholarship A $40,109 per annum stipend scholarship for research students within the Faculty of Science.

Funded PhD position available in my group: international applications welcome!
Looking for a student interested in complex systems, dynamics and applications to complex neural systems to join our group in the School of Physics at Sydney University.
Details here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics) Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...

An opportunity to *join our group* as a postdoc researcher analyzing complex physical systems, and the time-varying data they produce (with applications to sleep)!

Join us @sydneyphysics.bsky.social on a great campus in a beautiful city!

Please share 🙂

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

PhD opportunity! Get in touch if you are interested in this, or related, project(s). study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers?

With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com