Postdoc position!
Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.
Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination
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The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2026, to be held at the University of Auckland from July 1-4. Abstract submissions now open!
visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/
Anyone want to do a PhD with me at the Sunny Coast? I'm recruiting, and I wanna do some fun psychophysics (but the possibilities for the PhD are very broad). Domestic students only, sadly.
In case y'all happen to know someone:
@nataliepeluso.com
@reubenrideaux.bsky.social
@visnerd.bsky.social
If you have about 20 minutes, I would be grateful if you could help my undergraduate student explore whether common empathy questionnaires are actually interchangable in the ways they are used in the social science literature.
Any postdocs outside the UK interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship with me (sensory processing, decision making, vision), get in touch! Our school of psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social is offering costs towards a campus visit to give a talk, develop a proposal and attend training!
Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Advice needed - I'm seeking suggestions for a keynote for a conference I'm organizing around immersive technologies in sports. No need for her/him to be particularly senior.
Come to Auckland in July 2026 for the joint meeting of the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference and the Asia Pacific Conference on Vision!!
STUDENTS: there will be 40 travel support awards of $500 to help you attend, so don't let the distance stop you from attending.
Reupping, we start looking next week
re you local to the central belt in Scotland? Would you like to try and solve a (mock) case in our Virtual Reality Lab?
Our VR Interactive Lineup study is currently recruiting participants. See our website for details and booking!
faceresearch.stir.ac.uk/vr-line-ups-...
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...
🌏 Come spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺
@marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs.
Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections.
📅 Apply by 4 Dec
📍 Sydney, Australia
Curious or keen? DM or email me
New research out today is written up in The Guardian!
We show that the basis of super-recognisers advantage for face recognition is not just about looking everywhere – it’s about looking smarter, at more useful information for identification.
Read the full text here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>
What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1
🚨 The Adelaide Cybercrime Laboratory is hiring! We are seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in machine-learning enabled digital forensics. Applications close November 9. For more informational about the position, click here: lnkd.in/gGtgKJYW
My PhD student is conducting a study exploring the human element of peak motorsport performance.
If you’re involved in motorsport, please take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire below 👇
🔗 forms.office.com/e/fDb2MxgcXP
#Motorsport #Racing
In my #Neuropsychology course, I use many patient videos to give examples of various consequences of brain injury. Some of these are really excellent and can be tricky to find, so I thought I'd share this doc with links to some of my favorites - a brief 🧵with some highlights. (more to come later!)
A quick webpage update to showcase my textbook PRACTICAL VISION SCIENCE! If you're thinking about options for your Spring course in #visionscience, check it out! sites.google.com/view/hands-o...
Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
We have a new tutorial out in Social Cog methods issue, a resampling tool we made in R that basically tells you when some average is "stable" and can be used to guide data collection or test hypotheses related to variance. Quick explanation here
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guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/...
SAVE THE DATE! Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology (EPC) & Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) Joint Meeting from 1-4 July at the University of Auckland, NZ.
#PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence
More information to follow!
visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/
New pre-print from pjbhancock.bsky.social and myself. Two preregistered experiments showing the wisdom of the crowd within improves unfamiliar face matching performance (but not as much as crowds of different individuals). Not yet reviewed.
JARMAC is seeking new editorial board members: apply now! // mailchi.mp/7ff430ed8bf1...
Question for my fellow vision researchers: anyone know of work where people looked at dynamic ensemble perception for lots of boxes on Zoom? Think "what's the average emotion of these people on a group call?"
How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro
🚨 The wait is almost over!
@cogscisociety.bsky.social × Blue Sky Grant applications open tomorrow. Five grants worth $1,810 each are here to support your next research idea.
Join our webinar this Thursday 4PM BST for insider tips on how to submit a winning application.
👉 Register: bit.ly/3K28s1y
Are you, or someone you know, looking for a funded PhD position? I'm interested in supervising PhDs on topics related to my work, e.g., emerging neurodivergent populations, prosopagnosia, validity of psychological science, or political violence. Get in touch if interested:
e.j.burns@swansea.ac.uk
