The Discovery Scholars Program is back in NMSU News with a feature story describing the impact is has by broadening access to research opportunities for undergraduates in the College of HEST and College of Arts & Sciences. Read the story here: newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/discove...
It's not every day that you give your first research poster and the President of your University shows up. Yesterday, Michelle Kass (undergraduate Discovery Scholar mentored by Dr Gio Del Sordo and myself) presented her work at URCAS 2026 and got a visit from President Ferme. Nice work, Michelle!
This week, Mr Jon Art (an under Discovery Scholar in our lab) travelled to the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting. There, he was met by Dr Eben Daggett (and a special guest!). Jon presented on his project focusing on the impacts of similarity and timing on the attentional blink.
We recently published an article in The Conversation. (Led by Arryn Robbins and co-authored by Eben Daggett and myself.) The article is about how AI learns to see and categorize, and the important ways (and implications of) that that is different from humans. theconversation.com/ai-doesnt-se...
EIN Presswire has posted a story (being picked up elsewhere) about my appointment to the Advisory Board for the Child Safety Network, and my role as Chief Scientific Investigator on their work to combat school bus stop-arm runners. Read it here: www.einpresswire.com/article/8973...
Dr Eben Daggett and I have a book chapter coming out very soon. It's on modeling similarity using MDS, and it can be found in the upcoming 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Measurement in Social Sciences.
We have a new young-audience science communication out in Frontiers for Young Minds. This one was led by Virginia Millsap and co-written by Dr Andras Zsido (of University of Pecs). It describes the science of phobia development, and you can find it here: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
The STEM Ed Research Institute is hiring a post-doctoral researcher to work on research, assessment, and more, in collaboration with NMSU Global, and the Institute for Applied AI and Machine Learning. Please share with interested parties and in your networks. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/post-do...
The OPAM conference is looking for new organizers, and senior grads and postdocs are eligible. Please share and post widely! This was one of the best things I ever did for my career, and as a service, and I cannot recommend it enough. Deadline 3/1/26; questions to me or opam.info@gmail.com.
This week I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion ("AI Everywhere: Empowering Educators and Students") at the AI & Energy conference put on by the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance. I believe a full recording is forthcoming. www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...
The newest member of our lab is Michelle Kass, an undergraduate Discovery Scholar. Her project will involve examining memory performance as a function of congruent or mismatched feedback. She is already a research assistant in the lab, but welcome to DSP, Michelle!
The Psychonomic Society has posted about our paper out in BRM, focused on evaluating (and making recommendations for) open data sharing practices in the cognition literature (using visual search and eye movements as a bit of a case study). Link: featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/sharing-cari...
The procedures for what, where, and how to share materials can be wildly inconsistent. A BRM paper by @haywardgodwin.bsky.social @michaelhout.bsky.social et al. introduces the Find It, Access It, Reuse It scorecard to help standardize research sharing practices. Post by Lai
Just received the Primarius Academicus Socius recognition in from the University of Pécs (Hungary). Given for “outstanding collaborative scientific achievements,” by researchers “who attained international research excellence by reaching a scientific impact in the global top 10%.”
Graduation, Fall 2025 post (3 of 3): Last but most definitely not least, congrats to Dr Eben Daggett for the completion of his PhD. He is pictured here being hooded, as captured by the livestream. Thanks for always making me feel dumb in person (while looking smart in our published works), Eben.
Graduation, Fall 2025 post (2of 3): Congratulations to Dr. Bryan White, Ph.D. for receiving his PhD last night. He is pictured here, in classic Bryan style, with a laugh as wide as he is tall. Congrats, Bryan!
Graduation, Fall 2025 post (1 of 3): Congratulations to Ashley Mathis for not only receiving her master's degree this fall, but doing so with a perfect 4.0 GPA. She is pictured here at her Honor's cord ceremony. Well done, Ashley! Now get to work on that PhD.
Our upcoming (NSF-funded) OPAM workshop will feature Dr Johnny van Doorn (of University of Amsterdam) presenting on the theory and practice of Bayesian statistics (using JASP software). Please register and join us for the workshop (on January 26th), here: www.opamconference.com/online-works...
We have a new publication out in Behavior Research Methods; a large database of threatening images (and similar but nonthreatening ones) rated for similarity. It should be of use to visual attention/memory researchers, those studying fear/phobias, and more. Find it here: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
We are hiring for the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs position in the College of HEST. Please consider applying and/or sharing this post. Reach out if you have questions about working in the Dean's office as well!
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The next installment of our NSF-funded OPAM workshop series will feature Dr Jason Tsukahara (of the University of Miami) presenting his workshop on researching individual differences (on December 9th). Visit the website (opamconference.com) to register for the free Zoom session.
UMass Lowell Psychology is currently hiring. Check out the job ad, and consider joining Megan Papesh in her home department.
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I'm proud to announce that I'm taking over as Interim Director of the NMSU STEM+ Education Research Institute. My role here will be to support SERI’s mission to advance evidence-based STEM education, expand interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthen STEM learning pathways across New Mexico.
Academic friends... the NMSU Graduate School is currently looking for an Associate Dean to join their team. Please consider applying and sharing within your professional networks.
careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assc-de...
We also have a pair of presentations at the upcoming @opam.bsky.social conference. Dr Eben Daggett will be giving a talk on dynamics in the attentional blink. And Mayte Alonso Carrillo (with Dr Giovanna Del Sordo and Dr Megan Papesh) will be giving a poster on pupillometry and sustained attention.
We've got some presentations coming up at Psychonomics. Dr Giovanna Del Sordo will be giving a talk (on using pupillometry to explore active/passive sustained attention) and Dr Eben Daggett will be presenting a poster (on how AI can be trained on human similarity data). Come on by!
I’m very happy and proud to announce that Eben Daggett has successfully completed his PhD. His dissertation (involving a ton of behavioral data collection and modeling) was on similarity perception and representationally-aligned artificial intelligence. Congratulations, Dr. Daggett!
