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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I’m so sorry to hear this Guido, sending you love and strength. 🤍

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Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

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luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

At our launching event "Mind, Tech, and Wellbeing" for our new Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour at QMUL! Follow us on here @queenmarycbb.bsky.social to hear more about our research @qmul.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

On our way to #ECVP2025 for baby’s first conference! She’s pretty excited about it!

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Eye movements are cheap, right? Not necessarily! 💰 In our review just out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Alex Schütz and I discuss the different costs associated with making an eye movement, how these costs affect behaviour, and the challenges of measuring this… rdcu.be/eAm69 #visionscience #vision

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A review of the costs of eye movements

Nature Reviews Psychology - Eye movements are the most frequent movements that humans make. In this Review, Schütz and Stewart integrate evidence regarding the costs of eye movements and...

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I hate having to do OS updates because of Teams 😭😭

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Hello prospective postdocs interested in biological + artificial minds! The deadline for a postdoctoral position in my lab is on July 3rd! ---> up to 2 years (23 months... and there will be time to apply to a Marie Curie fellowship to extend, if you are eligible, or to other programmes) 🐣👾🤖

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Worrying to see increasing levels of measles in parts of UK and Europe- if you are not vaccinated please do consider the MMR which is a safe way to prevent a potentially deadly disease

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Measles warning to holidaymakers as cases rise across Europe

As the summer holiday season gets going, families are being warned of measles outbreaks in many popular European destinations, with vaccination rates in the UK still far below what experts advise.

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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

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ranimo.bsky.social @ranimo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Still time to apply (until 30/04)!! What are you waiting for?

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I have a question - I am happy to buy a license for the lab, but do I need to buy a license for each of my lab members for personal devices (that we use for debugging etc)? This adds up to a lot of computers once we have multiple devices each (home and office), plus transient students!

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I saw the extension just as I was sitting down on Sunday night to write my abstract 😆. Phew!

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ranimo.bsky.social @ranimo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning to study how mis/misinformation affects us. For full funding, one has to be eligible for UK home fees. Please Share!! @queenmarycbb.bsky.social Deadline: April 20. For more information: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Characterising Cognitive Biases Elicited by Misinformation Using Reinforcement Learning at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Characterising Cognitive Biases Elicited by Misinformation Using Reinforcement Learning at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

That psychometric function takes a certain type of skill…

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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rachaelbedford.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Advertising 2 new positions in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. A postdoc & an RA at Queen Mary University of London as part of our UKRI-funded Animating Minds Project. More details and how to apply here: Postdoc: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX749/p... RA: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I agree in theory, but it may disproportionately disadvantage “non-famous” researchers who aren’t invited to review in the first place. More famous or prestigious labs would bank more publishing credits easily, and smaller labs might struggle to get any…

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Very sad to hear about the passing of Eileen Kowler, a true giant in the field of eye movements & their interaction with vision & cognitive processes. She helped me as a grad student & it was always wonderful to talk to her. Her body of work is foundational to our field. Thank you, Eileen.

Photo of Eileen from her Rutgers-New Brunswick faculty page

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/12/2024

Our 7th most-read article of the year... "I have served as department chair for the past three years, an honor I was proud to take on, since it was my fault I didn’t find a hiding spot fast enough when we saw the dean coming."

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A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester

Our 7th most-read article of 2024. - - -Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. ...

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I feel like the uni was optimistic putting out giant deck chairs in London in December….🤔

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Dr Emily Colton @ecoltonpsych.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Is perceptual novelty important in your research? We created, standardised, and validated a database of truly novel perceptual stimuli (matched to BOSS objects on size, contrast, luminance & colourfulness) so you don't have to! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cogpsy #psychology #EEG #neuroskyence

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Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Using a simple optical flow model, we can use geometrical regularities in objects to predict qualitatively distinct viewpoints. This works for familiar, symmetrical, novel, & asymmetrical objects! We can even predict where people will perceive the front to be on novel, meaningless objects!!

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

How can we decide which viewpoints of an object are qualitatively special? How do we know where the front is, for objects we've never seen before? In our new paper we provide a quantiative account of why some object viewpoints are qualitatively special. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

A combination of VSS posts and rainy London is making me very angry at December-Emma’s decision not to go VSS this year 😭

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

In the middle of a marking vortex, I’m feeling this…

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

What are the best (most informative / best at determining who would be a good fit) questions to ask prospective PhD students in an interview? #visionscience

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

This sort of thing might be what we need- we’re going to be doing quite short sessions, so hopefully extra weight and data won’t be too much of a problem! If you have any guidance on how to go about doing this, I would appreciate it!! 🤩

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

Eyetracking people: Mobile eyetrackers all seem to have very low sampling rates on their "world camera" videos - does anyone know a way to connect a better camera to get a higher sampling rate. I have access to Tobii and IScan headsets. #visionscience

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

I got the ViewPixx/EEG - looking forward to some well controlled psychophysics experiments!

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

I have a funded PhD position open- Come and work with me in London on a project looking at inference and prediction in perception and oculomotor control. Please share! #visionscience www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/postgra...

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

When I took a job in the UK, I didn’t account for the govt hostility to foreigners. Rent a flat with my German husband co-listed = impossible until we pay 1000s for family visa. Rent alone & list his 🇩🇪 salary as income = impossible (non UK income). Renting alone = impossible (my salary too low). 🫠

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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

OK, I seriously think there's a solid #VisionScience study somewhere in this thread of uninterpretable cookie cutter shapes. www.buzzfeed.com/rossyoder/gu... #PsychSciSky

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13 Truly Mysterious Cookie Cutters That, Honest To God, I'm *Still* Trying To Identify

I'm legitimately stumped — and you will be, too.

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

I’m excited to share some big news- today is my first day as a Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Mary University London! Looking forward to starting my lab and doing awesome things here! 👀👀 (Also discovered that seeing a clear day through the window means that the drizzle is just invisible… ☔️).

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

That’s a huge difference in protein levels so I can imagine it would have a huge effect!

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I’ve started compensating and playing around with the flour amounts until the mix looks right, and that seems to solve the problem. 🤷‍♀️ I guess in Aus we have tough wheat…

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I’ve had problems with cakes not really ‘setting’ so they end up being both burned and raw at the same time- for recipes that are completely foolproof when I’ve done them in Aus! Also pretty sure it’s not just me because I’m (usually) a very good cook…😆

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

This has caused me endless frustration when I try to bake Australian recipes using German ingredients. Cakes that I’ve cooked dozens of times in Aus have turned into disasters over here 😭😭

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I feel like this needs to be printed on cards to give out to non-academic friends and family who assume that I spend most of my workdays doing nothing…😄

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

My best explanation of parallel lines

Two parallel lines going up and to the right. Top line says "The age I considered "old"". The bottom line says "My age".

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I prefer to call it “efficiency…” 😄

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I recently watched Deadloch and loved it (although from the description I was sceptical to begin with). It’s a perfect mix of Aussie humour and murder mystery (with a splash of social commentary). I think it fits grim/funny perfectly!

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

100%. It needs some business nonsense title like “International research strategist and education lead.”

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Emma E.M. Stewart @eemstewart.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

The other day I was complaining to lawyer/consultant friends about academic salaries. Their response: “oh well, you only teach a few hours a week so you can just get a second job too right?” 😐😐

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