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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her)

@hayleycullen.bsky.social
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Lecturer at Macquarie University (Wallumattagal Campus), Sydney, AUS | Research interests in witness attention and memory 🧠 jury decisions 👩🏻‍⚖️ and wrongful convictions ⚖️ | Lover of 🧀🐶🪴🫖🛫🏊🏼‍♀️ | All views are my own

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A/Prof Carly Johnco @carlyjohnco.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Why are #older adults less prone to PTSD than younger adults? In our study, they felt just as distressed during a trauma film and had the same # intrusions — yet reported fewer #PTSD symptoms. The difference? Less #rumination. How we process events after they happen may matter most. bit.ly/4ka1XYi
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I had a dream last night about my DECRA outcome. I think this is a clear sign for me to stop compulsively checking RMS and the ARC's LinkedIn page every 10 minutes... #DE26 #ARC And to be clear, the outcome in my dream was not good 😂 Fingers crossed the real life outcome is better!
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A petition to stop the job cuts at the CSIRO, for anyone interested in signing: actionnetwork.org/petitions/cs...
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CSIRO needs urgent support
CSIRO is under attack. Sign the petition calling on the Albanese Government to act now to secure the future of CSIRO’s world-leading science and research.
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Really proud of all three of you for giving such excellent talks! 😊
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School of Psychological Sciences @ MQ @mqpsy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
WORK WITH US! 📣 Our School has 3 academic full-time Lecturer (Level B) positions currently open. Two positions are Teaching & Leadership, and one is a Teaching & Research role. Applications close 23rd Sept 2025 (AEST). Further information for each of the positions is available at the links below.
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Super proud of my students - Dora and Alicia - on their grant success! I remember receiving this grant as a student. It led to an awesome string of projects and a publication with the most wonderful collaborators (who I now also get to call dear friends) 😊
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Psychology, Public Policy, and Law @pppl-journal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: PPPL 2026 Editorial Board Deadline: October 1, 2025 Find editorial board position descriptions, required qualifications, & how to apply here: osf.io/fcmvj We're also seeking 2 early career editorial fellows, find more info here: osf.io/9ebrm #psychlaw #lawpsych
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Please sign this petition to stop the execution of an innocent man, Robert Roberson.
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This effort has been spearheaded by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social. If you're a native speaker or already fluent in English, you might not consider your English proficiency a privilege, but it actually is. Being non-fluent in English comes w/ many disadvantages, as shown👇 (tinyurl.com/yc4nm8he). (2/10)
Fig 5 from the PLOS Biology paper Amano et al. (2023)

Figure title: Estimated disadvantages for non-native English speakers when conducting different scientific activities.

Figure description provided in the Amano et al. paper: The height of hurdles indicates the relative length of time taken to read an English-language paper (Reading), to write a paper in English (Writing), and to prepare an oral presentation in English (Presentation), and the relative frequency of an English-language paper being rejected (Paper rejection) or requested to revise (Paper revision) due to English writing, for non-native English speakers (Non-native), compared to native English speakers (Native). The values are for non-native English speakers who have published only one English-language paper (higher value from moderate and low English proficiency nationalities), compared to the values for native English speakers. This figure is not intended to suggest that science is a race.
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I’ve never presented in a fancier room than this! It was great fun talking about a review we have been tirelessly working on as to how eyewitness researchers report on their coding schemes. Preliminary data suggests inconsistency and sometimes a lack of transparency. Paper and recommendations coming
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Many thanks to Corey Wolven from the New South Wales Police Force for inviting me to a screening of “Prima Facie”, a play written by Suzie Miller showing the harrowing journey of a sexual assault victim survivor as they navigate the legal process.
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Investigative Interviewing Research & Practice @iiirg-iirp.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The deadline for the special bilingual issue is fast approaching (31st May 2025)!! Submit your manuscript here: iiirg.org/ii-rp-journa...
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II-RP JOURNAL SUBMISSION - IIIRG - International Investigative Interviewing Research Group
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simine vazire @simine.com · 23/05/2025
Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Call for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT Network
Are you passionate about ensuring the reproducibility of scientific research? The journal Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibilit...
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Tess Neal @tessneal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If interested in the intersection btwn #psychology & #law, there are starter packs with people working in the area. This pack has grown over time, so if you saw it last year it's fuller now (e.g., now has Am Psych-Law Soc'y bsky.app/profile/ap-l...! (lmk if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/KS4zG4s
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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...
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Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness
As a group, inattentionally blind participants can successfully report the location, color, and shape of stimuli they deny noticing, and exhibit a systematic bias to report not noticing.
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
📢🚨My newest publication - and final publication from my PhD - came out today! With my PhD supervisors @celinevangolde.bsky.social and Helen Paterson, I conducted two mock juror studies to see if demonstrating IB and expert evidence can improve perceptions of witness inattentional blindness 🧵 /5
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Our Psychology and Crime research lab - MacqPAC - is now on BlueSky. Please follow us for updates on our work 😊 @macqpac.bsky.social
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
One of my favourite things that happened this week is that one of my students, who spent 3 weeks over Easter at a dig at Vindolanda Roman Fort in Northumberland, sent me an email FULL of photos of all their small finds. So nice to be able to connect with students and see them living their best life
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Charlotte Buecken @cbucken.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🗓️ May 22nd, 3pm CEST! Ready for another edition of hashtag#ZPLS? This one is all about "Misinformation: Forms, Scope, & Prevention" 🧠 We are very excited to share the program and registration link below! As always, ZPLS7 is completely free ✨ (1/2)
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
🚨📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! Very excited to announce our new publication, led by Dr Natali Dilevski, out in Scientific Reports! @celinevangolde.bsky.social @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com We compared eyewitness suggestibility for single vs. repeated events. 🧵 1/3
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Dr Gemma Hamilton @drgemmahamilton.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📢 New OPEN ACCESS Publication 📢 Victim-Survivors’ Perceptions of a Cognitive Interview Protocol for Sexual Offence Investigations A massive thank you to the victim-survivor participants who generously volunteered their time and vital insights to this research 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Our School of Psychological Sciences has now made the move to BlueSky! Give us a follow 😍 @mqpsy.bsky.social
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Proud to say that I could listen back to my first ever live radio appearance and not cringe too much! If you'd like to listen in to the segment on 2SER about eyewitness memory, you can listen here: 2ser.com/eyewitness-m...
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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 10/02/2025
The most definitive paper yet on false confessions has just been published. It's written by some of the world's leading experts on the phenomenon, including Dr. Saul Kassin. Highly recommend for anyone who wants to deep dive on this issue. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Ian Loader @ianloader.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
@oxfordcrim.bsky.social is hiring. We are looking for a 3-year Departmental Lecturer in Criminology (to replace me while on leave). Friendly colleagues, wonderful students, supportive environment. Open to all areas of the field. Closing date midday Monday 10th March www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...
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Departmental Lecturer in Criminology | Faculty of
Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law Grade 7: £38-674 - £46,913 per annum The Centre for
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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If you know an early career researcher (<10yrs PhD) who has made outstanding contributions to applied memory or cognition, please consider nominating them for the SARMAC J. Don Read Early Career Award! Deadline for nominations: 31st March. See website for eligibility and process #cogsci
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J. Don Read Early Career Award Recipients — SARMAC
J. Don Read Early career award The J. Don Read Early Career Award was establishing in 2015 to recognize the outstanding contributions of emerging scholars, less than 10 years post-PhD, &nbsp;in the ...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📣 new paper out in #JARMAC! We found that witnesses who experienced inattentional blindness for a crime were only less accurate and confident when asked cued recall questions. When asked a free recall question, they were just as acc and conf as noticers. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Reuben Rideaux @reubenrideaux.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab at the University of Sydney for a project investigating how perception changes during walking (VR, psychophysics, EEG, AI). Full time, 3 years fixed-term position; full details here: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... Please repost 🥹
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Active Perception
Full time, 3 years fixed term position. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to work on cutting-edge research involving neuroimaging, virtual reality, and AI, at on...
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I finished reading the Dictionary of Lost Words yesterday, as recommended by my Uncle. I LOVED it. I cried, I squealed, and I learned a whole lot about the male-focused beginnings of the Oxford English Dictionary. Would recommend!
Picture of the book “The Dictionary of Lost Words” by Pip Williams. Blue cover, with red flowers and a brown suitcase.
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
So nice to wake up to the news that our abstract was accepted for SARMAC 2025. Ireland, here we come! @officialsarmac.bsky.social We will be presenting on our systematic review of eyewitness memory coding schemes (a LONG time in the making!). Coauthors: Eva Rubinova & @sarahawalker.bsky.social
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Taya D. Henry, PhD @tayadhenry.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#Participants invited for #research (18+ Canadian citizens/residents). The 10-minute study involves sharing opinions on Canada’s legal system, reading a news article and answering questions. Interested? Please click the #survey link/scan the QR code uoitsocialscience.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
CFP: UNDERSTANDING MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE - One Day Conference 28 May @qmul.ac.uk. How and why do miscarriages of justice happen and what do we understand and learn (or not) from them? We welcome submissions on any relevant topics, such as #PostOffice #CCRC, #SJP docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Sophie Milward @sophiemilward.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
You can now apply for our 3 year postdoc looking at the role of culture and group size in social coordination and collaboration in the UK, Uganda and Republic of Korea! Any questions please don’t hesitate to drop me a dm or email (sophie.milward@port.ac.uk) mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web...
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Sarah A. Walker @sarahawalker.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We're hiring! Do you research mental health, wellbeing and resilience or Digital literacy? Do you want to work with an excellent team at an excellent University in a beautiful part of the UK? If so, then we'd love to hear from you. Details below, closes 28 Feb! durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Education (EDU_01)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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simine vazire @simine.com · 12/01/2025
Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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APS Editorial Fellowship Program: Call for Applications
Deadline: February 7, 2025APS is pleased to announce the application process for the next cohort of the Editorial Fellowship Program (EFP) is now open. This program aims to increase opportunities for ...
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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Some acknowledgement creeping in that #wrongfulconvictions happen EVERYWHERE. First exoneration of a prisoner in South Korea: www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2...
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How Kim Shin-hye was exonerated after spending 24 years in prison
When Kim Shin-hye was put behind bars after being found guilty of killing her father in 2000, she was only 23 years old. After spending 24 years in prison, she was declared innocent in a court ruling.
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 06/01/2025
Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...
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quokka – an in-browser qualitative analysis app
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Kate Fitz-Gibbon @katefitzgibbon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Yet again we see the fatal consequences of the national crisis of men’s violence against women 💔 2024 has been a devastating year for women’s safety in Australia. What will be done to address this in 2025? At a minimum - funding commensurate with the crisis is urgently needed.
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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 23/12/2024
Biden just commuted the sentences of 37 death row inmates to life without parole. This is a great day for justice, compassion, and pragmatism! Time to re-up my 12 reasons why the death penalty must be abolished. /thread
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I set up a new research lab this year (Forensic Psych Lab), and I’m developing some awards for my awesome lab members (mostly undergrads). So far I’ve got awards for: achievement, enthusiasm, volunteering, and best thesis. Are there any other awards others can think of that would be good to include?
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Guadalupe Blanco-Velasco @gblancovelasco.com · 10/12/2024
This starter pack on Wrongful Conviction and Postconviction researchers, practitioners, and activists is getting bigger!! 😁. Do not hesitate to suggest more people :) go.bsky.app/JPvJSDH
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Kelly Kirkland @kellykirkland.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Australian universities are facing some tough times—poor funding rates, job cuts, and declining student enrolments. I discussed with @drjr.bsky.social how early-career researchers are being deeply hurt by these challenges in this @natureportfolio.bsky.social piece: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Falling enrolments and funding cuts force Australian universities to take stock
The Australian Universities Accord offers a roadmap for reform, but there are major challenges ahead.
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A scientist new to Bluesky? @steveharoz.com and @markrubin.bsky.social have put together some great resources to get you started!
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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 05/12/2024
Me trying to keep up with the literature
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
An important thread about false confessions and their risk factors
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Dr Hayley Cullen (she/her) @hayleycullen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Very proud of my first PhD student, Dr Ditte Barnoth, on the first publication from her PhD! ❓Ditte looked at whether witnesses seeking out another co-witness (volition), and memory distrust predicted susceptibility to misinformation. 🔗 Check out the paper here: www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
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The effect of volition and memory distrust on eyewitness suggestiblity | Emerald Insight
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