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Dr James Dunn

@jamesdunn.bsky.social
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Cognitive Scientist👨‍🔬 studying #facerecognition at UNSW. Are you a #SuperRecognizer? Find out at unswfacetest.com

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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We're looking for a Postdoc to join the Face Lab at UNSW Psychology! Ideal: someone with strong ML/deep learning expertise and an interest in how people perceive AI-generated faces. 📍 Sydney | Full-time, 18 months 📅 Apply by 3 Sept 2026 🔗 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...
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Research Associate - UNSW Face Research Lab
he Research Associate works within the UNSW Face Research lab located in the School of Psychology at UNSW and is responsible for taking a leading role in a collaborative ARC Discovery Project aiming t...
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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My new research found when trying to distinguish real faces from AI-generated ones, people with average face-recognition ability performed at chance, and while super-recognisers performed better than other participants, it was only by a slim margin. Read more 🔗 www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/02/2026
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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Dr Poppy Watson @popwatson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
substack.com/@gavanmcnall... scathing piece on the state of research funding in Australia
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Australia is sleepwalking into scientific irrelevance   Australia is living through a dangerous contradiction: we publicly praise science while systematically dismantling the conditions required for...
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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🧠👀 Dr Rachel Bennetts, our expert in face processing at Brunel psychology, shared her thoughts in @theguardian.com on a fascinating new study exploring what makes some people exceptional at recognising faces 😶‍🌫️ 🔗 👇
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AI study gives insights into why super-recognisers excel at identifying faces
Research uses eye-tracking data to examine some people’s extraordinary recognition ability
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 07/11/2025
Super-recognizers sample visual information of superior computational value for facial recognition royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #ProcB #Cognition #FaceRecognition
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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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...
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Super-recognizers sample visual information of superior computational value for facial recognition | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Super-recognizers—individuals with exceptionally high face recognition abilities—are a key exemplar of biological visual expertise. Recent eye-tracking evidence suggests that their expertise may be dr...
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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Our team just secured an ARC Discovery Project funding for "The Psychology of Perceiving Artificial People", where we ask how human cognition adapts to spotting AI-generated people? Glad to be a part of this all-star team led by Amy Dawel. Stay tuned for Postdoc opportunities! #ARCDiscovery
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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
A very nice write-up by UNSW of our recent joint meeting of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology and the Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, which we hosted at UNSW www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/07...
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International psychology researchers converge on UNSW
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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Proud to have been part of the small but mighty team behind this year’s EPC/APCV with @sbmost.bsky.social, Branka Spehar & @popwatson.bsky.social. Pulling off a 400+ person event with just a few academics wasn’t easy, but we managed to do it while keeping that classic EPC warmth and supportiveness.
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Great talk by @bethanygrowns.bsky.social looking at overlap between face super-recognizers and object super-matchers #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Amy Dawel kicking off the #epc2025 Face Perception session off with great work looking at how difficult it is to identify AI-generated faces, especially across different races @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Great talk by @dongwonoh.bsky.social demonstrating improved detection of AI faces using different visual attention strategies #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Kateryna Marchenko showing perceptions of face pareidolia follows the classic three dot pattern in noise images #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Fantastic talk by David White showing that super-recognizers don't pay extra attention to all social cues (e.g. bodies), just to faces #ecp2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
And that's a wrap!! #epc2025 is in the books, with a lovely closing speech from @visnerd.bsky.social. SO many thanks to the organising committee for building such a successful conference 🙌 We'll see you next year in Auckland 🇳🇿
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This year's David Badcock EMC lecture, given by Rachel Searston, talking about conducting research that has both theoretical impact and practical applications #epc2025
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Great talk by Julia Haile showing that indirect eye gaze impacts the believability of expressions in both static and dynamic expressions #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
David White kicking us off at the EPC Face and Person Perception preconference 🎉
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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A terrific opening day to our conference! Welcome, everyone!
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Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Hey ECRs at @expsyanz.bsky.social this week - if you're interested in object perception and/or neural decoding, come find me for a chat about an upcoming postdoc spot at the @marcsinstitute.bsky.social 👀
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
EPC President @sbmost.bsky.social officially opening the conference
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Fascinating talk by Ben Steward at #epc2025 looking at how emotional faces and bodies are weighted in judgements. @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Awesome talk at #epc2025 by @kyepalmer.bsky.social talking about how parents and children recognize each other's expressions. @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Super interesting talk by Imogen Holdsworth looking at whether AQ score influences children's emotion recognition! #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 18/06/2025
A great talk by Ishi Jamdagni at @expsyanz.bsky.social - the main takeaway: participants' rate the cold-pressor task as less stressful than everyday stressors; ethics board might need to reconsider their assumptions around pain and stress!
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Great #epc2025 talk by Toby Prike showing how misinformation is transmitted across people @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Dr Poppy Watson @popwatson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Full room for symposium 'Reasoning from the opinion of others' @scondes.bsky.social @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Dan Carragher talking about how humans are the weak link in human/algorithm teaming when identifying faces 🙃 #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
@alicetowler.bsky.social showing double-digit improvement in face recognition using a short training based on expert information #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Nicole Nelson @nicolenelson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Great talk by @jamesdunn.bsky.social looking at how police officer's visual attention is related to memory in stressful situations #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
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Dr Poppy Watson @popwatson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference/Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision kicks off tomorrow! We're all very excited. See the programme it looks fantastic drive.google.com/file/d/1d0KE... website: conference.unsw.edu.au/en/epc-apcv-... follow us here: @expsyanz.bsky.social
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EPC & APCV Joint Meeting 2025 | UNSW Conferences
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We're looking forward to seeing you this week at the joint meeting of the 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 and the 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢-𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯! Don't forget to tag us on your conference-related Bluesky posts, so we can help you share with our wonderful community! 😀
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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🚨 UNSW Face Lab is hiring 3-year post-doc 🚨 Please repost and contact David White for informal enquiries external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
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Jess Taubert @jesstaubert.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Our latest study in JEPHPP explores how we detect #facepareidolia under different task demands. Results like these keep providing clues that we are equipped to build multiple representations in parallel to flexibly support a diverse range of behavioural goals. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Excited to share that my research at UNSW Science is featured in a recent article by The Australian Financial Review highlighting innovative projects supported by the Australian Research Council and how more funding should be directed to early career researchers (which I agree wholeheartedly)
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Australia should punt on bold, unproven ideas: Shergold
The Australian Research Council chairman says this country needs to get behind young researchers whose work takes greater risks but offers larger rewards.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A report on this👆 was written by Julie Hare today in the AFR👇
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Australia should punt on bold, unproven ideas: Shergold
The Australian Research Council chairman says this country needs to get behind young researchers whose work takes greater risks but offers larger rewards.
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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hello, Psychonomics! Come share your work in Australia. I'm co-organizing the 2025 meeting of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psych, which will be joint with the Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. A week later, Human Brain Mapping is in Brisbane. There's never been a better time! #psynom24
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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🚀 New Research! 🚀 🔍 Title: Flexible Use of Facial Features Supports Face Identity Processing Our study reveals that the key to accurate face recognition lies in the flexibility of using different facial features. #Research #FaceRecognition #Psychology #Forensics #Security #AcademicResearch
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What makes some people better at recognising faces?
Recognising faces is crucial to social interactions, and also in applied settings such as criminal investigations. Research has shown that there are widespread differences in people’s ability to recog...
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2025, to be held at UNSW in Sydney, from June 17-20. Abstract and symposium submissions are open! epc.psy.unsw.edu.au/index.html
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