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Dr Jud Lowes

@judlowes.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling. Main research interests:developmental prosopagnosia, faces, neurodevelopmental conditions . She/her. Also occasional spam about outdoor swimming in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏊‍♀️

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 25/08/2026
⏰ REMINDER: Join us on Aug 27 for an overview webinar and Q&A about changes to OSF Projects Learn why the changes are happening, key dates, what will & won't change, & how to prep, followed by Q&A Submit questions in advance: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Changes to OSF Projects: Overview and Q&A. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join the Center for Open Science (COS) for an overview of upcoming changes to OSF Projects. We will explain why these changes are happening, review the key dates and what they mean for users, clarify...
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Heida Maria Sigurdardottir @heidasigurdar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Please talk to me or @arnig.bsky.social at #ecvp2026 if you know of an interested potential Ph.D. student -- or are that interested student ;) #ECVP #visionscience #neuroskyence #psychscisky #psychology #imagery #visualimagery #phd #cogsci
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
At a time when it’s harder than ever to find reviewers, sending me a request on Friday afternoon then a chasing email on *Sunday* morning is a sure fire way to get an instant decline. Just stop 🛑
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RA position 40% FTE for 15 months in our department (Stirling, Scotland). Could be great step prior to a PhD for the right student. www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...
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Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling
Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Same with job applications. Rich kids with social capital always got help, now AI is eroding that privilege and employers are having a fit that applications are not wholly written by applicants. They never were, that’s the point.
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Editors, if your journal took this approach I'd be much more likely to accept your review requests over others.
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Deranged orange scumbag
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Photo of a misty sunrise over Loch EarnSame shot as 1 but the sun has broken through the clouds Reflections of fluffy clouds over Loch Earn early morning
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ithinkwellhugh.bsky.social @ithinkwellhugh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Starting a PhD? You probably feel you know nothing. That's OK. Everyone else feels the same. Ask lots of questions. #PhDchat #PHDForum
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Brent Pitchford @bpitchford.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.
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Distinct neural processing underlying visual face and object perception in dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia is a disorder marked by difficulties in reading, spelling, and connecting sounds to written language. The high-level visual dys…
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Dr. Heather M Brown @thriving-w-autism.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🌟 Calling Autistic Researchers! 🌟 We’re building a searchable database of Autistic researchers to celebrate Autistic excellence + connect researchers, students, allies & community. ✅ Learn more and join our database here: www.aidanlab.ca/autistic-res... Join us and be part of something bigger! 💙
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I loved reading Allan Ahlberg book to our babies, especially Peepo. A genius. bookshttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/31/allan-ahlberg-beloved-childrens-author-dies-aged-87?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87
Working first with his wife Jane, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books
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Women in Cognitive Science Canada + Trainee @wicsc-trainee.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Join us on August 22nd in collaboration with CSBBCS and SPARK Society for a free online webinar on finding postdoc opportunities! Visit the following link to register for the event: shorturl.at/BVPtC We hope to see you there!! Please note that the meeting will be held exclusively in English.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Jackie @brandane.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Glasgow making Newcastle United fans welcome today by crowning the Duke of Wellington with a black and white cone (it usually wears an orange and white cone). Seagull is taking a rest on his horse Copenhagen’s head 😂
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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Oh my gosh, this illustration. Yes. This is my life. The second any of these people changes their hair, I'm toast.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit. www.ft.com/content/7f0f...
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Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up
Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025
By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
This is disgusting. If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
Photo of Senator Alex Padilla, being handcuffed on the ground after approaching Sec. Kristi Noem.
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Jianghao Liu @jianghaoliu.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
📢"Aphantasia as a functional disconnection"! in TICS A disconnection between the Fusiform Imagery Node (FIN) & the left PFC may explain retained memory for objects, despite lacking subjective imagery in aphantasics. left PFC, awareness, attention network...🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCs3_V1r-...
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Genevieve Williams - Shakespeare Adjacent out now @rimrunner.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin'
The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.
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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
New attractiveness research reveals surprising preference for femininity in men’s faces
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New attractiveness research reveals surprising preference for femininity in men’s faces
A new study finds that people across cultures and sexual orientations generally prefer feminine facial features—even in men. The findings challenge long-held assumptions about the appeal of masculine male faces and highlight how identity shapes perceptions of attractiveness.
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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
For anyone in the memory field, an incredible summary and tribute to Endel Tulving from Gus Craik. Read it for the writing alone. royalsocietypublishing.org/action/oidcS...
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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Random self-promotion, but my hands-on #VisionScience textbook is available for <$50 at the moment! If you're excited about using analog demos of visual phenomena in your classroom, it's a great time to snag a copy! #STEMed
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Practical Vision Science
Amazon.com: Practical Vision Science: 9781032691121: Balas, Benjamin: Books
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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Please distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Seeking online daters to take part in online research being run by our brilliant PhD student @jessicadelamare.bsky.social #dating #datingapp
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#AskingAustistics One of my MSc dissertation students Em is recruiting participants for their study about the importance of spirituality for the wellbeing of autistic individuals. Please consider taking part if you are eligible, thank you! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/s...
Poster advertising for autistic adults  aged over 18 to take part in an online questionnaire-based study looking at the importance of spirituality for autistic individuals. It should take 30-60 minutes. To take part you must identify as autistic, be able to speak and write English, and identify as spiritual. Participants can enter a draw to win one of two £25 gift vouchers
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
A group of researchers standing outside a building. At first glance they look like different people because they have distinctive hairstyles and are wearing different clothes. But their faces are in fact identical and were generated by averaging many faces. This image illustrates how some people with face blindness (prosopagnosia) find it very difficult to tell faces apart despite seeing them clearly.
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Even mild face blindness (#Prosopagnosia) can cause serious difficulties in daily life – new study #PsychSciSky theconversation.com/even-mild-fa... (see reply for Alt text)
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Even mild face blindness can cause serious difficulties in daily life – new study
Strategies to recognise people require ‘huge mental effort’ and often don’t work.
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Dr Becky Wood @thewoodbug.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
➡️ Monday 28th April, 4 - 5pm ➡️ In-person & online ➡️ Moray House, Edinburgh ➡️ I will be talking about creating neurodiversity-inclusive environments in schools ➡️ For students AND staff ➡️ With a focus on autism ➡️ It's free & anyone can attend Register here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-n...
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This looks really interesting. I remember Sarah Weigelt had a poster at ECVP in Nejmegen about a human case with similar low level deficits but intact higher level abilities (faces)!
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Antônio Mello @avmello.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Excited to share our new book chapter (in press)! "What do we know about people with developmental prosopagnosia?" with Brad Duchaine, in the forthcoming book: From 'Super Recognisers' to the 'Face Blind' (Ed. K. Lander, Oxford University Press). osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very pleased that the Special Issue of Visual Cognition on Teaching Sensation & Perception that @ankosov.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social and myself edited is now published in full! If you're looking for some exciting ideas about teaching #VisionScience, start here!
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Visual Cognition
Teaching Sensation and Perception, Edited by Anna Kosovicheva, Julia Strand and Ben Balas. Volume 32, Issue 6 of Visual Cognition
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hey @vssmtg.bsky.social, do you no longer support diversity and inclusion? Looks like your policies were quietly removed from your website? #VSS2025 #VSS
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Katie Gray @drkatiegray.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!
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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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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Paging @vssmtg.bsky.social
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is an exceptional piece of writing by an anonymous barrister recently diagnosed with ADHD. www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/adh...
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ADHD Barrister
Marking Neurodiversity Week 2025, an anonymous barrister shares the revelations and emotions from a mid-career diagnosis with a view to encouraging others to find out more
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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 03/03/2025
Current round open until 7 April 2025. The DKO Fellowships are prestigious awards of 5 years' funding for early career researchers looking to make the transition to independence. Please apply and / or circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowships (2025):Manchester
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Cathy Manning @cmanning.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Post-doc position available from Sept 2025 for 18 months on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project into children's perceptual decision-making using diffusion models. Closes 10th March. Pls share! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
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Thora Bjornsdottir @thorabjorns.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New writeup of this work on Kudos with a little infographic summary of some of our findings: link.growkudos.com/1f345o9vthc
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
PhD and job opportunities for vision scientists
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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Useful list of resources for neurodivergent students
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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
#neurojobs #neuroimaging #neuroskyence 🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠 Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich? Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
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