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Nika Adamian

@nikaadamian.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Psychology @LJMU in Liverpool | I study vision and attention | She/her

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Me: I need to keep this computational environment stable for reproducibility purposes, so I'm just going to switch off automatic system updates for now IT Services:
The fuck you are
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Look, you've got two brains. One of them totally is a lizard brain. The other is, like, a panda brain. Also right and left are totally different but those aren't the two brains. And we only use 10% of all of them. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Do humans really have a ‘lizard brain’ lurking beneath our rational minds?
It’s a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, but the biological reality is quite different
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How much of a risk are LLM-generated bots for online behavioral experiments? We present results of an entirely natural language prompt-generated agent, capable of absolving any of the 26 experiments we tested it on. Most tasks are passed with data that can pass as human osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/)
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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you can spare ~20 min on an online study on perception & #mentalimagery please consider participating: #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence tstbl.co/131-782
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Ann Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sometimes real work gets stopped for wars. Then you brush yourself off and carry on. #lovenotwars ❤️
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Zurich Cognition Lab @cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Open Postdoc (80%) in our Lab @uzh-ch.bsky.social (PI: Klaus Oberauer) Topics are: Working memory, long-term memory, attention; experiments, individual differences, computational modeling. Start Dec 2026 to Feb 2027, until June 2030. Apply by Oct 15; Questions to: k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have come across cases (including in my own department) where demographic inclusion in studies is addressed by allowing everyone to participate, then removing their data to get a 'clean' sample. I find this bizarre and unethical, but some argue it's justified. Thoughts? #PsychSky
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Had a blast teaching intro to research methods to our MSc students today, including one of my favourite quotes:
Forsyth's Lexigraph Interpreter had enabled 20 new computer users to run cognitive experiments using auditory and visual displays and to get their experiments working in a few weeks without acute trauma or chronic computeritis.
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Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I made an interactive demo with different visual illusions to replace the old videos we used before. Feel free to play with it here illusions.andreychetverikov.org and to use it yourself (the code is on my Github; if I missed to include somebody in the credits - please let me know).
illusions.andreychetverikov.org
Visual Illusions Lab
Eleven live, adjustable visual-illusion demonstrations for outreach events.
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mine are 'outtakes' (because academic papers should come with blooper reels)
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maria ruz @mruz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are hiring a postdoc and a predoc to do research (EEG, fMRI, MVPA, RSA) on expectation and attention at the wpd.ugr.es/~humneuro/ in beautiful Granada @cimcyc.bsky.social ! People with interest + relevant experience please reach us at mruz@ugr.es #NeuroJobs #AcademicJobs #CogNeuro #GranadaSpain
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Human Neuroscience Lab – University of Granada
Our lab is located at the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center. Here we have access to several behavioral testing rooms, a 3T Siemens Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility with compatible EEG and EyeLink Eyetracker, high-density EEG recording devices, and a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation device with a robotic assistant and neuronavigator.​
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Academic spam is getting less and less funny. I strongly preferred 'Greetings, Very Distinguished Professor' to 'you've been processed by AI aren't we awesome'
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're hiring! 2 postdocs + 3 PhD students to join InfantNeuroAI at Trinity College Dublin: awake infant fMRI & OPM-MEG, plus computational models of how infants learn. Aims: understand infant visual cognition, infant neuroimaging methods, more energy-efficient learning 🧵 www.cusacklab.org/vacancies
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can someone please explain why the phrase 'sensory perception' is used so much (usually by researchers from other fields)? What other perception is there? Is there a history behind this term I'm unaware of?
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:
cognition.maxplanckschools.org
Application
Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Come join my team at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social! I have an open PhD position (3 years fully funded) for a project investigating interoception and mental health, using lots of fun methods (EEG, EGG, tACs, TMS). More info and applications here: ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor... #NeuroJobs
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Doctoral Researcher, RCF project
Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit a Doctoral Researcher to work in the RCF project starting 1 November 2026, or as soon as possible after that for three years. The fixed-term position is ...
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Look how happy I am talking about attention in people who are tired, bored, or otherwise miserable (thanks @ovchinir.bsky.social for the pic) #ECVP2026
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
After a bit of an adventure with the poster printer I’m now fully ready for #ECVP2026 — you can find me by the beach (and I’ll even bring my poster!) 🐳 🍹🏖️👁️🧠
A0 printer printing the top part of the pink colored conference poster titled “sustained and selective attention in multiple object tracking”
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Relatable thought from a fictional science monk
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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We’re recruiting postdocs! Join our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded programme 'Decoding competition in the brain'. How does the brain resolve competing needs and prioritise behaviour? 📅 Deadline: 1 September Apply: rezavallab.org Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSM781/r...
jobs.ac.uk
Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
Recruiting now: Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Perception / i-Perception @pec-ipe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🌊 👀 Can two simple patterns create something that really isn't there? This new paper introduces Dynamic Illusory Waves (DIWAs)—a striking illusion where relative motion gives rise to flowing, transparent phantom surfaces. Make your own: maltacogsci.org/diwa/ Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2041...
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
guess who spent 1.5 hours furiously debugging trigger readout issue that was entirely due to the script reading WRONG FILES FROM THE WRONG FOLDER
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Rick and Morty: Morty's Wild Ride
ALT: Rick and Morty: Morty's Wild Ride
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Darya Frank @darya-frank.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🧠 New opportunity for a combined PhD+Graduate Teaching Assistant position, see especially @tomdonoghue.bsky.social's and mine project on spectral parameterization models across cognitive contexts: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
jobs.manchester.ac.uk
Graduate Teaching Assistant:Oxford Road
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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Should UKRI use 'AI' to triage and assess your #research #grant applications? Tell them here 👇
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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 21/07/2026
👁️🧠🧪 Vision takes time. But how does visual information flow through the human brain? Our new PLOS Computational Biology paper uses population receptive field (pRF) modelling to bring the spatial precision of fMRI to MEG, revealing the temporal dynamics of visual areas. 📖 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex
Author summary Vision doesn’t happen instantaneously, but unfolds over time. While we understand a lot about how the brain processes visual space, understanding how the brain processes information ove...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16/07/2026
calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!
I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Atsuko Suwa (諏訪温子), contemporary Japanese painter specializing in Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) #Womensart
Painting featuring the upper half of a ginger and white cat sniffing a white and pink flower against a green background
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We're proud to introduce Brainbow, a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Brainbow aims to provide a safe space, even for those in the closet (emails & names are optional). It also includes channels for communities within the LGBTQIA+ umbrella (eg, trans/non-binary) 1/2
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Join Brainbow on Slack
Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email.
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Someone has 3D printed a brain model - complete with activation lights! You can actually upload fMRI data and visualize the activations in real time right there on your desk! youtu.be/yNct2cJM9BQ?... #fmri #neuroscience
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I made a BRAIN (with real data)
YouTube video by Michael Migacev
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Michael Hout @michaelhout.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We’re looking for an additional Associate Editor at AP&P, particularly in the field of auditory perception/attention. If you’re interested, please check out this flyer and please share this post so that this may find its way to others!
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Very lucky to have the opportunity to think about the big picture from time to time
photo of a lecture theater from the audience point of view with a title slide announcing the talk 'Why is life the way it is?' by Prof Nick Lane
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Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) @nin-knaw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We're hiring a PhD Student! Under supervision of @sergedumoulin.net, you will investigate whether individual brain folding patterns reflect computational principles that optimize neural communication and brain organization. Learn more and apply on our website: nin.nl/vacancies/ph...
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PhD Student in Biologically Inspired Computational Visual Neuroscience - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - Master the Mind
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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Entirely related, because nobody does effective policy around tech. Nobody.
A Natalie Horburg black-and-white cartoon.

A passenger on the right speaks to the driver on the left:

"Remember, it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead, use
the giant iPad built into the car."
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
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Brad Postle @handle.invalid · 12/06/2026
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu
postlab.psych.wisc.edu
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Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News  Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Colourful predictive templates in early visual cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
On Aberdeen campus, Jan has always been an anchoring figure. We are all left with a Jan-shaped hole in our hearts.
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Devastating news for the community. He will be greatly missed.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/06/2026
"somewhere in Silicon Valley, a fruit fly is living its second life inside a computer, totally unaware that it is living in the insect Matrix." I cannot begin to tell you how utterly disgusted I am with the state of science reporting at the very few remaining venues with a veneer of respectability.
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A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?
Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci...
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I feel seen www.science.org/content/arti...
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This shrimplike creature makes aluminum armor to survive the deep sea's crushing pressure
Aluminum hydroxide gel also protects its exoskeleton from disintegrating
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Do I ever use cash? No. But did I vote for which animals should be on the new banknotes? Absolutely. You can too (🦔!) www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...
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Help us celebrate the UK’s wildlife
Tell us which animals you would like to see on our next series of banknotes by 3 July 2026
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Jonas Obleser @jonasobleser.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...
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Redmond O'Connell @redmondoconnell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New PhD studentship available! Come join the excellent @neuromurphy.bsky.social lab for a very cool project exploring how the brain learns to make decisions that are not tied to specific sensory modalities or movements. In collaboration with @seanfw.bsky.social and myself! bsky.app/profile/neur...
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Nika Adamian @nikaadamian.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
but did the seminar comply with SP&BP on the use of abbreviations? 🤔
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