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Free software for creating experiments for psychology, neuroscience, economics and more. psychopy.org Supported by opensciencetools.org and The University of Nottingham. Host your study online using Pavlovia.org.

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 23/09/2026
Next week we will host another free and casual session to help people get started with git 👩‍💻 The goal is to help you in getting started with contributing to #opensource projects. Come along and hopefully leave having made your first pull request! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...
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"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy
Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 20/08/2026
Early bird rate for our October Virtual workshop will end next week! We're hoping an Autumn event will be helpful for new PhD students looking to learn skills to get started. Please share 👇️ workshops.psychopy.org#official-psy...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 19/08/2026
🔧 Friendly reminder of Pavlovia maintenance this Sunday (23 August) The important bits 👇️ 🟢 Currently running projects will not be affected 💾 Data will continue to be stored safely 🔴 During the maintenance period, you won’t be able to log in to Pavlovia or sync projects to Pavlovia
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 01/07/2026
Join us for our next official PsychoPy and Pavlovia workshop! 📅 October 13th- 16th 🕐️ 4 half days to accomodate time zones. Learn how to use the tools with our team! workshops.psychopy.org#official-psy...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 22/06/2026
🎉 PsychoPy 2026.2.0 is now available for testing! We'd love your help testing it out. Please report any bugs or issues on the forum so we can squash them early and deliver smooth bug-fix releases ahead of teaching term and lab computer deployments. discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-2...
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PsychoPy 2026.2.0 release!
Hi Everyone! We’re excited to share that PsychoPy version 2026.2.0 is now available for testing!  🎉 Please do download it, give it a test, and report an issues you encounter on the forum here.…
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 19/06/2026
Have you visited psychopy.org and seen we have a PRICING tab 😱 AHHH Don't worry folks... PsychoPy is and always will be free 😉 We just have a bunch of ways you can get extra support and training for your department. psychopy.org/pricing.html
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 17/06/2026
Interested in getting started with #git and contributing to PsychoPy docs? Join us tomorrow for our free workshop. This "My first pull request" session is designed to walk you through the basics so that you can start contributing to #opensource projects! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...
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"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy
Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 15/06/2026
Over the past week, AI bots have been making huge demands on Pavlovia gitlab services. You may have noticed similar issues on sites all over the internet (and anincrease in the number of "Are you a bot?" checks) over the last few weeks. Details here 👇 discourse.psychopy.org/t/ongoing-ef...
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Ongoing effects of excessive AI crawlers, and our mitigations, on Pavlovia
Bots and crawlers have always played a part in the traffic to any website, but over May/Jun 2026 the activity of these bots, at least the irresponsible ones that just constantly poll all website…
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 11/06/2026
Thank you to @rondalo.bsky.social for introducing Pavlovia Surveys to @canadianpsychology.bsky.social at #CPA2026 ! Are you searching for a low-cost flexible online survey tool? Check out Rondas slides and materials here! 👇 osf.io/rs6mg/overview
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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Heard the kids do this? @psychopy.org can we hire someone who understands social media? Also come to our booth ✨ #APS2026BCN #APS2026
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 02/06/2026
Very interesting idea/thread/resources on using webcam eyetracking as an anti-bot mechanism in online research
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 04/05/2026
Will you be at BPS cognitive in Liverpool this August? Join a day early for our pre-conference workshop!🤓💻️ Ideal for early career researchers looking to get started making cognitive tasks. workshops.psychopy.org#pre-conferen... @bpscog.bsky.social
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 01/05/2026
🎥 Catch up on our PsychoPy Studio Launch Webinar now on YouTube! We're super happy to have seen so many of you there and to have received so much engagement. Thank you to everyone who has already downloaded and tested out Studio🙏 #opensource #community www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwki...
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PsychoPy Studio Launch Webinar
Recording from our Live Webinar introducing PsychoPy Studio! The why did we need it? What are the advantages? What has and has not changes? Including Q & A from the audience. Link to Q & A…
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 27/04/2026
Want to learn more about the PsychoPy Studio app? Join us Thursday at 15:00 (UK) for our PsychoPy studio launch webinar! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychopy-s...
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PsychoPy Studio Launch Webinar
Come and learn about PsychoPy Studio - the PsychoPy app you know and love, in a new framework.
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 27/04/2026
A huge Thanks to all who attended our Virtual PsychoPy workshops these last 2 weeks🙏 Our first time testing a new format (4 half days) and it was amazing to connect with so many researchers from all over the world. So glad to see that you enjoyed it too! workshops.psychopy.org#what-attende...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 27/04/2026
Open Materials for learning! Thanks to @wicseurope.bsky.social for the collaboration! Videos and slides for: 👩‍💻 Getting started with PsychoPy 🐍 Adding Python code snippets 🌐 Running studies online 👀 Building Eye-tracking experiments #OpenScience #WomenInCogSci #WomenInSTEM
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 16/04/2026
Join us for our free contributing to #OpenSource workshop. 📅 Thursday April 30th 12:00 - 13:00 UK time. We're keen to help you make your first pull request to PsychoPy in a friendly space ❤️ workshops.psychopy.org#workshop-my-...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 01/04/2026
📣 Exciting news: As we've been unable to decide which is the best open-source package for psychology (PsychoPy, Open Sesame or jsPsych) @peircej.bsky.social, @cogsci.nl and @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social have agreed to resolve this once and for all, in a live-streamed, three-way.....arm wrestle!
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 24/03/2026
We have a couple of slots available on our free workshop tomorrow with @wicseurope.bsky.social If you're interested in eyetracking experiments with PsychoPy sign up here 👇 (these may go quick 😅 ) www.eventbrite.com/e/1983763666...
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PsychoPy for WiCS Series: Eye Tracking Experiments in PsychoPy
We invite members of the Women In Cognitive Science (WiCS) Community to join us online for the final workshop in our WiCs series!
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 10/03/2026
Want to learn how to contribute to #opensource? 👩‍💻👨‍💻 Never used #Git before? Join us for our free beginner-friendly workshop and learn the basics of contributing to open source projects like #psychopy 🗓 March 19th ⏰ 12:00 PM (UK time) Everyone is welcome 🚀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...
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"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy
Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 09/03/2026
Thanks to our new contributors from the Women In Cognitive Science community today! Helping to improve our documentation in our "My First Pull Request" workshop 🙏 github.com/psychopy/psy...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 09/03/2026
Want to contribute to #OpenSource but don't know where to start with #git? Here is a fantastic primer to git for your enjoyment. #codingkitty And remember, PsychoPy is an Open Source community driven tool - contributions are welcome! www.youtube.com/shorts/fQ2xs...
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git explained by cats 😹💻. #cat #develop #coding #fyp #cat
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 23/02/2026
📣 PsychoPy Studio is out now!! ✨ Which also means swish new branding on psychopy.org ✨ We really hope that this improves user experience in general. Please download and try it. Let us know how you get on via the forum discourse.psychopy.org/t/introducin...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 23/02/2026
🦆 Good morning early birds... (depending on your timezone...) Early bird registration for our Official PsychoPy Workshop (Virtual) ends this Friday (27th). Details and registration below 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/official-v...
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Official Virtual PsychoPy Workshop 2026 April 21st-24th
Get started learning PsychoPy with the team that make the tools.
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 16/02/2026
A big thank you to @brainboyben.bsky.social for running our first PsychoPy workshop at ACNS in November! Would you like to run a workshop in Australia? Find out about our Ambassador Scheme and read about Bens experience 👇
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Ambassador Story: Creating Experiments with PsychoPy and Pavlovia at ACNS 2025
In August 2024, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Hirst at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). During this time, I expressed my genuine enthusiasm for PsychoPy, and…
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 13/02/2026
Due to unforeseen popularity 🙊 ... We are holding a second virtual workshop in April. Tickets are now available! 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/official-v...
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Official Virtual PsychoPy Workshop 2026 April 21st-24th
Get started learning PsychoPy with the team that make the tools.
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 09/02/2026
We're getting excited... just putting the finishing touches to **PsychoPy Studio** This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron. Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter 🎉 🚀 blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...
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PsychoPy Studio: the app we love, reimagined
It’s now over 20 years since PsychoPy’s humble beginnings as an open-source Python library to help users present high-precision stimuli and collect responses from participants. Since 2009 PsychoPy…
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 09/02/2026
👩‍💻 We're commemorating Women's Month with @wicseurope.bsky.social 🧠 As part of their Building Inclusive Computational Skills initiative, you can sign up to PsychoPy training every Wednesday in March. Find out more 👉️ workshops.psychopy.org#women-in-cog... #DiversityInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #PsychoPy
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 06/02/2026
So… our virtual workshop was WAY more popular than expected 😅...and sold out. SO we’re running it again the following week! 🎉 (April 21–24, 2026) Tickets will be available Friday 13th We appreciate you valuing our training and using PsychoPy in your research❤️
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 12/01/2026
Happy New Year everyone (we can still say that right?) New year... New workshops to announce... 🗓️ April 14th - 17th 🌐 Online format 🎓 Provides the equivalent of 2 full day post graduate level training. 🎟 Early Bird tickets until Feb Details here
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Official Virtual PsychoPy Workshop 2026
Get started learning PsychoPy with the team that make the tools.
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 12/12/2025
🚧 Planned Pavlovia Maintenance – December 27th 🚧 During this time Pavlovia Servers will be offline. You may need to update old PsychoPy releases to continue smooth syncing to Pavlovia - see this discourse post for details. discourse.psychopy.org/t/pavlovia-m... Thanks for your patience 🙏
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Pavlovia maintenance on 27 Dec 2025
We are planning an essential update to Pavlovia on 27 December 2025. This is necessary as part of our ongoing security updates and usually such updates have minimal impact on users but, on this…
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 30/10/2025
Looking for PsychoPy training? or help getting an experiment ready? Did you know you can hire us to run custom training or create tasks for you? Find out more here workshops.psychopy.org 🙏 Thank you to those who have shared testimonials of our workshops!
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 26/10/2025
Vision Scientist PsychoPy users, any feedback on experience with modern OLED displays for vision science? we would be interested to hear your feedback on this post! Thank you! discourse.psychopy.org/t/modern-ole...
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Modern OLED displays for vision science
Hello PsychoPy forum users, I know this topic comes up every so often in different lists, but to my surprise there doesn’t seem to be a recent post on the topic on here. I am looking to purchase a…
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 22/10/2025
🚀 New PsychoPy beta 2025.2.1 is out! Includes several bug fixes — full changelog here: github.com/psychopy/psy... Please report any issues on the forum. Thanks for helping us keep improving PsychoPy! 🙏
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 02/10/2025
🙏 Thank you for your testimonials! It is great to hear PsychoPy being used in both research and teaching around the world 🌎 You can share your testimonial here www.psychopy.org/about/testim...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 01/10/2025
Join us for a 2 day bootcamp! 📅 Dec 16th/17th 📍 Nottingham 👩‍💻 Day 1 - Create experiments in PsychoPy and optimise for EEG 🧠 Day 2 - EEG data collection and ERP analysis strategies ℹ️ Info and Ticket purchase shorturl.at/DVL8s In collaboration with @ant-neuro.com
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ANT Neuro @ant-neuro.com · 22/09/2025
Calling all PhD students & early career researchers! Boost your EEG skills in Nottingham, Dec 16–17. Hands-on training with ANT Neuro, Open Science Tools & @psychopy.org. Register: eventbrite.com/e/1692116779839 #Neurotechnology #BrainResearch #ScienceTraining
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 22/09/2025
🤔 Preparing Undergraduate students for their final year projects? 💡 Why not start with the range of template experiments at Pavlovia.org? pavlovia.org/explore/demo... You can download the experiment files directly and adapt for your own experiment! #openscience #teaching #psychology
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 18/09/2025
Happy faces in this PsychoPy workshop at Mapua University in Manila run by @suelynnmah.bsky.social! 🇵🇭 Sue Lynn introduced students and faculty to PsychoPy for creating psychology experiments. We love seeing PsychoPy being used around the world! 🌏 #psychology #research
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 17/09/2025
✨ PsychoPy Tip ✨ Searching for a specific variable in your Builder experiment? Did you know you can use "Find in Experiment" to quickly search for all places in your experiment a variable is used?
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 16/09/2025
🌐 If you think our documentation can be better (or even if you spot a typo!) did you know you can change them? 📝 Here's a guide to your first pull request and how you can change the PsychoPy docs #OpenSource psychopy.org/developers/a...
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Making edits to PsychoPy’s documentation — PsychoPy v2025.2.1
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 15/09/2025
For researchers running surveys in Right-to-Left (RTL) languages: this is now available as a beta feature in Pavlovia Surveys. 1️⃣ Create your survey in Pavlovia Surveys 2️⃣ In the survey URL, change the version to "2025.5" This feature will appear on the dashboard soon.
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 12/09/2025
Spotlighting researchers sharing open-source paradigms in PsychoPy! ✨ This week: Individual differences in visual attention: A short, reliable, open-source, multilingual test of multiple object tracking in PsychoPy 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.3... #OpenScience #PsychologyResearch #Research
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Individual differences in visual attention: A short, reliable, open-source, and multilingual test of multiple object tracking in PsychoPy - Behavior Research Methods
Individual differences in attentional abilities provide an interesting approach in studying visual attention as well as the relation of attention to other psychometric measures. However, recent…
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 11/09/2025
Shout out to Australian researchers! 🇦🇺 (and folks in the southern hemisphere) 🌏 We're excited that our Ambassador Ben Lowe (@brainboyben.bsky.social) will be hosting a pre-conference workshop at #ACNS2025 (@acnsau.bsky.social) on getting started with PsychoPy! Sign up here👇 shorturl.at/gvnUU
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ACNS 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops - Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 10/09/2025
🗓️ Save the date 👀 🗓️December 16th/17th 🧠 PsychoPy and EEG workshop, in partnership with @ant-neuro.com 📍 Nottingham (Venue confirmed soon) Registration opens soon - sign up to expression of interest for details. workshops.psychopy.org
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 09/09/2025
Did you know @icevislab.bsky.social have curated and shared a list of Animal visual stimuli? Love finding lists like this when searching for visual stimuli for experiments 🦜 🐅 🐕 Thank you for sharing! #reproducible #science #openscience #replication #open
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Animals – Icelandic Vision Lab
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 08/09/2025
Blown away by the resources PsychoPy users share! 🌍 Love seeing training materials in many languages. Huge shoutout to Marcos Lima for 70+ videos in Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷👏 shorturl.at/oCSMI
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 04/09/2025
Another neat demo from the #ESCOP2025 booth ✍️ Writing distraction task. Show a word to type Interrupt typing with distraction ⭐ Ask to continue typing... run.pavlovia.org/demos/writin...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
Social media fail.... not all the demos on our last post loaded 😅 So here are even MORE demos inspired at #ESCOP2025 today! 👇
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
Day 1 at #ESCOP2025 ! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and inspired new experiment demos! Here are just a few of the awesome experiments inspired by ESCOP PsychoPy users 👇 🧵
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