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Anna Hughes

@scienceanna.bsky.social
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This was a super fun project to be involved with, very excited to see it finally out!! 🦋
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Jérôme Tagu @jerometagu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I look forward to catching up with friends and colleagues at #ECVP2026 @ecvp.bsky.social! Don't miss our symposium on visual foraging during Monday's first talk session (co-organised by @scienceanna.bsky.social and me)
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Dr George RA Hancock 🦋🦎 @grahancock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Butterflies have extraordinary patterns. Come to my talk if you want to see their potential power to confuse predators in flight! 📍Room Londra | 🕓 3:45 pm | Thursday | #ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Science with your pals is real fun! Now it's webpage official. sites.google.com/view/visual-... @riadsala.bsky.social
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Visual Search LAAAAb
Welcome to our LAAAAb website!
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Spending time in lovely Rijeka this week with @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social and @edlegg.bsky.social - what could be better than sunshine and science with friends! :)
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We have lots of open code at github.com/Riadsala/FoMo and we'd love to help if you think this model might be interesting to apply to your data - do get in touch if so.
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Roll up, roll up: @riadsala.bsky.social did some more thinking about our model of visual foraging: doi.org/10.1371/jour.... It now has some shiny new parameters (absolute direction!) and it's not bad at distinguishing individual differences in strategies too. #PsychSciSky #VisionScience
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FoMo: A unifying theory of visual foraging
Author summary Foraging is an important behaviour for humans and other animals, helping them to find food, habitats, and mates. It can involve searching both through visual space (such as searching fo...
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
In both Czech and English, I hasten to add!! (Scroll down a bit for English)
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Full instructions are available at docs.google.com/document/d/1... :)
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GSW_game_letter_participant_final.docx
Vážený účastníku hry, velmi si vážíme Vaší pomoci při našem výzkumu individuálního rozpoznávání jedinců strakapouda velkého (Dendrocopos major). Za tímto účelem Vás prosíme o zahrání přiřazovací hry, ...
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If you would like some productive procrastination, please feel free to help us out with some research on individual recognition of great spotted woodpeckers (NB: needs to be done on a laptop/computer): mzmmcerny.github.io/GSW_game/ #academicsky #ecology #ornithology
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GSW_experiment_game
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
6 months is okay I think - I'm currently half way through a 2-term sabbatical & have shed most teaching/admin okay. I could have waited to apply for a year, but the application process is now frozen & I think will probably never come back in the old format. So I think I'm on team Take It Now!
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Had a very lovely trip to @teap2026.bsky.social. A new conference to me and have had a lot of fun. Thanks to @tuennermann.bsky.social (and Iris!) for putting together the foraging symposium! Pictured: successful foraging to enable continued science.
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greg_j_davis @gregorydavis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
*Job Klaxon* Interested in Social/Visual Cognition, Criminology or related areas? Join my group as part of 6-Uni EPSRC collaborative grant! Candidate will need to pass security screening. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH731/r...
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Research Associate in Applied Social Cognition: Detecting and Predicting Violence (Fixed Term) at University of Cambridge
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate in Applied Social Cognition: Detecting and Predicting Violence (Fixed Term) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and exp...
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 22/01/2026
Recent breeding experience improves egg ejection behaviour royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Cognition #Ecology #Evolution
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Looking for a post-PhD job? Check out this behavioural scientist role that blends research/practice, working in London but with university input as well: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Do get in touch if you have any questions! #AcademicPsy #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #PsychJobs #AcademicJobs
vacancies.essex.ac.uk
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Our turn! :(
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Now out! rdcu.be/ePqaR With thanks to @britishacademy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this work :)
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Designing a test battery for real-world visual search
Scientific Reports - Designing a test battery for real-world visual search
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We also take requests for additional features, but you might need to sweeten the deal by buying us a beer or two at the next international conference you see us at if you want them done quickly ;)
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I've found it quite handy with undergrad student projects - means they can come up with their own Qs and try to put everything together pretty independently. Disclaimer: it's probably got some wonky bugs in it somewhere, but do tell me or @riadsala.bsky.social if you get stuck & we can try to help!
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
If you're a #visionscience or #psychscisky person starting to think about student dissertation projects, you might be interested in our visual search/foraging experiment code at github.com/scienceanna/.... You can configure everything via CSV files (lots of options!) and it all runs on Psychopy.
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GitHub - scienceanna/visual_foraging_exp: Visual foraging experiment in PsychoPy
Visual foraging experiment in PsychoPy. Contribute to scienceanna/visual_foraging_exp development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
oh yeah, #psychscisky #visionscience #imgoodatsocialmediahonest
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
@riadsala.bsky.social and I have been spending a long time thinking about modelling visual foraging. v2 model glow up: 1) it can account for individual diffs in lots of summary stats 2) it can deal with 'outliers' really nicely and 3) it should be easier to use! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
@riadsala.bsky.social :)
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A little pre-print for your Monday morning #visionscience: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6.... This was a fun, if slightly wacky project... would love to hear any thoughts/critiques!! @riadsala.bsky.social
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Designing a test battery for real-world visual search
Although much research has investigated the mechanisms of visual search behaviour in laboratory-based computer tasks,there has been relatively little work on whether these results generalise to more n...
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Thank you for coming (and bringing the good weather) - it was a great talk :) Really glad you enjoyed it!
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Post SVG ice cream with @riadsala.bsky.social and @tsawallis.bsky.social! Lots of excellent science in the sun this weekend :) #visionscience
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
@riadsala.bsky.social and I have pondered how causal reasoning could be incorporated to the UG curriculum. Also, I feel like there can be a tension between giving students experience of designing/running research without implicitly training them that small n/low power doesn't matter.
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Good news: we've extended the deadline for SVG 2025 to 28th Feb so even more people can join us! #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I predominantly use Psychological Science these days - most of their recent papers have pretty good open datasets!
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Scottish Vision Group 2025 website is now live: sites.google.com/view/svg2025/. It's one of my fave conferences - small, friendly, excellent scenery. Join us 4th-6th April 2025! #VisionScience #PsychSciSky @riadsala.bsky.social
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SVG2025
The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) is a collective of vision researchers aimed at encouraging collaboration among laboratories engaged in studying visual perception in Scotland and beyond. Every spring s...
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A little paper about foraging with @riadsala.bsky.social. I enjoyed this RR process a lot - getting feedback at stage 1 is so helpful. Also, big shout out to all the FAB students involved in this project. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #VisionScience #AcademicSky
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The effect of target scarcity on visual foraging | Royal Society Open Science
Previous studies have investigated the effect of target prevalence in combination with the effect of explicit target value on human visual foraging strategies, though the conclusions have been mixed. ...
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I can help with this... full launch of website etc. to follow shortly, but 4-6 April 2025 :)
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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Happy news for a Friday - the first RR I've been involved in is out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We did some pretty nerdy modelling trying to replicate (and extend?) Target Contrast Theory. Thanks to our infinitely patient reviewers and Editor over the last 2 years... #VisionScience
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