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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@elsevierconnect.bsky.social should be hanging their heads in shame with this utter nonsense. Check out the article for other AI-slop images that mean absolutely nothing.

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Mike Le Pelley @mikelepelley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc to work at UNSW Sydney, studying impacts of reward and information on attention, using eye-tracking, EEG, and modelling - with Kelly Garner, Daniel Pearson and me. Application link below, please spread the word! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

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Research Associate - Psychology

The Research Associate (Level A) is expected to contribute towards the research effort of UNSW and to develop their research expertise through the pursuit of defined projects relevant to their particu...

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

On my way home from a nice trip to @notts-psych.bsky.social visiting @markhaselgrove.bsky.social and others. Always a great place to visit. They even gave me a very nice and appropriate gift from their department library 😊

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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Always nice to see papers out in the wild. Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning" By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social share.google/0IoZwV3sne1N...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 19/09/2025

It's been a week since we launched @chartle.cc with @adnaanj.bsky.social and we had an amazing start! - Average of 700 users/day - Record 1.2K users yesterday - From 78 countries - 66% win overall - 2m 18s average engagement Thank you to all who played + shared the game Any feedback, send our way!

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Nice demonstration here of how interposing a delay between action and outcome can impact causal understanding of the instrumental relationship. www.instagram.com/reel/DKuFcFj...

Still taken from taskmaster of a man sitting in front of a red light bulb reading a card that says "Tell Alex why the light bulb turns on".

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Great start to the week. "Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation" by Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and me has been accepted for publication at JEP:ALC. Will get a preprint up and available soon.

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are. Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology

Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Spent the morning talking about psychology my children's school. Now, I've given many talks to leading experts from across the world, but nothing prepares you for Qs from 6-7 year olds! Personal favourite, from my own son, "if you stepped on a bit of lego and didn't have a brain, would you feel it?"

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

On the train home after a fantastic meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social . If you're an experimental psychologist (broadly defined) based in the UK (or can attend regularly) do consider membership (£30 pa). It's a wonderful society that provides fantastic support for UK psych, especially ECRs.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Brilliant mid-career prize lecture by @mikelepelley.bsky.social on "Prediction, Plasticity and Prioritisation" at the London meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Working on a presentation while parenting. It's going about as well as expected.

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

BlueSky tip: go to settings; go to "thread preferences"; turn on "Threaded Mode"; you're welcome. I've always HATED the weird twitter styling for replies. This is more like Reddit style.

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Reading a paper where the rationale is that the processes haven't been studied in ecologically valid procedures. The paper then moves from this rationale straight to the results, with the "innovative methods" presented after the discussion! Does anyone actually enjoy reading papers in this format?

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/12/2024

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Our "eyetools" #R package is now available on #CRAN! It offers a toolkit for repairing data, analysing fixations & saccades, time on AOIs, and plotting. Designed to be simple to use, it offers an open source analysis pipeline for eye data. #rstats #eye-tracking tombeesley.github.io/eyetools/ind...

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Analyse Eye Data

Enables the automation of actions across the pipeline, including initial steps of transforming binocular data and gap repair to event-based processing such as fixations, saccades, and entry/duration i...

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Dr. Alec Couros @courosa.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Here’s a good example of ChatGPT output that could help students better understand how it works and its limitations. #edusky #eduai

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Get yourselves down to UCL 8th-10th Jan for the EPS meeting. Featuring symposium "Learning to attend and attending to learn" - in honour of Mid-career award 🎖️ for @mikelepelley.bsky.social

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Excited to be presenting "Representational Accuracy is Mediated by Predictive Validity, but not Outcome Uncertainty" at the London EPS meeting in Jan. Part of the mid-career prize award symposium for @mikelepelley.bsky.social organised by @tombeesley.bsky.social eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

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Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: University College London. 8th – 10th January 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Mike Le Pelley (with an accompanying symposium organi…

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Paper accepted and now in production at the QJEP! "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning" by David George, Dominic Dwyer, me and Mike Le Pelley.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Heading up to @lancastercognition.bsky.social to give a talk on "Learning about Novel and Familiar Stimuli: Cognitive Mechanisms and Developmental Trajectories". Afterwards, a catch up with @tombeesley.bsky.social and the team to talk about our unexpected uncertainty grant Fab views from the train

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John Towse @jntowse.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today! This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

BlueSky tip: go to settings; go to "thread preferences"; turn on "Threaded Mode"; you're welcome. I've always HATED the weird twitter styling for replies. This is more like Reddit style.

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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Analyse Eye Data

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Cognitive Psychology at Lancaster University @lancastercognition.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Do you want more cognitive psychology in your Bluesky feed? Well of course you do! Starter packs are collections of accounts with a shared research interest, so you can find more of the conversations that you are interested in. Here are some we know about related to cognitive psychology ... (1/)

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

reviewer 2 before entering manuscript central

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Re-posting from the other site: Amazing new "surveydown" package that allows you to host a Shiny-based online survey a la Qualtrics (but open source!). surveydown.org

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

New paper in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, exploring how visual search is guided by memory (contextual cuing). Search can be disrupted considerably with no decrement to the acquisition or performance of CC. Early search is seemingly random and not guided by context. tinyurl.com/37bketj4

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Contextual cuing survives an interruption from an endogenous cue for attention - Research Portal | Lancaster University

Find out more about Lancaster University's research activities, view details of publications, outputs and awards and make contact with our researchers.

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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Dear all, I am looking for a postdoc for an ERC-funded project on meditation and the predictive brain in my lab. More details can be found here: heleenslagter.com/positions Feel free to reach out with any questions! Please help spread the word!

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John Towse @jntowse.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Still time to apply Senior Lecturer/Lecturer level (US equivalent: Associate/Assistant Professor) in Psychological Neuroscience at Lancaster University, UK. The search area is broad, including developmental neuroscience. Deadline: 30 September, 2024 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Neuroscience

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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Dear all, I will soon formally advertise a postdoc position on meditation and the predictive brain in my lab. An ERC funded project. More details can be found here for now: heleenslagter.com/positions Feel free to reach out with questions! Please help spread the word! #neuroskyence #consciousness

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Journal of Cognition @jcgntn.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

New content: Mahlberg, J., Pearson, D., Le Pelley, M. E., & Watson, P. (2024). Prospective Distractor Information Reduces Reward-Related Attentional Capture. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 50, pp. 1–21. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

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Prospective Distractor Information Reduces Reward-Related Attentional Capture | Journal of Cognition

The Journal of Cognition, the official journal of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, publishes reviews, empirical articles (including registered reports), data reports, stimulus developmen...

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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

I started a UK Psychology academic starter pack go.bsky.app/JUgQGsP If you want adding, or taking out, let me know.

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John Towse @jntowse.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Come work with us! We’re lovely :-) For these two temporary posts we are particularly looking to appoint colleagues who will be able to teach in at least one of the areas of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, or research methods. #academicjobs #cogsci hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Teaching Associate

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

We are looking for 2 x Teaching Associates. Fixed term Sep 2024 to July 2025. Ideally Cognitive, Neuro, Research Methods background. Would suit a recent PhD graduate. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Teaching Associate

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Fun at The Nog with the lab. Another excellent few days of science at the Associative Learning Symposium #Gregynog

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

An excellent few days at the Associative learning conference at Gregynog Hall, Wales. Data from @tombeesley.bsky.social and my ESRC project got their first airing...

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