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Tom Beesley

@tombeesley.bsky.social
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Cognitive psychologist conducting research on human associative learning and attention at Lancaster University. Eye data analysis in R: tombeesley.github.io/eyetools

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It does sound like you treat your PhD students as unpaid RAs. PhD students should have the time and space to develop their own ideas, make their own mistakes, etc. This takes a lot longer than 18 months. Thanks for giving the funders some ammunition to further cut funding for PG study! sigh.
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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 · 13/02/2026
Hi Rebecca - this is really cool. Could it be used to detect head turns (left/right)?
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Sorry Mark. I hope I've not got you in trouble. We can consider it a long term loan 😂
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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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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Look forward to reading this!
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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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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I've started using this (you can specify type = "interaction") www.rdocumentation.org/packages/pwr...
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pwrss.f.rmanova function - RDocumentation
<p>Calculates statistical power or minimum required sample size for one-way Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (RM-ANOVA).</p> <p>Formulas are validated using Monte Carlo simulation, G*Power, and ...
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Typically one .R that does basic data processing and cleaning that often results in several data objects that are saved as .RData. Then load that .RData in a quarto doc for the analysis "proper", which might be a lab report or manuscript. Data stored in raw form alongside for full reproducibility
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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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Ed Boyden @eboyden3.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This looks neat. Thanks!
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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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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I found the process to be largely a waste of time. Ironically time that could be spent on doing science that leads to 3 and 4* papers.
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We did ~90 last summer. 15 minutes per paper. Read abstract, look at figures/stats to get sense of analysis approach, look at open science credentials, read general conclusions. Roll dice until you get a number between 1 and 4. Repeat. (Joke, actually flip a coin to determine 3 or 4...)
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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Later this week is #EPSLancaster25! ☀️🧠😎 For all the up to date information, please check our website. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …
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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 · 18/02/2025
Actually, that's not fair. Andy D for ALC
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
It's been a long time since I've come across Class 3 😢
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Now children, hands up if you've heard of the Rescorla-Wagner model
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I pointed out you may have trouble stepping in the first place
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Lots of questions about stepping on lego. That really connected with them. 😅
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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 · 11/02/2025
Hi Andy. If there's room, me, @jntowse.bsky.social @robayedavies.bsky.social @amyatkinson.bsky.social from Lancaster
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The portal is now open for abstract submissions to the EPS meeting at Lancaster University (2nd - 4th April). eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …
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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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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Thanks for posting @haslagter.bsky.social and @markhaselgrove.bsky.social . It was a lovely meeting.
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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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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In conditioning, a "trace" procedure means that the US occurs some time after the CS (there is a trace of the CS in memory). So far so good. But then a "delay" procedure means that the US occurs with the CS, or immediately after it. So, it's not really delayed then, is it?
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Exactly. 😡
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Do you want to slow down and give us a chance to read these papers?
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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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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉 Read the introductory blog post here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #RStats #StatsEd #DataScience
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Introducing the {messy} package | Nicola Rennie
The {messy} R package takes a clean dataset, and randomly adds mess to create data more similar to that which you'd find in the real world. This is an easy way for educators to create data sets that g...
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Such a cool idea Nicola
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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 · 30/11/2024
Services to monitor and monitor-stand companies?
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"And the award for this year's Best Mike" goes to...
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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I'd sacrifice many a paper for grant funding. Congratulations!
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