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Zoë Little

@zoelittle.bsky.social
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Postdoc at UNSW Sydney studying the metacognition of face matching decisions. 🥝 in 🇦🇺

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Zoë Little @zoelittle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's not what you know, it's what you know you know. Insight into your own face matching performance means that you can identify the face pairs that you may have answered incorrectly, choose to spend more time on these items, and improve your overall performance: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Metacognitive insight improves unfamiliar face matching through effective resource allocation - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Metacognitive insight—the ability to monitor one’s own performance—enables efficient allocation of limited resources, but whether this mechanism underlies performance on perceptual tasks has never bee...
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Dr James Dunn @jamesdunn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We're looking for a Postdoc to join the Face Lab at UNSW Psychology! Ideal: someone with strong ML/deep learning expertise and an interest in how people perceive AI-generated faces. 📍 Sydney | Full-time, 18 months 📅 Apply by 3 Sept 2026 🔗 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...
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Research Associate - UNSW Face Research Lab
he Research Associate works within the UNSW Face Research lab located in the School of Psychology at UNSW and is responsible for taking a leading role in a collaborative ARC Discovery Project aiming t...
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Progression without progress
Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...
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Kevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io · 01/05/2026
In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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ines-schoenmann.bsky.social @ines-schoenmann.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New peer-reviewed paper w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social, @predictivebrain.bsky.social & Jakub Szewczyk! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (elifesciences.org) (1/8)
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Brisbane Experimental Psychology Student Initiative (BEPSI) @brisepsi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Wow, hello Bluesky! We're the Brisbane Experimental Psychology Student Initiative (BEPSI) We host monthly meetings with fresh research (cog, dev, comp, clin, neuro, forensic, psychophys) followed by wholesome networking (summer lawn bowls, so good) 1st meeting Weds 27th Feb 4pm - more soon! 🧠🤗
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Zoë Little @zoelittle.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Just submitted my PhD thesis on perceptual and post-perceptual influences in serial dependence! Next week I'll be on a remote island having precisely 0 thoughts, and in September I'll be back at UNSW to start an exciting postdoc looking at metacognition in face identity judgements 👀🔍
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Zoë Little @zoelittle.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Rich voters demanded to remain in their right-wing electorate instead of the Labour-held electorate next door, where their votes would be more effectual. They had a chance to gerrymander and chose to save their inflated property values, which I think is beautiful thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...
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Heartwarming: well-to-do Aucklanders finally get a political win
Balmoral residents insisted they were from Epsom, not grotty Mt Albert, and they spammed the Electoral Commission with complaints until it agreed.
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Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Interested in a cognitive neuroscience #postdoc down under? Come work with me at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social on an ARC Linkage Project aimed at understanding how people perceive objects in the Powerhouse Museum's digitised collection. Applications closing 13 August! 📅 seek.com.au/job/86079413
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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development, University of Geneva, Switzerland Applications are invited for a postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development. Application deadline: 11 August 2025
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Home - Mémoire de travail, cognition et développement - UNIGE
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Tim Gastrell @tgastrell.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New paper @ JOV! With Matt Oxner, Frank Schumann and David Carmel. 🧠 Perception of ambiguous motion is shaped by recent visual experience - but does this differ across the visual field? Yes! Full open access paper here (Gastrell et al., 2025, Journal of Vision): 🔗 doi.org/10.1167/jov.... 🧵
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Zoë Little @zoelittle.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I've learned a lot of things at #VSS2025, but mostly that you can place an ad in the actual ocean
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Zoë Little @zoelittle.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The fact that I get sick at every conference is divine punishment for the handfuls of free pens I take every day and is unrelated to spending ~20 hours on packed planes followed by several days in packed seminars
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Zoë Little @zoelittle.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I'll be presenting my poster about decisions and perception in serial dependence at #VSS2025 this afternoon (26.325). See you there if you'd like to chat about contextual modulation, decision confidence, or how incredibly humid it is outside 😓🏖️🧠
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
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Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards
As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.
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Zoë Little @zoelittle.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Interesting move after February's email in which we were assured that "VSS remains strong, independent, and committed to... the diversity of our community"
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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 17/03/2025
William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience "But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,
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Zoë Little @zoelittle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Out now in AP&P!
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