Due to teaching diligencies, I wasn't able to assist VSS this year, but all talks and posters seems once again pretty amazing !! Wishing everyone a nice @vssmtg.bsky.social 2026. What a wonderful conference ^^

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Brilliant talk by Justin Wood (Indiana) on his "digital twin studies" - raising newborn chicks, and artificial neural networks, in the same (virtual) environments - fantastic new perspective on the nature/nurture debate #CIFARwinterschool #TWCF www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026. #SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us! Register here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

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The next session of the MIT Consciousness Club is on Thursday 16, 12pm-1:30pm. Rachel Denison will present “Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception”. More information here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con....

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The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...

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Cool project involving distinctions on internal models between humans and AI through network analysis 👍

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

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Happy to share my first-ever pre-print !!!! 🚨 on the representational geometry across similarity properties using behavioral judgments, fMRI, and AI/CNNs models 🚨 !! 1/n🧵 preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Wonderful time of the year to enjoy #vss2025 !!! Here is my work on similarity judgments on different properties across the brain and AI. qr.me-qr.com/JE9EYZ5g (skip the adds to find the poster and a narrated summary!!)🎉 Love to see old (and make new) friends while learning from great minds !! 🤗🤩

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allllright it’s #vss2025 thread time! our group has FOUR cool presentations at VSS this year! in chronological order ALL ON TUESDAY MORNING!! a thread: 🧵👇

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Finally, the most exciting week of the year for vision science is here! #vss2025 #vss

 Through our lab’s work and via collaborations, we have three presentations this year across a range of topics: mental imagery, the metacognition of face recognition, and some heavy psychophysical modeling. 1/6

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Interdisciplinary lab in Northeastern's Psychology Department researching visual perception, mental imagery, consciousness and metacognition.

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Important new paper on climate overshoot. Excellent team, fantastic work. And I despair. It's like it's come from another planet. Not the actual Earth which is barrelling ever faster to climate breakdown. What will it take for academics to be clear about this? www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

There’s much more in the paper! Steve and I look forward to your thoughts in the peer commentary that will come with the article (the call for commentaries will come out soon). You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... and preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps....

Thanks to the @cnsmtg.bsky.social for a wonderful #CNS2025 full of great research and people. So glad to see old friends and meet up with new ones 🙌🙌 !!!

Excited to share this new empirical work funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social, replicating & extending the work of John Grimes on change blindness during saccades: osf.io/preprints/ps... It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT

My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Measuring metacognitive ability is one of the enduring challenges in cognitive science. The current paper develops formal tests of the quality of different measures and assesses how current metrics pe...

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History of the “peer review”: advisors, gatekeepers or neither? “..the “referee system” did not exist before the nineteenth century and the term “peer review” was a creation of the late twentieth century.” Credit for sharing @jbcarmody.bsky.social Link: ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/19/g...

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The Rise of Skywalkers

Are you familiar with the Motion Repulsion effect? Do you know how does it interact with working memory information about motion stimuli and its confidence ratings? Check out our VSS poster in this link🧵1/3!! Eng Whahttps://www.visionsciences.org/presentation/?id=1433

New revised SEP entry on "Neuroscience of Consciousness" just dropped! By yours truly and Wayne Wu @attninaction.bsky.social. Sections on introspection & report/no-report, metacognition and theories of consciousness saw most of the edits + lots of reference updates plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons...

New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep. 🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

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There are good reasons for cynicism creep — being disheartened about academia — but it's important we don't give in. I provide some antidotes.

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ICYMI: I wrote a blog about all the things wrong in academia & science, and what gives me motivation and hope not to become too cynical. I hope this normalizes feeling really bummed out about the situation & system, while simultanously providing paths forward. 🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

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New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep. 🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Big 2024 announcement! The “Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals” had a pretty substantial update and is slowly becoming the most comprehensive resource on effect sizes and confidence intervals. Here is a thread of some of the new additions 1/5 t.co/ByeSMQNJdp

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As part of the European project “CODE” on decision making and perceptual confidence, we are offering 2 PhD studentships, one fully in Paris and the other shared between Paris and Amsterdam. Deadline 29 February 2024. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182206 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/182208

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10 PhD Positions on Decision Confidence Welcome to CODE! We are a network of 9 research labs located throughout Europe. Together, we aim to unravel the mechanisms of decision confidence. Virtually ev...

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Distinct neural markers of evidence accumulation index metacognitive processing before and after simple visual decisions: http://osf.io/fvzn8/