Interested in doing a postdoc with me in Auckland, New Zealand? 🇳🇿 See info below on a competitive award opportunity, and please spread the word!

The ARC's new grant scheme table, in case you don't want to read through the details (which are here: www.arc.gov.au/system/files...)

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

The ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).

Asking the hive mind: Does anyone know of a good video on visual agnosia that I can include as supplemental material for a cognition course I am teaching in the fall? #cognition #Psychology

Five academic psychology jobs available here in Oz (not in my university) Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor - Perception external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54... Lecturer/Senior Lecturer – Statistics external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...

Lecturer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level B/Level CSalary package: $124,638 - $166,338 per annum plus 17% superannuation Term: Continuing, Full time   The Position:  This Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Level B/C) rol...

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Happy to see our latest paper out. Led by Rachel Searston, we investigated whether participants could accurately verify identity from non-overlapping face fragments. Across 3 pre-registered experiments, we show above chance performance in our novel "spotlight" task. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Identity in the spotlight: Matching faces without overlapping features - Memory & Cognition

One-to-one face matching is widely used for identity verification yet becomes difficult with unfamiliar faces or when parts of the face are covered. We investigated whether observers could accurately ...

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We’re looking for an additional Associate Editor at AP&P, particularly in the field of auditory perception/attention. If you’re interested, please check out this flyer and please share this post so that this may find its way to others!

I adapted a scheduler app that was shared at VSS for this conference: apcvepc2026.netlify.app. Hope others find it useful in organising their time. (And thank you to Miyoung Kwon who created the app originally).

Our final schedule and abstract booklet are now available to download from our conference website: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026

We are thrilled to announce that the SARMAC XVI conference will take place in Vancouver, Canada on June 9-12 2027! // sarmac.org/sarmac2027

SARMAC 2027 Conference — SARMAC

SARMAC XVI 2027

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RA position 40% FTE for 15 months in our department (Stirling, Scotland). Could be great step prior to a PhD for the right student. www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Really excited to post about a project that Vincent Stabile, Cathy Mondloch and I started while I was still at Brock. It is now openly available in British Journal of Psychology!🎉🎉 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... More details about the study to follow. (1/n)

<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

Most studies examining face recognition have used explicit recognition tasks, ignoring our ability to spontaneously recognize familiar faces when they are unexpected. The current study examined spont...

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FIVE academic jobs currently open in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, across a variety of areas; see links below. Please come and join us! It's an outstanding department with excellent people. tinyurl.com/4p6tp2j3 tinyurl.com/yxm565xs tinyurl.com/2u8m77z8 tinyurl.com/3wu9hnb5

Unfamiliar face matching is difficult. The average person has an error rate ~20%. And it's hard to improve. In our new study, @pjbhancock.bsky.social and I find an 8% improvement in face matching performance via the "wisdom of the crowd within" effect. Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Postdoc position! Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026. Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad 1/2

The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2026, to be held at the University of Auckland from July 1-4. Abstract submissions now open! visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

Anyone want to do a PhD with me at the Sunny Coast? I'm recruiting, and I wanna do some fun psychophysics (but the possibilities for the PhD are very broad). Domestic students only, sadly. In case y'all happen to know someone: @nataliepeluso.com @reubenrideaux.bsky.social @visnerd.bsky.social

If you have about 20 minutes, I would be grateful if you could help my undergraduate student explore whether common empathy questionnaires are actually interchangable in the ways they are used in the social science literature.

Sara Eftekhari@sara-eftekhari.bsky.social · 6mo ago

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲: Level 1 Psychology students at University of Glasgow (to earn 2 Credits on SONA): glasgow.sona-systems.com/default.aspx... Everyone else: uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺: Sara Eftekhari (dissertation student), and @debruine.bsky.social (supervisor).

Any postdocs outside the UK interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship with me (sensory processing, decision making, vision), get in touch! Our school of psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social is offering costs towards a campus visit to give a talk, develop a proposal and attend training!

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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab)@visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe! Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing Philosophy Corner - Tim S. Meese, Pascal Mamassian, Isabelle Mareschal, Frans A.J. Verstraten, 2025

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Advice needed - I'm seeking suggestions for a keynote for a conference I'm organizing around immersive technologies in sports. No need for her/him to be particularly senior.

Come to Auckland in July 2026 for the joint meeting of the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference and the Asia Pacific Conference on Vision!! STUDENTS: there will be 40 travel support awards of $500 to help you attend, so don't let the distance stop you from attending.

Reupping, we start looking next week

Eric Hehman@erichehman.bsky.social · last yr.

Postdoctoral Position, full ad here: hehmanlab.org/ad Drs. Jordan Axt and Eric Hehman are seeking applications for a jointly funded Post-Doctoral Researcher, beginning Fall 2025. Topic area would broadly be centered on intergroup dynamics and prejudice. 1/2

re you local to the central belt in Scotland? Would you like to try and solve a (mock) case in our Virtual Reality Lab? Our VR Interactive Lineup study is currently recruiting participants. See our website for details and booking! faceresearch.stir.ac.uk/vr-line-ups-...

I look at a stranger and see a friend. Am I a super-recognizer?

I look at a stranger and see a friend. Am I a super-recognizer?

I once even thought I had seen my late grandmother. Can science explain my overfamiliarity with strange faces?

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In a new paper (with @kayritchie.bsky.social, Eilidh Noyes, Carl Bunce and Josh Davis) we investigated AI-face detection in super-recognisers and typical-ability participants, both with and without a short training procedure. See the link below for the results! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Training human super-recognizers’ detection and discrimination of AI-generated faces | Royal Society Open Science

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can create realistic synthetic faces, which have the potential to be used for nefarious purposes. The synthetic faces produced by GANs are difficult to detect an...

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🌏 Come spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺 @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs. Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections. 📅 Apply by 4 Dec 📍 Sydney, Australia Curious or keen? DM or email me

New research out today is written up in The Guardian! We show that the basis of super-recognisers advantage for face recognition is not just about looking everywhere – it’s about looking smarter, at more useful information for identification. Read the full text here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Super-recognizers sample visual information of superior computational value for facial recognition | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Super-recognizers—individuals with exceptionally high face recognition abilities—are a key exemplar of biological visual expertise. Recent eye-tracking evidence suggests that their expertise may be dr...

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo ago

AI study gives insights into why super-recognisers excel at identifying faces

Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>

Adam Music@musicadamt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Respond with the same actor as a hero and villain.

What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Similarity judgments and visual working memory do not share the same cognitive representation: https://osf.io/fm9vz