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

(1/6) Do our visual neuroscience findings actually replicate? And do they generalize beyond the datasets they were found in? We've lauched re:vision, a community-driven initiative to answer these questions, and we are looking for scientistis to participate. re-vision-initiative.org

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

This is critical reading for those wondering about the future of open science; we ought to make progress by being clear-eyed on the origins of the movement (and in this case, the dangers raised by the sources of seed funding being those with wealth and influence).

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

Fun to see the "impossible" size-weight illusion (and Alan Davies' reaction) on QI! If only the joy and curiosity that these illusions sparks was reason enough to provide funding to the basic sesnsation and perception sciences! @chazfirestone.bsky.social h/t to @deannegreen.bsky.social

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The ECRs @reproducibilitea.org are hosting a free online symposium! When: September 25, 2026 – 10:00 (UTC+1) Where: Online via Zoom — free and open to all! Details: reproducibilitea.org/conference2026 Grab your favourite cup as we pour over what the community has been brewing for ten years.

Virtual Conference Registration: "Spilling the ReproducibiliTea: A decade on and decades ahead"

This registration for is to confirm your attendance at the virtual ReproducibiliTea conference "Spilling the ReproducibiliTea: A decade on and decades ahead", taking place online (Zoom) on September 2...

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3 more hours until the first day of WMS 2026 (a.k.a. PARTY)! See you all there!! www.wmsymposium.org/program (Don't forget to join Slack before the party starts!)

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My preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social on inferring the representation underlying cognitive tasks has been updated: osf.io/preprints/ps.... It has a new title, upgrades of our previous models, additional analyses, and a stronger discussion that reflects our deeper and clearer thinking. /1

William Ngiam | 严祥全@williamngiam.github.io · 9mo ago

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

Some stats comparing Open Mind to some competitor journals

Is PsyArXiv preprint moderation working at the promised 3-day turn around time or working much slower than that? Not sure if I've encountered a bug after changing the title for the newest version.

ATTENTION!!! The program of Working Memory Symposium (WMS) 2026 (July 14-17) is out! sites.google.com/view/wmsympo... This year, WMS will feature a single stream presentation of 52 talks (39 talks and 13 blitz) + 1 panel discussion across 4 days. Looking forward to seeing you all!!!

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We're so very proud of this! Not much of the journal metrics per se (they don't always reflect well what they're supposed to measure...), but of the fact that we offer a reputable outlet for strong cognitive science outside of commercial logics. Send us your best papers, folks!

Gidon Frischkorn@gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is great to see! Also that @jcgntn.bsky.social has gained a good spot among these outlets. Obviously, I am not impartial (being AE at JoC), but it is great to see that non-profit journals that are backed by scientific societies & focused on serving the scientific community are faring well!

It took a while to get used to, but I do find I am getting faster each time I use pivot_longer() or pivot_wider().

hakwan lau@hakwan.bsky.social · last mo.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... one pays a price to change research fields & directions but it's fun. so that's that.

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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1/9 📄 New in the Journal of Neuroscience: "Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity" Does the brain prioritise the events it expects, or the ones that surprise it? We find it does both — at different stages. 🧵 doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity

The brain’s remarkable ability to process continuous sensory inputs with adaptive efficiency – balancing flexibility while minimizing metabolic cost – is thought to rely on predictive mechanisms that ...

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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!

Two vision scientists – holding adversarial positions on the theory – hide their secret romantic relationship from the field-at-large while delivering antagonistic conference talks. You won't believe what your eyes are seeing with each episode of ... "Heated Binocular Rivalry".

Interesting retraction notice at JEPG. Looks like major errors in part to inappropriate LLM use. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS! authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...

A thought that I have not yet seen to its end: quality of a research paper is more gainfully evaluated when substantial time has passed. That is, when subsequent research has tested or extended upon the ideas, leading to further progress and understanding. Seems daft to quantify that with metrics.

Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard! DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please improve acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Our new paper on this topic begins by summarising three pathways to improve crediting of research contributors – 1. Loosen authorship restrictions.

Improving acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors

Formal recognition of research contributions is critical for career advancement and the allocation of research funding. However, some contributions are mentioned only in the acknowledgments section...

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There's ongoing discourse about whether digital technology is impacting attention spans, but the empirical research does not seem to connect with what is felt by the general public. So, to better understand the perceptions, we examined what was being said on the issue in four relevant subreddits.

Collabra: Psychology@collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: A qualitative analysis of the perceived impact of digital technology on attention. From @williamngiam.github.io, Natasha van Antwerpen, @ellamoeck.bsky.social, and Carly Stagg doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New: A qualitative analysis of the perceived impact of digital technology on attention. From @williamngiam.github.io, Natasha van Antwerpen, @ellamoeck.bsky.social, and Carly Stagg doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Super excited about this paper by the amazing @talboger.bsky.social, now in press @ @nathumbehav.nature.com! Before you ask: No, it has no corresponding lab merch (cf www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams/mer...). But yes, it has deep questions, creative experiments, and foundational implications!

tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Complexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Do you think in concepts? In pictures? A little bit of both? Thinking in pictures draws on parts of your brain also involved in seeing pictures: Early Visual Cortex (EVC). To learn how thinking in pictures may work, the amazing @noa tested 2 accounts in a neural network model. 🚨TWEEPRINT ALERT! 1/n

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Tomorrow morning at 11am I'll be presenting my talk at #VSS2026 titled "Semantic understanding, not just coherent object structure, strengthens visual working memory"! (Talk Room 2) See you there!

If you are at #VSS2026 check out our poster 36.320 in the Sunday afternoon session. I'll tell what we learned about the neural signatures of stimulus memorability from EEG decoding in a large visual memory dataset In collaboration w/Leo Chang, Ed Vogel (@edvogel.bsky.social), and Ed Awh

I have found that a good way around signing my name to a critical or harsh peer review is to simply ask for a bunch of @jsaito25.bsky.social's papers to be cited. My reputation stays intact and Joey gets more cites/reads.

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Abstract submission for WMS2026 (July 14th-17th) is now open! If you are an early career researcher of working memory, please let us hear about your cool work by submitting your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...). Deadline is May 31st.

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