Such an incredible line up of people here - if you haven't seen the AI Sentience Scholar program yet the deadline is this Tuesday! #neroskyence

Ida Momennejad@neuroai.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢Become an AI Sentience scholar. Apply by Tues April 28! @neddo.bsky.social & I are looking for a grad student/postdoc w expertise in survey studies/modeling & topic - 6 months part-time online collab - 8hrs/week June-Dec 2026 - Up to $5k stipend, $3k project costs neuromatch.io/ai-sentience... 1/n

Fantastic opportunity here! 👇👇👇

Reuben Rideaux@reubenrideaux.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨Job alert 🚨 Continuing Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney. Beaches, mountains, psychophysics... what more could you want? (mountains are optional) usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The human amygdala in threat learning and extinction

Ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human amygdala provides causal evidence for its role in forming persistent threat memories.

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Thanks for the interview! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 🧠 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

Interview with Prof. Lucina Uddin, OHBM Fellow of 2025 — OHBM Communications

Author: Audrey Luo, Simon Steinkamp Editor: Ashley Tyrer Video Editor: Audrey Luo

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Meet our final keynote speaker for APCV & EPC 2026! Dr Corey Wadsley from the University of Auckland will present a keynote lecture titled "Stopping safely: Physiological underpinnings of response inhibition."

Our meetings are growing! 💗 34 people joined us on Wednesday arvo for two intriguing talks: neurophys evidence accumulation processes during decision making from Andrew McKay, followed by a psychophys dive into studying the dimensionality of scary faces @willjharrison.bsky.social 💀 #neuroskyence

Super excited for today's meeting! @willjharrison.bsky.social will join us fresh from the glorious Sunshine Coast, alongside UQ's Andrew Mckay. Join us in person today at 4pm or via Zoom - DM us your email address & we'll send the password 🤩 #neuroskyence

So @reubenrideaux.bsky.social and I decided to run an image-processing workshop at this year's EPC/APCV. We will be teaching people how to compute the contrast energy of kiwi fruit, I guess. Sign up now: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/ @expsyanz.bsky.social

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Fantastic presentation from @tvcottier.bsky.social kicking off our first meeting for 2026. His recent work suggests super-recognisers prioritise identity cues in faces over other dimensions, & that expressive cues interfere with them - suggesting these processes are not independent

**Postdoc position in human category learning** @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social. www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

A thesis student is looking at parasocial attachment to generative AI in undergraduate and postgraduate students. The questionnaire will take about 10 minutes. Please pass the study link on to anyone who might be interested. exp.psy.gla.ac.uk/project?para...

Ooh this is from some of our favourite Brisbane-flavoured researchers! New paper congrats to Zac Bauhmann, Amanda K Robinson @reubenrideaux.bsky.social and Jason Mattingley 🤩 #neuroskyence

Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA)@avsp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Inverted encoding of neural responses to AV stimuli reveals super-additive multisensory enhancement elifesciences.org/articles/97230 What's the deal with EEG based AV super &/or sub-additive effects? Do standard univariate analyses simply obscure multisensory interactions? Enter inverted encoding 😲

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Non-paywalled version: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786 Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence

Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...

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The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026! Deadline: 8 March 2026 www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/

Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎫 APCV & EPC 2026 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Don’t miss early‑bird pricing and limited‑availability event tickets! For more details, go to: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/ See you all on 1 July!

Congratulations to @brainboyben.bsky.social who ran a fantastic PsychoPy workshop at ACNS last November. If you're keen, @psychopy.org is looking for new Australian Ambassadors 😉 blog.psychopy.org/perspectives...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory. Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal! eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...

EPS 80th Anniversary Symposium – Call for Proposals

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium that reflects on the current state of experimental psychology and its fu…

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Excellent thread for grad students to dive into - so much expertise (and diversity of opinion!) in the comments 👇

Blake Richards@tyrellturing.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Beautiful new paper out from the Peyrache lab. Shows an incredibly stable code for head direction. Representational drift ain't a thang y'all... #neuroscience 🧪

Our first meeting for 2026 is just 5 days away! To kick things off we have 2 awesome Tims presenting their research @tvcottier.bsky.social & @tgastrell.bsky.social You can join in-person or online via Zoom - register here to receive the link 👇 uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Part 1: How do LLMs work?

YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

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Maths! And Brains! In Melbourne!! Swoon 🧠 ECRs, you only have until 20th Feb to submit your abstracts. Registration is free (but you must attend) & prizes awarded to the highest quality posters and flash talks. Submit your abstracts here & see 👇 for more lnkd.in/dZtndkH3

Adeel Razi@adeelrazi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne. We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective. This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London. 1/4🧵

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

The Self-Evidencing Agent

What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

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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/

If you're hoping to have a little help getting to @expsyanz.bsky.social in New Zealand, don't miss the deadline for applying for a Student Travel Award! You have until next Friday 27th Feb 👇

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Coming to APCV & EPC from outside of Auckland, New Zealand? Here is some more information about Student Travel Awards. More available on our website: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-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! 🧠🤗