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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Good meetings include good cake! Very productive day in York with Eilidh and @drkatiegray.bsky.social

Probably the most joyous photo of two old friends drinking wine and making each other laugh through music 🥰

Hear me out. Who was the first dude on the podium at the Euros final there? Was it Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible mask? And if you’re saying no, are you sure? The face, the eyes, and the hands don’t match the face.

What a brilliant time at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social in Dundee last week! Huge congratulations to Mike Burton for his Sir Frederick Bartlett prize lecture and thank you for attracting so many awesome face perception researchers! 🥰🤓 Thank you to @lizziebradford.bsky.social for organising! 👏

Great day and a bit with Katrina and Ranbir in Huddersfield for the Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network meeting. Lots of networking, and lots of good ideas to be working on from an East Midlands perspective! 🤓

I had such a wonderful time recording this episode of The Movie Method with the brilliant Jenny @filmtherapy.bsky.social and Roger who I am so blessed to be able to call my friends. Can’t wait to listen - I know our friendship and our love of this film will come across 🥰 Thank you for having me on!

Jenny Hamilton@filmtherapy.bsky.social · last yr.

Really enjoyed discussing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with the amazing @kayritchie.bsky.social on our new movie podcast episode. You may also hear Kay’s Shaun Connery impression! open.spotify.com/episode/1anf...

Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

Senior Research Associate (RA2312) in University of East Anglia | UEA

View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2312) vacancy in University of East Anglia. School of Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences Senior Research Associate Ref: RA...

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Pint of Science has made the front cover of the Lincoln Independent magazine! 19-21 May, tickets here PintOfScience.co.uk/events/lincoln

Had a wonderful week in the merry old land of Oz playing in the band for MJH Productions in Grantham. Congratulations to everyone in the cast, crew, production and band!

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to present my Frith Prize talk at the EPS meeting yesterday — it was such an honour and a delight! I had some fascinating questions and conversations that will definitely help shape my next projects. Huge thanks to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for the fab conference!

A brilliant first meeting for me as a committee member of EPS. Thanks so much to everyone for making me feel welcome, and for sharing such great research 🤓

The Experimental Psychology Society@exppsychsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

That's all for #EPSLancaster25, a huge thank you to our local organisers - Padraic Monaghan and Alice Milne - for all of their help! EPS meetings couldn't happen without all of our amazing attendees, talk and poster presenters, symposium speakers, prize winners and meeting helpers. Thank you!

Delighted to be at the Lancaster meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. Great talks from members of @notts-psych.bsky.social, Lauren Marsh and Sandra Lagator.

Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!

Carien van Reekum@carien.bsky.social · last yr.

Exciting news: we’re hiring! Chair in (Cognitive) Neuroscience and up to 3 Assistant Prof posts. Contact @christakou.bsky.social or myself for Neuro inquiries. See tinyurl.com/uuunhsnm for Chair details, and tinyurl.com/mrxnszzw to apply for Assistant Prof. Join us!

Here’s my opinion - let’s stop saying a piece of work is from someone’s (the most well-known person’s) lab. Let’s credit the first author even if we haven’t already heard of them. How do PhD students and postdoc and other ECRs get known if we erase their names from discussions of their own papers?

Experimental Philosophy@xphilosopher.bsky.social · last yr.

New study from Raffaella Nori's lab on how cognitive load affects intentional action judgments for side effects Results are very different from what pretty much anyone would have predicted www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Brill but exhausting sitzprobe for MJH Productions’ Wizard of Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁

What an absolutely brilliant concert with Stamford Chamber Orchestra! Mozart narrated a ‘children’s guide’ piece written specially for us by John Sturt, complete with kiddo violins & singers. Jupiter symphony was genuinely one of the best things I’ve played in a while - well done everyone!

The cartoon of this admin:

Ugh no. I met Mark once, a long time ago. He and his wife, Gabby Giffords, are absolutely amazing. Look them both up. Mark and Gabby have such a collective wisdom, they should be listened to.

Just Jack@just-jack-1.bsky.social · last yr.

Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

"...there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created."

The English Association@englishassociation.bsky.social · last yr.

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

Delighted to be the new Director of the Lincoln Policy Hub connecting researchers with policymakers to generate research impact. It’s already been great learning about just some of the brilliant policy-facing research going on across the uni. Still in psychology just a bit less bit.ly/3QaiLjX

ITV commentary once again is totally unhinged - there’s clearly a bet on as to who can say the word “wardrobe” the most. “He is a nicely built, nicely aging French wardrobe”. Mad. Also strong choice from Twickenham to choose ‘Chumbaleze’ for their hanging around music. #EngFra #SixNations

I have a tshirt with this on it!

David Hull 胡大衛@hushuo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Worth remembering. I'm here live. I'm not a cat.

This is problematic. Our research shows the public, including a sample in USA, support facial recognition tech use in conjunction with other evidence, & when used specifically to find people on a watchlist. If used well it can be helpful. Full research article here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Public attitudes towards the use of automatic facial recognition technology in criminal justice systems around the world

Automatic facial recognition technology (AFR) is increasingly used in criminal justice systems around the world, yet to date there has not been an international survey of public attitudes toward its u...

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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.

Finally caught up on Black Doves - absolutely brilliant! Every performance was captivating. Please say they’re making another series!

Very pleased to see the Experimental Psychology Society here. Their London meeting this week was great as always. Whether you’re a familiar or new member, or just a curious aspiring psychologist please follow the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and check out their meetings and support!

Mark Haselgrove@markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 2y ago

Brilliant mid-career prize lecture by @mikelepelley.bsky.social on "Prediction, Plasticity and Prioritisation" at the London meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social

🚨 New funded PhD position at UCL 🚨 Funding is provided for a PhD student in our new centre to help work with Fiona Zisch & Sean Hanna to apply agent-based-modelling to analyse the crazy data set from 100+ people navigating a giant maze in PEARL. See details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...

We were just talking about this yesterday in the context of truth and facts. Who gets to decide that a piece of evidence is not ‘real’ or a fact? Peer reviewers and an editor. Thats a bit scary.

Jonny Coates@jacoates.bsky.social · 2y ago

I talk about this a lot. Probably too much. I'm going to be doing a lot more on this across this year. The continued positioning of peer review as quality control isn't just wrong but in a time of distrust it's actively damaging and prevents real & necessary change.

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.

Thanks to @lynnpickerell.bsky.social for sharing this with me - one of the biggest virals of the year indeed. I do need to say though, the amount of online abuse the ‘woman in red’ has received is shocking to me. Even on this post on this platform. We can disagree without name calling and hating.

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 2y ago

DECEMBER 2024: One of the biggest virals of the year. Millions watched agog this #BBCQT audience member say that there should be no asylum system at all, because "people make far too much of fleeing war". The face of the woman next to her became a meme in its own right. ~AA #BfBviralvid