Our new five-year strategy demonstrates how we will deliver our mission to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.  Professor Sir Ian Chapman introduces the strategy in the video below.  Find out more: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-to...

Our new five-year strategy

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Real pleasure to be at #EPSEssex and the symposium celebrating 80 years of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social - alongside Bob Logie, Anna Franklin, @bhisma.bsky.social, @angeladebruin.bsky.social and Sophie Scott. Thank you @asifamajid.bsky.social!

📢 We’re hiring! If you’re enthusiastic about computation, MRI analysis, multimodal methods, and you like supporting human neuroscience research, join us at @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/2s4fsx9n for details. Pls share. #neuroskyence #neurojobs #ECR

Computational Technical Expert at University of Reading

Recruiting now: Computational Technical Expert on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Today’s Education Select Committee report on higher education is the best report on HE to come from Govt/Parliament in ages. It takes a rounded view of the whole system, moving away from the more atomistic or narrow accounts we’ve seen 🧵 committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

“A very serious problem”: No clear government plan for universities risking insolvency, MPs find in new report - Committees - UK Parliament

Today MPs on the Education Committee warn that the government has no clear plan for universities facing insolvency and that protections for students are inadequate, as the Committee publishes a new re...

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📢 #ReadEmo26 is on! Join us on 23–24 June at @uniofreading.bsky.social “From Receptors to Perceptions: The Multiple Approaches to Understanding Pain” For details, registration, and abstract submission visit: sites.google.com/site/reading... #ReadEmo2026 #PainResearch #ECR

Reading Emotions

This symposium brings together pain researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds and experience to promote extensive knowledge exchange, networking opportunities, and the potential for developi...

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We have a Prof role advertised at UoR. I’m very happy to informally chat with anyone interested, just get in touch.

Carien van Reekum@carien.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣 Job alert: We are recruiting a Prof in Neuroscience with MRI expertise to join us at @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social and @unirdg-psych.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/2kdjph8v for details. Contact me for info/chat. Please spread the word #neuroskyence #neurojobs

📣 Job alert: We are recruiting a Prof in Neuroscience with MRI expertise to join us at @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social and @unirdg-psych.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/2kdjph8v for details. Contact me for info/chat. Please spread the word #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Professor of Neuroscience at University of Reading

Apply for the Professor of Neuroscience role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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The next EPS Meeting will be at the University of Essex from 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture and the 15th Frith Prize Talk. Portals for this meeting will open on Monday 13th April 2026 at 10am (UK time) and for at least 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture by Melissa Colloff (and accompanying symposium organised by Markus Bindemann). This meeti…

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A special one! Proud to be a part of this journey.

University of Reading@uniofreading.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We’re 100 today. On 17 March 1926, the University of Reading was granted its Royal Charter. Now, we wake up 100 years later as a global university, shaped by generations of students, staff, alumni and partners who have built something extraordinary together. Happy 100th anniversary to us. #UoR100

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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We're recruiting for several Lectureships in Psychology at the University of Reading - please pass on to anyone you think might be interested: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - we're a nice bunch to work with! #academicsky

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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Thank you to everyone who attended, presented and helped organise #EPSLondon 2026! EPS meetings are coming up fast in 2026, with the next to be held at Newcastle University between Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April. Portals open on Monday 12th January, 10am UK time! eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: Newcastle University. Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April 2026. This meeting will include the 24th EPS Mid-Career Prize lecture by Elizabeth Jefferies (and accompanying sympo…

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Welcome to the University of Reading's Centenary year. Over the next 12 months we'll be celebrating 100 years of UoR by connecting our community, our actions and our impact through a series of events, shared stories and much, much more. Visit https://rdg.ac/3MXzd8S to find out more.

This #OpenAccess study from 'Affective Science' shows that dyad arrangement affects perceived emotional valence intensity, with face-to-face bodies seen as more emotionally intense than back-to-back ones. bit.ly/3KSeKSc @drkatiegray.bsky.social #AffectSci #SocPsyc #VisionScience #AcademicSky

Please join us in congratulating Professor Anna Horwood from UoR School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences who has been appointed MBE in the New Year's Honours List for services to Orthoptics and Research in Visual Development. Read the full article now: https://rdg.ac/4pXkOI5

Our latest preprint on the STREAM project to measure neurodevelopment using a digital platform in ~4000 kids in low resource settings www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Comprehensive neurodevelopmental assessment through non-specialists: Validation of the STREAM digital platform in India and Malawi

Background: Children in low-resource settings often lack access to culturally appropriate and feasible neurodevelopmental assessments. Existing tools are costly, require specialist training, and were ...

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Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNAS

Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...

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New article out today in @nature.com

Tomas Knapen@tknapen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

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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So excited about a Special Issue we are co-editing in @therealspr.bsky.social 's journal Psychophysiology on Physiological and Neurophysiological Synchronisation between individuals – Methodological Approaches and Evaluations. Please spread the word & submit by 28 February 2026 tinyurl.com/ywjjxkbt

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

<em>Psychophysiology</em> is a human neuroscience journal covering research on the interrelationships between the physiological and psychological aspects of brain and behavior.

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TL:DR we'd like universities to collaborate and specialise, so they can contribute to economic growth rather than go bust

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Post 16 White Paper is out at last www.gov.uk/government/p...

The next EPS scientific meeting will be held at University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026. The portals for this meeting will open on Monday (8th September) at 10am (UK time)! eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: University College London. 7th – 9th January 2026. This meeting will include the 54th EPS Bartlett Prize Lecture by Matthew Botvinick (with an accompanying symposium organised by Patri…

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Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!

Gonzalo Urcelay@gurcelay.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal. The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years. eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...

An Open Call for the next Editor-in-Chief of QJEP.

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.  The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor An…

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Seeing is believing, especially for your immune system. A new study shows that watching visibly sick people approach you in VR can trigger immune responses the same way a vaccine does @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Looking at a sick person in VR can rev up our bodies’ immune systems

New study provides “remarkable” glimpse into how the brain predicts potential infections

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📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

What's better than lab BBQ? Double BBQ with @drkatiegray.bsky.social lab too! #whenworldscollide