An interesting pre-print came out last week on how Monarch butterflies process irrelevant visual information. Monarch butterflies have big wings that sweep across a big part of their visual fields on every wingbeat, creating a bit of a problem.

Visual illusions are often an entry point to learning about visual perception & neuroscience. Some of them can have an impact on research, like with the dress that broke the internet. You can now vote for the best visual illusion of the year until this Saturday (link below). 🧵

Really pleased to see Claudia von Bastian's talk on cognitive plasticity in video-game players. It referenced a study that just came out comparing expert counter strike players to novices, skilled, and "emerging" players in a task-switching task.

Unusually I have read two really interesting papers on motion processing in the butterfly. One is about the wing patterns in butterflies might have evolved to maximize misdirection (perhaps something we can hint at with their erratic flights). (1/4)

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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Please vote for the Linton Color Constancy Illusion in this year's Illusion of the Year Competition! Link: vote.illusionoftheyear.com

Should have been labelled as AI (neuroscientists to weight whether it is slop) It misleadingly depicts a neural developnent process, not learning. To boot, content was lifted verbatim from somebody else.

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I thought I'd share this fascinating piece of tactile neurophysiology as I am updating my introduction to sensation and perception lectures. (1/4)

Two free reviews a week. Papers stored in encrypted servers, not used for model training without permission. Curious to see how it fares with cog neuro papers. If could be a net benefit to the field, eve if was just able to catch statistical errors.

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We’re looking for motivated PhD candidates! BBSRC MIBTP-funded PhD opportunities in the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences at the University of Leicester. Three exciting projects on reading, cognition & the brain.

We’re looking for motivated PhD candidates! BBSRC MIBTP-funded PhD opportunities in the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences at the University of Leicester. Three exciting projects on reading, cognition & the brain.

As we can expect PubMed dysfunction more and more or to be swamped with fake journals I suggest you get acquainted to this nice alternative: europepmc.org

If your research could be affected by such policies, you can use OSF or similar services to post a preprint with a CC-BY license to ensure it is accessible to everyone: osf.io/preprints OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.

Anne Fausto-Sterling@birdlady.bsky.social · 2y ago

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n... #medsky #feministsky #lgbtSTEM #transSTEM #womeninstem

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Deborah Blum@deborahb.bsky.social · 2y ago

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

Saddened to hear about the passing of Eileen Kowler. She just handled a paper I co-authored on anticipatory pursuit for Journal of Vision. I haven't seen a better editor job. She made so many groundbreaking contributions to the field, including on the nature of anticipatory pursuit.

Very sad to hear about the passing of Eileen Kowler, a true giant in the field of eye movements & their interaction with vision & cognitive processes. She helped me as a grad student & it was always wonderful to talk to her. Her body of work is foundational to our field. Thank you, Eileen.

New paper out (including some 15 year old data!): Anticipatory smooth pursuit eye movements scale with the probability of visual motion: The role of target speed and acceleration jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Look at this parade of hero institutions, members of PsyArxiv who make a financial contribute to keep our #preprint server running, free to upload and download, to everyone, worldwide and forever. If you think your institution could join them, please get in […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

We’re seeing some incredible growth in #NeuroSky “Daily neuroscience-related posts on Bluesky have risen to an average of 179 in the past 7 days, compared with an avg of -35 in the month of October -28 in September -15 in August” #blackinneuro #neuroscience www.thetransmitter.org/community/hu...

‘Huge influx’ of neuroscientists migrates to Bluesky

Daily neuroscience-related posts on the social-media platform this week have increased more than 400 percent, on average, compared with October.

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New Leicester (UK) #MEcfs & #PostCovid study that is recruiting Investigating the impact of ME/CFS & #LongCOVID on visual perception & sustained attention using Pupil Frequency Tagging & EEG dougiebarrett.github.io/Lab/pages/ME... ME Research UK-funded Not a biopsychosocial study #CFS #PwME

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V happy to finally have this paper out on maximising educational & research value of UG dissertations ➡️Consider using secondary/meta data ➡️Adopt team science practices ➡️Embed openness & transparency ➡️Raise awareness of & avoid incentivising QRPs #PsychSciSky online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Maximising the Educational and Research Value of the Undergraduate Dissertation in Psychology

The undergraduate research dissertation in psychology is the capstone demonstration of research skills including project planning and design, considering and resolving ethical issues, and the analysis...

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Here is a list of people doing sensorimotor research and that have a BlueSky account: bsky.app/profile/did:... Too bad most of them are barely active here but this shows that there is potential….