Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!
Emma E.M. Stewart
@eemstewart.bsky.social
Vision scientist. Lecturer in psychology at Queen Mary University of London.🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧 🔗 www.emmaemstewart.com
At our launching event "Mind, Tech, and Wellbeing" for our new Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour at QMUL! Follow us on here @queenmarycbb.bsky.social to hear more about our research @qmul.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social
Eye movements are cheap, right? Not necessarily! 💰 In our review just out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Alex Schütz and I discuss the different costs associated with making an eye movement, how these costs affect behaviour, and the challenges of measuring this… rdcu.be/eAm69 #visionscience #vision
A review of the costs of eye movements
Nature Reviews Psychology - Eye movements are the most frequent movements that humans make. In this Review, Schütz and Stewart integrate evidence regarding the costs of eye movements and...
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Hello prospective postdocs interested in biological + artificial minds! The deadline for a postdoctoral position in my lab is on July 3rd! ---> up to 2 years (23 months... and there will be time to apply to a Marie Curie fellowship to extend, if you are eligible, or to other programmes) 🐣👾🤖
Elisabetta Versace@elisabettaversace.bsky.social · last yr.Passionate about research on biological and artificial minds? my lab @preparedmindslab.bsky.social is hiring! We are looking for a 2-year postdoctoral researcher interested in modelling and animal Cognition qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/... write me for informal inquiries 🐣👾🤖
Worrying to see increasing levels of measles in parts of UK and Europe- if you are not vaccinated please do consider the MMR which is a safe way to prevent a potentially deadly disease
Measles warning to holidaymakers as cases rise across Europe
As the summer holiday season gets going, families are being warned of measles outbreaks in many popular European destinations, with vaccination rates in the UK still far below what experts advise.
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🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩🔬👨🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
Still time to apply (until 30/04)!! What are you waiting for?
@ranimo.bsky.social · last yr.⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning to study how mis/misinformation affects us. For full funding, one has to be eligible for UK home fees. Please Share!! @queenmarycbb.bsky.social Deadline: April 20. For more information: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning to study how mis/misinformation affects us. For full funding, one has to be eligible for UK home fees. Please Share!! @queenmarycbb.bsky.social Deadline: April 20. For more information: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Characterising Cognitive Biases Elicited by Misinformation Using Reinforcement Learning at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Characterising Cognitive Biases Elicited by Misinformation Using Reinforcement Learning at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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That psychometric function takes a certain type of skill…
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Advertising 2 new positions in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. A postdoc & an RA at Queen Mary University of London as part of our UKRI-funded Animating Minds Project. More details and how to apply here: Postdoc: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX749/p... RA: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London
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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.
Our 7th most-read article of the year... "I have served as department chair for the past three years, an honor I was proud to take on, since it was my fault I didn’t find a hiding spot fast enough when we saw the dean coming."
A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester
Our 7th most-read article of 2024. - - -Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. ...
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I feel like the uni was optimistic putting out giant deck chairs in London in December….🤔
Is perceptual novelty important in your research? We created, standardised, and validated a database of truly novel perceptual stimuli (matched to BOSS objects on size, contrast, luminance & colourfulness) so you don't have to! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cogpsy #psychology #EEG #neuroskyence
Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks
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How can we decide which viewpoints of an object are qualitatively special? How do we know where the front is, for objects we've never seen before? In our new paper we provide a quantiative account of why some object viewpoints are qualitatively special. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A combination of VSS posts and rainy London is making me very angry at December-Emma’s decision not to go VSS this year 😭
What are the best (most informative / best at determining who would be a good fit) questions to ask prospective PhD students in an interview? #visionscience
Eyetracking people: Mobile eyetrackers all seem to have very low sampling rates on their "world camera" videos - does anyone know a way to connect a better camera to get a higher sampling rate. I have access to Tobii and IScan headsets. #visionscience
I have a funded PhD position open- Come and work with me in London on a project looking at inference and prediction in perception and oculomotor control. Please share! #visionscience www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/postgra...
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When I took a job in the UK, I didn’t account for the govt hostility to foreigners. Rent a flat with my German husband co-listed = impossible until we pay 1000s for family visa. Rent alone & list his 🇩🇪 salary as income = impossible (non UK income). Renting alone = impossible (my salary too low). 🫠
OK, I seriously think there's a solid #VisionScience study somewhere in this thread of uninterpretable cookie cutter shapes. www.buzzfeed.com/rossyoder/gu... #PsychSciSky
13 Truly Mysterious Cookie Cutters That, Honest To God, I'm *Still* Trying To Identify
I'm legitimately stumped — and you will be, too.
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I’m excited to share some big news- today is my first day as a Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Mary University London! Looking forward to starting my lab and doing awesome things here! 👀👀 (Also discovered that seeing a clear day through the window means that the drizzle is just invisible… ☔️).
The other day I was complaining to lawyer/consultant friends about academic salaries. Their response: “oh well, you only teach a few hours a week so you can just get a second job too right?” 😐😐
There’s no task so futile and so frustrating as formatting a manuscript for a journal that will probably desk reject it anyway…
Announcing a feed for #VisionScience. Add the tag to any post related to visual sensation, perception, and cognition.