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First day of #APCVEPC2026 was filled with image processing, moving tributes, and a lot of chatting. The worst thing that happened is we ran out of canapés, so I'm counting that as a success.

Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow for the kick off! Tomorrow is workshops during the afternoon then the conference welcome at 17:30 followed by a drinks and canapés reception. If you can keep track of all the letters, the conference hashtag is #APCVEPC2026

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

IT'S CONFERENCE WEEK! 🎉 Welcome to Auckland, NZ for APCV/EPC2026. Whether you're giving a talk, presenting a poster, or simply taking it all in, we're glad to have you here. Tag us with: #APCVEPC26

So cool, thanks for taking your time to make something hopefully lots of people find helpful! Us organisers discussed making an app but decided it was one time commitment too far. Lovely that the community has done it anyway 😊

William Ngiam | 严祥全@williamngiam.github.io · 2mo ago

I adapted a scheduler app that was shared at VSS for this conference: apcvepc2026.netlify.app. Hope others find it useful in organising their time. (And thank you to Miyoung Kwon who created the app originally).

One more week to go til y'all converge on Auckland for the APCV-EPC party!

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our final schedule and abstract booklet are now available to download from our conference website: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026

if you're interested in this (jobs at different levels), & u'll be at OHBM (Bourdeux), CCN (NYU), APCV/EPC (Auckland), or KSBNS (Daejeon), pls let us know. some of us will also be at those meetings (i myself at the latter 2), & we can meet & chat about it there

hakwan lau@hakwan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

who wants to come work with us, on whether AIs can introspect? e.g. something similar to this - transformer-circuits.pub/2025/introsp... - but maybe especially in the perceptual domain? we just got some new funds to collaborate with our friends at Yale (on foundational models for fMRI data), & ...

🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/

Places in the Wild: A Large, High-Resolution RAW Photograph Dataset for Ecologically Valid Vision Research

Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...

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I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

LAION-fMRI - a 7T fMRI dataset of human vision

LAION-fMRI (LfMRI / LAION MRI dataset): 5 subjects, 25,052 launch-release natural images, 165 acquired 7T fMRI sessions with single-trial GLMsingle betas, retinotopy, localizers, and diffusion.

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Looking for robust AI vision? Then this NeuroAI paper may be for you 👇 Open access, open code, open weights.

Zejin Lu@zejinlu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Now out in Nature Machine Intelligence @NatMachIntell “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision”: doi.org/10.1038/s422.... A wonderful case where brain inspiration improved AI. With @martisamuser.bsky.social, Radek Cichy and @timkietzmann.bsky.social .

It's the due date for APCV-EPC abstracts and it's been amazing watching the exponential influx of abstract submissions today. You are all people after my own last-minute heart 💙 If you haven't submitted yet, you've got til midnight NZ time!

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⚠️ LAST CHANCE to submit your abstract. Submissions close 30 April 2026.

Recommendation for local poster printing or delivery in St Pete's? I won't have a car. #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social

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One week left to come join us at EPC/APCV - abstract submissions are piling up, and the conference venue is crisp and sunny!

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

❗Last week before the abstract submission deadline for APCV & EPC 2026❗ Abstracts are due on 30 April 2026. Please also note that all presenters—including speakers and discussants in symposia—must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline on 15 May 2026.

If you would like some productive procrastination, please feel free to help us out with some research on individual recognition of great spotted woodpeckers (NB: needs to be done on a laptop/computer): mzmmcerny.github.io/GSW_game/ #academicsky #ecology #ornithology

You had me at "We are seeking a rodent..."

Kate Jeffery@katejj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇

OK but it's an indictment on email interface design that mail merge has been around for 30 years and it was still too fiddly for most of us to use until LLMs came along to mediate.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.” My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

We have over 100 abstracts submitted already and are expecting a big spike in these last couple of weeks! EPC/APCV are very rarely in NZ (last was 15yrs ago). If you're kiwi, this is a great opportunity for a nearby international conference. If you're not, this is your chance to see beautiful NZ :)

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

⚠️ Reminder: 2 weeks left until the abstract submission deadline for APCV & EPC 2026. Abstracts are due on 30 April 2026. Please also note that all presenters—including speakers and discussants in symposia—must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline on 15 May 2026.

Good thread on an interesting project - nice to see more of these nuanced benchmarks of human-model visual alignment.

Rob Mok@robmok.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share our new preprint: "Do Machines Fail Like Humans? A Human-Centered Out-of-Distribution Spectrum for Mapping Error Alignment" led by @binxia.bsky.social w @ken-lxl.bsky.social & co-senior author Luke Dickens (UCL) 🤖🧵👇 Link: arxiv.org/abs/2603.07462 🧠📈#PsychSciSky #compneuro #mlsky /1

Does anyone know if the SVRHM (Shared Visual Representations in Humans and Machines) satellite will be coming to Sydney with NeurIPS this December? I can't find any info about it so I'm assuming not, but that would be a great shame!

My first foray into explicitly trying to bridge Marr’s levels, with @bealebrains.bsky.social. Inspired by Hahn and Wei’s models (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38360947/), we wondered how the brain could instantiate sensory inference with efficient /decoding/ properties. 1/

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On the inseparability of the prior and neural resources in behavioural bias https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.07.714659v1

Meet our second keynote speaker for APCV & EPC 2026! Prof. Elaine Reese from the University of Otago will deliver a keynote lecture titled "Memory Development: From Basic Science to Applied Approaches."

Should I take 6 months of sabbatical in 2027, or 12 months of sabbatical in 2029? First time planning sabbatical/RSL, and not sure how to think about the tradeoffs. I'd mostly be using it for grant writing and visiting collaborators.

My friend and collaborator Kamila Jozwik is looking for a postdoc to work on some super interesting projects involving the representation of animacy and other, more subtle, semantic distinctions in the brain, especially during immersive VR/AR experiences. See link on the lab website for details!

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)@c2d3.cam.ac.uk · 6mo ago

Postdoctoral researcher and PhD positions in visual cognitive computational neuroscience at the @cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge (Kamila Maria Jozwik) kamilajozwik.com/join_lab.html 🟢 2-year postdoc deadline 2 April 2026 🟡 4-year PhD position deadline 23 March 2026

Next up: Keynote Speaker Announcements. Introducing the first speaker for APCV & EPC 2026! Prof. Hakwan Lau will present a keynote lecture titled "Prefrontal Mechanisms for Perception."

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Last week to apply for a 3yr postdoc with @tsawallis.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and myself. Deadline is March 15th hmc-lab.com/TAMPostdoc.h...

Charley Wu@thecharleywu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Come work with @tsawallis.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and myself! 3 yr Postdoc on category learning w/ structured, program-like representations. Funded by the www.theadaptivemind.de Excellence Cluster! Deadline is Mar 15th, details 👇 Please share widely 🙏

Our reply to 11 commentaries on our article ("Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex") is out in Cognitive Neuroscience! Thanks to @susanwardle.bsky.social @maryamvaziri.bsky.social Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social and all who contributed! 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What behavioral relevance is (not)

We are thankful for the thoughtful commentaries of our colleagues. In our discussion article, we argued for a course correction to how the field approaches the organization of visual function in oc...

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I had five wonderful years in Giessen, both scientifically and personally. The vision science research environment at JLU has gone from strength to strength. A really incredible opportunity if you're interested in experimental perception science!

Kaiser Lab@dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!

**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...