Can faces seen in the past influence how trustworthy a new face looks? Our new paper with Clare Sutherland, Linda Jeffery, and @mauromanassi.bsky.social, shows that impressions of trustworthiness are dynamically shaped by recent visual experience. Link to the article: rdcu.be/fnqIL 🧵1/6

PhD opportunity 🚨 We’re recruiting 3 fully funded PhD studentships at @abdnpsych.bsky.social University of Aberdeen! Work on perception, social cognition & cognitive science in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment 🌍 Open to UK & international students Apply 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Gotta love Nature's opinion pieces "Science funding needs fixing - but not like that" "Academic publishing is broken - but publishing less is not the solution" "AI will kill science - how can researchers use it to be more efficient?"

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Scottish Vision Group 2026 meeting is coming! 👁️✨ April 10–12 | Nairn (near Inverness) Three days of vision science in beautiful northern Scotland. Registration and abstract deadline: February 21 www.scottishvisiongroup.org/svg2026.html #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence

Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1

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[1/4] Did you know that the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen is the oldest psychology department in the UK? @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

Are you curious how the brain creates a stable visual world? Check out our four year EastBio PhD competition project with @mauromanassi.bsky.social, Rama Chakravarthi and Brett Cochrane at @abdnpsych.bsky.social! Info: tinyurl.com/2s9d4ucw Deadline: 15 Dec #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence

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PhD Project - EastBio: Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying visual stabilisation at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

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Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition? Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy. tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c Deadline: 15/12/2025

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PhD Project - EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

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This project took over a decade to complete and I could not be more proud to be part of it...congrats @martinamorea.bsky.social! We show visual perception relies on time-consuming grouping mechanisms. Hope you enjoy the thread! #VisionScience #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence #Compneurosky

Martina Morea@martinamorea.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#Vision is often described as hierarchical and feedforward, progressing from low-level features to high-level representations. But are the early #feedforward stages truly the most essential for #perception? Let us show you why not jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... 🧵1/9

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate

"As appealing as they can be, Large Language Models are as useful to scientific research as microwaves are to fine cuisine." doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Using AI for peer reviewing is like using a microwave to reheat an old meal - Pascal Mamassian, 2025

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Incredible stuff here

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📢 Two postdoc positions (34 months each) at University of Southern Denmark – visual and auditory perception 🧠👁️👂 🔹 Vision focus (Andersen's lab): shorturl.at/YWJ3v 🔹 Hearing focus (Neher’s lab): shorturl.at/ylbGd Feel qualified for both? Apply to both! #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence

🚨 Two open faculty positions in Cognitive Psychology (incl. visual perception) at University of Southern Denmark! 🚨 #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence #compneurosky

#ECVP2025 submission deadline extended by two weeks! It's a miracle that keeps repeating every year...thank you @ecvp.bsky.social 😂

A New Hope.

Cian O'Donnell@cianodonnell.bsky.social · last yr.

Not sure who made this but it made me lol

@vssmtg.bsky.social , I am sure this must be a mistake...there is no reason to tone down your EDI statement, right? Right?? #visionscience

Hey @vssmtg.bsky.social, do you no longer support diversity and inclusion? Looks like your policies were quietly removed from your website? #VSS2025 #VSS

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

...I guess it would be easier to ask "Do you have a Bluesky account"? Yes: entry denied No: entry granted 🧠

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

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I am SO proud. Ad maiora @fiammarini.bsky.social! 🧠 #VisionScience #VisionResearch #PsychSciSky

School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen@abdnpsych.bsky.social · last yr.

Many congratulations to Dr @fiammarini.bsky.social who passed her viva with a thesis titled "First impressions of trustworthiness through space and time" supervised by Dr @mauromanassi.bsky.social, 2nd supervisor Dr Clare Sutherland, and examined by Dr Christopher Benton and Dr Rama Chakravarthi ⭐

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

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Hello #PhD students! We are running a workshop on how to organise scientific conferences. We would love to include your questions in our Q&A sections. Any tips and tricks you would like to hear from those who've been through it all? Read on… 🧵 1/5 #PhDSky #PhDchat

New video from OK Go just dropped, with some cool instances of holistic face perception

OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)

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In this "Mondrian" assimilation #illusion, the background color in all the apparently tan, yellow, and orange areas is actually exactly the same.

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🫵 EastBio PhD time! 🫵 4-year PhD project on behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying visual stabilisation 🧠👁️ Please get in touch if you are interested (UK/International) Applications deadline: Jan 17th #visionscience #cogsci #psychsky #neuroskyence #EEG

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📣 Postdoc Opportunity: Serial Effects in Visual Perception 👁️ ❗ Still 3 weeks to apply! ❗ I have a 1.5-year, #ESRC-funded postdoc position available in my lab at the University of Aberdeen (UK), in collaboration with Prof. Greg Francis from Purdue University (US). Get in touch if you are interested!