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Earlier this year, Sam Clarke, Liz Brannon, and I published a paper taking a critical look at the phenomenon of *number adaptation*. A reply by Burr, Anobile, and Arrighi is forthcoming in Cognition. You can see their reply here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨Calling psych PhD students and postdocs! 🚨Want to highlight a paper that had a big impact, doesn't get enough attention, or drew you to the field? Apply to write a Journal Club article with us! nature.com/articles/s4415… 1/3

Would you trust tour children’s university education to these people? #uclgrad UCL Psych & Lang Sci John Greenwood (@jagreenwood.bsky.social) Lasana Harris Henrik Singmann Prof Jenni Rodd Anne Schlottmann Benedetto de Martino

Our lab at the Institut de la Vision (IDV) in Paris is seeking a PhD student or postdoc. The project explores the function and organisation of the macaque visual brain using high channel count neural interfaces for neuroscience and prosthetics. institut-vision.org/en/job-offers/…

We’re recruiting members for MRC boards and panels✍️ You’ll provide expert advice and guidance to help us continue to fund the best health research. We especially welcome researchers from groups underrepresented in UK research to apply. More: orlo.uk/DZOlq

Brain regions that make us human also leave us vulnerable | Journal Club | PNAS pnas.org/post/journal-c…

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Visual impairments in #Alzheimer’s are more common than you might think. A new test can help diagnose them. Read more in a post by Anna Kosovicheva on a new #psynomBRM paper by Keir Yong, John Greenwood (@jagreenwood.bsky.social), and colleagues featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/visual-impairm…

This is wild! Apparently a strong predictor of whether a community is a "Blue Zone" with unusually many 100-yr-olds is whether it also has unusually *few* 90-yr-olds…one of many pieces of evidence that it's all just erroneous birthdates & pension fraud 😮 theconversation.com/the-data-on-ex…

New in the Albinism issue bit.ly/3Oi8VLq, Jan Skerswetat et al. Jan Skerswetat Northeastern COS @NECO424 study Visual Performance of People With Albinism Assessed With Generalizable and Adaptive AIM and FInD Methods, iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a….

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We asked UCL Institute of Ophthalmology's Senior Research Fellow Dr Michael Crossland about the value of keeping kids' and teens’ eyes healthy. Michael Crossland #NationalEyeHealthWeek #eyehealth #VisionMatters

A few postdocs asked me to read over their job applications. Here’s a few bits of advice: 🧵 /10 1. If any advice doesn’t ring true for you, discard it (including this!) 2. People on the search committee are keen to welcome a colleague, they aren’t looking to take you down

All kinds of exciting plans are afoot here Johns Hopkins University, and this is part of it! Three positions in Psychological & Brain Sciences — one each in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, & behavioral neuroscience. These are very broad searches (in both rank and area). Apply!

The orange dot NEVER CHANGES SIZE The dynamic Ebbinghaus illusion, by Blair, Caplovitz and Mruczek. Particularly compelling with two instances playing out of phase with one another

This new paper spearheaded by Matt Self shows the link between border-ownership tuning in area V4 of the visual cortex and figure-ground signals in area V1, by an analysis of the pattern of noise correlations between neurons in these two cortical areas. nature.com/articles/s4146…

This is the system prompt for Apple Intelligence. Turns out Apple's prompt engineers are as clueless about how LLM work as all the others.

Welcome to academia in the 21st century 😂😂😂 #AcademicTwitter

I don't feel I can justify being on twitter anymore given the nastiness surrounding it, so if you'd like to stay in touch please find me on the alternative at: bsky.app/profile/jagree…

Koyaanisqatsi isn't quite as haunting if you replace Philip Glass with the music from the Wii Shop Channel.