Please RT! 2 weeks left now to apply to this 3years + postdoc post in my lab on an important study of neglect post-stroke and its recovery (N=206). Come join my fabulous team in wonderful Norwich UEA Psychology Neurolab Apply here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJS921/sen…

In our new Nature Communications paper, we investigate the visual system's priorities for extracting meaningful information from faces and bringing it to conscious awareness. We use a new tachistoscope that enables visual presentations as short as 0.002 ms: nature.com/articles/s4146… (🧵👇)

Exciting news for our Essex Rebels Basketball 🏀🏀🏀 We are proud to reveal our men's side has been invited to compete against Britain's best teams in the new Super League Basketball Cup. The news has been labelled "a huge moment" for the rising Rebels. brnw.ch/21wNzvI

📣🧠📣 I’m hiring !! 📣🧠📣 We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences. You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project funded by The Leverhulme Trust - studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds. cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdo…

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Thank you Ayesha Rascoe and NPR for giving me the chance to describe some of our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation npr.org/2024/11/24/nx-…

your family finally learning what you research for the 11th Christmas in a row

UK applicants - there is still time to apply to begin your MSc in Psychology at the University of Essex this January! And great news - we now offer a part time option for UK applicants making the course more flexible than ever.

nature.com/articles/d4158… Free speech. lol

New paper day! Using EEG and frequency tagging, we show that posing a smile reduces neural discrimination of happy versus neutral faces, possibly by making neutral faces look happier. Led by Joshua Baker with great help from Stephanie Van der Donck and Bart Boets psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

We have had such a great time meeting so many prospective students and their families at our recent Offer Holder Days! These days provide a chance for you to see our state of the art facilities and learn a bit more about what studying Psychology at Essex would be like!

Fingers crossed for sunny skies all throughout graduation week! It is such an exciting time on campus as we celebrate all of our students' successes and achievements. We are so excited to see what the next chapter holds for all those graduating this Friday from #essexpsychology!

Deadline for this funded PhD to work with me and Duncan Astle is soon! 26 July. The student must be a woman (because the studentship is based at Newnham College Cambridge) and eligible for UK home fees.

🧵1/4 A Harvard professor has just published a glowing review of Yale Professor Agustín Fuentes’ new book, Sex is a Spectrum, in The Lancet—one of the highest-ranked, most prestigious medical journals in the world. In it, she asserts that the “gametic definition” of sex—roughly,

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