Evie Vergauwe

OpenWMData A collection of publicly available working memory datasets

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

New conspiracy theory just dropped:

What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?

Principles for proper peer review

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
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#neuroscience

Vacancy — Postodoctoral Position in Developmental Psychology/Affective Science Are you interested in understanding early emotional development? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to study the emergence of infants’ and young children’s distinct emotions. This research i...

Our lab at the University of Amsterdam is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to examine how young children’s emotions develop across cultures.

This position is part of our @erc.europa.eu project on the emergence of distinct emotions in human development.

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🚨 Update on the SwissRN Annual Meeting
Find the complete program of our 4th annual meeting now here:
www.swissrn.org/contents/new...
📅 December 05, 2025, 09:30-17:00, Hybrid format
📌 Universität Basel, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056, room U1.101

Please register by 31 October 2025.

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Wir sind verzweifelt. Vorschläge? #ente #wurst #wicklungspsychologie

Developmental & Brain Sciences PhD UMass Boston's Developmental and Brain Sciences (DBS) PhD is a research-intensive program focused on understanding cognition, perception, and behavior when underlying neural and hormonal mechanisms ar...

Faculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25
www.umb.edu/academics/pr...
#devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky

The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Collaborate with us!! #workingmemory

Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task Abstract. Human visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performanc...

How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro

Make sure to stop at Ceren Arslan‘s (@scannedfruits.bsky.social) poster at #ICON2025 today at 3:30! She‘s presenting some of our recent EEG work on audiovisual object storage in #WorkingMemory! 👇

Congrats to @lauraklatt.bsky.social for being the #WomWoM research fairy of 2025! She is both a star researcher & incredibly generous and collegial with all in the field, especially the juniors! Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations & to @scannedfruits.bsky.social for making Laura's wand 🪄🧚‍♀️

Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items.

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#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory

🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory.

I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social

#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG

We are HIRING! The Department of Psychology at NDSU is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology (broadly defined) to begin August, 2026. Full details here: tinyurl.com/3sjknmxn
Questions can be directed to me.
Please share widely!

🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨

Poster Printing Service | ESCOP 2025

Are you presenting a poster at #ESCOP2025? Why not have one less thing to travel with and have your poster printed on site to collect when you arrive in Sheffield! Send your poster no later than 17th August to take advantage of this option 🤓🧠

www.escop2025.com/poster-print...

If you are in the US and are doing research on Cognitive Development, Educational Psychology, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience or in related fields, contact me and we can put together an application for these brilliant new programs at Western University. We value diversity & academic freedom!

Who will be the research fairy 2025? 💫🧚💫

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

PhD position — Rademaker lab

Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

A meme. A vampire hates sunlight. Superman hates kryptonite. And me, I hate Microsoft Teams.

Just a simple #Fact for #Today and, in fact, any other day. 🤣

#Memes #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams #Windows

#ESCOP2025 is offering several funding opportunities, including the new family care grants and travel support for PhD students.

Don’t miss the chance to apply! 👇

Do kids show adult-like working memory patterns?

🧠 We analyzed nearly 1M observations from 9K+ Dutch students in a real-world adaptive learning platform.
✅ Benchmark effects in children
📊 Bayesian modeling + big adaptive data = new insights

⬇️ Authors & links

#WorkingMemory #DevPsych

🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE!

Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers.
*(1/4)*

A day full of learning, sharing, and scientific fun, with Cristina Priboi and @hannowuerbel.bsky.social from @swissrn.bsky.social

I've started to create a Google doc to compile & share cog psych teaching resources, organized by topics (e.g., attention, memory, language) & resource types.

This week, I ask you to share any in-class demos you'd like to give. Please reply to this post or tag me in a separate post. Thanks!

Thank you @annemscheel.bsky.social for visiting us in Geneva, we were delighted to get to know & exchange with you!💬

Your insightful meta-science talk put the underlying structure of research (the different processes of scientific discovery, testing, & inference) into perspective - so helpful! ⚙️🤓

Preprint adoption by European countries

How does the adoption of preprinting differ between European countries?

Preprint adoption is significantly higher in Western and Northern European countries than in their Southern and Eastern European neighbors.

Switzerland has the highest preprint adoption in Europe.