Kay Ritchie

Training human super-recognizers’ detection and discrimination of AI-generated faces | Royal Society Open Science Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can create realistic synthetic faces, which have the potential to be used for nefarious purposes. The synthetic faces produced by GANs are difficult to detect an...

In a new paper (with @kayritchie.bsky.social, Eilidh Noyes, Carl Bunce and Josh Davis) we investigated AI-face detection in super-recognisers and typical-ability participants, both with and without a short training procedure. See the link below for the results!

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Meeting table with notebooks, laptops and a box of cake

Fox cupcake and ghost cake on a rainbow plate

Good meetings include good cake! Very productive day in York with Eilidh and @drkatiegray.bsky.social

Probably the most joyous photo of two old friends drinking wine and making each other laugh through music 🥰

Hear me out. Who was the first dude on the podium at the Euros final there? Was it Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible mask? And if you’re saying no, are you sure? The face, the eyes, and the hands don’t match the face.

I don’t think I can cope with football if this is what it’s like!!

What a brilliant time at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social in Dundee last week! Huge congratulations to Mike Burton for his Sir Frederick Bartlett prize lecture and thank you for attracting so many awesome face perception researchers! 🥰🤓 Thank you to @lizziebradford.bsky.social for organising! 👏

Great day and a bit with Katrina and Ranbir in Huddersfield for the Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network meeting. Lots of networking, and lots of good ideas to be working on from an East Midlands perspective! 🤓

I had such a wonderful time recording this episode of The Movie Method with the brilliant Jenny @filmtherapy.bsky.social and Roger who I am so blessed to be able to call my friends. Can’t wait to listen - I know our friendship and our love of this film will come across 🥰 Thank you for having me on!

Senior Research Associate (RA2312) in University of East Anglia | UEA View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2312) vacancy in University of East Anglia. School of Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences Senior Research Associate Ref: RA...

Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June.

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Pint of Science has made the front cover of the Lincoln Independent magazine! 19-21 May, tickets here PintOfScience.co.uk/events/lincoln

Had a wonderful week in the merry old land of Oz playing in the band for MJH Productions in Grantham. Congratulations to everyone in the cast, crew, production and band!

An image of me presenting my talk. On the slide is a thank you to various people that helped make the work possible

I’m so grateful for the opportunity to present my Frith Prize talk at the EPS meeting yesterday — it was such an honour and a delight! I had some fascinating questions and conversations that will definitely help shape my next projects. Huge thanks to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for the fab conference!

A brilliant first meeting for me as a committee member of EPS. Thanks so much to everyone for making me feel welcome, and for sharing such great research 🤓

Delighted to be at the Lancaster meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. Great talks from members of @notts-psych.bsky.social, Lauren Marsh and Sandra Lagator.

Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!

Ah that’s amazing, thank you. I wasn’t trying to be rude about your post, it just stirred something within me! Thanks for adjusting that 👍

Here’s my opinion - let’s stop saying a piece of work is from someone’s (the most well-known person’s) lab. Let’s credit the first author even if we haven’t already heard of them. How do PhD students and postdoc and other ECRs get known if we erase their names from discussions of their own papers?

Brill but exhausting sitzprobe for MJH Productions’ Wizard of
Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁

A selfie of over-excited oboe and flute players with an actor dressed as Mozart in full wig and fancy coat.

What an absolutely brilliant concert with Stamford Chamber Orchestra! Mozart narrated a ‘children’s guide’ piece written specially for us by John Sturt, complete with kiddo violins & singers. Jupiter symphony was genuinely one of the best things I’ve played in a while - well done everyone!

The cartoon of this admin:

Ugh no. I met Mark once, a long time ago. He and his wife, Gabby Giffords, are absolutely amazing. Look them both up. Mark and Gabby have such a collective wisdom, they should be listened to.

"...there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created."

Thank you so much for your support Jenny!

Thank you so much, Julie! That means a lot. Yes a catch up would be brilliant, thanks for the offer 🥰

And thanks!

Posted again!

Delighted to be the new Director of the Lincoln Policy Hub connecting researchers with policymakers to generate research impact. It’s already been great learning about just some of the brilliant policy-facing research going on across the uni. Still in psychology just a bit less bit.ly/3QaiLjX

Ruined my throat. And that’s before Scotland v Ireland. Lecture Monday morning. RIP my voice

ITV commentary once again is totally unhinged - there’s clearly a bet on as to who can say the word “wardrobe” the most. “He is a nicely built, nicely aging French wardrobe”. Mad. Also strong choice from Twickenham to choose ‘Chumbaleze’ for their hanging around music. #EngFra #SixNations

I have a tshirt with this on it!