Emma E.M. Stewart

This is so depressing 🙁

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

At our launching event "Mind, Tech, and Wellbeing" for our new Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour at QMUL! Follow us on here @queenmarycbb.bsky.social to hear more about our research
@qmul.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social

On our way to #ECVP2025 for baby’s first conference! She’s pretty excited about it!

A review of the costs of eye movements Nature Reviews Psychology - Eye movements are the most frequent movements that humans make. In this Review, Schütz and Stewart integrate evidence regarding the costs of eye movements and...

Eye movements are cheap, right? Not necessarily! 💰 In our review just out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Alex Schütz and I discuss the different costs associated with making an eye movement, how these costs affect behaviour, and the challenges of measuring this… rdcu.be/eAm69 #visionscience #vision

I hate having to do OS updates because of Teams 😭😭

Hello prospective postdocs interested in biological + artificial minds! The deadline for a postdoctoral position in my lab is on July 3rd! ---> up to 2 years (23 months... and there will be time to apply to a Marie Curie fellowship to extend, if you are eligible, or to other programmes) 🐣👾🤖

Measles warning to holidaymakers as cases rise across Europe As the summer holiday season gets going, families are being warned of measles outbreaks in many popular European destinations, with vaccination rates in the UK still far below what experts advise.

Worrying to see increasing levels of measles in parts of UK and Europe- if you are not vaccinated please do consider the MMR which is a safe way to prevent a potentially deadly disease

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

Still time to apply (until 30/04)!! What are you waiting for?

I have a question - I am happy to buy a license for the lab, but do I need to buy a license for each of my lab members for personal devices (that we use for debugging etc)? This adds up to a lot of computers once we have multiple devices each (home and office), plus transient students!

I saw the extension just as I was sitting down on Sunday night to write my abstract 😆. Phew!

Characterising Cognitive Biases Elicited by Misinformation Using Reinforcement Learning at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Characterising Cognitive Biases Elicited by Misinformation Using Reinforcement Learning at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com

⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning to study how mis/misinformation affects us. For full funding, one has to be eligible for UK home fees. Please Share!!
@queenmarycbb.bsky.social

Deadline: April 20. For more information:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

That psychometric function takes a certain type of skill…

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

Advertising 2 new positions in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. A postdoc & an RA at Queen Mary University of London as part of our UKRI-funded Animating Minds Project. More details and how to apply here:
Postdoc: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX749/p...
RA: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

I love this video so much

Can you add me please? :)

I agree in theory, but it may disproportionately disadvantage “non-famous” researchers who aren’t invited to review in the first place. More famous or prestigious labs would bank more publishing credits easily, and smaller labs might struggle to get any…

Photo of Eileen from her Rutgers-New Brunswick faculty page

Very sad to hear about the passing of Eileen Kowler, a true giant in the field of eye movements & their interaction with vision & cognitive processes. She helped me as a grad student & it was always wonderful to talk to her. Her body of work is foundational to our field. Thank you, Eileen.

A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester Our 7th most-read article of 2024. - - -Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. ...

Our 7th most-read article of the year...

"I have served as department chair for the past three years, an honor I was proud to take on, since it was my fault I didn’t find a hiding spot fast enough when we saw the dean coming."

I feel like the uni was optimistic putting out giant deck chairs in London in December….🤔

Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks

Is perceptual novelty important in your research? We created, standardised, and validated a database of truly novel perceptual stimuli (matched to BOSS objects on size, contrast, luminance & colourfulness) so you don't have to! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#cogpsy #psychology #EEG #neuroskyence

Are those your cats on it?

Using a simple optical flow model, we can use geometrical regularities in objects to predict qualitatively distinct viewpoints. This works for familiar, symmetrical, novel, & asymmetrical objects! We can even predict where people will perceive the front to be on novel, meaningless objects!!

How can we decide which viewpoints of an object are qualitatively special? How do we know where the front is, for objects we've never seen before? In our new paper we provide a quantiative account of why some object viewpoints are qualitatively special.

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A combination of VSS posts and rainy London is making me very angry at December-Emma’s decision not to go VSS this year 😭

In the middle of a marking vortex, I’m feeling this…

What are the best (most informative / best at determining who would be a good fit) questions to ask prospective PhD students in an interview? #visionscience

This sort of thing might be what we need- we’re going to be doing quite short sessions, so hopefully extra weight and data won’t be too much of a problem! If you have any guidance on how to go about doing this, I would appreciate it!! 🤩