Dock H Duncan

Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not directly cause the EEG N2pc marker of spatial attention Researchers often study human attention using microsaccades and the N2pc EEG marker, but it is unclear to what extent microsaccades contribute to N2pc. This study shows that microsaccades modulate N2p...

The human-neuroscience N2pc marker of covert and internal attention co-occurs with spatial biases in microsaccades, 200-300 ms after prompted to shift attention. (How) are these empirical phenomena related? Check it out in the latest work led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

Do you want to know how or why you should preregister your next experiment? Then sign up for our next OPAM online workshop (hosted by @carohautekiet.bsky.social on October 8th) using the link below!

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Interested in why/how to preregister your studies? Then join us online (10am EST) for our next OPAM workshop where @carohautekiet.bsky.social will answer all your questions!

And be sure to "preregister" your attendance on our website! (where the zoom link will be provided)

Make sure you register for this year's OPAM and join us to hear what will definitely be a great talk from Dr. Joy Geng on her research and stories from her career!

Stewart Lee - Damned Immigrants This is "Stewart Lee - Damned Immigrants" by jack taylor on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

reminds me of this old gem vimeo.com/437542256

Our third OPAM workshop on how to easily build reproducible manuscripts in R is now online! For those of you that missed it but want to learn how to make great looking manuscripts, check out the workshop given by @jgeller1phd.bsky.social at the link below!
www.opamconference.com/online-works...

Online Workshops — OPAM

We are one week away from our next OPAM online workshop! This one will feature Dr Jason Geller (Boston College) who will show us how to use Quarto to make beautiful manuscripts! To join this workshop, sign up via our website!
www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...

Heres a few OPAM updates! Firstly, if you want to watch a recording of our second workshop on how to run the best power analysis possible for your next experiment (via @cjungerius.bsky.social), it can now be viewed (with supporting code) on our website here!

www.opamconference.com/online-works...

OPAM 2025 abstracts are due TOMORROW!!! Don't wait and submit your abstracts on our website today!
www.opamconference.com/abstract-sub...

OPAM33 abstract submissions are due in ONE WEEK (July 15th, 2025; last time zone on earth)! Abstracts can be submitted at our website: www.opamconference.com/abstract-sub..., and please see our OPAM 2025 conference page for additional instructions. We hope to see you all in Denver this November!

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

Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project!
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

This Thursday we have our second OPAM online workshop! This one will address the best way to do power calculations to determine how many participants you should run in your next experiment - an increasingly important topic today! The talk will be given by @cjungerius.bsky.social from Cambridge!

Last week's symposium titled "Advances in the Encephalographic Study of Attention" was a great success! Held in the KNAW building in Amsterdam and sponsored by the NWO, many of (Europe's) leading attention researchers assembled to discuss the latest advances in attention research using M/EEG.

Thanks to the support of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and @knaw-nl.bsky.social , we're thrilled to announce the international symposium "Advances in the Encephalographic study of Attention"! 🧠🔍

📅 Date: June 25th & 26th
📍 Location: Trippenhuis, Amsterdam

@sfnjournals.bsky.social #neuroskyence

Check out our new paper in j.neuroscience using ssvep’s in eeg to track early attentional capture by distracting stimuli!!

Dr Hirst's (@hirstrj.bsky.social) workshop on PsychoPy for @opam.bsky.social was recorded and is now available to watch on our new website. Check it out: www.opamconference.com/online-works...

Join us tomorrow for our very first OPAM online workshop! In it @rebeccahirst.bsky.social will show us how Psychopy can be a useful tool for designing experiments both in person (with eyetracking!!) and online. The workshop will be completely free and a video will be posted online afterwards!

OPAM

Thanks to funding support from NSF, the Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) conference has a new website, a series of professional development workshops, and networking opportunities. More soon; please visit our website, sign up to receive updates, and share! www.opamconference.com

The first OPAM (@opam.bsky.social) workshop features Dr Rebecca Hirst (@hirstrj.bsky.social of Open Science Tools) who will present "Running Online and In-Person Experiments Using PsychoPy." The workshop is free to attend. Please register and share!: www.opamconference.com/online-works...

Head on over to our brand-new website opamconference.com to create a free account and register for our first free online workshop taking place later this month!

"Give us an eye-catching pic to draw researchers to our antisaccade task demo" 🙈

Ahead of a workshop next week (stay tuned), we’ve got a new demo to share...

Try it 👉 run.pavlovia.org/demos/antisa...
Check the readme for tips on adapting to your eyetracker 👀 gitlab.pavlovia.org/demos/antisa...

We are excited to welcome three new organizers joining our team this year: Hong Nguyen, Giovanna del Sordo, and Sisi Wang! They will be joining Dock Duncan, Noah Britt and William Narhi-Martinez to lead OPAM 2025 this year. Stay tuned for more announcements regarding our new website and workshops!

GitHub - HanZhang-psych/pupeyes: PupEyes: Your Buddy for Pupil Size and Eye Movement Data Analysis PupEyes: Your Buddy for Pupil Size and Eye Movement Data Analysis - HanZhang-psych/pupeyes

🚨 Announcing PupEyes, a Python library for pupil size and eye movement data analysis! github.com/HanZhang-psy... Highlights: *Pupil preprocessing pipeline based on best practices* *Interactive data viz tools* *Integration with pandas ecosystem. 🧵 (1/8)

Last week to apply! Dont miss this fantastic early career opportunity!

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

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One more month to apply! Join our team and you will be able to brag that you helped organize many peoples favorite international mini conference!