Cognitive Psychology at Lancaster University

Applications close at the end of the week - don't miss out!

Find more wonderful people at Lancaster University who have BlueSky accounts, with this starter pack from @rebecca-henderson.bsky.social
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Delighted to have co-edited this special issue of QJEP, marking 50 years since Baddeley and Hitch (1974). Thanks to all contributors for sharing their work!

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: University College London. 8th – 10th January 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Mike Le Pelley (with an accompanying symposium organi…

Excited to be presenting "Representational Accuracy is Mediated by Predictive Validity, but not Outcome Uncertainty" at the London EPS meeting in Jan.

Part of the mid-career prize award symposium for @mikelepelley.bsky.social organised by @tombeesley.bsky.social

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

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Come join us - and get to hang out with the fun folks!

Fixed-term, Senior Teaching Associate position available (.8 FTE)

#academicjobs #psychjobs #psychology

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Here's an image of my now curled, foxing photocopy of Baddeley & Hitch (1974) and their account of Working Memory.

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology is marking the impact, and continued relevance, of this work with a Special Issue. A 🧵with links ...

Looking forward to it! (don't expect to see snow when you get here though)

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*waves enthusiastically*

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Welcome to BlueSky, Lara! Come on over to the friendly Cognitive Psychology corner with all your psychology-of-deception research.

Everyone give Lara a follow to find out the latest truths about lies

Join us on 20 November to find out about our new MSc in Data Science (Human Behaviour)! Book now: bit.ly/4hYByLR

We've started a #BehaviouralScience list here! Feel free to suggest others interested in #Psychology #SocialScience etc 🔬🧠🔎📖 go.bsky.app/N4BPzwM

Our "eyetools" #R package is now available on #CRAN! It offers a toolkit for repairing data, analysing fixations & saccades, time on AOIs, and plotting. Designed to be simple to use, it offers an open source analysis pipeline for eye data. #rstats #eye-tracking tombeesley.github.io/eyetools/ind...

A small starter pack of school/depts/institutes of psychology here on bluesky

So...

(1) Let me know if you run your dept account and I'll add you

(2) Tell your dept social media people to leave the other place and come here instead. It's where the science is now 😊

Pls share

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Hello world! We are now on BlueSky and looking forward to connecting with #perception #cognition #neuroscience #memory #attention #language #reading #eyetracking folks on here. Stay posted for our research and team updates 🧠📖

Hello everyone,

we've started a Brain Stimulation Starter Pack - for all things brain stim (not just TMS) - please get in touch to be added & share the ⚡ buzz ⚡

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Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks.

Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added!

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#DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky

£3.5M award for Lancaster to lead network to boost UK resilience and security - Lancaster University Lancaster University has been awarded £3.5 million to lead a Network Plus for Analytical Behavioural Science (NABS+) in Security and Defence.

Delighted to be a part of this important initiative.👏 NABS+ will complement the successes of CREST and allow us to develop the next generation of behavioural science for security and defence
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#NetworkPlus #BehaviouralScience #Security #Defence

New reading comprehension paper now in press from Kate Cain and colleagues (incl @robayedavies.bsky.social) on "The influence of reader and text characteristics on sixth graders’ inference making."

More info and link to AAM paper here:

www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

... and now we've found a starter pack for "brain and mind"... These are most definitely definitely code words for cognitive psychology. Yay!

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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition conference will be held in County Kildare, Ireland, from 11-14th June 2025.
Symposia deadline: Nov 1
Talk/poster deadline: Dec 1
www.sarmac2025.org

#irishResearch

Early-Career Awards – Funding for Early-Career Researchers | Wellcome The Wellcome Early-Career Awards scheme provides research funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity.

Interested in pursuing an independent fellowship at York? Applications are now open for Wellcome's Early Career Award wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Oh look - Judgement and Decision Making has now arrived at the party!

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Going broader still, then there's @markrubin.bsky.social's list of all Psychology starter packs - the catalogue to end all catalogues!

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Know of other lists we can add? Let us know of course. Thanks!

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Psychology Departments, Schools, and units (like us!) will cover cognitive psychology

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UK Psychology academics includes researchers in cognitive psychology

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Working memory and behavioural regulation

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Vision science
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Perception research
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Do you want more cognitive psychology in your Bluesky feed?

Well of course you do!

Starter packs are collections of accounts with a shared research interest, so you can find more of the conversations that you are interested in. Here are some we know about related to cognitive psychology ... (1/)