@danieljcarragher.bsky.social
Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Studies human face perception, identification, matching, and human-AI teaming.
A flyer for a talk given as part of Raising the Bar Adelaide. The flyer features Dr William Ngiam, giving his talk titled "Attention! Are we losing it?"
I had a fantastic experience presenting at Raising the Bar last night! It was nerve-wracking to speak about research with no slides, but it meant I really connected with the audience on the current discourse around the perceived impact of digital technology on attention spans and brain function.
06.08.2025 11:46 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Interested in a cognitive neuroscience #postdoc down under?
Come work with me at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social on an ARC Linkage Project aimed at understanding how people perceive objects in the Powerhouse Museum's digitised collection. Applications closing 13 August! 📅 seek.com.au/job/86079413
We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.
The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years.
eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...
Has anyone got an email from ARC directly about this imminent change to accessing RMS?
They're going to require multi-factor authentication (currently optional), which is OK I guess. But what I'm wondering is whether they've done more than sticking the news on a webpage no-one looks at?
I'm preparing a public talk on the impact of digital technology on attention, and whether there is any evidence behind 'brain rot' (and help the public understand that researchers need public funds and support to work on this issue!). #cogsci, what message would you want the public to hear on this?
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A group of researchers standing outside a building. At first glance they look like different people because they have distinctive hairstyles and are wearing different clothes. But their faces are in fact identical and were generated by averaging many faces. This image illustrates how some people with face blindness (prosopagnosia) find it very difficult to tell faces apart despite seeing them clearly.
New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
01.05.2025 14:13 — 👍 25 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
Black text on white background. Screenshot from ARC webpage updating us on changes, in response to community feedback, to their proposed modification to their grants system. This screenshot shows the main changes, listed on that webpage.
The ARC has “announced” an update on the proposed changes to its grant schemes.
Key changes, in response to “nearly 350” submissions” (!) on their proposal, are 👇
More here: www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
A very nice write-up by UNSW of our recent joint meeting of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology and the Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, which we hosted at UNSW
www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/07...
Are you an early-career researcher (or someone hoping to help ECRs) working in #openscience or #metascience? The @reproducibilitea.org podcast is looking for guests for our next season of episodes! We'd love to feature ECR voices foremost – the next generation of scientists should be heard the most!
09.07.2025 04:12 — 👍 30 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 1Thanks! Seems like a nice place to hang out 🙂
07.07.2025 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi! I'm Dan, a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, where I study face perception and identification. I took a break from social media, only to find that lots of folks had moved over here! I'll start by slowly re-introducing myself. researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/dani...
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