@michaelhout.bsky.social
Associate Dean for Research at NMSU HEST. Associate Editor at AP&P. Former NSF Program Director. Prof of Psychology (and Kinesiology). Director of NMSU Discovery Scholars Program. Director of two research labs. Treasurer of OPAM conference. +Other roles
Our paper on data cleaning and analysis pipelines in eye movement and reading experiments is online! We used a multiverse analysis to map out different ways of examining the frequency effect. With @denisdrieghe.bsky.social. Open access link here: link.springer.com/article/10.3... (1/3)
04.08.2025 10:14 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
We have a paper out at Behavior Research Methods. Led by Hayward Godwin, it examines sharing practices (using visual search as a case study) and makes recs for sharing data outputs in a manner that will enable others to better find, access, and understand them. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
02.08.2025 19:16 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I'm very happy and proud to announce that last week, Bryan White completed his PhD. His dissertation was on how different forms of experience impact the perception of complex visual stimuli. Congratulations, Dr. White!
14.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In August, the OPAM conference will be offering another professional development workshop. Dr Jason Geller will discuss creating reproducible manuscripts in Quarto. The workshop will be recorded and posted to our website. Thanks to the NSF for funding support! www.opamconference.com
02.07.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have a new paper out at Behavior Research Methods (hosted on OSF: osf.io/yvb8h/). Arryn Robbins led this database of 1200 objects rated for similarity. Download the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
02.07.2025 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please join us for the second of our professional development workshops, which are always free to the community. And if you can't join us live, hop on our website to download the recording. www.opamconference.com/workshops-su.... @cjungerius.bsky.social @opam.bsky.social
30.06.2025 19:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to Ashley Mathis for the successful completion of her master's thesis this week. Her ambitious project used eye-tracking and a Where's Waldo task to examine how individual differences in mental imagery abilities impact visual search performance. Congrats, Ashley!
28.06.2025 20:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Exciting news regarding NMSU's new bachelor's degree in AI, and on the AI Institute.
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Me too, William. I’ve been so grateful for and impressed by the role you’ve played.
17.06.2025 00:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Extremely proud to be taking the torch from Sarah Shomstein at such an amazing journal. Got my first publication here. And my first chance at being an AE (thanks to Mike Dodd). It’s incredibly exciting to be the next EiC. Thanks to Pnom society for giving me the opportunity.
16.06.2025 23:17 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
OPAM33 is now accepting online abstracts until July 15th, 2025! Centered around the topics of Object Perception, visual Attention, and visual Memory, OPAM features the work of early-career scientists and embraces diverse approaches. Learn more and submit here: www.opamconference.com/opam2025
13.06.2025 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Part of our NM-INBRE funded project on simulated medical image perception has just been published at the ACM symposium on Eye-tracking Research and Applications. Dr Megan Papesh (of UMass Lowell) presented the work, co-authored by myself, Dr Giovanna Del Sordo, Bryan White, and Ashley Mathis.
31.05.2025 20:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The 2025 OPAM conference is shaping up. Please visit our new website to register and submit abstracts (www.opamconference.com). We will have professional development awards this year, thanks to our NSF funding. And our keynote speaker is the wonderful Dr. Joy Geng, of UC Davis. Join us in Denver!
31.05.2025 19:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Posting at a time when I think it's so important to show support/appreciation for those working at the NSF (and other agencies like NIH, Dept of Ed, and more). As a former Program Director, I can say from experience that it is a labor of love, a true public service.
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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...
17.05.2025 22:54 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Very excited that Rick is coming back to HEST (full-time) as the new leader of our College.
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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...
06.05.2025 13:43 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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
06.05.2025 13:25 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Mayte Alonso (an undergraduate Discovery Scholar) presented her work yesterday at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium. Her work includes Dr Giovanna Del Sordo and Dr Megan Papesh, and uses pupillometry to study the delineation between active and passive vigilant attention.
27.04.2025 00:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
24.04.2025 00:56 — 👍 986 🔁 434 💬 15 📌 54
This is extremely troubling...
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Excellent news out of the College of HEST School of Nursing!
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Local folks... please consider attending the 2025 Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium at NMSU during Research and Creativity Week. Learn more about this excellent display of undergraduate work. Read more and find the schedule here:
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Lots of really great events happening at Research and Creativity week this year!
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Putting this back out into people's feeds... we're doing a special issue in Scientific Reports on eye-tracking in virtual reality. Please send us your best work and share this with your networks. Submission deadline: Nov 27, 2025. Full details: www.nature.com/collections/...
18.04.2025 17:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Giovanna Del Sordo has been selected to be a member of the Psychonomic Society Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee. Great work, Gio, and thanks for doing this valuable service.
16.04.2025 23:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very happy to announce that Bryan White has accepted the position of College Assistant Professor in Psychology at NMSU, to start in Fall of this year (pending completion of his dissertation, this summer). Congrats, Bryan!
16.04.2025 23:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, Rebecca Penn presented our poster at the Joint Symposium for Working K9s titled "Reading the handler: A location-based map of handler attention during detection work."
16.04.2025 23:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is an NMSU initiative I'm very excited about...
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