Nicole Nelson

🎫 APCV & EPC 2026 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Don’t miss early‑bird pricing and limited‑availability event tickets!

For more details, go to: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

See you all on 1 July!

⚡SYMPOSIA SPOTLIGHT #1

We are super excited to announce a series of symposia taking place throughout our conference.

Here is a preview of some featured sessions and speakers. Of course, there is more to come. Stay tuned!

We find that children from low-SES backgrounds are viewed as more hardworking than smart -- as "strivers." Children's stereotypes on this topic are correlated with their parents'. 👇

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@westernsydneyu.bsky.social

The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2026, to be held at the University of Auckland from July 1-4. Abstract submissions now open!
visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

Exciting! A project that taps into the genius of this era on multiple levels - dynamical systems, machine learning / RL, brain computer interfaces in a terrific group. And bonus: it's in Paris 💙.

YouTube video by SeeingScience @SeeingScience waits out the Earth's rotation in Boston!

This past weekend, I was excited to visit @museumofscience.bsky.social to start my work as a Science Communication fellow. Now that I'm back home, the #scicomm begins, starting with a new YouTube channel! Just published my 1st video & stay tuned for #visionscience content coming soon.

Our recent paper discussing why children might care more about animals. A joy to write with @lmcguire.bsky.social @nadirafaber.bsky.social Jared Piazza and Katja Liebal.

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Opportunity to move to Canada. 🍁 The Lifespan Institute @brocku.ca is looking to hire a Canada Excellence Research Chair In Healthy Development Across the Lifespan. More info in the job ad (salary negotiable).

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We are pleased to announce that the first LEVANTE data release is now publicly available!

To access and download the pilot data, follow instructions on researcher.levante-network.org/data. This data release accompanies the preprint linked in the thread.

Construct Diversity in Measures of Helicopter Parenting in Emerging Adulthood - Andrea L. Howard, Sydney Bota, Megan Lamb, 2026 Numerous instruments assessing helicopter parenting exist, but items within and across scales are diverse and often describe behaviors that are incongruent with...

🚨Excited to share a new exploratory measurement paper! There are *many* instruments measuring “helicopter parenting” in young adults, but items on those instruments are all over the place.

What did young adults tell us about how well different items fit with a definition of HP?

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Paper title and authors

Now up as a reviewed @elife.bsky.social preprint: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood" elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Using data from ~2000 kids ages 1-6, we quantify links between word recognition and early vocabulary growth!

The Development of Morality and Conventionality Across Cultures: Implementing a Two‐Stage Model for Cross‐Cultural Research Establishing a shared sense of right and wrong is an essential milestone for human cooperation, raising the question of whether a universal set of moral intuitions exists. However, tests of universa.....

A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is a fantastic tool for helping to identify suspect bots! Thanks @drvon2.bsky.social!

Call for papers: Emotion special issue on Affect Dynamics Across Multiple Timescales (moments→days→years) and links to mental and physical health. Letters of intent due Jan 15, 2026. Details/submission:

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Please share with colleagues/trainees. @affectscience.bsky.social

NYAS Publications In the InCHORRRuS (Infant-directed (ID) Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure) framework, increased rhythmicity in ID speech and the beat-based m...

InCHORRRuS: Infant-Directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy Through Rhythmic Structure nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Reviews literature on timing & rhythm, redundancy & repetition in ID signals - redundancy & repetition ... redundancy & repetition

Hey ARC DPers with career interruptions- take a "print screen" of what you enter in your career interruptions boxes- seems like the ARC will never make this info roll over so do your future self a favour if it's a complicated set of dates 😭 (yes I have it saved elsewhere) @arc-tracker.bsky.social

It is our great honour to announce the APCV Keynote at #epc-apcv-2026: Prof. Hakwan Lau from the Institute for Basic Science in Korea!
The call for member-initiated symposia & abstracts is now open: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026

#psychscisky #visionscience #neuroskyence

Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩‍💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...

Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.

Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!

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I’m delighted to share this open rank faculty position in Clinical Psychology.

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new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

✨ Good news! You have two more weeks to prepare your submission(s)!

Head to isre2026.org for more details!

It's true! We've written five of these one-day papers so far.

Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

No clear evidence for a domain-general violation of expectation effect in the pupillary responses of 9- to 10-month-olds Violation of expectation (VOE) paradigms are key to understanding infants’ early knowledge. In VOE paradigms, infants are presented sequences of events either according with or violating regularities ...

New paper by Christine Michel et al.- "No clear evidence for a domain-general violation of expectation effect in the pupillary responses of 9- to 10-month-olds" - 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.

duet: An R package for dyadic analysis of motion data generated by OpenPose - Behavior Research Methods Research into dyadic social interactions has expanded significantly, enabling a deeper understanding of the dynamic processes underlying interpersonal communication. As the use of larger datasets becomes increasingly common in this field, the need for scalable and efficient analytical tools has grown. Automated coding methods, such as those provided by OpenPose, an open-source software for detecting and tracking human motion, offer significant advantages for analysing the movement of two individuals during an interaction. However, the processing and analysis of large quantities of JSON output files generated by OpenPose remain a considerable challenge. To address this, we introduce duet, an R package designed to streamline the processing and analysis of OpenPose output data, particularly in the context of dyadic interactions. The package provides a suite of functions for data cleaning, interpolation, kinematic analysis, and visualisation, offering researchers a comprehensive and user-friendly workflow. By simplifying the handling of OpenPose data, duet aims to facilitate large-scale, automated analysis of dyadic social interactions, with minimal coding experience, thereby advancing methodological capabilities in social and behavioural sciences.

📢 New paper out in Behavior Research Methods!

With @cjcrompton.bsky.social we introduce duet, an R package for analysing dyadic motion data from OpenPose.

It simplifies data wrangling, kinematics, & synchrony analysis of social interactions.

Paper: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

We have a new paper published in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social! We used large-language models (LLMs) to estimate linguistic distance in psychotherapy text and found that these ratings tracked with clients’ symptoms in treatment over time, more strongly than word-counting techniques did.

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

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