Anna Bobak

People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.

I am on Farage's list of ILR-ners to be deported, should they win the next election. I honestly can't remember when I last got so angry. Good start of the week here 👌

We have an excellent graduate from our MSc programme who would be great at it. I will forward it to her.

We're looking to appoint a new administrator for our Social Sciences Impact Acceleration Account. This would be a great role for a graduate with good administrative skills who wants to learn a lot more about the non-academic impact of research
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Data-driven studies in face identity processing rely on the quality of the tests and data sets There is growing interest in how data-driven approaches can help understand individual differences in face identity processing (FIP). However, researc…

Thank you so much!
If you look at section 1.2 the 3.2 here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Week 1 is here & suddenly there is so much to do, I don't know where to start (or when to stop). And that's not even my 'busy' half of the year. 🙈 On the plus side, my group of final years is super engaged, chatty, and they seem really keen to get on with their study, so today ends on a high!

Please could you link some reading about the within and between corrections? We have written about the within correction (or rather reported the maximum expected correlation given the reliability), but I would be keen to learn more about it! Thank you!

When calculating a correlation we sometimes apply a correction for attenuation due to reliability.
Has anyone ever suggested a similar correction for a between-groups comparison?
After all, reliability of the DV affects those the same way (and they are often just a dichotomised correaltion).

Also in Stirling! 👌 One of the biggest joys of adult life!

We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.

An interesting article in the Conversation by Prof. David Comerford from Stirling on the dangers of AI-generated science. Psychology scores brownie points for improvements made in transparent reporting.
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I don't often laugh out loud, but this is stand-up value.

Omg so beautiful

These are some impressive creations. Happy veganniversary!

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Not experience enough apparently, for just getting unsubmitted because lack of APA 7 formatting (including levels of headings). Why do we have to do this
Gif of my actual face >>>

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Why is there no laughing reaction here!? But yes! This is exactly what I did! :D

Just submitted a paper (exciting!) but - why do journals still ask for phone numbers? Did anyone ever got a call from Sage or Elsevier?!

Four year 0.8 FTE post doc at Stirling with Dr. Line Caes (our Health Group) on a Oliver Bird Fund -funded project “Challenges young people face in managing musculoskeletal chronic pain”.

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I've spent all day looking at student projects' data and debugging R code with copilot (saving my more knowledgeable colleagues 'why does this not work again' questions) and I can honestly say this was the most fun day in the office I had in a very long time!

Gemma, can you download the preprint? I get a persistent server error when I try...If you have it, would you be able to email me? Thanks! :)

Thanks, Gemma - will definitely add this to my reading list!

'This condition impacts every aspect of my life' - a new paper from our lab about the lived experience of Developmental Prosopagnosia is out in @plosone.org .

You can read the publication (open access) here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

This looks really interesting. I remember Sarah Weigelt had a poster at ECVP in Nejmegen about a human case with similar low level deficits but intact higher level abilities (faces)!

Dear all
The first Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) online lecture of 2025 will be delivered by Louise Newbigging on the 12th from 7pm to 8pm. Details of the talk are below, if you want to find out more and attend please register
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<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library We present three experiments to study the effects of giving information about the decision of an automated face recognition (AFR) system to participants attempting to decide whether two face images s....

'Automated face recognition assists with low‐prevalence face identity mismatches but can bias users'- our new paper funded by the EPS Graduate Bursary to Melina Mueller and Anna Bobak is now online! @rjwatt42.bsky.social @pjbhancock.bsky.social

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