Katie Gray

EPS 80th Anniversary Symposium – Call for Proposals To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium that reflects on the current state of experimental psychology and its fu…

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory.

Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!

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We're recruiting for several Lectureships in Psychology at the University of Reading - please pass on to anyone you think might be interested: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - we're a nice bunch to work with! #academicsky

Introducing Philosophy Corner - Tim S. Meese, Pascal Mamassian, Isabelle Mareschal, Frans A.J. Verstraten, 2025

Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: Newcastle University. Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April 2026. This meeting will include the 24th EPS Mid-Career Prize lecture by Elizabeth Jefferies (and accompanying sympo…

Thank you to everyone who attended, presented and helped organise #EPSLondon 2026!

EPS meetings are coming up fast in 2026, with the next to be held at Newcastle University between Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April.

Portals open on Monday 12th January, 10am UK time!

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Green background with white text 'Creating possibilities for tomorrow' above a decorative pattern and a URL reading.ac.uk/centenary.

Welcome to the University of Reading's Centenary year.

Over the next 12 months we'll be celebrating 100 years of UoR by connecting our community, our actions and our impact through a series of events, shared stories and much, much more.

Visit https://rdg.ac/3MXzd8S to find out more.

Affective Science

This #OpenAccess study from 'Affective Science' shows that dyad arrangement affects perceived emotional valence intensity, with face-to-face bodies seen as more emotionally intense than back-to-back ones. bit.ly/3KSeKSc @drkatiegray.bsky.social #AffectSci #SocPsyc #VisionScience #AcademicSky

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Please join us in congratulating Professor Anna Horwood from UoR School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences who has been appointed MBE in the New Year's Honours List for services to Orthoptics and Research in Visual Development.

Read the full article now: https://rdg.ac/4pXkOI5

Comprehensive neurodevelopmental assessment through non-specialists: Validation of the STREAM digital platform in India and Malawi Background: Children in low-resource settings often lack access to culturally appropriate and feasible neurodevelopmental assessments. Existing tools are costly, require specialist training, and were ...

Our latest preprint on the STREAM project to measure neurodevelopment using a digital platform in ~4000 kids in low resource settings www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNAS Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...

Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New article out today in @nature.com

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

Training human super-recognizers’ detection and discrimination of AI-generated faces | Royal Society Open Science Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can create realistic synthetic faces, which have the potential to be used for nefarious purposes. The synthetic faces produced by GANs are difficult to detect an...

In a new paper (with @kayritchie.bsky.social, Eilidh Noyes, Carl Bunce and Josh Davis) we investigated AI-face detection in super-recognisers and typical-ability participants, both with and without a short training procedure. See the link below for the results!

doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library <em>Psychophysiology</em> is a human neuroscience journal covering research on the interrelationships between the physiological and psychological aspects of brain and behavior.

So excited about a Special Issue we are co-editing in @therealspr.bsky.social 's journal Psychophysiology on Physiological and Neurophysiological Synchronisation between individuals – Methodological Approaches and Evaluations. Please spread the word & submit by 28 February 2026
tinyurl.com/ywjjxkbt

TL:DR we'd like universities to collaborate and specialise, so they can contribute to economic growth rather than go bust

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: University College London. 7th – 9th January 2026. This meeting will include the 54th EPS Bartlett Prize Lecture by Matthew Botvinick (with an accompanying symposium organised by Patri…

The next EPS scientific meeting will be held at University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026.

The portals for this meeting will open on Monday (8th September) at 10am (UK time)!

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!

An Open Call for the next Editor-in-Chief of QJEP. We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.  The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor An…

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...

Looking at a sick person in VR can rev up our bodies’ immune systems New study provides “remarkable” glimpse into how the brain predicts potential infections

Seeing is believing, especially for your immune system. A new study shows that watching visibly sick people approach you in VR can trigger immune responses the same way a vaccine does @science.org

www.science.org/content/arti...

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

• Discontinue the idea of introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students. • Reduce visa costs to ensure they are at least as competitive in cost as other leading science nations, and preferably have a target to become the mos competitive in the G7. • Provide immediate clarity that the current time length for Indefinite Leave to Remain is kept in place for current and future Global Talent visa holders and their dependents.

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

What's better than lab BBQ? Double BBQ with @drkatiegray.bsky.social lab too! #whenworldscollide

Excited to see our new paper is now published - on emotion perception in dyads: rdcu.be/etta6. With the wonderful Mahsa Barzy and Rich Cook, and funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk

Thank you to all you participated in this year's edition of Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25.
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
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The Leverhulme Trust supports blue skies research across an impressive range of topics, and I’m very lucky that our project is one of them!

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. This will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), and will include the 53rd B…

In July, we will be travelling to Dundee for our joint scientific meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, which will include many prize talks, symposia, posters and much, much more!

For full information, please visit:
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’ Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government

Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

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...

Our £2,000 Centenary Bursary + £2,000 fee reduction help one eligible student from an under-represented group join a Psychology Master’s at the University of Reading.

Let’s break barriers together! bit.ly/4jrx8NP

#Psychology #AcademicSky #masters #furtherEducation #furtherStudy #UoR #bursary

How does the scientist in your skull invent the world you live in? 🧠

As part of Birkbeck's Science Week, on Mon 9th June I'll be talking about my upcoming book "A Trick of The Mind", w/ @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social's @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social

More below! 👇

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

This is so cool!