We're back! Thanks to everyone who came to the #ALG Midyear Conference. Special thanks to our keynotes Robyn Brown and Ben Newell, and Dominic Tran, Daniel Pearson, and Jessica Leake for organising #AssociativeLearning #psychology

After a 3 year break, our annual writing retreat is back! Mike Le Pelley @Pop_Watson Daniel Pearson Julie Chow @saoirsecondes Game-changing manuscripts/grants in the making. Stay tuned...

18000 words later, well done team 👩‍💻 Thanks Julie Chow for organising! Mike Le Pelley @Pop_Watson Daniel Pearson @saoirsecondes

Watch this space: exciting collaborations to come! 😃

Stipend will be raised at UNSW, and I believe one of the first universities to promise further steps to reach minimum wage by 2024! #RaiseTheRTP

Our latest findings on #eeg sensory suppression in people with #schizophrenia as summarized by #ChatGPT Please find the full article here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36535137/

Thrilled to welcome Daniel Pearson as our newest Lecturer USYD Psychology Sydney Science University of Sydney Stay tuned for exciting research on #learning, #attention, and #cognitivecontrol. E.g. in a complex 🌍 how do we learn to 👀 what is relevant and 🙈 what is irrelevant?

At Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences we’ll soon have a couple of new junior faculty posts - with a focus on cognitive neuroscience 🧠 Proper ad coming soon. But if you’re an ECR looking for your first (or next) permanent post, happy to have a chat about life and science at Birkbeck! Get in touch.

***JOB ALERT*** University of Sydney offering 40 continuing (tenured) positions for EMCRs Scheme targets #health, #sustainability, and #climatechange with tonnes of opportunities for #psychology USYD Psychology to contribute Get in touch!!! sydney.edu.au/research/resea…

Before approving psychedelics as medicines, Australia commissioned an independent scientific report into risks & benefits. They then approved *against* the report's advice. Now, the chief scientist speaks out in a remarkable editorial; brief summary 🧵. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Writing retreat is on! World-class manuscripts in the making 📝💻 @Pop_Watson Mike Le Pelley Daniel Pearson Steve Most 🧠 Julie Chow @jake_embrey Kelly Garner

We have TWO 3-year postdoc positions in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, in a joint Australia/US project on building cognitive capability through attentional control. Deadline 10th Jan - please apply! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5215… [1/3]

🗞️JOB OPPORTUNITY🗞️ We USYD Psychology Sydney Science University of Sydney are recruiting 4 new continuing (tenured) Lecturer/Senior Lecturers Spread widely and apply if you are a talented researcher/educator looking for a great School to work in! usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_…

A shiny new paper led by @Pop_Watson - performance on a lab measure of sign-tracking predicts severity of alcohol-use problems in people seeking treatment. Direct clinical evidence implicating reward-related attentional processing in addictive behaviours! doi.org/10.1016/j.addb…

#PhD candidates get paid LESS than minimum wage in Aus (and face major cost of living pressures) PhD's contribute enormously to society and the economy. We should recognise and support this #AcademicTwitter #auspol Sign this to raise the stipend aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…