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Are you a researcher planning to apply for Wellcome funding in the next two years? We’re offering researchers the opportunity to observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee and learn how grant applications are assessed. Learn more ⤵️ wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial Brain If you agree with the sentiments please RT. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/issue/14…

Sara finished her 2nd week of radiotherapy. Sara’s sister has written a short piece on some of the challenges we’ve been facing, and how you can help also beyond our specific case. ♥️medium.com/@Susana_hawkin…

Understanding voice naturalness Review by Christine Nussbaum, Sascha Frühholz (Sascha Frühholz), & Stefan R. Schweinberger (Stefan R. Schweinberger) tinyurl.com/yfjhpd38

It's a great privilege to have Professor Steve Fleming (UCL) as our next speaker on Thursday 20th March, at 1pm UoL_SoPVS. Steve will talk about his mind-blowing research on the boundary between reality and imagination. If you're near Leicester, please consider attending.

News | Wellcome awards Leicester scientist Yolanda Markaki £2m to study gene regulation in early development. 👉 le.ac.uk/news/2025/marc… #CitizensOfChange | @leicStructBio

Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality. WHAT A SURPRISE!

📢 Sluckin Lecture 2025 📢 Join us at the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences (UoL_SoPVS), University of Leicester, for this year’s Sluckin Lecture! 🗓 21st May 2025 🕔 5 PM 🎙️ Professor Sophie Scott (Prof Sophie Scott CBE) All welcome! #Psychology #Neuroscience #SluckinLecture

Great to be part of the The Doctoral College Annual Research Conference and celebrate one year of I-REACCH !

If you are a right handed, native British English speaker, my colleagues REALLY would like to have a look at your brain. Contact details in the poster:

I'm supervising a trainee clinical psychologist who is looking for parents of autistic children to take part in an online survey. I'd really appreciate it if you could share this post. The link to the survey is here tinyurl.com/mr267p2y Many thanks!

What's the relationship between social media use and mental health problems in adolescents? A Registered Report by Luisa Fassi et al examined this question using a nationally representative UK sample. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit #socialmedia #MentalHealth nature.com/articles/s4156…

A quick reminder that the Sluckin Lecture is happening next week UoL_SoPVS University of Leicester. We are delighted to welcome Professor Prof Sophie Scott CBE as this year’s speaker. The event is open to all, and we warmly encourage students, academics, and members of the public to attend.

Choice bias - the tendency to prefer one option over another for no apparent reason - is stable for 22 months in perceptual tasks. While feedback can induce choice bias, its effect diminishes within weeks, suggesting a different mechanism. Lior Lebovich🎗️🇮🇱🧡 nature.com/articles/s4427…

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New in the Psychophysical Magic Issue honoring the contributions of Randolph Blake bit.ly/4adinKK, Patrick Cavanagh et al. share their paper Following Randolph Blake's Furrow Further, jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…. University of Malta UC San Diego York University

This new Comment calls for psychological and behavioural scientists to study degrowth. Dario Krpan Jason Hickel @g_kallis LSE Behavioural LSE Psychological & Behavioural Science nature.com/articles/s4156… #degrowth #behaviour_change #sustainability #transformation

This study demonstrates that semantic priming can either increase or decrease perception of the Kanizsa illusion. The results support cognitive penetrability, demonstrating top-down influences on illusory perceptual experience. Liad Mudrik Amir Tal nature.com/articles/s4427…

In this Article, Lee et al. fine tune large language models on debate data to create belief embeddings that capture the nuanced relationship between a wide range of topics and reveal how people form new opinions. nature.com/articles/s4156…