JUST IN: Campus operations are disrupted and police are investigating after at least six historically Black schools in the US receive bomb threats cnn.it/32KyFME

found a new zine about pandemic dissertation writing ✍️

Closing Diablo results in a loss of carbon-free generation equivalent of tearing down every wind turbine or every rooftop solar panel in California. We cannot afford to move backwards on our decarbonization goals, and further entrench our reliance on polluting fossil gas.

My lab studies a range of phenomena, but a big focus has been "emotion-induced blindness" (EIB) -- an interesting & unique impact of emotion on perception. A very brief primer & a list of papers that investigate, use, or discuss EIB can be found here: bit.ly/3Bfs49G 1/4

We are pleased to announce the dates for Working Memory Symposium (WMS) 2022 as June 21-24, 2022. Details can be found at wmsymposium.org! edward ester @will_ngiam Kirsten Adam

We are all Gang Chen science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New Pre-Print with Tim Brady and viola störmer. psyarxiv.com/bg4r5 In this project, we show there is no fixed limit for storing simple visual features in visual working memory. 1/

my team at Perceptive Automata is hiring! we are building a new approach to AI that incorporates psychophysics and cognitive science, breaking down complex human intuition into something machines can learn and replicate at scale.

My lab at Boston University has new openings for (1) a postdoc and (2) a full-time research associate / lab manager to work on studies of visual perception and attention. More info and how to apply here: sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/pos…

My final PhD paper "Context-dependent sensory modulation underlies Bayesian vocal sequence perception"! Tweet thread soon. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our article "Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression“ is out in Progress in Neurobiology: tinyurl.com/2s48pb2n. Team: Malte Wöstmann,viola störmer,Jonas Obleser,@dougaddleman,Søren Andersen,Nicholas Gaspelin,JoyJGeng @joyjgeng.bsky.social,Steve Luck,MaryAnn Noonan,@HeleenASlagter,@TheeuwesJan

My new preprint on tracing the emergence of the memorability benefit with BenPark, Jason Wu, Jonathan Cant, Dirk Bernhardt-Walther is on Bluesky, and Keisuke Fukuda is available to read! Condensed version in the thread below. psyarxiv.com/bx69s/

some of my best work, tbh

New paper “American postdoctoral salaries do not account for growing disparities in cost of living” I found that real postdoc salaries vary by ~ 29% ($15k) depending on where you live (and your university) arxiv.org/abs/2205.12892

Academics would double our productivity if we learnt some basic project management skills that are bog standard in the industry. We have this myth that scholarly success is all about brilliance and creativity, but in fact 90% of it is getting sh*t done, same as any other job.

A new preprint with Chaipat Chunharas and viola störmer! "Optimal tuning of feature-based attention warps the perception of visual features" psyarxiv.com/hbfup

If I can give you some advice about PhD life it would be: WRITE DOWN EVERYTHING. DO NOT TRUST YOUR OWN MEMORY 😬😬😬 PhD Voice - Independently Run Academic Chatter™

🚨 PhDs interested in industry: SMPC's Fall Career Talks kick off this Monday 9/26 at 12pm EST!🎉We've got ✨Jessica Nave-Blodgett✨ talking about her journey from music psych PhD ➡️ Human Factors/UX researcher at Exponent. Register here: erdosinstitute.org/invitations-to…