Excited to announce our new paper w K Martire, Stephanie Summersby, Mariam Younan & others is out 🤗People who believe conspiracy theories are more persuaded by forensic evidence in court regardless of its quality than non-believers 📊🌏🔬 Open Psychology & Law Science tinyurl.com/yyjmx725

For your network 🤓🧐 Dr. Rachel Searston @gianni_ribeiro Jason Chin Creating Perceptual Experts Niki Osborne

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This was a labour of love. Epstein and King said almost 20 years ago that almost all legal research was irreproducible (and I think that's still true). But, how can we go about doing a reproducible legal analysis, using modern tools? 1/11 osf.io/preprints/lawa…

In my experience what I find most shocking in #forensicscience is that many women that hold significantly higher levels of education are still paid considerably less than male counterparts that hold ZERO. #WomeninSTEM #WomeninForensics #engenderchange #endgenderadvocate

New paper in CR:PI with Dr. Rachel Searston and Jason Tangen. Compared to novices, experts are excellent at searching for the most useful information in fingerprints, but if you scramble the prints their superior search skills disappear. …itiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

I have (finally) written up the details behind the idea of the Four-Step Robustness Check for an upcoming book on clinical psych & QRPs. Basically: before investing in a replication study, it may be wise to verify the stats. See the full preprint here: psyarxiv.com/a4bu2

DST (Adelaide) is hiring a cognitive scientist at about Level B/C. From the ad, it sounds like you'll be working with uni sector on outsourced projects (like ours). In a different life I'd apply myself. Check it out. defencecareers.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?e…

Interested in carving out a PhD project on the psychology of misinformation spread? This unique industry PhD opportunity at Uni of Adelaide School of Psychology could be for you. Working with Professor Carolyn Semmler, Rachel Stephens, Keith Ransom, myself and folks at Defence Science and Technology Group - Australia.

📊🧵 Collection of tweets featuring open-access materials that I have shared over the last years: Talks, seminars, blog posts, hands-on notebooks, codes, and more! #rstats #ggplot2 #tidyverse #dataviz 🧙‍♂️

Visual cliff, but for real though. Wonder what Eleanor Gibson would think about this bridge? vm.tiktok.com/ZMRpVxjbo/

Spreading the word on this opportunity to work with two fabulous supervisors — Jaime Auton and Daniel Sturman — on an industry PhD exploring cybersecurity culture: bit.ly/3DZ3UAy. Comes with a 4-year stipend and a rare top-up scholarship! Defence Science and Technology Group - Australia @GradCentreUofA

New paper out led by Sam Robson. We relied on two frameworks for behaviour change to suggest practical things you can do to promote the parts of open science you think should be promoted. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

📰New paper exploring constructive journalism to combat misinformation📰 Our interviews with journalism professionals suggest #ConstructiveJournalism could increase positive and reduce negative consequences of news media concerning misinformation. More ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19…

Babies are easily distracted, so we show them hypnotic and/or noisy things to get their attention during experiments. A researcher on Lookit wants to use multiple exemplars, so I'm calling all dev researchers to share their favorite/most effective attention getters!

Very excited to do this - we're hiring again! 2 x Lecturer B positions in the Media Department at Uni of Adelaide. Awesome team, great courses, room to grow as a scholar, and both positions are ongoing! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/5112…

A method for quantifying individual decision thresholds of latent print examiners Amanda Luby lnkd.in/eRze6CVt