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Samantha Gregory
@drsamgregory.bsky.social
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Lecturer in cognitive psychology, University of Salford. Research social attention and memory
https://sites.google.com/view/drsamanthaeagregory/home
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maxwellelliott.bsky.social
I am recruiting a Postdoc to join my lab at UMN. If you or someone you know is interested in studying individual differences in brain and cognitive aging, check out the listing and my website in my bio and apply!

I appreciate RTs to help get the word out as well :)
January 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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milesklee.bsky.social
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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addiebabe.bsky.social
* CURRENTLY RECRUITING *

Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you.

This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing.

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The image is of a recruitment poster for a research study: (images) University of Salford and Leverhulme Trust logos (text) Hearing loss, wellbeing and music Do you have first hand experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? Are you interested in taking part in a research study? You are eligible to take part if you: are 18 years or older, have experience of hearing loss, listen to music in your day-to-day life. The study will involve: taking part in an online survey (about 20 minutes), answering questions about your hearing, how you engage with music, and questions about mental health and wellbeing. For more information: Please email Addie Beckwith, PhD student at the University of Salford - a.m.beckwith@edu.salford.ac.uk. Supervisors: Dr Duncan Williams and Dr Robert Bendall (images) A large ear, a mute symbol, musical notes and a treble clef, an MP3 player and wired earbuds. A QR code that leads to the survey link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/hearing-loss-wellbeing-and-music
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
drsamgregory.bsky.social
Here is a link to the Webinar recording for the below funded PhDs youtu.be/HUyDgsRUePc
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
drsamgregory.bsky.social
More PhD funding opportunities at Salford: soundfutures.salford.ac.uk/2026-phd-pro... ... I am attached to Sa.26.3: Communication and listening effort for blind and partially sighted people.
Contact details are with the proposal outline. DEADLINE – 11 JAN 2026
2026 PhD Projects - EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Sound Futures
We are currently accepting applications for the following funded PhD projects for September 2026 entry. If you require more information about a project, you can email the named supervisors. When conta...
soundfutures.salford.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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martingiesel.bsky.social
Check out this project on food perception for the EastBio fully funded 4-year PhD studentship competition, supervised by Constanze Hesse and Rama Chakravarthi at the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen

Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #PhdScholarship
EastBio: The Real Deal: Behavioural and neural responses to real food objects and their images at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: The Real Deal: Behavioural and neural responses to real food objects and their images at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
drsamgregory.bsky.social
As well as the below, the University of Salford are offering Widening participation PhD scholarships. Information in the scholarships section of this webpage: www.salford.ac.uk/postgraduate... - scroll past Research Masters for PhD info. Webinar Monday 27th Nov, sign up here: tinyurl.com/yc4dyyjz
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
drsamgregory.bsky.social
Interested in pursuing a funded PhD in Aural Diversity at Uni of Salford? Projects focus on how people experience sound across psychology, acoustics, music and education. Info here: laura.salford.ac.uk. Webinar 12pm 10th Dec, link on webpage. @salforduni.bsky.social @exppsychsoc.bsky.social
The Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Doctoral Research Hub - LAURA
The Leverhulme Doctoral Centre for Aural Diversity seeks to disrupt and transform thinking across disciplines by fundamentally reconceptualising hearing to include the whole spectrum of aural experien...
laura.salford.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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xrg.bsky.social
We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.
September 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
drsamgregory.bsky.social
Aural Diversity Conference - University of Salford and online – 5 September 2025. A free event for people working in aural diversity from any disciplinary background. Learn more, including how to sign up here
laura.salford.ac.uk/news/aural-d...
AURAL DIVERSITY CONFERENCE - update with schedule - LAURA
University of Salford and online – 5 September 2025 The aural diversity movement springs from the observation that the many differences in hearing/listening might be better represented by a concept of...
laura.salford.ac.uk
August 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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nagyt.bsky.social
🚨 New study alert! We're excited to share our "Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology" in #AMPPS. We tackle the credibility crisis in research by defining, collecting, and categorizing QRPs using a community consensus method. 🧵#OpenScience #QRPs @psychscience.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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utafrith.bsky.social
No empirical support for 'Double Empathy' hypothesis from preregistered study:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

"We hypothesized that information transfer would deteriorate faster and rapport would be lower in mixed-neurotype compared with single-neurotype chains."
But no difference was found.
July 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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lauraklatt.bsky.social
ONE MORE DAY til the #WorkingMemory event of the year! 👇
lauraklatt.bsky.social Laura-Isabelle Klatt @lauraklatt.bsky.social · Jul 4
🚨 Hey #WorkingMemory folks! 🚨
#WMS25 is coming up next week! Join us for 4 days of cutting-edge science, featuring amazing work by #ECRs.

✅ No registration – join our Slack and tune in via Zoom!
👉 More info: www.wmsymposium.org

If you’re interested in WM, this is the event you can’t miss!
July 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
drsamgregory.bsky.social
Tackling social isolation and promoting belonging in our older generation event today. At this event organised by Keri Furniss we are discussing frailty and isolation in our older population. @salforduni.bsky.social
Speaker panel Lauren and Scott discussing frailty Jenni discussing social frailty Keri talking about isolation in older adults
July 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
💥New postdoc position! 💥

Join us to explore how people learn from each other—and how that drives cultural evolution.

Run experiments, build computational models & collaborate across Europe w. @lucasmolleman.bsky.social
📍 Stockholm
More info: shorturl.at/CY4wk
Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified
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June 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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samwestwood.bsky.social
We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops!

Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud!

This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm
June 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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danieljamesyon.bsky.social
Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...
PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence at Birkbeck, University of London
Find a PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!
www.jobs.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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annayahprosser.bsky.social
An early train up to LSE this morning for our panel on replication in qualitative methods with Matthew Hanchard, @kirstywallis.com and @maddipow.bsky.social ! Still time to sign up to attend in person or online here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/should-rep...
June 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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antoniahamilton.bsky.social
On 24th June, we are hosting a 1 day event on Social Connections at UCL - come along to hear the latest research on wearable sensors and friendship and measuring social interaction. Please share widely
palslanguagelab.wixsite.com/socialconnec...
Home | LondonSocialConnection
London Social Connection Workshop at UCL on 24th June 2025.
palslanguagelab.wixsite.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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gidmk.bsky.social
I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n
June 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social
PhD Call 📢📢📢
Are you interested in a PhD in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience? Join us! We are booking for highly motivated and inspired future researchers! Waiting for you in Rome!

🗓️ Deadline 19th June

Useful links👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
phd.uniroma1.it/web/concorso...

phd.uniroma1.it/web/pagina.a...
May 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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psyarxivbot.bsky.social
Young Children Spontaneously Appreciate the Perspectives of their Social Partners: https://osf.io/85ndq
May 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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icevislab.bsky.social
Please distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia
May 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
drsamgregory.bsky.social
Webinar this Thursday, see link for details
May 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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luizajarovsky.bsky.social
🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
May 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM