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Evie Vergauwe
@evievergauwe.bsky.social
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Working Memory Researcher at U. of Geneva
#workingmemory
Cognition and Cognitive Development
PI of the WomCogDevLab
Steering board Swiss Reproducibility Network
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
Sending this to all my PhD students, winning advisor of the year award (it was a mistake)
A collage-style meme featuring multiple Barbie dolls on a white background. Large, colourful, mixed-font text reads: “hey soooo not to be annoying but could you please CONFIRM that you still want to be advised by me & have not decided to randomly hate me.” The words vary in size, colour, and style, with “CONFIRM” emphasised in rainbow block letters. Several Barbie images appear around the text: one standing with a pink purse, one in a sparkly pink outfit, two in wedding dresses, and a close-up of a Barbie face at the bottom.
January 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
evievergauwe.bsky.social
This. SO. Much.
lakens.bsky.social Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 15
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
January 16, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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visualattentionlab.bsky.social
#postdoc #cogpsych #neurojobs #psychologyjobs #visionscience #cogsci
January 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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williamngiam.github.io
This is going to take my thinking in circles to the next level.

Are we still using the #workingmemory tag? Relevant for anyone there – bring back the delayed reproduction task and the computational model wars! #teamnotpureslots #teamnotpureresourceseither
stellawernicke.bsky.social Stella Wernicke @stellawernicke.bsky.social · 10d
I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out.

Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
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January 13, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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womcogdevlab.bsky.social
🎄 Ho-Ho-Holiday Alert! 🎄
Wishing you happy holidays & happy new year!

A shout-out to all our collaborators, students, & colleagues for an inspiring year 2025. Grateful to be part of such a supportive & curious research community!🤓

Here’s to exciting new ideas, discoveries, & exchanges in 2026! 🥂🎊
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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sabrinanorwood.bsky.social
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
evievergauwe.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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dsquintana.bsky.social
New paper!

We describe how grassroots networks can help implement and harmonize open research efforts via our experience establishing the Norwegian Reproducibility Network [email protected].

doi.org/10.7557/11.8...
Grassroots networks can help implement and harmonize open research efforts Agata Bochynska, Tamara Kalandadze, Max Korbmacher, Lewend Mayiwar, Julien Mayor, Daniel Quintana Abstract Grassroots networks are peer-led, bottom-up initiatives that can drive meaningful change in research reform. Norwegian Reproducibility Network (NORRN), a nation-wide initiative after the model from similar networks around the world, is an example of a grassroots network where a community of researchers works together towards more transparent, rigorous and robust research. By connecting with other researchers, librarians and research support staff across Norwegian universities and colleges as well as various stakeholders, including higher-education institutions and research funders, NORRN aims to help implement and harmonize open and reproducible research efforts across the country. In this paper, we describe the origins, mission,and structure of NORRN and similar networks, as well as successes, challenges and future directions of NORRN’s efforts that show a critical role of grassroots initiatives in supporting research improvement. The map of NORRN’s local and institutional nodes at Norwegian universities and colleges (per 15.10.2025).
December 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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sanjaysrivastava.com
[hands someone my beer]

Hear me out guys: "Many Adversaries"
mzloteanu.bsky.social Dr Mircea Zloteanu ❄️☃️🎄 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · Dec 17
Watch out many-analyst/many-labs. There's a new kid on the block. Seems "adversarial collaboration" is the hip new thing to do in 2026.
gordpennycook.bsky.social Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · Dec 17
🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨

We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait

The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...
December 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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opensciencenl.bsky.social
Open Science NL is funding 27 replication studies with €5.2M. Projects will reanalyse data, repeat experiments, and explore variations across many fields. Read more 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...
27 studies re-examined | Open Science NL
Open Science NL has awarded funding to 27 applicants to replicate earlier studies. They will reanalyse original data, repeat experiments, and replicate studies with slight variations to the original design. A total amount of 5.2 million euros was granted.
www.openscience.nl
December 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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effinbirds.com
My holiday gift to you: three hours of the worst Christmas music known to humanity. Apple Music and Spotify links can be found at shitm.as
a screenshot of a playlist called Worst Christmas with an illustration of a Christmas tree on fire
December 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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williamngiam.github.io
Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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dannagal.bsky.social
New conspiracy theory just dropped:

What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience
Principles for proper peer review
jocnf.pubpub.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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milicanikolic.bsky.social
Our lab at the University of Amsterdam is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to examine how young children’s emotions develop across cultures.

This position is part of our @erc.europa.eu project on the emergence of distinct emotions in human development.

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postodoctoral Position in Developmental Psychology/Affective Science
Are you interested in understanding early emotional development? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to study the emergence of infants’ and young children’s distinct emotions. This research i...
werkenbij.uva.nl
October 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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swissrn.bsky.social
🚨 Update on the SwissRN Annual Meeting
Find the complete program of our 4th annual meeting now here:
www.swissrn.org/contents/new...
📅 December 05, 2025, 09:30-17:00, Hybrid format
📌 Universität Basel, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056, room U1.101

Please register by 31 October 2025.
October 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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moritzdaum.bsky.social
Wir sind verzweifelt. Vorschläge? #ente #wurst #wicklungspsychologie
https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/eine-gelbe-gummiente-die-auf-einem-tisch-sitzt-m-V15qtqEns
October 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social
Faculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25
www.umb.edu/academics/pr...
#devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky
Developmental & Brain Sciences PhD
UMass Boston's Developmental and Brain Sciences (DBS) PhD is a research-intensive program focused on understanding cognition, perception, and behavior when underlying neural and hormonal mechanisms ar...
www.umb.edu
October 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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carohautekiet.bsky.social
The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
October 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
evievergauwe.bsky.social
Collaborate with us!! #workingmemory
candicemorey.bsky.social Candice Morey @candicemorey.bsky.social · Sep 26
Call for collaborators! 🧵

The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting.

In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5

Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Further details in the 🧵:
September 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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williamngiam.github.io
How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro
Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task
Abstract. Human visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performanc...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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lauraklatt.bsky.social
Make sure to stop at Ceren Arslan‘s (@scannedfruits.bsky.social) poster at #ICON2025 today at 3:30! She‘s presenting some of our recent EEG work on audiovisual object storage in #WorkingMemory! 👇
scannedfruits.bsky.social Ceren Arslan @scannedfruits.bsky.social · Sep 15
Tomorrow afternoon at #icon2025 I will present a poster on feature extraction costs in working memory in an audiovisual context using behavioral measures and EEG based decoding analysis. I will be at the main hall, 1st floor (P2.55). I’d be happy to discuss our results further with you.
September 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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vmloaiza1.bsky.social
Congrats to @lauraklatt.bsky.social for being the #WomWoM research fairy of 2025! She is both a star researcher & incredibly generous and collegial with all in the field, especially the juniors! Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations & to @scannedfruits.bsky.social for making Laura's wand 🪄🧚‍♀️
lauraklatt.bsky.social Laura-Isabelle Klatt @lauraklatt.bsky.social · Sep 15
3/3 My personal highlight of #ESCOP2025 was becoming this year‘s #WomWom research fairy! 🧚‍♂️ Thanks again to all my fellow #WomeninWorkingMemory. It means a lot ❤️
September 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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dsuplica.bsky.social
Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
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September 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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miles2708.bsky.social
🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory.

I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social

#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG
September 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM