Tom Beesley
@tombeesley.bsky.social
Cognitive psychologist conducting research on human associative learning and attention at Lancaster University. Eye data analysis in R: tombeesley.github.io/eyetools
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JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
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Always nice to see papers out in the wild.
Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning"
By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social
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Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning"
By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social
share.google/0IoZwV3sne1N...
October 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Always nice to see papers out in the wild.
Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning"
By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social
share.google/0IoZwV3sne1N...
Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning"
By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social
share.google/0IoZwV3sne1N...
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Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.
Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Apparently, this was "nothing to do with skin colour". Robert Jenrick just likes "mixed communities". Which is why he has also criticised very white neighbourhoods or towns and villages up and down the UK, umm... <checks notes> never.
Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?
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It's been a week since we launched @chartle.cc with @adnaanj.bsky.social and we had an amazing start!
- Average of 700 users/day
- Record 1.2K users yesterday
- From 78 countries
- 66% win overall
- 2m 18s average engagement
Thank you to all who played + shared the game
Any feedback, send our way!
- Average of 700 users/day
- Record 1.2K users yesterday
- From 78 countries
- 66% win overall
- 2m 18s average engagement
Thank you to all who played + shared the game
Any feedback, send our way!
Launch day 🚀
We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!
Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!
Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!
Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!
Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
Chartle - A daily chart game
Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart
chartle.cc
September 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It's been a week since we launched @chartle.cc with @adnaanj.bsky.social and we had an amazing start!
- Average of 700 users/day
- Record 1.2K users yesterday
- From 78 countries
- 66% win overall
- 2m 18s average engagement
Thank you to all who played + shared the game
Any feedback, send our way!
- Average of 700 users/day
- Record 1.2K users yesterday
- From 78 countries
- 66% win overall
- 2m 18s average engagement
Thank you to all who played + shared the game
Any feedback, send our way!
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Nice demonstration here of how interposing a delay between action and outcome can impact causal understanding of the instrumental relationship.
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June 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Nice demonstration here of how interposing a delay between action and outcome can impact causal understanding of the instrumental relationship.
www.instagram.com/reel/DKuFcFj...
www.instagram.com/reel/DKuFcFj...
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Great start to the week.
"Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation" by Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and me has been accepted for publication at JEP:ALC.
Will get a preprint up and available soon.
"Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation" by Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and me has been accepted for publication at JEP:ALC.
Will get a preprint up and available soon.
June 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Great start to the week.
"Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation" by Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and me has been accepted for publication at JEP:ALC.
Will get a preprint up and available soon.
"Mechanisms Underlying the Accuracy of Stimulus Representations: Within-event Learning and Outcome Mediation" by Sandra Lagator, Clara Muniz-Diez, @tombeesley.bsky.social and me has been accepted for publication at JEP:ALC.
Will get a preprint up and available soon.
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Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are.
Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology
Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...
www.nature.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are.
Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Later this week is #EPSLancaster25! ☀️🧠😎
For all the up to date information, please check our website.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
For all the up to date information, please check our website.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …
eps.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Later this week is #EPSLancaster25! ☀️🧠😎
For all the up to date information, please check our website.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
For all the up to date information, please check our website.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Spent the morning talking about psychology my children's school. Now, I've given many talks to leading experts from across the world, but nothing prepares you for Qs from 6-7 year olds! Personal favourite, from my own son, "if you stepped on a bit of lego and didn't have a brain, would you feel it?"
February 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Spent the morning talking about psychology my children's school. Now, I've given many talks to leading experts from across the world, but nothing prepares you for Qs from 6-7 year olds! Personal favourite, from my own son, "if you stepped on a bit of lego and didn't have a brain, would you feel it?"
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First, this is facism. It's not 'on the path' or 'a worrying precedent'. It's just facism.
Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc.
That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.
Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc.
That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
First, this is facism. It's not 'on the path' or 'a worrying precedent'. It's just facism.
Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc.
That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.
Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc.
That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.
The portal is now open for abstract submissions to the EPS meeting at Lancaster University (2nd - 4th April). eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …
eps.ac.uk
January 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The portal is now open for abstract submissions to the EPS meeting at Lancaster University (2nd - 4th April). eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
On the train home after a fantastic meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social . If you're an experimental psychologist (broadly defined) based in the UK (or can attend regularly) do consider membership (£30 pa). It's a wonderful society that provides fantastic support for UK psych, especially ECRs.
January 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
On the train home after a fantastic meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social . If you're an experimental psychologist (broadly defined) based in the UK (or can attend regularly) do consider membership (£30 pa). It's a wonderful society that provides fantastic support for UK psych, especially ECRs.
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Brilliant mid-career prize lecture by @mikelepelley.bsky.social on "Prediction, Plasticity and Prioritisation" at the London meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Brilliant mid-career prize lecture by @mikelepelley.bsky.social on "Prediction, Plasticity and Prioritisation" at the London meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social
Working on a presentation while parenting. It's going about as well as expected.
December 30, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Working on a presentation while parenting. It's going about as well as expected.
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BlueSky tip: go to settings; go to "thread preferences"; turn on "Threaded Mode"; you're welcome. I've always HATED the weird twitter styling for replies. This is more like Reddit style.
November 13, 2024 at 11:35 AM
BlueSky tip: go to settings; go to "thread preferences"; turn on "Threaded Mode"; you're welcome. I've always HATED the weird twitter styling for replies. This is more like Reddit style.
Reading a paper where the rationale is that the processes haven't been studied in ecologically valid procedures. The paper then moves from this rationale straight to the results, with the "innovative methods" presented after the discussion! Does anyone actually enjoy reading papers in this format?
December 11, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Reading a paper where the rationale is that the processes haven't been studied in ecologically valid procedures. The paper then moves from this rationale straight to the results, with the "innovative methods" presented after the discussion! Does anyone actually enjoy reading papers in this format?
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉
Read the introductory blog post here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#RStats #StatsEd #DataScience
Read the introductory blog post here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#RStats #StatsEd #DataScience
Introducing the {messy} package | Nicola Rennie
The {messy} R package takes a clean dataset, and randomly adds mess to create data more similar to that which you'd find in the real world. This is an easy way for educators to create data sets that g...
nrennie.rbind.io
December 4, 2024 at 9:17 AM
🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉
Read the introductory blog post here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#RStats #StatsEd #DataScience
Read the introductory blog post here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#RStats #StatsEd #DataScience
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Our "eyetools" #R package is now available on #CRAN! It offers a toolkit for repairing data, analysing fixations & saccades, time on AOIs, and plotting. Designed to be simple to use, it offers an open source analysis pipeline for eye data. #rstats #eye-tracking tombeesley.github.io/eyetools/ind...
Analyse Eye Data
Enables the automation of actions across the pipeline, including initial steps of transforming binocular data and gap repair to event-based processing such as fixations, saccades, and entry/duration i...
tombeesley.github.io
November 12, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Our "eyetools" #R package is now available on #CRAN! It offers a toolkit for repairing data, analysing fixations & saccades, time on AOIs, and plotting. Designed to be simple to use, it offers an open source analysis pipeline for eye data. #rstats #eye-tracking tombeesley.github.io/eyetools/ind...
Get yourselves down to UCL 8th-10th Jan for the EPS meeting. Featuring symposium "Learning to attend and attending to learn" - in honour of Mid-career award 🎖️ for @mikelepelley.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Get yourselves down to UCL 8th-10th Jan for the EPS meeting. Featuring symposium "Learning to attend and attending to learn" - in honour of Mid-career award 🎖️ for @mikelepelley.bsky.social