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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8d

People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.

Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · 16d

I am on Farage's list of ILR-ners to be deported, should they win the next election. I honestly can't remember when I last got so angry. Good start of the week here 👌

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · 19d

We have an excellent graduate from our MSc programme who would be great at it. I will forward it to her.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 20d

We're looking to appoint a new administrator for our Social Sciences Impact Acceleration Account. This would be a great role for a graduate with good administrative skills who wants to learn a lot more about the non-academic impact of research
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

www.stir.ac.uk

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you so much!
If you look at section 1.2 the 3.2 here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Data-driven studies in face identity processing rely on the quality of the tests and data sets

There is growing interest in how data-driven approaches can help understand individual differences in face identity processing (FIP). However, researc…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · 20d

Week 1 is here & suddenly there is so much to do, I don't know where to start (or when to stop). And that's not even my 'busy' half of the year. 🙈 On the plus side, my group of final years is super engaged, chatty, and they seem really keen to get on with their study, so today ends on a high!

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · 20d

Please could you link some reading about the within and between corrections? We have written about the within correction (or rather reported the maximum expected correlation given the reliability), but I would be keen to learn more about it! Thank you!

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 20d

When calculating a correlation we sometimes apply a correction for attenuation due to reliability.
Has anyone ever suggested a similar correction for a between-groups comparison?
After all, reliability of the DV affects those the same way (and they are often just a dichotomised correaltion).

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · 20d

Also in Stirling! 👌 One of the biggest joys of adult life!

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · 20d

An interesting article in the Conversation by Prof. David Comerford from Stirling on the dangers of AI-generated science. Psychology scores brownie points for improvements made in transparent reporting.
theconversation.com/we-risk-a-de...

We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it

We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.

theconversation.com

Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · Sep 5

I don't often laugh out loud, but this is stand-up value.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "At its essence, artificial intelligence takes electricity and turns it into intelligence, empowering Americans."

Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · Sep 5

Omg so beautiful

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · Sep 1

These are some impressive creations. Happy veganniversary!

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Sep 1

yes

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · Sep 1

Not experience enough apparently, for just getting unsubmitted because lack of APA 7 formatting (including levels of headings). Why do we have to do this
Gif of my actual face >>>

a cartoon character covering his eyes with his hands

ALT: a cartoon character covering his eyes with his hands

media.tenor.com

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · Sep 1

Why is there no laughing reaction here!? But yes! This is exactly what I did! :D

a laughing minion with goggles on his eyes is standing on a table .

ALT: a laughing minion with goggles on his eyes is standing on a table .

media.tenor.com

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just submitted a paper (exciting!) but - why do journals still ask for phone numbers? Did anyone ever got a call from Sage or Elsevier?!

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · Jun 13

Four year 0.8 FTE post doc at Stirling with Dr. Line Caes (our Health Group) on a Oliver Bird Fund -funded project “Challenges young people face in managing musculoskeletal chronic pain”.

www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

www.stir.ac.uk

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · Jun 10

I've spent all day looking at student projects' data and debugging R code with copilot (saving my more knowledgeable colleagues 'why does this not work again' questions) and I can honestly say this was the most fun day in the office I had in a very long time!

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · May 23

Gemma, can you download the preprint? I get a persistent server error when I try...If you have it, would you be able to email me? Thanks! :)

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · May 21

Thanks, Gemma - will definitely add this to my reading list!

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · May 1

'This condition impacts every aspect of my life' - a new paper from our lab about the lived experience of Developmental Prosopagnosia is out in @plosone.org .

You can read the publication (open access) here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · May 1

Even mild face blindness (#Prosopagnosia) can cause serious difficulties in daily life – new study #PsychSciSky theconversation.com/even-mild-fa... (see reply for Alt text)

Even mild face blindness can cause serious difficulties in daily life – new study

Strategies to recognise people require ‘huge mental effort’ and often don’t work.

theconversation.com

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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · Apr 17

This looks really interesting. I remember Sarah Weigelt had a poster at ECVP in Nejmegen about a human case with similar low level deficits but intact higher level abilities (faces)!

Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social · Apr 17

If GPT-4o walked into a neuro-opthalmology clinic, what would it be diagnosed with?

Here we administered 51 tests from 6 clinical and experimental batteries to assess vision in commercial AI models.

Very proud to share this first work from @genetang.bsky.social's PhD!

arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786

Visual Language Models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests

Visual Language Models (VLMs) show remarkable performance in visual reasoning tasks, successfully tackling college-level challenges that require high-level understanding of images. However, some recen...

arxiv.org

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Catriona Havard @catrionahavard.bsky.social · Jan 16

Dear all
The first Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) online lecture of 2025 will be delivered by Louise Newbigging on the 12th from 7pm to 8pm. Details of the talk are below, if you want to find out more and attend please register
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f0b696...

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Anna Bobak @akbobak.bsky.social · Nov 20

'Automated face recognition assists with low‐prevalence face identity mismatches but can bias users'- our new paper funded by the EPS Graduate Bursary to Melina Mueller and Anna Bobak is now online! @rjwatt42.bsky.social @pjbhancock.bsky.social

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

We present three experiments to study the effects of giving information about the decision of an automated face recognition (AFR) system to participants attempting to decide whether two face images s....

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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