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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations, Dr. Pistolas!

GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations Dr. Pistolas! Our PhD student @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD this week! We congratulate her on this achievement and her hard work and thank the jury members for their questions. Well done!

Eleftheria Pistolas @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social · 20h

I am delighted to share that on October 6 I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled “Inside-out dynamics of multisensory perception: A mixed-methods approach from laboratory to art contexts” and obtained the degree: Doctor of Psychology!

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 12d

We are just as thrilled! Our PhD student @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social received the Early Career Best Paper Prize for her paper published in @pec-ipe.bsky.social ⬇️

Eleftheria Pistolas @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social · 12d

I’m thrilled that our latest paper, “Wave after wave: The suggestibility of noise in the experience of multisensory hallucinations under multimodal Ganzfeld stimulation”, has just been published in i-Perception and received the Early Career Best Paper Prize!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · 15d

Here some other beautiful submissions! Thanks everyone for participating (including @janpdehaan.bsky.social)!

For more info on OCTA and QIP:
ℹ️https://elinevg.github.io/OCTA/
ℹ️https://aesthetics-toolbox.streamlit.app/

@gestaltrevision.bsky.social

Submission by Jan (balance score: 20.43)

Submission by Sören (balance score: 26.05)

Submission by Tessa (balance score: 23.37)

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · 15d

The contest for the least balanced OCTA image was won by Anosha & Milena (balance score: 32.45)! Congrats!

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · 15d

The winning submission for the HOG complexity contest was created by Barbara (HOG complexity score: 5.72). Congratulations!

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · 15d

At @ecvp.bsky.social Demo Night, @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social and I held the OCTA-QIP challenge: use the OCTA toolbox to create the least balanced or most HOG complex stimulus as measured with the QIP machine of the Aesthetics Toolbox! Below we showcase some of the submissions for both contests!

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · 28d

It was a pleasure introducing PsyNet and its many applications at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology today! Thanks @felixhermans.bsky.social for the invitation and all PsyNet developers, incl. @pmcharrison.bsky.social and @norijacoby.bsky.social for creating such an amazing platform!

felixhermans.bsky.social @felixhermans.bsky.social · 28d

Tremendously grateful to @elinevg.bsky.social for providing an introduction to PsyNet (www.psynet.dev) at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology in KU Leuven today!

PsyNet is a new platform uniquely suited to crafting complex experimental designs in an efficient manner!

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you very much for the invitation
@felixhermans.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to introduce your laboratory to the world of PsyNet (www.psynet.dev).

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Sep 7

Looking forward to this discussion on how we can make peer review future proof!

ReproducibiliTea Leuven @leuventea.bsky.social · Sep 6

🧪 ReproducibiliTea Leuven invites you to discuss the future of peer review at our next journal club!
📅 Oct 7, 2025 4PM-5.30PM
📍 VHI 01.64 Dekenstraat 2 Leuven

Find out more and register here: tinyurl.com/39yzyw5h

#OpenScience #Academia #PublishOrPerish #PayforPublish

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Aug 27

It was a pleasure presenting my open-source toolbox OCTA for reproducible stimulus generation along the QIP machine from the Aesthetics Toolbox for computing quantitative image properties!

Explore OCTA here: elinevg.github.io/OCTA/

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

The GestaltReVision Lab is headed to #ECVP2025! We are looking forward to a great conference and sharing our work! See below for more information on our contributions ⤵️

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Aug 20

Looking forward to #ECVP2025 Demo Night om Aug 26th! Come challenge yourself to create the most complex OCTA stimulus and check its numeric complexity with the QIP machine of the Aesthetics Toolbox!

Lisa Kossmann @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social · Aug 19

Come find @elinevg.bsky.social and myself at #ECVP2025 Demo Night to challenge your colleagues to a fun little game around visual complexity using the #octatoolbox and the #QIPMachine of the #AestheticsToolbox!

A promotional poster for the demonstration mentioned in the post, titled the OCTA and QIP Challenge. The poster features some text and three stimuli created work OCTA of varying arrangements of squares, circles and triangles in grids and a butterfly shape.

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 19

The GestaltReVision Lab is excited to be part of this years @vsac-social.bsky.social!

We will be present all three days; come find us at the talks and posters to connect! 💬

Details on our contributions in the comments below ⬇️
#VSAC2025

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Jun 12

Great news for psychology!

PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · Jun 11

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳

After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org
#PsychSciSky #scipub

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks to my promotor Prof. Johan Wagemans, my collaborators and colleagues, my family and friends, my funder @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social and my institution Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen KU Leuven for supporting me along the way!

@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Jun 10

Last week I officially received the three-yearly ASL Research Award for Human Sciences. Thanks to Academische Stichting Leuven for granting me this important recognition for my PhD research. As winner I was invited to ASL's podcast, have a listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/07Zu...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · May 29

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

Cover of the textbook used in the workshop

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks to my promotor Prof. Johan Wagemans, my collaborators and my colleagues, my family and friends, my funder @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social and my institution @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social for supporting me along the way!

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · May 29

At the 2025 Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences this week, I received the Best PhD Thesis Award 2025. I am very grateful for this recognition of my research combining theory and experimentation and of my commitment to open and reproducible science!

@bapsciences.bsky.social

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · May 5

It was an honor to be interviewed about my doctoral research by @bdalile.bsky.social for #KarakterCast! This interview happened on the occasion of me receiving the ASL research award for Human Sciences for my PhD work.

Check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/07Zu...

Image showing the title of the podcast episode "In the eye of the beholder? How the viewer and context shape the visual experience" and pictures of podcast host Dr. Boushra Dalile and podcast guest Dr. Eline Van Geert

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Apr 24

Please all come celebrate with me on June 2nd, you can register here: research.kuleuven.be/nl/prijzen

Uitreiking prijzen KU Leuven op maandag 2 juni 2025 (16.30)

research.kuleuven.be

Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thanks so much! I am very honored to receive the Academische Stichting Leuven Research Award for Human Sciences 2024. Reproducible research practices have since the start been an important aspect of my work, and I am grateful I can also share that enthusiasm within @leuventea.bsky.social!

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Apr 24

🎉Great news for everyone working in psychological research: soon we will have a Peer Community In for Psychology! Check the website for details on how this alternative community-based review system works and for how to get involved as author, reviewer, or recommender (= editor)!

PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · Apr 23

The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub

PCI Psychology

Peer Community in Psychology

psych.peercommunityin.org

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Apr 22

Last day to register for the KULeuven Open Science Day and join us on a reproducible reporting adventure!

Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ever wondered how to achieve more reproducible research outputs? On the Open Science Day at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, we will introduce you to
@quarto.org as a tool to directly combine text and R/Python code into custom formatted documents!

Register before 23/04 (see info below ⬇️)

sara-decoster.bsky.social @sara-decoster.bsky.social · Mar 13

Join us for the KU Leuven Open Science Day on 6 May 2025!

The KU Leuven Open Science Day is an event for and by researchers. Don't miss this chance to deepen insights, share experiences and engage with fellow researchers! #OpenScience #Research #KULeuven

More info: www.kuleuven.be/open-science...

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ever wondered how to achieve more reproducible research outputs? On the Open Science Day at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, we will introduce you to
@quarto.org as a tool to directly combine text and R/Python code into custom formatted documents!

Register before 23/04 (see info below ⬇️)

sara-decoster.bsky.social @sara-decoster.bsky.social · Mar 13

Join us for the KU Leuven Open Science Day on 6 May 2025!

The KU Leuven Open Science Day is an event for and by researchers. Don't miss this chance to deepen insights, share experiences and engage with fellow researchers! #OpenScience #Research #KULeuven

More info: www.kuleuven.be/open-science...

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