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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 12d

What will happen with API requests made during the downtime?

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 12d

the important question here is what kind of dinosaurs

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 13d

I created DataPipe (pipe.jspsych.org) in part to make it possible to host online experiments for free. The docs give an example of how to host for free on github and use datapipe to send data to the OSF.

DataPipe

pipe.jspsych.org

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 18d

Application review begins on 10/1; still time to apply!

Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 29

Vassar College is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in cognitive science. vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...

I'll be at #CogSci2025 - happy to chat about the position and life at Vassar.

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Tenure Track

Department Cognitive Science Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Deci...

vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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jsPsych @jspsych.org · 21d

We are running a virtual hackathon for #hacktober! Info and signup here: jspsych.github.io/hackathon/virtual_2025.html

We will be hosting drop in office hours help during the hackathon, so this is a great chance to level up your jspsych skills!

jsPsych Hackathons

jspsych.github.io

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · Sep 1

Don't worry academics, it's still only August 32nd. Still plenty of time!

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Aug 30

~10hrs per 1hr in class for a lecture-heavy class. probably more like 3:1 for a seminar style class.

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todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social · Aug 6

tryin' to be in the band, not the band manager. todd.gureckislab.org/2024/09/25/l...

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Aug 3

Representing @vassar.bsky.social at #cogsci2025. My favorite part of the conference was catching up with all these amazing alums!

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 29

Vassar College is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in cognitive science. vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...

I'll be at #CogSci2025 - happy to chat about the position and life at Vassar.

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Tenure Track

Department Cognitive Science Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Deci...

vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 29

Heading to #CogSci2025 🥳

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 21

Is there a good explainer on this point that I could use for teaching? Thinking carefully about how to communicate this for intro cogsci students.

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 14

👀

Google Scholar search result for "Eyes Wide Open" shows 33,900 results

Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 14

making this my platform and running in the next governing board election

Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 14

paging @cogscisociety.bsky.social 👀

Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · Jul 14

I'm giving a talk at an upcoming conference, and the organizers just requested my "walk-up song to be played as you take the stage." My modest proposal is that we make this a standard part of all academic conferences, like baseball players coming up to bat -- I want to see what y'all would pick!

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 8

This was a big undertaking, and @anjames2.bsky.social, @ryskin.bsky.social and Josh Hartshorne all pitched in to help plan, analyze, and report the work. Super grateful for wonderful collaborators to do this with. I don't think this project would have made it to publication without Ariel's heroics.

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 8

This project started in Spring 2021, in my research methods class. Normally my class does replications of EEG studies (e.g., doi.org/10.1525/coll... & doi.org/10.15626/MP....), but in Spring 2021 we had to do the class remotely. So we tackled online eye tracking instead.

Words May Jump-Start Meaning More Than Vision: A Non-Replication of Early ERP Effects in Boutonnet and Lupyan (2015)

We report a replication of Boutonnet and Lupyan’s (2015) study of the effects of linguistic labelling on perceptual performance. In addition to a response time advantage of linguistic labels over non-...

doi.org

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jul 8

Want to know what kinds of studies webcam-based eye tracking can be used for? Here's our take on the current tech. This certainly isn't the first paper on this topic, but it provides some converging evidence about the viability of eye tracking with online methods. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

What Paradigms Can Webcam Eye-Tracking Be Used For? Attempted Replications of Five Cognitive Science Experiments

Web-based data collection allows researchers to recruit large and diverse samples with fewer resources than lab-based studies require. Recent innovations have expanded the set of methodolgies that are...

online.ucpress.edu

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jun 27

Congrats! Looking forward to seeing what you do 🎉

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jun 24

If you could change 1 or 2 things about the software used for academic journal editorial processes (e.g., manuscript submission, peer review, publishing), what would it be? 👀

#academicsky

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jun 24

Maybe a slightly clearly phrasing: if you could change something about the user experience of these tools, what would it be?

Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jun 24

If you could change 1 or 2 things about the software used for academic journal editorial processes (e.g., manuscript submission, peer review, publishing), what would it be? 👀

#academicsky

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jun 14

fantastic - here's the PR for the upgraded spr plugin
github.com/jspsych/jsps...

Addition of a self-paced reading plugin by vzhang03 · Pull Request #145 · jspsych/jspsych-contrib

This self-paced reading plugin supports three different built-in modes, styling elements using CSS, explicit declaration of screens, and splitting text to create screens. Documentation is up-to-dat...

github.com

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jun 14

A student of mine has been working a lot on an upgraded self paced reading plugin. I'll check in with them about whether it could handle this!

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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · Jun 14

👀 what's amaze?

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