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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18h

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?

Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)

Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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Dr Jen Ryan @drjenryan.bsky.social · 3h

Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally 👀

Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases.

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 1d

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

How to get PhD funding in the UK

It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...

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Kimberley Wade @kimwade.bsky.social · 2d

Then please take a moment to help them with their research by completing a short anonymous (10 minutes) questionnaire about what it's like in your head. Who knows, your story may be part of their new show! uk.culturecounts.cc/s/6XCHT5/spl...

Culture Counts Survey

A platform for cultural measurement. Tell a better story about your impact and value.

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Kimberley Wade @kimwade.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant @thepaperbirds.bsky.social are creating '48 Thoughts Per Minute', an artistic look at what it's like inside your head. I chatted recently with the wonderful creative team about thoughts, beliefs & memory errors. See their convo starter
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'48 Thoughts Per Minute' - Conversation Starter

This is "'48 Thoughts Per Minute' - Conversation Starter" by The Paper Birds on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love…

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Kimberley Wade @kimwade.bsky.social · 5d

Does “being authentic” mean always sticking to your “true self”? Pop culture suggests this but our identities constantly shift.
Laura Visu-Petra (Babeș-Bolyai Uni) & PhD student Lexi Bulbuc (BBU & Uni of Warwick) explain how identity flexibility can be a gift and curse.

@warwickpsych.bsky.social

Is it Me I’m Looking For? The Dark Side of Flexible Identity

We’re told to just be ourselves, as if identity was something we turn on and off. Yet, we are often challenged to reinvent ourselves. How can we navigate between stability and fluidity of self?

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Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP) @amslablegpsy.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚨 Just published! Our case study on the ICTR reveals how cultural background shapes courtroom communication. Witnesses from non-WEIRD contexts often gave indirect responses, easily misinterpreted as unclear or evasive by legal professionals @anneliesvrede.bsky.social doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

Cross-cultural communication in the courtroom: a case study of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Emerald Insight

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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · Jun 27

A very important paper led by the phenomenal @lucy-h-butler.bsky.social

Say it with me: Corrections. Of. Scientific. Misinformation. Are. Effective.

@lewan.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lkfazio.bsky.social @tobyprike.bsky.social @brionyswire.bsky.social @emilyspearing.bsky.social

Lucy Butler @lucy-h-butler.bsky.social · Jun 27

A 2023 NHB paper concluded that corrections of science-relevant misinformation are, on average, ineffective. Our response (in press) challenges this conclusion, showing why corrections *are* effective, and why considering measurement is important:
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · Jul 2

SARMAC members are hosting an Autobiographical Processing and Psychopathology Conference 2026 at University of Plymouth, UK. If you would like to subscribe to the conference newsletter, you can do so here // stats.sender.net/forms/bqxQO0...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 1

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · Jun 20

Ok, remember a few days ago when I said that my friends/colleagues are badass and to look forward to good stuff coming later this week...

First up is @dannagal.bsky.social with this devastating, beautiful & deeply personal takedown of the MAHA movement. 1/

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Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have, Either.

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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · Jun 14

The Teaching About Research in Memory & Cognition #sarmac2025 @officialsarmac.bsky.social was full of good examples of how to get students to engage E-portfolios puzzle boxes, using mobile phone tech learning to learn, to public science communication. Thanks for organising @drrobnash.bsky.social‬

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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · Jun 13

For anyone interested in conducting lineup identification research, check out this valuable database of research materials generously shared by #SARMAC2025 presenter Ryan Fitzgerald, Stefana Juncu, @evaribbers.bsky.social and @evarubinova.bsky.social osf.io/vrj3u @sarmac2025.bsky.social

Eyewitness Lineup Identity (ELI) database

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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Kimberley Wade @kimwade.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thanks so much for a fabulous #sarmac2025, @ciaragreene.bsky.social @gillian-murphy.bsky.social! Many details made it such a joyess Irish-tinted celebration of the sarmac community. You're legends & we're immensely grateful ❤️ And I'm wildly proud of this lot too! (Thxs for putting up with me x)

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SARMAC 2025 - Ireland @sarmac2025.bsky.social · Jun 15

What an amazing 4 days! Thanks so much to everyone for attending and bringing such warm and friendly energy to #sarmac2025! We can’t wait for SARMAC 2027! ❤️☘️

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SARMAC 2025 - Ireland @sarmac2025.bsky.social · Jun 15

Congratulations to the many fabulous awardees honoured at the Closing Ceremony last night! #sarmac2025

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Annelies Vredeveldt @anneliesvrede.bsky.social · Jun 13

So impressed with this #SARMAC2025 symposium on confidence-accuracy in eyewitness identifications, featuring generous sharing of research materials, multilab studies with 1000s of participants and super realistic research designs @sarmac2025.bsky.social @officialsarmac.bsky.social

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · Jun 12

J Don Reed early career winner @veronicayan.bsky.social giving her award address at #sarmac2025. College is a really important time for students to develop skills of self-regulated learning. Students have a lot of supports for their learning in high school- much more on their own in college. 1/

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · May 14

NEW paper! 💭🖥️

“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”

— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡

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Typology of traps, how they can be avoided, and what goes wrong if not avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.

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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · May 25

Very glad to see this out:

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Special Issue
Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights

psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

APA PsycNet

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · Mar 10

One day left for ECRs to register for Warwick’s Centre for Operational Police Research symposium ‘Doing police research: Approaches and Challenges”!

Deadline 11 Mar, Event 29 Apr. Free to attend. Travel bursaries available.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Doing Police Research: Approaches & Challenges

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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · Feb 11

If you know an early career researcher (<10yrs PhD) who has made outstanding contributions to applied memory or cognition, please consider nominating them for the SARMAC J. Don Read Early Career Award! Deadline for nominations: 31st March. See website for eligibility and process #cogsci

J. Don Read Early Career Award Recipients — SARMAC

J. Don Read Early career award The J. Don Read Early Career Award was establishing in 2015 to recognize the outstanding contributions of emerging scholars, less than 10 years post-PhD,  in the ...

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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · Feb 7

Not applying for the Student travel grant yourself? Are you a late-stage PhD student/Early Career Researcher and a SARMAC member? The Caucus is looking for reviewers to assist with the Student Travel Grant applications for SARMAC XV. Email [email protected]

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · Feb 6

Dr Melina Kunar and Prof Derrick Watson, along with Prof Giovanni Montana of @warwickstats.bsky.social, investigated the effect of transparency in AI-assisted breast cancer detection.

Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Jan 21

Transparency or improved patient outcomes? What would you choose if you had to prioritize one? New post by Jonathan Caballero on #psynomPBR paper by Kunar and colleagues #AIresearch #CancerResearch #BreastCancer

Transparency in AI-assisted systems impacts human decisions

AI is everywhere nowadays. Its potential to support our work is exciting, and its results can range from impressive to hilarious, depending on the context. Here is a little challenge for you. Check…

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Kimberley Wade @kimwade.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hurrah! Congratulations Annelies! I can't think of anyone who deserves this more than you. 🥂🎉 Smart move @vucriminologie.bsky.social!

Annelies Vredeveldt @anneliesvrede.bsky.social · Feb 5

Happy to share that I will be Full Professor @amslablegpsy.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social from the 1st of March! Honoured to become the first female professor in legal psychology in The Netherlands, ever. And so grateful to the many people who helped me get here ❤️

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