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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 7d

Join us for a 2 day bootcamp!

📅 Dec 16th/17th
📍 Nottingham
👩‍💻 Day 1 - Create experiments in PsychoPy and optimise for EEG
🧠 Day 2 - EEG data collection and ERP analysis strategies
ℹ️ Info and Ticket purchase shorturl.at/DVL8s

In collaboration with @ant-neuro.com

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ANT Neuro @ant-neuro.com · 16d

Calling all PhD students & early career researchers! Boost your EEG skills in Nottingham, Dec 16–17. Hands-on training with ANT Neuro, Open Science Tools & @psychopy.org. Register: eventbrite.com/e/1692116779839

#Neurotechnology #BrainResearch #ScienceTraining

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Jon Peirce @peircej.bsky.social · 20d

We've been going green: got a 2nd hand EV (an MG ZS) and love it! Also got solar panels and battery, so now I'm in that mode of constantly checking to see how much it's charging! (Mostly just because of the novelty).

Will update soon on how it's going, but good so far 😎

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 20d

Happy faces in this PsychoPy workshop at Mapua University in Manila run by @suelynnmah.bsky.social! 🇵🇭

Sue Lynn introduced students and faculty to PsychoPy for creating psychology experiments.

We love seeing PsychoPy being used around the world! 🌏

#psychology #research

A woman stands at the front of a computer room full of students, she presents a slide that reads “introducing PsychoPy!”

A student works on a computer in a workshop, the screen displays an experiment being created in PsychoPy.

A group of happy smiling students look at the camera posing after their PsychoPy workshop.

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 27d

Shout out to Australian researchers! 🇦🇺 (and folks in the southern hemisphere) 🌏

We're excited that our Ambassador Ben Lowe (@brainboyben.bsky.social) will be hosting a pre-conference workshop at #ACNS2025 (@acnsau.bsky.social) on getting started with PsychoPy!

Sign up here👇
shorturl.at/gvnUU

ACNS 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops - Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society

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www.acns.org.au

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Jon Peirce @peircej.bsky.social · 27d

Oooo, loving the new option to save posts. 😁😍
How often have you found you can't get back to an interesting post later (on this of other platforms)?!

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 27d

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
📅Sep 10, 1885 Francis Galton introduced the idea of regression (toward the mean)

(In his presidential lecture to the Anthropology Section of the British Association, perhaps the most influential such in statistical history)

Galton's figure plotting the height of children vs. the average height of their parents, titled "Rate of Regression in Hereditary stature".
Two lines are labeled: Mid-parents and Children. Labels in the plot say: When Mid-Parents are taller than mediocraty, their children tend to be shorter than they.

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 28d

🗓️ Save the date 👀

🗓️December 16th/17th

🧠 PsychoPy and EEG workshop, in partnership with @ant-neuro.com

📍 Nottingham (Venue confirmed soon)

Registration opens soon - sign up to expression of interest for details.

workshops.psychopy.org

Home — PsychoPy®

workshops.psychopy.org

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Jon Peirce @peircej.bsky.social · Sep 8

Is amazing and heart warming how much some members of the academic (and open source software) community will go to help others. #notAllHerosWearCapes

PsychoPy @psychopy.org · Sep 8

Blown away by the resources PsychoPy users share! 🌍 Love seeing training materials in many languages. Huge shoutout to Marcos Lima for 70+ videos in Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷👏 shorturl.at/oCSMI

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · Sep 8

Blown away by the resources PsychoPy users share! 🌍 Love seeing training materials in many languages. Huge shoutout to Marcos Lima for 70+ videos in Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷👏 shorturl.at/oCSMI

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Jon Peirce @peircej.bsky.social · Sep 7

Make *this* a psychopy feature is what I mean (must check my text before publishing)🤦‍♂️

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Jon Peirce @peircej.bsky.social · Sep 7

I think we might need to make toys a @psychopy.org feature

sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · Sep 6

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

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Jon Peirce @peircej.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excited to be heading to Sheffield for my first ever #ESCoP #ESCoP2025 (slightly late but see you there at the Open Science Tools / @PsychoPy booth)

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · Sep 3

Webcam facial expression detection with Face API

Show pictures of food➡️ use the webcam to track facial expressions 🤤

Demo 🌐 :https://run.pavlovia.org/demos/food_face_api/

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Jon Peirce @peircej.bsky.social · Sep 3

Is there a word for the conspicuous speck of dust right, in the middle of the floor, that only appears right after you put the vacuum cleaner away?

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · May 22

💡 How can researchers build sustainable business models to support open research tools?

Join us tomorrow at APS 2025 for our talk:

🗓️ Friday, May 23
🕛 12:00–12:15 PM
📍 Dupont Room

We’ll share the tools we've developed and how we sustain them.

#APS2025 #OpenScience

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · May 19

Are you at #APS this week in Washington?!

We are too! Come see us at booth 204!

We will be right here 👇

#APS2025 #Psychology #Conference

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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · May 12

Using code for experiments and stimuli is a great visual way to learn.

I learned the majority of python from experiment design.

📚🐍

Very happy to have been part of this book with @dalmaijer.bsky.social @peircej.bsky.social

Glen @drgp.bsky.social · May 9

Let me tell you what I like about this book. The language. No, not Python, though that’s ok. The language in the delivery. It’s human. It reflects my approach to teaching (and learning!)so is familiar.
I am ok at reading code/editing/fixing but not great at writing it. This is helpful.

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · May 9

"How do I auto-counterbalance automatically in PsychoPy?!"

Here’s a walkthrough of the Counterbalance component!
We hope that you enjoy!

🎥 youtu.be/fHuqvwWv7gU

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

youtu.be

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Glen @drgp.bsky.social · May 9

What do you mean? Of course I’m not spending my Friday night nerding out with Edwin Dalmaijer and @hirstrj.bsky.social and @peircej.bsky.social

Cover of python for experimental psychologists book by Dalmaijer with contributions from Rebecca Hirst & Jon Peirce

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · May 6

🧠 Free virtual PsychoPy workshop!
📅 Tue, May 13, 2025
🕐 1:00–2:30 PM EST
Thanks to @opam.bsky.social for organizing with us!

Information and sign up here: www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...

Online Workshops — OPAM

Announcement

www.opamconference.com

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Jon Peirce @peircej.bsky.social · Apr 16

Regarding newer mac models, PsychoPy with PTB 3.0.19 does run fine on ARM-based macs in Rosetta mode and so far PTB has been the main limiting factor preventing us switch. But again, it would mean requiring users to pay the license fee which I think most will be looking to avoid

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Jon Peirce @peircej.bsky.social · Apr 16

PsychoPy uses PTB as an option for keyboard input and audio in/output. No other part of PTB is code is used
For now we'll continue to ship PTB 3.0.19 ("Last free lunch") within PsychoPy Standalone. We'll be looking at 3.0.20 as an option for users with a PTB license

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · Apr 9

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.

And it's live RIGHT NOW!

psych-ds.github.io

(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

Psych-DS

A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.

psych-ds.github.io

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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · Mar 20

Open Science Tools team day !

🌞And what weather we had for it for a wander around @uniofnottingham.bsky.social !

Why is a day working in the same room so nice and productive?

#team #smallbuisiness #academia #collaboration

@psychopy.org
@peircej.bsky.social @teparsons.bsky.social

Six people stand happily in the sunshine Infront of the university of Nottingham Portland building, which can be seen across Highfields park lake.

Six people standing happily smiling on stepping stones that cross Highfield park lake, Nottingham.

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