Love to see myself represented in media

Just submitted my PhD thesis on perceptual and post-perceptual influences in serial dependence! Next week I'll be on a remote island having precisely 0 thoughts, and in September I'll be back at UNSW to start an exciting postdoc looking at metacognition in face identity judgements 👀🔍

Rich voters demanded to remain in their right-wing electorate instead of the Labour-held electorate next door, where their votes would be more effectual. They had a chance to gerrymander and chose to save their inflated property values, which I think is beautiful thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

Interested in a cognitive neuroscience #postdoc down under?

Come work with me at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social on an ARC Linkage Project aimed at understanding how people perceive objects in the Powerhouse Museum's digitised collection. Applications closing 13 August! 📅 seek.com.au/job/86079413

Postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Applications are invited for a postdoc position in cognitive psychology or cognitive development.
Application deadline: 11 August 2025

New paper @ JOV!

With Matt Oxner, Frank Schumann and David Carmel.

🧠 Perception of ambiguous motion is shaped by recent visual experience - but does this differ across the visual field?

Yes!

Full open access paper here (Gastrell et al., 2025, Journal of Vision): 🔗 doi.org/10.1167/jov....

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I've learned a lot of things at #VSS2025, but mostly that you can place an ad in the actual ocean

The fact that I get sick at every conference is divine punishment for the handfuls of free pens I take every day and is unrelated to spending ~20 hours on packed planes followed by several days in packed seminars

I'll be presenting my poster about decisions and perception in serial dependence at #VSS2025 this afternoon (26.325). See you there if you'd like to chat about contextual modulation, decision confidence, or how incredibly humid it is outside 😓🏖️🧠

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Interesting move after February's email in which we were assured that "VSS remains strong, independent, and committed to... the diversity of our community"

William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience

"But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,

Out now in AP&P!