Having a chat and then watching a movie: how social interaction synchronises our brains during co-watching academic.oup.com/oons/article/d…

My acceptance speech for the CogSci Society Elman Prize. I argue in it that academia should expect professional scientists to engage in outreach, advocacy, and activism. And that tenure/promotion criteria should be adjusted accordingly. youtube.com/watch?v=Kj0byh…
#AcademicTwitter

Check out our new paper in IEEE TNSRE! In this work we show that feature-based willed selective attention involves choice-evoked event-related potentials (ERPs), but the choice of attention cannot be predicted by pre-choice ongoing alpha oscillations. |ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10486…

Silvia Bunge publishes developmental cognitive neuroscience textbook! bit.ly/3UlzYJS

TENURE OR NOT

If you call yourself a professor or teacher you have to stand up for students & for education.

Tenure doesn’t protect you.

(That’s a convenient lie supporting wage theft.)

Reality is we are all in terrible danger- silence just makes it worse.

#SpeakUpNow

A big congratulations to Zoe Cheung for passing her dissertation defense! Zoe is the last of Jeff Farrar’s students to complete our program and he would have been so proud!

What's more convincing?

p = 0.04 in a sample of 10 or p = 0.04 in a sample of 1,000,000?

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I feel like there is either going to be a big empty space where the Gen-X women used to be in science. Which seems like a bad thing—but maybe it’s a needed step towards destabilizing what has to be toppled.

Sounds like indoctrination and not teaching….

🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 nytimes.com/2024/04/17/sci…

A big congratulations to Zoe Cheung for passing her dissertation defense! Zoe is the last of Jeff Farrar’s students to complete our program and he would have been so proud!

We have a new paper on attention during infancy! 👶

We compared attention in a controlled experimental task and naturalistic observations and evaluated how consistency across these two different settings changed with gestational age at birth.

dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.1…

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'They have also long served as sites of protest. If the university cannot serve as an arena for such freedoms, the possibilities of democratic life inside & outside the university gates are not only impoverished but under threat of extinction.'
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nytimes.com/2024/04/05/opi…

'From the Vietnam War to apartheid South Africa, universities have been important places for open discussion & disagreement about govt policies, the historical record, structural racism & settler colonialism.'
#AcademicFreedom
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For anyone who is interested, the slides from this training session can be found here: cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-clea…

FFS. It’s like they find all the best things we have and then get out the sledge hammer: Selective admission process suggested for PK Yonge high school gainesville.com/story/news/edu…

Wondering how the new simplified peer review framework will impact existing and new funding opportunities? Join #NIH experts on April 17 to learn more, including a live Q&A: 💻🔍🗓️ go.nih.gov/S4hfVUq