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Tarryn Balsdon
@tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
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Researcher in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in perception, metacognition, and decision-making
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mehr.nz
this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time
October 1, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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agonyflips.bsky.social
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
September 20, 2026 at 10:46 PM
tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
A big thanks to everyone who contributed to the confidence & decision-making workshop yesterday! @lsp-ens.bsky.social
September 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM
tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
The best thing about having to defend another thesis is the opportunity to feel grateful to all the people who have helped me along the way! Thank you for your advice, feedback, moral support, I hope to pay it forward
Picture of me and the final slide of my HDR defence - a long list of names of people who have helped me along the way
September 19, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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mamassian.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dr Tarryn Balsdon for beautifully defending her “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”, i.e. autorisation to officially supervise her own PhD students!!!
September 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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marlenecohen.bsky.social
Now out in Nature Neuroscience: fantastic work by @cxue.bsky.social, Sol Markman et al who discovered a neural reason that performance suffers under cognitive load: “Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty”.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty - Nature Neuroscience
Using a combined approach of monkey electrophysiology, artificial neural networks and human psychophysics, Xue et al. show that neuronal interference from irrelevant information underlies behavioral e...
www.nature.com
September 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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goodnews.computer
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it. A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
September 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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lauradugue.bsky.social
The french network on computational neuroscience, #RTNeuroComp, had its first conference today!

2 great keynotes by Nancy Kopell & @timkietzmann.bsky.social. 4 round tables to discuss the current research challenges in computational neuroscience and the contour of the discipline + many posters.
Conference attendees
September 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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tomerullman.bsky.social
September 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
Another thanks to the organisers of #ECVP2026 so happy to be there with @eecasey.bsky.social and @lotfiahmad.bsky.social as well as all the wonderful visual perception people!
September 2, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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cognitionens.bsky.social
RECHERCHE I La musique peut aider les scientifiques à comprendre comment le cerveau apprend, anticipe, s'adapte. C'est ce que révèlent les travaux de Shihab Shamma
@lsp-ens.bsky.social, Giovanni Di Liberto, Claire Pelofi. Le magazine HORIZON vient de leur consacrer un article👉
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What music reveals about the human brain
During conversation, our brains are constantly predicting which word comes next. That ability helps us understand speech in a noisy café, or anticipate a friend’s next sentence. This skill for predict...
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September 2, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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tahnee-engelen.bsky.social
Come join my team at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social! I have an open PhD position (3 years fully funded) for a project investigating interoception and mental health, using lots of fun methods (EEG, EGG, tACs, TMS). More info and applications here: ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

#NeuroJobs
Doctoral Researcher, RCF project
Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit a Doctoral Researcher to work in the RCF project starting 1 November 2026, or as soon as possible after that for three years. The fixed-term position is ...
ats.talentadore.com
August 28, 2026 at 11:29 AM
tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
Metacognition at #ECVP2026 17h Bayview

In addition to great talks, come find out if my low prospective confidence in being a good session chair is accurate 🤣 (the last session can go late right?)
August 24, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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lauradugue.bsky.social
Making our way to #ECVP2026 @ecvp.bsky.social!

@jayplease.bsky.social
@andre-zarza.bsky.social
@yuekong4real.bsky.social
August 23, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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theresecollins.bsky.social
Check out work from my lab #ECVP2026 @ecvp.bsky.social

Motion direction representations and history effects in fixational eye movements
Poster, Tuesday 3:30
With @canmertdoit.bsky.social

Ambient and focal dichotomy in face perception
Poster, Wednesday 3:30
With Dina Dagher & Karine Doré-Mazars
August 22, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
I’m not saying I’m a spider. I’m just saying take note.
川 CAN I World Subscribe Stingy male spiders end up dead In a study of more than 280 spider pairs, researchers discovered that females that ended up with stingy, no-gift males were six times more cannibalistic than females staged with generous, gift-carrying males. "The presence or absence of a gift was the most important factor in determining whether females cannibalized the males," the study says.
July 28, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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mamassian.bsky.social
Deeply honoured and very humbled to have received the 2026 Kurt Koffka Medal.

Many thanks to the committee at the University of Giessen!

www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb06/psy...
Pascal Mamassian (centre) receiving the 2026 Kurt Koffka Medal from Prof. Dr. Christiane Hermann (left) and Prof. Dr. Roland W. Fleming at the University of Giessen, Germany, on July 8, 2026.
July 11, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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mamassian.bsky.social
How meaningful is it to search for the minimal exposure duration of a stimulus to understand visual perception?

With Mark Wexler, we wrote a commentary on the article of Lanfranco et al., Nat. Commun., 2024:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception - Nature Communications
Nature Communications - The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception
www.nature.com
July 9, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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nadiahosseinizaveh.bsky.social
(1/6) My first first-author paper is now out in @nconsc.bsky.social! Part of my PhD work with @mamassian.bsky.social at @lsp-ens.bsky.social. We looked at how confidence behaves during a perceptual learning task with no feedback.
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Perceptual learning without feedback is accompanied with systematic changes in confidence processing
Abstract. Perceptual learning can occur without external feedback, raising questions about what internal signals might guide this learning. Here, we test t
academic.oup.com
July 7, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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lsp-ens.bsky.social
Congrats to all LSP speakers & poster presenters at BEYSE 🎉

@mamassian.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @lotfiahmad.bsky.social @ljubicajovanovic.bsky.social @eecasey.bsky.social @alelorcavyhmeister.bsky.social @Yves Boubenec @Mathilde Martin @Hugo Tissot
July 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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oecs-bot.bsky.social
Metacognition bridges the gap between basic thought and effective action by acting as a feedback loop that monitors and regulates our internal…

Metacognition by Joelle Proust
https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.c403b8e7

#CognitiveScience
Figure from the OECS article "Metacognition".
June 26, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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smfleming.bsky.social
Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out:

Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
June 25, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal.

We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026

Submit your papers to Open Mind

direct.mit.edu/opmi
June 19, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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cuttingeeg.bsky.social
🌱 #CuttingGardens recruitment at #OHBM 😏

A highly significant p-value points toward new Gardens about to sprout worldwide for September 21–25! 🌍

🚨 Final call to organize a Garden 👇 cuttingeeg.org/cuttinggarde...

Let’s grow a caring community for open, rigorous & inclusive MEEG science 🪻📊
June 19, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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psychopy.org
Interested in getting started with #git and contributing to PsychoPy docs?

Join us tomorrow for our free workshop.

This "My first pull request" session is designed to walk you through the basics so that you can start contributing to #opensource projects!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...
"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy
Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM