Daniel Pearson

I'm excited to announce a new review (rdcu.be/cMEWu) on the interaction between value-modulated attention and decision-making, published in @NatRevPsych. This paper was a group effort with @Pop_Watson, @lucyalbertella, and @meeleepeeleey. A short thread: 1/

New paper with @lawrencekhchung, T. Whitford, @OrenGriffiths, @meeleepeeleey, @DanPearsonPsyc, and the rest of our team investigating preparatory processes preceding inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia: doi.org/10.1093/schbul…

New paper with T. Whitford, @lawrencekhchung, @OrenGriffiths, @meeleepeeleey, @DanPearsonPsyc, and the rest of our team investigating inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia: academic.oup.com/schizophreniab…

#PhD candidates get paid LESS than minimum wage in Aus (and face major cost of living pressures) PhD's contribute enormously to society and the economy. We should recognise and support this #AcademicTwitter #auspol Sign this to raise the stipend aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…

A shiny new paper led by @Pop_Watson - performance on a lab measure of sign-tracking predicts severity of alcohol-use problems in people seeking treatment. Direct clinical evidence implicating reward-related attentional processing in addictive behaviours! doi.org/10.1016/j.addb…

🗞️JOB OPPORTUNITY🗞️ We @UsydPsych @Sydney_Science @Sydney_Uni are recruiting 4 new continuing (tenured) Lecturer/Senior Lecturers Spread widely and apply if you are a talented researcher/educator looking for a great School to work in! usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_…

We have TWO 3-year postdoc positions in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, in a joint Australia/US project on building cognitive capability through attentional control. Deadline 10th Jan - please apply! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5215… [1/3]

@Pop_Watson I've only used mentimeter, but it seems to work pretty well. There are add-ons for PowerPoint so you can present the results of the poll without having to switch to a browser

Writing retreat is on! World-class manuscripts in the making 📝💻 @Pop_Watson @meeleepeeleey @DanPearsonPsyc @SBMost @JulieYLChow @jake_embrey @garner_theory

Before approving psychedelics as medicines, Australia commissioned an independent scientific report into risks & benefits. They then approved *against* the report's advice. Now, the chief scientist speaks out in a remarkable editorial; brief summary 🧵. #bibr4-00048674231174171" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

***JOB ALERT*** @Sydney_Uni offering 40 continuing (tenured) positions for EMCRs Scheme targets #health, #sustainability, and #climatechange with tonnes of opportunities for #psychology @UsydPsych to contribute Get in touch!!! sydney.edu.au/research/resea…

At @bbkpsychology we’ll soon have a couple of new junior faculty posts - with a focus on cognitive neuroscience 🧠 Proper ad coming soon. But if you’re an ECR looking for your first (or next) permanent post, happy to have a chat about life and science at Birkbeck! Get in touch.

Thrilled to welcome @DanPearsonPsyc as our newest Lecturer @UsydPsych @Sydney_Science @Sydney_Uni Stay tuned for exciting research on #learning, #attention, and #cognitivecontrol. E.g. in a complex 🌍 how do we learn to 👀 what is relevant and 🙈 what is irrelevant?

Our latest findings on #eeg sensory suppression in people with #schizophrenia as summarized by #ChatGPT Please find the full article here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36535137/

Stipend will be raised at UNSW, and I believe one of the first universities to promise further steps to reach minimum wage by 2024! #RaiseTheRTP

@meritbru @UsydPsych Thanks, Merit! Hope you're doing well 😊

@DanPearsonPsyc @UsydPsych Dan, that's fantastic news! Congrats!!!

Very excited to announce that I will be starting as a Lecturer at @UsydPsych in the new year! Looking forward to setting up my lab and getting stuck into more research on attention, learning and decision-making👀💵💰🧠🤔📚

Watch this space: exciting collaborations to come! 😃

Definitely wouldn’t be in this position without my amazing supervisors and mentors (especially @meeleepeeleey), as well as my wonderful friends and lab mates😊