Gavin Ng

Our new paper is out! Two main findings: 1. Distractors that are very different from the target contribute to RTs instead of being "filtered out" or "unattended" 2. Despite being processed, they do not contribute to contextual cueing! doi.org/10.1080/135062…

@TimWongHQ So I think it's not about expanding the human context window but protecting it/using it efficiently and allocating our limited attention/memory deliberately

feel like every day im learning multi-task to a different level thanks to AI - welcome any tips to maximize the human context window..

@TimWongHQ AI accelerates execution but I think the limiting factor is human attention/focus I've been using /grill-me a lot lately, it’s like a supercharged planning mode that forces deep focus for 15–30 mins instead of juggling 5 agents for a few mins each aihero.dev/use-the-grill-…

This summer, I will be teaching an NSF-funded virtual workshop on "R Programming for Cognitive Neuroscience." This free workshop will teach beginning students the basic skills needed to analyze data from cognitive tasks in R. More info can be found here: sites.google.com/view/r-program…

One of the smartest and most depressing discussions of psychology I've seen in a long time, by the always-interesting @a_m_mastroianni experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-…

Good evening, Twitter! I’m spending my Friday night in the affluent Bay Area suburb of Millbrae, where the county is presenting a plan to turn a hotel into ~100 homes for unhoused residents. It appears that the entire city is here, and they are *pissed*. 🧵

I've had some time to reflect upon the #VSS2023 business meeting and thought I'd share some thoughts about #moveVSS. The tl;dr - in my opinion, the only ethical option is to try something different than what is being done, and that would require moving VSS out of Florida. 1/n

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

I applied to 56 TT positions across clinical/quant psych and (health/behavioral) data science, invited for 26 zoom interviews, 17 job talks, received 5 offers, and landed a dream position. I’ll start posting some reflections on my academic job search as I think of them (/n):

Lots of people have preconceived ideas about what working in a university must be like. Here, UCU member Chris has a message about the reality of it for far too many staff. Share the video. Support the strike. Join us in demanding change. #ucuRISING

This summer, I will be teaching an NSF-funded virtual workshop on "R Programming for Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience" meant for undergraduates and beginning graduate students. More information—including a syllabus and application—can be found here: sites.google.com/view/r-program…

Academic job seekers often think that because they didn't get a job one year, or didn't get a particular job, there's something they should change in their application. That's often a mistake. Here are some reasons you maybe didn't get the job that are beyond your control(thread)

Imagine a circle laid flat on a table, with a little spinner on it that you can flick. The circle is 80% red and 20% yellow, like a yellow pie slice. You flick the spinner. It spins, and slowwwly stops. Where did it land?

Highlighting a particularly cool new job opportunity in our department @OhioStatePsych for early career researchers: a tenure-track Fellow-to-Faculty position! Keep reading to learn more! 😎 1/n

Massive status bias in peer review. 534 reviewers randomized to review the same paper revealing the low status, high status, or neither author. 65% reject low status, 23% reject high status. Amazing work by Juergen Huber and colleagues. #prc9

Drake’s Dept of Psych and Neuroscience is hiring TWO tenure-track assistant professors this year! We are looking for someone specializing in Health Psychology and a neuroscientist/biopsychologist. Please retweet and share widely…and reach out if you have questions!

I am looking for post-doc starting Jan 2023 in the area of aging/dementia, brain imaging, biomarker, multimodal integration and/or machine learning. The projects are flexible (neuroimaginglab.org). Please contact me via helen.zhou@nus.edu.sg. Appreciate RT.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven. twitter.com/Acyn/status/15…