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Anna Bobak
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Senior Lecturer at University of Stirling. Interested in face perception, individual differences, and spaniels.
Does anyone here have a copy of Marks 1995 (VVIQ-2) paper? My students contacted the author, but he no longer has a copy and could not signpost us where to get one. If anyone can help,I would be very grateful!
October 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Looking for advice on booking system that is usable for multiple lab members (students and staff) & where more than one participant can book the same slot (2) using a direct link. A link that would display all slots to book from and once two 'spaces' are taken per slot, disappears from view. 1/n
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I am looking to create a lab code of conduct/manual/safety check type document outlining the ethos of how we work. Could anyone point me in the direction of a good (open source) example covering safety, comms, working with others etc.? Or would anyone be willing to share theirs? Thank you!
October 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I am on Farage's list of ILR-ners to be deported, should they win the next election. I honestly can't remember when I last got so angry. Good start of the week here 👌
September 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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We're looking to appoint a new administrator for our Social Sciences Impact Acceleration Account. This would be a great role for a graduate with good administrative skills who wants to learn a lot more about the non-academic impact of research
www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...
Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling
Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.
www.stir.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Week 1 is here & suddenly there is so much to do, I don't know where to start (or when to stop). And that's not even my 'busy' half of the year. 🙈 On the plus side, my group of final years is super engaged, chatty, and they seem really keen to get on with their study, so today ends on a high!
September 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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When calculating a correlation we sometimes apply a correction for attenuation due to reliability.
Has anyone ever suggested a similar correction for a between-groups comparison?
After all, reliability of the DV affects those the same way (and they are often just a dichotomised correaltion).
September 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
An interesting article in the Conversation by Prof. David Comerford from Stirling on the dangers of AI-generated science. Psychology scores brownie points for improvements made in transparent reporting.
theconversation.com/we-risk-a-de...
We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I don't often laugh out loud, but this is stand-up value.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "At its essence, artificial intelligence takes electricity and turns it into intelligence, empowering Americans."
September 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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yes
September 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just submitted a paper (exciting!) but - why do journals still ask for phone numbers? Did anyone ever got a call from Sage or Elsevier?!
September 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Four year 0.8 FTE post doc at Stirling with Dr. Line Caes (our Health Group) on a Oliver Bird Fund -funded project “Challenges young people face in managing musculoskeletal chronic pain”.

www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...
Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling
Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.
www.stir.ac.uk
June 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I've spent all day looking at student projects' data and debugging R code with copilot (saving my more knowledgeable colleagues 'why does this not work again' questions) and I can honestly say this was the most fun day in the office I had in a very long time!
June 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
'This condition impacts every aspect of my life' - a new paper from our lab about the lived experience of Developmental Prosopagnosia is out in @plosone.org .

You can read the publication (open access) here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
May 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Reposted by Anna Bobak
This looks really interesting. I remember Sarah Weigelt had a poster at ECVP in Nejmegen about a human case with similar low level deficits but intact higher level abilities (faces)!
If GPT-4o walked into a neuro-opthalmology clinic, what would it be diagnosed with?

Here we administered 51 tests from 6 clinical and experimental batteries to assess vision in commercial AI models.

Very proud to share this first work from @genetang.bsky.social's PhD!

arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Visual Language Models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests
Visual Language Models (VLMs) show remarkable performance in visual reasoning tasks, successfully tackling college-level challenges that require high-level understanding of images. However, some recen...
arxiv.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Dear all
The first Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) online lecture of 2025 will be delivered by Louise Newbigging on the 12th from 7pm to 8pm. Details of the talk are below, if you want to find out more and attend please register
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f0b696...
January 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
'Automated face recognition assists with low‐prevalence face identity mismatches but can bias users'- our new paper funded by the EPS Graduate Bursary to Melina Mueller and Anna Bobak is now online! @rjwatt42.bsky.social @pjbhancock.bsky.social

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
We present three experiments to study the effects of giving information about the decision of an automated face recognition (AFR) system to participants attempting to decide whether two face images s....
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM