Katie Gray
@drkatiegray.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Reading. Interested in face processing, emotional expressions, and visual perception. EPS committee member.
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We're recruiting for several Lectureships in Psychology at the University of Reading - please pass on to anyone you think might be interested: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - we're a nice bunch to work with! #academicsky
Lectureship in Psychology:Whiteknights Reading UK
The closing date for applications is 23.59 on 27th February 2026
jobs.reading.ac.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
We're recruiting for several Lectureships in Psychology at the University of Reading - please pass on to anyone you think might be interested: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - we're a nice bunch to work with! #academicsky
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Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Introducing Philosophy Corner - Tim S. Meese, Pascal Mamassian, Isabelle Mareschal, Frans A.J. Verstraten, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Thank you to everyone who attended, presented and helped organise #EPSLondon 2026!
EPS meetings are coming up fast in 2026, with the next to be held at Newcastle University between Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April.
Portals open on Monday 12th January, 10am UK time!
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
EPS meetings are coming up fast in 2026, with the next to be held at Newcastle University between Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April.
Portals open on Monday 12th January, 10am UK time!
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: Newcastle University. Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April 2026. This meeting will include the 24th EPS Mid-Career Prize lecture by Elizabeth Jefferies (and accompanying sympo…
eps.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended, presented and helped organise #EPSLondon 2026!
EPS meetings are coming up fast in 2026, with the next to be held at Newcastle University between Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April.
Portals open on Monday 12th January, 10am UK time!
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
EPS meetings are coming up fast in 2026, with the next to be held at Newcastle University between Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April.
Portals open on Monday 12th January, 10am UK time!
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Welcome to the University of Reading's Centenary year.
Over the next 12 months we'll be celebrating 100 years of UoR by connecting our community, our actions and our impact through a series of events, shared stories and much, much more.
Visit https://rdg.ac/3MXzd8S to find out more.
Over the next 12 months we'll be celebrating 100 years of UoR by connecting our community, our actions and our impact through a series of events, shared stories and much, much more.
Visit https://rdg.ac/3MXzd8S to find out more.
January 5, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Welcome to the University of Reading's Centenary year.
Over the next 12 months we'll be celebrating 100 years of UoR by connecting our community, our actions and our impact through a series of events, shared stories and much, much more.
Visit https://rdg.ac/3MXzd8S to find out more.
Over the next 12 months we'll be celebrating 100 years of UoR by connecting our community, our actions and our impact through a series of events, shared stories and much, much more.
Visit https://rdg.ac/3MXzd8S to find out more.
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This #OpenAccess study from 'Affective Science' shows that dyad arrangement affects perceived emotional valence intensity, with face-to-face bodies seen as more emotionally intense than back-to-back ones. bit.ly/3KSeKSc @drkatiegray.bsky.social #AffectSci #SocPsyc #VisionScience #AcademicSky
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This #OpenAccess study from 'Affective Science' shows that dyad arrangement affects perceived emotional valence intensity, with face-to-face bodies seen as more emotionally intense than back-to-back ones. bit.ly/3KSeKSc @drkatiegray.bsky.social #AffectSci #SocPsyc #VisionScience #AcademicSky
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Please join us in congratulating Professor Anna Horwood from UoR School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences who has been appointed MBE in the New Year's Honours List for services to Orthoptics and Research in Visual Development.
Read the full article now: https://rdg.ac/4pXkOI5
Read the full article now: https://rdg.ac/4pXkOI5
December 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Please join us in congratulating Professor Anna Horwood from UoR School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences who has been appointed MBE in the New Year's Honours List for services to Orthoptics and Research in Visual Development.
Read the full article now: https://rdg.ac/4pXkOI5
Read the full article now: https://rdg.ac/4pXkOI5
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Our latest preprint on the STREAM project to measure neurodevelopment using a digital platform in ~4000 kids in low resource settings www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Comprehensive neurodevelopmental assessment through non-specialists: Validation of the STREAM digital platform in India and Malawi
Background: Children in low-resource settings often lack access to culturally appropriate and feasible neurodevelopmental assessments. Existing tools are costly, require specialist training, and were ...
www.medrxiv.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Our latest preprint on the STREAM project to measure neurodevelopment using a digital platform in ~4000 kids in low resource settings www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNAS
Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and
feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...
www.pnas.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New article out today in @nature.com
New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
November 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New article out today in @nature.com
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New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
In a new paper (with @kayritchie.bsky.social, Eilidh Noyes, Carl Bunce and Josh Davis) we investigated AI-face detection in super-recognisers and typical-ability participants, both with and without a short training procedure. See the link below for the results!
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Training human super-recognizers’ detection and discrimination of AI-generated faces | Royal Society Open Science
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can create realistic synthetic faces, which
have the potential to be used for nefarious purposes. The synthetic faces produced
by GANs are difficult to detect an...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
In a new paper (with @kayritchie.bsky.social, Eilidh Noyes, Carl Bunce and Josh Davis) we investigated AI-face detection in super-recognisers and typical-ability participants, both with and without a short training procedure. See the link below for the results!
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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So excited about a Special Issue we are co-editing in @therealspr.bsky.social 's journal Psychophysiology on Physiological and Neurophysiological Synchronisation between individuals – Methodological Approaches and Evaluations. Please spread the word & submit by 28 February 2026
tinyurl.com/ywjjxkbt
tinyurl.com/ywjjxkbt
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
<em>Psychophysiology</em> is a human neuroscience journal covering research on the interrelationships between the physiological and psychological aspects of brain and behavior.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
So excited about a Special Issue we are co-editing in @therealspr.bsky.social 's journal Psychophysiology on Physiological and Neurophysiological Synchronisation between individuals – Methodological Approaches and Evaluations. Please spread the word & submit by 28 February 2026
tinyurl.com/ywjjxkbt
tinyurl.com/ywjjxkbt
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TL:DR we'd like universities to collaborate and specialise, so they can contribute to economic growth rather than go bust
October 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
TL:DR we'd like universities to collaborate and specialise, so they can contribute to economic growth rather than go bust
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The next EPS scientific meeting will be held at University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026.
The portals for this meeting will open on Monday (8th September) at 10am (UK time)!
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
The portals for this meeting will open on Monday (8th September) at 10am (UK time)!
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University College London. 7th – 9th January 2026. This meeting will include the 54th EPS Bartlett Prize Lecture by Matthew Botvinick (with an accompanying symposium organised by Patri…
eps.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The next EPS scientific meeting will be held at University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026.
The portals for this meeting will open on Monday (8th September) at 10am (UK time)!
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
The portals for this meeting will open on Monday (8th September) at 10am (UK time)!
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!
Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.
August 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reminder that we're looking for a Post Doc and the deadline is looming (Sept 5th). If you are interested, please get in touch. If you see this, please repost it to that it is seen by potential applicants!
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We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.
The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years.
eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...
The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years.
eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...
An Open Call for the next Editor-in-Chief of QJEP.
We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal. The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor An…
eps.ac.uk
July 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.
The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years.
eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...
The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years.
eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...
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Seeing is believing, especially for your immune system. A new study shows that watching visibly sick people approach you in VR can trigger immune responses the same way a vaccine does @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Looking at a sick person in VR can rev up our bodies’ immune systems
New study provides “remarkable” glimpse into how the brain predicts potential infections
www.science.org
July 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Seeing is believing, especially for your immune system. A new study shows that watching visibly sick people approach you in VR can trigger immune responses the same way a vaccine does @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
July 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
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What's better than lab BBQ? Double BBQ with @drkatiegray.bsky.social lab too! #whenworldscollide
July 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
What's better than lab BBQ? Double BBQ with @drkatiegray.bsky.social lab too! #whenworldscollide
Excited to see our new paper is now published - on emotion perception in dyads: rdcu.be/etta6. With the wonderful Mahsa Barzy and Rich Cook, and funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
Dyad Arrangement Affects Perceived Valence Intensity
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July 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Excited to see our new paper is now published - on emotion perception in dyads: rdcu.be/etta6. With the wonderful Mahsa Barzy and Rich Cook, and funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Thank you to all you participated in this year's edition of Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25.
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
sites.google.com/site/reading...
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
sites.google.com/site/reading...
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thank you to all you participated in this year's edition of Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25.
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
sites.google.com/site/reading...
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
sites.google.com/site/reading...
The Leverhulme Trust supports blue skies research across an impressive range of topics, and I’m very lucky that our project is one of them!
The Trust's 2024 Annual Review is now available online. The fantastic spread of projects featured provides a glimpse into the research we support across the disciplines.
Read now: leverhulme.ac.uk/annual-review
Read now: leverhulme.ac.uk/annual-review
June 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Leverhulme Trust supports blue skies research across an impressive range of topics, and I’m very lucky that our project is one of them!
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In July, we will be travelling to Dundee for our joint scientific meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, which will include many prize talks, symposia, posters and much, much more!
For full information, please visit:
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
For full information, please visit:
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. This will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), and will include the 53rd B…
eps.ac.uk
May 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In July, we will be travelling to Dundee for our joint scientific meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, which will include many prize talks, symposia, posters and much, much more!
For full information, please visit:
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
For full information, please visit:
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
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Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’
Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...