Tom Johnstone
@itjohnstone.bsky.social
Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience, Swinburne University of Technology, Naarm, known also as Melbourne, Australia.
Their body, their choice
The universe does not respect disciplinary boundaries
Their body, their choice
The universe does not respect disciplinary boundaries
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Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government.
Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.
eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.
eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science » Eiko Fried
Two days ago, four Dutch universities announced discontinuing their English-speaking psychology bachelor programs (1, 2). I will briefly explain (1) how this decision came to be, (2) why this is such ...
eiko-fried.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government.
Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.
eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.
eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
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That’s a wrap on LVK Melbourne 2025!
OzGrav was honoured to host this incredible gathering of colleagues from LIGO, Virgo & KAGRA here in Australia to collaborate on the future of gravitational wave science.
A huge thank you to everyone who attended and contributed.
#LVK2025 #LIGO #Virgo #KAGRA
OzGrav was honoured to host this incredible gathering of colleagues from LIGO, Virgo & KAGRA here in Australia to collaborate on the future of gravitational wave science.
A huge thank you to everyone who attended and contributed.
#LVK2025 #LIGO #Virgo #KAGRA
April 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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We now publish rich fMRI data in Scientific Data where participants viewed magic trick videos. Curiosity, memory, and reward manipulation are available: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!
This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!
The magic, memory, and curiosity fMRI dataset of people viewing magic tricks - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The magic, memory, and curiosity fMRI dataset of people viewing magic tricks
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:31 AM
We now publish rich fMRI data in Scientific Data where participants viewed magic trick videos. Curiosity, memory, and reward manipulation are available: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!
This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!
All Academics take note. This also means stop working from home on time 😊
Tomorrow is Go Home On Time Day!
We use this day to show the extent of unpaid overtime in Australia.
Visit gohomeontimeday.org.au and use our unpaid overtime calculator to see how much of your time is stolen. #auspol
We use this day to show the extent of unpaid overtime in Australia.
Visit gohomeontimeday.org.au and use our unpaid overtime calculator to see how much of your time is stolen. #auspol
November 19, 2024 at 5:18 AM
All Academics take note. This also means stop working from home on time 😊
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#eLife will not have a IF score, says Clarivate ➡️ retractionwatch.com/2024/11/13/e...
This will be the ultimate test of how much we care about an absurd metric vs the *actual* quality of the journal I personally love eLife, had a fantastic experience both as an author and as a reviewer 🔝⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This will be the ultimate test of how much we care about an absurd metric vs the *actual* quality of the journal I personally love eLife, had a fantastic experience both as an author and as a reviewer 🔝⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
eLife won’t get an impact factor, says Clarivate
Clarivate, the data company for scholarly publications, has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science, after reevaluating the open-access biology journal’s unusual prac…
retractionwatch.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:11 PM
#eLife will not have a IF score, says Clarivate ➡️ retractionwatch.com/2024/11/13/e...
This will be the ultimate test of how much we care about an absurd metric vs the *actual* quality of the journal I personally love eLife, had a fantastic experience both as an author and as a reviewer 🔝⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This will be the ultimate test of how much we care about an absurd metric vs the *actual* quality of the journal I personally love eLife, had a fantastic experience both as an author and as a reviewer 🔝⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This raises a fundamental question on the future of scientific publishing: Do we let it be decided by corporations like Web of Science?
No universities should be using WoS as the arbiter of what academic staff get credit for & what doesn't count.
sc.mp/40gpq
No universities should be using WoS as the arbiter of what academic staff get credit for & what doesn't count.
sc.mp/40gpq
Will Chinese scientists make or break the uprising in academic publishing?
A new publishing model is causing ructions in academia, and it could be China who decides the winner.
sc.mp
November 15, 2024 at 5:09 AM
This raises a fundamental question on the future of scientific publishing: Do we let it be decided by corporations like Web of Science?
No universities should be using WoS as the arbiter of what academic staff get credit for & what doesn't count.
sc.mp/40gpq
No universities should be using WoS as the arbiter of what academic staff get credit for & what doesn't count.
sc.mp/40gpq
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You can also watch here the workshop keynotes that inspired all the work presented in this special issue.
What makes a good theory?
June 20-24, 2022, the Lorentz Workshop “What makes a good theory? Interdisciplinary perspectives” (organised by Berna Devezer, Joshua Skewes, Sashank Varma, Todd Wareham, and myself) to…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:50 PM
You can also watch here the workshop keynotes that inspired all the work presented in this special issue.
Can everyone please see below and refrain from posting about this platform on Insta/Threads? Or tell them it's boring and full of old people here or something. Let's keep this place informative!
"Threads is doing well with politically vapid influencers and people who understandably just want to try out an app that is connected to their Instagram account. It is a black hole for the exchange of news."
lulz
lulz
Bluesky has the edge where X once dominated: news and live events.
November 14, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Can everyone please see below and refrain from posting about this platform on Insta/Threads? Or tell them it's boring and full of old people here or something. Let's keep this place informative!
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List of Australian (or expat Aus) academics, journos, scientists, exciting HDRs
Currently being built - if I’ve missed someone @ me handle
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Currently being built - if I’ve missed someone @ me handle
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 14, 2024 at 2:05 AM
List of Australian (or expat Aus) academics, journos, scientists, exciting HDRs
Currently being built - if I’ve missed someone @ me handle
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Currently being built - if I’ve missed someone @ me handle
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Academic Level B/C position at Swinburne in Melbourne, Australia! Join our collegial department & access our high-density EEG, MEG, MRI, psychophysiology labs. We are a member of @NIFAus, embedded in Melbourne's world-class Biomedical Research sector. www.workforceaustralia.gov.au/individuals/...
February 5, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Academic Level B/C position at Swinburne in Melbourne, Australia! Join our collegial department & access our high-density EEG, MEG, MRI, psychophysiology labs. We are a member of @NIFAus, embedded in Melbourne's world-class Biomedical Research sector. www.workforceaustralia.gov.au/individuals/...
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Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel prize! I hope their stories, particularly KK's, force us to confront the misogyny, bias and assumptions about "impact" and "excellence" that very likely limit the recognition of similar innovations that could improve our world.
October 2, 2023 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel prize! I hope their stories, particularly KK's, force us to confront the misogyny, bias and assumptions about "impact" and "excellence" that very likely limit the recognition of similar innovations that could improve our world.
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While I am happy about who has won this award (and TBQH, even happier about its application during the ongoing pandemic), I can't help but wonder how many other innovations we have refused to acknowledge because of who the innovators were/are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 2, 2023 at 3:01 PM
While I am happy about who has won this award (and TBQH, even happier about its application during the ongoing pandemic), I can't help but wonder how many other innovations we have refused to acknowledge because of who the innovators were/are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Fuck yeah. Keep thinking about her story and that of Donna Strickland, 2018 Physics laureate, who was an Assoc Prof at the time. Her university, Waterloo, couldn't explain why she wasn't a full professor.
Have to wonder what we're missing out on with our current system of faculty evaluation.
Have to wonder what we're missing out on with our current system of faculty evaluation.
October 3, 2023 at 1:41 AM
Fuck yeah. Keep thinking about her story and that of Donna Strickland, 2018 Physics laureate, who was an Assoc Prof at the time. Her university, Waterloo, couldn't explain why she wasn't a full professor.
Have to wonder what we're missing out on with our current system of faculty evaluation.
Have to wonder what we're missing out on with our current system of faculty evaluation.
Being X'ed: A risk with Open Source & Open Science. We've all experienced being part of a community in/around an Open Source platform or software, perhaps contributing to its development, only to see it sold to a company focussed more on profit than community or science. Is this avoidable?
October 3, 2023 at 4:55 AM
Being X'ed: A risk with Open Source & Open Science. We've all experienced being part of a community in/around an Open Source platform or software, perhaps contributing to its development, only to see it sold to a company focussed more on profit than community or science. Is this avoidable?
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Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024!
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD
Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!
vislearnlab.org
October 2, 2023 at 9:24 PM
Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024!
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
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Important statement from Steve Lindsay: Society journals should ensure comptuational reproducibility of work they publish. It's a low bar: can someone else run the provided scripts on the provided data and get the same results. He proposes a pilot study: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
October 2, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Important statement from Steve Lindsay: Society journals should ensure comptuational reproducibility of work they publish. It's a low bar: can someone else run the provided scripts on the provided data and get the same results. He proposes a pilot study: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
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My recent talk on some of the many ways researchers can use Open Science Framework (OSF) was written up as a case study. You can read it here: digitalresearchservices.ed.ac.uk/research-in-...
#openscience
#openscience
Using OSF for your research: Where to start?
digitalresearchservices.ed.ac.uk
September 28, 2023 at 5:31 PM
My recent talk on some of the many ways researchers can use Open Science Framework (OSF) was written up as a case study. You can read it here: digitalresearchservices.ed.ac.uk/research-in-...
#openscience
#openscience
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Many psychophysics & brain mapping studies use small samples. This often deeply confuses editors & reviewers trained on population statistics. It can also make it difficult to preregister & interpret such studies. Here we attempt to change that:
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
#neuroscience #visionscience
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
#neuroscience #visionscience
A simple statistical framework for small sample studies
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
doi.org
September 26, 2023 at 1:56 AM
Many psychophysics & brain mapping studies use small samples. This often deeply confuses editors & reviewers trained on population statistics. It can also make it difficult to preregister & interpret such studies. Here we attempt to change that:
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
#neuroscience #visionscience
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
#neuroscience #visionscience
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Saw an interesting thread from a well-known data sleuth yesterday. He was claiming that fraud was the primary reason for "replication crisis" and that it's very widespread in science. Now that's a view I never held myself which kinda explains why we diverge on many other matters of science too 1/N
September 14, 2023 at 2:32 PM
Saw an interesting thread from a well-known data sleuth yesterday. He was claiming that fraud was the primary reason for "replication crisis" and that it's very widespread in science. Now that's a view I never held myself which kinda explains why we diverge on many other matters of science too 1/N
Hello all. I'm planning a Unit/Module for a Cognitive Science major within a Psychology Department. Title is Signals & Analytics in Cognitive Neuroscience & Psychophysiology. I'm going to build on this over the next months and would love comments & contributions: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Signals & Analytics in a Cognitive Neuroscience Unit Outline
Unit Outline: Signals & Analytics in Cognitive Neuroscience Tom Johnstone, Swinburne University of Technology Open Science All materials in this course will be made available on osf.io with a CC-BY li...
docs.google.com
September 15, 2023 at 3:26 AM
Hello all. I'm planning a Unit/Module for a Cognitive Science major within a Psychology Department. Title is Signals & Analytics in Cognitive Neuroscience & Psychophysiology. I'm going to build on this over the next months and would love comments & contributions: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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An excellent paper on how to think about data analyses by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Alexandra Sarafoglou, and Balazs Aczel
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Facing the Unknown Unknowns of Data Analysis - Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Balazs Ac...
Empirical claims are inevitably associated with uncertainty, and a major goal of data analysis is therefore to quantify that uncertainty. Recent work has reveal...
journals.sagepub.com
September 13, 2023 at 8:12 PM
An excellent paper on how to think about data analyses by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Alexandra Sarafoglou, and Balazs Aczel
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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How we are evaluated by others has critical consequences for our careers. Decisions about publications, grants, promotions, & tenure depend on input from peers
But there are numerous documented biases in peer review. We review these biases & call for a better way forward
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
But there are numerous documented biases in peer review. We review these biases & call for a better way forward
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
Changing the culture of peer review for a more inclusive and equitable psychological science - PubMe...
Peer review is a core component of scientific practice. Although peer review ideally improves research and promotes rigor, it also has consequences for what types of research are published and cited a...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 11, 2023 at 6:11 PM
How we are evaluated by others has critical consequences for our careers. Decisions about publications, grants, promotions, & tenure depend on input from peers
But there are numerous documented biases in peer review. We review these biases & call for a better way forward
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
But there are numerous documented biases in peer review. We review these biases & call for a better way forward
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky