William Ngiam | 严祥全
@williamngiam.github.io
Cognitive Neuroscientist at Adelaide University | Perception, Attention, Learning and Memory Lab (https://palm-lab.github.io) | Open Practices Editor at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics | ReproducibiliTea | http://williamngiam.github.io
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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science
Open Science needs reliable infrastructure – Ven Popov
After OSF’s October 2025 redesign, I discovered that eight years of DOI-linked preprints and materials were silently hidden by an automated spam flag. What happened, how it was resolved, and what it r...
venpopov.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science
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The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
scienceverse.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/
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What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1
Similarity judgments and visual working memory do not share the same cognitive representation: https://osf.io/fm9vz
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1
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Check our new Psych Science paper w/Daniil Azarov & Daniil Grigorev. Although an ability to recognize a familiar object among new ones clearly depends on how many and which objects there are, we show a remarkable stability of underlying "representational spaces"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Check our new Psych Science paper w/Daniil Azarov & Daniil Grigorev. Although an ability to recognize a familiar object among new ones clearly depends on how many and which objects there are, we show a remarkable stability of underlying "representational spaces"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1
Similarity judgments and visual working memory do not share the same cognitive representation: https://osf.io/fm9vz
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1
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We are very excited to announce that we are opening applications to join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee at the beginning of 2026!
🔹 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
🔹 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We are very excited to announce that we are opening applications to join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee at the beginning of 2026!
🔹 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
🔹 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available<br>working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
The world went and got itself small in a damn hurry
October 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The world went and got itself small in a damn hurry
I'm not a historian, but it seems social movements that advance humanity come from minority groups recognising injustice and coming together in collective grassroots action. So, it's rather telling that the fight over how (or whether) to embed AI in society is falling along very similar lines.
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I'm not a historian, but it seems social movements that advance humanity come from minority groups recognising injustice and coming together in collective grassroots action. So, it's rather telling that the fight over how (or whether) to embed AI in society is falling along very similar lines.
editor-in-chief, action editor, reviewer
quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
editor-in-chief, action editor, reviewer
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📣 “Peer Review and its Diversification” Webinars
15-16 October 2025
👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...
📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
15-16 October 2025
👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...
📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
📣 “Peer Review and its Diversification” Webinars
15-16 October 2025
👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...
📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
15-16 October 2025
👉 Register for the Zoom link: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...
📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
What annotations / metadata do you wish was included with every #cogsci dataset (especially #workingmemory folks 👀)? My current list includes the experiment task, stimulus, level of data (trial-, subject-, or group-level), format, and whether analysis code is provided. Any more?
October 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
What annotations / metadata do you wish was included with every #cogsci dataset (especially #workingmemory folks 👀)? My current list includes the experiment task, stimulus, level of data (trial-, subject-, or group-level), format, and whether analysis code is provided. Any more?
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New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🧵 1/
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🧵 1/
October 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🧵 1/
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🧵 1/
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Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
northwestern.zoom.us
October 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review?
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments.
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
I have a vague memory of reading a paper that was a passionate rebuke of academic capitalism, and proposing a solution that academic committees should use sortition – random allocation to different roles. It's entirely possible that I dreamt this but does anyone know of such an article?
October 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I have a vague memory of reading a paper that was a passionate rebuke of academic capitalism, and proposing a solution that academic committees should use sortition – random allocation to different roles. It's entirely possible that I dreamt this but does anyone know of such an article?
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This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
September 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
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1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
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Collaborate with us!! #workingmemory
Call for collaborators! 🧵
The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting.
In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5
Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Further details in the 🧵:
The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting.
In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5
Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Further details in the 🧵:
September 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Collaborate with us!! #workingmemory
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Paywall: www.afr.com/policy/healt...
Reddit version:
www.reddit.com/r/Anu/commen...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #UKHE
Reddit version:
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #UKHE
Opaque, conflicted, overpaid: The shabby state of uni governance
A major senate report into the quality of governance at Australian universities has delivered a blistering attack on how they are run and overseen.
www.afr.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Paywall: www.afr.com/policy/healt...
Reddit version:
www.reddit.com/r/Anu/commen...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #UKHE
Reddit version:
www.reddit.com/r/Anu/commen...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #UKHE
I'm seeking some advice: I have just come across an article with a few incorrect references (wrong authors, bad DOIs), as well as nonsensical in-text citations to those references. What should I do about this? Should I pursue an expression of concern?
September 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I'm seeking some advice: I have just come across an article with a few incorrect references (wrong authors, bad DOIs), as well as nonsensical in-text citations to those references. What should I do about this? Should I pursue an expression of concern?
"Theoretical Grounds" – a no-phone café to encourage connection through philosophical conversations.
(I also considered Pore Over Coffee)
(I also considered Pore Over Coffee)
I'm back to coming up with puns for my alternative career paths. Today, it's starting a restaurant titled "Wok this way, stock this way", which opens up to cheap-and-cheerful dishes on one side, and hot-pots on the other side.
a man singing into a microphone with the words " walk this way " above him
Alt: Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith, singing at a concert with the caption "Walk this way" in reference to one of their songs.
media.tenor.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:27 AM
"Theoretical Grounds" – a no-phone café to encourage connection through philosophical conversations.
(I also considered Pore Over Coffee)
(I also considered Pore Over Coffee)
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A memory can be represented at different levels of granularity, from highly specific to generalized.
Different representational formats of a memory can be used at different times or in different contexts, and draw on different neural representations.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Different representational formats of a memory can be used at different times or in different contexts, and draw on different neural representations.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A memory can be represented at different levels of granularity, from highly specific to generalized.
Different representational formats of a memory can be used at different times or in different contexts, and draw on different neural representations.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Different representational formats of a memory can be used at different times or in different contexts, and draw on different neural representations.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests
The list of social media platforms that Australia is considering to ban (under the new restrictions for Aussie teenagers) includes—yes, you read that right—GitHub.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Not just 'big fish': eSafety reveals new platforms may be forced to ban teens
WhatsApp, Roblox, Reddit and Discord are among an expanded list of platforms which may be covered by the teen social media ban, the ABC can reveal.
www.abc.net.au
September 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests