Kay Ritchie
@kayritchie.bsky.social
Research on face recognition | Director of the Policy Hub at University of Lincoln, UK | public engagement with research | flute in Lincoln, Stamford and musical theatre
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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...
Good meetings include good cake! Very productive day in York with Eilidh and @drkatiegray.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Good meetings include good cake! Very productive day in York with Eilidh and @drkatiegray.bsky.social
Probably the most joyous photo of two old friends drinking wine and making each other laugh through music 🥰
August 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Probably the most joyous photo of two old friends drinking wine and making each other laugh through music 🥰
Hear me out. Who was the first dude on the podium at the Euros final there? Was it Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible mask? And if you’re saying no, are you sure? The face, the eyes, and the hands don’t match the face.
July 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Hear me out. Who was the first dude on the podium at the Euros final there? Was it Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible mask? And if you’re saying no, are you sure? The face, the eyes, and the hands don’t match the face.
What a brilliant time at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social in Dundee last week! Huge congratulations to Mike Burton for his Sir Frederick Bartlett prize lecture and thank you for attracting so many awesome face perception researchers! 🥰🤓 Thank you to @lizziebradford.bsky.social for organising! 👏
July 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What a brilliant time at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social in Dundee last week! Huge congratulations to Mike Burton for his Sir Frederick Bartlett prize lecture and thank you for attracting so many awesome face perception researchers! 🥰🤓 Thank you to @lizziebradford.bsky.social for organising! 👏
Great day and a bit with Katrina and Ranbir in Huddersfield for the Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network meeting. Lots of networking, and lots of good ideas to be working on from an East Midlands perspective! 🤓
June 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Great day and a bit with Katrina and Ranbir in Huddersfield for the Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network meeting. Lots of networking, and lots of good ideas to be working on from an East Midlands perspective! 🤓
I had such a wonderful time recording this episode of The Movie Method with the brilliant Jenny @filmtherapy.bsky.social and Roger who I am so blessed to be able to call my friends. Can’t wait to listen - I know our friendship and our love of this film will come across 🥰 Thank you for having me on!
Really enjoyed discussing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with the amazing @kayritchie.bsky.social on our new movie podcast episode. You may also hear Kay’s Shaun Connery impression! open.spotify.com/episode/1anf...
Season 2: Episode 13: Friendship, Family and Adventure in Indiana Jones with Dr Kay Ritchie
The Movie Method · Episode
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May 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I had such a wonderful time recording this episode of The Movie Method with the brilliant Jenny @filmtherapy.bsky.social and Roger who I am so blessed to be able to call my friends. Can’t wait to listen - I know our friendship and our love of this film will come across 🥰 Thank you for having me on!
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Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June.
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Senior Research Associate (RA2312) in University of East Anglia | UEA
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May 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June.
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
Pint of Science has made the front cover of the Lincoln Independent magazine! 19-21 May, tickets here PintOfScience.co.uk/events/lincoln
May 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pint of Science has made the front cover of the Lincoln Independent magazine! 19-21 May, tickets here PintOfScience.co.uk/events/lincoln
Had a wonderful week in the merry old land of Oz playing in the band for MJH Productions in Grantham. Congratulations to everyone in the cast, crew, production and band!
April 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Had a wonderful week in the merry old land of Oz playing in the band for MJH Productions in Grantham. Congratulations to everyone in the cast, crew, production and band!
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I’m so grateful for the opportunity to present my Frith Prize talk at the EPS meeting yesterday — it was such an honour and a delight! I had some fascinating questions and conversations that will definitely help shape my next projects. Huge thanks to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for the fab conference!
April 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I’m so grateful for the opportunity to present my Frith Prize talk at the EPS meeting yesterday — it was such an honour and a delight! I had some fascinating questions and conversations that will definitely help shape my next projects. Huge thanks to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for the fab conference!
A brilliant first meeting for me as a committee member of EPS. Thanks so much to everyone for making me feel welcome, and for sharing such great research 🤓
That's all for #EPSLancaster25, a huge thank you to our local organisers - Padraic Monaghan and Alice Milne - for all of their help!
EPS meetings couldn't happen without all of our amazing attendees, talk and poster presenters, symposium speakers, prize winners and meeting helpers. Thank you!
EPS meetings couldn't happen without all of our amazing attendees, talk and poster presenters, symposium speakers, prize winners and meeting helpers. Thank you!
a bird singing on a wire with thank you flags hanging from it
ALT: a bird singing on a wire with thank you flags hanging from it
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April 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A brilliant first meeting for me as a committee member of EPS. Thanks so much to everyone for making me feel welcome, and for sharing such great research 🤓
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Delighted to be at the Lancaster meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. Great talks from members of @notts-psych.bsky.social, Lauren Marsh and Sandra Lagator.
April 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Delighted to be at the Lancaster meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. Great talks from members of @notts-psych.bsky.social, Lauren Marsh and Sandra Lagator.
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Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!
Exciting news: we’re hiring! Chair in (Cognitive) Neuroscience and up to 3 Assistant Prof posts. Contact @christakou.bsky.social or myself for Neuro inquiries. See tinyurl.com/uuunhsnm for Chair details, and tinyurl.com/mrxnszzw to apply for Assistant Prof. Join us!
Professor in Neuroscience:Whiteknights Reading UK
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March 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!
Here’s my opinion - let’s stop saying a piece of work is from someone’s (the most well-known person’s) lab. Let’s credit the first author even if we haven’t already heard of them. How do PhD students and postdoc and other ECRs get known if we erase their names from discussions of their own papers?
New study from Raffaella Nori's lab on how cognitive load affects intentional action judgments for side effects
Results are very different from what pretty much anyone would have predicted
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Results are very different from what pretty much anyone would have predicted
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
March 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Here’s my opinion - let’s stop saying a piece of work is from someone’s (the most well-known person’s) lab. Let’s credit the first author even if we haven’t already heard of them. How do PhD students and postdoc and other ECRs get known if we erase their names from discussions of their own papers?
Brill but exhausting sitzprobe for MJH Productions’ Wizard of
Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁
Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁
March 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Brill but exhausting sitzprobe for MJH Productions’ Wizard of
Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁
Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁
What an absolutely brilliant concert with Stamford Chamber Orchestra! Mozart narrated a ‘children’s guide’ piece written specially for us by John Sturt, complete with kiddo violins & singers. Jupiter symphony was genuinely one of the best things I’ve played in a while - well done everyone!
March 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What an absolutely brilliant concert with Stamford Chamber Orchestra! Mozart narrated a ‘children’s guide’ piece written specially for us by John Sturt, complete with kiddo violins & singers. Jupiter symphony was genuinely one of the best things I’ve played in a while - well done everyone!
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The cartoon of this admin:
March 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The cartoon of this admin:
Ugh no. I met Mark once, a long time ago. He and his wife, Gabby Giffords, are absolutely amazing. Look them both up. Mark and Gabby have such a collective wisdom, they should be listened to.
Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
March 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Ugh no. I met Mark once, a long time ago. He and his wife, Gabby Giffords, are absolutely amazing. Look them both up. Mark and Gabby have such a collective wisdom, they should be listened to.
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"...there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created."
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
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REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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March 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"...there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created."
Delighted to be the new Director of the Lincoln Policy Hub connecting researchers with policymakers to generate research impact. It’s already been great learning about just some of the brilliant policy-facing research going on across the uni. Still in psychology just a bit less bit.ly/3QaiLjX
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February 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Delighted to be the new Director of the Lincoln Policy Hub connecting researchers with policymakers to generate research impact. It’s already been great learning about just some of the brilliant policy-facing research going on across the uni. Still in psychology just a bit less bit.ly/3QaiLjX
ITV commentary once again is totally unhinged - there’s clearly a bet on as to who can say the word “wardrobe” the most. “He is a nicely built, nicely aging French wardrobe”. Mad. Also strong choice from Twickenham to choose ‘Chumbaleze’ for their hanging around music. #EngFra #SixNations
February 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ITV commentary once again is totally unhinged - there’s clearly a bet on as to who can say the word “wardrobe” the most. “He is a nicely built, nicely aging French wardrobe”. Mad. Also strong choice from Twickenham to choose ‘Chumbaleze’ for their hanging around music. #EngFra #SixNations
I have a tshirt with this on it!
January 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I have a tshirt with this on it!
This is problematic. Our research shows the public, including a sample in USA, support facial recognition tech use in conjunction with other evidence, & when used specifically to find people on a watchlist. If used well it can be helpful. Full research article here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
January 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is problematic. Our research shows the public, including a sample in USA, support facial recognition tech use in conjunction with other evidence, & when used specifically to find people on a watchlist. If used well it can be helpful. Full research article here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Finally caught up on Black Doves - absolutely brilliant! Every performance was captivating. Please say they’re making another series!
January 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Finally caught up on Black Doves - absolutely brilliant! Every performance was captivating. Please say they’re making another series!