KristenABaker

@K_A_Baker@mstdn.science
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PhD candidate at Brock University, Canada.
Newton International Fellow (Royal Society)at the University of Kent, UK.
|| Research: Face learning and recognition.
|| Outside of research: Nature and animal lover. she/her.
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(Originally posted on blue sky)
I'm giving a talk for Royal Society's Lates Event in February( #RSLates ). I will present on #FaceIdentification, and others will present on #cognition & #neuroscience.

If you're in London, you should come.

Talks will be given for a lay audience.

Link: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2024/02/lates-brains/

Royal Society Lates: what's on your mind? | Royal Society

Join us for an evening of talks and activities exploring brains and cutting-edge neuroscience research.

Please RT:

Professor Markus Bindemann and Professor Mike Burton are looking to hire a Post-doctoral Fellow to work at the University of Kent!

You'd be working with #VR to create high-fidelity #avatars for scientific research! Job ad to follow.

You can find the job advert here: https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=HSS-186-23

It's a great lab (although I might be biased), and it's a really cool project!

The applications close Sunday 30 July 2023 (unless otherwise stated)!!!

#postdoc #UniversityOfKent #ESRCfunded

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Post-Doctoral Research Associate

The School of Psychology is seeking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with expertise in computing, psychology or virtual reality for experimental research with adult participants. The post will involve the development of an easy-to-use...

Jobs at the University of Kent

🚨New paper🚨: "Unfamiliar face matching ability predicts the slope of face learning" is now in
@SciReports

Unfamiliar face matching predicts the efficiency with which a face is learned. We also examined potential mechanisms driving this relationship!

Find out more here: https://rdcu.be/c8PQu

#FaceRecognition #FaceLearning #FaceIdentification #UnfamiliarFaceIdentification #Cogntition #IndividualDifferences

What are some key distinctions in the literature on (and practice of) instructional design that teachers should know about? For example, “inquiry-based” vs “direct instruction”, “student-centered” vs “teacher-centered”, etc… what else?
#educhat #edutoot #education #teachers #highered

I'm excited to announce that my newest paper investigating #IndividualDifferences in #FaceIdentification is in Cognition! Sensitivity and Criterion/bias were stable across time & tasks. RTs were fastest on trials that were congruent with one's criterion!

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gDdp2Hx2pjCP

#FaceRecognition #FacePerception #Cognition

*Psychology Repository Update*

https://kaitclark.github.io/mastodon-psychology/

We've just crossed the 500 mark and now have 502 people on the Psychologists on Mastodon list!

Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. With so many new people having joined, you may want to review the updated list and see if you want to follow the new people.

To be added complete this form: https://go.uwe.ac.uk/psychmastodon

I update the list on at least a weekly basis. You can also let me know directly if you need your details updated.

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A list of psychologists in the Fediverse

How freakin' cool. A #meteor was picked up by EarthCam's CN Tower webcam in #Toronto.

Several hours before it hit, David Rankin at NASA's Catalina Sky Survey spotted the object, and Michael Busch started a thread: https://mastodon.online/@michael_w_busch/109368965024525842.

As the night unfolded: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/c8ff042_probable_impactor/95129080

EarthCam archives about a day's worth of video, so you can still catch it here: https://www.earthcam.com/world/canada/toronto/cntower/?cam=towerview. Tap Archive, select the 3-4AM clip and scroll to the 3:25:56 mark. #astronomy #space

Michael Busch (@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)

For any asteroid observers who may have telescopes available right now: The new discovery #C8FF042 would be good to observe in the next 140 minutes - https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/object/C8FF042

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Okay, so I got a little over zealous with the edit button. 😅 Can you blame me though?! #MastodonNewbie #TwitterMigration

Well the first draft of my #PhD #dissertation has been handed in! (*celebratory champagne*)

#Academics of mastodon: How fast was the transition between submitting the first draft of your dissertation and starting your #postdoc, #professorship, or #industry positon? If you could go back, what would you focus on most?

#psychology #cognition #visionscience #facerecognition