Are you curious to learn how electrical stimulation ⚡️⚡️ of facial muscles may change how you feel and perceive others' emotions? 🧐Have a read at my first blog post for @PsychToday :

I’m hiring a PhD student for my lab at Cambridge’s Center for Human Inspired AI (CHIA)! Work at the intersection of AI × cognition × neuroscience. 📅 Deadline: Dec 2 🔗 Program: https://t.co/YaOeZRagPd 📚 My Google Scholar:

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Is there an impostor in the brain? Is Capgras more common in Alzheimer's, Lewy Body Dementia or Parkinson's? Spoiler alert: Lewy Body is the most common presentation. Capgras can teach us both about identity and neurodegeneration. Capgras syndrome refers to a delusional

How I wish I wrote abstracts vs how I write abstracts…

Cool stuff 👍🏻

🧵1/4 A Harvard professor has just published a glowing review of Yale Professor Agustín Fuentes’ new book, Sex is a Spectrum, in The Lancet—one of the highest-ranked, most prestigious medical journals in the world. In it, she asserts that the “gametic definition” of sex—roughly,

Deadline for this funded PhD to work with me and @DuncanAstle is soon! 26 July. The student must be a woman (because the studentship is based at Newnham College Cambridge) and eligible for UK home fees.

Fingers crossed for sunny skies all throughout graduation week! It is such an exciting time on campus as we celebrate all of our students' successes and achievements. We are so excited to see what the next chapter holds for all those graduating this Friday from #essexpsychology!

We have had such a great time meeting so many prospective students and their families at our recent Offer Holder Days! These days provide a chance for you to see our state of the art facilities and learn a bit more about what studying Psychology at Essex would be like!

New paper day! Using EEG and frequency tagging, we show that posing a smile reduces neural discrimination of happy versus neutral faces, possibly by making neutral faces look happier. Led by @_Neurobaker with great help from @svddonck and @BartBoets

https://t.co/Ng1DZRYPnn Free speech. lol

your family finally learning what you research for the 11th Christmas in a row

UK applicants - there is still time to apply to begin your MSc in Psychology at the University of Essex this January! And great news - we now offer a part time option for UK applicants making the course more flexible than ever.

Thank you @ayesharascoe and @NPR for giving me the chance to describe some of our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation

@sciam @RachelNuwer

Over the moon 🌛 that this was just featured in @sciam (thank you so much @RachelNuwer for the interview) and got endorsed by a distinguished colleague (thank you very much Heather Lench).

@ThemisEfth And now with a nice summary for the British Psychological Society: https://t.co/DFF9ZkjLLw Thank you Emma Young 🙏(not sure which twitter handle to use)

@EssexPsychology @ResearchEssex

New paper day, and that's a BIG one!! 💪Huuuge effort by everyone involved, but especially by the amazing @AnaStijovic 🙏. Our systematic review of what gets called a "social reward" shows large differences across disciplines (eg🕴️,🐭), and points to avenues for future research.

📣🧠📣 I’m hiring !! 📣🧠📣 We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab @bbkpsychology. You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project funded by @LeverhulmeTrust - studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds. https://t.co/dU3D1VbTOY