Bethany Growns
Cognitive psychologist studying decision-making in the legal system | senior lecturer @ the University of Canterbury in NZ | queer(she/her)🏳️🌈 aussie | foodie🍽 Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
- Reposted by Bethany Growns“correlation is not cognition” — Guest & Martin (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s421... @olivia.science @andreaeyleen.bsky.social
- Come join an absolutely amazing researcher here in stunning Christchurch ! 📓
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- Reposted by Bethany GrownsPOSTDOC Opening: I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me, @ayeletlandau.bsky.social, and Yuval Benjamini on a 4-year NSF funded project to understand timing and memorability in the visual system. fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking all included. If interested, please DM or email me for more information!
- Thanks to NSF and BSF, we've received a CRCNS grant!! 🎉 I'll be working with the amazing @ayeletlandau.bsky.social and Yuval Benjamini to explore and understand how our sense of time and image memorability are linked. ⌛🧠 We have 2(!) post-doc opportunities available - details coming soon!
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsLife goals: uncontactable 🙏
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsI do not want, or see any value, in an AI review of any paper I submit to a journal. If you do this, I will withdraw my paper and submit elsewhere. Or simply post as a preprint never to be reviewed. Fuck this enshittification of scholarship.
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsI just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsNew 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/
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- Reposted by Bethany Growns"no worries if not!" But they were, all of them, deceived. For there were some worries if not
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- okay, malcolm gladwell says he was “cowed” into saying trans girls and women belong in girls’ and women’s sports. well i won’t be bullied or pressured into taking that position! i took it based on the evidence. like for example: www.liberalcurrents.com/do-trans-wom...
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsThe psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsJOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/
- EPC Sydney #epc2025
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsFantastic talk by David White showing that super-recognizers don't pay extra attention to all social cues (e.g. bodies), just to faces #ecp2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsGreat talk by @bethanygrowns.bsky.social looking at overlap between face super-recognizers and object super-matchers #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsHey ECRs at @expsyanz.bsky.social this week - if you're interested in object perception and/or neural decoding, come find me for a chat about an upcoming postdoc spot at the @marcsinstitute.bsky.social 👀
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsBrilliant talk by @andyperfors.bsky.social at #epc2025 encouraging psychology to study the effects of disinformation at the systemic level @expsyanz.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Bethany GrownsWalking across UNSW campus for a conference, I found myself thinking about how I love academia (for all its flaws) because of what it reflects about humanity. We all decided that it's worth creating and resourcing an entire cultural institution devoted to the acquisition and spread of knowledge.
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsAustralasian Experimental Psychology Conference/Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision kicks off tomorrow! We're all very excited. See the programme it looks fantastic drive.google.com/file/d/1d0KE... website: conference.unsw.edu.au/en/epc-apcv-... follow us here: @expsyanz.bsky.social
- Reposted by Bethany Grownsthe psych department at Waikato (in Hamilton, New Zealand) is recruiting at the junior level, in developmental and/or perception/cognition (in NZ 'lecturer' means 'assistant professor', and is a permanent role)
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsPride is in full bloom.
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsLast chance for applications!
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- Please consider signing this petition to NZ Parliament | Pāremata Aotearoa to broaden access to academic journals in Aotearoa: petitions.parliament.nz/ef013521-d47...
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- Reposted by Bethany GrownsGrad students have to learn both their field of study and how science is communicated, as well as what academic life is like. The Two Psychologists Four Beers podcast really helped me understand the "behind the scenes" of academia. Strongly recommend to any prospective psych academics! [link below]
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsBernard Hickey: The Govt’s retrospective law wrecks 33 pay equity deals. $17 billion in wages & back-pay will not now go to over 150,000 workers. That means the $14 billion of tax cuts going mostly to landlords & highest earners are being paid for by wage cuts for the poorest NZers, mostly women.
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsIf you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsIf you are a grad student under funding threat who studies something you could imagine sharing with a tech audience, I'd love for you to tell me about it under this thread so I can RT
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsBeing yourself, finding your way through a sea of language and information is an absolutely worthwhile process to take your time with. Use your voice until you can hear how beautiful it is, far more beautiful than anything a LLM can produce. Treasure your voice even in small ways. Its precious
- Reposted by Bethany Grownswho says that science doesn't generate profit?
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- Reposted by Bethany GrownsWhat is the state of open science in the field of psychology and law? Data from Fessinger, McAuliff, and @anthonyperillo.bsky.social at the link below. It’s open access (free to read) from @lhb-apls.bsky.social @apajournals.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsTwo Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni! Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity. #linguistics #evolution #academia #phd www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsFor those interested in improving the way science is used in law, we have a cool special issue of Forensic Science International: Synergy (www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...) out. It follows from a conference at the ANU called Rethinking scientific communication in courts.
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsAmerican health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦 We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
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- Reposted by Bethany GrownsFor my academics who cook, for me, personally: Someone saying “oh my god” when they take a bite of my cooking >>>>>>>>> “we are pleased to accept…” or “impact score: 16”
- Reposted by Bethany Grownsreposting because it has new year's energy
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- Reposted by Bethany GrownsStop Getting Emails on Holidays You Celebrate With This One Weird Hack: Don't Check Your Email On Holidays You Celebrate. #AcademicSky
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- Reposted by Bethany GrownsHow many more reports like this will it take for our leaders to care even a little bit?
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsHow did Tolkien write so much? The answer is he didn't have two-factor authentication for every aspect of his life
- Reposted by Bethany Growns100% which reminded me of @ardemp.bsky.social rule #1 on how to science: Don’t be too busy Being too busy (with noise) = less time to read papers, less time to think and to connect the dots, less time for creative work!
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsThe good fight
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsOp-ed from Dr Pounamu Aikman on the defunding of humanities and Social science research in Aotearoa, particularly for Māori. "Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but you will do so without direction or purpose." e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
- Reposted by Bethany Growns“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
- Reposted by Bethany Grownsanon. anon listen to me. you’re going to hear a little voice telling you to get a phd to somehow fix this. that’s the devil talking.
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- Please complete this survey if you live in Aotearoa 👇 trans rights are human rights. The govn is trying to slip this "consultation period" in over the holidays hoping no one will notice. Let's not let them 🏳⚧
- NZ govt are attacking trans youth. They've told MoH to consult on puberty blockers over xmas. They're not consulting experts or trans youth and their whānau. Instead it's open to everyone, including terfs. Please complete this survey, it takes 5 mins. consult.health.govt.nz/strategy-and...
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsNZ govt are attacking trans youth. They've told MoH to consult on puberty blockers over xmas. They're not consulting experts or trans youth and their whānau. Instead it's open to everyone, including terfs. Please complete this survey, it takes 5 mins. consult.health.govt.nz/strategy-and...
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsI'm organising the seminar series for the Complex Human Data Hub (for talks between March and June) - any suggestions for potential speakers? Any cogsci or mathpsych topics, but also misinfo, information systems, cultural evolution, linguistics, AI, that sort of thing /1 #cogpsyc #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Bethany GrownsIn any case, here our work and predictions link.springer.com/article/10.1...
