Evie Vergauwe
Working Memory Researcher at U. of Geneva
#workingmemory
Cognition and Cognitive Development
PI of the WomCogDevLab
Steering board Swiss Reproducibility Network
- Reposted by Evie VergauweSending this to all my PhD students, winning advisor of the year award (it was a mistake)
- This. SO. Much.
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- We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe! Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
- Reposted by Evie VergauweThis is going to take my thinking in circles to the next level. Are we still using the #workingmemory tag? Relevant for anyone there – bring back the delayed reproduction task and the computational model wars! #teamnotpureslots #teamnotpureresourceseither
- I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out. Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe🎄 Ho-Ho-Holiday Alert! 🎄 Wishing you happy holidays & happy new year! A shout-out to all our collaborators, students, & colleagues for an inspiring year 2025. Grateful to be part of such a supportive & curious research community!🤓 Here’s to exciting new ideas, discoveries, & exchanges in 2026! 🥂🎊
- Reposted by Evie VergauweDid you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
- The SNSF is considering restrictions for its Project funding. Goal: to ensure the quality of evaluation & stable success rates despite an increasing number of applications and limited funding. The final decision will be made in January 2026. 👉 buff.ly/iGOCf7R #research #science
- Reposted by Evie VergauweNew paper! We describe how grassroots networks can help implement and harmonize open research efforts via our experience establishing the Norwegian Reproducibility Network -@norrepro.bsky.social. doi.org/10.7557/11.8...
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe[hands someone my beer] Hear me out guys: "Many Adversaries"
- Reposted by Evie VergauweOpen Science NL is funding 27 replication studies with €5.2M. Projects will reanalyse data, repeat experiments, and explore variations across many fields. Read more 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...
- Reposted by Evie VergauweMy holiday gift to you: three hours of the worst Christmas music known to humanity. Apple Music and Spotify links can be found at shitm.as
- Reposted by Evie VergauweDo you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
- Reposted by Evie VergauweNew conspiracy theory just dropped: What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
- Reposted by Evie VergauweFor all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8... #neuroscience
- Reposted by Evie VergauweOur lab at the University of Amsterdam is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to examine how young children’s emotions develop across cultures. This position is part of our @erc.europa.eu project on the emergence of distinct emotions in human development. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe🚨 Update on the SwissRN Annual Meeting Find the complete program of our 4th annual meeting now here: www.swissrn.org/contents/new... 📅 December 05, 2025, 09:30-17:00, Hybrid format 📌 Universität Basel, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056, room U1.101 Please register by 31 October 2025.
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- Reposted by Evie VergauweFaculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25 www.umb.edu/academics/pr... #devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Evie VergauweThe final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
- Delighted to share that the last part of my PhD work is now available as a preprint 🥳🎉 osf.io/preprints/ps... This work was done in collaboration with my amazing PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🌟 #workingmemory
- 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 🧵:
- Reposted by Evie VergauweHow does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro
- Reposted by Evie VergauweMake sure to stop at Ceren Arslan‘s (@scannedfruits.bsky.social) poster at #ICON2025 today at 3:30! She‘s presenting some of our recent EEG work on audiovisual object storage in #WorkingMemory! 👇
- Tomorrow afternoon at #icon2025 I will present a poster on feature extraction costs in working memory in an audiovisual context using behavioral measures and EEG based decoding analysis. I will be at the main hall, 1st floor (P2.55). I’d be happy to discuss our results further with you.
- Reposted by Evie VergauweCongrats to @lauraklatt.bsky.social for being the #WomWoM research fairy of 2025! She is both a star researcher & incredibly generous and collegial with all in the field, especially the juniors! Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations & to @scannedfruits.bsky.social for making Laura's wand 🪄🧚♀️
- 3/3 My personal highlight of #ESCOP2025 was becoming this year‘s #WomWom research fairy! 🧚♂️ Thanks again to all my fellow #WomeninWorkingMemory. It means a lot ❤️
- Reposted by Evie VergauweVery excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory. I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social #brainstimulation #TMS #EEG
- Reposted by Evie VergauweWe are HIRING! The Department of Psychology at NDSU is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology (broadly defined) to begin August, 2026. Full details here: tinyurl.com/3sjknmxn Questions can be directed to me. Please share widely!
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨
- #workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...
- Reposted by Evie VergauweAre you presenting a poster at #ESCOP2025? Why not have one less thing to travel with and have your poster printed on site to collect when you arrive in Sheffield! Send your poster no later than 17th August to take advantage of this option 🤓🧠 www.escop2025.com/poster-print...
- Reposted by Evie VergauweIf you are in the US and are doing research on Cognitive Development, Educational Psychology, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience or in related fields, contact me and we can put together an application for these brilliant new programs at Western University. We value diversity & academic freedom!
- Who will be the research fairy 2025? 💫🧚💫
- #workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...
- Reposted by Evie VergauweExperimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
- Reposted by Evie VergauweCurious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
- Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...
- Reposted by Evie VergauweJust a simple #Fact for #Today and, in fact, any other day. 🤣 #Memes #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams #Windows
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe#ESCOP2025 is offering several funding opportunities, including the new family care grants and travel support for PhD students. Don’t miss the chance to apply! 👇
- Reposted by Evie VergauweDo kids show adult-like working memory patterns? 🧠 We analyzed nearly 1M observations from 9K+ Dutch students in a real-world adaptive learning platform. ✅ Benchmark effects in children 📊 Bayesian modeling + big adaptive data = new insights ⬇️ Authors & links #WorkingMemory #DevPsych
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE! Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers. *(1/4)*
- A day full of learning, sharing, and scientific fun, with Cristina Priboi and @hannowuerbel.bsky.social from @swissrn.bsky.social
- Reposted by Evie VergauweI've started to create a Google doc to compile & share cog psych teaching resources, organized by topics (e.g., attention, memory, language) & resource types. This week, I ask you to share any in-class demos you'd like to give. Please reply to this post or tag me in a separate post. Thanks!
- Reposted by Evie VergauweThank you @annemscheel.bsky.social for visiting us in Geneva, we were delighted to get to know & exchange with you!💬 Your insightful meta-science talk put the underlying structure of research (the different processes of scientific discovery, testing, & inference) into perspective - so helpful! ⚙️🤓
- Reposted by Evie VergauweHow does the adoption of preprinting differ between European countries? Preprint adoption is significantly higher in Western and Northern European countries than in their Southern and Eastern European neighbors. Switzerland has the highest preprint adoption in Europe.
- Reposted by Evie VergauwePlease spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
- Spread the word!!
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe@psych.peercommunityin.org is getting ready to launch! This is going to be a major advance for open and transparent psychological science via preprint peer review. Looking for more RECOMMENDERS-- similar role to an AE at traditional journals. Please consider it and share news about the psych PCI!
- The PCI Psychology website is live! psych.peercommunityin.org We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out! #psychscisky #scipub
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe🚨 Two open faculty positions in Cognitive Psychology (incl. visual perception) at University of Southern Denmark! 🚨 #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence #compneurosky
- Reposted by Evie VergauweI just learned that there is an open postdoc position for AI in Psychology with us. The deadline is in two days, but if you are interested and willing to write a quick proposal, let me know. Potential topics: comp. modeling of VWM/perception, brain decoding. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
- Reposted by Evie VergauweGreat atmosphere at the Open Science day of the KU Leuven when Evie Vergauwe @evievergauwe.bsky.social member of our steering committee, gave a keynote titled "Open Science needs more than enthusiasm". Photo: Aziza Menouni #openscience #swissrn #reproducibility
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe🌐 Had a great time yesterday at the 5th Open Science Day of the @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! #OpenScience #Reproducibility #Transparency #Replicability
- Reposted by Evie VergauweI am once again asking: if you or someone you know (i) knows the SAS programming language, (ii) has some degree of familiarity with social psychology, and (iii) wants to be paid to review a paper as part of @error.reviews, please get in touch with me!
- Reposted by Evie VergauweHi friends, the Spark Society's NSF funding has been terminated. We are dedicated to continuing our work and hope we can rely on you for support.
- If you want to help support our mission, you can donate here buy.stripe.com/3cs03h1be38D...
- Reposted by Evie VergauweExcited that we are recruiting for a new postdoctoral program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at #WashU! Get in touch if you have questions! sites.wustl.edu/systemsneuro...
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwe⏳⏰🧠 Tic-toc, it’s research o’clock! In today’s lab meeting, our teammate Ruiheng Zhang shared her latest work on how free time affects working memory. With some early results already on the table, it seems future insights are just a matter of time… we’ll definitely be sticking around for seconds!🧠⏰⏳
- Reposted by Evie VergauweFinally, Ven Popov's & my paper introducing the Bayesian Measurement Models (bmm: venpopov.github.io/bmm/) R package is published in Behavior Research Methods: rdcu.be/ehKtv In the paper we show how to use bmm for fitting mixture models for visual #workingmemory tasks.
- Reposted by Evie VergauweHappy to share that this work is now (finally) published in JEP:HPP 🕺 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
- As my debut on 🔹☁️, I’m happy to share our preprint (with Marcel Niklaus & Klaus Oberauer) on the distractor susceptibility of information in working memory: psyarxiv.com/hn9wp #workingmemory
- And another #FabCollab #workingmemory 🤠👢
- The consequences of strategic prioritization in working memory: osf.io/4a2bu
- Refreshing Boosts Memory But Does Not Protect It Against Interference: osf.io/fmqns
- Reposted by Evie Vergauwepreview of my #MPSA2025 results
- Reposted by Evie VergauwePapers published in Psych Science following January 1st, 2024 are candidates for I4R to computationally reproduce, stress-test and replicate. This is an official collaboration with @psychscience.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... We are looking for reproducers and replicators!
- Reposted by Evie VergauweAre you highlighting #OpenScience activities in your CV, or know someone who does? I am looking for examples to include (of course in anonymized form) as examples in a book chapter. For example, I once came across a CV with small open science badges and would love to include this!
