Sebastian Korb
Senior lecture in psychology, university of Essex. Emotion ❤️, facial expressions 🤪, embodiment 🧠, reward 🍫🍺, bikes 🚴🏻♂️
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbBoard of Peace - Season 1
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbGary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbFixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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- I recommend listening to Matteo, who’s a great friend, and a great scientist, even though I don’t understand half of what he says about stats
- I’ll be giving a 'Workshops for Ukraine' session on Building and Customising Statistical Models with Stan and R: An Introduction to Bayesian Inference — online on Nov 13. Open to all, with donations supporting Ukrainian organisations. 👉 sites.google.com/view/dariia-... #stats #rstats #statssky
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbRemarkable. Uncontrollable laughing or crying can happen *without* emotion ("pseudobulbar affect"). Here's a video of one individual whose crying is triggered by real or imagined rubbing of his finger & thumb. Intense response but not sadness. /1 static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...
- Reposted by Sebastian Korb2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
- Reposted by Sebastian Korb"Doesn’t matter to us who you’re fucking mingling with, or tingling with, or fingering with. It’s none of our fucking business."
- Reposted by Sebastian Korbin Oxford, a grade 7 (entry-level) postdoc costs about £180K for 3 years, including fringe. For UKRI grants, the university now adds **£460K** in overheads. is that normal? do other UK universities impose such outlandish FEC?
- Quite proud of this latest work from the KorbLab, which replicates behavioral effects of zygomaticus activation on happiness categorization, and also reveals an N170 reduction, suggesting reduced visual processing in combination with targeted facial feedback input
- Facial muscle activity can shape how we recognize emotions. Using electrical stimulation and EEG, the study found that activation of smiling muscles makes people more likely to see neutral faces as happy. @themisefth.bsky.social @sebkorb.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbWe are still looking for collaborators, especially from Africa, Asia and South America for our project on how people from around the world correct their intuitive reasoning errors. More information below. Pls join and share! psysciacc.org/projects/psa...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbEmotions are core to the human experience 😆😮🙂😊☹️😠😳😑 But how do they arise? Our brain-wide ⚡recordings in humans and mice reveal some answers @ScienceMagazine. A big team effort and debut paper from @Stanford's new Human Neural Circuitry program. bit.ly/4dEyX7Z
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbOn 24th June, we are hosting a 1 day event on Social Connections at UCL - come along to hear the latest research on wearable sensors and friendship and measuring social interaction. Please share widely palslanguagelab.wixsite.com/socialconnec...
- Reposted by Sebastian Korb📣 COS is excited to launch the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)! Seeking researchers with expertise in quantitative methods in health behavior, public health, epidemiology, health policy, & related fields for this large-scale, multi-team replication effort. ➡️ Details: www.cos.io/rphb
- 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 Joshua Baker, with great help from Stephanie Van der Donck and Bart Boets. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbIf you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
- So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbPostdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam! Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck. More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbWe are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!
- Trump’s “free” speech: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbWe finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.
- Unbelievably scary: www.science.org/content/blog...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbIt says a lot about the current funding crisis affecting UK universities when Wales' biggest university proposes to close its Nursing course to save money, at a time when the NHS is desperate for more nurses.
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbI am thrilled to announce that my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline 28 February. pvrticka.com/2025-soneat-...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbHope this link works www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbWhat are the prospects for AI that is, or irresistibly appears to be, conscious? Here’s a substantially revised version of my paper “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism” - many thanks to many folks for super-helpful comments osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbPostdoctoral positions in Emotion Research. Come and collaborate with 24 training faculty across disciplines in the nation’s longest standing emotion research training program (also home to the country’s largest local farmers market). Applications are due on Friday, February 7,2025. emotion.wisc.edu
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbWant to see if your research has had an impact on public policy? Enter your info in SagePolicyProfiles to see the citations of your own publications in policy documents. You get a profile page. Here is mine as an example: policyprofiles.sagepub.com/profile/5920...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbA guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbComedy legend @daraobriain.bsky.social and award-winning science presenter @fryrsquared.bsky.social have teamed up with Essex Psychology's Dr Wijnand van Tilburg to explore the brilliance of boredom on their BBC Radio 4 Curious Cases podcast. You can listen now: www.essex.ac.uk/news/2024/11...
- Thank you @ayesharascoe.bsky.social and @npr.org for giving me the chance to talk about our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation www.npr.org/2024/11/24/n...
- Over the moon that our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation (recently published in Emotion, shorturl.at/YRS9d) was featured in ScientificAmerican @sciam.bsky.social. Thank you so much @RachelNuwer for the interview, and thank you Heather Lench for endorsing us.
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbI'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: psychologicalscience.org/publications/psycho… We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!
- Reposted by Sebastian Korb*TODAY IS THE DAY* It's your last chance to sign up to participate in the groundbreaking Perception Census project. Don't miss out :-) We close to new participants at the end of 31st October 2023. perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbMy lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbIs Predictive Coding Falsifiable? Great question, asked in this beautiful new paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Sebastian KorbNew preprint from @loseth.bsky.social, Martin Trøstheim & myself We asked how important endogenous opioids are for feeling connected to others osf.io/preprints/ps... Because opioids are so addictive, their use is restricted to pain relief - but their effects are notoriously variable & numerous
