{ "categories": [ { "name": "Research", "count": 6 }, { "name": "Thoughts", "count": 12 }, { "name": "Methods", "count": 15 }, { "name": "Lab", "count": 12 }, { "name": "Awards", "count": 13 }, { "name": "Media", "count": 4 } ], "posts": [ { "slug": "2026-facets-of-reality", "title": "Facets of Reality πŸ’Ž", "subtitle": "A first attempt at organising the many things we mean when we say that something is, or is not, \"real\".", "date": "2026-11-05", "summary": "\"Real\" can be the opposite of imagined, fabricated, AI-generated or simulated: the word does a lot of work. Here we introduce some terms describing its different facets.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": true, "image": "news/2026-facets-of-reality/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-facets-of-reality/post.json", "base": "news/2026-facets-of-reality/", "words": 1030, "minutes": 5 }, { "slug": "2026-udo-of-aachen", "title": "The Monk who discovered the Mandelbrot fractal", "subtitle": "Udo of Aachen, a 13th-century Benedictine, and the fractal he drew seven centuries too early.", "date": "2026-10-23", "summary": "A 13th-century monk set out to calculate who would reach heaven, and ended up drawing the Mandelbrot set by hand, seven hundred years before computers. The story of Udo of Aachen.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-udo-of-aachen/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-udo-of-aachen/post.json", "base": "news/2026-udo-of-aachen/", "words": 1520, "minutes": 7 }, { "slug": "2026-oliver-collins-jra-award", "title": "πŸ† Oliver Collins wins People's Choice Award at 2026 JRA Poster Exhibition", "subtitle": "", "date": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Oliver Collins, final-year student and research assistant, has been awarded the People's Choice Award at the Junior Research Assistant (JRA) Poster Exhibition.", "authors": [ { "name": "Oliver Collins", "folder": "oliver-collins", "avatar": "people/oliver-collins/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-oliver-collins-jra-award/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-oliver-collins-jra-award/post.json", "base": "news/2026-oliver-collins-jra-award/", "words": 86, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2026-lighthouse-plots", "title": "Lighthouse plots: shining a light on differences", "subtitle": "Why overlapping confidence intervals say little about a difference, and what to draw instead.", "date": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Two confidence intervals can overlap heavily while the difference between them is overwhelming. Lighthouse plots draw that difference directly, which is super useful for marginal contrasts.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-lighthouse-plots/featured.gif", "file": "news/2026-lighthouse-plots/post.json", "base": "news/2026-lighthouse-plots/", "words": 1114, "minutes": 5 }, { "slug": "2026-oliver-collins-talk", "title": "Oliver Collins Presents the Illusion Game to the Sussex Centre for Sensory and Perceptual Diversity", "subtitle": "", "date": "2026-10-07", "summary": "Oliver Collins, final-year undergraduate and Research Assistant, presented the lab's work on visual illusions at the Autumn Meeting of the Sussex Centre for Sensory and Perceptual Diversity.", "authors": [ { "name": "Oliver Collins", "folder": "oliver-collins", "avatar": "people/oliver-collins/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-oliver-collins-talk/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-oliver-collins-talk/post.json", "base": "news/2026-oliver-collins-talk/", "words": 136, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2026-apaquasi", "title": "apaquasi: a Quarto template for good-looking preprints", "subtitle": "", "date": "2026-09-28", "summary": "We released apaquasi, a Quarto template that keeps the machinery of APA formatting but gives preprints and manuscripts a styled, information-rich first page.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-apaquasi/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-apaquasi/post.json", "base": "news/2026-apaquasi/", "words": 168, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2026-evidence-accumulation-widget", "title": "An interactive tool to visualize Evidence Accumulation Models", "subtitle": "We made an interactive widget tool to see what the parameters of sequential sampling models actually do, and how the models relate to one another.", "date": "2026-09-16", "summary": "We made an interactive widget tool to see what the parameters of sequential sampling models actually do, and how the models relate to one another.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-evidence-accumulation-widget/featured.gif", "file": "news/2026-evidence-accumulation-widget/post.json", "base": "news/2026-evidence-accumulation-widget/", "words": 164, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2026-university-after-ai", "title": "The End of the Glorified Adulescent Childcare? On the Future of Universities after the AI Apocalypse", "subtitle": "By making teaching abundant and assessment obsolete, AI may force universities to rediscover what only people can provide.", "date": "2026-09-15", "summary": "AI threatens two of the university's traditional functions at once: teaching and certification. The future university may look like its recent past, smaller-scale, elitist, and focused on Human interactions. For better or for worse.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-university-after-ai/featured.gif", "file": "news/2026-university-after-ai/post.json", "base": "news/2026-university-after-ai/", "words": 819, "minutes": 4 }, { "slug": "2026-rolling-the-bones", "title": "Rolling the Bones: Divination as a Randomness-Harnessing Process", "subtitle": "", "date": "2026-09-08", "summary": "What if divination wasn't about finding order, but about embracing chaos? And how was that useful for our ancestors' survival.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-rolling-the-bones/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-rolling-the-bones/post.json", "base": "news/2026-rolling-the-bones/", "words": 1950, "minutes": 9 }, { "slug": "2026-skeptic-agnostic-believer", "title": "The ABS Bayesian Priors Framework (Agnostic, Believer, Skeptic)", "subtitle": "Current frameworks classifying priors, such as \"Informative vs. non-informative\", conflate various things. The ABS framework might help thinking about Bayesian priors.", "date": "2026-09-03", "summary": "A new paper in Frontiers in Psychology lays priors out on two independent axes: where they sit relative to the effect you expect (skeptic, agnostic, believer) and how tightly they hold (flat to narrow).", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-skeptic-agnostic-believer/featured.gif", "file": "news/2026-skeptic-agnostic-believer/post.json", "base": "news/2026-skeptic-agnostic-believer/", "words": 1003, "minutes": 5 }, { "slug": "2026-oliver-collins-jra-scholarship", "title": "πŸŽ‰ Oliver Collins awarded a Junior Research Assistant scholarship", "subtitle": "", "date": "2026-07-01", "summary": "Oliver Collins, 2nd year student, has been awarded the Junior Research Assistant (JRA) scholarship for a project on illusions and bodily states.", "authors": [ { "name": "Oliver Collins", "folder": "oliver-collins", "avatar": "people/oliver-collins/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-oliver-collins-jra-scholarship/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-oliver-collins-jra-scholarship/post.json", "base": "news/2026-oliver-collins-jra-scholarship/", "words": 61, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2026-escan-symposium-artificial-emotion", "title": "Artificial Emotion: Our Symposium at ESCAN 2026", "subtitle": "Four talks on how people feel about, and with, artificial intelligence, organised with Marco Sperduti in Rome.", "date": "2026-06-06", "summary": "At the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience meeting in Rome, we organised a symposium with Marco Sperduti on affective responses to AI: from AI-labelled faces and artworks to social robots and interactive artificial agents.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-escan-symposium-artificial-emotion/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-escan-symposium-artificial-emotion/post.json", "base": "news/2026-escan-symposium-artificial-emotion/", "words": 511, "minutes": 2 }, { "slug": "2026-emma-benn-sage-prize", "title": "πŸŽ‰ Emma Benn wins the SAGE Publications Prize", "subtitle": "", "date": "2026-06-01", "summary": "Emma Benn, 3rd year dissertation student, has won the SAGE Publications Prize for Outstanding Application of Statistical Methods.", "authors": [ { "name": "Emma Benn", "folder": "emma-benn", "avatar": "people/emma-benn/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-emma-benn-sage-prize/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-emma-benn-sage-prize/post.json", "base": "news/2026-emma-benn-sage-prize/", "words": 54, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2026-cognitive-elegance", "title": "Barely Knowing Anything: On Taste, Judgment, and Cognitive Elegance in the Age of AI", "subtitle": "", "date": "2026-05-29", "summary": "As AI drives down the cost of generating solutions, the critical skill bercomes 'Cognitive Elegance': the internalized capacity for clear vision and confident judgments.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": true, "image": "news/2026-cognitive-elegance/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2026-cognitive-elegance/post.json", "base": "news/2026-cognitive-elegance/", "words": 1264, "minutes": 6 }, { "slug": "2026-event-triggers", "title": "How to send event triggers to Lab Streaming Layer from JsPsych", "subtitle": "Understand the steps involving in setting up event triggers for your JsPsych experiments, including creating the bridge to Lab Streaming Layer, ensuring synchronisation with other signals and highly accurate timestamps.", "date": "2026-01-11", "summary": "Understand the steps involving in setting up event triggers for your JsPsych experiments, including creating the bridge to Lab Streaming Layer, ensuring synchronisation with other signals and highly accurate timestamps.", "authors": [ { "name": "RΓ³isΓ­n Sharma", "folder": "roisin-sharma", "avatar": "people/roisin-sharma/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2026-event-triggers/featured.png", "file": "news/2026-event-triggers/post.json", "base": "news/2026-event-triggers/", "words": 1810, "minutes": 8 }, { "slug": "2025-interoception-questionnaires", "title": "What is the Best Interoception Questionnaire?", "subtitle": "", "date": "2025-12-20", "summary": "There are many self-report interoception scales out there- but which one should you pick? Let's discuss the pros and cons of each.", "authors": [ { "name": "RΓ³isΓ­n Sharma", "folder": "roisin-sharma", "avatar": "people/roisin-sharma/avatar.jpg" }, { "name": "Oliver Collins", "folder": "oliver-collins", "avatar": "people/oliver-collins/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Research", "featured": true, "image": "news/2025-interoception-questionnaires/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2025-interoception-questionnaires/post.json", "base": "news/2025-interoception-questionnaires/", "words": 1438, "minutes": 7 }, { "slug": "2025-dystopian-futures", "title": "From physique to intellect... and back again?", "subtitle": "How the AI revolution might change societal selective pressures to favour natural beauty as the next prized characteristic.", "date": "2025-11-03", "summary": "How the AI revolution might change societal selective pressures to favour natural beauty as the next prized characteristic.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": false, "image": "news/2025-dystopian-futures/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2025-dystopian-futures/post.json", "base": "news/2025-dystopian-futures/", "words": 947, "minutes": 4 }, { "slug": "2025-ai-revolution-academia", "title": "The AI revolution in academia: I see a silver lining for young scientists!", "subtitle": "", "date": "2025-09-08", "summary": "For many students and early-career researchers, the rise of AI is scary. What's the future of research careers in the age of AI?", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": false, "image": "news/2025-ai-revolution-academia/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2025-ai-revolution-academia/post.json", "base": "news/2025-ai-revolution-academia/", "words": 537, "minutes": 2 }, { "slug": "2025-ai-faces-in-the-news", "title": "Attractiveness shapes beliefs about whether faces are real or AI-generated, study finds", "subtitle": "", "date": "2025-07-07", "summary": "Our recent paper on facial attractiveness and reality beliefs is in the news.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Media", "featured": false, "image": "news/2025-ai-faces-in-the-news/featured.webp", "file": "news/2025-ai-faces-in-the-news/post.json", "base": "news/2025-ai-faces-in-the-news/", "words": 25, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2025-datapipe-osf", "title": "How to collect and save data with DataPipe in OSF", "subtitle": "Learn how to set up DataPipe to collect and save data in OSF, including creating an OSF project, linking it to DataPipe, configuring data collection, and saving data from an experiment hosted on GitHub.", "date": "2025-07-02", "summary": "Learn how to set up DataPipe to collect and save data in OSF, including creating an OSF project, linking it to DataPipe, configuring data collection, and saving data from an experiment hosted on GitHub.", "authors": [ { "name": "Ana Neves", "folder": "ana-neves", "avatar": "people/ana-neves/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2025-datapipe-osf/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2025-datapipe-osf/post.json", "base": "news/2025-datapipe-osf/", "words": 821, "minutes": 4 }, { "slug": "2025-eva-mala-socobio-internship", "title": "πŸŽ‰ Eva Mala awarded a SoCoBio summer internship", "subtitle": "", "date": "2025-07-01", "summary": "Eva Mala has been awarded a SoCoBio Summer Internship scholarship to work with the lab.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2025-eva-mala-socobio-internship/featured.png", "file": "news/2025-eva-mala-socobio-internship/post.json", "base": "news/2025-eva-mala-socobio-internship/", "words": 60, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2025-sam-marine-nhs-prize", "title": "πŸŽ‰ Sam Marine wins the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Prize", "subtitle": "", "date": "2025-06-01", "summary": "Sam Marine, 3rd year dissertation student, has won the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Prize for the highest project mark.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2025-sam-marine-nhs-prize/featured.png", "file": "news/2025-sam-marine-nhs-prize/post.json", "base": "news/2025-sam-marine-nhs-prize/", "words": 55, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2024-breaking-barriers-reproducibility", "title": "Breaking Barriers to Reproducibility", "subtitle": "An interview for the University of Sussex's research culture impact cases, following the Openness in Research Award.", "date": "2024-12-17", "summary": "Dr Dominique Makowski is featured in the University of Sussex's research culture impact cases, talking about open science, the software that makes it easier, and what still stands in its way.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Media", "featured": false, "image": "news/2024-breaking-barriers-reproducibility/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2024-breaking-barriers-reproducibility/post.json", "base": "news/2024-breaking-barriers-reproducibility/", "words": 86, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2024-most-cited-researcher", "title": "πŸ… Most cited researcher in the School of Psychology", "subtitle": "", "date": "2024-12-01", "summary": "Over the past year, Dominique Makowski's work has been the most cited in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2024-most-cited-researcher/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2024-most-cited-researcher/post.json", "base": "news/2024-most-cited-researcher/", "words": 83, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2024-outstanding-supervision-award", "title": "πŸ† Outstanding Student Supervision Award", "subtitle": "", "date": "2024-09-16", "summary": "Dominique Makowski has won the University of Sussex School of Psychology's 2024 Award for Outstanding Student Supervision.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2024-outstanding-supervision-award/featured.jpeg", "file": "news/2024-outstanding-supervision-award/post.json", "base": "news/2024-outstanding-supervision-award/", "words": 97, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2024-rob-dickinson-impact-award", "title": "πŸŽ‰ Rob Dickinson wins the Adam Weiler Impact Award", "subtitle": "", "date": "2024-09-01", "summary": "Rob Dickinson, PhD student, has won the Adam Weiler Impact Award.", "authors": [ { "name": "Rob Dickinson", "folder": "rob-dickinson", "avatar": "people/rob-dickinson/avatar.png" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2024-rob-dickinson-impact-award/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2024-rob-dickinson-impact-award/post.json", "base": "news/2024-rob-dickinson-impact-award/", "words": 39, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2024-sips-mission-award-neurokit", "title": "πŸŽ‰ NeuroKit receives a SIPS Commendation", "subtitle": "", "date": "2024-07-01", "summary": "The NeuroKit Python package has received a Commendation from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS).", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2024-sips-mission-award-neurokit/featured.png", "file": "news/2024-sips-mission-award-neurokit/post.json", "base": "news/2024-sips-mission-award-neurokit/", "words": 71, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2024-research-culture-award", "title": "πŸ’· Openness in Research Award, Sussex Research Culture Awards", "subtitle": "", "date": "2024-06-01", "summary": "Dominique Makowski has won the Openness in Research Award at the University of Sussex's 2024 Research Culture Awards, carrying a Β£1,000 prize.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2024-research-culture-award/featured.jpeg", "file": "news/2024-research-culture-award/post.json", "base": "news/2024-research-culture-award/", "words": 99, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2024-open-science-sustainability-debate", "title": "Open science vs. sustainability: a debate at the BNA Members' Meeting", "subtitle": "Dominique Makowski was invited as the open science champion to the BNA's green neuroscience debate.", "date": "2024-04-24", "summary": "A BNA Members' Meeting debate pitted sustainable neuroscience against open neuroscience. My position: raw data is what we should not trade away.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Media", "featured": false, "image": "news/2024-open-science-sustainability-debate/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2024-open-science-sustainability-debate/post.json", "base": "news/2024-open-science-sustainability-debate/", "words": 425, "minutes": 2 }, { "slug": "2024-mres-tips", "title": "Sussex Psychological Methods MRes: Tips and Advice", "subtitle": "", "date": "2024-03-19", "summary": "Ola! I'm Ana. The time has come to share my experience of doing a research masters in psychological methods at the University of Sussex", "authors": [ { "name": "Ana Neves", "folder": "ana-neves", "avatar": "people/ana-neves/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2024-mres-tips/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2024-mres-tips/post.json", "base": "news/2024-mres-tips/", "words": 1112, "minutes": 5 }, { "slug": "2024-task-reliability", "title": "How to Assess Task Reliability using Bayesian Mixed Models", "subtitle": "", "date": "2024-03-18", "summary": "Task reliability in assessing inter-individual differences is a key issue for differential psychology and neuropsychology.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2024-task-reliability/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2024-task-reliability/post.json", "base": "news/2024-task-reliability/", "words": 1320, "minutes": 6 }, { "slug": "2023-jra-experience", "title": "Junior Research Assistant (JRA) at Sussex: is it worth it?", "subtitle": "", "date": "2023-11-02", "summary": "I worked as a Psychology JRA during summer 2023 at the Reality Bending Lab. Here is how it went.", "authors": [ { "name": "Jingxiong Xu", "folder": "", "avatar": "" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2023-jra-experience/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2023-jra-experience/post.json", "base": "news/2023-jra-experience/", "words": 597, "minutes": 3 }, { "slug": "2023-ohbm-brainart", "title": "Unicity through Complexity: EEG attractors at the OHBM BrainArt exhibition", "subtitle": "Two 1.5m canvases of resting brain activity, one neurotypical and one neuroatypical, to illustrate Unicity and Diversity", "date": "2023-07-24", "summary": "My art project NeuropsyXart was selected for the 2023 Brain Art Exhibition at OHBM in MontrΓ©al!", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2023-ohbm-brainart/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2023-ohbm-brainart/post.json", "base": "news/2023-ohbm-brainart/", "words": 470, "minutes": 2 }, { "slug": "2023-sips-mission-award-easystats", "title": "πŸŽ‰ easystats wins a SIPS Mission Award", "subtitle": "", "date": "2023-07-01", "summary": "The easystats collection of R packages has won a Mission Award from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS).", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2023-sips-mission-award-easystats/featured.png", "file": "news/2023-sips-mission-award-easystats/post.json", "base": "news/2023-sips-mission-award-easystats/", "words": 84, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2023-affective-reality-theory", "title": "How do we know what is real? The 'Affective Reality Theory", "subtitle": "", "date": "2023-04-11", "summary": "The Affective Reality Theory posits that affective reactions are key to the formation of reality beliefs.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Research", "featured": true, "image": "news/2023-affective-reality-theory/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2023-affective-reality-theory/post.json", "base": "news/2023-affective-reality-theory/", "words": 1092, "minutes": 5 }, { "slug": "2023-chatgpt-personality", "title": "I got ChatGPT to do a personality test. You won't believe what happened next!", "subtitle": "Following my previous blog post about including AIs in psychological experiments, I proceeded to do a small experiment to see whether we could administer a personality scale to ChatGPT.", "date": "2023-04-06", "summary": "Following my previous blog post about including AIs in psychological experiments, I proceeded to do a small experiment to see whether we could administer a personality scale to ChatGPT.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Research", "featured": false, "image": "news/2023-chatgpt-personality/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2023-chatgpt-personality/post.json", "base": "news/2023-chatgpt-personality/", "words": 306, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2023-ai-participants", "title": "We should treat AIs like Human participants in psychological experiments", "subtitle": "A lot of diverse and interesting perspectives have been recently discussed in regards to chatGPT and AGI, but there is one opinion that I found particularly relevant that I wanted to expand on.", "date": "2023-04-05", "summary": "A lot of diverse and interesting perspectives have been recently discussed in regards to chatGPT and AGI, but there is one opinion that I found particularly relevant that I wanted to expand on.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": false, "image": "news/2023-ai-participants/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2023-ai-participants/post.json", "base": "news/2023-ai-participants/", "words": 651, "minutes": 3 }, { "slug": "2023-cyphers-complex", "title": "When fiction is better than reality: Cypher's Complex", "subtitle": "Ever felt like reality was dull as compared to a fictional world? You might have experienced Cypher's Complex", "date": "2023-02-07", "summary": "Ever felt like reality was dull as compared to a fictional world? You might have experienced Cypher's Complex", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": true, "image": "news/2023-cyphers-complex/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2023-cyphers-complex/post.json", "base": "news/2023-cyphers-complex/", "words": 489, "minutes": 2 }, { "slug": "2023-new-logo", "title": "New location and new logo!", "subtitle": "The Reality Bending Lab is moving to the UK, and we're revealing the new logo to celebrate its official start!", "date": "2023-02-01", "summary": "The Reality Bending Lab is moving to the UK, and we're revealing the new logo to celebrate its official start!", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": true, "image": "news/2023-new-logo/featured.png", "file": "news/2023-new-logo/post.json", "base": "news/2023-new-logo/", "words": 414, "minutes": 2 }, { "slug": "2022-signal-complexity", "title": "About signal complexity", "subtitle": "We recently did a bit of groundwork to better understand how to use signal complexity in neurophysiology.", "date": "2022-12-05", "summary": "We recently did a bit of groundwork to better understand how to use signal complexity in neurophysiology.", "authors": [ { "name": "Stephanie Kirk", "folder": "stephanie-kirk", "avatar": "people/stephanie-kirk/avatar.png" } ], "category": "Research", "featured": false, "image": "news/2022-signal-complexity/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2022-signal-complexity/post.json", "base": "news/2022-signal-complexity/", "words": 180, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2022-neurokit-020", "title": "NeuroKit2 0.2.0 is out πŸŽ‰", "subtitle": "NeuroKit2 0.2.0 is out with a brand new website and documentation!", "date": "2022-05-18", "summary": "NeuroKit2 0.2.0 is out with a brand new website and documentation!", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2022-neurokit-020/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2022-neurokit-020/post.json", "base": "news/2022-neurokit-020/", "words": 142, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2022-learn-bayesian-stats-podcast", "title": "Podcast 'Learn Bayesian Stats' with Dominique Makowski", "subtitle": "In the latest episode of the 'Learning Bayesian Statistics' podcast, we talk about R, Python, Reality Bending and more!", "date": "2022-02-01", "summary": "In the latest episode of the 'Learning Bayesian Statistics' podcast, we talk about R, Python, Reality Bending and more!", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Media", "featured": false, "image": "news/2022-learn-bayesian-stats-podcast/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2022-learn-bayesian-stats-podcast/post.json", "base": "news/2022-learn-bayesian-stats-podcast/", "words": 43, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2021-pyllusion-published", "title": "Pyllusion has been published", "subtitle": "Pyllusion, the software for creating illusions in Python, has been published.", "date": "2021-11-30", "summary": "Pyllusion, the software for creating illusions in Python, has been published.", "authors": [ { "name": "An-Shu Te", "folder": "anshu-te", "avatar": "people/anshu-te/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2021-pyllusion-published/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2021-pyllusion-published/post.json", "base": "news/2021-pyllusion-published/", "words": 132, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2021-neurokit-015-complexity", "title": "NeuroKit2 0.1.5 'Complexity' is out πŸŽ‰", "subtitle": "NeuroKit2 0.1.5 is out with greater support for complexity analysis of neurophysiological signals.", "date": "2021-11-12", "summary": "NeuroKit2 0.1.5 is out with greater support for complexity analysis of neurophysiological signals.", "authors": [ { "name": "Zen J. Lau", "folder": "zen-juen", "avatar": "people/zen-juen/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2021-neurokit-015-complexity/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2021-neurokit-015-complexity/post.json", "base": "news/2021-neurokit-015-complexity/", "words": 192, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2021-sample-too-small", "title": "\"Your sample is too small\": How to Answer to Reviewers", "subtitle": "What to do and what to write when the sample cannot be increased.", "date": "2021-11-05", "summary": "Reviewers, ethics committees and funders all ask for a justification of the sample size. What can you do when more participants are not an option.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": true, "image": "news/2021-sample-too-small/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2021-sample-too-small/post.json", "base": "news/2021-sample-too-small/", "words": 1361, "minutes": 6 }, { "slug": "2021-sync-github-repos", "title": "How to sync two folders in two separate GitHub repositories", "subtitle": "Say you have a repo A, in which you want to duplicate some content with repo B.", "date": "2021-10-31", "summary": "Say you have a repo A, in which you want to duplicate some content with repo B. You can do that easily using GitHub actions.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2021-sync-github-repos/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2021-sync-github-repos/post.json", "base": "news/2021-sync-github-repos/", "words": 264, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2021-logo-symbolism", "title": "The symbolism behind the ReBeL logo", "subtitle": "Can you guess all the hidden symbols and elements present in our logo?", "date": "2021-06-30", "summary": "Can you guess all the hidden symbols and elements present in our logo?", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2021-logo-symbolism/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2021-logo-symbolism/post.json", "base": "news/2021-logo-symbolism/", "words": 510, "minutes": 2 }, { "slug": "2021-share-analysis-scripts", "title": "How to share data analysis scripts with publications?", "subtitle": "Including data analysis as Supplementary Materials can be a tedious task.", "date": "2021-02-10", "summary": "Including data analysis as Supplementary Materials can be a tedious task. How can we simplify the sharing of our work? So that it can be fully appreciated, as well as evaluated, improved, worked on, in a transparent and open way?", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": false, "image": "news/2021-share-analysis-scripts/featured.gif", "file": "news/2021-share-analysis-scripts/post.json", "base": "news/2021-share-analysis-scripts/", "words": 657, "minutes": 3 }, { "slug": "2021-visual-agnosia", "title": "What visual agnosia might feel like", "subtitle": "Can you name one thing in this photo? It all looks familiar, but something is off.", "date": "2021-01-03", "summary": "Can you name one thing in this photo? It all looks familiar, but something is off.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Research", "featured": false, "image": "news/2021-visual-agnosia/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2021-visual-agnosia/post.json", "base": "news/2021-visual-agnosia/", "words": 569, "minutes": 3 }, { "slug": "2020-time-as-a-computational-limit", "title": "Time as a computational limit", "subtitle": "", "date": "2020-11-13", "summary": "Note: this is a thought-experiment, not to be taken too seriously.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-time-as-a-computational-limit/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-time-as-a-computational-limit/post.json", "base": "news/2020-time-as-a-computational-limit/", "words": 1617, "minutes": 7 }, { "slug": "2020-psychonomic-best-article-award", "title": "πŸ… Best Article Award, Psychonomic Society", "subtitle": "", "date": "2020-11-01", "summary": "Makowski et al. (2019) has won the Psychonomic Society's Best Article Award, carrying a $1,000 prize.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-psychonomic-best-article-award/featured.png", "file": "news/2020-psychonomic-best-article-award/post.json", "base": "news/2020-psychonomic-best-article-award/", "words": 91, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2020-what-is-reality-bending", "title": "What is Reality Bending?", "subtitle": "", "date": "2020-09-28", "summary": "As you know, reality bending is my primary research direction. However, it is not (yet) a well-established scientific topic, nor is it clearly defined. In fact, it is not defined…", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Lab", "featured": true, "image": "news/2020-what-is-reality-bending/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-what-is-reality-bending/post.json", "base": "news/2020-what-is-reality-bending/", "words": 599, "minutes": 3 }, { "slug": "2020-individual-scores", "title": "How to extract individual scores from repeated measures", "subtitle": "We compare different methods (individual models, Bayesian models with informative priors, random effects from mixed models) to extract individual scores from repeated measures tasks.", "date": "2020-09-14", "summary": "We compare different methods (individual models, Bayesian models with informative priors, random effects from mixed models) to extract individual scores from repeated measures tasks.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Research", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-individual-scores/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-individual-scores/post.json", "base": "news/2020-individual-scores/", "words": 1128, "minutes": 5 }, { "slug": "2020-what-is-neuropsychology", "title": "What is neuropsychology?", "subtitle": "In which I discuss the place of neuropsychology in the galaxy of sciences, its structure and its definition.", "date": "2020-09-13", "summary": "In which I discuss the place of neuropsychology in the galaxy of sciences, its structure and its definition.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-what-is-neuropsychology/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-what-is-neuropsychology/post.json", "base": "news/2020-what-is-neuropsychology/", "words": 1331, "minutes": 6 }, { "slug": "2020-sips-commendation-bayestestr", "title": "πŸŽ‰ bayestestR receives a SIPS Commendation", "subtitle": "", "date": "2020-07-01", "summary": "The bayestestR R package has received a Commendation from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS).", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Awards", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-sips-commendation-bayestestr/featured.png", "file": "news/2020-sips-commendation-bayestestr/post.json", "base": "news/2020-sips-commendation-bayestestr/", "words": 87, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2020-github-for-psychologists", "title": "Why psychologists should join GitHub", "subtitle": "Top reasons why engaging into GitHub will give you the edge and benefit psychological science.", "date": "2020-05-27", "summary": "Top reasons why engaging into GitHub will give you the edge and benefit psychological science.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-github-for-psychologists/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-github-for-psychologists/post.json", "base": "news/2020-github-for-psychologists/", "words": 1759, "minutes": 8 }, { "slug": "2020-r-or-python", "title": "R or Python for Psychologists", "subtitle": "Most psychology students or researchers are faced with the challenge of learning a programming language. Which one should you pick?", "date": "2020-05-22", "summary": "Most psychology students or researchers are faced with the challenge of learning a programming language. Which one should you pick?", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-r-or-python/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-r-or-python/post.json", "base": "news/2020-r-or-python/", "words": 1799, "minutes": 8 }, { "slug": "2020-analyze-reaction-times", "title": "How to correctly analyze reaction time (RT) data", "subtitle": "Most researchers use the normal distribution to model reaction times, but it's wrong! Discover how to perform a good analysis of RT data.", "date": "2020-05-18", "summary": "Most researchers use the normal distribution to model reaction times, but it's wrong! Discover how to perform a good analysis of RT data.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-analyze-reaction-times/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-analyze-reaction-times/post.json", "base": "news/2020-analyze-reaction-times/", "words": 139, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2020-python-mandelbrot", "title": "One Python code line for a Mandelbrot fractal", "subtitle": "Create a Mandelbrot or Buddhabrot fractal in Python using NeuroKit.", "date": "2020-05-16", "summary": "Create a Mandelbrot or Buddhabrot fractal in Python using NeuroKit.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-python-mandelbrot/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-python-mandelbrot/post.json", "base": "news/2020-python-mandelbrot/", "words": 159, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2020-defence-of-95-ci", "title": "In defence of the 95% CI", "subtitle": "The one where I discuss arguments in favour of 95% instead of alternatives like 90 or 89%.", "date": "2020-05-15", "summary": "The one where I discuss arguments in favour of 95% instead of alternatives like 90 or 89%.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Thoughts", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-defence-of-95-ci/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-defence-of-95-ci/post.json", "base": "news/2020-defence-of-95-ci/", "words": 85, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2020-intro-bayesian-stats-r", "title": "Introduction to Bayesian statistics with R", "subtitle": "A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics with R for people not familiar with any of these.", "date": "2020-05-14", "summary": "A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics with R for people not familiar with any of these.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2020-intro-bayesian-stats-r/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2020-intro-bayesian-stats-r/post.json", "base": "news/2020-intro-bayesian-stats-r/", "words": 74, "minutes": 1 }, { "slug": "2019-simulate-ecg", "title": "Generate an artificial ECG signal in Python", "subtitle": "Simulate a synthetic but realistic ECG signal in Python using NeuroKit.", "date": "2019-05-17", "summary": "Simulate a synthetic but realistic ECG signal in Python using NeuroKit.", "authors": [ { "name": "Dominique Makowski", "folder": "dominique-makowski", "avatar": "people/dominique-makowski/avatar.jpg" } ], "category": "Methods", "featured": false, "image": "news/2019-simulate-ecg/featured.jpg", "file": "news/2019-simulate-ecg/post.json", "base": "news/2019-simulate-ecg/", "words": 254, "minutes": 1 } ] }