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Contributors to psychopy/psychopy-docs Contribute to psychopy/psychopy-docs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Thanks to our new contributors from the Women In Cognitive Science community today!

Helping to improve our documentation in our "My First Pull Request" workshop 🙏

github.com/psychopy/psy...

git explained by cats 😹💻. #cat #develop #coding #fyp #cat

Want to contribute to #OpenSource but don't know where to start with #git?

Here is a fantastic primer to git for your enjoyment. #codingkitty

And remember, PsychoPy is an Open Source community driven tool - contributions are welcome!

www.youtube.com/shorts/fQ2xs...

📣 PsychoPy Studio is out now!!

✨ Which also means swish new branding on psychopy.org ✨

We really hope that this improves user experience in general.

Please download and try it. Let us know how you get on via the forum discourse.psychopy.org/t/introducin...

Official Virtual PsychoPy Workshop 2026 April 21st-24th Get started learning PsychoPy with the team that make the tools.

🦆 Good morning early birds... (depending on your timezone...)

Early bird registration for our Official PsychoPy Workshop (Virtual) ends this Friday (27th).

Details and registration below 👇

www.eventbrite.com/e/official-v...

Ambassador Story: Creating Experiments with PsychoPy and Pavlovia at ACNS 2025 In August 2024, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Hirst at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). During this time, I expressed my genuine enthusiasm for PsychoPy, and…

A big thank you to @brainboyben.bsky.social for running our first PsychoPy workshop at ACNS in November!

Would you like to run a workshop in Australia? Find out about our Ambassador Scheme and read about Bens experience 👇

Official Virtual PsychoPy Workshop 2026 April 21st-24th Get started learning PsychoPy with the team that make the tools.

Due to unforeseen popularity 🙊 ...

We are holding a second virtual workshop in April.

Tickets are now available! 👇

www.eventbrite.com/e/official-v...

PsychoPy Studio: the app we love, reimagined It’s now over 20 years since PsychoPy’s humble beginnings as an open-source Python library to help users present high-precision stimuli and collect responses from participants. Since 2009 PsychoPy…

We're getting excited... just putting the finishing touches to
**PsychoPy Studio**

This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron.

Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter
🎉 🚀

blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...

👩‍💻 We're commemorating Women's Month with @wicseurope.bsky.social 🧠

As part of their Building Inclusive Computational Skills initiative, you can sign up to PsychoPy training every Wednesday in March.

Find out more 👉️ workshops.psychopy.org#women-in-cog...

#DiversityInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #PsychoPy

Home — Workshops

So… our virtual workshop was WAY more popular than expected 😅...and sold out.

SO we’re running it again the following week! 🎉 (April 21–24, 2026)

Tickets will be available Friday 13th

We appreciate you valuing our training and using PsychoPy in your research❤️

Official Virtual PsychoPy Workshop 2026 Get started learning PsychoPy with the team that make the tools.

Happy New Year everyone (we can still say that right?)

New year... New workshops to announce...

🗓️ April 14th - 17th
🌐 Online format
🎓 Provides the equivalent of 2 full day post graduate level training.
🎟 Early Bird tickets until Feb

Details here

Pavlovia maintenance on 27 Dec 2025 We are planning an essential update to Pavlovia on 27 December 2025. This is necessary as part of our ongoing security updates and usually such updates have minimal impact on users but, on this…

🚧 Planned Pavlovia Maintenance – December 27th 🚧

During this time Pavlovia Servers will be offline. You may need to update old PsychoPy releases to continue smooth syncing to Pavlovia - see this discourse post for details.
discourse.psychopy.org/t/pavlovia-m...

Thanks for your patience 🙏

Looking for PsychoPy training? or help getting an experiment ready?

Did you know you can hire us to run custom training or create tasks for you?

Find out more here workshops.psychopy.org

🙏 Thank you to those who have shared testimonials of our workshops!

Modern OLED displays for vision science Hello PsychoPy forum users, I know this topic comes up every so often in different lists, but to my surprise there doesn’t seem to be a recent post on the topic on here. I am looking to purchase a…

Vision Scientist PsychoPy users, any feedback on experience with modern OLED displays for vision science? we would be interested to hear your feedback on this post!

Thank you!

discourse.psychopy.org/t/modern-ole...

🚀 New PsychoPy beta 2025.2.1 is out! Includes several bug fixes — full changelog here: github.com/psychopy/psy...

Please report any issues on the forum. Thanks for helping us keep improving PsychoPy! 🙏

🙏 Thank you for your testimonials!

It is great to hear PsychoPy being used in both research and teaching around the world 🌎

You can share your testimonial here www.psychopy.org/about/testim...

Join us for a 2 day bootcamp!

📅 Dec 16th/17th
📍 Nottingham
👩‍💻 Day 1 - Create experiments in PsychoPy and optimise for EEG
🧠 Day 2 - EEG data collection and ERP analysis strategies
ℹ️ Info and Ticket purchase shorturl.at/DVL8s

In collaboration with @ant-neuro.com

Calling all PhD students & early career researchers! Boost your EEG skills in Nottingham, Dec 16–17. Hands-on training with ANT Neuro, Open Science Tools & @psychopy.org. Register: eventbrite.com/e/1692116779839

#Neurotechnology #BrainResearch #ScienceTraining

🤔 Preparing Undergraduate students for their final year projects?

💡 Why not start with the range of template experiments at Pavlovia.org?

pavlovia.org/explore/demo...

You can download the experiment files directly and adapt for your own experiment!

#openscience #teaching #psychology

A woman stands at the front of a computer room full of students, she presents a slide that reads “introducing PsychoPy!”

A student works on a computer in a workshop, the screen displays an experiment being created in PsychoPy.

A group of happy smiling students look at the camera posing after their PsychoPy workshop.

Happy faces in this PsychoPy workshop at Mapua University in Manila run by @suelynnmah.bsky.social! 🇵🇭

Sue Lynn introduced students and faculty to PsychoPy for creating psychology experiments.

We love seeing PsychoPy being used around the world! 🌏

#psychology #research

✨ PsychoPy Tip ✨

Searching for a specific variable in your Builder experiment?

Did you know you can use "Find in Experiment" to quickly search for all places in your experiment a variable is used?

Making edits to PsychoPy’s documentation — PsychoPy v2025.2.1

🌐 If you think our documentation can be better (or even if you spot a typo!) did you know you can change them?

📝 Here's a guide to your first pull request and how you can change the PsychoPy docs

#OpenSource

psychopy.org/developers/a...

PsychoPy The forum for discussing all things PsychoPy; get help, post tips, send love!

Please report any issues on the forum discourse.psychopy.org

Example survey here run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...

For researchers running surveys in Right-to-Left (RTL) languages: this is now available as a beta feature in Pavlovia Surveys.

1️⃣ Create your survey in Pavlovia Surveys
2️⃣ In the survey URL, change the version to "2025.5"

This feature will appear on the dashboard soon.

Individual differences in visual attention: A short, reliable, open-source, and multilingual test of multiple object tracking in PsychoPy - Behavior Research Methods Individual differences in attentional abilities provide an interesting approach in studying visual attention as well as the relation of attention to other psychometric measures. However, recent…

Spotlighting researchers sharing open-source paradigms in PsychoPy! ✨

This week:
Individual differences in visual attention: A short, reliable, open-source, multilingual test of multiple object tracking in PsychoPy

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

#OpenScience #PsychologyResearch #Research

ACNS 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops - Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Sorry, this product is unavailable. Please choose a different combination.

Shout out to Australian researchers! 🇦🇺 (and folks in the southern hemisphere) 🌏

We're excited that our Ambassador Ben Lowe (@brainboyben.bsky.social) will be hosting a pre-conference workshop at #ACNS2025 (@acnsau.bsky.social) on getting started with PsychoPy!

Sign up here👇
shorturl.at/gvnUU

Home — PsychoPy®

🗓️ Save the date 👀

🗓️December 16th/17th

🧠 PsychoPy and EEG workshop, in partnership with @ant-neuro.com

📍 Nottingham (Venue confirmed soon)

Registration opens soon - sign up to expression of interest for details.

workshops.psychopy.org

Animals – Icelandic Vision Lab Icelandic Vision Lab

Did you know @icevislab.bsky.social have curated and shared a list of Animal visual stimuli?

Love finding lists like this when searching for visual stimuli for experiments 🦜 🐅 🐕

Thank you for sharing!

#reproducible #science #openscience #replication #open

Blown away by the resources PsychoPy users share! 🌍 Love seeing training materials in many languages. Huge shoutout to Marcos Lima for 70+ videos in Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷👏 shorturl.at/oCSMI

Who suggested the fun game of "can we make this in 10 minutes" ?...😅

Another neat demo from the #ESCOP2025 booth

✍️ Writing distraction task.

Show a word to type
Interrupt typing with distraction ⭐
Ask to continue typing...

run.pavlovia.org/demos/writin...