More changes are afoot among the Psychonomics digital team: I am sad to say good-bye to Joachim Vandekerckhove. I am very pleased to announce that Taylor Curley has joined our team. I am equally pleased to announce that the Society has a further vacancy for a Digital Associate Editor, to be filled effective immediately.
Let’s check out those announcements in a bit more detail.
Joachim joined our team a little over a year ago, after first contributing to the Digital Event on Bayesian statistics (#BayesInPsych) in February 2018. Joachim contributed 6 posts to the Featured Content section, all tackling some important methodological or statistical issue. I think the posts are leading candidates for use in teaching through our “learning groups” feature.
Thank you Joachim for being part of the team. It was terrific to have you on board.
Welcome to Taylor Curley
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Taylor Curley to the team. Taylor is a 5th-year graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Along with a long-time member of the Society, Dr. Chris Hertzog, he studies how decisions about memory change (or don’t!) across the lifespan. More recently, he has been using computational models to better understand how memory and metamemory processes may differ between young and older adults.
One a more personal note, Taylor is “absolutely obsessed” (his words, not mine) with tennis and plays in Atlanta’s competitive tennis league (ALTA) year round. Taylor has been involved with psychological research his entire life: he has an identical twin brother, and some very eager researchers frequently contacted them (well, their parents actually) as soon as the boys came back from the hospital. They never went in for any experiments, but the parents did participate in a couple of questionnaires. It’s entirely possible that those researchers were, or still are, members of the Psychonomic Society.
Looking for another team member
It’s terrific to have Taylor on board, but we don’t have to stop there—the Society has room for more team members and at this point we are looking for at least one more Digital Associate Editor. If you are interested in engaging with the community or the public at large, this is your chance to extend your skills from academic writing to a different—but no less rigorous—style. Please get in touch with me if you are interested, or feel free to nominate someone else whom I should reach out to.
