As we approach a new academic year—at least in the northern hemisphere—there have been some changes on the digital team.

Richard Morey has decided to withdraw from the team owing to his other editorial commitments. We are sad to see Richard go because he has been doing a terrific job covering the areas of methodology and statistics, with a particular emphasis on Bayesian techniques. In addition, Richard has contributed much behind the scenes at various conferences and meetings, and his last post covered the problems with all-male panels.

This last post is worth reading because it contains helpful hints for how one can avoid all-male panels (although you then miss out on the badge). Thanks for the great work, Richard, and we look forward to your future contributions to the field and the Society.

I am very pleased that we have been able to appoint two new Digital Associate Editors (DAEs), which means we now have 7 active DAEs (in addition to 2 who are on parental leave but will eventually rejoin the team):

Joachim Vandekerckhove

Joachim Vandekerckhove is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine, where he has appointments at the Department of Cognitive Sciences, Department of Statistics, and the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. Joachim is a leading expert in Bayesian modelling and statistics, and statistics more generally.

Joachim has already posted on our blog for the recent Digital Event on Bayesian statistics (#BayesInPsych). It is no coincidence that his expertise overlaps considerably with that of Richard Morey, and I am very pleased that Joachim will be able to contribute to our methodological and computational content. After all, we recently introduced the Learning Groups section and our methodological-statistical content may come in very handy for use in teaching via that section.

Laura Mickes

Laura Mickes is a Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Laura’s research has focused on enhancing our understanding of both the basic and applied aspects of recognition memory. Her applied research successfully challenged longstanding and seemingly settled notions about the proper way to conduct police line-ups during eyewitness identification. Her work has had a significant influence on real-world policy, and it underscores the often-unrealized potential of bridging basic and applied research. Her orientation therefore aligns very nicely with the Society’s latest entry among journals, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI).

Laura has also already posted on our site, and covered a recent article in CRPI that addressed the role of postdictive and predictive confidence in eyewitnesses.

I welcome Joachim and Laura to our team and I look forward to working with them from here on.

We have another new feature in the works for the site, which I hope to be able to announce in time for the annual meeting in New Orleans.