add sunfest pic

DominiqueMakowski · DominiqueMakowski · commit d8e49f0b068e · 2025-07-07T16:17:04.000+01:00
diff --git a/assets/media/albums/social/2025_SunFest.png b/assets/media/albums/social/2025_SunFest.png
diff --git a/content/jobs/phd.md b/content/jobs/phd.md
@@ -38,17 +38,25 @@ tags:
 
 
 
-<!-- ## Open Opportunities -->
+## New Opportunities
+
+
+- [**Sussex Psychology PhD Program**](https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/phd-funding/view/1856-Psychology-Doctoral-Research-Studentship-Sleep-and-Circadian-Rhythms-in-Elite-Sport-Co-funded-by-Brighton-Hove-Albion-FC) *(Application Deadline 25 July)*
+  - [x] Fully funded for local and international students (i.e., pays university fees + gives you a salary)
+  - [x] Supervised by a great team (mainly Giulia Poreiro, and co-supervised Dominique Makowski + other experts)
+  - [x] Project related to sleep, biological rhythms and signals, and performance (should be relevant to elite sports)
+
+![](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E22AQE87QMg9zXFlw/feedshare-shrink_1280/B4EZeomw49HYAk-/0/1750880424520?e=1754524800&v=beta&t=4cHB_CcBSi5EHaA1YREwROCpBG3lMfM2mev49jiAvWY)
 
 <!-- - **13th January**: [Sussex Neuroscience 3+1 PhD Program](https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-neuroscience/phd/4yearphd)
   - [x] Fully funded for local and international students (i.e., pays university fees + gives you a salary)
   - [x] You don't need to chose a supervisor before applying. The first year is made of 3 different rotations in different labs.
-  - [x] Selection is based mostly on the candidate's CV.
+  - [x] Selection is based mostly on the candidate's CV. -->
 
-- **13th December**: [Sussex Psychology PhD Program](https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/phd-funding/view/1754-Psychology-Doctoral-Research-Studentship-UK-and-International)
+<!-- - **13th December**: [Sussex Psychology PhD Program](https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/phd-funding/view/1754-Psychology-Doctoral-Research-Studentship-UK-and-International)
   - [x] Fully funded for local and international students (i.e., pays university fees + gives you a salary)
-  - [x] Selection is based on the candidate's CV as well as on the project proposal.
-  - [x] Get in touch with potential supervisors before applying! -->
+  - [x] Selection is based on the candidate's CV as well as on the project proposal
+  - [x] Get in touch with potential supervisors before applying!  -->
 
 
 ## What you will get
diff --git a/content/jobs/postdoc.md b/content/jobs/postdoc.md
@@ -50,10 +50,13 @@ At the Clinical Brain Lab, the research focuses on uncovering the neuropsycholog
 
 ## New Opportunities
 
-{{< icon name="calendar" pack="fa" >}} Flexible
+- None :(
+
+
+<!-- {{< icon name="calendar" pack="fa" >}} Flexible
 {{< icon name="location-pin" pack="fa" >}} University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
 
-- ⚠️ [**Fyssen Postdoc Fellowship competition**](https://www.fondationfyssen.fr/en/study-grants/aim-award/) *(French PhDs only, deadline: 31 March 2025)*
+- ⚠️ [**Fyssen Postdoc Fellowship competition**](https://www.fondationfyssen.fr/en/study-grants/aim-award/) *(French PhDs only, deadline: 31 March 2025)* -->
 
 
 ## Getting your own Postdoc Funding
diff --git a/content/people/index.md b/content/people/index.md
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ sections:
       show_social: true
 
 gallery_item:
+  - album: social
+    image: 2025_SunFest.png
+    caption: "2025 - Sunfest (summer solstice celebration)"
   - album: social
     image: 2024_SCCSLaunch.jpg
     caption: "2024 - Sussex Centre for Consciousness Studies launch (Rebel team and associates)"
@@ -64,7 +67,7 @@ gallery_item:
     caption: "2024 - Rome, Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences Conference (Ana, Dom and Marco Sperduti)"
   - album: social
     image: 2024_LightFest.png
-    caption: "2024 - Lightfest (summer solstice celebration)"
+    caption: "2024 - Sunfest (summer solstice celebration)"
   - album: social
     image: 2024_Basel.jpg
     caption: "2024 - Workshop on physiological signals at the University of Basel (Dom and Basel PhD students)"
@@ -85,7 +88,7 @@ gallery_item:
     caption: "2023 - OHBM Montréal: Party (Danielle Benesch, Stephanie Kirk, and Dom)"
   - album: social
     image: 2023_LightFest.gif
-    caption: "2023 - Lightfest (summer solstice celebration)"
+    caption: "2023 - Sunfest (summer solstice celebration)"
   - album: social
     image: 2022_wakepark.jpg
     caption: 2022 - Singapore, Outdoor work sesh (An Shu, Stephanie, Max and Dom)
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diff --git a/content/post/2025-07-07-NewsFakeFace/index.md b/content/post/2025-07-07-NewsFakeFace/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+authors:
+- Dominique Makowski
+categories:
+- Reality Bending Lab
+- In the News
+date: "2025-07-07"
+image:
+  caption: ''
+  placement: 0
+title: "Attractiveness shapes beliefs about whether faces are real or AI-generated, study finds"
+subtitle: ""
+summary: "Our recent paper on facial attractiveness and reality beliefs is in the news."
+tags:
+- Reality Bending Lab
+- University of Sussex
+- Psychology
+- AI
+- Facial Attractiveness
+- Reality Beliefs
+- AI-generated Faces
+---
+
+Our recent paper on facial attractiveness and reality beliefs is in the news:
+
+- [https://www.psypost.org/attractiveness-shapes-beliefs-about-whether-faces-are-real-or-ai-generated-study-finds/](https://www.psypost.org/attractiveness-shapes-beliefs-about-whether-faces-are-real-or-ai-generated-study-finds/)
diff --git a/content/research/about.md b/content/research/about.md
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ design:
 
 **Summary**. Our conscious experience of reality being highly flexible, we study the mechanisms that lead to its distortion, and explore how reality alterations can in turn inform us about our Selves. Find out more about [**what is reality bending** here](https://realitybending.github.io/post/2020-09-28-what_is_realitybending/).
 
+<!-- At a fundamental level, we are interested it what makes us Human. What are the laws that govern our decisions and thoughts. How are we different from a machine, and how do we interact and continue leading meaningful lives in a world full of artificiality. -->
+
 <!-- Though very diverse by their approach, methods or topics, our studies aim to explore the very core of what it is like to **be in the world**. In other words, we study the fundamental levels of consciousness and the Self in relationship with its internal and external environment. -->
 
 **Topics**. This includes investigating the role of active mechanisms (e.g. cognitive control, emotions, interoception, immersion, meditation, deception...) in shaping our **sense of reality** (i.e., the feeling and belief that we - and our environment - are real), as well as their crystallised form giving rise to dispositional characteristics in the form of **personality** phenotypes and **neuropsychological profiles**. Additionally, we develop **novel methods** (advanced statistical algorithms, tasks and tests) and apply **cutting-edge techniques** (multimodal neurophysiological recordings) to gain insight into the processes at stake. Finally, we try to understand our research in a larger **historical**, epistemological and philosophical frame.
