Registration of our BIG experimental psychology TeaP 2026 @teap2026.bsky.social conference in Tuebingen is open coms.app/teap26/xpage...

A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“While it may not prevent infection, early data from the UK confirms the current seasonal influenza vaccine lowers the risk of severe health outcomes from A(H3N2) influenza virus. Vaccination remains the single most important preventive step to avoid severe health outcomes.”

A recent study purports to have found that multilingualism protects against accelerated ageing. I've taken a closer look at it, and it doesn't look good. New blog post: "Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Some critical comments" janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...

🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally: www.uwo.ca/research/can...

🔧 New feature: you can now view two maps showing different years side by side! A useful way to look at change over time for an indicator is to view two maps showing different years side by side.

Very happy to have received a replication grant from NWO! We will be reproducing power analyses of large scale replication projects, to learn how to improve power analyses, and increase quality control in large team Science projects! www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...

It reminds me of the question 'who will replicate the replicators?' that people used to ask during the replication crisis. Turns out the answer is: the replicators themselves, after they have gained a decade of expertise on a topic :)

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

"Our analyses highlight that the United States and other English-speaking countries are not the most individualist cultures in the world...Instead, Northwest European countries rank highest on measures of individualism." New work by @pakaliyski.bsky.social et al. dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

Repost & Share! 📣 CFP: Thinking Numbers, Thinking Machines How does AI affect K-12 math learning/teaching? We want chapters linking psych ↔️ education—cognition, pedagogy, equity, neuro, games, tutors+. EOI due Jan 15, 2026 See the full call here: bit.ly/3V5Rwtl #AIinEducation #MathEd

The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship» jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #psychjobs

📢We’re hiring: W3-Professorship in Machine Learning in Physics @unituebingen.bsky.social! What we’re looking for: Established research profile in a core area of #physics (condensedmatter, quantum or theoretical particle physics), strong track record in research questions related to #ML and/or #AI.

When your PI presents your work

The mood-enhancing benefits of caffeine are strongest right after waking up

Enhanced understanding of the biologic basis for ME/CFS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What predicts protection from Covid in the real-world household transmission setting among exposed individuals? Pre-existing, Variant-specific #SARS-CoV-2 antibodies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Publications Committee is seeking applications for a new Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, with a term beginning in 2027. The application deadline is February 15. Learn more: buff.ly/RYEgcdS

We are finishing simulations in Krakow at the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Lab for one of the largest simulation projects comparing mixed-effects models for RTs in Cognitive Science (~1.5M datasets; >7M models). Preregistration: osf.io/3s8cu

This is the sort of stuff you get with AI simulations of minority populations bsky.app/profile/dsqu...

Research questions generated by AI. Questionnaires filled out by AI. Paper written by AI. Paper reviewed by AI. Just make it stop.

Deep sleep reorganizes brain networks used for memory recall

💡 How to talk science to your grandma: practical introduction to science communication Join the next MCLS Special to learn how to drive other people’s curiosity! TOMORROW Wednesday December, 10 at 7:30am PST / 10:30am EST / 4:30pm CEST Where? Online lnkd.in/dh3MkPd9

Project Implicit gives you feedback when you complete an IAT, and the IAT literature has aspired to individual level measurement since its inception. In this article, we quantify the individual level uncertainty around these estimates and show that IAT effects can say very little about individuals.

Special issue on meta-science in Journal of Economic Psychology! Topics covered among others: expert-informed approaches, normative biases and crowd-science. Submitted papers evaluated & published on rolling basis. @i4replication.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

After 8 years, the final (theoretical and much updated) article of the PhD of my wonderful PostDoc Christina Artemenko about ""Empirical and conceptual relations of the carry effect in addition and the borrow effect in subtraction: An inversion account" has finally be accepted in JNC. Link soon here

Hello #MCLS2026, Padua, Italy! 🇮🇹 This is the moment to find international researchers to compose your #symposium. The call for submissions will open in November! 🎯 Registration will open by mid-January. Check @mcls-official.bsky.social and @mclstrainee.bsky.social for updates.

New blog post: Dogmatic Bayesianism Disorder daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/12/dogm...

Please spread the news: 14 PostDoctoral Fellowships in the Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme in Freiburg, Konstanz and Tübingen. Contact me, if you want to work with us in Tübingen. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/en/jobpostin...

Affective science has lost an extraordinary member of our community: Dr. Paul Ekman, who passed peacefully at home at the age of 91 on Monday. Dr. Ekman's pioneering cross-cultural research on the interpretation of facial expressions in emotional terms...(1)

Why not an early morning thread using this data to explore the concept of "identity-protective cognition," and why understanding how it operates may be vital to understanding the role of misinformation in our digital age? This will get two likes, surely, but here goes...

We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm

AI Statistics

Check our new paper out! 🤓

An unusual amount of empty poster boards at SFN 2025

Presubmission inquiry

Lisa Bero with shocking admission of how the sponsor was involved in their studies. #AIMOS2025 But almost all article sponsor involvement says they werent involved, should ask her if these authors also wrote that in their articles. #metascience

The numbers in here are huge, ~$2.5bn in profits (~35% profit margin) to 4 major academic publishing houses. How much lost research expenditure does that equate to?? Windfall tax, anyone?

Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪 1/n

In recent years, well-powered genome scans related to speech, language & reading skills became feasible, in part via team science approaches that harmonize data across multiple cohorts, exemplified by this GenLang Consortium study of common DNA variants & psychometric measures in <34,000 people. 9/n

I have seen the same people criticize preregistration, based on highly unlikely hypotheses about why they would not be needed, or even counterproductive. Literally *none* of these critics have provided any empirical support for their criticism in the last decade. I wonder why.

Headed by our wonderful PostDoc Maristella Lunardon in cooperation with Christina Artemenko, @serenarossi.bsky.social and @krzysztofcipora.bsky.social we observed that math attitudes were more important for university choice than math anxiety. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

The SNARC effect may work only with symbolic numbers. It seems to work with nonsymbolic numbers when the task requires symbolic responses, such as "smaller"-"larger", but not without them. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... or www.thenumberworks.org/discrete_sem...

Hello #tRNS lovers: 🧠 Ó Dúinín, E., Steopan J., Kessler, K., Santos, FH. Sci Rep 15, 37977 (2025) 🎯 rdcu.be/eNuQT @mcls-official.bsky.social @mclstrainee.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social #neuroskyence #cogsci #edusky #devpsy Sponsored by @ucddublin.bsky.social Ad Astra

If you’re an author, reviewer, or editor and want to learn about Registered Reports from one of the best editors around, go to this webinar! Nov 19th at 8am Pacific US, 11am Eastern US, 5pm Central Europe (3am Nov 20th for the diehard Australians)

~40% of psyarxiv preprints contain links to open data in 2025 vs (e.g.) ~10% in 2019 (although in the latter case people mostly did not report this metadata): vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das...

🚨 PhD opportunity at the new @hertie-ai.bsky.social in Tuebingen, Germany! 🤖🧠📊 If you are interested in machine learning and visualization for clinical and brain research data, this is the perfect place to start! See next skeet for some of the nice AI/ML/Neuro things we have in Tuebingen! 1/3

With sequencing of Hitler's DNA making headlines, time for a reminder: analysing a polygenic score from a dead historically-significant figure won't give new insights into that person's behaviour. In a brief paper last year, we used Beethoven's genome to directly illustrate the fallacies involved.🧪👇