Whom do we want to see in power? People high in both benevolence and integrity - that's what a new paper by Annika Scholl, H Rapp, Gerben van Kleef and myself shows. 4 Studies (N=1151) provide consistent evidence for this interaction effect. Delighted to see this work out doi.org/10.1037/xap0...

Fun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dear lord: "On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled." The U of Cali system alone accounts for $4B+ per year in federal R&D. If true, let's hope for another all-or-nothing fight like Harvard's.

#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab. Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

New from the lab: "From language to mathematics and vice versa?: A longitudinal study on the associations between preschoolers’ mathematical language and mathematical abilities" Free access via this link 👇 lnkd.in/em8CHkQr with Eylül Turan, PhD

Interesting new study @bertdesmedt.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good thing publishers are launching “chat with an article” LLMs right on their webpages. s/

The new Teach@Tuebingen fellowship call is open. For 1/2 or 1 year you can do research & teach here. Decent salary & benefits. If you are interested in joint numerical cognition research with our lab, feel free to contact me as a host professor. Deadline June 20th. uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

Long-term SSRI use linked to reduced Alzheimer’s pathology but mixed effects on cognition

The White House said the "Make America Healthy Again" report released last week by RFK Junior and HHS that reportedly cites studies that do not exist was subject to "formatting errors" and "will be updated". (CNN)

In this paper we show that even many preregistered studies never become public. doi.org/10.1177/2515... Most of the time, there is no valid reason, because when asked, it's either due to bad planning, or null results. Worth digging into these reasons more to prevent this bad practice.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Our cluster Machine Learning for Science is up for 7 years more funding!

So Claude blackmails people and OpenAI is building a 24/7 surveillance tool. Black Mirror was a warmup act.

Very glad to see this out: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Special Issue Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

I recently reviewed this impressive body of data for predicting Alzheimer's and why I consider it a breakthrough erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakt...

Too much protein in the diet appears to carry a risk of atherosclerotic heart disease secondary to leucine's effect. An important report considering recent advocacy for very high-protein diets. @natmetabolism.nature.com nature.com/articles/s42...

Since traveling to #cogsci2025 may be particularly difficult this year, we’re hosting a local workshop in Tübingen! 📅 July 24 | Talks & posters + catering supported by @ml4science.bsky.social Open to *everyone*, even without an accepted paper/abstr. 👉 Register by July 1: forms.gle/v6VtEE6UqYw5...

New study highlights power—not morality—as key motivator behind competitive victimhood

Studies targeting domains like object recognition or social cognition often require infants to encode and later recall complex information. We therefore argue that these tasks tap into episodic-like memory and that evidence for infant memory is more prevalent than previously recognized!

Am Montag wurde der Tübinger Preis für #Wissenschaftskommunikation 2025 offiziell an die beiden Preisträger, den Neurowissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Tobias Hauser und den Archäologen und Historiker Dr. Michael Kienzle, verliehen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 uni-tuebingen.de/exzellenzstr... #Wisskomm

The new Teach@Tuebingen fellowship call is open. For 1/2 or 1 year you can do research & teach here. Decent salary & benefits. If you are interested in joint numerical cognition research with our lab, feel free to contact me as a host professor. Deadline June 20th. uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

Wow. Look at how rapidly preregistration has become the norm in experimental economics.

Nur noch einen Monat bis zur Psychologie und Gehirn 2025 Tagung in Würzburg @pug2025.bsky.social - wir freuen uns schon! www.pug2025.org

Kelly Mix at Maryland wrote this great piece to help inform the general public about the grant making process that funds science. Share w/ your friends and family! #science #psychology theconversation.com/lifecycle-of...

Seeing a book in print always brings conflicting feelings - joy, relief, and a looming "what's next?". But today, I will focus on joy, for it is a beautiful book! It is the book I wanted to read a decade ago...but it feels pretty good to be the one who got around to writing it.

Overall, cancer cases and deaths in the US are continuing a slow decline acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Late Abstract Submissions Now Open – Limited Space Available! We are now accepting late abstract submissions for the 2025 Computational Psychiatry Conference in Tübingen! cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CPConf2025/S... (1/3) #CPConf2025

n=19k patient study finds that "current antidepressant use was associated with faster cognitive decline; furthermore, higher dispensed doses of SSRIs were associated with higher risk for severe dementia, fractures, and all-cause mortality." 🧪 Curious what AD scholars make of this paper.

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

Data request! Does anyone have dating app and personality or something similar data openly available? Grad student wanted to run an in-person study this semester for a class project but no one signed up. Any help? #phdsky #psycj #stats

The science of aging is making rapid advances, such as molecular clocks, that are potentiating our ability to extend healthspan The latest Ground Truths with a NYT op-ed erictopol.substack.com/p/how-the-sc...

Great news, Journal of Cognition @jcgntn.bsky.social is now indexed in the Web of Science!

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

Looking for a colleague! #EconSky Interested in becoming a Professor of Business Psychology (with a focus on Quantitative Methods) in Germany? No German skills required! Please share with your network —more details from me below. stellen.reutlingen-university.de/jobposting/3...

📢 Early registration prices end tomorrow 15 April! 🚨 Computational Psychiatry Conference is 14-16 July in Tübingen, Germany. www.cpconf.org Speakers inc. Phil Corlett, Charlotte Fraza, Andreas Heinz, Georgia Koppe, Jill O'Reilly, Chandra Sripada, Sophie Valk, Tor Wager

Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter

Good! More please!! All university leaders should be expressing their support for the first amendment and academic freedom

The Canadian Association of University Teachers has advised academics against US travel, urging particular caution for the following categories

📣 ESCoP Family Care Grants You can apply for the Family Care Grants for the upcoming conference! The grants aim to support attendees facing additional family care expenses arising from participation in the conference. Application deadline: 15 May 2025

Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!

"The journal is the latest of many additions to our Mass Resignations List, which documents walkouts and resignations at nearly two dozen journals since 2023, often citing tensions between academic editors and for-profit publishers." #AcademicSky

Kinda funny how scientific journals usually require you to click "decline" in both their email and then on a website when you want to decline a review, but if you click "accept" in the email, there is no second step.

Our gut microbiome and its metabolites play a critical role for our glucose regulation, as does diet and exercise for improving it, through modulating the gut microbiome @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuroscience study reveals how breathing shapes brain activity during anxiety

Studie zu ME/CFS: Keine typischen Autoantikörper-Profile gefunden – aber Hinweise auf mögliche Herpesviren-Reaktivierung. 🔗 dgn.org/artikel/kein...

Papers published in Psych Science following January 1st, 2024 are candidates for I4R to computationally reproduce, stress-test and replicate. This is an official collaboration with @psychscience.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... We are looking for reproducers and replicators!

We did it ?!? @elsevierconnect.bsky.social removed the GenAI FAQ from my article and other articles we checked!!

New publication on associations between ordinality and space 😍 Is the mental left-to-right representation of ordinality in letters rather based on long- or short-term memory? Find it out here: doi.org/10.1177/1747... Thanks @krzysztofcipora.bsky.social, @tuebang.bsky.social & all others 😊