A longitudinal data resource to study brain development and transdiagnostic variation in executive function | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

INITIATIVE: katinamagazine.org/content/arti... key feature of model is FAIR² Data Article, a peer-reviewed publication format describing a single dataset. The intention is to give datasets a level of scholarly recognition comparable to conventional research articles

Persistent gaps in access to quality diagnostic tests undermine progress toward improved health outcomes and resilience to disease outbreaks in Africa, as seen with the ongoing Ebola outbreak Our @nature.com paper offers concrete priorities to close the dx gap www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come be my boss, I promise I won't cause many problems! usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

Kudos to 𝘗𝘓𝘖𝘚 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 for adding an #OpenCode policy to its #OpenAccess and #OpenData policies. doi.org/10.1371/jour... #Journals #Medicine #OpenScience #OpenSource #PLOS #ScholComm

✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇

Using (multilevel) VAR models? Ever checked how well they actually fit your data? @jmbh.bsky.social & I created VARcheck, an R package for visual model checking for VAR models. Blogpost with workflow: bsiepe.github.io/blog/2026-05... 📝Paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 💻Docs: bsiepe.github.io/VARcheck/

📢 New paper in Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with my co-authors: Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social, Chris Jungerius @cjungerius.bsky.social, and Heleen A. Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social. Grateful to have collaborated with you on this work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... [1/5]

Deadline Sunday! Our $2,500 Ctrl-Z Award recognizes scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record. More details and nomination form here:

New Shiny app that helps diagnose missing data patterns and examines the implications of different handling techniques under varying conditions of missingness davidmoreau.shinyapps.io/DataPatch/.

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How should behavioral science be mainstreamed into public health? This is a question my colleagues and I tried to answer in the following document, now published as official WHO guidance, which outlines a framework and indicators called RECAPPS: www.who.int/publications...

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Here's a post I wrote about why I decided to sign the 10% Pledge, in the wake of foreign aid cuts

Looks like {ggcube} plots work with {patchwork} syntax, too. Kruschke and I have a few 3D plots in the upcoming DBDA3, and we might just use this. Here's a quick and dirty mockup:

🧠 I'm so happy to share our personalized circuit-guided neuromodulation targeting platform UNITE, led by @weizhangvvv.bsky.social, is out in Nature Protocols @natureportfolio.nature.com ! 📄 Protocol: nature.com/articles/s41... 🔬 Nature: nature.com/articles/s41...

The updated TOP 2025 guidelines offer a framework for journals and publishers that previously adopted TOP to reassess alignment with current open science expectations, and for those not yet using TOP to consider its value in shaping policy. 🆕 resource on updating policies:

"China — a country where more than 40% of men smoke — has become the epicentre of the global lung cancer epidemic." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Join our Mini-Hackathon and help us draft community-driven best-practice guidelines for preregistration!✨ 🗓️ Friday, June 5, 4-6 PM CET 📍 Zoom Register by indicating your interest in participating in the #prereg community events here: forms.gle/yrmK8Wnd4oqw... @zpid.bsky.social @forrt.bsky.social

This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.

This is a welcome and important step to normalize and popularize the use of Registered Reports. Thanks @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social for your leadership, and for the work of the neuroscience and behavioral research editors to test and validate the model at Nature.

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

A welcome network perspective on lack of access to data. "Modeling the impact of research data unavailability on science." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157726000465 "We analyzed how the loss of access to research resources propagates through interconnected bodies of […]

1: Data-Driven and Computational Approaches for Improving the Characterisation and Treatment of Mental Disorders 👥 With @shirleybwang.bsky.social, @dpmoriarity.bsky.social, @maddyfrumkin.bsky.social, & @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social 📍 Friday 29th of May, 5:30-6:50pm, Room 124, P1 Level

NEW: They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding. As the NIH bankrolls new research at a significantly slower-than-usual pace, I talked to scientists left in the lurch about the toll on their research and careers: www.chronicle.com/article/they...

'The potential of using resources from systems change theory to strengthen metascience" By @alicejanegibson.bsky.social Open Access: doi.org/10.1629/uksg... #MetaSci

New EHBEA initiative promoting Open Science, led by @louisbachaud.bsky.social 👏👏

Can gratitude interventions make the world happier? We tested 6 gratitude practices across 34 countries with 10,696 participants to find out — and the answer is more interesting than a simple yes 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

If you're doing something with AI coding for open-science and meta-research, I'd be happy to talk more. Please do reach out to me at [email protected]

I mention this because NHANES has sadly become a magnet for low-value studies journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

It feels many only know my work pushing back against AI, which is very fair — but I have a broader research interest, which also forms a protective belt against such forces, as well as being what I have been thinking about since discovering "cognitive science" in ~2006: 🍃 metatheory.space 1/

I'm happy you mention this. I've been encouraging people who ask: how do we resist 'AI' to use your work in that space as a guide for action. But ALSO, to see cognitive science as a living research program producing insights that refute tech industry reductionism.

Measurement issues are everywhere in psychology — nice to see @thomastalhelm.bsky.social digging into one of the field’s most classic cultural psychology scales: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When you're stressed, what happens to the mental links that let you connect related experiences and draw new conclusions? In our new @science.org #ScienceAdvances paper, we show that stress disrupts that linking process in the hippocampus🧵

There are still a few spots available for the Twelfth Model-Based Neuroscience and Cognition Summer School, which will take place from 10–14 August 2026 at the University of Amsterdam. Be quick — the remaining spots will be filled on a rolling basis, so make sure to register soon!

The Law of Fairness proposes terminal neutrality as a boundary condition on conscious state space. Not karma, but physics. This 31-part thread breaks down the formal stochastic model page by page. Full paper: bit.ly/4rAmUh3 🧵 1/31

Teaching DAGs sounds easy, until students actually have to make one themselves. A new tutorial lays out simple steps to make it clear and easy for students to understand. Draw process, selection, outcome, confounds. From Nathan J. Quimpo & Peter M. Steiner files.osf.io/v1/resources... #psych

If they’d shared their data this would be a great example of a test needing an outlier sensitivity check. As it stands this conclusion doesn’t agree with their comparison of randomly assigned groups: the “engaging voice” chatbot condition had the *best* outcomes (tho super small effects):

"a paper today is a Frankensteined-together patchwork of supplementary files that run longer than the manuscript, datasets in repositories...code posted to GitHub without documentation. The paper has been replaced....by a mess" www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

Developing a Neuropsychiatry Curriculum for Clinical Psychologists and Neuropsychologists: An e-Delphi Study | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

in ONE HOUR we close out #VSS2026 with the 6th iteration of #phiVis! Ft. talks and commentaries by @matthiasmichel.bsky.social Wilma Bainbridge, Will Davies, @vivianpaulun.bsky.social, Frédérique de Vignemont, and Bill Warren! 1pm-3pm in the Banyan/Citrus Room

(1/5) Our paper is out now in Neuron! bsky.app/profile/cp-n... The LPFC has fine-scale organization that gets missed in group-averaged data because of inter-individual variability. It is visible in individuals in both resting-state and task data.

Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief! The SIPS Publications Committee encourages editors with innovative ideas about how Collabra: Psychology can best accomplish its mission to apply.

Unreliable data/poor data provenance in clinical prediction model research www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... "repositories should improve their documentation....Anybody doing basic checks on the datasets would have seen that they do not look like real data" retractionwatch.com/2026/05/18/k...

Very excited about this project, led by @zachladwig.bsky.social We show that an individual’s lateral prefrontal cortex has reliable and highly detailed network organization missed in past group approaches. Full🧵 coming soon!

Our brains don’t think in a steady stream. They rhythmically “scan” different alternatives, using attention cycles to sample and compare choices. Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

The BRAIN Initiative has changed neuroscience, yet there is still a lot we don't know about the brain. BRAIN Initiative Director John Ngai shares a roadmap for the next decade and what's needed to achieve the next human health breakthroughs: https://bit.ly/4nVbmVP #studyBRAIN

Congratulations to @olaozpal.bsky.social & big team on new paper: large sample of children reveals the early origins of left-lateralization in language processing. Nice profile in MIT news: news.mit.edu/2026/languag...

Neuroscientists interested in rigor, methodology, and open practices, check out this job opportunity to work on a COS-MIT collaboration to improve the research culture in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at MIT. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...