New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem! In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference. www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...

New publication from Dr. Harrison Ritz! Published in Nature's Communications Psychology, this work challenges existing models of adaptive control in decision-making, revealing how misspecified models can create misleading findings. Important methodological insights www.nature.com/articles/s44...

TMSMultiLab's next monthly meeting: 27th February 14:00 GMT 🤝⚡️🧠 "Dose-response (input-output) curves: Ground truth for testing TMS methods?" by me (@TheHandLab) Details & Zoom link via github 👇 & slack (request an invite) github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.

Periodic reminder: It’s Spring Festival in mainland China. Many researchers are on holiday while simultaneously working on major NSFC grant applications. Responses to manuscript handling, reviews, or revisions may be delayed over the next two weeks.

NSD-synthetic, the out-of-distribution companion dataset of NSD consisting of 7T fMRI responses to 284 artificial images, is now published. #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Thanks @katenuss.bsky.social for sharing your work with us! Kate studies how people learn about the world through external exploration (acting) and internal exploration (imagining). Modeling & experiments reveal that people learn by simulating counterfactuals! 📃 elifesciences.org/articles/84260

Objective Quality Assessment for Precision Functional MRI Data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.10.704857v1

Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions rdcu.be/eRVUk

Finally this long-last meta-research is done! We examine the demographics of subject from 1000 Chinese psych journal articles & 27 big-teams science. Findings: these participant are not representative of the 🇨🇳population, in terms of sex, age, & edu. @btscon.bsky.social @sakshighai.bsky.social

This cool post on .gitconfig by @csgillespie.bsky.social (@jumpingrivers.com) is incredibly useful, especially the conditional includes tip. www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/recomme... #rstats #databs

Some of the reasons articulated here are why at MetaROR.org, we provide qualitative editorial assessments, rather than making accept/reject decisions. Get your #metascience reviewed with us; you can then pass it on to a partner journal to get your binary accept/reject decision, if you like!

Preparing for class and remembering how brilliant this essay is: persci.mit.edu/pub_pdfs/sha... - "The perception of shading and reflectance" (Adelson & Pentland, 1996). Early and beautiful description of Bayesian perception theories.

Handling sensitive data russpoldrack.substack.com/p/handling-s... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

Working with young children and families? New resource on early childhood grief and bereavement (peer-reviewed). Check it out; Request full-text for free and I can send it. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our review on the physics, physiology, and psychology of cortical waves led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social, out now in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Traveling waves. Your brain has them. There must be a reason. Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroscience

In case this important point gets overlooked: along with our Nature paper, we’ve publicly released two large and scarce datasets—PIPD and PIET. IMHO, these are the best open Parkinson's and Tremor datasets available to date. See threads (1/4) 👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

"data available upon reasonable request"

The anti-Bayesian is standing at the back window with a shotgun, scanning for priors coming over the hill, while a million assumptions just walk in through the front door. (also, an interesting point by Yann LeCun in 2012 about human language) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/06/a...

Steckermeier et al. detail the Austrian NeuroCloud Language Study Dataset: a multi-session, multi-echo fMRI resource for individual level language research doi.org/10.52294/001... @eva-steckermeier.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social #OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue

People are unaware of inequalities in Asian subgroup representation in STEM & base their perceptions on group typicality beliefs. Interventions informing about Asian STEM representation increase support for data disaggregation of Asian subgroups. @mwkraus.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I’m excited to announce that Bielefeld will soon (in 2026) be home to a research-dedicated 3-T MRI The scanner will be run as a central research core facility, and we’re seeking a scientific leader (TV-L E15, permanent) to help build and shape it. MR physicist ads to follow. tinyurl.com/mryhaxed

The first article in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience special issue 10 years of @theabcdstudy.bsky.social is now online! 🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

{psychdsish} R package to create standardized structured projects for psychological research projects processed and analyzed in R: github.com/ianhussey/ps...

Basic questions like "how many participants are in the dataset?" can produce surprisingly different answers between analysts. Results from students in my class in data wrangling in tidyverse, who are good at wrangling but still have to make semi-subjective choices:

Have been thinking of writing something that argues the underrepresentation of non-white samples in dev psych is because of embedded cultures of whiteness into structures -- particularly the primacy of the nuclear family. But where to send something like that

Thinking about this figure … van Rooij, I. (2008), The Tractable Cognition Thesis. Cognitive Science, 32: 939-984. doi.org/10.1080/0364...

My lab is looking to recruit 1-2 paid summer interns to do wet lab work on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). You can apply here: forms.gle/b47WpSobjFjo...

Across seven incentivized experiments and a large reanalysis, we systematically manipulated the presence and type of post-choice feedback in repeated risky decisions to test whether feedback shapes behavior through learning mechanisms or through anticipatory changes in preferences.

Happy to share a short but super cool video that gives a quick overview of our Nature paper on the somato-cognitive action of netwokr in Parkinson's disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Sleeppeeps, I've a confession: I'm uber-skeptical about scalp EEG definitions of "memory reactivation". I've worked on this too, but proliferation of approaches is far outpacing our understanding of what any are REALLY measuring. Let's keep working on it, but still feels very early/exploratory.

A bit old now, but great Registered Report by Maya Raza (not on here)

Feeling some appreciation for @lnalborczyk.bsky.social's logit dot plots (lnalborczyk.github.io/blog/2018-01...).

It’s time to rethink Parkinson’s disease. Our work reframes PD as a disorder of the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN), and shows that normalizing SCAN connectivity represents a shared mechanism across diverse effective therapies. rdcu.be/e2n4t @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41... the original research article ... no paywall

An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all

New Paper: Pupillary responses are not a reliable index of differences in imagery vividness. Our search for more reliable metrics of imagery continues... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

After 20 years as psychology's golden child, ego depletion collapsed. Now it's back...with a catch. The secret? Make people work for 30-40 minutes instead of 5. In other words, we finally discovered fatigue. New post on the redemption tour.

📜 Very happy to see our article on domain-general metacognition now published in Psychological Sciences ! Congrats to my co-authors @khat.bsky.social, Renate Rutiku, Michał Wierzchoń, and @krsandberg.bsky.social #skudnet journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Quick thread:

"A decade of work has left researchers convinced that aphantasia is a real phenomenon, but many are puzzled by how little it seems to affect behaviour." Fascinating overview of work on the topic! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎓 15 fully funded #PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network. 🧪🧠 We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social & @nin-knaw.bsky.social): 4-year PhD combining 7T MRI + MEG with computational modelling of vision & individual differences. Apply: indibrain.eu #AcademicJobs

Finally: thanks to @[email protected] for helping me manage this complex project across institutions. Decentralized neuroscientific data management is here!

Uncertainty contexts require flexible control. (How) does our ability to manage task uncertainty differ in the aging brain? Multimodal EEG/fMRI evidence (w. @garrettneuro.bsky.social, U. Lindenberger and U. Mayr) is now out in Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Every journal should provide login-free link for reviewers!

For a weekly seminar class, I'm looking for pairings of psych popularization with scholarly take-downs of the underlying research. I want students to see examples of how shoddy research gets hyped.