Utrecht in snowy weather

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

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 🧵👇

🚀 We're hiring ! 🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations. 🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e 🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌

The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

📚 What does "modern" #EducationResearch look like today? @radboudumc.bsky.social's Rogier Kievit shares how the #LEVANTE initiative embodies a unique approach to human #CognitiveDevelopment—one that is both truly global & collaborative to its core. Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/48CmPmU #LearningVariability

Congratulations Dave on steering AMPPS so successfully over the last few years, and teaching me and my fellow AE's a lot about the value of responsible, diligent and clear EIC leadership

Good news straight from my IG feed: "When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018." ⁠(sciencemagazine) Original article: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

What does it mean to be both animal and thinker? Join @moatazassem.bsky.social and John Duncan on 25 November at Murray Edwards College for the launch of John’s new book ‘The Animal and the Thinker.’ Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-animal...

Beautifully written, funny, and important. Also ouch.

BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December. It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris

Very proud to have launched our manifesto and report to make Dutch academia more sustainable - a moment to celebrate after two years of hard work with the Green Young Academy, DJA and many inspiring colleagues dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...

Years ago I started the Green Young Academy with @sanlifaez.bsky.social & @anne-urai.bsky.social. Across meetings, zoom calls, pitches and even a meeting with the King, this grew into 2 projects launched today: A report on Universities' sustainability plans & a manifesto with sustainability pledges

Proud to share our manifesto - with a vision and concrete steps towards just sustainability transitions in Dutch academia! With @rogierk.bsky.social, De Jonge Akademie, Green Young Academy www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...

I have a vivid but possibly made up memory of paper(s) showing that dual task interference is greater if the same task is done under high time constraints vs low/no time constraints. Any pointers come to mind?

Gather round, all those bayes curious, pragmatic, committed or indifferent, for an elegant and flexible way to approach reliability estimation using bayesian measurement models! All thoughts and ideas welcome

I've been an AE at AMPPS for almost 5 years so happy to answer any questions - It's a fantastic opportunity to help shape methodological innovation and dissemination (and get the first glimpse of exciting new work!)

Do you want to get serious about specifying your random-effect structures? This paper might be for you.. plus lots of good stuff about multilevel and dyadic modeling: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Choosing to go by train/ferry to #Flux2025 I emitted SEVEN times less C02 compared to a plane trip. Air travel is one of the largest contributors to the carbon footprint of research. Researchers, universities and conferences have the responsabilities to create more sustainable alternatives.

A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective. A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE. levante-network.org/global-colla...

The Item Response Warehouse is a new data resource for psychometricians interested in developing methods using bigger and more diverse sets of instruments: itemresponsewarehouse.org New paper out now at BRM: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Very jealous following the FLUX conferences from afar - If you are attending, don't miss @jordyvanlangen.bsky.social's poster (F65) on our CODEC project later today! And of course, tomorrow morning a double act by @leacmichel.bsky.social

It's a real pleasure to be able to work with Léa - Not just a stellar scientist, but one with a.much bigger and broader view of what academia could and should be. If you're at flux this week, don't miss her talk Saturday morning and poster S52!

New paper for anyone working with data: Better data viz - for free, in few clicks. Below, all N = 111, M = 0.04, SD = 0.27. One-sided t-tests vs. 0 yield: t(110) = 1.67, p = .049. Use raincloud plots. Or risk wrong conclusions! Plot w/ @jaspstats.bsky.social today! 🧪 📊 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky 🧵👇

“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population” A statement by Doctors Against Genocide. #Gaza

UN says starvation in Gaza is man-made as families in the besieged territory endure ‘catastrophic hunger’.

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals. What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research. Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out. zurl.co/YBGNy

'ggplothko' #aRt

Just 3 days left until this workshop, so don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

'researchers...say that Annie Walker – a Victorian woman who began working at the observatory in 1879, when she was only 15 – ...observed thousands of stars herself....Walker was the first British professional female astronomer...paid a living wage by an observatory in the UK to chart the stars.'

New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Picked up my poster for #ESCAP2025 last week and had a small surprise arriving at the Airbnb.. If you want to see my real poster on the association between adversity and grey and white matter development, come meet me at D2.102 today!

www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/publicati... Big tech is threatening our autonomy and academic freedom, don't let it!

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Very pleased to welcome new postdoc Dr Lucia Hernandez Pena @luciahp96.bsky.social to our lab. Lucia will be working on our new longitudinal study on microstructure brain development and its relation to cognition and mental health in adolescence, with a large team of collabs at Cardiff and Donders

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

🧠 Tractography on Ultra-Low Field MRI! Thrilled to share "Diffusion Tensor Imaging & Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography Using an Ultra-Low Field, Portable MRI System", led by James Gholam lnkd.in/emDyp9gT Thanks to the Gates Foundation, Wellcome LEAP & Wellcome who supported this work!

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

🚨New paper!🚨 Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵 Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal

By me: Climate cost of Israel’s war on Gaza will exceed the annual greenhouse gas emissions of >100 countries - exacerbating planetary catastrophe on top of the horrific death toll and suffering of Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

We have a new group of Editorial Fellows at @psychscience.bsky.social journals-- check out their bios here: www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-ma...

Many believed that EU would not be able to reach its ambitious 2030 climate goal Now: EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Ulman Lindenberger, Director of the Center for Lifespan Psychology @lipmpib.bsky.social, has been elected as Foreign Member to the Royal Society @royalsociety.org for his significant contributions to the psychology of the lifespan. Congratulations! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2044069/awar...