Still time to apply! review of the applications will start in a couple of weeks

🚨T-minus 4 days🚨 The deadline for abstract submissions for flash talks and/or posters for 4 of our pre-conferences is FRIDAY (1/09)⏰️ Submit here: bit.ly/49DIv2p With 5 options for preconferences, there's something for everyone! Register today: bit.ly/4jsVsiX #SAS2026

Planning to submit to the 2nd Clinical Affective Science Preconference at @affectscience.bsky.social in Pittsburgh? Well, stop slacking off bc the deadline is this Friday! ⏰ @veravine.bsky.social

This is my last big piece of the year. I wrote it as much for myself as anybody else, because there's so many EOs, court cases, temporary successes, and reversals. I wanted a place to put it all, something to come back to in future years, to keep the knowledge of what 2025 meant to trans rights.

just going to leave this here academic.oup.com/ej/article/1...

Spent some time today playing around with the #Rstats package orchaRd 2.0 It offers a really nice way of visualizing #metaanalysis, especially moderator meta-regression models (with both categorical & continuous moderators!) #dataviz 🔗 daniel1noble.github.io/orchaRd/ 📄 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Researchers had people do a memory task, take a 10-min break (rest, Twitter, YouTube, or TikTok), then resume. Result? Only TikTok wrecked their ability to remember planned intentions. After scrolling, accuracy dropped from ~80% to basically coin-flip levels. Twitter & YouTube? No effect.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Thrilled to share our paper in @pnas.org! "Neural synchrony links sensorimotor cortices in a network for facial motor control" With superb team: Ianni GR (co-first), Rassi E, Rouse AG, Schieber MH, Yazdani F, Prut Y, Freiwald WA. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

My New York is where this great grandson of Ellis island immigrants from Italy can support the campaign & celebrate the victory, of the first Muslim, socialist, immigrant mayor of our city. Couldn’t be prouder to be on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s inauguration committee.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Dalhousie University is hiring. We’re recruiting up to 30 tenure and tenure-track faculty supported by Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative and a $1.7B federal investment. Curious about building your next chapter in Canada? Apply by Jan. 19: www.dal.ca/research-recruitment

For any non-Canadian researchers out there, our government recently pumped a ton of cash to try and attract international researchers to Canada. So if you're looking for a change, timing could be good! Our university is hiring 30 international ppl, but you'll see similar things all over Canada

"Results indicated that LLMs often proposed inferior treatments when patient race was explicitly or implicitly indicated, though diagnostic decisions demonstrated minimal bias."

📜 Our new preregistered 36-month longitudinal study, investigating the mechanisms underlying adverse anxious symptom change patterns, and their long-term clinical outcomes, is now out. Very excited to share after years of data collection & work on MS osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵 @edgelab.bsky.social

Assistant or Associate Professor (Canada Research Chair) in Healthy and Inclusive Work, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1715853...

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Are you interested in a MSc/PhD in human sensorimotor neuroscience? Learn to design experiments, analyze data, read & write papers, present at conferences, & work with a vibrant group of students & faculty in a world-class research environment. #neuroskyence #psychscisky gribblelab.org/join.html

🍇 New paper 🍇 Ever felt like someone was in the room when no one was there? Together with @parkbmb.bsky.social @tatianabaxter.bsky.social we asked whether that might reflect misperceiving signals from our own beating heart - and if this relates to psychosis risk. doi.org/10.1159/0005...

"Discarding the convenient falsehood that as academics we are merely unwilling victims of neoliberalism and all-powerful managers, we instead embrace the inconvenient truth that we have co-created the current state of academia." (Sathish/Harzing) #HigherEd journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

JOB IN CANADA!! I hereby encourage leading #STS and #HPS scholars working in areas including advanced digital technologies and democracy to apply for a job in STS at UBC: research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

It is hugely fun & we are very lucky to do science for the sake of science. But it is amazing to see work we and many others I admire have done turn into public awareness thanks to excellent science writing. (see also www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...)

1/ Our paper years in the making is finally out! TL;DR even very strong effects (d=1.00) can be attenuated by sampling from populations where there is variability in their likelihood of natural improvement (e.g., mild depression cases remitting on their own) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are you curious about electrogastrography, but keep getting chicken-related results when googling "EGG"? We have the preprint for you! In this tutorial, we describe how to acquire and analyse gastric data from human participants. Plus FREE software! Read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260

**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social** Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond. Applications due February 1, 2026. Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

in this special release of @hammerandhope.bsky.social, photo journalist Ashley Gilbertson followed federal immigration agents in Chicago, New Orleans, and New York City. these images show what he saw. hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

The Clinical Affective Science Preconference is back! Join us for invited talks, flash talks, and posters exploring how emotion research informs psychopathology and treatment—and vice versa! bit.ly/3Mx0778 @veravine.bsky.social @lisastarr.bsky.social

Canadian job 👀 🇨🇦 ‼️ Second search this year! Our Dept of Psychology is hiring again, this time at the assoc/full level, for a prestigious, endowed position. Focus is social/affective neuroscience in any area (clinical, social, cog, or dev). Apply by Jan 30! Reposts, pls www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...

🚀 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...

If you're interested in research co-creation, I have helped developing a guide for co-creation with @connectedminds.bsky.social and you can find it here: www.yorku.ca/research/con...

I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING

🆕Please share 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 Call for Abstracts: Closing date 27th March 2026 suicideresearch.info/10th-suicide...

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.

This podcast commented about our recent paper on the vagal effects over the heartbeat strength, published in Communications Biology: heart-rate-variability-podcast.castos.com/episodes/thi...

Sometimes it feels like I’m writing for the same 5 people (and I love all 5 of you guys so much) but this is pretty nice to see, especially for this piece.

Democracy Now! is looking for early-career journalists to join our team as one-year fellows in the video and digital departments. All fellowships are paid, full-time positions with benefits. More details at democracynow.org/jobs

Excited to share that I'm accepting applications for a PhD student to join my lab in Fall 2026! More info on how to apply can be found here: graduate.catalog.tcu.edu/colleges/eng... @bsamjournal.bsky.social @pnirs.bsky.social #HealthPsychology #PNI #Psychoneuroimmunology #DevelopmentalPsychology

Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Our new paper "Inconsistent outcome measurement in depression psychotherapy trials: A systematic historical and meta-analytic review over the past 50 years" led by @antoniasprenger.bsky.social is out now in JAD. 🧪 #PsychSciSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣I’m excited to share our new preprint on how our body’s energy supply shapes everyday stress experiences: 📄𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!! uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Great piece by Crudgington & Andrews on the multidimensionality of social isolation and the distinct health and behavioural outcomes related to different isolation types. Beyond calls for improved definitions, they warn against treating isolation as a single metric, obfuscating evidence syntheses.

Please reach out if I can provide more information about the position below!

*I just realised the short 🔗 to our preprint takes a few seconds to load, so here’s the full link instead: osf.io/preprints/ps... Plus, the interactive figure was accidentally saved as a private file 🤦; it’s now public. You can download it here and open it in your browser 👉 osf.io/ty3cw/files/...

Elusive Cures is my first book. I was surprised by how much was required to make it happen (beyond writing it). If you're curious, here's the who and how behind it ... 🧵 (My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)

Join us for a PhD in affective neuroscience at the Donders Institute (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging) www.radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

New filings find hundreds of migrant children held in US custody far past the 20-day legal limit — some for over five months aje.io/caanlp