This afternoon at #nvp2025, an entire session on cognitive #pupillometry 👁️ with talks by @anavili.bsky.social , @cstrauch.bsky.social and others. See you at 👉 12:00! #psychology

Seven feel-good science stories to restore your faith in 2025 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While studies find that moral outrage & negativity goes viral on social media, this is also true of the offline world. Gossip is also mostly negative & about people we dislike I explain why some ideas go viral--but most don't with @steverathje.bsky.social www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-some-i...

Sorry, doing research with humans is hard! There isn't going to be a magical technology that makes it easier. @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I recently published about the risks of AI Surrogates, and why they are so appealing... See thread on the paper: bsky.app/profile/lmes...

This is AI in a perfect nutshell - thinking that the important thing about a research study is having the right number of responses. Outcome over process Set it all on fire right now

UK back to Erasmus program - that’s wonderful news! 🎉👇 #Education #EU #Erasmus

“That’s how countries fall: they miss the fact that science is a live organism that cannot be legislated.” If you purge your best people, he adds, “you cut off your own nose and you shoot your own foot”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Worrisome: More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for addressing complex scientific challenges, resulting in novel approaches, innovative methodologies and a more holistic understanding of complex phenomena. 🔹To encourage this, the CIMCYC has launched six novel multidisciplinary collaborative projects.

PhD position (75% according to German TVL13 salary scale, funded by the DFG) for four years in the area of cognitive neuroscience of bilingual control, Aachen, Germany

International Conference on Prospective Memory ICPM 2026 Heidelberg, Germany 12-16 July 2026 Abstract submission deadline: 31 December 2025 Early registration deadline: 14 March 2026 Registration deadline: 15 April 2026

interesting points: How to Respond When Students Don’t Want to Work With AI (and what to do if a teacher doesn't want to work with AI for ethical reasons?). Also interesting ideas for a "festival of errors" www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

Psychologists, what are your favorite (open) data sets for teaching multilevel modelling? I have a lot of observational examples, would love a therapy RCT with varying effects for therapists or some such.

The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship» jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #psychjobs

📝 OPEN LETTER 📝 Are you based in NL 🇳🇱 ? Do you also want government to thoughtfully shape our digital future, with care for people and nature? Please share and sign 🖊️ this letter addressed to parties forming the new Dutch government and outgoing administration. 📝 openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Combining artificial intelligence with a conventional climate model can predict heatwaves faster than the standard model alone. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"LLMs tend to be affirmative of your requests. For a data analysis workflow this means they will tend to amplify whatever biases you start out with." www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/how-... via @Rbloggers

"an AI arms race won’t guarantee that people will be safer or wealthier. A better plan would be for everyone to come together to agree on what is safe and how the world wants to harness AI." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fietsers en voetgangers in Groningen-stad kunnen lang niet over een brug die het centrum met het noordoosten van de stad verbindt. Omwonenden en gemeente pleiten voor een tijdelijke oversteek. Maar daar moet het Rijk over beslissen.

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Many psychologists are treating LLMs as if they are the mind of god. This study had chatGPT rate how central academic disciplines are to various constructs. Why would chatGPT know this? Where is the evidence its ratings are reliable or valid? compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is a really excellent summary of the key points for data viz. Its so important in research and often overlooked in training.

Ruim zevenduizend studenten, docenten en onderzoekers staakten dinsdag in Amsterdam tegen de miljoenenbezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. De RUG was met ruim 250 man goed vertegenwoordigd. ukrant.nl/duizenden-me...

Do you actually feel sick after a flu shot? 💉 This randomised trial gave 52 people the vaccine, 50 got placebo. The vaccine raised cytokines, but participants didn't feel substantially different. #MentalHealth #Inflammation #Immunology #PsychoNeuroImmunology 🧵 THREAD

Only one more week until the Brain and Cognition conference @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social starts in Egmond aan Zee with @smfleming.bsky.social and Maryam Alimardhani as keynote speakers! www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl

🧠 Medicijnen weten niet waar ze heen moeten. Ze reizen door je bloed en komen toevallig op de juiste plek terecht, waar ze aan de slag gaan. 🎨 Marta Costa

Just published: the @lnvh.nl Women Professors Monitor 2025! View and download it here: shorturl.at/nU1ZW

Has @anilseth.bsky.social identified an underrated reason why “AI consciousness” isn’t imminent? Humans—unlike AI—never get stuck in infinite loops. Our existence is rooted in time and progressing entropy. Both may be consciousness prerequisites: buff.ly/8PxbtRs

@tyrellturing.bsky.social does a wonderful breakdown of our new theoretical results in multi-agent cooperation. I’m especially excited for the formalization of mechanisms akin to theory-of-mind and other processes that guide how agents model each other. At Paradigms of Intelligence team, Google.

i genuinely didnt know this level of Online existed theyre declaring war on mods

"DeepSeekMath-V2 introduces self-verifiable mathematical reasoning for the first time. The model consists of a verifier trained to evaluate mathematical proofs" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"across all three countries, the AI models advocating for candidates on the political right made more inaccurate claims." rdcu.be/eTdGi

"Adams says the latest data make it clear that high-impact science is increasingly dependent on global engagement and collaboration." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

`' The more information the chatbots provided, the more persuasive they were — but they were also more likely to produce false statements, the authors found." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"conversational AI systems hold the power, or at least the potential, to shape political attitudes across diverse contexts." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A cool workshop on Emergence happening next week at the Fields institute in Toronto, and you can join for free! emergence-multiscale-neuro-workshop.github.io

"Graduate programs often focus on teaching students how to do research, but they rarely offer formal support for communicating it. Organizing and promoting peer writing groups like ours could change that. " www.science.org/content/arti...

"Researchers, policy-makers, and citizens alike need to urgently attend to the potential negative effects of AI-propagated misinformation in the political sphere and how to counteract it." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Groningen Spring school on Cognitive Modeling is back! Join us from March 30th-April 2nd, 2026! www.ai.rug.nl/springschool/

📣 Our latest brain-to-text decoding results from our Brain team is out: "Towards decoding individual words from non-invasive brain recordings" 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👥 Led by Stéphane d'Ascoli & w/ Corentin Bel, Jérémy RAPIN, Hubert Banville, Yohann Benchetrit and Christophe Pallier

Passionate about women's mental health? Interested in brain stimulation? Excited by cutting edge neurotech? Come do a PhD with me! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (thread)

A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.

Interested in studying Neurocognitive Psychology? The application period for this excellent Master's program at LMU Munich is starting NOW! Apply here: www.lmu.de/psy/de/studi...

Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

New paper alert! "Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science! This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project). Short THREAD on the results:

On scientific "style" for @undark.org: "[Style] is a positive feature of science that facilitates different routes to solving problems.....We can embrace differences in our approaches while still promoting rigor and clarity." undark.org/2025/12/04/o...

Battling bureaucracy and understanding your institution through a network of early career researchers www.nature.com/articles/d41...