A new set of papers, sharing the long-awaited result of several reproducibility and replicability projects, including commentaries, is published today. I look forward to reading the studies, and re-using the data generated! www.nature.com/collections/...

Interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans : la proposition de loi voulue par Emmanuel Macron arrive dans un Sénat divisé à son sujet

Cognitive decline, mental health and heart disease are all shaped by the deep links between heart and brain – with major implications for diagnoses and treatment

New guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in the evaluation of ERC grant proposals. The aim is to safeguard the integrity of peer review while allowing limited use of AI where it does not compromise privacy or trust. Read more 👉 bit.ly/47HqTld

AI conference organizers hid LLM prompts in conference text, instructing LLMs to use specific words as watermarks when generating conference abstracts. This led to the disqualification of 497 submitted papers. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉 What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Run - don't walk - to apply for our Fellowship Planning Retreat 2026 before the deadline! 🏃‍♀️ In partnership with the @nihr-rss.bsky.social, this retreat is an opportunity for mental health & addiction researchers to progress on a project-based fellowship application 📝 Apply now! buff.ly/CmqcUSO

"20% of the studies presented causal claims that were not supported by their designs, opening the risk of their results being misinterpreted and their effect sizes being exaggerated [..] exacerbated by a lack of method transparency and construct validity" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Got a great idea for a mental health research project but need help? 📢 Try contacting the NIHR's Research Support Service (@nihr-rss.bsky.social)! They provide free, tailored, expert advice for researchers on all aspects of developing & writing a funding application. buff.ly/bmvEs93

DSM-6 Will Be Structured Around Biomarkers—Despite Acknowledgment There Aren’t Any by Peter Simons The subcommittee was created to use biomarkers to reorganize the whole project. The problem? They acknowledge that such biomarkers have not yet actually been found. buff.ly/vtgqFfz

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.

Some nice coverage here of our study published in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI on structure learning and uncertainty in compulsivity 📃 Paper available here - www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

📣 Another Job Alert! We’re hiring a Band 7 Research Associate for the SPROCKET Hub at @greatormondst.bsky.social & @uclchildhealth.bsky.social, co‑producing research with children, young people and families. 🕒 Full‑time, 48 months ⏳ Closes 15/03/2026 www.gosh.nhs.uk/working-here...

Most UK undergraduate degrees should be shortened, according to one university vice-chancellor, who claims that the UK’s current three-year bachelor’s model is “largely a historical artefact” #EduSky #highered

Another EXCELLENT paper about exposure. But this supports my claim that we have to study recommendations that come from basic science and often we don't find they improve outcomes... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Contribute to open science! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. Repost please! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

To recognize International Women’s Day, we've curated this collection of articles on the joys and challenges that women in research careers face – plus, some fresh approaches to women’s health research. go.nature.com/4s2PvwU

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research. #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Becoming a professor at a UK university is dependent on training high volumes of PhD students rather than delivering outstanding supervision, a report suggests. @jgro-the.bsky.social writes #EduSky #AcademicSky ow.ly/eFjW50Yl5FT

Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family

Join us in Brighton this September! www.bacn.co.uk/conferences Symposium submissions due 31 March.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📢 We’re hiring! The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🔹 Associate Professor 📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

‘I don’t care if Chat GPT isn’t a therapist, it’s helping!’ Psychologists Hedda van’t Land and Vittorio Busato explain why teens may be swayed towards using AI as therapy, and examine the potential consequences. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

The apps consume huge amounts of children’s time, which many parents would like to see put to different uses. But bans are hard to implement—and harder to enforce

Approximately 40% of all studies preregistered on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly. That’s a lot. Researchers give several reason, and null results and bad planning (or lack of priority) are the main reasons. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just 24 hours left to register for tomorrow's webinar 'Time for change: Co-producing peer research with diverse communities'. We have over 200 attendees already registered! #PPI arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...

“I know #ChatGPT can help with my literature review but I’ve no idea if I’m allowed to use it, how to cite it, or whether I’m somehow cheating.” Students are using #GenAI whether you’ve addressed it or not. Here’s how to provide the clarity they’re asking for: https://ow.ly/X7HB50Y8H0J#ChatGPT#GenAI#AcademicSky

Pupil dilation is an established biomarker of arousal, and studies have shown that non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) elicits pupil dilation. Here, we find that it depends on sensory matching. #neuroskyence 🩺 Now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Mental illness affects one in four adults, which should make The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders one of the most well-thumbed medical texts in the world go.nature.com/4tfNlLe

Looking forward to interesting discussions at our Maudsley NIHR BRC Digital Interventions research event. Further info on the work we have been doing in this area here www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/dig...

Young professionals are bitterly angry about the student loans system, protesting that agreements they were encouraged to sign up to as 18-year-old school pupils are blighting their financial futures. Do they have a point? ft.trib.al/vzP0xgI

We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered. For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal

All I want for Christmas is... published nonsignificant findings and more Registered Reports? www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

ECR looking for a change in the New Year? We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch. Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

‘A meaningful psychology career doesn’t have to follow a straight line…’ Rhema Akintunde on ‘learning to do things differently’ in the struggles after graduation… www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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...

Opinion: If a student feels remembered by a machine but overlooked by humans, something in the educational contract has broken, says Agnieszka Piotrowska #edusky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/universities-must-respond-students-emotional-reliance-ai

📣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...

A record 90,000 UK undergraduates are living at home this year, according to new figures from the university admissions service #EduSky #highered

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...

Happy to see our registered replication paper out led by Nathan Pond as part of his PhD with Ryan Scott, @drpatclarke.bsky.social and Lies Notebaert. See more of Nathan's work here: www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-po...

Les femmes travaillent plus que les hommes et gagnent moins qu’eux ➡️ Lire plus : bit.ly/4iJSRki

Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins