Correlational studies like those discussed in this article are often called "observational" in contrast to true experimental studies that manipulate a variable to see its causal effect on another variable. But...

Back in late 2020, in my capacity as director of a new Neuroscience Ph.D. program, I led an effort to apply for an NIH T32 G-RISE grant. It was rejected, then I handed it off to my co-PIs before they resubmitted it (in quite a hurry), it was rejected again, but recently we heard that it was funded!

I concur that it’s great to see all the responses on so many aspects of consciousness! So much so I can’t even be mad at the target article’s vision-centrism 😆

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

The Call for 2027 Governing Board Nominations is now open! The Psychonomic Society is seeking nominations for its Governing Board. Fellows, Members, and Emeritus Members may nominate up to four individuals to serve for the 2027-2032 term. Deadline: June 30. More information here: buff.ly/7AXNIXU

Good little article on vagus nerve stimulation #neuroscience #health #stress www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

Maggie's study on perception of objects and settings in natural auditory scenes is now published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

We Are Experiencing a Helium Shortage: What This Could Mean for an "Irreplaceable" Element www.discovermagazine.com/we-are-exper...

Just yesterday I was talking to a colleague about a participant who reports their mental imagery shifts from black and white to color, triggered by self-reflection. This is the opposite but in the real world. Despite being the real world, this feels very surreal. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/w...

This is an amazingly informative article about cephalopods in Nature today. I had no idea about the anatomy of octopus nervous systems or that so many neurons are in their arms rather than their brains. #neuroscience #brain #intelligence #consciousness #pain www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 care-2026.heysummit.com

Our study on how listening to groovy music *does not* modulate primary motor cortex is now published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

I wrote today about a big study on replication--and why it's so hard to know if a study will hold up or not. Gift link: nyti.ms/4sNu3MF

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

"The Bots Ruining Social Science Are Not Bots at All" This is really important for those of us doing online research with what we hope are humans journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Hopefully campus doesn’t cave in 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Interview of Nick Chater on “personal responsibility” and big societal problems www.sciencefriday.com/segments/fix...

Finally someone found a use for all that poop that babies produce www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

I'm happy to announce I am now an Associate Editor for the @apajournals.bsky.social 'Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts'. Please look us up and consider it as a venue for you papers if you're doing research in this area. www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Registration is now open for the upcoming One World Seminar, "Inattentional blindness in and out of the lab," presented by Daniel J. Simons on February 26: buff.ly/Oz2S1Hk

My EEG supply vendor informed me that tariffs are very much affecting prices for electrodes, UGGHH, and yes first-world problems but still

Retire ‘seminal’ from the scientific vocabulary www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened! Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement. Nominations close 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research

My colleague, friend, former PhD/postdoc @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social and his colleagues argue for (yet) another interesting attribute of music listening. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

How it turned out @ APCAM AND Psychonomics. My trainees did a great job presenting about misophonia and music, Dylan and Isabella pictured. Rose and David did great too! My own poster had the wrong degrees of freedom so clearly I’m not setting the best example 🙃

NOT a proud alumnus today! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Pleased to advertise that the auditory labs from UNLV will have presentations from post-bacc, grad student, post-doc, and faculty researchers @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social and the APCAM auditory conference in Denver in a few weeks. Please see the image for details on our presentations.

The editorial leadership team for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance seeks nominations for intern junior editorial positions for early-career psychologists (IJEs).

1) If you have editing experience in any subdiscipline of Psychology, you can serve as a recommender for PCI Psych. We value rigorous and open scholarship, and recommenders get to choose which papers they handle, how many (including zero!), and when. psych.peercommunityin.org/help/become_... 2/6

Auditory/speech position!

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 Is consciousness tied to biological brains? Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper! October 23, noon USA eastern #neuroskyence Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Look what I did this summer! I had the pleasure of writing a review paper on three kinds of multisensory-emotional experience, with Hirohito Kondo and Erin Hannon. This is submitted to a special issue of @nconsc.bsky.social on Embodied and Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness. 🧵:

“We cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,” says audiologist Matthew Winn. Enter Tay Tay. @mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our open-access article - Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans - together with Yunkai Zhu, Carolina Fernandez Pujol, @dvwz.bsky.social, @jonescompneurolab.bsky.social, @tmarvan.bsky.social, and @danclab.bsky.social, was just published @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

Great article, and I love some of the responses from leading thinkers. Nicole and @theamygdaloid.bsky.social in particular point out the importance of studying the phenomenon of conscious feelings as directly as possible.

Just gave my student the following writing advice, and I'm pretty proud of it: please never use "utilize", it's not useful.

At long last, we submitted our 2 experiment study failing to find EEG evidence that primary motor cortex is modulated by high-groove music. Wish us luck in peer review! Led by Samantha O’Connell.

Another highly cited classic finding fails to replicate

Can we blame this on AI?

UNLV's MRI facility is close to completion and we are now searching for an MRI Technologist. Please help me spread the word! nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNLV-E... #neuroimaging #MRI #neuroscience #psychology

#EEGManyLabs website is now live: eegmanylabs.org A home for our global effort to test the replicability of influential EEG findings, share resources, improve methods in cognitive neuroscience, and grow an open, connected community.

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