Our brains don’t think in a steady stream. They rhythmically “scan” different alternatives, using attention cycles to sample and compare choices. Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Are Ultra-Processed Foods (#UPF) killing us? I talk with A/Prof @philbakernz.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au for #NutritionScieneBites on ultra-processed foods & health 🎧Spotify tinyurl.com/y9zhmr29 📺 Youtube youtu.be/kbUHIULQk_Q @nmnteatwell.bsky.social @nutritionorg.bsky.social

This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

One week left to come join us at EPC/APCV - abstract submissions are piling up, and the conference venue is crisp and sunny!

Himalayas as seen from Space 🌍 🛰

Labor didn’t have the ″⁣ticker″⁣ for a fight with the online gambling lobby. It’ll be the same with the gas lobby. David Cayzer, Clifton Hill The Age, letters

Job alert! Assistant professor position in Precision Neuropsychology now available at Maastricht University. Were looking for someone interested in individualised approaches to brain-behaviour relationships in clinically relevant contexts - e.g., cognitive fingerprinting, predictive modelling.

Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

Astrocytes do so much more than any of us thought - they even communicate among specific brain regions across hemispheres! The journey to this paper spanned nearly a decade, but I'm most excited to see what everyone else does with the tools we've built. There's so much for all of us to explore!

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach. #dataviz

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

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I couldn't see it at first, but very cool when image adjusted

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This is only true for people who understand neither science nor economics. The NIH budget for this year is FIFTY times larger than OpenAI’s $1B pledge. The foundation of US science & innovation is public funding. The private sector cannot replace it. US science is being killed

New preprint with Chris Nolan and Kelly Garner in which we develop a new metric - transition entropy - that can be used to measure the extent to which behaviour in cognitive tasks is based on a routine. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

While many psychologists have been trained to develop multi-item multi-dimensional scales, there is a place for very brief, even single-item, measures of psychological constructs, particularly if the aim is to have one's work embraced by policymakers and other stakeholders. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🚨New preprint alert🚨 Does hunger affect your decisions beyond food? We tested whether being hungry affects attention & choice across food, intertemporal and social domains. Spoiler: the effects of hunger state on attention and choice are more limited than you might think🧵👇

Although reward signals are believed to capture attention in an inflexible and automatic fashion, in this preprint we demonstrate through three experiments and some computational modelling that verbal instructions can trigger model-based revaluation processes. osf.io/preprints/ps...

“‘What Oligarchy Looks Like’: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms *** The goal of the PAC is to elect a Congress that will prohibit individual states from passing their own AI regulations.” 2/11/26 … 1/ www.commondreams.org/news/ai-supe...

good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts join us in the fight against these cuts!

Just out today, the keto diet showed a (modest) benefit in treatment resistant depression, when compared to a pretty reasonable control! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Marina Hyde being brilliant

Nice thread

1/8 🧵 Breaking: Groundbreaking study drops in Psychedelics! Psilocybin's effects on social behavior & inflammation in female mice modeling anorexia nervosa? TOTALLY context-dependent on metabolism & exercise. Explains why only ~40% respond in human trials. Implications for personalized therapy!

Large language models can accurately score people’s Big 5 personality traits on the basis of their brief, open-ended narratives. LLM ratings converged with self-reports and predicted daily behaviour & mental health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The race is on to re-home 120 ex-commercial laying hens in Didcot before February 8th. The British Hen Welfare Trust is appealing for would-be kind hearted chicken keepers to come forward by 4pm Friday and give the hens a chance at a free range retirement.

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

What diet are patients with T2D more likely to choose when looking to lose weight? First author Alexis Care (University of Staffordshire + RehabCare) + team, found preferences for continuous vs intermittent low-energy diets, low-carb & simple diet approaches: doi.org/10.1111/jhn....

Do goal-directed actions minimize prediction error? Together with @haslagter.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social I identified falsifiable predictions of active inference and reviewed the extent to which they are supported by empirical results. Read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/2by8k3h6

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

wake up babe, new effect size metric just dropped

Lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin... via @drrickadams.bsky.social

Fantastic talk! I learned so much

I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏 postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

#postdoc #cogpsych #neurojobs #psychologyjobs #visionscience #cogsci

Just to clarify: once again, this study has only an observational design and reverse causality or third variables are perfectly possible. We simply don't know if social media "harmed" any participant

PSA: With recent spikes in the news, I decided to get tested for my immunity to measles. Results came back saying I had none. If you got your vaccination back in the 1970s like me, you might want to check too.

A new publication in JEP: LMC in collaboration with Brett Hayes, Yanjun Liu, Won Jae Lee, Jaimie Lee and Ben Newell (UNSW Cognition Group). It's all about the link between attention and beliefs in forming "learning traps" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

You are someone who does quantitative #metascience? Want to do this as a #professor? With a research-focused, tenure-track position in Germany? At a great institute with a super smart and fun team? This one is for you! 🤗

How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social

Despite the heralded anti-inflammatory actions of statins, simvastatin had no effect on recurrences of acute or acute on chronic flares of #pancreatitis gut.bmj.com/content/earl...

Back at work today. Sunk 3.5 hrs so far into a review of a not-very-good-3-experiments-long paper for a low impact journal. Why do i do this to myself?

A major part of our future health & prosperity lies in medical research. There are billions of available dollars that can be used for vital medical science. Please join the campaign for our government to act urgently to fully disperse these funds: aamri.org.au/mrff/ www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

We're hiring! Senior position in the learning sciences. "We seek a scholar whose research has focused on the development & application of learning technologies to achieve just & equitable educational learning opportunities, teaching practices, policies, & systems." careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

🚀 Deadline for this is this Sunday! 🏃‍♀️

2026 will bring waves of innovation to GLP-1 medicines from mechanisms to modalities to molecules delivery systems and new indications. #weightloss #obesity A glimpse of the.future here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OpenWMData has over 30 tagged datasets already, with Klaus Oberauer (forever setting an example for our field) and leading the way with five datasets so far! I wonder if anyone can top that and claim they are truly making their data findable and reusable...