hello friends! does anyone know of open data of an RL task (single- mult-armed bandit tasks) that also list (a variable) ITI per trial in humans? #computationalcognitivescience #computationalpsychiatry

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Nominate a Project for a SIPS Award! 🏆 Help us recognize contributions to improving psychological science! 💡 SIPS Awards honor impactful projects—not individuals—because collective work drives progress. 🌍✨

I just whipped up this little #QuartoPub site last week that demonstrates how I teach p-values/hyp-testing through simulation both with live OJS and with #rstats, and I think it's super neat! It has examples for diff-in-means, diff-in-props, and regression slopes nullworlds.andrewheiss.com #statsky

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

And on today's episode of "I can't believe I get paid to do this" 🤓 👋🏼

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

"..hippocampal-prefrontal systems represent emotion concepts in a map-like way at multiple levels of abstraction.." Map-like representations of emotion knowledge in hippocampal-prefrontal systems by @yumengma.bsky.social and @pkragel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

free video for intro lectures on auditory perception

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

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...

maybe my favorite all time correlation

One of the first Black women to earn a Ph.D. in psychology, Ruth Winifred Howard trained Black nurses and worked with children and youth during her long and exemplary career. There is some debate as to who was the first Black woman to obtain a Ph.D. in psychology. Read more: buff.ly/leLXdjO

The lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.

Another rigorous study calls into question the ability of animal models of alcohol use disorder to predict the discovery and development of new drug treatments. Kudos to the authors for this solid, albeit negative, translational work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/9 New blog is live! This is part 2 of a series—last time we looked at the Dunning-Kruger effect, now we are digging in to Implicit vs Explicit attitudes and the Implicit Association Test. To start, of course we need a good meme... haines-lab.com/post/part-2-...

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Science fans in the Boston area: each month we meet to discuss science gone astray at Reproducibility Salon. On Monday Feb 2 at 7pm the topic is false allegations. How big a problem is this? Register, find address in Davis Sq. Somerville, & more details.

We're hiring! The Cognition in Context Lab at UC-Davis is recruiting a full-time junior specialist lab coordinator to start in early summer 2026. Go here for more information about the position and how to apply: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07476 Please share and consider applying!

See you in Melbourne in Nov 2027, SIPSers and AIMOSers! #metascience

The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.

The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is known as the DSM-5. What will the next version be called? That's one of several open questions as the "Bible of psychiatry" goes online.

This is good news for NIH-funded behavioral scientists and for the public; it resolves an unfortunate Catch-22 situation that inflated administrative burden and occasionally excluded basic behavioral science from funding opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

For a weekly seminar class, I'm looking for pairings of psych popularization with scholarly take-downs of the underlying research. I want students to see examples of how shoddy research gets hyped.

New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉 We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4 Main conclusion: "GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

Civilian Response to Active Shooter Training being offered at Tufts. I hate this timeline.

My perspective in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why emotion research feels stuck and how we might move forward—by focusing on how the brain uses internal brain models to shape emotional processing across species. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/why-...

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

Here ya go. Enjoy Cats vs Bears😂😂😂

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org! - religion - digital - social trends - data journalism - global - news - internet - AI - admin - race - science - methods - politics Apply soon! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

hats off to the biggest wheelie this town has ever seen

I wrote this guide to engaging teaching a few years ago but we spruce it up now and then - this edition has updated links to work of @sarahesilverman.bsky.social @drtolunoah.bsky.social & others and addressed what I felt was some ableist advice from 2019-Sarah! We, and the field, evolve.

Call for papers: 2026 International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) in Omaha, NE, June 23–26, 2026 icpa2026omaha.com (please RT!)

Open ≠ unprotected #OpenScience removes paywalls, not your rights. Copyright stays with you, and #CreativeCommons licenses help you decide how your work is reused. 🔗Learn more in our resource: shorturl.at/eEySw #FORM4Open #OpenAccess

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

$550 for a conference is... a lot.

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

📣 Registration for both online and in-person SIPS 2026 is officially open!!!📣 SIPS 2026 is an action-oriented meeting aimed at improving psychological science. The conference sessions will focus on: ✨Initiating and conducting projects, ✨Learning new skills, ✨Discussing new ideas.

Just in time! I'm teaching Positive Psych this Spring.

For families like ours — who have a kid moving into middle school / high school — thought I’d reshare these science-backed tips on how to study and learn more effectively. Good luck, everyone! #EduSky #PsychSciSky #scicomm

I got a rock