Message for government. It's great that you are improving pre and postdoc fellowships, and increasing the number of them. But uni staff are buried in teaching and admin work. We cannot supervise more people. Please, we need more permanent positions, more staff, so we can have time for doing research

🎉 Now published in Nature Communications! 🧠 We develop a novel computational reinforcement learning & habit model of Twitter data, and show that younger people & women are more behaviourally sensitive to 'Likes'. Read the paper: bit.ly/4f1vsKS

amigxs, por si os puede interesar: abierta la matrícula para el Máster de Formación Permanente en ÉTICA DE LA INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL, una colaboración de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y el Instituto de Filosofía del CSIC. Toda la información aquí: www.uc3m.es/formacion-pe...

Solid rejection of "counting" and "statistical inference" abilities in nonhuman animals, from crows to chimps & pigeons. #animalcognition "associative learning models are a powerful tool in animal cognition research, often capable of unmatched quantitative accuracy." doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

We had a great time at the first meeting of the habit network REHPE. Here some pics of the lab's posters

We've known that socioeconomics (SES) matters for the 🧠. New & 🤯 is that SES drowns out all other brain associations, incl. IQ. If you train an algorithm to predict IQ from brain data, it's still way better at predicting SES. Science Mag: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @smarek0502.bsky.social 👀🧵👇

A new #bmm release is available on #CRAN. With this version, #bmm now covers basic response time models. This release contains three new models plus several usability features. Here's what's in it 🧵 venpopov.com/bmm/ #rstats #bayes #openscience

A fantastic opportunity. This is one of the best places to do experimental psychology in the world. And the people is very nice too!

New preprint! @martinezlopezp.bsky.social in this systematic review takes a look at the validity & reliability of current tools used for studying habits in the human lab. There are a lot of them! But studies about construct validity were sparse, while reliability analyses were almost nonexistent...

Habit research has accumulated many tasks that supposedly tap into the same construct, yet their psychometric properties are rarely examined. Here, we assess their construct validity evidence and analyze their reliability to facilitate interpretation of previous studies and guide novel research ⬇️📝

Not very surprised by this

The program for the workshop 'Habits: Behaviour, neurons and clinical evidence' is looking great! We'll have a blast at Madrid! (15th of June) Thanks to @iobeso.bsky.social for organizing this event The program is here: sites.google.com/view/habit-r...

Come be my boss, I promise I won't cause many problems! usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

More good news. Mario Michiels successfully defended his PhD thesis. His work, “Novel multimodal methods to study habitual behavior in humans”, was supervised by @iobeso.bsky.social and myself. Congratulations, Mario! We wish you all the best in the next steps of your career

Great news for our lab! We are very happy to welcome José J. León (postdoc, Juan de la Cierva fellowship) and María D. Linde (predoc, FPI fellowship) to the Habit and Cognition Group! Get to know them better here: www.habitcognition.com/news/welcome...

The original study reported a very large association, r = .78. In our multi-site replication, the estimate was much smaller, around r = .15 across pipelines and analyses, and non-significant in the preregistered meta-analytic tests.

New #EEGManyLabs paper out in Cortex! We asked whether contralateral delay activity, or CDA, can serve as a reliable EEG marker of visual working memory capacity. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Conferencia de @mavadillo.bsky.social en la Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia de la Universidad de Málaga. Lunes 4 de mayo a las 13:00. Aula ADA. "Improving the quality of research on unconscious mental processes"

Deseando aprender y disfrutar en la próxima @PsychoBeers del 29 de abril en Granada! @universidadgranada.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social

Primera reunión de la Red de Estudio de Hábitos Psicología Experimental (REHPE) Os remitimos información relativa a la primera reunión de la Red de Estudio de Hábitos Psicología Experimental (REHPE), que tendrá lugar el próximo 15 de junio de 2026 en Madrid (CSIC, Calle Serrano 113). La Junta…

📘 Excited to share that Decision Making: A Very Short Introduction (OUP) is now available online (PDF for subscribers): doi.org/10.1093/9780... What is it about? Understanding how humans (and other agents) make choices. Below a bit more information👇

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.

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr

🗣️ ¡Charla! Recursos y recomendaciones para sobrevivir (y disfrutar) liderando un “manylabs”. La ponente @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social  (@uam.es ) tratará acerca de proyectos multisite y ciencia colaborativa. Los socios podéis acceder a través de https://forms.gle/sopq3gBi8EeQHqQ68

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Applications are open for our Caregiver Travel Grant 2026! Apply now for a chance to receive flexible funding to cover caregiving expenses while attending an in-person scientific conference! Apply: https://www.mothersinscience.com/caregiver-travel-grant 📅 Deadline: April 26, 2026 #WomenInSTEM

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/...

Proud to be part of this. Somehow, I keep doing stuff about propositional (verbal) learning. In this preprint, VMAC is deeply affected by such learning. But it couldn´t revert the VMAC effect completely, so probably there + than 1 cognitive system producing the final effect (the more the merrier)

Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>

"Even when results are ultimately reproducible, they require substantial effort: instead of being ‘push-button’ reproducible, analyses often require sifting through authors’ code, reorganizing files, deciphering opaque datasets and fixing coding errors."

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Postdoctoral position in Neuroscience of Human Experience. 2 years. CIMCYC. University of Granada (Spain) Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de plaza postdoctoral de 2 años en el CIMCYC de la Universidad de Granada. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

Matlab >> R

Interested in habit learning? Please take a look at the meeting "Habits: Behaviour, neurons and clinical evidence" 📍Madrid, 📆June-15. 👷‍♂️Organized by @iobeso.bsky.social and the REHPE (Experimental Psychology Network to Study Habits). 🙏Please share the info! Web: sites.google.com/view/habit-r...

Warm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain. Karolinska Institutet HHMI #Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026

Good article on consequences of low peer review participation. Given that most papers get 2-3 reviews, all scientists should review at least twice as many papers as they submit.

🚨🚨 We are hiring a Postdoc at CIMCYC – University of Granada (Spain) 🚨🚨 2 year position in Neuroscience of Human Experience Building new ways to study lived experience as it unfolds in time and maps onto brain, body and behavior Please share‼️

Entrevista en @sermalaga.bsky.social sobre nuestro reciente artículo en Behavior Research Methods link.springer.com/article/10.3...

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think. We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science. Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com

I am looking for relatively easy to read but relevant papers about learning and conditioning, for the students enrolled in the course of Psychology of Learning (undergrads). The idea is that they have to read one paper and then make a conference type presentation. Any ideas?

XV Conference of the SEPEX and II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the BAPS: Call for Symposia y registro Estimados socios, estimadas socias: Os informamos que hemos ampliado el plazo del Call for Symposia de la V SEPEX & II Joint SEPEX-BAPS Meeting hasta el 28 de febrero de 2026. Asimismo, ya se…

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/...

Pues mira qué bien... Firmamos en la matrícula del cole que no queremos que se comparta ningún dato, ni fotos, ni nada, de nuestros hijos ni de nosotros, y para esto sirve. Y ni asomo de que nadie asuma la responsabilidad.

I don't know what annoys me more: 'Data upon request' or raw data shared in a format that makes reproducibility nearly impossible. At least the former doesn't waste your time 🫠

As someone with an interest in 1) ways of enhancing extinction learning to attenuate recovery and 2) assessing the evidence for memory erasure, I read this preprint from the Namboodiri lab with attention. Here are a few thoughts on the preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...

Our new paper, with colleagues from the Strategic Council of the National Academies, offers an integrative framework of the several components that contribute to making research findings trustworthy including ethics, methodology, transparency, inclusion, assessment, etc www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations @antovami.bsky.social !