Call for papers on conflict adaptation across single- and multi-tasking paradigms in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...

Does facilitation by irrelevant distractors reflect suppression or controlled attentional capture? By reanalyzing prior work using the perceptual load paradigm, we find evidence for the latter! If you are interested, check out the latest version of our preprint 👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

While measuring habits in humans experimentally is hard, on Bluesky it’s much easier: just count your “save omission errors” (the number of times you forget you can now save posts).

Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays

Postdoctoral job offer: Do you want to join us to conduct research on the psychology of dis(mis)information in Granada, Spain? You will also have the opportunity to participate in popularization activities. 📆Apply before Sept 26th! #socialpsyc #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #polipsy

New research paper #PsynomLB 'Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity' https://bit.ly/43Rc3FL#PsynomLB@Psychonomic_Soc @CanalUGR #Pavlov

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

For those of you starting up school again -- or with kids who are -- here's my under-10-minute introduction to science-backed study tips. Let me know if you find them helpful, and feel free to share!

🌱Don’t miss out on the Habit highlights at the EHPS conference in Groningen!🌱 From habit decay strategies and AI-driven interventions to fresh insights into measurement and automatic influences on behaviour, this year’s program features inspiring research and networking opportunities.

Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.

Excited to share our new publication on the influence of odor perception on memory. Congratulations to @joantarridav.bsky.social for initiating this fascinating line of research in our lab.

A new version of our preprint is now available 👇 link: osf.io/q52wb

New preprint from the lab, produced in collaboration with Simon Killcross' lab: Modelling compulsive actions in rats and mice: The back-translation of value-modulated attentional capture from humans to rodents doi.org/10.31234/osf... I will be presenting some of this work at Pavlovian next week!

New preprint from the lab on habit learning in compulsivity from the fantastic @kellydonegan.bsky.social! ✅ N=1000, ✅ pre-registered, ✅ within-person crossover design...we study individual differences in habit learning using the Neureka App

New preprint! Habits should get stronger with more practice, right? Well, this crucial result has been difficult to reproduce in human labs. In an instant classic, de Wit (2018) showed 5 failures in obtaining more evidence of habits in conditions with more training -as compared to little trained

Excited to be speaking about habits at the EAM2025 Conference!

Come and join us at the University of Sydney School of Psychology! 🦘 Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor position usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

New paper out! Here we show that attentional biases induced by reward history depend on awareness of such reward history (w/ @jlupiane.bsky.social and @mavadillo.bsky.social). link.springer.com/article/10.3... 👇🧵

We (with @iobeso.bsky.social) submitted a paper to @nathumbehav.nature.com on March 17th. After numerous inquiries, we do not know yet if the article will be sent out to reviewers. We have the impression that the editor/s haven't see it yet (after 4 months). Not ideal

🚨 New paper alert! Do time constraints reveal habitual behaviour? 🤔 We directly compared two major paradigms in the habit research field (Outcome Devaluation vs Response Remapping) under identical training and forced-response conditions 🧠 ⏲️ ⌨️ preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Congratulations to Teresa Bajo, University of Granada, Spain, recipient of the 2025 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award. The award honors exceptional scientists who have demonstrated sustained leadership and service to the field and to the Society. bit.ly/401ldi0

I am reading a PhD thesis which is not a collection of articles. I like it this way. And I don't like the current pressure imposed over students to get published papers, starting since they are even studying the bachelor degree. Please, leave them time to read, think, make mistakes & learn from them

We are putting together a symposium on habits for the next SEPC meeting at San Sebastian (www.uik.eus/es/curso/xxx...). This symposium includes a wide range of study types, reflecting the vibrant moment this area of research is currently experiencing. If interested, I'll see you at San Sebastian!

While looking for a hotel room for the next SEPC meeting at San Sebastian, I've been informed that the max prize that I can pay is less than 66€ per night. The money is from one of my grants; I can't spend more because of an outdated law. It is ridiculous. I think I will sleep at the meeting venue

Presenting some modelling stuff at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social!

In this article, @yuedu.bsky.social and @adrianhaith.bsky.social show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to announce that our paper (led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith) is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com go.illinois.edu/Lee2025_NHB We use 36 days of testing in 4 inhibitory control tasks to examine the precision of inhibitory control measures in *individuals* and how they vary 🧵👇

Rumbo a Málaga para participar en el tributo a nuestro querido Paco López. www.uma.es/facultad-de-...

El estudio de hábitos dentro del laboratorio www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2515

New paper out! Here, we show that the inclusion of rewards or punishments contingent on performance can significantly modulate the extinction process of value-related attentional biases. With Adriana Ariza, Felisa González, and yours truly. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are pleased to announce our next Time-resolved Neuroimaging (EEG+) #CIMCYCsession which will be held by Paula Pena. She will present the results of her work www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... No prior experience in EEG is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to discuss ideas. Save the date!

First post with a shiny new preprint on neural basis of habit formation as measured with goal switching! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Neural Basis of Habit Formation Measured in Goal-Directed Response Switching https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643040v1

New preprint! Habits should get stronger with more training. This ‘overtraining’ effect has been elusive in human research. In this study we assess this effect using a contingency degradation test (3 pre-registered exp). Our results strongly suggest no effect of 'overtraining' on habit commissions

New preprint! In this study, we assessed the reliability and validity of the measures intended to capture the "habit construct" in the forced-response task and the aliens outcome-devaluation task. w/ Antonio Vázquez-Millán, @frangfr.bsky.social and @davluque.bsky.social

El lado bueno de las cosas: Uso de claves de recuperación en el tratamiento de los trastornos de ansiedad www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2490