🧠The concept of habit means different things in psychology, neuroscience, economics, and marketing 💡Want to learn more about how we can bring these views together to understand consumer choices? 📅 Join us next Monday for the final EHPS Habit SIG event of 2025, featuring @cfcamerer.bsky.social

Just for the record, new preprint out! In a project led by the wonderful @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social (w/ Alicia Ferrer-Mendieta, Carmen Peiro-Lanchares, and @mavadillo.bsky.social), we test how different manipulations affect the response validity of the Perceptual Awareness Scale (PAS).

I see this same pattern in psychology—there is a huge desire among early career scholars to do applied work This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Desde @erilectura.bsky.social lanzamos encuesta para profesorado sobre vuestras experiencias, necesidades y nivel de preparación para utilizar herramientas de inteligencia artificial ¡Ayuda al desarrollo de soluciones prácticas y éticas para la educación! uantwerpen.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We’re hiring a technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Job posting: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

Very happy to see this one finally published. Congratulations to all the co-authors for this brilliant piece of work! Especially to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social for her immense patience and excellent work. Well done!

PhD position (FPI) in the Causal Cognition Group, University of Málaga Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…

A Gentle Push Toward Leading Your First Multisite Registered Report: Resources and Recommendations from an Early-Career Coordinator: https://osf.io/td8ck

As a PhD student in the lab (with similar funding), I highly recommend this PhD opportunity 🧠 Don’t miss the chance to join our team in Málaga!

JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...

New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Results of the replication are in! Chocolate is more desirable than poop: Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78] N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability. w/ @jamiecummins.bsky.social

Apply for our Scientific Traineeships! A 5-months paid traineeship at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Open to graduates in different scientific fields. All information: europa.eu/!mBn7wR #ResearchJobs #EUScienceJobs #JRC

Estamos de vuelta! 🥳

Breaking Nobel news!🏅 Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants. 🇪🇺

📣The 2026 ERC Consolidator Grant competition is now open! 📣 Already preparing your proposal? Info links ⬇️ Info for applicants 👉 buff.ly/PSbeUxX Application portal 👉 buff.ly/mauZoqo Deadline: 13/01/26 General info on #ERCCoG 👉 buff.ly/KCN6GTh

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Am slowly making my way through this paper. And it is an impressive body of work by a collection of great researchers. However, I have a couple of problems with it... 1/n

The symposium on habits at the International Spanish Comparative Psychology Society has been fantastic. Thanks to the organisers, the audience and of course the speakers. Here it follows what each talk was about:

In which 94 benchmark phenomena are identified. 16 are domain- and species-general and should be explained by any theory claiming generality. 30 are species- and/or domain-specific but highly robust across procedures

rdcu.be/eIyQB Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology, here we mimicked the striatal neuroinflammation seen in the brains of individuals with compulsive disorders and found that this facilitated goal-directed action, whereas activating the Gi pathway in astrocytes prevented it

Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?

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!