Not much you can do in Europe, but if you happen to have a Disney+ subscription: now is the time to cancel it (ABC that pulled Jimmy Kimmel owns the Walt Disney company). Trump's words, after Kimmel and Stephen Colbert were pulled: "That leaves Jimmy [Fallon] and Seth [Meyers]". Free speech no more.

Nation Grateful To GOP For Protecting It From TV

Will you be at #ICON2025 in Porto? Then drop at our symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" (SY23, Thursday at 13.45) with @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @hcp4715.bsky.social organized by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst

In this preprint, @chris-pinier.bsky.social shows that open-source LLMs can perform abstract reasoning tasks, that LLMs have representations of pattern type in intermediate layers, and that LLM activations correspond to Fixation Related Potentials from participants' EEG. arxiv.org/abs/2508.10057

🧠 New preprint alert! In this study, using a joint modelling method with the Diffusion Decision Model, we offer a mechanistic reinterpretation of the Late Positive event-related potential Component (LPC) as a neural signature of mnemonic strength during evidence accumulation in recognition memory.

I don't agree with everything in this article, but I do agree with this: "The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war... #academicsky #ai #teaching

The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. “People on the right, they don’t realize they’re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.” nyti.ms/4lMDXtN

Totally agree: What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat (although I am biased, because I was one of those...) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good time to announce that there will be a symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" at #ICON Chaired by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst. With @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social, @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social, @hcp4715.bsky.social and myself as speakers

Save the date! The 2026 *gasp* Australasian MathPsych conference will be in Singapore -- looks to be a great one :) @ozmathpsych.bsky.social

Donald Trump commandeered 2,000 of our state’s National Guard members to deploy on our streets.  Illegally, and for no reason.

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Republican administration has halted all student (and postdoc etc) VISA interviews. I've written a lot about soft power here. The attacks on foreign students in the US not only undercuts the funding stream for US universities; they hemorrhage US soft power.

“Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Like I said a few times before, it was NEVER about campus protests or anti-semitism. It was always about seizing control of higher education through govt blackmail and coercion.

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...

Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!

reminding myself once again that written is better than perfect

An important short opinion piece and video from 3 academics who study authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

Powerful statement and an inside look at what is happening to science in tge current administration . time.com/7285045/resi...

I may be the only lawyer targeted by Trump willing to speak on camera, but for me it wasn't a choice. All of us have an obligation to speak out against what Trump is doing. All of us have an obligation to fight for democracy. I am fortunate to be a lawyer and to have a platform -- and I will use it.

The brutal assault on American science by the Trump administration is such an incredible self-own. Our entire country suffers across various domains as we lose out on invaluable cutting-edge research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...

Finally, Ven Popov's & my paper introducing the Bayesian Measurement Models (bmm: venpopov.github.io/bmm/) R package is published in Behavior Research Methods: rdcu.be/ehKtv In the paper we show how to use bmm for fitting mixture models for visual #workingmemory tasks.

Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

The @uva.nl has decided to make the Department of Psychology the sacrificial lamb in order to capitulate to the right-wing Dutch government and minster of education in their suicidal de-internationalization (Dutch language requirement in education) policy. What a comparison to Harvard.

Very cool science here 😎 OK, I might be biased but still, reading out different cognitive strategies by combining EEG data, our reaction time decomposition method, and a deep learning sequence model is super cool! Congrats Rick for your first preprint 🥳

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

I have complained about both of my alma maters frequently so I want to share praise where praise is due. I'm proud of Harvard for finding their backbone. It's a big deal because everyone else looks to them. And godspeed to them in fighting this shakedown bullshit from the Trump administration.

This is now published in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... with @annalschubert.bsky.social, @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social, and Klaus Oberauer

Please consider donating to Rumeysa Ozturk's legal defense, living costs and medical care fund #Academicsky chuffed.org/project/just...

HEY APA! Didn’t you know that the first rule of fighting tyranny is DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE?! So why the fuck are you obeying in advance?!?? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Based on recent incidents like this one, I can't in good conscience, recommend that any (non-U.S.) prospective PhD student or Postdoc seek a position in the U.S. at this time. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

Yesterday we were having a lab conversation about whether we’ll still be going to meetings in the US. This might just settle it. Also, I think we should exit the platforms that are obvious monitoring windows, even if they claim end-to-end encryption. Why should we ever trust them?

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

We're searching for a new colleague at Uni Bremen: *Full Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience*! Includes researcher positions to fill & use of labs for e.g. (f)MRI,fNIRS,EEG, eyetracking. fMRI expertise desired. Please share! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

🛠️☀️ 1 of 4 Hybrid Summer Workshops: Improve your general statistics knowledge. No experience w/ stat-techniques or JASP necessary. Based on fresh-out-the-press textbook. Taught by @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social ECs for students available. jasp-stats.org/2025/03/03/h...

Ok. LOVE anti-acknowledgements! What a great idea to say no thanks! I think it would be cool to see anti-acknowledgements from other people (unofficial ones for PhD, career, etc). As awful as these experiences sound, I am sure they are not uncommon. I am thankful to Rachel for sharing. 👩‍🔬🧪

New preprint! Individual differences in neurophysiological correlates of post-response adaptation: A model-based approach osf.io/preprints/ps... This work seeks to extract the effects of response monitoring on decision-making using model-based CogNeuro and methods to study individual differences.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.” “We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”

And take action to stop this illegal power grab:

Despite some things happening in the US being expected, I'm saddened and angry (and as an American living in Europe - embarrassed) about what is happening to US scientists, US governmental institutions, and the harm that the Trump administration is doing to US/European/World security.

Civil disobedience is often necessary. Thank you Chris Kluwe.#civil disobedience