New publication about funding! In this new piece in @natcomms.nature.com we present data from an evaluation of the lottery-first approach to funding: an initial lottery controlling entry, followed by peer review. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #funding #metascience #scienceofscience #peerreview

(Vicarious) Paper Alert for @finnluebber.bsky.social et al. Funding schemes that run a lottery to select scientists for submission of full grant proposals can counteract gender bias and reduce societal monetary costs of research funding. Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint by @annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social 💫 „Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“ #affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Highly recommended! Great PI, great lab and great environment 👇

New publication by @alexschroeder.bsky.social et al out at Open Mind 💫 „Initial expectations and confidence affect the formation of novel self-beliefs and their revision“ #sociallearning #affectedbeliefs 👇🏼 direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Also today: publication by @annalinavmayer.bsky.social et al 🙌🏼 at Translational Psychiatry „Altered association of plasmatic oxytocin with affective stress response in alcohol use disorder“ 👇🏼 rdcu.be/eLYGt

📣 Exciting announcement for the summer term: Starting in May, the @ccnberlin.bsky.social seminar series by Felix Blankenburg & Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin) is co-hosted by @david-s-stolz.bsky.social David Stolz (Universtiät Lübeck) and myself. The topic of all talks is: "CONTROL"

Had the pleasure of presenting some of my work today to the Computational Cognition Seminar at the University of Birmingham. Big thank you to @brainapps.bsky.social for the invitation!