Everything is a distraction from this.

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... A short thread [1/5]👇

somehow I missed this! Dopamine represents a domain-general teaching signal: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today. A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

Danish Media covers our recent study (article in danish): videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

🧟‍♂️🚨 Publication alert! 🚨🧟‍♀️ Holy moly, I'm thrilled to announce our new paper in Emotion! We explored how recreational fear, physiological synchrony, and social closeness interact in a high-intensity haunted house setting. 1/5 🧵 Link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

🧟‍♂️🚨 Publication alert! 🚨🧟‍♀️ Holy moly, I'm thrilled to announce our new paper in Emotion! We explored how recreational fear, physiological synchrony, and social closeness interact in a high-intensity haunted house setting. 1/5 🧵 Link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Happy to share "The Dynamics of Caregiver Unpredictability Shape Moment-to-Moment Infant Looking During Dyadic Interaction," out now in Child Development thanks to a large team of people I worked on this with! srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

This was such a fun conversation about childhood, play, and agency across cultures. Thanks for having @sheinalew.bsky.social & I on the show!

🚨 Kids LOVE fear?!🚨 Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising: Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun! 📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105... [1/🧵]

🚨 Kids LOVE fear?!🚨 Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising: Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun! 📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105... [1/🧵]

Our daily lives are packed w complex behaviours: reading a novel & piecing together the plot; negotiating decisions w family... How do we build mathematical models of the underlying cognitive mechanisms? Our new preprint osf.io/d2v54_v1 argues for a community approach A 🧵 1/

Now is the time to go write 📝 your application for this exciting postdoc position in our project exploring how the shift from animal to human-based research models shapes science and society 🔬🌍 Deadline Monday Apr 27 www.au.dk/om/stillinge... @interacting-minds.bsky.social

Our registered exploratory pilot programme using offline tabletop role-playing games hashtag #TTRPG to mitigate social anxiety and reduce problematic involvement in online video games has just been published at Royal Society Open Science @royalsociety.org royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Thrilled to share the publication of "Can playing Dungeons & Dragons be good for you?" led by the brilliant @joelbillieux.bsky.social and his fantastic team. I was lucky to play a small part in this epic quest. 🎲🐉🧟‍♀️🔥⚔️ Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #DnD #MentalHealth #TTRPG

Thrilled to share the publication of "Can playing Dungeons & Dragons be good for you?" led by the brilliant @joelbillieux.bsky.social and his fantastic team. I was lucky to play a small part in this epic quest. 🎲🐉🧟‍♀️🔥⚔️ Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #DnD #MentalHealth #TTRPG

Very cool modelling work by @drelenamiu.bsky.social @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, on how childhood exploration drives population-level innovation in cultural evolution (C.O.I: I have a horse in that race: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36845441/)

New pre-print out with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social on how childhood exploration drives population-level innovation in cultural evolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Has global warming accelerated? „At that rate (0.1 °C every 3 years), after we blow past 1.5 °C (this year or next?) it’ll take just 15 more years to reach 2 °C.“ tamino.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/r...

PhD call: Investigate how spatial language and mental body maps are modulated by ageing. Behavioral exps and f/MRI & MEG used to map the structural and functional variability of brain regions known to be involved in linguistic and non-linguistic spatial processing. Deadline 15 March.

We are looking for a Phd student for a project on modeling second language learning using adaptive cognitive tutors. Please share with anyone who might be interested! phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...

Our new paper is out! 🚀 BaYaka hunter-gatherer children are 3x more active than WHO recommendations & stay active as they age—unlike US/UK kids, whose activity declines with the start of formal schooling 📉. Read more in @SciReports: rdcu.be/d72T1

New article by Arnault-Quentin Vermillet, Joshua Skewes and Christine Parsons published in Emotion Men and women’s waking patterns to infant crying: Preparenthood differences are insufficient to explain uneven sharing of nighttime care psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...