📢 Submission portal are now open for #ACBM2026, 21-23rd June in Ghent, Belgium! 🎉We are pleased to confirm our first two 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝟭. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘂, 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗨𝗞 𝟮. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗘𝗿𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗞𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗚𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗶𝘂𝗺 📍For more info visit: acbm-association.org/ghent-confer...

📢Join us for the 2026 Autobiographical Processing & Psychopathology Conference next June! #APP2026🎉 ⏰1-month to go until submission deadline - submit your abstracts by 5pm, 15th Jan 2026! 🚨Abstracts for our two invited keynote addresses now available in our latest newsletter: tinyurl.com/2r8r24dt

📢 Save the date 🗓️: We are pleased to announce that the 2026 ACBM conference will be held in Ghent, Belgium on 21st-23rd June 2026! 🎉 🌟 More details to follow. 📌 Join our mailing list for the latest updates and news: acbm-association.org (subscribe button is at the bottom of the page)

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA#microbiome @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

University of Viginia's ex-President James Ryan explaining his 12-page letter, which documents events that led up to his resignation: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... "I didn’t have time to make it as concise as it should be." Also known as, "If I had more time I would have said less.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

💬 WEBINAR ALERT 🌟 Mental Imagery in Psychosis & Bipolar Disorder: New Research & Insights 📍 11-12 GMT, Wed 4th Feb 2026 elfi.sh/imaps #iMAPS2 #Webinar #Psychosis #Bipolar #Psychotherapy #MentalImagery #Research #ElfHelp

Are you a UK mental health professional working with children with mental health issues - we are asking for help designing a study for social robots to complete mental health questionnaires with children aged 8 to 10 - more infor here cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

📢 Submissions are now open for the 2026 Autobiographical Processing & Psychopathology Conference, at the University of Plymouth 🌊 on 23rd - 24th June 2026 🎉! 📌Visit the #APP2026 website for more details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/aut... 📬Join our mailing list: stats.sender.net/forms/bqxQO0...

40 minutes of functional imagery training reduced anxiety and motivated students with high anxiety achieve their goals. Here's the evidence: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉Great to see so many staff and students attend our first departmental talk of the new academic year. Thanks to our very own Dr Charles Or for kicking the season off with a fascinating talk on "Identifying faces under imperfect conditions"😷. 📌See our upcoming School of Psychology talks here.

Multi-session CBM-I for Social Anxiety: Examining Psychopathology, Cognitive, Neural, and Psychophysiological Effects in a Randomized Controlled Trial: https://osf.io/2bv3x

Threat-related Mental Imagery Impairs Endogenous Pain Modulation in Healthy Individuals: https://osf.io/za8jq

Excited for a huge #EABCT2025, kicking off now! 🎉🌟🎊👏 Lovely opening by @blackwellse.bsky.social 👏.

Seeing is believing: mental imagery amplifies moral, emotional, and motivational responding to mentally constructed hypothetical events: https://osf.io/egcbt

Picturing the Past: The Role of Photo Cue Visual Perspective on Positive Autobiographical Memory Recall in Dysphoria: https://osf.io/hfdbn

Almost exactly one year after starting my lab (!), I'm thrilled to share our first preprint! 🥳 @leilyb.bsky.social @sharinahamm.bsky.social @francesghart.bsky.social We propose future directions for mathematical, computational, & digital methods to advance suicide research: osf.io/preprints/ps...

A very important paper led by the phenomenal @lucy-h-butler.bsky.social Say it with me: Corrections. Of. Scientific. Misinformation. Are. Effective. @lewan.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lkfazio.bsky.social @tobyprike.bsky.social @brionyswire.bsky.social @emilyspearing.bsky.social

Interested in mental imagery &/or divergent perception? Come join my growing lab in the heart of Liverpool! We're investigating: -Aphantasia, emotions & memory -Imagery & illusions -Hyperphantasia & hallucinations -Philosophy of imagery extremes -Psychometrics &more! www.reshannereeder.com/team

🚨 New Resource Alert! 🚨🧪 We just launched a resource page packed with useful information about the Pain Self Perception Scale for pain researchers and clinicians. Access is free for non-commercial projects/activities. Check it out here 👉 warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...

This piece gives a good overview of the damning report into failures at Dundee University www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

A wonderful plenary talk from Early Career award winner @veronicayan.bsky.social - pictured with her proud nominator @lkfazio.bsky.social and @officialsarmac.bsky.social Awards Committee member @aminamemon.bsky.social

Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...

🚨 Abstract Submission Deadline Extended! 🚨 The deadline for abstract submissions for the 4th annual ACBM conference has been extended to *10th June 2025*! 🎉 Join us in Munich, Germany from 14th to 16th September 2025 to share your research! 🌟 For more info see: share.sender.net/campaigns/bs...

The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

University academic contributes to report warning hidden toll of brain injury costs the economy £43 billion a year 🧠 www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/academi...

Paper finally published in JEP General! Individual variability in mental imagery vividness does not predict perceptual interference with imagery: A replication study of Cui et al., 2007: osf.io/preprints/os... A study cited over 500 times couldn't be replicated, even in extreme imagery... a 🧵 1/8

I was invited to join as Editorial Board Member of a new @elsevierconnect.bsky.social journal Here's why I #declined an uncompensated role in #AcademicPublishing 🧵🧪🧠📈

⏰📷 Last week to register for my Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling workshop on May 14-16! I cover 4 of 5 types of stability/change: structural, differential, normative, and individual change in panel data (2-10ish waves) Please RT! 🙏 smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info

Still time to register for this fantastic conference on stress and anxiety in Munich!

Prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents www.acamh.org/event/preven... Emeritus Professor Pim Cuijpers webinar on the research on preventing the onset of depression in youth.

Proud supervisor moment 🤩! Congratulations Meghan Whitehouse for winning Best Talk at the 2025 BPS South West Undergraduate Conference for Psychology for her thesis project on mental imagery manipulation of descending pain modulation! 👏💐✨ Well done to all students who presented their work 🏆👏🌱⭐!

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

@timeshighered.bsky.social with a list of the most recent job cuts at UK universities. #UKHE #AcademicSky

Hundreds of years after the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment we are not nearly as enlightened as we could and should be. #ScienceMatters

Do you want to know how much it costs to publish open access in a journal? I got sick of looking this up, so made this: apc.simon.net.nz #openaccess #academicpublishing #articlepagecharges

I'm excited to share that the last chapter of my PhD thesis is now published in Nature! 🍾 What drives serotonin neurons? We think it's the expectation of future reward and --- critically --- how fast this expectation is increasing. 📈 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/6

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...

Structure of Current Psychopathology and its Associations with Daily Life Experiences using the HiTOP-PRO in a Mixed Clinical/Community Sample osf.io/preprints/ps...

Want to publish open access for free in clinical psychology? What’s stopping you?

Thrilled to see this paper out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social after years of work by Drs. @diamondn.bsky.social and @stefsimpson.bsky.social, with Drs. Stuart Fogel, Daniel Baena, and Brian J Murray! @baycrestfoundation.bsky.social

Insane www.science.org/content/arti...

Job Alerts: We are looking for a PhD and a postdoc to work on predictive cognition! 👇 Join us in THINK! 🧠 Please, get in touch! Many thanks for sharing! 🙏 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0...

It is thrilling to announce that Lifecycle Journal is open for submissions. Come and try out this reimagining of scholarly communication that meets researchers' needs in the current system and opens the door to an innovative, values-aligned, community-led system for the future.

I did my phd with @andrea-benucci.bsky.social and I can only recommend working with him if you are interested in perception and want to gain experience with optogenetics and imaging methods. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢 Do you know an outstanding ECR in the field of cognitive bias & its modification? 🌟 Consider nominating them as an ECR Keynote Speaker for the ACBM conference in Munich this Sept. If you or someone you know would like to be nominated, please email 📬 [email protected] by 📆 14th March!

Many academics, perversely, do volunteer work for the multinationals that financially milk academia. Worse, these corporations have 'captured' academia in that many academics chase the brands they own (high-impact journals), and the metrics they control, above all else.

Application deadline is 7 April 2025 👇 - Thanks for reposting -