Don't let the lack of funding stop you from attending #SIPS2026! SIPS has made a limited number of grants available to support SIPS members to attend the SIPS 2026 Meeting: 💸Student and postdoc travel support 💸Diversity travel support 💸Internet/technology funds (online SIPS) Apply by Feb 6!

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Das hier ist ein großes Problem: Es gibt nur sehr geringe Chancen auf eine Dauerstelle in der deutschen Wissenschaft. Ich war trotzdem erfolgreich und habe einen Thread vorbereitet, dicht gepackt mit Tipps und Infos, wie man es trotz der geringen Chancen auf eine Dauerstelle schaffen kann: 🧵 1/n

After writing this opinion piece, the team wanted to know if and how the field embraces open science practices and what we need to do better. Check our our new preprint with exploratory survey results: osf.io/preprints/ps... In the 🧵are some key messages.

The UBC Postdoc 3M Slam is happening Thursday 2nd October, 3:30 pm in LSC3. Sign up to attend or present your work in 3 minutes. Register here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Calling all UBC postdocs! Join us at 4 pm on Thursday 21st August at Jericho Beach for a BBQ Social. Food and drink provided. Bring any games or sports you would like to play! Register here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The Centre for Gambling Research (led by @lukeclark.bsky.social ) is on bluesky. Give @cgr-ubc.bsky.social a follow for updates on our research!

New research by Dr. Toni Schmader and her team offers insight into why women remain underrepresented in STEM: the persistent belief that men and women are “naturally” interested in different kinds of work. More: psych.ubc.ca/news/nature-...

I will never not be excited that past-Charlotte spent so much time on the preregistration, because now I already have half a method section written without having worked on the manuscript at all! #openscience #preregistration #academia

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs. 🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/ DMs or emails welcome! Please share!

Bitte unterzeichnet den @campact.de -Eil-Appell bis kommenden Freitag, damit das beliebte Deutschlandticket bezahlbar bleibt: aktion.campact.de/verkehr/deut... Retweet = 🧡

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

We are reviewing the current state of scientific publishing, and we want to hear from researchers on their perceptions of publishing in the current context and how it might develop in future. Complete our short survey now:

We are looking for a new VP EDI! Email us at [email protected] with the nomination form (drive.google.com/file/d/1W0ZH...) to sign up, or to ask any questions you may have. All nominations from UBC postdocs are welcome!

Psa to my eyelink-using friends: the latest version of windows will cause your experiment timings to fail. Don’t update this time!! (And don’t ask me how I found out 😭😭😭😭😭😭)

Zum Abschluss des Tages noch ein Gedanke, der mich seit Monaten begleitet: In den letzten 12 Monaten durfte ich mit vielen tollen Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen arbeiten. Und dabei ist mir eines immer wieder aufgefallen: Viele wollen rennen, bevor sie laufen können. #TeamScience #Nachwuchs

- Calling students enrolled at German unis (SHK/SHB) - FORRT project seeks multiple research assistants for 12 months (remote & flexible). Tasks: 🖥️ Code tools for replication alerts 🌍 Coordinate hackathons & projects 🎤 Help with qualitative interviews Get in touch if are interested in any of these!

Thanks to the @agrigambling.bsky.social for organizing their incredibly stimulating annual conference in Banff. It is inspiring to see all the research that is conducted in our field and to meet all those brilliant researchers. Keep up the great work. Picture from our hike at Lake Louise

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/...

This is a really important piece for every scientist (right now especially in Canada). Give it a read!

Join the UBC and SFU Postdocs for a social at the Bloedel Conservatory and Queen Elizabeth Park on Thursday 17th April! 4-5 PM - Bloedel Conservatory (Free Entry) 5 PM - BBQ at QE Park Feel free to join for both parts of the event or just one. Register now: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I am thrilled to share this call for papers with you at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. @cassie-boness.bsky.social and I, alongside @aidangcw.bsky.social, are looking for proposals on the science and practice of behavioral addictions research. www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

New research by @charlotteeben.bsky.social out of the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC

I got to write a little something about the illusion of control. Thanks to @natrevpsych.bsky.social I now have a my first single author publication ✨ Check out their other journalclub papers, it‘s a cool article format for ECRs!

I asked DeepSeek to develop a scale to measure addiction to addiction scale development and of course it delivered.

Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘

We submitted to Frontiers?! 😱 It's a comment on a Frontiers paper (doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...) purporting to measure “problem gambling.” But they didn't! The scale was edited: “gambling” was changed to “spending money on gacha.” So it no longer measured “problem gambling.” 🤦 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

It is one of my favorite projects because I rallied all those amazing researchers on the paper. Everyone was excited about the project and trusted that an ECR like me could lead this. If this is not the environment that we want to create in our field, I don't know what is😎

One of my favorite projects (doi.org/10.1556/2006...) just won the Best Paper of the Year 2023 in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions Award. Currently we are working on the empirical follow-up, so stay tuned. A little summary of what we did and why it is one of my favorites in this thread🧵

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact [email protected] if you need assistance

New work from the lab now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: A neurocomputational account of multi-line electronic gambling machines www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

My first experience with @pci-regreports.bsky.social as one of the authors has been accepted: rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere... We investigated whether DnD as a tabletop role-playing game can mitigate social anxiety and problematic gaming patterns in online gamers Preprint: osf.io/htbwa

I have elaborated a BSKY starter pack with some of my favorite accounts of researchers on the links between tech and mental health, gambling, and putative behavioral addictions. Please let me know if you miss someone, or you want to be included. go.bsky.app/7zpTqEH