Individual variation in #sociability is a central feature of every society, including #HoneyBees. This study shows that specific genetic variants & #brain gene expression patterns are linked to variation in the social act of sharing liquids (trophallaxis) in bees @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3VjjXnJ

-cease and desist -null and void -aid and abet -free and clear -ways and means Why is law stuff like this always two words? These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans. 🧵⬇️

What drives behavior in living organisms? And how can we design artificial agents that learn interactively? 📢 To address these, the Sensorimotor AI Journal Club is launching the "RL Debate Series"👇 w/ @elisennesh.bsky.social, @noreward4u.bsky.social, @tommasosalvatori.bsky.social 🧵[1/5] 🧠🤖🧠📈

Your article was just published in a journal—what’s next? Join this upcoming webinar to hear tips and strategies to promote your work. Register now! 🔗 vist.ly/47abu #neurosky #neuroskyence

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

I fear change... 😅 I learned MATLAB last century... millennium even! However, MATLAB hasn't stood still since - unfortunately I have! 🕰️. Everything added after 2000 is mysterious and powerful!

Why what is happening in the United States shows the need for the United Kingdom to repair its own constitution Our polity is there for the taking Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-pointl... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky

The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Deadline for the 2 postdoc jobs with us at @ucl.ac.uk in one week, 17th Sep. On the roles of goals in organising social representations in prefrontal cortex (modelling, neuroimaging, transcranial ultrasound).

Setting up a new (to me!) Apple Silicon MacBook Pro M2 so I could finally mess with the Apple Vision Pro in XCode… and @zotero.org has gone and updated to version 7! www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-7/ #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

Chasing the average on multidimensional psychological and biological constructs. #psychscisky

Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) who could use advice about navigating peer review? Are you stuck on a manuscript submission or revision? Have general questions about peer review? Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊

Currently simulating 14.7 million noisy elliptical trajectories; 200+ hours on our local HPC, BlueBEAR 🖥️⚡ Hopefully it will resolve whether a purported fundamental power law of biological movement is not a mirage, and if divergences from it might be robust biomarkers for neurological conditions 🧠🔬

Sleep EEG-fMRI finally starting @thechbh.bsky.social!

We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture:

The place to be www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

End of an age. In Our Time great, proper intellectual broadcasting rather than tripe based on the assumption that the audience are hopelessly stupid or have no ability to pay attention. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

I'm seeking PhD students to work with my collaborators (Welber Marinovic, Jarrad Lum, Chris Latella) & I in gorgeous Western Australia. Please email me on [email protected] asap if you are interested (there's a rather short application window). intranet.ecu.edu.au/research/hig...

The first flight simulator I played was PSION Flight Simulation on the ZX spectrum in 1982. #MATLAB #MATLABambassador

It's very human to only double check that a process is working when you get a weird result. It's also very bad practice, because sometimes your "right" result is due to a bad process and you will be misled. Social scientists (economists) do this kind of asymmetric checking. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20069

At long last, the pre-print to our MEG study + RIFT study and the final paper from my Ph.D with @olejensen.bsky.social We show that strong pre-search alpha oscillations are associated with faster responses in visual search www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @thechbh.bsky.social #neuroskyence

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

in this week's newsletter! I realised I'd been pretty serious for some weeks so I wrote quite a daft list on the things which make me realise that, at heart, I'm still extremely French, even after 16 years here: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/10-ways-in...

Good to see @bsky.app has emerged as the social media platform of choice for science stuff arstechnica.com/science/2025...

🚨 MATLAB user? Missing the floating search bar of yesteryear? (It’s *always* in the way or in the wrong window 🕵️‍♂️) Not satisfied with the new night mode and craving dusk, dawn, or party mode? 🌅🌄

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

If you're planning a study, search DANDI or OpenNeuro first to see if relevant data already exists. If you're teaching, incorporate open datasets into your curriculum, writes @bendichter.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

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

I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯 I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼 So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉

#EEGManyLabs website is now live: eegmanylabs.org A home for our global effort to test the replicability of influential EEG findings, share resources, improve methods in cognitive neuroscience, and grow an open, connected community.

🧵 I've been working with #MATLAB2025a since pre-release, and it's time to share what's new and exciting (..to me at least!) #MATLAB #MATLABambassador

{truffle} is an R package for teaching users to process data. Semi-realistic psychological datasets with predetermined effects (via `truffles_` functions) are then hidden in common data processing headaches (via `dirt_` functions) for students to clean and analyze. mmmdata.io/posts/2025/0...

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish. It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates + can validate existing projects

Terry Pratchett gave us octarine the magical 8th colour of the spectrum, visible only to wizards and of course cats 🐱. UC Berkeley researchers have discovered "olo" - a real colour 🎨 that exists outside standard human vision… so far visible to only 5 people in the world! ✨ #MATLAB #MATLABambassador

🧭 We are pleased to announce that applications for the SSI Fellowship Programme 2026 are now open! The deadline to apply is Mon 6 Oct. Find out more and access further resources at www.software.ac.uk/news/ssi-fel...

It was an honor to write this, but also great fun. A chance to look back at the classics, and think about the path forward. #Physics is a beautiful human endeavor. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Workplace green flag: Senior colleague sends you a message they didn't have to send, offering support they didn't have to offer, based on a need they thought you might have that you didn't explicitly tell them about. Find workplaces like that and stay in them 👍 Happy Friday everyone!

me (trying to sound normal): ah, i just help look for lost cats sometimes 🥰 also me (holding a $1000 thermal hunting scope irresponsibly bought specifically to find cats):

Started with fft() for quick and dirty noise colour estimation in our biological motion power law work. Alas more data doesn't make it more accurate 📊 Not ideal when chasing subtly divergent movement signatures in Parkinson's and Autism. #MATLAB #MATLABambassador

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (University of Birmingham, 3–5 November) A multidisciplinary event exploring the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17, 2025

If the publication is open access, you have to download it. Read it later, or never, forget about it maybe, but feel good about adding the file to your computer. This is a silent agreement of all academics. Downloading is already working. Well done. Click the button. #academicchatter

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched. And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever. Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

My new paper with Jennifer Cook sets out potential reasons for high rates of Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis in the autistic population: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mrccbu.bsky.social @thechbh.bsky.social 🧵1/n

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New blog post: "History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 1: Before 1990" A brief summary of the early years of digital image processing, and of early versions of MATLAB before 1990. www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/... #matlab

🧵 THREAD: Finally! MATLAB + Python integration pays dividends in the most unexpected way... #MATLAB #MATLABambassador