Average editor: Tick suggested names, send automated review requests. Good editor: Find relevant reviewers, send personalised messages. IEEE Systems Journal: Keep spamming the same potential reviewers even after they reject multiple times. One hundred “no” and one “yes” means “yes”, baby!

On the one hand, it's great to know people are using sunscreen. On the other, I would have preferred to learn this through other means than slipping off the building's greasy (but fresh-smelling!) door handle.

Big "for me, it was Tuesday" energy. Also, not all of us are like this! Some of us have a pathological need to be liked and will randomly wake up, drenched in sweat, stressing about that one slightly negative comment on an evaluation from 2021. Students can (and should) abuse these character flaws.

As part of the #InternationalWomensDay we had the pleasure to collaborate with @psychopy.org (@hirstrj.bsky.social @kimdundas) creating a workshop series to ensure everyone can get started with experimental design 🗣️ All materials are now open access! 🔗 wicseurope.github.io/WiCSeurope/r...

Finally had enough of my smart watch. Constant notifications, patronising reminders, and low sleep scores for waking to attend children. I used to sell expensive watches. Disliked over-affluent customers, but loved the mechanisms. This one isn't particularly high-end, but so much less disruptive!

Actual email I just received: "🔥 NEW! Equine Castration Surgical Simulator 🐴" (emoji’s very much included)

Come work at the Bristol Baby Lab! Postdoc recruitment starting soon; read up and get in touch with relevant people now. (I’m not involved in recruitment, but always happy to informally chat about what the Bristol developmental psychology scene is like.)

Reads like an April Fool’s joke, but the last update to this was in October 2025. In brief: the Terms of Use suggest that Copilot is not a serious tool, can fuck up at any given point (no warranty), and users are solely responsible for any consequences (indemnity for Microsoft). Great software!

Amazing PhD project with a wonderful set of supervisors! This is a rare topic of study, so if you’re into it, embrace this opportunity!

Funded PhD position at the @exeter.ac.uk with your time split between Exeter and Queensland (Australia) Digital Haptics and Proprioceptive Learning in Surgery www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... (warning, slightly gory VR surgery video from our industrial partner)

⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪 Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪 PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓 More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Sperm whale pods came together to support (literally) the birth of a conspecific. There are only a handful of recorded sperm whale births in human history, and none with footage like this. Stop whatever you’re doing, and watch these videos: www.projectceti.org/whalebirth

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Come work with me and @dr-appie.bsky.social in Amsterdam!

Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬 You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL) werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures... Please RT for karma points ♥️

The one thing I really appreciate about modern academic publishers is how much value they add. Their copy-editing is of such a high standard that they wouldn’t, for example, publisher a paper with two errors in the title.

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

Transparency is the default for windows, but we typically make an exception for those in bathrooms. So if you’re reading Psych Science on the toilet, you don’t have to preregister. Fully agree with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci: I don’t see what people find so hard about this.

The last year has been an extraordinary journey for us at @elife.bsky.social as we have been establishing a new model of publishing and taken on some of the commercial forces in publishing. We have tried to capture some of the takeaways in this editorial.

My 2-year-old said "suncream makes us warm", and boy was he unprepared for the inevitable stats lesson.

Looking forward to presenting our research on digital technology use and wellbeing at this session today, free to attend if you're in Cambridge! www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/lonel... @promiseproject.bsky.social

Pupil Labs postet a neat summary of our mobile #eye-tracking study on how people look at #insect #snacks in their blog: Pupil Labs blog: pupil-labs.com/blog/bugs-at... @dalmaijer.bsky.social's summary: www.dalmaijer.org/2025/12/fora... Puplication: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... OSF project: osf.io/t4azu/

I bet this has that marbly thock.

This was a fun and humbling experience. I was smug initially, before close-reading the rules and finding no contemporary data was allowed! MUCH harder to predict depression onsets with only 3+ month old data... I combined p-hacking, naive Bayes, and Kohonen maps; but doubt it’ll be good enough.

The fact that a Koch Brothers-funded front group is attacking @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and me over our book #ScienceUnderSiege (bookshop.org/p/books/scie...) is such an amusing, unintentional affirmation of what we have to say about who is behind the right-wing war on science!

On the one hand: yes, excellent, do this! On the other: how can you boycott a company that already loses money hand-over-fist without a pathway to profit that isn't infinite VC money and/or magical thinking about at some point summoning AI God?

The key to parenting is "show, don't tell". Model warm and open communication between you and others, and your kids will copy. Kids throw a tantrum? Throw a bigger one to demonstrate how annoying it is. They want to watch Frozen on repeat? Play Let It Go in 25 different languages in a row.

So there's a lot of other stuff to worry about for our US-based colleagues, but ehm, it looks like NSF has essentially just stopped giving out grants?

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

Wake up babe, new spinosaurus just dropped: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Extremely rough read, especially if you have cared for young children going through serious illnesses. Vaccines prevent so much suffering.

🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨 Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social! We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs! Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We are recruiting three new lecturers! Read on if you'd like to bring your passion for biology to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social and join our team of ambitious, creative, inclusive and collaborative researcher–educators: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Quick debug run of an experiment with sounds. For these I set minimal stimulus durations to speed things along. Turns out I forgot to explicitly stop playback at the end of each trial, so now everything is layered over everything else. CACOPHONY! With apologies to the baby lab next door 😳

Wonderful opportunity to read for a PhD with two of the most amazing cognitive and computational neuroscientists around!

My 5-year-old is playing "Australopithecus" (pronounced correctly). This is pure luck of the draw, but expect a smug book on how to parent in a bookshop near you soon.

After previously showing kids are gross (see doi.org/10.1177/2398...), we now find that parents get used to it! After starting the weaning process, they stop avoiding soiled diapers. This disgust habituation even generalises beyond child-specific stimuli. Paper: doi.org/10.1111/sjop...

After previously showing kids are gross (see doi.org/10.1177/2398...), we now find that parents get used to it! After starting the weaning process, they stop avoiding soiled diapers. This disgust habituation even generalises beyond child-specific stimuli. Paper: doi.org/10.1111/sjop...

Funded ESRC DTP Strategic joint PhD studentship with me at @notts-psych.bsky.social and @alexhendry.bsky.social on play interactions to improve executive functions. Application details in the link. Deadline: 18th Feb. Please share widely with interested students! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE738/e...

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂 looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible. science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳ We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r... www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

I was 2 characters over the limit in a box on a grant proposal, so I did what any self-disrespecting English speaker would: removed the additional Ss (e.g. "focussed") and Us (e.g. "behaviour"). Now I’m 2 characters under. I might apply for citizenship at some point, so nobody tell the Home Office!

I left Twitter when Musk took over, and haven’t really kept up since. It looks like they’ve added two more Xs?

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

To be fair to the Bold signal, I was also past my best after 35 years

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

“a tutorial on the acquisition and analysis of the human electrogastrogram. Because dedicated equipment and software can be prohibitively expensive, we demonstrate how data can be acquired using a low-cost OpenBCI Ganglion amplifier.” arxiv.org/abs/2509.17260