Our paper about the dynConfiR package, headed by the @sehellmann.bsky.social, is now out in Behavior Research Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3.... The dynConfiR package can be used to fit dynamical models of binary choices, reaction time, and decision confidence.

🚨 Our database is published in Behavior Research Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3... with Maximilian Stadler and @franziskaknolle.bsky.social If you plan on working with German speech stimuli, check out our osf for auditory stimuli and our online tool for selecting sentence material 🪄

I want diplomats recalled from the US. I want renegotiations about US bases in Europe. I want an official boycott of the World Cup by all participating nations. I want new articles of impeachment filed every single day. Play time is over. Act like adults or make way for those who do.

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

I am thrilled to announce the European Summer School on Eye Movements! #ESSEM2026 takes place 7-12 September, 2026, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. Further details including info on how to register can be found here: essem2026.org

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

How do people search for information to make efficient decisions? Our new theory, now out in Psychological Review, suggests that an efficient search rule is (at the core of) the answer. And eye-tracking data support our theory. Check out here (it's open access): psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

@teap2026.bsky.social is over: 4 days, 10 workshops, 1 public lecture by @jensfoell.de, 3 keynotes, 80 talk sessions, and 3 poster sessions 👍🏼 Co-organizing this international experimental-psychology conference with Franziska Rück and Barbara Kaup, we brought over 700 researchers to Tübingen 😊

Curious about how context influences decision-making? 👀🧠 Make sure to check out our symposium on Wednesday 11:00-12:30 at Room N2 #TeaP2026 Featuring✨ @tiborstoe.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social @dmding.bsky.social @barbaraoberbauer.bsky.social

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

Our new paper is out in Cognition! What determines whether confidence follows the classic "folded-X" pattern vs. the "double-increase" pattern? The answer lies in the type of stimulus manipulation. Big thanks to my advisor Doby @dobyrahnev.bsky.social and co-first author @herrickfung.bsky.social !

Yesterday, we finally got to celebrate the successful PhD defense of our PostDoc @maryamtohidi.bsky.social at a delicious Iranian restaurant😋 We are so proud of Dr Tohidimoghaddam, who continues her journey with us elucidating multi-attribute decision-making🧠 Stay tuned for her future contributions!

Eliminating the Impossible https://xkcd.com/3210/ 'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3210

poor bee GOLD_07, whose embarrassing mistake has been immortalised in a way beyond his comprehension

Compositional data (proportions that sum to 1) behave in ways standard models aren’t built for I walk through why Dirichlet regression is often the right tool & what extra insight it gives using a real ex of eyetracking #Dirichlet #r #brms #guide #eyetracking open.substack.com/pub/mzlotean...

How do priors influence speech processing? Do they enhance expected signals or highlight the unexpected (prediction errors)? @fabianschneider.bsky.social' s work shows: It depends!

New article in Cognitive Psychology with @thorstenpachur.bsky.social and Veronika Zilker: “How sampling strategies shape experience-based risky choice.” We present a computational framework for information search and choice in decisions from experience. 1/4 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

Well this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146

Grüne vollziehen Kehrtwende bei der Homöopathie: Am ersten Tag des Grünen-Parteitags in Hannover wird es lebhaft: Ein Antrag wird angenommen, der die Finanzierung homöopathischer Leistungen durch gesetzliche Krankenkassen untersagen will. Eine historische Kehrtwende.

Science in 2025

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 The #TeaP2026 talk & poster submission deadline is approaching fast! ⏰ Don’t miss your chance – submit your contribution by November 16: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼

Wir starten mit der ersten Seite der Doktorarbeit von Paul Langerhans, dem Entdecker der pankreatischen Inseln. Lief wohl alles nicht so rund und ich mag diesen Satz sehr: "Der einzige Zweck dieser Entstehungsgeschichte meiner Arbeit ist Motivierung und Entschuldigung ihres geringen Gehaltes."

"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

Another good reason to kill this whole industry now. It’s going to fail anyway, we may as well do so while we still have a chance to restore the planet.

Kurzgesagt - in a nutshell explains perfectly why AI in such Context is really problematic. Also John Oliver from Last week tonight did a really good video about AI Slop and how many think it's real.

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

Our new paper is out as a reviewed preprint in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Congrats to @hashimsat.bsky.social and our amazing collaborators on this great team effort. Special shout-out to @haukeren.bsky.social, who made this possible through his generous support 🙌

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Glad to see my first-year project is out! In two experiments, we manipulated multiple stimulus features in a perception task, yet their effects on confidence and accuracy fell into just two distinct behavioral patterns, offering a way to predict the effects of novel stimulus manipulations. 1/n

⭐PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐, Please Share!! Use Reinforcement Learning and Computational Modelling to study how dis/misinformation affects us (with myself +Tali Sharot). Full funding for those eligible for UK home fees. Deadline 10th Nov. @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

If you’re in #Munich 🥨 and curious about decision-making, perception, and cognition through a translational lens, join us for a seminar I’m hosting on Oct 30 with three fantastic speakers: @jkesby.bsky.social (visiting from 🇦🇺), @miguelbengala.bsky.social, and @jacob-lab.bsky.social 🧠💡

you heard of running Doom on random gadgets but have you ever heard of… “Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape” bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project... this explains how! ((the internet is healing 😌)) #IndieDev

Just back from this - I was the misfit invited speaker who knows nothing about psychology. It was really educational for me, expanded my view of theory construction problems in the human sciences.

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

"Learning to be confident: How agents learn confidence based on prediction errors"! Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social led by @pierreledenmat.bsky.social Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Excited to share joint work with Ulf Hahnel and @sgluth.bsky.social on investigating how attribute translations - a widely implemented behavior intervention - lead to more ecological consumer choices. Main results are below, but check out our preprint 👇 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

For all who use Bayesian hierarchical models, have a look at our new preprint, out now together with @linushof.bsky.social @nunobusch.bsky.social and @thorstenpachur.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

We know that a consensus of opinions is persuasive, but how reliable is this effect across people and types of consensus, and are there any kinds of claims where people care less about what other people think? This is what we tested in our new(ish) paper in @psychscience.bsky.social

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

📢 @markkho.bsky.social & I are recruiting a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & mental health 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Apps are reviewed on a rolling basis 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

Confidence in absence as confidence in counterfactual visibility: a CogSci proceedings paper with star MSc student Maya Schipper, is now out on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇

🚨 PhD position (75%, TV-L E13) at LMU Munich! Join our DFG funded META REP project on heterogeneity & replicability in psychology. Work on meta analysis, simulations, modeling in R/Python. 📅 Apply by July 15 🔗 shorturl.at/939tP 🔗 shorturl.at/2bRLD 👇🧵

#EduSky A must-read esp. if you use AI tools, are being made to "just try them" at school, or are having your students use them.

Thanks so much, also for your support and your wisdom. It has been a pleasure to be your Padawan ;)

🧠 Job Alert: Postdoc Position Available! We're hiring a postdoc as part of the exciting DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating 🔬 🔍 What we're looking for: Strong quantitative skills & passion for belief updating research 📍 Location: University of Hamburg ⏰ Duration: 2 years, full-time 🔗 Link below

'How is this economics?' en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_b...

Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...