Love these rules - especially rule #2. It's all too easy when reviewing to fall into the trap of feeling like we need to criticize *something* even when the paper is good.

Please share widely! If you work in any area related to the brain and policy, please consider applying to be our colleague here at Georgia Tech. This could include (but is not limited to) neuroethics or brain/mental health policy.

Great department - great city! And Georgia Tech is nearby too!

Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems held at Georgia Tech from Oct. 13–15, 2025. Learn more: ai.gatech.edu/event/twelft...

Hanbo and Huadong's superb work on Think Aloud for risky decision making. Think Aloud data from JUST ONE TRIAL allows us to predict choices on other trials about 5% above chance.

Can Think-Aloud be really useful in understanding human minds? Building on our previous work, we formally propose reopening this old debate, with one of the largest Think-Aloud datasets, "RiskyThought44K," and LLM analysis, showing Think-Aloud can complement to comp cogsci.

Great turnout for the CoCo #CCN2025 watch party at Georgia Tech. Thanks to @neuranna.bsky.social for leading the charge! coco.psych.gatech.edu/ccn-2025-loc...

One of the saddest things about switching my classes from Matlab to Python is that I no longer get to teach about the Matlab ghost. Rest in peace little buddy ... along with your dogs, your random numbers and all of your creepy hidden friends

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

Excited for our @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social workshop at the intersection of #NeuroAI and Aging. Tomorrow from 9 AM -1 PM in LTEE 3 in Hamilton Building, hope to see you there!

Yay for RLDM! If you signed up to be a mentor in the mentoring program, be on the lookout for an email from me with your mentee assignments.

Proud to play a small role in this null result - from the excellent and thorough @carolinephelps.bsky.social. No effect of chronic or acute pain on working memory in the Sternberg task.

Is the pain of null data taking up slots in your working memory? Or shifting you over optimum arousal on the Yerkes Dodson curve? Not for me! I've externalized it to this lovely preprint! Plus, read on for why it might not be the pain that causes deficits in your working memory... 🧵

Are you planning to attend @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025 and interested in human and artificial intelligence across the adult lifespan? Come check out our Representational Alignment and Aging Workshop!👇 sites.google.com/brown.edu/raa/

I am crying while grading my students' final essays for a course that taught them how to critically evaluate psychological science. They understood the assignment. 🧵

AI startup idea 1: an AI that delivers oral exams AI startup idea 2: an AI that cheats on oral exams Update 1 to outwit 2 Update 2 to outwit 1

Attending CCN in Amsterdam this August? Come and join our workshop! Details/sign-up info below.

After a gentle push from @arikahn.bsky.social, I finally got my old cognitive modeling class back online. Very much an intro course, covers DDM, Expected Value Theory, and RL, stopping at simple model fitting and parameter recovery. Apologies for the Matlab. d-r-b-o-b.github.io/teaching/web...

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!

If you're in Atlanta on Friday, you could do worse than come join us for our first annual Postdoc Day hosted by the Center of Excellence for Computational Cognition. Hear from five up and coming researchers before they get too famous to turn us down! coco.psych.gatech.edu/coco-postdoc...

Atlanta friends, I want to extend a special invitation to have you join us for a really unique event we're hosting on May 7 called "Wired Lives: Personal Stories of Brain Implants": neuro.gatech.edu/wired-lives-...

Serving on an NIH study section is always inspiring – but this time even more so …

Excited to share that The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences now has a call for a special issue on 🌟DECISION NEUROSCIENCE IN AGING🌟, led by @debyee.bsky.social, Nathan Spreng, and @klempert.bsky.social as Special Issue Editors! @srndna.bsky.social academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

🚨 We are looking for a research specialist (lab manager) for my lab at Emory (translational-lab.com). tinyurl.com/muer3ybb * Great match to prepare for clinical psych or computational cog sci grad school * Time reserved each week for independent work/professional development Please RT 🔄 !

One of the stranger customer satisfaction pop-ups I've seen is on our IRB management website ...

Exciting things are happening at @gtresearchnews.bsky.social in the fields of computational, cognitive neuroscience and neuroAI. It was a great privilege to get to highlight some of these in this @gtsciences.bsky.social event last week. cos.gatech.edu/news/2025-fr...

Caroline may regret not exploring her calling as a baker, but you should definitely explore this paper! The first one from our big aging and decision making study.

Are you feeling stuck in your ways? Less excited about exploring anything new? You may be aging! Read on for insight into why your decision making is changing.

Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025! 🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF... Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.

Can we think aloud without disrupting stream of #consciousness? Two studies (Ns > 100) extended our results suggesting that we can — this time for DOZENS of aspects of thought! Scientists are running out of good reasons to not use #thinkAloud protocols: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Happy head direction cell day y’all! On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984. Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)

Really interesting data - can see a COVID-related spike in project grant submissions in 2021, also a dip after the financial crisis in 2008. But what happened from 2002 to 2004 to cause the boom in applications? We thought it might be changes to the page limit (25 to 12), but that was 2010.

This definitely stings ... I wonder how many other areas of psychology this applies to (very much including my own research).

interesting! my sense with the MF measures is they tend to have nicer distributions (in part because they are bounded between 0 and 1). I'd be curious if MF measures do better in your dataset or not. The non-correlation with self-report is so interesting though!

If you're having trouble sleeping, this can probably help ...