New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Due to many requests, we extended the deadline for the special issue 'Philosophy and the Chemosenses' to 1st November! Any philosophical issue related to smell / taste / flavour welcome, so submit away: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

A comparison of cervical and auricular VNS in rats shows that only cVNS alters heart rate (likely due to efferent effects). aVNS is not inferior to cVNS in terms of modulated EEG power (peaks in somatosensory cortex). Moon et al, Brain Stimul #neuroskyence 🩺 www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10

See e.g. also @dingemansemark.bsky.social ‘s Generative AI and Research Integrity osf.io/preprints/os...

While our official job ad is on the way, we are seeking PhD students to join @neuromadlab.bsky.social for projects running in Bonn. The candidate will lead projects on body-brain interactions using brain stimulation to improve core symptoms of depression: www.neuromadlab.org/jobs #neurojobs

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

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🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Everything is trash but science still rocks. Concluding this project is bitter sweet, it’s my last collaboration with the late great Warren Bickel. It started at a faculty retreat and if you are also interested in the effects of glp-1s on alcohol consumption take a 👀. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Heard from a former (undergrad) student who just defended her PhD. Students: tell your old profs about your successes and achievements. It's not bragging, and we love to hear about it. It's one of the best parts of being an educator. #academicsky

The work I love most blends learning about theory with answering something practical. Here, we got to hit both nails on the head! Come for the "Does implicit bias change generalize across implicit measures?" Stay for the "Can we reduce anti-fat bias?" Or vice versa. Just read the paper; it's great!

How do we associate the flavors we experience during a meal 🍽️😋 with postingestive effects like food poisoning 🤢🤮 that arise much later? Our answer in @nature.com this week: Illness signals from the gut reactivate and strengthen flavor representations in the amygdala. 📄: nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you get in a bad mood if you are hungry? Over 4 weeks with EMA+CGM, we tested if mood shifts are subconsciously driven by glucose levels or ratings of metabolic state #neuroskyence 🩺 Work w/ @kristinkaduk.bsky.social @akuehnel.bsky.social @derntllab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out in Biological Psychiatry "Affective and Social Predictors of Food Consumption During the COVID-19 Lockdown" www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Why does obesity change the pleasure of eating, the dopamine rush from hedonic foods? A neural circuit mechanism involving explanation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

10. This is the reality of being an academic in the United States today. But Vought and Rufo are missing something. We aren't cowards. And we know we are not the enemies of the American people either, much as these ideologues might like to claim that.

Perplexity - 37% wrong; ChatGPT - 67% wrong. Grok 3 - 94% wrong. For free options. Paid options are wrong more frequently. “…rather than declining to respond when they lacked reliable information, the models frequently provided confabulations—plausible-sounding incorrect or speculative answers.”

I'm glad that NWO has launched a new round of the impactful Mozaïek grant, offering PhD funding funding to traditionally underrepresented minorities. Scheme call here: lnkd.in/eKVdUyqU We might be able to support an application if interests & skills overlap lifespancognitivedynamics.com (dm)

For #InternationalWomensDay, my favourite photos by my favourite women photographers Self-portrait, Barcelona, 1935 📷 Gerda Taro Taro was killed during the Spanish Civil War in 1937; she was only 26.

Check out the latest preprint from our lab, led by Aytac Kadir Mutlu, on the role of topographically organized dorsal raphe (DRN) activity in regulating forebrain function and adaptive behaviors! 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I can’t believe this needs to be said. TransGENIC mice are not TransGENDER mice

If you're in the US, considering Europe for your PhD, and you identify as a minority, I will chat with you and review any application documents you need 🧪

For years I used #r and struggled with Windows path issues—turns out there’s a built-in function I never knew about: normalizePath() in base R! It converts file paths to canonical form & handles slash/backslash confusion […]

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

🔊 Published today, our new Cochrane review on the impact of calorie labelling on people’s selection and consumption of food (including non-alcoholic drinks) and alcohol: www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... Short thread below 👇

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

Try it yourself! regcheck.app

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Is this our line in the sand? How can we review NIH applications knowing they specifically exclude members of our community?

10: Overall, in a large EMA study of 3,761, we found that adults can: ▶️ Accurately select responses on VAS scales (tactile precision) ▶️ Show high between-person agreement on one central domain of scale interpretation ▶️ Show high consistency in their within-person responses over time.

"We will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words" @bmj.com takes a stand: "Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

One of 4 paintings I will have in the Briscoe Western Art Museum's, "Night of Artists", exhibition opening March 30, 2025. "The Ravenswood Conspiracy," oil on linen, 36"x24". #ravens #art #oilpainting #westernart #wildlifeart #artshow

Oh great, someone added music!

Don't mind me, I'm just watching the video of the slug on the hamster wheel, from the study's supplementary materials.

It makes me ill that the Committee on Human Rights of the US National Academy of Sciences had to put together a list of resources to support US researchers and scholars subjected to targeted attacks. And it makes me ill that I have to post. But here it is: www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

A hoard of 1st c AD gold and silver coins discovered in the Netherlands has its origins in Rome, Britain, and Africa. 🏺🧪 (TIL about the Celtic king Cunobeline!)

Alexander Fjaeldstad and I have a new chapter in the book Smell, Taste, Eat: The Role of the Chemical Senses in Eating Behaviour, edited by @LorenzoDStafford. Lots of great insights here. From our chapter, it’s clear that smell loss and its impact on ingestion remain vastly underexplored."

We have a fresh new paper! The PhD project of the talented Mark Conway. A learning-induced change in the sensitivity of olfactory receptor neurons enables consistent perception of an odor. #olfaction #neuroscience www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

The students in the psychology class were given a one page personality test. The filled it out, signed it, put it in an envelope and handed it in. The next day, the students received an envelope with their names on it. Inside, was a piece of paper with a paragraph in small type. 🧪1/3

Brains minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. In humans, this trade-off is reconciled towards complex behaviors & hence relatively high energy use Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery tinyurl.com/47c9n65w osf.io/preprints/os...

In Finnish the word for aurora “revontulet” means “fox fire” because according to legend the origin of the Northern Lights are arctic foxes running so fast that their large, furry tails would brush up snowflakes into the sky - as in my #linocut #FolkloreSunday minouette.etsy.com/listing/1632...

"LOST HIGHWAY is no exception to David Lynch’s disregard for linear and/or comprehensible story lines. And yet it solicits more curiosity than frustration. It reaches out to the viewer and says: Try to understand. This landscape is not unknown to you. This terror is something you hold close."

"We are excellent smellers, but in a world led by sights and sounds we struggle to put this sense into words." @bschillace.brandyschillace.com on @jokriolo.bsky.social's THE FORGOTTEN SENSE: The New Science of Smell... Gift link. #Booksky #histsci #histmed www.wsj.com/arts-culture...