A fun new preprint with the 🌟 team. We discuss 7 questions on mind perception we have been thinking and working on in the last years and it also features a picture of a dog! I mean what's more to like?

🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025 🗓️ 20-21 November 2025 📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands 🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

New blog post: Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/07/easi... Downloading all files in an OSF project can be a hassle. Not anymore, with Papercheck! Just run: osf_file_download("6nt4v")

Why finish projects when I can start three more, work them to 80% complete, and then lose interest and start 3 more?

mmmconflab.ewi.tudelft.nl Check out this workshop coming up 17th of July in Rotterdam, still looking for participants!

The roommate Alexa preprint is live! Fantastic work by Aline. In this beast of a paper (3 experiments, mixed methods) we explore how long-term interactions with DVAs impact trust and roles within households. One of the first results of the @erc.europa.eu F-AI-MILY project!

New preprint with @fabioladiana.bsky.social and Mariska Kret and collaborators reporting on two studies that explore the question if AI can trust us. How do patterns of dishonesty fluctuate across agents and pupil size in Japanese and European samples? Amazing work by @fabioladiana.bsky.social!

🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025 🗓️ 20-21 November 2025 📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands 🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

(Slightly belated) congratulations to our 2025 #SoNeAtLab (@soneatlab.bsky.social) #fNIRS #Hyperscanning Workshop best #presentation #prize #winners 🤩 🎉 🏆! Poster: Vanessa Nöring @uni-jena.de Talk: Ann Hogenhuis @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @artinis.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social

I’m enraged by so many things in this piece that I can’t pick and choose, although I may have to try just to vent

new preprint - do you use #fnirs to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using #fnirs for real-world #cognitive #neuroscience osf.io/preprints/ps...

If you are in the process of designing a #fNIRS study to investigate cognition and want a list of dos and don'ts, have a look at our primer. Pre-print available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... @islalj.bsky.social @chiarabulgarelli.bsky.social @paola182.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social

🌟First conference visit with the lab team 🌟Last week, we attended the 2024 ESCAN conference. My 🧠 is still buzzing of all the great science and scientists and seeing my dear colleagues and friends.

New @psyarxivbot.bsky.social preprint on a fun and timely topic, lead by two very talented #ECR, Zsuzsa and Aline, and collaboration with @reinevanderwal.bsky.social: Revealing Attentional Biases in Conspiracy Theory Believers osf.io/preprints/ps...

Last week we visited the University Museum Utrecht, umu.nl/for-english-..., to discuss potential activities for families related to our ongoing work on the impact of AI on family dynamics. So much fun, and really looking forward to these activities in the summer.

Selecting an emoji for AI, reflecting people's perception (and discussion) of AI pretty accurately.

Checking google scholar for recent articles with the phrase "certainly, here is a":

Very excited for the ISRE preconference on Cross-species emotion research organised by @fabioladiana.bsky.social, Mariska Kret and Joost Broekens: sites.google.com/view/cse-wor... You can also join, submit an abstract before 15th of April!

So normally I go to gigs at TivoliVredenburg, but yesterday I was standing on stage at the sold out Social Animal event at TivoliVredenburg organised by KLI and ASPO. I really felt like a rockstar. 🤟🤟🤟 Great evening with super cool talks and people. If you can, do visit it next year!

Sneak peek of ongoing science in the lab. The team just finished collecting data for a project on mentalizing across agents and species. For this we brought a real dog into the lab! So much fun! #fNIRS @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #human+ #neuroskyence

I'll be chatting about promoting equality in cognitive science in an upcoming panel discussion organised by Women In Cognitive Science Europe. Event online and registration is free! More info here: www.womenincogsci.org/wics-europe-...

Yesterday, I got the privilege to give a lecture in Eduard Fosch Villaronga Law and AI course, introducing a psychology perspective on living with AI and its impact on the law. Our growing ERC teams bonded over everything science. Really looking forward exploring synergies in the future!

Now that Bitcoin ETFs have been approved, let's recap the colossal waste of resources in BTC mining over the past year. During 2023, Bitcoin's proof-of-useless-work mechanism consumed almost as much electricity as the entire traditional financial sector combined.

While I don't like the loser/winner dichotomy, this comic made me laugh

The "I only worked 35hrs a week as grad student & am successful, so you should do it too" rationale mistakes work hours for the *one* main factor of academic success: Ability, luck, mentors, resources, family support & many other factors play crucial roles.

Woohoo Ann is on BlueSky! Do follow her to keep up on all her research adventures!

New paper from @thaliawheatley.bsky.social, me, @stolkarjen.bsky.social & @lukejchang.bsky.social at Perspectives on Psychological Science! "The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds" Read about why we think that this is an auspicious moment for interaction science! Link: doi.org/10.1177/1745...

This tweet by Alessandro Nai is one of the real life examples of deviating from a preregistration that I use in my new preprint. osf.io/preprints/ps... Mistakes in a preregistration happen! If they are obvious enough, peers should agree they do not impact the test severity.

Influence Flowers This looks more like a peacock’s tail than a flower to me, but these “influence flowers” are an interesting way to see who’s influenced your work the most (blue arrows) and who you’ve had the most influence on (orange arrows). influencemap.cmlab.dev #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪

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Super happy that our Open Science application fNIRS4all was funded by NWO! Looking forward working with @milicanikolic.bsky.social @geertjanwill.bsky.social Félice van Nunspeet, and Jim Maarseveen to create an open resource for the use of fNIRS in research and teaching across universities!

Based on a discussion at #UtrechtYoungAcademy yesterday, I did a google scholar search for personality profiles of people applying for grants...ouch...

I have to admit, I do enjoy writing grants exactly because of point 1. It's the moment to reconnect with the ultimate goal of being a scientist.

Looking forward to the NVP Winter Conference next week. It's the first NVP in 10 years for me, looking forward seeings friends and colleagues old and new! Do hit me up if you want to talk AI and social cognition or are interested in future PhD+postdoc+RA positions on my ERC project #NVP2023

Every ECR should have a very tenured friend who can shitpost on their behalf.

You can apply till this Sunday (19 November)! #AcademicSky #socialpsyc 🧠🟦 #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #devpsy

A Bluesky quick primer 🧵 for recent arrivals: 1. check default settings -- they set to min threshold likes before see in feed-- can change to show all.

We did our first whole-head OPM recordings yesterday @TheCHBH (50 @FieldLineInc sensors, @CercaMagnetics MSR; @vpixx peripherals). It works! Now we need a postdoc to customize the system&software for paediatric recordings to study development of attention&reading. Apply 👇👇👇

Hi #AcademicSky, I'm looking for examples of lab philosophies and handbooks. Any examples or tips would be most welcome. I want to cover a lot of ground, so want to check if I don't miss anything!

Nonviolent actions may be most effective in mobilizing sympathizers but more disruptive action may be best at changing policy among resistant audiences concludes @ericmshuman.bsky.social @amit-goldenberg.bsky.social Saguy, Halperin & van Zomeren after examining the lit doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Not an-one-but-a-two-jobs-alert 📣❗ I’m looking for a PhD candidate and postdoc to join the F-AI-MILY project! Come investigate the impact of AI on family dynamics. Please share widely! DM/email if you have any questions! ❗PhD position: tinyurl.com/27wmewse ❗Postdoc position: tinyurl.com/yt6tffkr

Not an-one-but-a-two-jobs-alert 📣❗ I’m looking for a PhD candidate and postdoc to join the F-AI-MILY project! Come investigate the impact of AI on family dynamics. Please share widely! DM/email if you have any questions! ❗PhD position: tinyurl.com/27wmewse ❗Postdoc position: tinyurl.com/yt6tffkr

Does the use of a state-of-the-art LLM change how we judge the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate the morality and competence of someone? Find out in our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Alright neuroimagers - does anyone out there have (or know of) MRI data collected *during* an earthquake? My grad class wants to know (& neither I nor our physicist could think of any data that fit the bill) #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroscience #PhDSky

So we need to talk about this: The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence by @digiconomist.bsky.social This is just an estimation, but nevertheless hugely important to take action on this. #AI&HCI #AcademicSky

ESCAN 2024 will be in Ghent and we have now finalized the call for contributions! Check it out: escan2024.com/call-for-abs... There will be symposia, single presentations and tutorials. The webpage for the submission will be finalized very soon and we're looking forward to your contributions.

#HiSciSky 👋 I am a #neuroscientist working on interoception, touch, and body perception. Hoping to find a friendly, constructive, and kind space for academic and scientific exchanges! Happy to see many familiar faces already 🤗 #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #CogSci #neuroskyence #CogPsyc #CogPsyc

THE NEW EIC OF PSYCH SCIENCE IS @simine.com WAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...