saying you’ll stand up for attacks on science in the US while honouring the person responsible for the attacks is like handing out bandages to people who are being savaged by your pet dog, while doing nothing to restrain him

Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge. Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

This is shocking behaviour by Wiley; the stated justification does not stand up. I will not be doing any peer review for Wiley journals in future.

The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility. Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Well, it's a while since I gave these talks, but i'm pleased that UKRN has now got them up online with a DOI: Productivity and reproducibility: conflicting pressures on scientists? 10.52843/cassyni.504m8k How current research practices are damaging science: 10.52843/cassyni.dwp8lw Enjoy!

If only a handful of Republicans in the Senate had the decency to caucus with Democrats and end this madness, not because they agree with capital D Democrats but because they valued lower case d democracy. The fact that this is so implausible is capital D Depressing.

New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...

Harvard sued the Trump admin today 💪🏽🥳💯 www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Today is the centenary of the birth of composer, conductor, writer, musical life creator Pierre Boulez (1925-2016). Here some essentials to get to know the man and his fascinating music

Royal Society honours pioneering scientists who were first female members @royalsociety.org www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Exciting new study uncovering a genetic link between sensory sensitivity and #autism via #alexithymia doi.org/10.1038/s413... by Yorke et al. @proffrancescahappe.bsky.social and Geoff Bird

Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam! Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck. More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!

New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence

New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣 In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶‍♀️ upright human form 🚶‍♂️ @dondersinst.bsky.social Open access link www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Per @statnews.com, a group of researchers has filed a lawsuit against 6 academic publishers, alleging antitrust violations. "The need to confront what has been going on in the scientific publishing area is very overdue," said COS Sr. Director of Research Tim Errington. 🗞️: www.statnews.com/202...

My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) www.cambridge.org/de/universit...

"... the best thing to do is to come back to the lab, meet a few times a day in the coffee room, and have all those discussions that we used to have" ☕️ New editorial: The coffee room and the future of perception research By Frans A.J. Verstraten journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Well! royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

Birkbeck's offering fully-funded PhD studentships as part of its Diversity 100 scheme. If you qualify as a Home student, & come from an ethnic background that's underrepresented in academia, you're eligible! If that sounds like you, and you'd like to discuss PhDs in my lab, please do get in touch.

Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...

Research assistant position at UCL, contributing to study of the neural substrates of visual perception with 7T fMRI and MEG www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... via @peterkok.bsky.social @jhaarsma.bsky.social

Paper🚨 "Objects, Faces, and Spaces: Organizational Principles of Visual Object Perception as Evidenced by Individual Differences in Behavior" by @heidasigurdar.bsky.social & @ingamariao.bsky.social JEP:G editor's choice ->free to read psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #visionscience #psychscisky 🧵1/13

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

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...

Congratulations to Dr Daniel Yon from Birkbeck Psychology, whose forthcoming book, 'A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality', has been highlighted by Penguin Random House as a highly anticipated title release in 2025 🥳 Read more: ow.ly/XiB450UQmNL @danieljamesyon.bsky.social

We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Applied Vision Association meeting in Liverpool on the 28th of April www.theava.net/meetings.php...

Thank goodness for cute animals to wake up to

First, this is facism. It's not 'on the path' or 'a worrying precedent'. It's just facism. Second, you cannot do any health or social science research if you ban 'bias', ethnicity', 'race', 'socioeconomic', 'female' etc. That, of course, may be the plan. Fascist regimes don't like social science.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Nice review of the affordance hypothesis by @edbaggs.bsky.social & @diovicen.bsky.social! Especially liked how it situates Gibson’s ideas within their historical context while linking them to today. Great read for those interested in the link between perception and action! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Looks like there’s going to be a great crew of commentators on my paper “Visual attention in crisis“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📚 A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Thanks to all who came to support and watched online! A recording is available here: www.youtube.com/live/6LSfkQk...

Please consider sponsoring Mark Thompson's February run in support of Afasic - a charity that offers valuable support to families affected by speech and language difficulties fundraising.afasic.org.uk/fundraising/...

Join us in beautiful Sicily this May to discuss about Cognitive Tools in Action & Embodiment CFP now out ! Full info here : cognitive-futures.com Thank you Valentina Cuccio for having me 🙏!

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Three funded PhDs at Birmingham Uni www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰 To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software. Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

Open access research from Irish colleagues about he experience of having a brain injury over the long term. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Most impressive, she deserves a huge applause. 👏🏻👏🏼👏👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿

I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)

The saga continues: significant decoding of voluntary imagery in early visual cortex *during aphantasia* - but a lack of cross-decoding with perception, maybe suggesting different sensory formats? www.cell.com/current-biol...