How I [almost, accidentally] submitted a paper with a fake, AI-generated citation. 🧵 (1/8)

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Since I study changes in achievement in population studies, I’ve been looking at this data for a long time and the story has been the same-women get higher grades and the differences in standardized scores are negligible. This is what you see in these graphs as well.

Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened! Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement. Nominations close 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research

In terrible follow-up news, a PNAS paper about LLMs taking online surveys just came out. I'm trying to get up the courage to read today 🫣 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

If you are in the Central Valley you may want to check out these talks next week on loneliness by Dr. Kaity Creasy. One will be in downtown Merced and open to the public (Thursday 12/4 @ 6 pm), the other on campus at #UCMerced (Friday 12/5 @ 3:30 pm). Please share with those who may be interested!

Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.

It is unprecedented that 47 medical and public health organizations should come together to condemn the actions of the CDC. www.apha.org/news-and-med... 1. American Academy of Pediatrics 2. Academic Pediatric Association 3. American Academy of Family Physicians ....

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join... Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...

We have longitudinal multimodal (EEG, MRI) datasets to richly characterize developmental plasticity and an interest in public health relevant prenatal factors (e.g. iron deficiency, prenatal stress) and postnatal factors: caregiving, music, and language experiences!

Job posting alert! Open Science Specialist at the University of Calgary (in Canada!) #job #OpenScience careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1704502...

🚨Special Issue at Developmental Psychology🚨 Reimagining Developmental Science Through the Lens of Black Girlhood Guest Eds: Rona Carter (Lead) Sheretta T. Butler‑Barnes Fatima Varner Eleanor K. Seaton On Web soon, Text for now: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h43oc... 1/6 @apajournals.bsky.social

This month's Motivation Monday will be over Researching in Unprecedented Times. Join us in conversation with @stephenaguilar.com, @christymbyrd.bsky.social, and @jeffgreene.bsky.social on November 24th.

I wrote a piece for The Conversation on the importance of SNAP for reducing food insecurity and improving child health. I’d love it if you would read and share!

🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Valuable reporting here from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for @science.org, adding context and other important voices to our perspective piece (linked further below, with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social) www.science.org/content/arti...

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Excited to head to @isdp.org this week! And thrilled that I'll be recruiting graduate students and postdocs this cycle to join PINE Lab! Please come say hi if interested (current lab studies here: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/current-stud...)

CDS Secretary here! Please follow our CDS account to receive reminders of upcoming deadlines and opportunities as well as to learn about new articles in the Journal of Cognition and Development.

Head Start closures will have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. Because the million kids who rely on the program don't have other options. And so, we're likely to see: ⬇️maternal employment ⬆️child poverty, hunger, and homelessness ⬇️school readiness and achievement long-term

"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-...

Submissions are open for @psychscience.bsky.social APS 2026 meeting in Barcelona. #APS26BCN Please watch the video to hear about all the new and exciting programming that will be available for the first Annual Convention to be in an international location!!

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

If you use the Monetary Incentive Delay task or any task with complex events in fMRI, you should read this. We demonstrate that common modeling approaches can result in bias due to omitted variables. By @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social & the ABCD task fMRI team. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

1 in 8 households depend on the U.S. federal government to buy food. That's a disgusting number that reflects poorly on business owners' / employers' priorities & leaves kids hungry. 12% of grocery sales are w SNAP funds. (grocery stores operate on razor thin margins) @foodfixco.bsky.social

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989

Reports of severe flu cases in Hong Kong. If I was a politician, I would strengthen international collaborations to study infectious diseases in other countries. Now is a good time to get a seasonal flu vaccine in the US…there are signs we could have an early season. www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...

We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content. downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...

The Survey Research Center @umich.edu is one of the few that combines our science and data collection under one roof (or two since we are so big). This short chat gives you a sense of what the data collection arm of SRC does.

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust. From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad." I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design. We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.

📣 I am excited to be recruiting PhD students to my lab in Psychology and Neuroscience at UGA! If you are applying for Fall 2026 and passionate about environmental effects on brain function, plasticity, and behavior development, consider joining me in Athens! psychology.uga.edu/how-apply-ou...

Faculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25 www.umb.edu/academics/pr... #devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky

Useful new analysis from @mattafiedler.bsky.social: A specific — and arguably particularly consequential — effect of allowing enhanced ACA subsidies to lapse is that net-$0 plans would become far less available. Matt estimates this change, alone, would cause over 400,000 people to lose coverage.

Excited to share my lab’s new website — the Social Experiences and Emotional Development (SEED) Lab! 🌱 NolaSEEDLab.com Grateful to @zenyep.bsky.social for the beautiful logo design! Prospective PhD students: check out the “Join the Team” page for application info & Tulane details.

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

@psychscience.bsky.social Submission site for Barcelona 2026 opens Oct. 30th!!! Join us in Spain for the first APS to be held outside the U.S. Many new ways to interact and to share psychological research being done around the world. www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting! If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch. www.ncclab.ca

📢How can APS be the society that is international, interdisciplinary, and interesting to you as a scientist? We want to hear from you. 🫵https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/aps-todays-world.html #PsychSciSky #DevPsych #PsychSci

Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨! I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!

Please share. The second-year Ph.D. students are now INELIGIBLE for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Last week, the Ont govt announced that psychologists will be getting prescription rights. This next week, our psych college announced that in response to govt pressure, the new standard to be a psychologist will be 1/3 of the training we currently require. This needs to be public.

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Exciting PhD opportunity on parental mental health and early executive function development in the UK and South Africa! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please share 😊

What happens when the data say no, but our feelings say yes? From stereotype threat to implicit bias, psychology keeps choosing vibes over evidence. Maybe the data was just decoration?

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social