Rolf Zwaan is starting a new podcast 'As it Happens', following a large-scale psychology research project, where labs around the world collaborate to study human memory. (I am one of the collaborators). The first episode is out! shows.acast.com/research-as-...

Here is why I have started a podcast that takes us inside big team science. open.substack.com/pub/rolfzwaa...

Music Ensemble: a large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians | Scientific Data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sometimes I remember that I have a bluesky account ;) I'm very happy to share our last paper, investigating how cognitive skills relate to different levels of musical expertise: url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

Learning to play a musical instrument is often assumed to improve brain functioning & cognition. To test this, a new #RSOS study compared non-musicians, amateur & professional #musicians: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @francescatalamini.bsky.social @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

New version of tenzing, with support for acknowledgments sections, is now live at tenzing.club. Please try to break it, @martonkovacs.bsky.social has already fixed all the errors I found!

Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Non-musicians? Anne-Caclin, Ragnya-Norasoa Souffiane, et Marie-Elisabeth Plasse from the PAM team contributed to this multilab study ! @francescatalamini.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

I'm reading an old, classic psychoacoustic experiment (N=3). It is written by 3 authors, and 2 are also subjects. In the procedure authors write: "Subjects [...] were encouraged to "bracket" the match before making the final adjustment". I'm wondering how authors were encouraging themselves.

Check out this really cool multilab project about the difference in short-term memory between musicians and non-musicians! By @masssimo006.bsky.social, @francescatalamini.bsky.social, and researchers from 33 institutions around the world.

Fantastic display of collaboration in #musicpsych!!

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables! A big thank you to all collaborators! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Finally out! Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.

@martonkovacs.bsky.social is beavering away implementing something new for tenzing.club. We hope to make it easier for you to manage your collaborators, by also providing for acknowledgees (people you acknowledge but who aren't co-authors)!

Does this happen in your country (Italy here)? Do you receive communications from the head of the university that include sentences such as "working actively for the continuous improvement of" teaching, research or dissemination. Which is usually translated into a set of nonsense numerical indexes?

Updating my LEGO White House

😃 to share this new @plos.org Medicine 📄 written in collaboration with the super cool @kahin-tai.bsky.social (from the super cool @sharectd.bsky.social doctoral network), Gérard Legoff, @annelelouarn.bsky.social & @synthymama.bsky.social.

Have a paper ready for peer review? Consider sending it to PCI Psychology! We are a preprint recommendation platform and recommended papers can be easily submitted to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals! See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

The paper mill probably forgot to include several sections in the paper, including the data and results. The Methods section mentions a survey that is never described in the paper. Immediately after the methods section comes the conclusion. Yet, the paper was still published.

We are back! 🎉 Cognitive Science Arena 2026 📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT) 📅 February 5–7 📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Join Us! After the mighty @michelenuijten.bsky.social , this year’s smart talk will be given by the legendary Open Science black belt: Zoltan Dienes! 🥋 RT RT RT

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

Little stat I update every now and then (source Scopus). In psychology only we published 33575 papers about COVID-19. I think it is about time we begin to read these papers.

My cat has a rather peculiar habit. He pees in his litter box and then cleans the area outside it. I have to admit, his method is surprisingly efficient. He cleans so well that I’ve never found the slightest trace of pee outside the box

You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.

For those working with headphones and that need precise intensity level. Calibrate your equipment often, and replace it regularly! I just measured the output of the headphones of the lab and... well, I'm buying a new pair of headphones 😬

A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:

One small step and it is done. Just one more small step. What a journey!

G*Power. Unbelievable. Every time I read a power analysis calculated with G*Power, no matter the input values, the output is invariably N=24. Is that software calculating anything or is just returning a fixed output?

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months". If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

Using gen AI to do peer reviews for you is unethical. Trying to game peer review with hidden AI prompts is also unethical. And putting papers on arxiv that still have those prompts embedded is also just incredibly stupid. Uuuuuugh. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

My routine. Wake up before the rest of the family, lay down on the sofa, play the sudoku of the day.

Come sta la Psicologia? Una conversazione con Carlo Umiltà (2017) neuropsicolab.blogspot.com/2017/01/come...

Oggi è un giorno molto triste perché ci lascia Carlo Umiltà e la gratitudine e gli insegnamenti sono il sicuro conforto. www.mattinopadova.it/cronaca/mort...

Just learned that Carlo Umiltà has passed away — a giant of Italian neuroscience 🧠 I was lucky to learn from him during my PhD (not my advisor, but a regular presence in the lab).

The other day, our vice rector was reading the code of ethics and conduct of my university. It is so embarrassing to see that we violate that code in any possible way and on daily basis. I’m wondering what could be the use of a document that is neglected at every step.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

📚 Ten simple rules for good research practice doi.org/10.1371/jour...

A handful of awful old men are destroying the lives of millions. What a stupid world.

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

First they clone themselves (Nature X...), now they clone MDPI. The goal is to offer a tiered journal system that does not let manuscripts escape to other publishers' offerings. That would be like leaving money on the table.

I repeat. You do not want to review it’s fine! But at least click “decline”!

Vogalonga 2025 #vogalonga

"Science was born in Italy, and that’s where they will kill and bury it". A newsletter full of Italian scientists forbetterscience.com/2025/06/06/s...

I was reading the rules to submit an ERC synergy grant and you can have max 4 PIs. In a historical period in which science is made by larger and larger teams, it seems a bit anachronistic to set such an upper limit for a grant that should fuel the top.

"We introduce PECANS (Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive And Neuropsychological Studies)" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447861/ I love scientific acronyms