To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

#preprint 📢 Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps... TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures. 🧵

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Excited to share that our paper “Seeing the bigger picture: Endogenous opioids mediate attentional broadening after reward receipt” has just been published in Psychological Medicine!

Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing. Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!

Last week I declared terror management theory dead and accused my friend Steve Heine of motivated reasoning. Steve responded like the mensch he is with a solid rebuttal instead of blocking me. Read his guest post and tell us both who you think is right in the comments!

Are you working on issues of replication and reproducibility of methodological research in psychology? Consider submitting a proposal to my call for papers, happy to chat about your ideas or answer any questions! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

This is how it works with AI help. Contact Scottish Gas re disconnection. Chatbot can't handle this query, so send email. Get helpful reply, & am asked to evaluate my experience. Explain re need for better chatbox help on disconnection. Get generic reply saying I should use chatbot in future

Do you want to go to a metascience conference where AI will not solve all problems, you can ask critical questions, and El$evier is not invited? Sign up for the mailing list for the 8th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference in 2026 in Leiden! perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com

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.

11/ Sluis: bit.ly/44ikVWt 12/ Nijmegen: bit.ly/402Hb4b 23/ Dordrecht: bit.ly/4nCcc92 26/ Gouda: bit.ly/4lKjjut 27/ Delft: bit.ly/3GdB2LX 28/ Den Haag: bit.ly/3Ih2VmT

Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour. Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time: 'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.' Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Come work in my dept! We are hiring a lecturer in psychology (ideally speaking Dutch) @leidenpsychology.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

👀This is impressive: Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work. The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

I've started to create a Google doc to compile & share cog psych teaching resources, organized by topics (e.g., attention, memory, language) & resource types. This week, I ask you to share any in-class demos you'd like to give. Please reply to this post or tag me in a separate post. Thanks!

Academia is a lot like a lottery - an uphill race, & if you win, more rewards My first huge plenary talk - at ECNP last September- yielded a meeting with an editor, invites for papers & new talks, plus a podcast interview w/ Chiara Montitro out now: podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/e...

Who did it better? ... All set up ready for #APS25DC ! Come to booth 204 to: 🧠 See how you can use tools like @psychopy.org to make and run your experiments for free. 🌐Use Pavlovia to run experiments online and build surveys (a low cost Qualtrics alternative) @psychscience.bsky.social

Longitudinal research hive mind, need your input: What would you consider a satisfying set of tests to see if an apparent attenuation of difference scores could be accounted for by ceiling effects. i.e., Theory says x predicts a smaller difference in y between T-1 and T. 1/2

🔥 Most important paper I've read all year🔥 👉 Injury/disease doesn't reliably predict pain 👉 Biomarkers alone can't explain pain 👉 PSYCHOSOCIAL factors reliably determine chronic pain 👉 Painful conditions can be predicted from the SYNERGY btwn bio + psychosocial factors www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new special issue on cognitive flexibility @coolscontrol.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l4vl8MqMi...

This little devil is the cause of MSWord suddenly moving comments outside the margins into outer space where you can't see them. It somehow just started happening against my will a few months ago. Just uncheck 'enable modern comments' under preferences general, and you will regain humanity.

Please help! Sign our open letter opposing political interference in academia and protect Dutch psychology programs from arbitrary language barriers that threaten international education. #supportdutchpsychology

Origins and consequences of cognitive fatigue Feature Review by Mathias Pessiglione, Bastien Blain (@bastien-blain.bsky.social), Antonius Wiehler, & Shruti Naik Free access before May 20: tinyurl.com/2va75b5j

I don’t dare to tell you how many years this took, but the project that I started as a MSc intern and kept working on throughout my PhD is now finally published: www.nature.com/articles/s44... [1/9]

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to stimulate deep w/in the brain w/o the need for brain surgery, and without actually making a physical lesion in the brain (i.e. FUS or pallidotomy)? This paper provides 'proof of concept' that a transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) approach may be achievable.

Interested in dopamine? Have fMRI data? We’ve identified a temporal BOLD feature that carries rich information about dopamine physiology. This measure, obtainable from resting-state and task fMRI, opens new ways to indirectly probe dopamine’s role in cognition and disease. 1/n tinyurl.com/bddyz67b

Gefeliciteerd @unileiden.bsky.social met jullie 450ste verjaardag! Dit is hoe wij jullie prachtige Academiegebouw kennen - en daar gaan we het even over hebben, want het heeft er niet altijd zo uitgezien. (1/x) 🧵

Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

The European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience can now also be found here! 🤘 @escaneu.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSkySci @mtsakiris.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social Please spread the word and tag fellow ESCAN members!

Challenge: does FMRI have a future (apart from studies of development and ageing)? We want to know HOW the brain works and for that we need millisecond temporal resolution neuropixels, MEG, OPMs. After nearly 30 years of FMRI we know basically WHERE things happen.

Please join us in Budapest for #SIPS2025 !!

Meet gander, a chat interface for R data scientists🪿 gander automatically incorporates context from your #rstats environment and surrounding code and can be used with any model supported by ellmer in either RStudio or Positron. Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/gander/

Stop met Big Deals tussen academische partijen en commerciële uitgevers, maak ‘author accepted manuscripts’ publiek toegankelijk, en richt eigen Open Access tijdschriften op. Emeritus-hoogleraar Jos Baeten benoemt drie oplossingsrichtingen om de toegang tot wetenschappelijke kennis te verbeteren.

I'm putting together a reading list for my graduate class on executive function (starting next Tuesday). While doing so, I discovered that virtually all chapters in this 2024 volume on the frontal lobes are OPEN ACCESS (eds: Banich, Haber, & Robbins). Nice! I thought some of you might be interested.

Short personal reviews of 31 novels on #ResearchIntegrity "Novels can realistically depict the dilemmas scholars need to navigate ... This may help them to reflect on what a good researcher is and what academic scholars can do to stay close to that ideal." bit.ly/409E5ff

Are @zbmed.bsky.social aware of the negative reaction on social media to their just-announced contract with MDPI. There's a great many red flags they seem to have missed, e.g. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues... deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-... + @[email protected]'s account below

As semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky

I am delighted to announce that Disa Sauter and I are organizing a summer school, Emotion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, at the University of Amsterdam 30 June - 4 July 2025. We are also excited to offer four full scholarships through our faculty. summerschool.uva.nl/content/summ...

Frontiers in Psychology and Journal of Intelligence (MDPI) included.

Your friendly reminder that when testing your task, you can skip parts of your experiment by putting a loop around them and setting Num Repeats to 0. #timesaver #psychopy

Had not realized that R (>=4.0, per StackOverflow) provides selective function loading. Nice way to avoid naming conflicts. Instead of barfing a package's entire namespace into your environment when you don't need to: library(stringr, include.only = c("str_extract", "str_remove")) #rstats

De gedoogpartijen steunen €1,2 miljard aan bezuinigingen op de toekomst van onze kinderen en onze wetenschap. Terwijl een eensgezinde oppositie een unieke kans had dit tegen te houden. Wij blijven strijden om dit onzalig plan alsnog van tafel te krijgen.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the only thing a first draft has to do is exist. Everything else comes later.

Please repost this open PhD studentship.