New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...

Funny, but... also not.

I talk about the research on when AI undermines, versus supporting, thinking and learning here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-t...

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky Since there is no polling option here (👀 @bsky.app ) How many of u were aware that while PsyArXiv is (& always will be) free to end users, @improvingpsych.org incurs annual costs for the technology that hosts the service, including user technical support and DOI minting?

Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!

📢 Want to get involved in ESCAN? Applications are now open for the ESCAN Junior Committee. If you are an ESCAN Student/Junior Member (Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD student), consider applying to help organize activities and represent junior researchers within the society.

📢 ESCAN Full Members (postdocs and beyond),with diverse backgrounds and experiences, can also nominate themselves—or be nominated—for the ESCAN Board. 📅 Deadline: July 30, 2026 📧 [email protected] #ESCAN2026 #SocialNeuroscience #AffectiveNeuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience

✨ ESCAN 2026 in Rome welcomed an amazing 950 participants! And, of course, one global group photo for research, in front of the ESCAN 2026 venue at Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Economics. #ESCAN2026 #SocialNeuroscience #AffectiveNeuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience

Jin Yan just presented cool preliminary fMRI findings of our new Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task #escan2026. Tomorrow Liwen Meng presents how exposure to virtual nature alters stress responses to this task Check out Poster 2-111

Have you thought of using unchained pupillometry to infer effort/arousal with _uncontrolled_ visual stimulation? Sounds crazy? @yuqingc.bsky.social shows that convolutional modeling of pupil responses with gaze-contingent luminance changes finally allows just that! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧠 ESCAN 2026 begins this week in Rome! June 3–6: almost 900 researchers gather at Sapienza University of Rome for the 8th ESCAN Meeting. Highlights: 🔹 Keynotes: Tallon-Baudry, Sandi & Knapska 🔹 Pre-conference events 🔹 General Assembly 🔹 750+ contributions escan2026.eu #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience

“MRI scans of the marathon runners’ brains showed that myelin content was reduced in several white-matter tracts immediately after the race; two months later, myelin levels had recovered to baseline levels.”

1/ New paper alert! Stress often builds over time, but many scientific studies treat it as just an on/off thing. In this paper, we introduce the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST): a new paradigm for inducing graded, mild-to-moderate stress in the lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1️⃣ week left before ESCAN conference in Rome!!! Are you excited? Can’t wait to see you soon! 😎 #neuroscience #escan #socialneuroscience #affectiveneuroscience #cognitiveneuroscience

Reviewing a paper, and it is so nice that the Metacheck R package we made allows me to download all OSF Files by just typing: metacheck::osf_file_download("2w123") (not the actual repo). All files are downloaded, maintaining the folder structure, without any hassle.

Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/

I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

ESCAN is now a @fens.org member society. ✔️ ESCAN members → automatic FENS membership ✔️ No extra fee ✔️ Access to grants, discounts & networking More: www.fens.org/membership/y...

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ernstige vertaalfouten in 'Onze man bij de vijand': Thomas Erdbrink stelt kritische vragen over de Russische oorlog tegen 🇺🇦 aan de nabestaanden van een dode soldaat, maar die worden door de tolk als mededelingen vertaald. Daardoor is het alsof ze niet willen antwoorden. 🧵1/9

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

Why you should be very careful installing packages from Github: github.com/BerriAI/lite...

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Looking forward to seeing many of you there in person or on Zoom!

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred. Apply here: jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po... Lab website: wessellab.org

First post on Bluesky - here we go! 😊 I’m working on a new book chapter on pupillometry in emotion and emotion regulation research, and would love to hear about relevant papers, preprints, or ongoing work in this area. Please share or tag colleagues! #pupil #emotion #emotionregulation

Conference season is here. Many of you are doing it wrong. You flew across the country to check your email in a different city. New post on what conferences are actually for. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

Those moments when you’re waiting for your cluster jobs to finish, get bored, and ask ChatGPT to write a progress-monitoring script. A little manual fine-tuning later, and voilà!

The University of Amsterdam has cancelled its subscription to ScienceGuide, a leading Dutch platform for higher education, with disproportionate negative consequences for staff and students. Please consider to sign the petition to get our subscription back. openletter.earth/petitie-inza...

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

Join us in Fribourg (CH) for the Swiss Stress Network annual meeting on April 30th!

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience. Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place. More news soon. #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City. ✨ Submissions open December 1st!

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...