1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.

Many scholars don’t actually disagree with each other so much as maintain incompatible citation networks

12th VPDVP conference (Padova, 26th June 2026)

I think this genuinely can be a good thing. An automated agent that a) tries to run the code to see if it does what it is supposed to do and b) checks it for conceptual or implementation errors (code can run but be very wrong nevertheless).

It's so weird to think that a retro-cue paradigm has a birth date.

Also a nice example of depth/size perception distortion (the train looks like a cutoff to me, and a small one)

#CFHStudents, get in touch if you are interested in thesis topics using the shark tank foraging task 🦈🦈 (co-developed with @sauter.bsky.social), a dynamic version of the classic Maltese/ @icevislab.bsky.social conjunction foraging! #attention #learning #CFHThesisTopics

“Breakaway” journals launched by resigning editorial boards often outperform their “zombie” predecessors that retain the brand but lose the community. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Read our latest #perspective on spatiotemporal routines in perception and cognition, published in @natrevpsychol.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/fgYWU, with Árni Kristjánsson @icevislab.bsky.social , thanks to @snsf.ch @thesensech.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social

Spatiotemporal routines in visual perception www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Very happy this paper I'm part of, led by co-first author Nomiki Koutsoumpari and @efouragnan.bsky.social is now out in @plosbiology.org! It uses transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to show the causal role of aIns and dACC in two kinds of learning biases 1/9 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Do you know what to do when a study you have cited gets retracted? COSIG's entry on Citations to Retracted Publications has been updated with what to do in this situation. Read all about it: osf.io/9q3as

Spatiotemporal routines in visual perception Perspective by David Pascucci & Árni Kristjánsson go.nature.com/3QGlVQ1

AITA for stopping reading when I see I 1987 anchoring study cited without any discussion of its replicability?

Fascinating. Important. The stunning thing I’ve seen as an editor, reviewer, & educator, is the use of generative AI to accelerate low quality work. Rather than use these tools to do more ambitious scholarship, there is a race to the bottom. This post, the first in its series, documents exactly that

when you get tenure they finally tell you what attention is

More than 1,000 scientists have signed an open letter protesting changes to the European Research Council’s stricter grant application rules. By Lauren Schenkman www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...

This letter tells you all you need to know about research funding in Europe: ERC annual budget is about 15 times less than NIH. "Europe expects its single flagship excellence scheme to absorb massive demand with a fraction of the resources available to US agencies" www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1mv3h...

Effects of TMS on the Decoding and Electrophysiology of Priority in Working Memory www.eneuro.org/content/13/4... More evidence for a (not-inhibitory) role for oscillatory dynamics in the low beta band in the encoding of priority in WM

We have 3 PhD positions at our department (www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...). Know a good student interested in working with me on perception / visual memory? I'd be happy to support the proposal! A catch: this person must speak a Scandinavian language as the position implies some teaching duties.

My first foray into explicitly trying to bridge Marr’s levels, with @bealebrains.bsky.social. Inspired by Hahn and Wei’s models (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38360947/), we wondered how the brain could instantiate sensory inference with efficient /decoding/ properties. 1/

Exciting PhD opportunities in Aberdeen (inc. international)

My recent comment extends Shiffrin et al.'s (2026) essay on "Illusions of understanding". While they focused on multiple ways of understanding linear regression, I extend these ideas to a complex model class in cognitive science: Evidence Accumulation Models (EAMs). (1/6)👇

This is great! I've used Stan and JAX separately for different projects in the past, both are great, so hopefully this will be a huge step forward towards making Bayesian models faster. And then perhaps brms can now be used with Stan -> Jax as well?

Interesting, but as a person engaged with normative behavior modeling, I cannot help but notice that based on this plot, choosing AI would lead to better overall performance if I had to decide whether to use AI or not. And from a practical perspective, people use LLM differently depending on goals.

New paper with Stefan Glasauer now out in PloS Comp Biol, explaining repulsive and attractive biases in vertical perception within a single Bayesian framework. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

I've spent last week trying to decode orientation from EEG data. The biggest insight I got is how noisy it is compare with fMRI signals I'm used to =) And I seemingly cannot get IEM (or PRINCE-like model) to get above-LDA accuracy (measured as circ correlation), and not for the lack of trying.

1/n New preprint with Ziyu Zhao, @dougaparry.bsky.social, & @jacobtfisher.online Can an AI bot complete a live online reaction-time task & produce data that passes as human? We built an autonomous bot to take the Attention Network Test (ANT) in real time Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I think this is a realistic assessment of the effort needed to build a bot.

🧠 What makes threat memories so hard to forget? 🐍😱 Using focused ultrasound we provide causal evidence that the human amygdala drives rapid threat learning 🐍⚡ and determines how resistant those memories become to subsequent extinction 🐍🚫 🆕📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I've got another #visionscience YT video for you, this time about the optical reason behind the tilted wheels we draw when we want a car to look like it's speeding. Enjoy! youtube.com/shorts/7ilxy...

The effect of sequence stability on serial dependence jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

A reply to my reply about bots in online studies - and a very cool demonstration! I summarized my thoughts in the comments to this post.

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it

Interesting paper! I think a lot of research in vision science is shaped by history, like how in tachistoscopes era it was difficulty to generate stimuli randomly, so researchers most often used discrete stimuli categories (red vs. green).

Quick YT short about an excellent color #illusion that just came out in @pec-ipe.bsky.social - enjoy! #psychology #neuroscience #visionscience

🏆 @simine.com, psychologist at @psychunimelb.bsky.social / @unimelb.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) is a leading voice in the reform movement in psychology - and is now being honored with the €150K Individual Award. Huge congratulations! 🎉

Traditional polite reminder: If you don't want to review, please click on the decline link (those 'un-invited' are when the potential reviewer does not reply anything within a week).

Did you know that the spinning top is one of the most common forms of traditional play worldwide? Our research found tops to be nearly universal across human cultures. Wherever you come from, your ancestors probably spun tops. New preprint: Top of the World osf.io/preprints/so... Thread:

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5

@ecvp.bsky.social when is the abstract submission deadline? The website mentions early bird registration deadline but not the one for abstracts submission.

Government-Funded infomercial from Norway striking back at US corporations and the tech Bros for filling the Internet with slop. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

Join our lab in Geneva, as a postdoc working on #workingmemory, with both Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and myself !

In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication. We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #CodeSharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. 1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social 2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method ➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟