dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Recurring Crises in Psychology "The current responses to the replication crisis, although valuable, are not ultimate solutions because they deflect fundamental questions and postpone the reconsideration of the ideals of psychology as a science." Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/1089...

Pretty neat stuff!!

In case you are unaware of this. @olivia.science is great!

There are a few good books and guides, my (biased) suggestion is the text I wrote for this very purpose engra.me/books/matlab/

Critically, we also need the public to support actions that enable older people to live great lives without having to drive for when they fail the eye tests. So the public need to get onboard with no pavement parking, pedestrian priority, denser housing, fewer out-of-town shopping centres, etc etc

For people using the @ukbiobank.bsky.social UKB RAP cloud system for brain imaging analyses: In order to make RAP much easier to use, we have created a Docker which is easy to install and gives you a graphical desktop, FSLeyes and the HCP wb_view. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Seems like a genuinely horrible idea that will only serve to amplify existing biases in selection

I won’t tag them but there are a few fairly large science-adjacent accounts on here (who are followed by a lot of y’all) who have been bashing the work and person of @irisvanrooij.bsky.social for the last few days. I feel it important to note that, as far as I can tell, those people are full of shit

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

And for anyone looking to recruit a superstar post-doc 👉 @anavili.bsky.social 🏆 has just submitted her thesis and is on the lookout, mainly in the fields of #perception, #attention, #workingmemory, #pupillometry, #eyemovements! #nvp2025 #psychology

Rethinking power in #AutismResearch: Intersectional, Participatory, & Afrocentric Futures? Book our January seminar with @drmbothapsych.bsky.social & Dr Olivia Matshabane, facilitated by Dr Sohail Jannesari. @kingsioppn.bsky.social @journalautism.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quahrc-sem...

Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things

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

Good morning! My dissertation students and I would appreciate your help with our study investigating how neurotypical and neurodivergent people approach multi-tasking. As compensation, you can enter to win 1 of 4 £20 vouchers. Links are below! Email any questions to [email protected] :)

New paper from our work on Project NeuroSync published in Infant and Behavior Development. The interaction between caregiver scaffolding and infant object engagement is associated with better visual working memory in 6-to-10-month-old infants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"It is noteworthy here that in all likelihood, the wealthy would still continue to receive high-quality personal instruction while the less wealthy would be taught by these potentially problematic LLMs due to resource constraints." — me and @samhforbes.bsky.social ☹️

We're looking for great students interested in language processing and cognitive development in fNIRS. We use HD-DOT / fNIRS and eyetracking to understand how infants develop. If interested see the scheme and please get in touch.

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

Do parents exaggerate the pronunciation of words they believe their infants don’t know yet? Our new paper suggests no. ❌ w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social & @nataliakartushina.bsky.social 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy

library(dplyr) Haul %>% group_by(candy) %>% arrange()

Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether

This isn't research... sorry

Proudly published with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: A metatheory of classical and modern connectionism. doi.org/10.1037/rev0... We touch on what has been up with connectionism as a framework for computational modelling — & for everything it seems these days with AI and LLMs — pre-2010 vs post. 1/n

Take a look here, article linked to is: Guest, O. & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. PsyArXiv. doi.org/10.31234/osf... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Excited to share my first PhD article, published in Scientific Data 👉 rdcu.be/eIRqD We present the Shared Book Reading Corpus: 44 caregiver-infant dyads, 3 camera views (headcams + overview), speech transcriptions & developmental measures. Access on Databrary for discovery & reuse! ✨ #OpenScience

Check this out! 🌟 👇 👍 🧪

Weird ggplot thing that got me this week with the update to 4.0 - it supports new ink and paper arguments (www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... ) and they've changed how transparency works! If you a transparent bg, you can control it with theme_*() now #rstats

Ode to the original language model, or: Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs) *(no predictive coding either!) By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

It would be really nice if academic institutions and governments pushing "AI is the future" stopped buying the hype and admitted they were conned, so we can get back to thinking through useful solutions to world problems.

Don’t miss it! 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐀 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 Organised by the Diversity in Developmental Science Network, featuring 𝐃𝐫.𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐞𝐣𝐚 as a panellist. 📝 Registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

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Woah! Amazing PhD positions on children as agents of cultural evolution with one of the foremost experts on the topic.

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Wrote this on the train home from Metascience. Can’t quite believe this one needed saying, but I really think that if conversations about research integrity and open science don’t take academic bullying seriously, we’ll keep perpetuating the same system that science reform was trying to change.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Journalists have consistently shown they are morally bankrupt on AI. Depressing

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

If you are also worried about ScienceDirect’s AI slop feature, you can directly contact them here: service.elsevier.com/app/answers/...

💫 Just out! A tour de force by my colleague @olivia.science, new paper 📝: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? 🧮 ⏰ 🧠 Keywords: AI; cognitive science; sociotechnical relationship; cognitive labour; ANN; technology; cognition; human-centred AI Link to the paper on arXiv: lnkd.in/e9nHGkMK 1/n

Setting up LUMO for high-density fNIRS data collection is so simple even Smiskis can do it! #fNIRS #Neuroimaging #HDDOT #LUMO

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: [email protected] RTs appreciated 💫

As someone who was involved in some of the discussions around this mess, it is as bad as it sounds, maybe even worse. Wiley has gone PCI-hostile based on completely incoherent arguments.

This is a fascinating decision. Wiley manages quite a lot of journals in the developmental psychology space, so this seems to be a massive negative for the field.

if k means clustering, what does c mean

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!