"Upon closer inspection of the DAG, we realized we shouldn't have bothered with this study..."

Thrilled to be involved in this Leverhulme-funded project. The grant will also support a postdoc position at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social to apply signal detection theory modelling to antibiotic-related medical judgements. Stay tuned if this sounds like your kind of research!

Excited to announce the 2nd Graduate Summer School on Computational Decision Sciences (GSS-CDS) at RHUL! 📅 Sept 7–11, 2026 📍Stewart House, Central London Fee: £480 (includes lunch, breaks & events) Registration closes on June 15. center-decision-sciences.com/cds-graduate...

Why we should rethink causal mediation, and what to do instead? Come to hear the answer from Vanessa Didelez at the next CIIG seminar! The seminar will be hybrid. If you are in London, come join us in person at UCL! Otherwise, you can join on Zoom as usual. Registration links in comment below.

Whoops forgot the relevant feeds #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence A comment on Piray’s recent paper on low statistical power in computational modelling studies: Are computational modelling studies severely underpowered? I don’t think the current analyses justify that conclusion Thread + commentary 👇

This is an interesting paper on power in computational modelling, with several useful points. But I think the headline conclusion — that 60–80% of studies are underpowered — rests on a very specific effect-size assumption that is hard to justify and unlikely to be realistic in most cases. 1/5

human-AI misalignment in the wild

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...

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

@orisshenyan.bsky.social and me are happy to share our most recent preprint - we find that prior knowledge protects high-level perception from low-level visual deficits common in healthy ageing. @tessamdekker.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.

❗️Our next workshop will be on Nov 13 6 pm CET titled Building & Customising Stat Models with Stan and R: Introduction to Bayesian Inference by @mlisi.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

We are hiring, come work with us! Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department Deadline: December 1st #neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky

A very worrying escalation of online harassment. Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves" x.com/EuropaIneffa...

I’ll be giving a 'Workshops for Ukraine' session on Building and Customising Statistical Models with Stan and R: An Introduction to Bayesian Inference — online on Nov 13. Open to all, with donations supporting Ukrainian organisations. 👉 sites.google.com/view/dariia-... #stats #rstats #statssky

Turns out a university degree does still make a substantial difference to job prospects, once you account for the conditions when people enter the job market. Nice analysis by the FT. on.ft.com/4q6Y8pm

Deeply disappointing. Once again the @royalsociety.org has avoided explaining how *actions* by Elon Musk that clearly repudiate the Society's values are consistent with the code of conduct that Fellows must adhere to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

Amateur view. AI bubble shows that there is too much money chasing too few opportunities for genuine innovation. The solution is to take a medium/long view and put much more funding into basic science in universities rather than cutting as is happening now. (But I would say that wouldn’t I?)

❗️Our next workshop will be on October 2nd, 6 pm CEST, on Effective and Useful Feature engineering by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

All sign this please @hopenothate.org.uk secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/178037/...

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to work with @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @ronimaimon.bsky.social on visual neuroscience experiments with children and adults, both with and without eye disease using cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs

New paper out! 📣 Syrian refugee children (4-9 yrs) show age-related shifts in judging trustworthiness from faces — older kids tend to see faces as less trustworthy; yet judgments are not tied to child or maternal mental health. doi.org/10.1017/S095... #PsychSciSky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

New registered report out in BJHP📣 How to reduce demand for antibiotics? Using Signal Detection Theory, we show that clinician explanations & CRP point-of-care results reduce antibiotic expectations and improve discernment doi.org/10.1111/bjhp... #PsychSciSky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨 I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America. In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi... 1/2

Excited to finally have in my hands a copy of our new book Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective (written with Alasdair Clarke, not on bsky) !! 📘 www.mheducation.co.uk/statistics-f... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #statistics #statssky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

New paper out! 📣 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence @rhulpsychology.bsky.social 👇

Excited to share our new preprint... ...𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒! ⏳ We find temporal confounds in fMRI that emulate neural patterns of perceptual learning. These can be hard to spot with conventional RSA, but may influence our understanding of how prior knowledge shapes perception. tinyurl.com/4bwy6nre

If you are at #CCN25 and interested confidence bias and confidence noise in humans come say hi at poster C13 this afternoon! PDF link: mlisi.xyz/files/CCN25_...

New paper just out (open access) 📣 How do early adversity and war trauma shape children’s decisions under uncertainty? We tested Syrian refugee kids (7–12) in Amman vs. Jordanian peers across a set of learning/foraging tasks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Motherfucking wind farms…

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

There can be useful applications of LLMs in research, but peer review is certainly NOT one of them — please don't offload your judgment to a dumb model!

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).

Applications are OPEN for our MSc Applied Neuroscience! Lots of hands-on fMRI, TMS, VR, eyetracking & EEG training included. #psychscisky 🧠📈 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer.. Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years. (See Bauer 2007)

Registration is open for the Summer School on Computational Decision Sciences, 8–12 Sept Join us in London for a week of cutting-edge research on decision-making, AI, cognitive science and more! (free, register by 11Aug) center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s... #PsychSciSky 🧠 #neuroskyence🧪

"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

We are still looking for collaborators, especially from Africa, Asia and South America for our project on how people from around the world correct their intuitive reasoning errors. More information below. Pls join and share! psysciacc.org/projects/psa...

COS exec. director @briannosek.bsky.social spoke to @opinion.bloomberg.com's @fayeflam.bsky.social about widespread concerns over the 'Gold Standard Science' EO: "The executive order converts principles of good practice into weapons against scientific evidence" 🔗: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Kicking off soon near Milton Keynes: Chris Rufo, architect of the attacks now underway on US universities, will speak tomorrow at a UK university, alongside a host of other “anti-woke” culture warriors who helped shift political discourse rightwards. “Politically-neutral” this conference will not be

The second study of my PhD is out as a preprint, exploring experimentally-induced hallucination proneness across the lifespan! w/ Laura Haye @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social l @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Column, on the prime minister who had room to manoeuvre and chose to besiege himself instead. Again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sooner or later, one of three things is going to happen. Universities can find money at home, or they can find it abroad. But if they don’t find it, some are going under. In defence of international students.

I'm in @the-independent.com warning that shrinking the UK’s #NetZero ambition would only make energy prices higher and put British industry at a disadvantage www.independent.co.uk/voices/kemi-...

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