I totally agree, science is not a simple optimization problem, or at least not in the form conceived by most existing systems. @battleday.bsky.social and I wrote about this recently from a somewhat different perspective (emphasizing the 'problem problem'): gershmanlab.com/pubs/Battled...

My interview with APS on SCORE, trustworthiness of research, and trust in science. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Neuroscientists interested in rigor, methodology, and open practices, check out this job opportunity to work on a COS-MIT collaboration to improve the research culture in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at MIT. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

A master student, Mink Veltman, is helping us to develop a miscitation detection module for Metacheck. If you want to help us to reduce miscitations, it would be great if you could take 5 minutes to fill out this survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/J7ugQw8mic Thanks in advance!

New #EEGManyLabs paper out in Cortex! We asked whether contralateral delay activity, or CDA, can serve as a reliable EEG marker of visual working memory capacity. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Sometimes co-authors ask me “did you see what they cited us for???” and of course I didn’t, because if you want to keep faith in humanity, you don’t look up what people cite you for, just like you don’t read comment sections.

Assessing qualitative individual differences with Bayesian hierarchical latent-mixture models. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Developing multifaceted metacognition

Are you interested in Shaping an Open Science Culture? Apply for this 2 year post-doc position at UMC Amsterdam. Joeri Tijdink is the PI, but you will work in a large interdisciplinary team (including me). werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

An individual participant data meta-analysis of how physical activity relates to affective well-being in daily life

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Speaking of crazy d values, this reminds me of this feature I was thinking about adding to the forest() function in metafor. #Rstats #MetaAnalysis

Very pleased to share a new policy brief by CAISA: Governing AI-generated content: Labelling for transparency when AI is the norm. This was a genuine privilege to be part of the team of 9 leading European scholars caisa.dk/forskning/t... 🧵 1/10

A major release of the RoBMA package (4.0.0) is now on CRAN. Main highlights: - fully redesigned interface closely matching metafor - dedicated brma, bselmodel, bPET, bPEESE for single model fits - fit diagnostics features (residuals, influence, etc) (overview at fbartos.github.io/RoBMA/articl...)

🔴🔴 Primer evento de la SPRN (Spanish Reproducibility Network 🔴🔴 Panel de gente súper interesante, incluyendo a @flavioazevedo.bsky.social y muchos más! También llevamos representación de @reproducibiliteaum.bsky.social 😊 Inscribios y difundid!!

What do we look for when searching for objects in our daily-life environments? Very happy that I can now share this review, together with @suryagayet.bsky.social , @predictivebrain.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social🥳 A brief thread below!

The layer 6b theory of attention www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #neuroscience

Why on earth would the @apastyle.bsky.social allow citing LLMs if there is no way to find out where the LLM got its information from and/or whether the information is factual? We don't cite Google searches either, we cite actual sources 🙄 pfff halfwhits apastyle.apa.org/blog/cite-ge...

Does anyone know of a tidy dataset with a large number of common multi-item self-report psychology scales? Ideally clinical. The data does not have to be within-subject, just a variety of common scales with decent N. I have: - Bainbridge et al - AIID dataset - Ideologies 2.0 dataset

Introducing meta-🔼! (meta-delta) Really excited about this one. We provide a principled, performance-corrected measure of metacognitive bias, placing it on an equal methodological footing with meta-d, and showing robust test-retest reliability to boot. Check out Kevin's thread for more details! 🧠🧪

1/2 Why AI is unlikely to become conscious – my 2026 TED talk is now online. What do you think about the prospects for 'conscious AI'? www.ted.com/talks/anil_s...

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Introducing the #ReplicationAtlas: The FLoRA (FORRT Library of Reproduction and Replication Attempts) lets you browser over two thousand (!) pairs of original and replication studies. Search by DOIs/keywords and find out about replications from your field, maybe even replications of your own work.

Our everyday “spontaneous” behavior is not random at all, but is organized as a chain of self-chosen tasks, each with its own goal. Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #neuroscience

New Registered report (preprint)!📜 Showing that unconscious structures support instrumental conditioning, but only when enabling conscious judgments osf.io/preprints/ps... W/ Andrei Preda, Andrei Costea, and Lina Skora @linaskora.bsky.social W/ support from @cos.io, @templetonworld.bsky.social

Conferencia de @mavadillo.bsky.social en la Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia de la Universidad de Málaga. Lunes 4 de mayo a las 13:00. Aula ADA. "Improving the quality of research on unconscious mental processes"

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Come interact with Isabel Gauthier, JEP:HPP Editor, at a VSS workshop on Demystifying Peer review! www.visionsciences.org/peer-review-...

Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems? New article in @nature.com by @profgeraintrees.bsky.social & me, with data from 12 funders showing a 57% increase in grant applications since 2022 (& the launch of LLMs) rdcu.be/ffApn @rorinstitute.bsky.social @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social

Reminder: when authors observe Cohen's d = 4, no they didn't. Article now retracted: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Critique: osf.io/preprints/ps... Blog on plausibility of effect sizes: trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/if-res...

When the visual system extracts regularities from the environment, what coordinate system does it use? doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

Awareness as the heart of working memory www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Our #RegisteredReport investigating the restrictiveness of #preregistrations based on the PRP-QUANT Template, is now published in AMPPS!🎉 DOI: doi.org/10.1177/2515... @pci-regreports.bsky.social @zpid.bsky.social #OpenScience

Want to explore the creative drawing process? Play with our demo of the Creative Creature Creator (CrCrCr): aliciafrancomartinez.github.io/demoCrCrCr.g...

I’ve just read this and now I want to run a multisite study too! 👀

If you’ve ever considered leading a multisite study but weren’t sure where to start, I hope our new paper in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social can help! 🔗https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.159983

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Deseando aprender y disfrutar en la próxima @PsychoBeers del 29 de abril en Granada! @universidadgranada.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hope to see you at the Conference on Transparency, Technology and AI in Peer Review on June 5, 2026, which is organized in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. Register at: meta-eindhoven.github.io/events/

Are you the less lucky of the co-first or co-last authors? @shougroup.bsky.social makes the case for changes to the way that equal contribution information is sent to indexing sites such as #PubMed. 🧪 #AcademicSky #publishing

New Annual Review with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social: “Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is.” We argue that the brain's 'planning' machinery is mostly used for learning from simulated experience, and that thinking prospectively at decision time is just one special case of this process.

I’m hiring a PhD student! The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

The number of submissions will only increase and I believe their solution is a poor fix. But my friends and I disagree about better solutions. To make resubmission intervals longer for people who get a low rating acts as a penalty for low ratings. If these ratings reliably evaluated quality: good.

making all the p-hackers look like rookies

I'm proud to be part of the Scientific Committee for the new $5M Digital Brain Project, to accelerate development of open source models of the human brain. Apply by May 15th for funding at digitalbrainproject.org

We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc to work at UNSW Sydney, studying impacts of reward and information on attention, using eye-tracking, EEG, and modelling - with Kelly Garner, Daniel Pearson and me. Application link below, please spread the word! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

New post on The 100% CI: Science needs downvotes. www.the100.ci/2026/04/13/s... In which I make the case that grant funders should add funding lines that include a module for bug bounties.

New discovery! Spoiler alert: Neural dynamics are key. Evidence for predictive computations in a brain hierarchy during a visual search task doi.org/10.64898/202... Work led by @pinotsislab.bsky.social #neuroscience