This was such a fun project! Dozens of philosophers wrote philosophical arguments trying to get people to donate more to charity, and we ask: Do any of these work? Which ones work best? Why?

PELICAN: a Longitudinal Image Processing Pipeline for Analyzing Structural Magnetic Resonance Images in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease Populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.677546v1

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

Updating my analysis now that August data should be relatively complete. Not great news... The rate of investment of the appropriation is not increasing and it seems unlikely that the entire appropriation will be committed this year. 1/2

The Department of Psychology at Tufts University is conducting a search for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Computational Psychology with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, beginning September 1, 2026. Details can be found here: apply.interfolio.com/172807.

If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10

Wow what a rich dataset! Amazing work @jungheejung.bsky.social !

Some "good for now" news reported by @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social in case you didn't catch it last week. With some good advice from @scott-delaney.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PCI-Psychology just start accepting submissions. If you go through their peer review and get endorsed, you can automatically publish with PCI affiliated journals requiring no additional peer review. Some have a quick internal check decision process. psych.peercommunityin.org

As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children.

New work from the lab led by @jenyangyi.bsky.social !

New 📰 Demand characteristics are a fundamental methodological concern in research with humans Yet little is known about the magnitude and consistency of these effects In a new paper, I, M. Wyatt, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social take stock of what we’ve learned via meta-analysis doi.org/10.1525/coll...

New PNAS paper: "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

New preprint🔊🧓: Why do we trust our friends more? We show that people are more efficient at evaluating information when making trust decisions about friends. This is preserved across the adult life span. W/ @jjfcastrellon.bsky.social . Feedback welcome: osf.io/tkpmv_v1

Applying for graduate studies in psychology and neuroscience can be challenging and confusing. Frequently, applicants have some support from mentors at their home institutions, but sometimes applicants are looking for additional reassurance, feedback, or perspectives on the processes.

My new university's logo is a PSI! How frickin cool is that! Help me grow a new lab at in IU Bloomington! We're seeking brilliant young scientists interested in memory representations, neuromodulation & aging. Coordinator: bit.ly/3Hu3UzT Postdoc: bit.ly/4oBZF6j Accepting GS apps in the Fall!

Biggest monthly price increases since the pandemic over four years ago. And the inflation is primarily from federal policy. If it starts feeding on itself and spirals, yeesh. Likely govt response is not to end inflation-causing policy, but to fire statisticians, bury data and lie. That won’t help.

Gen AI is making it easy for bad actors to create fake websites to scam students. Great reporting by @byjoshmoody.bsky.social and @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social: www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

It is egregious that RFK Jr requested @annalsofim.bsky.social retraction of this paper because he didn't like the data www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... www.reuters.com/business/hea...

So pleased and proud to share this work. I started trying to think clearly about authority punishment in 2018. This new paper with Setayesh Radkani is the first fruit of that labour. Why so much struggle? See thread. 1/17

Download our updated database for POSTDOC fellowships in neuroscience/neurology/psychology/psychiatry/neuro-X 23 entries (w/ description, amount, link, deadline, eligibility criteria). Good luck! Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works. *Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of. Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial. 1/2

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket. It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok. We must speak up now. 1/

“The findings reveal that friends, compared with nonfriends, exhibit higher similarity in product evaluation, which undergoes dynamic changes as the structure of social networks changes.” www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

Govt Accountability Office (GAO) determines Trump admin broke the law by withholding billions in new NIH awards. Full GAO report: www.gao.gov/assets/890/8... NYT article (no paywall): archive.is/202508051916...

BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds. www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

38 research teams analyzed the same fNIRS data...Really nice visualization of the variety of processing pipelines people use from Meryem Yücel, Rob Luke, et al.: "fNIRS reproducibility varies with data quality, analysis pipelines, and researcher experience" www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Analysing self-promotional language in Abstracts, this study finds that its use is associated with more citations & online attention. Promotional language predicted a larger gender gap with male (1st or last) authors receiving more citations, views, & media attention. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

David V. Smith (an Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Temple University, Philadelphia; his research utilizes fMRI and transcranial electrical stimulation to explore how people make social and economic decisions) leaves X (1.543 followers) Bluesky: @dvsmith.bsky.social

What's the optimal number of steps of physical activity this is associated with multiple (9) favorable outcomes? The largest, systematic review of 57 studies, 35 cohorts. 7,000 steps is clinically meaningful, benefit also seen for 4,000 steps cf 2,000 steps thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team! Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thread of research relying on world-renowned data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Please contribute So much of my own research has used BLS data Growing income inequality in who gets a college education - from NLSY79/97 www.nber.org/system/files...

“We demonstrate a principled computational and empirical dissociation between DA as an RPE versus a value signal. Our results advance understanding of how DA neuron stimulation drives learning.” www.cell.com/current-biol...

I still want to know what happened with the 20 million dead people that Musk said were getting Social Security payments. His DOGE gang couldn't find any. So are they still getting their checks?

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

Now out at Aging and Mental Health! doi.org/10.1080/1360...

🚨📚 New book! I’m thrilled to share that our edited volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature), will be out later this year. Co-edited with @thepsychologist.bsky.social and @dfareri.bsky.social — huge thanks to all our brilliant contributors. 🧵 (1/12)

BREAKING: Trump wants to illegally cut off $15 billion in lifesaving NIH research. Research to cure cancer, Alzheimer's, and so much more is on the line. These people are LYING about waste, fraud, and abuse at NIH to justify attacking medical research—we all need to say so. My full statement. ⬇️

“The Senate Committee on Appropriations is scheduled to release its proposal for NIH’s 2026 budget later this week…The committee could include language that would prohibit the multiyear funding plan or extend the timeline for the transition.”🧪

By entirely funding more awards up front, the NIH is on track to fund just 1 in 25 applications Such a payline “would chase a lot of people out of science” former NCI director Ned Sharpless told us 🧪🔬 www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/n...

My dissertation / first RR is out now in Imaging Neuroscience! Lots of folks discuss how between-person heterogeneity may limit the utility of group-averages for brain functioning - we empirically tested that idea! doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models. #Neuroskyence direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Ok, reinforcement learning fans: RL is great, but what do we do when there's no obvious reward from the environment? What about perfecting a golf swing or a foxtrot or a musical performance? We may have an answer. A tale of 🐦 🎶 + 🧠. 🧵1/ #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #neuroai #compneuro

New preprint for the SCIMaP project: we show how accounting for commuter flows reveals the broad extent of economic losses that will result from NIH funding cuts

Come join us at UMD as an MRI Tech! Feel free to share wide if you know suitable candidates - great opportunity for new grads with a Bachelor's degree and an interest in MRI research. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check. That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year. If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.