Remarkable. Uncontrollable laughing or crying can happen *without* emotion ("pseudobulbar affect"). Here's a video of one individual whose crying is triggered by real or imagined rubbing of his finger & thumb. Intense response but not sadness. /1 static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

"Doesn’t matter to us who you’re fucking mingling with, or tingling with, or fingering with. It’s none of our fucking business."

in Oxford, a grade 7 (entry-level) postdoc costs about £180K for 3 years, including fringe. For UKRI grants, the university now adds **£460K** in overheads. is that normal? do other UK universities impose such outlandish FEC?

Quite proud of this latest work from the KorbLab, which replicates behavioral effects of zygomaticus activation on happiness categorization, and also reveals an N170 reduction, suggesting reduced visual processing in combination with targeted facial feedback input

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...

Emotions are core to the human experience 😆😮🙂😊☹️😠😳😑 But how do they arise? Our brain-wide ⚡recordings in humans and mice reveal some answers @ScienceMagazine. A big team effort and debut paper from @Stanford's new Human Neural Circuitry program. bit.ly/4dEyX7Z

On 24th June, we are hosting a 1 day event on Social Connections at UCL - come along to hear the latest research on wearable sensors and friendship and measuring social interaction. Please share widely palslanguagelab.wixsite.com/socialconnec...

📣 COS is excited to launch the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)! Seeking researchers with expertise in quantitative methods in health behavior, public health, epidemiology, health policy, & related fields for this large-scale, multi-team replication effort. ➡️ Details: www.cos.io/rphb

New paper day! Using EEG and frequency tagging, we show that posing a smile reduces neural discrimination of happy versus neutral faces, possibly by making neutral faces look happier. Led by Joshua Baker, with great help from Stephanie Van der Donck and Bart Boets. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam! Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck. More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!

We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!

Trump’s “free” speech: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.

Unbelievably scary: www.science.org/content/blog...

It says a lot about the current funding crisis affecting UK universities when Wales' biggest university proposes to close its Nursing course to save money, at a time when the NHS is desperate for more nurses.

I am thrilled to announce that my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline 28 February. pvrticka.com/2025-soneat-...

Hope this link works www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

What are the prospects for AI that is, or irresistibly appears to be, conscious? Here’s a substantially revised version of my paper “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism” - many thanks to many folks for super-helpful comments osf.io/preprints/ps...

Postdoctoral positions in Emotion Research. Come and collaborate with 24 training faculty across disciplines in the nation’s longest standing emotion research training program (also home to the country’s largest local farmers market). Applications are due on Friday, February 7,2025. emotion.wisc.edu

Want to see if your research has had an impact on public policy? Enter your info in SagePolicyProfiles to see the citations of your own publications in policy documents. You get a profile page. Here is mine as an example: policyprofiles.sagepub.com/profile/5920...

A guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience

Comedy legend @daraobriain.bsky.social and award-winning science presenter @fryrsquared.bsky.social have teamed up with Essex Psychology's Dr Wijnand van Tilburg to explore the brilliance of boredom on their BBC Radio 4 Curious Cases podcast. You can listen now: www.essex.ac.uk/news/2024/11...

Thank you @ayesharascoe.bsky.social and @npr.org for giving me the chance to talk about our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation www.npr.org/2024/11/24/n...

Over the moon that our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation (recently published in Emotion, shorturl.at/YRS9d) was featured in ScientificAmerican @sciam.bsky.social. Thank you so much @RachelNuwer for the interview, and thank you Heather Lench for endorsing us.

I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/2024-editorial-board We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!

*TODAY IS THE DAY* It's your last chance to sign up to participate in the groundbreaking Perception Census project. Don't miss out :-) We close to new participants at the end of 31st October 2023. perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world

My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!

Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable? Great question, asked in this beautiful new paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint from @loseth.bsky.social, Martin Trøstheim & myself We asked how important endogenous opioids are for feeling connected to others osf.io/preprints/ps... Because opioids are so addictive, their use is restricted to pain relief - but their effects are notoriously variable & numerous

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