Fascinating deep dive into the characteristics of papers and peer reviews at a journal, with a lookback pre-COVID and pre-chatGPT. Papers and reviews showing more signs of AI over time, but also lower writing quality. orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu... orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu...

Fascinating. Important. The stunning thing I’ve seen as an editor, reviewer, & educator, is the use of generative AI to accelerate low quality work. Rather than use these tools to do more ambitious scholarship, there is a race to the bottom. This post, the first in its series, documents exactly that

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/...

People in the AI world seem to adore the System 1/2 dichotomy. I love this quote from Gerd Gigerenzer about the concept:

Interested in intensive longitudinal studies (ESM, EMA, ...)? We will host a GESIS seminar in September that will teach you how to conduct and analyze these studies. Check it out here ⬇️

🚨 Tom Griffiths has a podcast where he interviews cognitive scientists podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... This just went to the top of my list.

Deeply honored that our paper was recognized with the #SANS2026 Award! SANS was an important part of this paper's journey! @jadynpark.bsky.social first presented this work at SANS2023, and again in SANS2025, and we benefited greatly from the feedback and discussion!

And that's a wrap! We hope you had a great conference! Join us for #SANS2027 in Montreal! With program co-chairs @p1sh.bsky.social and Nina Lauharatanahirun

Can’t wait to see some of you at my poster today! #SANS2026

Last day of #SANS2026! Today, @rachaelkee.bsky.social will present her poster introducing Inoxity. It’s an open source iOS app that allows for high-throughput collection of EMA and bio-behavioral data. What can you do with high-throughput data? Check her preprint! doi.org/10.33767/osf...

Get your media neuro dose at #SANS26! We will have a poster session everyday at SANS presenting on both topics of morality and media addiction. See our poster details below 👇👇👇

Today, Dr. Weber was recognized for his pioneering work using naturalistic paradigms in fMRI research. We’re proud to see the Media Neuroscience Lab’s work honored through his recognition as a SANS Founding Fellow. #SANS2026

Congratulations, Rene! Remarkable to see a career-long focus on content and naturalistic approaches in media neuroscience. And exciting to see the new things coming from your lab!

Brilliant work, @elisabaek.bsky.social !! Congratulations on this well deserved recognition of your scholarship!

Are you a trainee at #SANS2026 or a trainee in social or affective neuroscience. Fill out this quick survey to help with a game at COMICSANS. More data = better games. forms.gle/b5B8y3m6LEFu...

Also today at #SANS2026, Ziyu Zhao investigates the “brain rot” hypothesis. When studied rigorously, in large multi-national samples, we find a whole lot of nothing. Conclusion: previously observed alarming results might be driven by sampling bias and/or measurement error (P1-C-20)

We’re at #SANS2026! Today, Valerie Klein will share her undergraduate capstone project using drift diffusion models to understand how mental health status influences affective media selection. Find her at P1-F-32, and check out the preprint, here doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Grad school: to be successful in a future career you're going to need to focus on THIS ONE THING for the next 5 years. The actual career in question: you can't focus on one thing for more than 30 minutes at a time and you have to keep switching between 1000 things endlessly

A waste of grant proposals

1/n New preprint with Ziyu Zhao, @dougaparry.bsky.social, & @jacobtfisher.online Can an AI bot complete a live online reaction-time task & produce data that passes as human? We built an autonomous bot to take the Attention Network Test (ANT) in real time Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Oh!!!! I can’t wait for this!

We recently warned of bots in online behavioral research. @achetverikov.bsky.social showed there is no evidence for that in our @joinprolific.bsky.social data - but that doesn't mean we're safe. Agentic AI can do behavioral tasks through prompting alone. Reply & videos: osf.io/3cztr/overview

What are YOU doing May 15-17? Join us at Comm Horizons for a deep dive into Communication in the Age of AI & Algorithms! Keynotes by Jeff Hancock & @angelhwang.bsky.social 74 presentations, 44 posters, & wine tasting in Napa! Registration closes April 5 communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...

Working hypothesis: If you're doing research and don't occasionally have a small existential crisis, either you've been blessed to work in an exceptional field (do tell which one it is!), or maybe you're being a bit naive.

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

How do we deal with rich, multilevel, and multimodal data? In a new preprint, @rachaelkee.bsky.social and I sketch an answer! For all the details, and the preprint link, see Rachael’s thread. Be sure to give her a follow, especially if you’re interested in neuroscience, sleep, and media!

Important work, and worth a read

Congratulations @judithfan.bsky.social on winning the Lila R. Gleitman Prize for early-career contributions to Cognitive Science 🥳 Amazing!! cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-pri...

About nine months ago, we asked ourselves "what does it mean to be Global in the 21st Century?" We pondered this with @icahdq.bsky.social and @academic.oup.com and the end result? Volume 1, Issue 1 of Global Perspectives in Communication.

📣Call for Papers: CCR Special Issue on Media Use and Effects in the Computational Era Guest-edited by Frank Mangold, Christina Viehmann, Chung-hong Chan, Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam, Lukas Otto, Mareike Wieland, Julia Niemann-Lenz, and Pablo Jost. Abstract deadline: 16-Oct-2026 See announcement -

Leibniz, looking at the universe: "Why is there something instead of nothing?" Me, looking at my Outlook calendar: same

Of all the analogies, this one about horses is the dumbest.

Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

Very excited to see the first issue of @gpccomm.bsky.social is nearly ready! Some good work is cooking very soon!

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Deeply honored by this recognition from @psychscience.bsky.social, and to be in the company of scientists whose work I greatly admire! A big thank you to lab members, collaborators and mentors, past and present for the work we do together!

This one feels good 😊 Humbled and honored to be in the company of Spence Award winners, past and present. All credit goes to mentors, colleagues, and especially members of my lab -- thank you!!!

Researching communication, AI, or algorithms? Join us at Comm Horizons 2026! Keynotes from Jeff Hancock & @angelhwang.bsky.social, high-quality competitive programming, great feedback, & Napa wine tasting. Abstract deadline approaching fast: March 1 (AOE) communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...

Congratulations to the 2026 APS Spence Award Recipients! @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @williambrady.bsky.social, @esfinn.bsky.social, @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social, @ycleong.bsky.social, @danieljamesyon.bsky.social, www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups. This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social! App deadline is March 15!

Feeling so grateful for being able to engage in such an exciting conversation in a room full of superstars! Thankful for my QE Committee, for my advisor, and for finally reaching this milestone! Next steps… even greater things! 🤩

I will be hiring a full-time pre-doctoral Research Professional to work with me at Chicago Booth. Know someone interested in studying conversation and connection? Please help spread the word! More details, including application instructions, are here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...

It’s unfortunate that the job is for someone pre-doctoral, or else I’d be interested in applying. This is a great opportunity to work with an amazing scientist and person, don’t pass it up!

Today @rachaelkee.bsky.social successfully defended her QE! She submitted two papers: (1) a positioning statement introducing what she is calling “high-throughput communication science” and (2) a proposal for the first-ever demonstration of this research agenda. Way to go, Rachael! 🎉🎉🎉

Depressed? Anxious? Lonely? What if mental health doesn’t just result from media use, but shapes how we choose media? In a new preprint, Valerie Klein, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social @aeden.bsky.social and I and I test this using a computational decision-making model: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧵Thread

This work by @mariaeckstein.bsky.social et al is a nice example of how progress in psychology can be expedited with machine learning. How long before this type of approach is expected for models-of-behavior papers? My guess: not long. (If you are a trainee, nudge!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING: SF not a shithole after all www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

New work from the lab! With @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social