First post on Bluesky - here we go! 😊

I’m working on a new book chapter on pupillometry in emotion and emotion regulation research, and would love to hear about relevant papers, preprints, or ongoing work in this area.

Please share or tag colleagues!

#pupil #emotion #emotionregulation

Hi Noga, cool! Make sure you include the work from the copan lab @copan-leiden.bsky.social on pupil mimicry. Not a lot of new work on emotion and pupil from my lab at the moment. I am more interested in using valence-sensitive measures like facial EMG at the moment. Good luck with the writing!

You're Doing Conferences Wrong I love conferences.

Conference season is here. Many of you are doing it wrong. You flew across the country to check your email in a different city. New post on what conferences are actually for.

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Those moments when you’re waiting for your cluster jobs to finish, get bored, and ask ChatGPT to write a progress-monitoring script. A little manual fine-tuning later, and voilà!

The University of Amsterdam has cancelled its subscription to ScienceGuide, a leading Dutch platform for higher education, with disproportionate negative consequences for staff and students. Please consider to sign the petition to get our subscription back.

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Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?

I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/

It all started a few years ago... 🧵

Join us in Fribourg (CH) for the Swiss Stress Network annual meeting on April 30th!

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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.

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Home - ESCAN 2026 ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu

Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.

Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.

More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

Home - ESCAN 2026 ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

#preprint 📢

Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures.

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

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Link to the paper:

Nathan Huneke (@nathanhuneke.bsky.social) NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in General Adult Psychiatry at the University of Southampton Placebo Effects | Affective and Anxiety Disorders nathanhuneke.netlify.app

In particular, I thank nathanhuneke.bsky.social for managing and running the study in Southampton, and Philip Gable for providing the task.

Nathan Huneke (@nathanhuneke.bsky.social) NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in General Adult Psychiatry at the University of Southampton Placebo Effects | Affective and Anxiety Disorders nathanhuneke.netlify.app

This work was only possible thanks to an outstanding international collaborative effort—I’m grateful to my co-authors Harry Fagan, Laura Molteni, and Algirdas M. for their contributions.

Excited to share that our paper “Seeing the bigger picture: Endogenous opioids mediate attentional broadening after reward receipt” has just been published in Psychological Medicine!

Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing.

Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!

The Reports of Terror Management Theory’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated Last week I declared the social psychology of death officially dead.

Last week I declared terror management theory dead and accused my friend Steve Heine of motivated reasoning. Steve responded like the mensch he is with a solid rebuttal instead of blocking me. Read his guest post and tell us both who you think is right in the comments!

Are you working on issues of replication and reproducibility of methodological research in psychology? Consider submitting a proposal to my call for papers, happy to chat about your ideas or answer any questions! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

This is how it works with AI help.
Contact Scottish Gas re disconnection. Chatbot can't handle this query, so send email. Get helpful reply, & am asked to evaluate my experience. Explain re need for better chatbox help on disconnection. Get generic reply saying I should use chatbot in future

PSE8 Visit the post for more.

Do you want to go to a metascience conference where AI will not solve all problems, you can ask critical questions, and El$evier is not invited? Sign up for the mailing list for the 8th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference in 2026 in Leiden! perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

11. Het belfort van Sluis (NL) Stoute schoenen · Episode

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12/ Nijmegen: bit.ly/402Hb4b
23/ Dordrecht: bit.ly/4nCcc92
26/ Gouda: bit.ly/4lKjjut
27/ Delft: bit.ly/3GdB2LX
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Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making Studies of perceptual decision-making typically present the same stimulus repeatedly over the course of an experimental session but ignore the order o…

Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour.
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project!
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Docent Psychologie De Sectie Cognitieve Psychologie van het Instituut Psychologie van de Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen heeft een vacature voor Docent Psychologie Dit ga je doen Als docent psychologie ga je onderwijs v...

Come work in my dept! We are hiring a lecturer in psychology (ideally speaking Dutch) @leidenpsychology.bsky.social

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...