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

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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: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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

11/ Sluis: bit.ly/44ikVWt
12/ Nijmegen: bit.ly/402Hb4b
23/ Dordrecht: bit.ly/4nCcc92
26/ Gouda: bit.ly/4lKjjut
27/ Delft: bit.ly/3GdB2LX
28/ Den Haag: bit.ly/3Ih2VmT

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?

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

👀This is impressive: Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work.

The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

I've started to create a Google doc to compile & share cog psych teaching resources, organized by topics (e.g., attention, memory, language) & resource types.

This week, I ask you to share any in-class demos you'd like to give. Please reply to this post or tag me in a separate post. Thanks!

Pain and pleasure: unravelling the complexities of opioids Podcast Episode · ECNP Podcast series · 02/06/2025 · 42m

Academia is a lot like a lottery - an uphill race, & if you win, more rewards

My first huge plenary talk - at ECNP last September- yielded a meeting with an editor, invites for papers & new talks, plus a podcast interview w/ Chiara Montitro out now:

podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/e...

Two women stand proudly in front of a conference booth, arms outstretched, clearly excited and pleased with their setup

A conference booth with Will Smith photoshopped in front, striking his iconic 'arms open' pose from the popular meme, as if presenting or showcasing the booth

Who did it better? ...

All set up ready for #APS25DC !

Come to booth 204 to:

🧠 See how you can use tools like @psychopy.org to make and run your experiments for free.

🌐Use Pavlovia to run experiments online and build surveys (a low cost Qualtrics alternative)

@psychscience.bsky.social

Longitudinal research hive mind, need your input: What would you consider a satisfying set of tests to see if an apparent attenuation of difference scores could be accounted for by ceiling effects. i.e., Theory says x predicts a smaller difference in y between T-1 and T. 1/2

Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions - Nature Human Behaviour Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict conditions associated with chronic pain.

🔥 Most important paper I've read all year🔥
👉 Injury/disease doesn't reliably predict pain
👉 Biomarkers alone can't explain pain
👉 PSYCHOSOCIAL factors reliably determine chronic pain
👉 Painful conditions can be predicted from the SYNERGY btwn bio + psychosocial factors
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new special issue on cognitive flexibility @coolscontrol.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l4vl8MqMi...

MS Word general preferences window options

This little devil is the cause of MSWord suddenly moving comments outside the margins into outer space where you can't see them. It somehow just started happening against my will a few months ago. Just uncheck 'enable modern comments' under preferences general, and you will regain humanity.

Please help! Sign our open letter opposing political interference in academia and protect Dutch psychology programs from arbitrary language barriers that threaten international education.

#supportdutchpsychology

Origins and consequences of cognitive fatigue

Feature Review by Mathias Pessiglione, Bastien Blain (@bastien-blain.bsky.social), Antonius Wiehler, & Shruti Naik

Free access before May 20: tinyurl.com/2va75b5j