Matteo Lisi

common knowledge among italians :) and in most cases, it’s better to drain the pasta even earlier than that and finish it in the pan with the sauce and some pasta water

yes but the correlation really needs to be -1 for all lines to cross in precisely the same spot, which would indicate some issues with the model

it can happen if don't have by-participant random slopes for the effect of `variable` and the fixed-effect coefficient is ≈ -1

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.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

A diagram showing that easily encoded context cues can be stored in memory and modulate the encoding of hard-to-recognise images.

@orisshenyan.bsky.social and me are happy to share our most recent preprint - we find that prior knowledge protects high-level perception from low-level visual deficits common in healthy ageing.

@tessamdekker.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.

Please share widely.

❗️Our next workshop will be on Nov 13 6 pm CET titled Building & Customising Stat Models with Stan and R: Introduction to Bayesian Inference by @mlisi.bsky.social

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We are hiring, come work with us!

Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department

Deadline: December 1st

#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky

Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match

A very worrying escalation of online harassment.

Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"

x.com/EuropaIneffa...

Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)

I’ll be giving a 'Workshops for Ukraine' session on Building and Customising Statistical Models with Stan and R: An Introduction to Bayesian Inference — online on Nov 13.

Open to all, with donations supporting Ukrainian organisations.

👉 sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

#stats #rstats #statssky

Plot showing unemployment rates in college grads and people without a degree, showing that when you compare groups based on when they entered the job market, people with a degree have substantially less unemployment rates which display slower increase in 2025.

Turns out a university degree does still make a substantial difference to job prospects, once you account for the conditions when people enter the job market. Nice analysis by the FT.

on.ft.com/4q6Y8pm

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society A statement from Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

Deeply disappointing. Once again the @royalsociety.org has avoided explaining how *actions* by Elon Musk that clearly repudiate the Society's values are consistent with the code of conduct that Fellows must adhere to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

Amateur view. AI bubble shows that there is too much money chasing too few opportunities for genuine innovation. The solution is to take a medium/long view and put much more funding into basic science in universities rather than cutting as is happening now. (But I would say that wouldn’t I?)

❗️Our next workshop will be on October 2nd, 6 pm CEST, on Effective and Useful Feature engineering by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social

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Research Assistant at UCL Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

Biggest record of hope against hate Add your name to show you’re with us >>

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Research Assistant at UCL An academic position as a Research Assistant is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to work with @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @ronimaimon.bsky.social on visual neuroscience experiments with children and adults, both with and without eye disease using cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs

New paper out! 📣

Syrian refugee children (4-9 yrs) show age-related shifts in judging trustworthiness from faces — older kids tend to see faces as less trustworthy; yet judgments are not tied to child or maternal mental health.

doi.org/10.1017/S095...

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@rhulpsychology.bsky.social

<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Objectives Patients' expectations for antibiotics are among the strongest predictors of clinicians' decisions to overprescribe antibiotics. In this registered report, we used a signal detection theo...

New registered report out in BJHP📣

How to reduce demand for antibiotics?

Using Signal Detection Theory, we show that clinician explanations & CRP point-of-care results reduce antibiotic expectations and improve discernment

doi.org/10.1111/bjhp...

#PsychSciSky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.

🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨

I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America.

In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks
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😯 I didn't know! whoopsie! 🙃

@dingdingpeng.the100.ci @lakens.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social ‬@aggieerin.bsky.social‬
‪@drcpennington.bsky.social‬ ‪@gpwilliams.bsky.social‬ ‬ ‪@willjharrison.bsky.social ‪@guidomaiello.bsky.social‬‪

I’ve surely missed someone — please share with anyone else interested. Thanks a lot!

Book cover of “Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective” with promo text: Get 20% off with code OPENUP20.

This project has been great fun to work on. I’d love to hear from people involved in teaching statistics or research methods — your thoughts and feedback would be highly appreciated!

If you’d like to have a look, evaluation copies can be requested here: www.mheducation.co.uk/professional...

Endorsement from Massimiliano Pastore, Professor of Psychometrics, University of Padua, Italy: “An invaluable resource that bridges the gap between statistical theory and practical application, providing a unified approach to common statistical tests through the lens of linear models.”

A special highlight for me was having an endorsement from Massimiliano Pastore, my stats prof during my studies, appear on the back cover. His support makes this book one of the most rewarding achievements of my career so far

Among other things, we tried to use recent open datasets from contemporary research to make examples feel fresh and relevant. We also cover slightly more advanced topics, including multilevel linear and logistic models, while keeping the material accessible to students.

And while we are both enthusiastic about Bayesian methods, in the book we stick to frequentist approaches. These remain the most widely used in the psychology literature students encounter.

But we point readers to excellent resources such as by @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @avehtari.bsky.social

We place strong emphasis on effect sizes & estimation, and confidence intervals — alongside p-values — so students appreciate the multiple way to make inferential decisions.