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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looks interesting. Posting to remind myself to read later

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If the British media wasn't full of cowards and transphobes, stories like this would be front page news

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Abi Wyllie @awyllie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very excited to share my first first-author paper! Big thank you to my co-authors @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @alonzivony.bsky.social 😊 If you are interested in familiarity, attention and memory research, you can read our paper using the link below! 😄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Is your lab doing research in developmental cognitive psychology? Are you looking for (online) speakers for your lab meetings? Then perhaps reach out to Jenny.

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Abi now has bsky because her millennial supervisor told her that social media can be beneficial for academic networking. If you want you can prove me right by following her new account her @awyllie.bsky.social

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sharing a big first: the first 1st-author paper from my first PhD student, Abi Wyllie. Definitely a first worth celebrating. So here's a summary, if you're interested in familiarity, memory, and attention. rdcu.be/2uSWUCg3PBia

title of the paper: Long‑term memory speeds encoding, independently of attention

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Do I know any expectation researchers here on bsky? I have a question: what happens to our expectations when we see something surprising? Do we just let go of all expectations? Are we less likely to be surprised again? (by something different)

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 31/08/2026

also one of my favs: the possible staircase

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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Marking resit assignments for my Year2 statistics module & the whiff of LLM use is overwhelming: BSc students who failed the module are producing perfectly-written high-level academic text that you might find in papers by Lakens or other highly-qualified stats writers the future is exams & vivas 😢

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Yasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Does being a progressive man come at a social cost? Not at all; it pays off. Across 4 prereg. experiments, progressive men were perceived more positively than traditionally masculine men. Ayca’s second PhD paper already published nearing the submission of her PhD! Very proud! doi.org/10.1002/casp...

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So what did we learn? Don't fabricate your data. Or, if you do, don't be so bad at it. Or, if you are, don't become so famous that people will actually be interested in double checking.

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I made a mistake. And because of that mistake, I no longer have confidence that results that I reported in several research papers are an accurate reflection of replication rates. 1/

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Is it interesting whether prejudice results in an attention bias? It's been reported in social cognition research, but I suspect it's actually wrong. I've been trying for several years now to find a paradigm that produces replicable effects and failed. Would a registered report be worth the effort?

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trans human rights should not be dependent in any way on biology At the same time, the science is pretty clear that transgender modality is a natural phenomenon

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Every reviewer wants a shorter paper, containing three additional papers

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don’t know how to explain to you that flat earthers being underrepresented in NASA is not actually oppression

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Ann Edahl @ann-edahl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Excel: It’s January 2

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/08/2026

Biological sex doesn’t divide neatly into two categories, or even along one spectrum. Our bodies are "mosaics" of traits. A biologist explains more: theconversation.com/biological-s...

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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our study of autism community perspectives about Open Data has now been published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social (🔓) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Participants were generally optimistic about open data to advance autism research and reduced participant burden. But,

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Open Data in Autism Research: The Views of Autistic People and Parents of Autistic Children

Open data has been promoted as a tool to improve the transparency, robustness, and efficiency of scientific research. However, the perspectives of participant communities, particularly those who are m...

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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

As much as i hate 'AI' (LLMs), i also (love)hate #RegressionToTheMean (RtM) There's an LLM-critical thread of papers & comments finding RtM when comparing human & machine grading of essays Stories of 'compression' & 'homogenisation' abound... But it's *expected*! www.linkedin.com/posts/samill...

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#assessmentinhe #highereducation #genai #aiineducation #criticalailiteracy | Sam Illingworth | 35 comments

New research has shown how marking with AI regresses towards the mean. Researchers at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd, Sheffield Hallam University, & University of Melbourne set out to test ...

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm planning on having students do more in-class writing in both my freshman and upper-level classes. If you are too, let's share prompts? Here are some of mine that I'm tinkering with:

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#AcademicSky Wow. It always amazing me how much car crashes increase around relatively minor things (including time changes). Goes to show you how much we need our attention to drive, even if it feels automatic and "easy".

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sometime soon the crisis in UK universities will flare up in a way that the UK government won't be able to ignore anymore. And we will all feel like a bunch of Cassandras, hoarse from shouting about what was obviously coming, but never being listened to. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A question to the experimental psychologists out there: Is there a standardised way to measure effort spent on an experiment? As in, asking something like "how effortful was this task?" I'm sure there are a million problems with just asking that I'm not thinking about

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/08/2026

Out of this whole vast universe, you and I and everyone we know live at a time and place where this utter magic is happening.

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 08/08/2026

One weird thing revealed by the Arday discourse is that academia is held to a much higher standard than any other institution. We prosecute thousands of people who lie, cheat and steal in the business world every year. But this is not taken as evidence of a fundamental problem with "business." 1/4

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 05/08/2026

REMEMBER The guidance coming into effect today doesn't dictate what you're allowed to do as an individual. It for service providers and business owners. Do not cower in fear, do not reduce yourself, do not isolate, that is one of the intended effects.

Photo taken at a protest, he background is tall old buildings of a city centre, a lightskined hand is holding a sign with a trans flag painted on it that says "fuck your "respect and clarity""

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tomorrow the UK's new code of practice regarding single-sex spaces will come into effect. It allows for the exclusion of trans people from all single-sex spaces, an obviously exclusionary and dangerous policy. If you are in the education space, talk to your trans* students. They need allies.

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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This graph took me 3 years to make. It's perhaps the largest-ever #metaanalysis of #TMS #BrainStim data. It includes my first real scientific discovery 🧵: When you stimulate the hand with a brief electric pulse, your brain and spinal cord are momentarily less excitable: muscle output decreases 1/n

Muscle excitability (y-axis) plot against the time between stimulation of the hand (PNS) and stimulation of the cortico-spinal pathway (TMS) to the muscle (x-axis). The x-axis is in milliseconds, from 1 to 1000 on a log scale; the y-axis is the log10 ratio of muscle excitability with prior hand stimulation versus without. Each blue dot in the figure is a group mean, obtained from 353 papers. The blue line is the random effect meta-analytic mean; where the blue line goes thicker (between 17-64ms, then 100-320ms) there is a significant meta-analytic effect (i.e., the line is below zero, muscle excitability is decreased). The plot includes over 11000 datapoints. Most datapoints are concentrated in the 16-30ms period, which is studied as 'short-latency afferent inhibition' (SAI).

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you've been following this thread, you may have noticed that I'm focusing so far on UK comedians (with the occasional Australian mixed-in). Of course, there are many great comedians from other countries. But if there's something that makes me feel proud of the UK, it's the comedy scene.

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Partners for Progressive Israel @partners4israel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This campaign is a feature, not a bug. We must speak out when pogrom-like violence is happening on a daily basis and the government is openly enabling the perpetrators. On our website at www.progressiveisrael.org/partners-for... 1/

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Trans people have learned, very justifiably, to be suspicious of scientists. Even if they are well-meaning. Science has failed trans people so many times. Any researcher who wants to engage with the trans community should look at the responses and think how they can do better.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

When sharing research it is really useful to distinguish an undergraduate dissertation with other types of research, both in terms of the likely impact (commonly but not always reduced), the chances of mistakes from new researchers, and the significant importance of their supervisors. 1/2

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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

4k in APCs very well spent

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Stephen Emrich @emrich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm really excited to share the results of a new study that @bjbalas.bsky.social and I have been working on this summer. This project was a bit of a labor of love. If you're interested in #chess, mental imagery, #aphantasia, or the value of a sabbatical, this is a 🧵 for you: 1/?

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Clever Cat Plays Chess

ALT: Clever Cat Plays Chess

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 23/07/2026

Bridget Phillipson confirmed she will implement the Code despite 166 MPs signing an Early Day Motion opposing it.

EHRC code to come into force on August 5th
Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson made the order this week.
The UK equality and human rights watchdog's code of practice that recommends the segregation of Trans+ people in UK public life will come into force on August 5.

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

One of my favorite things in life is stand-up comedy. Nowadays, there are so many brilliant comedians who upload their full stand-up specials to youtube. So, in this thread I'm going to share my favorites and add a new recommendation every once in a while. Feel free to add yours.

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Very interesting analysis. My personal experience: I have quite a few studies where one result would be theoretically exciting, but the alternative... not so much. If a study is not innovating or pushing the boundaries of knowledge, I don't feel like spending my limited time writing it up.

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am finally writing my opinion paper about defining attention and why attention ≠ selection. It's an currently ~6000 words. What would be a good journal to send this to? I want to reach attention researchers, but also (hopefully) people in cognition who don't directly study attention.

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Dr. Catherine Wall @catherinesjwall.com · 14/04/2026

New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

An image of the article "Desistance": A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Well, I was right that there was something unusual about the process. Elsevier is starting a team of scientific editors to help the editors with running journals. So the job is not for an associate editor, but for a scientific editor that essentially functions as an associate

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Has anyone here become a journal editor after being approached by the publisher? I've been approached by Elsevier to potentially be an editor in "one or several Elsevier journals". I always assumed that editorial positions open up and then the journal's editorial team searches for a new team member.

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.

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Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.

Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

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The quiet collapse of British universities

One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away

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Daniel Toledano @toledanodaniel7.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🚨 Excited to share our new paper in JEP: General w/ Tamar Alkalai & Dominique Lamy! 🚨 We examined sequential effects from the visual search, task-switching, and action-control literatures within a single paradigm. We report two key findings: 🧵 1/4

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2027-72199-001.html

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