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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More tips and tricks in this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg...
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Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier – Nicola Rennie
There are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier.
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Wanja Wolff @wanjawolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our paper on effort-performance (de)coupling is now out at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🎉 Really interested? Read it open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Just a little bit interested? TL;DR in the thread below 👇
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When effort fails: Instances and reasons for effort-performance decoupling
Across domains, effort is often assumed to support performance, and performance is frequently used to infer effort. However, observed effort-performan…
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Monosov Lab @monosovlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1/11 How does the brain make the heart skip a beat? New preprint: a prefrontal→hypothalamus circuit that controls heart rate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're in the first week of term and several of our @psyteachr.bsky.social books have had a little refresh. Matthew Checketts leads first year undergraduate psychology. Around 600 students develop wrangling and visualisation skills using the Data Skills book: psyteachr.github.io/data-skills-...
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PsyTeachR
Psychologists from @UofGPsychNeuro advocating open, reproducible methods teaching.
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SCAN Unit @scanunit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 New paper from our group: Across 164 participants, we find that virtual nature is retrospectively perceived as helpful in dealing with an acute stressor, but does not change immediate psychological, autonomic, or hormonal responses to it, suggesting a disconnect in recalled and immediate reactions
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is so great! If you’re also a white man, you can copy this response exactly 👌
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Max Steininger @maxsteininger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We ran a registered randomized controlled study with 164 participants to test whether virtual nature before or after an acute stress task affects stress reactivity and subsequent recovery. Participants retrospectively said that nature helped them prepare for and recover from the stressor BUT… (1/4)
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Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Starting September 1, I will be working with a team to start a new research center at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. We currently have a couple of positions posted but there will be more so if you are interested stay tuned and feel free to get in touch.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
*They used genome *language models* to generate the viruses?! Like with William Burroughs, "language is a virus from outer space"? *Obviously "They" are gonna cull the human population with this, but death by AI-virus would be a cool William Burroughs way to die www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Generative design of bacteriophages with genome language models
Many important biological functions arise not from single genes but from complex interactions encoded by entire genomes. We report the first generative design of complete bacteriophage genomes using g...
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Major paper out: A heroic* demonstration that even acute stress increases drug intake in healthy people *4-session 2x2 RCT with ~4 oxycodone injections in 66 volunteers - with repeated blinded 2-panel stress/control inductions (ReSST) 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Effects of psychosocial stress on opioid self-administration in healthy participants: a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial - Nature Mental Health
In this triple-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial, Eikemo et al. tested whether acute psychosocial stress increases opioid self-administration using controlled stress induction, oxy...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026
1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
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The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Developmental psychopathology friends: I'm taking over and totally revamping our course for Spring – help me build a kick-ass reading list - what are your favorite recent review/perspectives articles? Self-promotions welcome! 🙏
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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Puzzled that an #lme4 model that didn't converge before now reported no issues, I found that as of lme4 1.1-38, "derivative-based convergence checks are now skipped for models with large data". I can't find any more information - what's best practice here? Assume the model is "fine"? 1/3 #rstats
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Frans van Heest @fransvanheest.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Postdocs die nu al vervangen worden door Claude, wetenschap die afhankelijk wordt van dure tokens en universiteiten die leunen op commerciële AI-modellen buiten Europa. In het STOA-panel van het Europees Parlement werd duidelijk hoe snel generatieve AI de wetenschap binnendringt.
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‘Betrouwbaar onderzoek dreigt luxegoed te worden nu Claude al postdocs vervangt’  - ScienceGuide
Bij een discussie in het Europees Parlement werd duidelijk hoe snel generatieve AI de wetenschap binnendringt.
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Dimitra Maoutsa @dimma.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I am looking for a theory/computational POSTDOC position in EU or east coast US. I am interested in how learning and plasticity shape population dynamics & representational geometries & how these changes are reflected in behavior. If you are at #COSYNE2026 & interested, hit me up in Whova, not here
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Unsurprising but still big: MTurk is on its way out, killed by AI. Mechanical Turk was a mainstay of social & survey research through the 2010s, as it allowed you to quickly buy access to many representative humans. It was pretty good at it, until LLMs came along and everyone started using AI
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Journal of Cognition @jcgntn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We're so very proud of this! Not much of the journal metrics per se (they don't always reflect well what they're supposed to measure...), but of the fact that we offer a reputable outlet for strong cognitive science outside of commercial logics. Send us your best papers, folks!
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@epanlab.bsky.social Congratulations Karin!
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Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 25/06/2026
New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Funny, but... also not.
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Veep: Nervous Laughter Reaction
ALT: Veep: Nervous Laughter Reaction
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I talk about the research on when AI undermines, versus supporting, thinking and learning here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-t...
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Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
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Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo 🇧🇴🏳️‍🌈 @joscelinrocha.com · 17/06/2026
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky Since there is no polling option here (👀 @bsky.app ) How many of u were aware that while PsyArXiv is (& always will be) free to end users, @improvingpsych.org incurs annual costs for the technology that hosts the service, including user technical support and DOI minting?
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/06/2026
Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!
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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
📢 Want to get involved in ESCAN? Applications are now open for the ESCAN Junior Committee. If you are an ESCAN Student/Junior Member (Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD student), consider applying to help organize activities and represent junior researchers within the society.
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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
📢 ESCAN Full Members (postdocs and beyond),with diverse backgrounds and experiences, can also nominate themselves—or be nominated—for the ESCAN Board. 📅 Deadline: July 30, 2026 📧 escan@escaneurosci.eu #ESCAN2026 #SocialNeuroscience #AffectiveNeuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience
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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
✨ ESCAN 2026 in Rome welcomed an amazing 950 participants! And, of course, one global group photo for research, in front of the ESCAN 2026 venue at Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Economics. #ESCAN2026 #SocialNeuroscience #AffectiveNeuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Link to Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task paper here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task: A tool to reveal physiological dynamics using graded stress induction
Stress evokes a complex repertoire of psychological and physiological responses. This paper introduces the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST), a pa…
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Jin Yan just presented cool preliminary fMRI findings of our new Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task #escan2026. Tomorrow Liwen Meng presents how exposure to virtual nature alters stress responses to this task Check out Poster 2-111
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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Have you thought of using unchained pupillometry to infer effort/arousal with _uncontrolled_ visual stimulation? Sounds crazy? @yuqingc.bsky.social shows that convolutional modeling of pupil responses with gaze-contingent luminance changes finally allows just that! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🧠 ESCAN 2026 begins this week in Rome! June 3–6: almost 900 researchers gather at Sapienza University of Rome for the 8th ESCAN Meeting. Highlights: 🔹 Keynotes: Tallon-Baudry, Sandi & Knapska 🔹 Pre-conference events 🔹 General Assembly 🔹 750+ contributions escan2026.eu #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience
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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.
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Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
“MRI scans of the marathon runners’ brains showed that myelin content was reduced in several white-matter tracts immediately after the race; two months later, myelin levels had recovered to baseline levels.”
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
8/ This may be of interest to colleagues working on #stress, #challenge–threat, #cardiovascular reactivity, #resilience, and stress #interventions. @epanlab.bsky.social @canlab-di.bsky.social @coolscontrol.bsky.social @stress-nl.bsky.social @stress-in-action.bsky.social
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
7/ Stay tuned! Our lab is now using the LSST in follow-up studies to explore how stress affects control processes and neural processing—and how interventions like exposure to nature in VR and positive affect can mitigate stress responses.
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
6/ A huge thank you to Jin Yan for leading the effort; Frenn Bultinck for the relentless energy in piloting during the pandemic; Liwen Meng and Daan Scheepers for the collaboration; and colleagues from the Social Resilience and Security program. @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenpsychology.bsky.social
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
5/ The task, protocol, data, and analysis scripts are openly accessible. osf.io/4g5rv/overview We hope the LSST will prove valuable for researching stress resilience, clinical vulnerability, and interventions aimed at enhancing how individuals respond to increasing demands.
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
4/ A key finding: As stress levels rose, so did total peripheral resistance—a marker of vascular constriction associated with threat appraisal, maladaptive coping and cardiovascular disease risk. We think stress research should incorporate this measure more frequently!
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
3/ The LSST effectively generates gradual increases in self-reported stress, negative affect, heart rate, cardiac contractility, and blood pressure, while simultaneously reducing positive affect and perceived competence.
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
2/ Most acute stress tasks compare stress vs. control. The LSST instead ramps up stress across four 10-minute blocks by combining increasing task difficulty, time pressure, negative feedback, and social-evaluative threat.
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
1/ New paper alert! Stress often builds over time, but many scientific studies treat it as just an on/off thing. In this paper, we introduce the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST): a new paradigm for inducing graded, mild-to-moderate stress in the lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task: A tool to reveal physiological dynamics using graded stress induction
Stress evokes a complex repertoire of psychological and physiological responses. This paper introduces the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST), a pa…
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scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social @scnl-agliotilab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
1️⃣ week left before ESCAN conference in Rome!!! Are you excited? Can’t wait to see you soon! 😎 #neuroscience #escan #socialneuroscience #affectiveneuroscience #cognitiveneuroscience
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Reviewing a paper, and it is so nice that the Metacheck R package we made allows me to download all OSF Files by just typing: metacheck::osf_file_download("2w123") (not the actual repo). All files are downloaded, maintaining the folder structure, without any hassle.
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Tamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/
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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app
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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
ESCAN is now a @fens.org member society. ✔️ ESCAN members → automatic FENS membership ✔️ No extra fee ✔️ Access to grants, discounts & networking More: www.fens.org/membership/y...
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hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Congratulations!
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Dénis van Vliet @denisvanvliet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Ernstige vertaalfouten in 'Onze man bij de vijand': Thomas Erdbrink stelt kritische vragen over de Russische oorlog tegen 🇺🇦 aan de nabestaanden van een dode soldaat, maar die worden door de tolk als mededelingen vertaald. Daardoor is het alsof ze niet willen antwoorden. 🧵1/9
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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 24/03/2026
Why you should be very careful installing packages from Github: github.com/BerriAI/lite...
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[Security]: CRITICAL: Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 — credential stealer · Issue #24512 · BerriAI/litellm
[Security]: CRITICAL: Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 PyPI package — credential stealer Summary The litellm==1.82.8 wheel package on PyPI contains a malicious .pth file (litellm_init.p...
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