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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I expect to recruit a PhD student this cycle! The Control and Decision Making Lab at WashU studies control, effort, and decision making, combining behavioral experiments with modeling and neuroimaging. If that sounds cool, check out our work: cdmlab.wustl.edu. How to apply: psych.washu.edu/apply

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Control and Decision Making Lab

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Atsushi Kikumoto @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2027 at the University of Maryland — Cognitive Flexibility Dynamics Lab, studying cognitive control via brain recording (M/EEG, MRI), stimulation (TUS), and computational modeling. Please email me: cfd-lab.com/join

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

out today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Bella Fascendini @bellafascendini.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.

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Davide Gheza @davideghez.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

New preprint! Last year we showed humans adapt attention in a dimension-specific way when multiple things compete for attention. Now we read out the neural dynamics of this adaptation. doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.16.688701 w/ @mikefreund.bsky.social @theazalabak.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social

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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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How to Set Up and Run an Undergraduate Research Lab

APS Fellow Julia Strand offers resources and recommendations to run a productive research lab.

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Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

My lab is recruiting a postdoc and a full-time research technician to work on an NIH-funded project studying age-related changes in memory for naturalistic events. Behavior, fMRI, and blood-based biomarkers. 3+ years funding guaranteed. Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykjfbnj8 Tech: tinyurl.com/2f2hw3f5

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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 25/12/2025

My brother’s gift to my sister was an Apples to Apples/CAH–style game where players match movies to Letterboxd reviews and I’m pretty sure he deserves the MacArthur

Prompt card: Watching this in Utah is the 4D experience.

Movies: Jurassic Park, Dune, The Sound of Music, Twilight

Prompt: okay mr beast went too far this time

Movies: Parasite, Dr. Strangelove, Inception, Ready Player One

Prompt: This is what the Barbie movie should have been.

Movies: I, Robot; Citizen Kane; The Help; Click

Prompt: Straight people are hilarious actually

Movies: Moonrise Kingdom, Joker, Casablanca, Moneyball

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention

Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 15/08/2025

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

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Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator

As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

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Xiaojin Ma @xiaojinma.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I recorded a step-by-step tutorial of programming experiments in PsychoPy for undergrad thesis students in my lab. Sharing it here for anyone new to programming in psychology, or those transitioning to PsychoPy from other software. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMJX...

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using PsychoPy to build a cognitive psychology experiment from scratch

YouTube video by Xiaojin Ma

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do

The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ways to keep crucial research going.

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