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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🔍 What is the current status of Open Science in the academic publishing system? Join us for an IGOR panel discussion: “Rethinking Scholarly Publishing: Preserving the Good, Changing the Bad, and Supporting the New” 📅 Thursday, 1 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET 💻 Online (contact us for the link) [1/2]

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 11/09/2026

An interesting thing is happening to me at the moment. I have a standing bug bounty policy for my first authored scientific work. That means, I've committed to pay people who report bugs in my code, up to 750€ for severe errors. Since GPT-6 Astra came out, I'm now getting several bug reports daily.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

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Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

we have an open position for a post-doc (100%) or PhD student (75%) at Bielefeld University - starting 1.11 or later (there is room for flexibility). jobs.uni-bielefeld.de/job/view/503...

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Research Position (m/f/d) (Postdoctoral researcher...

<p>The ‘Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience’ research group investigates human experience and behaviour at the interface betwee...

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 13/08/2026

In honor of International Left-Handers Day, we have an updated preprint on scanning left-handed participants in fMRI studies. Although they're 11% of the population, we routinely screen LH people out of fMRI studies due to concerns about functional lateralization 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Left Out: The Effect of Handedness on fMRI Activation in Memory Paradigms

About 11% of the population is left-handed, a significant minority of the potential participant pool for functional MRI (fMRI) studies. However, convention in fMRI research dictates these potential pa...

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 29/07/2026

Programming tip: never type out a 10-character command when you could instead press the up arrow for 5 minutes until you find that command in your history

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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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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Incredibly proud to be a part of ManyBeds, a multi lab replication effort of targeted memory reactivation during sleep, which was just honoured with a SIPS commendation! I'm very excited about what will come out of this (and then never shut up about it).

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Simon Kern @skjerns.de · 22/07/2026

Are you a sleep researcher? Then we're interested in your opinion on preregistrations! Help advance the field by filling out this short (5-minute) survey redcap.link/1zg4tezm (Any career stage, doesn't matter if you've preregistered before or not, we need you. Please share!)

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Preregistration in Sleep Research - Practices and Barriers

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Started my day with this great read, and you should, too!

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Interested in human replay and solid methods? Jointly with @skjerns.de we're releasing a benchmark dataset with known ground-truth neural sequences in MEG & fMRI, for developing & validating replay methods. First test: existing methods show similar effect sizes, but room to improve shorturl.at/6TgIr

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FASTIMAGES: Validating replay detection methods in human neuroimaging using a combined MEG and fMRI dataset

Studies in rodents and humans using invasive electrophysiology have established that neural replay is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the brain that is associated with a wide range of cognitive functions, ...

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I will print this, frame it, and hang it in my office.

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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · 09/06/2026

Im Rahmen einer Bachelorarbeit untersuchen wir, wie Schreibstile das Textverständnis beeinflussen 🔤 Die kurzweilige Teilnahme an der Studie ist anonym und dauert nur wenige Minuten. Es werden insgesamt vier 20 € Amazon-Gutscheine verlost bzw. 0,5 VP-Stunden vergeben. ➡️ s2survey.net/Wissensfrage...

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Aladdin's Genie Demands: Take the Survey!

ALT: Aladdin's Genie Demands: Take the Survey!

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

That was an awesome talk! Relieved to see there's people (passionately!) tackling these issues, even if there's loads of work to be done yet...

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Rare opportunity to hear me speak less than 5 minutes about my research!

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's that time of the year: IGOR is going to #PuG2026 in Heidelberg! 🧠 Interested in open and reproducible science? Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved. 🧵 Check the thread below for all our events #PuG2026 #IGOR [1/6]

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Peter Kirsch @cherrydoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Biopsych Community, we are ready and can‘t wait to welcome you to Heidelberg! #PUG2026

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

7/ There is also an important caution. Human-only teams found more major coding errors than AI-assisted teams. So even when AI assistance preserved reproduction success, it did not clearly improve the harder work of finding consequential problems in code and data.

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Philip Sulewski @psulewski.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵

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Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand - Nature Neuroscience

By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I predicted 8 out of 14 studies correctly in Guess the Replication, reaching the rank of "Reviewer 1"! Can you do better? Play here: t1p.de/guther #GuessTheReplication

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Guess the Replication

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: Did you know that while horses originally evolved in North America, they went extinct during the pleistocene ~12,000 years ago, and were only reintroduced by the Spanish colonists.

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The pep talk I will be giving myself before my defense.

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Letzte Chance, um euch mit eurem geplanten WissKomm-Projekt zu bewerben!

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Fresh preprint! Reward Signals Drive Encoding of Reward-Item Associations During Motivated Learning osf.io/preprints/ps... We present evidence that mesolimbic activity during motivated encoding reflects source memory for rewards, which later guides goal-directed retrieval. 1/12

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Is there a way to "soft mute" accounts on Bluesky? Like, I don't want some users to COMPLETELY disappear from my feed, but I would like to adjust the ratio of content a bit. Right now, I see more of people who post/reply more, which is not a good metric. How do you guys optimize your feeds?

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Whoever will get the job: I'm already interested in your work!

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Another accidental head(), only saving the #rstats

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Simon Kern @skjerns.de · 10/04/2026

Can we really measure replay in humans using MEG with current methods? In our most recent paper we simulated replay under realistic conditions via a novel hybrid approach with astonishing results. we're delighted that it has now been published @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/articles/108...

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TDLM-Resting-State Simulation

How sensitive is TDLM really? Can we actually find replay when we know it is present?

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Fully aware to be the 100th person to spam your feed with this, but: Are there papers on the discriminant validity of autism screenings (autism vs. German)? (rhetorical question) german.millermanschool.com PS: I got "both"

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Am I German or Autistic?

A rigorous diagnostic. 15 questions. One uncomfortable truth.

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Simon Kern @skjerns.de · 08/04/2026

What's your repository-recommendation for sharing MEG data (300+ GB, GDPR-compliant)? Zenodo has a 100 GB limit unfortunately :(

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Guys, guys, guys. Can you please stop dropping extremely cool stuff on April 1st? It makes me very anxious that I will get rickrolled or sth if I click on it. (To clarify: You won't get rickrolled with this one, you just receive an awesome Zotero plugin that checks for replications!)

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is why sharing data and code (and having both reviewed!) is important!

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I have a decent amount of patience. I can complete any souls-like game with a smile on my face. But there are online proofing systems out there that just make me wanna punch a wall.

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Remember to sign up for the Heidelberg Sumer School on Memory and Sleep! Don't sleep on it! (Don't make me come up with any more cringy wordplays.)

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I have a joke about publication bias, but I keep it in my file drawer

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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

If you currently do not have a reproducible workflow where you can share data and code where possible, I expect you will soon not be able to publish in good journals. Beyond being best practice, journals will use this to identify papers written by AI. Plan a new project accordingly.

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Alt text: Me, anxiously throwing as.data.frame() in my scripts at every opportunity to avoid the edge cases where a tibble does not behave like a data.frame.

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I preregister that this will be an amazing summer school - come and see for yourself ;-)

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Job alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)

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Jobs - The University of York

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bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

At #PuG2026 in Heidelberg you can look forward to 3 keynote lectures by Simone Shamay-Tsoory („Inter-brain coupling during empathic interactions“), @mschoenauer.bsky.social („The role of reactivation in forming long-term memories“) and @micahgallen.com („Toward Causality in Interoception Research“)!

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Gordon Feld @gordonfeld.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Join my lab and collaborate with excellent scientists Magdalena Schlesinger or Anette Frank at University of Heidelberg! We offer topics on replay in humans and rodents or neurobiologically inspired AI, respectively. Deadline 31st March. Apply here: www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

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Simon Kern @skjerns.de · 24/10/2025

How well do classifiers trained on visual activity actually transfer to non-visual reactivation? #Decoding studies often rely on training in one (visual) condition and applying it to another (e.g. rest-reactivation). However: How well does this work? Show us what makes it work and win up to 1000$!

kaggle.com

IMAGINE-decoding-challenge

Predict which words participants were hearing, based upon brain activity recordings of visually seeing these items?

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: "Open R, run setwd() ..."

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

IF YOU CAN, REPLACE TABLE() WITH TABULATE() IN YOUR #rstats CODE! data <- sample(1:3, 100, replace = TRUE) microbenchmark::microbenchmark(table(data), tabulate(data), times = 10000) I'm almost angry at how much faster this is, and why I was today years old when I learned this 🤬 1/2

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

"Nagel" ist German for "nail", which is why this is the first GIF to pop up, once again reminding me how lucky I was to be able to assimilate my husband's last name.

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a black and white photo of a woman drinking from a bottle and the caption nailed it

ALT: a black and white photo of a woman drinking from a bottle and the caption nailed it

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Juli Nagel @juli-nagel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I am very proud of my Bluesky feed, which combines magic Quarto plugins with "The Life of a Showgirl" references.

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