A guide to Metacheck, an R package providing a module based tool for checking scientific manuscripts and data repositories for best practices using text search, R code, and optional LLM queries.

A year-long series of events marks 80 years since admission of Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale in 1945

Translational Psychiatry - Alexithymia may explain the genetic relationship between autism and sensory sensitivity

How are human ideologies and prejudices amplified by AI models? How do human biases get into AI model training data? And how does the output of such models influence the decisions and behaviors of use...

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…

Researchers have sued six big academic publishers, arguing their practices are illegal and anticompetitive.

Being repeatedly told to bounce back and develop a thicker skin can mask a toxic lab culture.

The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science.

About 20,000 of the most cited researchers have 'implausibly high' publication and new co-author rates

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

Dr Daniel Yon’s new book, ‘A Trick of the Mind’, is due for release in June 2025.

Visual Attention in Crisis

Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...

YouTube video by The Royal Society

Fundraiser - Hi, I am challenging myself to run 150 miles during the month of February and raise some much needed funding for the charity Afasic which provides help, support and advice for children an...

PhD Project - Measuring cognitive outcomes in people with intellectual disability at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

Experiences of loss and change following acquired brain injury (ABI) are frequent and multi-contextual, yet the long-term experiences of people with ABI are not well understood. This study explored...

Analyzes psychological research to offer insights into how methodological and ontological questions are intertwined.   Psychology has seen an intense debate about the lack of replicability of results ...