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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 50m

Special guest #1: @balazsaczel.bsky.social "Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences" Special guest #2, hands-on seminar by @psicostat.bsky.social "Mastering advanced visualization in R" See you in Brixen!

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 50m

Please RT! 18-20 February 2027, Brixen, Italian Alps Are you an early career researchers in psychology, neuroscience and related fields? Come and present your work at the 15th Cogntive Science Arena! www.cogsciarena.eu The full call for contibutions is here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Cognitive Science Arena

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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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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Check out this commentary recently published in AMPPS (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...), a discussion of the findings in Grassi et al related to musical training short-term memory. The interesting part: It's written BY THE AUTHORS, with differing views on the same set of results. Luv this one.

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Common Evidence, Multiple Interpretations: Commentaries on a Multilab Study on Musicians’ Short-Term Memory - Rafael Román-Caballero, Deniz Başkent, Anne Caclin, Laura Ferreri, Anna Fiveash, Clément F...

The multilab registered report by Grassi et al. represents the largest collaborative effort to date to estimate differences in short-term memory between musicia...

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🙌🙌🤟🤟Yeah!🤟🤟🙌🙌

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🙌🙌🤟🤟Yeah!🤟🤟🙌🙌

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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Being part of a multilab study with >100 authors is very cool, but having a co-authored paper with almost everyone in our field does limit potential reviewer options 😂 @masssimo006.bsky.social @francescatalamini.bsky.social - do you have this problem yet? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Rolf Zwaan is starting a new podcast 'As it Happens', following a large-scale psychology research project, where labs around the world collaborate to study human memory. (I am one of the collaborators). The first episode is out! shows.acast.com/research-as-...

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Research as it Happens

Listen to episodes and learn more about Research as it Happens. What does science look like while it’s still unfolding?In Research as it Happens, we go inside a large-scale psychology project, where…

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Rolf Zwaan @rolfzwaan.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Here is why I have started a podcast that takes us inside big team science. open.substack.com/pub/rolfzwaa...

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Research as it Happens — A New Podcast

A behind-the-scenes look at a large-scale research project in psychology

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Francesca Talamini @francescatalamini.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Sometimes I remember that I have a bluesky account ;) I'm very happy to share our last paper, investigating how cognitive skills relate to different levels of musical expertise: url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

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Musical expertise and cognitive abilities: no advantage for professionals over amateurs

Abstract. Cognitive advantages in musicians are often attributed to far transfer from music training. If this causal interpretation is correct, greater mus

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 23/01/2026

Learning to play a musical instrument is often assumed to improve brain functioning & cognition. To test this, a new #RSOS study compared non-musicians, amateur & professional #musicians: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @francescatalamini.bsky.social @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

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The PAM team @crnlpam.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Non-musicians? Anne-Caclin, Ragnya-Norasoa Souffiane, et Marie-Elisabeth Plasse from the PAM team contributed to this multilab study ! @francescatalamini.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I'm reading an old, classic psychoacoustic experiment (N=3). It is written by 3 authors, and 2 are also subjects. In the procedure authors write: "Subjects [...] were encouraged to "bracket" the match before making the final adjustment". I'm wondering how authors were encouraging themselves.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A jerk here on Bluesky. On LinkedIn no mentions about the person.

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Yashvin Seetahul @yashvin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Check out this really cool multilab project about the difference in short-term memory between musicians and non-musicians! By @masssimo006.bsky.social, @francescatalamini.bsky.social, and researchers from 33 institutions around the world.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Well, even with zero errors in the count of citations, I have some nice example of Springer proceedings (Scopus indexed) in which citation count for some author produces quite shocking numbers.

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Francesca Talamini @francescatalamini.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables! A big thank you to all collaborators! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...

Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I do not understand why the link to the paper is so persistent! :-D But I like it! 🙌

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

But I really hope large collaborations like the following and others that are emerging in this period will change the way we embrace science: from competition to collaboration. The paper is here: doi.org/10.1177/2515... The OSF project to access the rest is here: osf.io/y97t3/overview

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Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Let aside the absurdity of the request, 3d graphs are difficult to read (IMO). In the past, if one of the variables was suitable for the change, I was expressing one axis with color (greyscale).

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Rice is already taken, I go for wheat (durum, wheat of course, 😀).

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I do not understand where is the news :-| In Italy, it is common practice in many fields (eg medicine) that the PI is last author "by default".

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Definitely! For example, in Italy traditional metrics are often taken at face value! 😱. A person with 2N citations is assumed to be twice as good as someone with N citations, even if the first works in neuroscience within a team and the second in the history of neuroscience on his own.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Contemporary multilabs challenge the first/last/rest ternary view. But definitely, a more complex metric keeps into account more dimensions.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I guess you know the early films by Dario Argento. If you do not, look for them. Another Italian classic of the seventies is The House with Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono).

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Does this happen in your country (Italy here)? Do you receive communications from the head of the university that include sentences such as "working actively for the continuous improvement of" teaching, research or dissemination. Which is usually translated into a set of nonsense numerical indexes?

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Updating my LEGO White House

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Why you simply do not credit them for writing? I know many journals ask that all authors are credited with writing, but I think this can be contracted with the journal.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Impossible: the ethics responds only upon reasonable requests.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I think I'm on the other side of the continuum. I always close all tabs.

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 15/10/2025

Have a paper ready for peer review? Consider sending it to PCI Psychology! We are a preprint recommendation platform and recommended papers can be easily submitted to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals! See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The paper mill probably forgot to include several sections in the paper, including the data and results. The Methods section mentions a survey that is never described in the paper. Immediately after the methods section comes the conclusion. Yet, the paper was still published.

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

And it gets worse when you get older 😂

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Massimo Grassi @masssimo006.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

We are back! 🎉 Cognitive Science Arena 2026 📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT) 📅 February 5–7 📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Join Us! After the mighty @michelenuijten.bsky.social , this year’s smart talk will be given by the legendary Open Science black belt: Zoltan Dienes! 🥋 RT RT RT

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Cognitive Science Arena: Brixen-Bressanone (IT), February 5-7 2026 [Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute it widely!] Dear colleague! We are pleased to invite you to the fourteenth edition ...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 01/10/2025

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

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AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

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