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Michael D. Nunez

@nunezanalyzed.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. University of Amsterdam, rock climber, husband, father. Model-based (Mathematical) Cognitive Neuroscientist. I study decision-making, EEG, 🧠, statistical methods, etc. 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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Johannes Fahrenfort @fahrenfort.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Not much you can do in Europe, but if you happen to have a Disney+ subscription: now is the time to cancel it (ABC that pulled Jimmy Kimmel owns the Walt Disney company). Trump's words, after Kimmel and Stephen Colbert were pulled: "That leaves Jimmy [Fallon] and Seth [Meyers]". Free speech no more.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2025
Nation Grateful To GOP For Protecting It From TV
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Nation Grateful To GOP For Protecting It From TV
WASHINGTON—Thanking the government for defending the public from the terrifying screen in their homes, the American people confirmed Thursday that they were grateful to Republicans for protecting them...
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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Will you be at #ICON2025 in Porto? Then drop at our symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" (SY23, Thursday at 13.45) with @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @hcp4715.bsky.social organized by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst
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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
In this preprint, @chris-pinier.bsky.social shows that open-source LLMs can perform abstract reasoning tasks, that LLMs have representations of pattern type in intermediate layers, and that LLM activations correspond to Fixation Related Potentials from participants' EEG. arxiv.org/abs/2508.10057
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Large Language Models Show Signs of Alignment with Human Neurocognition During Abstract Reasoning
This study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) mirror human neurocognition during abstract reasoning. We compared the performance and neural representations of human participants with th...
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Jie Sun @jie-sun.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🧠 New preprint alert! In this study, using a joint modelling method with the Diffusion Decision Model, we offer a mechanistic reinterpretation of the Late Positive event-related potential Component (LPC) as a neural signature of mnemonic strength during evidence accumulation in recognition memory.
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Ellie@TheConciseQuill @ellieb65.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I don't agree with everything in this article, but I do agree with this: "The act of writing the thing is the same thing as the thinking of it. If you can’t write it, you haven’t actually thought it." And AI allows us to 'not' think. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war... #academicsky #ai #teaching
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A warning to the young: just say no to AI
The substitution of Large Language Models for genuine thinking is a generational threat. At stake is no less than the life of the mind.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/07/2025
The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. “People on the right, they don’t realize they’re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.” nyti.ms/4lMDXtN
A grid of portraits of four scientists. A headline reads: "The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump's DEI Cuts"
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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Totally agree: What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat (although I am biased, because I was one of those...) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat
International students enrich university communities and strengthen civic life. We must defend their place in global education.
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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Good time to announce that there will be a symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" at #ICON Chaired by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst. With @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social, @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social, @hcp4715.bsky.social and myself as speakers
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 14/06/2025
Save the date! The 2026 *gasp* Australasian MathPsych conference will be in Singapore -- looks to be a great one :) @ozmathpsych.bsky.social
Save the date: Australiasian Mathematical Psychology Conference. 23-25 Feburary 2026. Singapore. "Applying mathematical and quantitative psychology to real-world complex problems"
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 11/06/2025
Donald Trump commandeered 2,000 of our state’s National Guard members to deploy on our streets.  Illegally, and for no reason.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/06/2025
The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.
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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war
Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.
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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature
This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/05/2025
The Republican administration has halted all student (and postdoc etc) VISA interviews. I've written a lot about soft power here. The attacks on foreign students in the US not only undercuts the funding stream for US universities; they hemorrhage US soft power.
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Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting
It’s the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Like I said a few times before, it was NEVER about campus protests or anti-semitism. It was always about seizing control of higher education through govt blackmail and coercion.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025
The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...
WASHINGTON – Today, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.

This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
reminding myself once again that written is better than perfect
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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
An important short opinion piece and video from 3 academics who study authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
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Opinion | We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the U.S.
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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Powerful statement and an inside look at what is happening to science in tge current administration . time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The brutal assault on American science by the Trump administration is such an incredible self-own. Our entire country suffers across various domains as we lose out on invaluable cutting-edge research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...
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Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia
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Gidon Frischkorn @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Finally, Ven Popov's & my paper introducing the Bayesian Measurement Models (bmm: venpopov.github.io/bmm/) R package is published in Behavior Research Methods: rdcu.be/ehKtv In the paper we show how to use bmm for fitting mixture models for visual #workingmemory tasks.
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A tutorial for estimating Bayesian hierarchical mixture models for visual working memory tasks: Introducing the Bayesian Measurement Modeling (bmm) package for R
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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 15/04/2025
Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.
Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.
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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The @uva.nl has decided to make the Department of Psychology the sacrificial lamb in order to capitulate to the right-wing Dutch government and minster of education in their suicidal de-internationalization (Dutch language requirement in education) policy. What a comparison to Harvard.
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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Very cool science here 😎 OK, I might be biased but still, reading out different cognitive strategies by combining EEG data, our reaction time decomposition method, and a deep learning sequence model is super cool! Congrats Rick for your first preprint 🥳
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/04/2025
I have complained about both of my alma maters frequently so I want to share praise where praise is due. I'm proud of Harvard for finding their backbone. It's a big deal because everyone else looks to them. And godspeed to them in fighting this shakedown bullshit from the Trump administration.
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Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands
Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules.
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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is now published in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... with @annalschubert.bsky.social, @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social, and Klaus Oberauer
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Cognitive models of decision-making with identifiable parameters: Diffusion decision models with within-trial noise
Diffusion Decision Models (DDMs) are a widely used class of models that assume an accumulation of evidence during a quick decision. These models are o…
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Zsuzsa Kaldy @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Please consider donating to Rumeysa Ozturk's legal defense, living costs and medical care fund #Academicsky chuffed.org/project/just...
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Justice for Rumeysa Ozturk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
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Sabrina Thai | 蔡佩君 🇨🇦 @spicythai.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
HEY APA! Didn’t you know that the first rule of fighting tyranny is DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE?! So why the fuck are you obeying in advance?!?? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
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Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards (Gift Article)
As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Based on recent incidents like this one, I can't in good conscience, recommend that any (non-U.S.) prospective PhD student or Postdoc seek a position in the U.S. at this time. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
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Guro Løseth @loseth.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Yesterday we were having a lab conversation about whether we’ll still be going to meetings in the US. This might just settle it. Also, I think we should exit the platforms that are obvious monitoring windows, even if they claim end-to-end encryption. Why should we ever trust them?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We're searching for a new colleague at Uni Bremen: *Full Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience*! Includes researcher positions to fill & use of labs for e.g. (f)MRI,fNIRS,EEG, eyetracking. fMRI expertise desired. Please share! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
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Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
Offene Stellen
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JASP @jaspstats.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🛠️☀️ 1 of 4 Hybrid Summer Workshops: Improve your general statistics knowledge. No experience w/ stat-techniques or JASP necessary. Based on fresh-out-the-press textbook. Taught by @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social ECs for students available. jasp-stats.org/2025/03/03/h...
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Hybrid Workshop "Discovering Statistics Using JASP", June 30 - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software
We are happy to announce that the JASP team will offer a week of workshops in Amsterdam this summer.  In this blogpost we’ll highlight the first of four workshops: “Discovering Statistics Using JASP“....
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Julia Haaf @juliaha.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Ok. LOVE anti-acknowledgements! What a great idea to say no thanks! I think it would be cool to see anti-acknowledgements from other people (unofficial ones for PhD, career, etc). As awful as these experiences sound, I am sure they are not uncommon. I am thankful to Rachel for sharing. 👩‍🔬🧪
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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New preprint! Individual differences in neurophysiological correlates of post-response adaptation: A model-based approach osf.io/preprints/ps... This work seeks to extract the effects of response monitoring on decision-making using model-based CogNeuro and methods to study individual differences.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/02/2025
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025
“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.” “We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 06/02/2025
And take action to stop this illegal power grab:
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump's Illegal and Unconstitutional Power Grab
What President Trump is trying to do with our tax dollars cannot stand. Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's illegal freeze of federal funds for programs, research, and s...
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Michael D. Nunez @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Despite some things happening in the US being expected, I'm saddened and angry (and as an American living in Europe - embarrassed) about what is happening to US scientists, US governmental institutions, and the harm that the Trump administration is doing to US/European/World security.
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protecthb.org.bsky.social @protecthb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Civil disobedience is often necessary. Thank you Chris Kluwe.#civil disobedience
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