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Sebastian Korb

@sebkorb.bsky.social
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Senior lecture in psychology, university of Essex. Emotion ❤️, facial expressions 🤪, embodiment 🧠, reward 🍫🍺, bikes 🚴🏻‍♂️

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...
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Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasound Neuromodulation | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD 'Computational Affective Neuroscience and Neuromodulation' at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 24/01/2026
Board of Peace - Season 1
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Winnie the Pooh (Official) @indianawalsh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour:City Campus
Join us as a Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour! Gain excellent experience and skills working with a range of primatologists across NTU. A great stepping stone before embarking on a PhD!
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)
Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I recommend listening to Matteo, who’s a great friend, and a great scientist, even though I don’t understand half of what he says about stats
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Remarkable. Uncontrollable laughing or crying can happen *without* emotion ("pseudobulbar affect"). Here's a video of one individual whose crying is triggered by real or imagined rubbing of his finger & thumb. Intense response but not sadness. /1 static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

 Crying spells triggered by thumb-index rubbing after thalamic stroke: a case report
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Peter Wade @peterwade.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"Doesn’t matter to us who you’re fucking mingling with, or tingling with, or fingering with. It’s none of our fucking business."
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Liam Gallagher Declares Oasis Concerts Safe for Cheaters: 'We Don't Have That Coldplay Camera'
Liam Gallagher jokes that Oasis concerts are safe for cheaters following an apparent infidelity incident that unfolded on a Coldplay jumbotron camera.
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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
in Oxford, a grade 7 (entry-level) postdoc costs about £180K for 3 years, including fringe. For UKRI grants, the university now adds **£460K** in overheads. is that normal? do other UK universities impose such outlandish FEC?
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Quite proud of this latest work from the KorbLab, which replicates behavioral effects of zygomaticus activation on happiness categorization, and also reveals an N170 reduction, suggesting reduced visual processing in combination with targeted facial feedback input
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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We are still looking for collaborators, especially from Africa, Asia and South America for our project on how people from around the world correct their intuitive reasoning errors. More information below. Pls join and share! psysciacc.org/projects/psa...
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PSA-JTF3: Error Correction – Psychological Science Accelerator
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ikauvar.bsky.social @ikauvar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Emotions are core to the human experience 😆😮🙂😊☹️😠😳😑 But how do they arise? Our brain-wide ⚡recordings in humans and mice reveal some answers @ScienceMagazine. A big team effort and debut paper from @Stanford's new Human Neural Circuitry program. bit.ly/4dEyX7Z
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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
On 24th June, we are hosting a 1 day event on Social Connections at UCL - come along to hear the latest research on wearable sensors and friendship and measuring social interaction. Please share widely palslanguagelab.wixsite.com/socialconnec...
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London Social Connection Workshop at UCL on 24th June 2025.
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 10/04/2025
📣 COS is excited to launch the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)! Seeking researchers with expertise in quantitative methods in health behavior, public health, epidemiology, health policy, & related fields for this large-scale, multi-team replication effort. ➡️ Details: www.cos.io/rphb
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Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)
The Center for Open Science (COS) is launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB), which is a large-scale, multi-team effort to help support a transparent and trustworthy foundation in ...
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
New paper day! Using EEG and frequency tagging, we show that posing a smile reduces neural discrimination of happy versus neutral faces, possibly by making neutral faces look happier. Led by Joshua Baker, with great help from Stephanie Van der Donck and Bart Boets. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
"I learned with concern that a French researcher" on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) "who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled ," said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). "This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy ," he added
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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam! Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck. More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!
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Vacancy — Postdoc Investigating Human Sources of Bias in AI Face Classification Models
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...
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!
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Join the Lab
We're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellowship: Predictive Models for Cognitive Fluctuations  Closing date: 12 noon (IST), June 1st 2024 We are seeking a Research Fellow to pioneer the development of passive s...
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Trump’s “free” speech: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 10/02/2025
We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.
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Vol. 24 - Here is a revised version of your review with improved clarity
ChatGPT is not my peer. It should not review my papers.
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Unbelievably scary: www.science.org/content/blog...
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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 28/01/2025
It says a lot about the current funding crisis affecting UK universities when Wales' biggest university proposes to close its Nursing course to save money, at a time when the NHS is desperate for more nurses.
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Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says "it is no longer an option for us to continue as we are".
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Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I am thrilled to announce that my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline 28 February. pvrticka.com/2025-soneat-...
2025 SoNeAt Lab fNIRS hyperscanning workshop flyer
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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hope this link works www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
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).
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
What are the prospects for AI that is, or irresistibly appears to be, conscious? Here’s a substantially revised version of my paper “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism” - many thanks to many folks for super-helpful comments osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Seth Pollak @sethpollak.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Postdoctoral positions in Emotion Research. Come and collaborate with 24 training faculty across disciplines in the nation’s longest standing emotion research training program (also home to the country’s largest local farmers market). Applications are due on Friday, February 7,2025. emotion.wisc.edu
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Want to see if your research has had an impact on public policy? Enter your info in SagePolicyProfiles to see the citations of your own publications in policy documents. You get a profile page. Here is mine as an example: policyprofiles.sagepub.com/profile/5920...
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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 18/08/2023
A guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
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BlueSky for Scientists
BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...
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University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Comedy legend @daraobriain.bsky.social and award-winning science presenter @fryrsquared.bsky.social have teamed up with Essex Psychology's Dr Wijnand van Tilburg to explore the brilliance of boredom on their BBC Radio 4 Curious Cases podcast. You can listen now: www.essex.ac.uk/news/2024/11...
Dara Ó Briain, Dr Wijnand van Tilburg and Hannah Fry
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thank you @ayesharascoe.bsky.social and @npr.org for giving me the chance to talk about our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation www.npr.org/2024/11/24/n...
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Over the moon that our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation (recently published in Emotion, shorturl.at/YRS9d) was featured in ScientificAmerican @sciam.bsky.social. Thank you so much @RachelNuwer for the interview, and thank you Heather Lench for endorsing us.
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simine vazire @simine.com · 01/12/2023
I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: www.psychologicalscience.org/public… We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
*TODAY IS THE DAY* It's your last chance to sign up to participate in the groundbreaking Perception Census project. Don't miss out :-) We close to new participants at the end of 31st October 2023. perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!
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Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable? Great question, asked in this beautiful new paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable?
Predictive-coding has justifiably become a highly influential theory in Neuroscience. However, the possibility of its unfalsifiability has been raised…
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
New preprint from @loseth.bsky.social, Martin Trøstheim & myself We asked how important endogenous opioids are for feeling connected to others osf.io/preprints/ps... Because opioids are so addictive, their use is restricted to pain relief - but their effects are notoriously variable & numerous
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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
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