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That's some of what I've been up to. My contract's up in October 2026 & I'm starting to look around, so if any of this is useful to you, whether that's a talk, a collaboration, or just a chat, my inbox is open. Always happy to nerd out about faces, methods, or why none of us can agree on a pipeline

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Last one, and the most fun: what big team science actually teaches you. We surveyed the people who lead these huge collaborations about everything that goes wrong, funding, diffused responsibility, the lead team quietly walking away, and turned it into practical fixes! doi.org/10.1525/coll...

The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned From Cognitive Science

The credibility revolution in psychology and related sciences contributed to the adoption of large-scale research initiatives known as Big Team Science (BTS). BTS has made significant advances in addr...

And the science itself shouldn't cost the earth. " #Sustainable neuroscience through open science" makes the case that a single #MRI study can run to nearly a tonne of CO₂, and that sharing data openly is how you get more science per gram of carbon 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Same instinct, newer problem 🤖 how do you use generative #AI in research without cutting corners? 16 of us ran a #Delphi consensus and landed on eight principles, from data security to accountability, with a checklist to match. doi.org/10.1007/s436...

#ARTEM-IS is a free webapp that helps you document your EEG/ERP methods properly. You fill in a branching form and it gives you back a tidy PDF and a machine-readable JSON, so someone can rebuild exactly what you did. Loved presenting it at #OHBM #Brainhack2026 this year. doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

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Flip the face upside down and the effect disappears, which tells us it's the visual system reading features out in the periphery against a stored template, not just eyes being dragged to the brightest patch. Quietly pleased with that one.

Start with the face. Show someone a fearful or happy face for as little as 50ms and their eyes still get tugged towards the features that carry the emotion, eyes for fear, mouth for happiness. Funny thing is, it doesn't actually help them recognise the emotion any better. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Facial features associated with fear and happiness attract gaze during brief exposure without enhancing emotion recognition - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Facial features associated with fear and happiness attract gaze during brief exposure without enhancing emotion recognition

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

11 months since my last post, so here's a bit of what I've been up to: -How the eye is drawn to emotion in a face -A free tool for documenting #EEG methods -Using #AI in research responsibly -#OpenScience as a climate issue -What #BigTeamScience actually teaches you Wander through if curious 🧵🥸

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The third ongoing project is the perspective paper on using genAI in Biopsychology (led by @annesaulin.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @ocklenburg.bsky.social) Also stay tuned soon for the manuscript! 📣

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The second project is the Umbrella Review of EEG Preprocessing for ERP studies (led by @ufangyang.bsky.social) which is currently in the data extraction phase

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 16/07/2025

We invite psychology researchers at any stage of their career and at any type of institution to consider submitting their proposal formatted as a Stage 1 Registered Report for consideration to receive research funding from SIPS and a recommendation decision from PCI-RR! #PsychSciSky

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🚨New paper out in AMPPS! proud to be part of this one, another solid product of @improvingpsych.org✨ We mapped the grey zones of psychology’s research culture through a consensus process. Ever wondered, “Wait... is this a questionable practice?” You’re not alone: doi.org/10.1177/2515... #OpenScience

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Great materials! Thanks for sharing this

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🧠 Our new #ERP paper is out‼️ We know #P3 increases during exclusion after inclusion, but what if we flip it? We tested #overinclusion after #exclusion #P3 stayed stable, but #P2 and self-reports of emotion & belonging shifted. Inclusion ≠ just the flip side of exclusion. doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

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This study reveals that social threats, like loss of control, affect the processing of following positive social interaction, here overinclusion. ERP data indicate that a preexposure to a threat affe....

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Excited to share our new paper: a walkthrough of tools, tradeoffs, & practical decisions #ECRs face when doing #OpenScience across curation, processing, harmonizing, and sharing #MRI and #EEG data. My first as last author! Huge thanks to Nikhil Bhagwat, @surchs.bsky.social & Jean-Baptiste Poline!

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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

#SIPS2025 is on a boat!!!! So thankful for this amazing community of scholars. It’s a joy every time I get to attend.

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Still feeling proud post-SIPS @improvingpsych.org ,our project ARIADNE was awarded a SIPS Commendation! It’s been a long path, but we made it. Tool’s live here: igor-biodgps.github.io/ARIADNE Paper is out too: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A recent MIT study arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 found that repeated use of AI writing assistants can subtly shift how people reason and write. So how will researchers’ brains change in the long run? Anyone else curious how neuropsych will tackle this?

Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Really appreciated the timing of this great topic “AI for Dummies: Using AI for good in psychology” at SIPS @improvingpsych.org (see image) 👏We should be having more open discourse on how researchers are actually using #AI in practice, not just what’s possible, but what’s already embedded!

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Brought my IGOR bag (from last week’s #PuG2025 @igor-dgps.bsky.social) to SIPS @improvingpsych.org, full circle moment. Both have shaped how I approach open, reproducible neuro + psych research and collaborative methods. Ps. Brainhack still hits different for the nerdiest magic.

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thanks for having me for this great symposium with many other incredible igor projects! Looking forward to it

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Honoured to join the IGOR steering committee earlier this& last year, now excited to welcome the new members to the team! 🧠👏 Looking forward to it! Ps. The igor social event is happening now! + symposium & round table tomorrow! Don’t miss it @pug2025.bsky.social

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Too bad you won’t be there! We’re still in the full-text screening phase, but I’ll definitely share the results once they’re ready. Really appreciate your interest in the project! :)

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If you’re at the PUG conference, come check out our session! Would love to hear your thoughts—(and yep, this umbrella review is still very much in progress 😅)

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Come to joins us where I will present our project - “Is There a Standard? An Umbrella Review of EEG Preprocessing Pipelines for ERP Studies” #PUG2025 @pug2025.bsky.social

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🧠♻️ IGOR Symposium "Open Science Initiatives in Biopsychological Research" 🗓️ Fri, 20.06 | 🕥 10:30–12:00 📍 0.004 @ocklenburg.bsky.social C. Artemenko @mariame.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social @caggursoy.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social [3/6]

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Direct and averted gaze modulate the event-related brain responses to social exclusion signals - Scientific Reports

This dissociation highlights how nonverbal social cues shape both brain and emotional reactions to exclusion, emphasizing the complexity of social cognition. You can read the full paper here www.nature.com/articles/s41... Always happy to discuss or collaborate on these fascinating dynamics!

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Scientific Reports - Direct and averted gaze modulate the event-related brain responses to social exclusion signals

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Our findings show that direct gaze amplifies neural signals related to expectation violations when excluded — suggesting it heightens sensitivity to social rejection cues. Meanwhile, averted gaze increased negative mood but lowered these brain responses.

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If you're interested in this topic, I recently published a study exploring how direct vs. averted gaze changes brain responses during social exclusion, using EEG and the Cyberball paradigm.

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Just wrapped up a lecture on how eye gaze modulates brain responses to social exclusion using eye-tracking! My students dug into related topics today — really proud of their work! Some of it even ties into my own research. Always open to collabs! #Empathy #EyeTracking #Exclusion #attachment #culture

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IGOR Symposium Fri, 20.06, 10:30-12:00 📍 Audimax Topic: Open Science initiatives in biopsychological research ♻️🧠 With @ocklenburg.bsky.social C. Artemenko @mariame.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social @caggursoy.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social @mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Are you a DGPA member conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Don’t miss the opportunity—apply now for the 2025 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Very looking forward to it! Come and Join our symposium

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I haven’t been there for all 10, but since joining during the COVID years, @improvingpsych.org has meant a lot - great researchers trying to make research better, together. Grateful to be part of it. Happy 10th anniversary, #SIPS 🎂🥳 See you at online SIPS today—and in person in Budapest! #2025SIPS

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Have you tried ARIADNE yet? ✨ It's a tool with curated research resources to help you out!

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Yu-Fang Yang @ufangyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Our new paper is out in Scientific Reports @springernature.com ✨ We studied how #gaze direction shapes social exclusion using #EEG (P3) + self-report in Cyberball. ➡️ Direct gaze heightened neural responses to exclusion (↑ P3 amplitude) ➡️ Averted gaze increased negative mood doi.org/10.1038/s415...