This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

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📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does? In short, yes!

The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory

Counterfactual thinking — considering what could have come of choosing the other path — can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…

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🚨 JOB alert: 📢 We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia! If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

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Finally listened to this lecture -- highly recommended if you've ever been confused about fixed effects vs. random effects models. Love that the framing starts from group-level confounding -- here's a problem, what could be solutions (rather than: here's a model, what are its features).

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This time I try to explain group-level confounding and some ways to deal with it. Lecture B04 of Statistical Rethinking 2026 - fixed effects, Mundlak machines, latent Mundlak machines, intro to social network analysis and the social relations model. Full lecture list: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

🧵 New paper in @NatureComms Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026) Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇 rdcu.be/e0VcO

Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences

Nature Communications - Normative theory predicts that feedback should not affect decisions under risk, but past findings disagree. Here, the authors show that feedback shifts risk-taking by...

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We had a wonderful evening celebrating the official opening of the Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents!🥂🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us - we're looking forward to what's ahead! @anrei.bsky.social @kabertsch.bsky.social

“The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died.” If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you. [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality

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🥳!!NEW PREPRINT!!🥳 We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence. osf.io/preprints/ps... I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.

Congrats to Katja and Andrea!🎉 Their project on mental health and social integration, which aims to advance treatment options for adolescents and young adults with social deficits, has earned a research award from the Vogel Stiftung!🏆👏 @kabertsch.bsky.social @anrei.bsky.social

Wir suchen noch deutschsprachige Paare 🤼‍♀️👫 ü40, die Lust haben, uns bei dieser Studie zu unterstützen ✨ ✨

11 days left to apply!💼⏰ Spread the word 📣

Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg@bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

Die Finanzierung der Weiterbildung für Fachpsychotherapeut*innen ist immer noch nicht geregelt. Deshalb demonstrieren wir am 24.10. um 15 Uhr in Köln, Bochum und Marburg für gesetzliche Regelungen. Mehr dazu warum Conni die Welt nicht versteht: www.instagram.com/p/DP1fEvmCGa...

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why? 🧵 We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

#bluesky and summer vibes🌞🍒👒 in Würzburg for the start of #PuG2025. We are so excited to welcome you all here. Have a good trip and we hope to see you at the welcome reception tonight!

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Marco K Wittmann@mkwittmann.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm glad that NWO has launched a new round of the impactful Mozaïek grant, offering PhD funding funding to traditionally underrepresented minorities. Scheme call here: lnkd.in/eKVdUyqU We might be able to support an application if interests & skills overlap lifespancognitivedynamics.com (dm)

Our call for more efficient and informative RCTs in mental health through novel designs -- Transforming the evidence landscape in mental health with platform trials rdcu.be/ecSMq Led by @goldlabcharite.bsky.social @blennox4.bsky.social and others #Psychiatry #MentalHealth #academicsky

Transforming the evidence landscape in mental health with platform trials

Nature Mental Health - This Perspective outlines evidence on existing platform trials in mental health and discusses key challenges and strategies to overcome barriers in order to maximize the...

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Yes! We are already busy as bees🐝🐝🐝 preparing and look forward to welcoming you in Würzburg! with @gamerlab.bsky.social @hein-lab.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social @martinweiss.bsky.social @mjherrmann.bsky.social Katja Bertsch Johannes Hewig Andrea Kübler Johannes Rodriguez

bioDGPS and DGPA@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · 2y ago

Poster abstract submission for #PuG2025 in Würzburg are open until end of March! Time to start thinking about what to present 🤔 www.pug2025.org/submission

We are looking for 2 new colleagues - #professorships in (A) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy (B) Work & Organizational Psychology Join a lively and collaborative department @tudresden.bsky.social in #Dresden - Please share - @dgps.bsky.social #jobalert 📣 tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/a...

The potential of LLMs in social & behavioral science is enormous—but how can we leverage them? Zak Hussain & I just taught a 5-day course at #GSERM Ljubljana on this. Check out our open materials (cc-by-sa) on using open LLMs with @hf.co. github.com/Zak-Hussain/...

GitHub - Zak-Hussain/LLM4BeSci_Ljubljana2025: The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social scienc...

The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social sciences. - Zak-Hussain/LLM4BeSci_Ljubljana2025

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Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨ tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk

I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...

2025: Agency gained and lost

If you’ve had even a passing glance at tech journalism over the past few months, you know the top buzzword for AI in 2025 is agentic. Agentic AI (according to many think pieces and press releases a…

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This is a really interesting point, and there are parallels with parenting adolescents too. It's easy to say adolescents need to be able to take risks (they do), but of course there are occasional very bad outcomes from doing so, and probably a more complex list than with children

Tom Chivers@tomchivers.bsky.social · 2y ago

all in favour of encouraging risky play, etc, but I do wish that pieces encouraging it would admit, nice and high up, that it would mean more children being injured and killed, and that this is a price they consider worthwhile. (I would probably agree!) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚀 post-doc position with the fantastic @ldeserno.bsky.social : Ecological Momentary assessment and digital interventions in #psychiatry #psychotherapy (40 months) - apply, apply apply☺️ and join us in lovely #Würzburg for fun science #PsychSciSky #MentalHealthSky #statssky

🚨🚨🚨Post-doc position (40 months) on Ecological Momentary Assessments and Digital Interventions in #psychiatry und #psychotherapy in my lab! Bring in your own ideas; existing data available. funded by #BMBF #EMA karriere.ukw.de/de/jobs/1077... Please reach out with questions and appy!

I am SO pleased @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social has written this @theguardian.com article, and so beautifully - it means the world. So much of it I could have written myself. Happily married for two decades, yes. But I'm still shaped by a teenage relationship too. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

The big idea: why we should take teenage love more seriously

Adolescent passions shape our future selves, and can be every bit as powerful – and perilous – as adult relationships

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🚨New paper alert!🚨 -- Registered report style! A "blue-print"! Some people seem born to explore: breaking new ground, traveling to new places. Others seem perfectly content to enjoy familiar comforts. This explore/exploit tradeoff is well-known, and varies across people and situations (1/6)

A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder So pleased to have contributed to this work led by the brilliant Giles Story (we'll get him over here eventually) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder

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Although it is frequently discussed, AfD support appears only weakly correlated with objective economic conditions. The unemployment rate or the disposable income per capita of a municipality correlate only weakly with the AfD's vote share and its gains compared to 2019.