This is what I was planning to tell my students at the beginning of the coming semester. "The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling — an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs." #psychology #ai #neuroscience #highered

Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

What if the fastest way to be more creative... was to stop trying so hard? Neuroscientists have been scanning the brains of musicians, and what they found might change how you think about creativity (thread ⬇️)

What I found when I scanned the brains of kids creating tunes on the piano

Playing improv music activates the reward system of the brain.

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Birdsong acoustics! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The global biogeography of passerine songs

Although bird songs are classic models for understanding the evolution of vocal communication, their global diversity has long made the development of a unifying framework challenging. By analyzing th...

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I will never understand why people interested in animals don’t just watch nature shows on @pbs.org

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 4d ago

Will this #SharkWeek be better? In the past, researchers were not impressed and found:

Several teaching track faculty positions in my department, including for a neuroscience specialist #psychology #neuroscience #highered nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNLV-Externa...

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Founded in 1957, UNLV is a doctoral-degree-granting institution comprised of approximately 34,000 students and more than 4,451 faculty and staff. To date, UNLV has conferred more than 186,000 degrees,...

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The chance to be Julia’s colleague should be enough reason to apply!

Julia Strand@juliafstrand.bsky.social · 5d ago

My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

I have absolutely no doubt that animals closely related to humans are conscious, and similarly I have no doubt that AI is not conscious. Well I guess this is what we get when industry money (partially replaces) government funding for science. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Consciousness research is having an AI moment. Will the hype help the field?

The idea of AI sentience is drawing more focus to consciousness science. But some researchers aren’t sure that’s a good thing.

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Nearly four years ago we asked ourselves, "what would it look like to have a field-leading, completely free reference work for cognitive science"? It's been so fun editing OECS with @asifamajid.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social. I can't believe we have published 200 (!!) articles! oecs.mit.edu

Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today's #OA spotlight is extra special. Just this week, @mitpress.bsky.social published the 200th article in our OPEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Congrats to @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social! We've come far since the 2023 @cogscisociety.bsky.social in Rotterdam! oecs.mit.edu

ARO is looking for award nominees for early career and more experienced auditory scientists. Neither the nominator nor the nominee needs to be an ARO member! I'm on the award committee and you would be surprised how some of these awards do not get that many nominations. lnkd.in/ezU7mU9J

Correlational studies like those discussed in this article are often called "observational" in contrast to true experimental studies that manipulate a variable to see its causal effect on another variable. But...

The Science of Fermented Food

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Back in late 2020, in my capacity as director of a new Neuroscience Ph.D. program, I led an effort to apply for an NIH T32 G-RISE grant. It was rejected, then I handed it off to my co-PIs before they resubmitted it (in quite a hurry), it was rejected again, but recently we heard that it was funded!

I concur that it’s great to see all the responses on so many aspects of consciousness! So much so I can’t even be mad at the target article’s vision-centrism 😆

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · last mo.

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

The Call for 2027 Governing Board Nominations is now open! The Psychonomic Society is seeking nominations for its Governing Board. Fellows, Members, and Emeritus Members may nominate up to four individuals to serve for the 2027-2032 term. Deadline: June 30. More information here: buff.ly/7AXNIXU

Good little article on vagus nerve stimulation #neuroscience #health #stress www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

Activating this nerve can relieve stress. Here’s how to do it.

Social media hype about the vagus nerve tends to be oversimplified. The truth is more complex — and more interesting.

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Maggie's study on perception of objects and settings in natural auditory scenes is now published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

Object and setting identification in natural auditory scenes

Auditory scene perception allows listeners to identify both the setting and the objects within a scene, supporting decision-making and situational awareness. Wh

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Joel Snyder@auditoryjoel.bsky.social · last yr.

Amidst all the terrible things, do we still post pre-prints? Just in case yes, here's a new one by Maggie McMullin on perception of objects and settings in recordings of natural auditory scenes. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We Are Experiencing a Helium Shortage: What This Could Mean for an "Irreplaceable" Element www.discovermagazine.com/we-are-exper...

We Are Experiencing a Helium Shortage — What This Could Mean for an "Irreplaceable" Element

Used in everything from critical medical technology to AI development, helium is irreplaceable. Learn how Earth is running out of it.

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www.sciencefriday.com/segments/inf...

Is that spooky old house full of ghosts, or just infrasound?

Low-frequency noises that humans can feel, but not hear, may be behind the spooky feeling of old houses—and serve as a warning to animals.

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Just yesterday I was talking to a colleague about a participant who reports their mental imagery shifts from black and white to color, triggered by self-reflection. This is the opposite but in the real world. Despite being the real world, this feels very surreal. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/w...

The Iran War Is Taking the Color Out of Japan’s Best-Known Snack Bags

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This is an amazingly informative article about cephalopods in Nature today. I had no idea about the anatomy of octopus nervous systems or that so many neurons are in their arms rather than their brains. #neuroscience #brain #intelligence #consciousness #pain www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do octopus brains work like humans’ — or is there another way to be smart?

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.

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I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 care-2026.heysummit.com

CARE for Misophonia 2026

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Our study on how listening to groovy music *does not* modulate primary motor cortex is now published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Musical groove listening does not enhance primary motor cortex activation

Abstract. Groove is the pleasurable urge to move to the beat of music, a universally experienced human phenomenon. Because listeners are often inspired to move to music with groove, we asked whether h...

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Joel Snyder@auditoryjoel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

At long last, we submitted our 2 experiment study failing to find EEG evidence that primary motor cortex is modulated by high-groove music. Wish us luck in peer review! Led by Samantha O’Connell.

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

SCORE | Center for Open Science

SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

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A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W

Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project

Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for solutions.

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Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences

Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

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I wrote today about a big study on replication--and why it's so hard to know if a study will hold up or not. Gift link: nyti.ms/4sNu3MF

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

"The Bots Ruining Social Science Are Not Bots at All" This is really important for those of us doing online research with what we hope are humans journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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