I'm really excited to share a new preprint! Lab studies have consistently shown that stress and negative emotions make people drink alcohol, but studies of daily life (EMA) keep failing to find it. What does that mean for the shared theoretical prediction both designs test? osf.io/preprints/ps...

Late-breaking abstract submission until 20 March! Our amazing keynote speakers are Laura Bringmann (U Groningen), Judith Homberg (Radboud U), Stephan Lewandowsky (U Bristol), Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin), and Katalin Oláh (Eötvös Loránd U). Join us in Dubrovnik, and spread the word!

Bertalan Polner@bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us in beautiful Dubrovnik for the XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (21–24 May 2026)! This year’s theme focuses on adaptation and its limits across multiple timescales, individual differences, and mental health. Abstracts from all areas of cogsci welcome! Visit: ducog.cecog.eu

Join us in beautiful Dubrovnik for the XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (21–24 May 2026)! This year’s theme focuses on adaptation and its limits across multiple timescales, individual differences, and mental health. Abstracts from all areas of cogsci welcome! Visit: ducog.cecog.eu

DUCOG — Conference 2026

Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

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A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Friends in Budapest, check out these great talks next week :)

Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Really looking forward to a visit to Budapest next week, to give a couple talks. If you're around, come along and say hi! 😊 (Thanks to @mvargam.bsky.social for the invitation!)

Machinery of Misbelief A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025) www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...

Machinery of Misbelief

A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age

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Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature

Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...

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A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

AI, peer review and the human activity of science

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

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What a great pleasure to be back in Leuven and hear about amazing research at the #saa2025 ! If you are interested in Pavlovian biases vs. regulating mood with fun activities and rumination under stress, please come by our poster this afternoon - w/ Hanneke den Ouden and @leventeronai.bsky.social

New ESM study out in J Pers! 👀 We show that disorganized schizotypy specifically predicts both psychotic- and stress-reactivity in response to social, economic, and health-related stressors - thanks a lot Levente Rónai, Flóra Hann, and Szabolcs Kéri onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What is reflected in the cross-sectional correlation? How does it relate to associations at the level of stable individual differences vs. correlations within individuals over time? It really depends! And it's hard to know without intensive longitudinal data. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very happy that this preprint (I'm 2nd author & taking over for the bluesky-less Vanessa Scholz) is finally out! In a large online sample, we investigated how Pavlovian/motivational biases are associated with psychiatric symptom dimensions (as first defined by Claire Gillan).. osf.io/preprints/ps...

The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)

PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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Quite a few studies show attractive integration between perception and imagery/VWM such that e.g. imagining a left-tilted grating makes a perceived grating seem more left-tilted. Does anybody know of any studies showing repulsion? I.e. making the perceived grating seem more right-tilted?

English-speaking readers, this one is worth your time:

Kiko Llaneras@kikollan.llaneras.es · 2y ago

✨ Se publica mi libro en inglés: ‘Think Clearly: Eight Simple Rules to Succeed in the Data Age’ ✨ ¡Estoy feliz! Llega el 23 de enero con #PenguinUK y #Ebury. Y hay más: habrá ediciones en checo, turco, coreano y japonés 👇

A great causal inference reading list!

Stephen Wild@stephenjwild.bsky.social · 2y ago

A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access. Causal inference is hard: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating work on controllability estimation in social contexts

Lisa Spiering@lspiering.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀 Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD! How do people know how much control they have in social contexts, and what are the neural mechanisms? tinyurl.com/erfp95ew With Jacquie Scholl, Matthew Rushworth, and Hailey Trier, Jill O'Reilly @nilskolling.bsky.social @mkwittmann.bsky.social 🧵👇

So, here we go: hello Bluesky! Reposting the last one from my Twitter. Looking forward to connecting! Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making - new article out! Much enjoyed writing this together www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making

Serotonin has been associated with a wide range of neural computations and behaviours, yet an overarching function of this neurotransmitter has been h…

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