well on time for my bi-yearly post I'm sharing the final version of this very cool work we started with @cjungerius.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @svangaal.bsky.social @fahrenfort.bsky.social in 2021, when I was young and full of hope. Now out in @natcomms.nature.com 1/11

The act of detecting a stimulus contaminates measures of conscious experience with decision biases - Nature Communications

A central challenge in consciousness research is determining whether people truly experience a stimulus. Here, the authors show that context biases traditional detection measures, whereas continuous r...

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Thrilled to share our new #preprint, and super proud of @zednud.bsky.social and our work on eye–brain dynamics during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Also excited to share that Zach started his PhD with me recently! 🎉 Lots of ideas and cool work ahead. Follow him on Bluesky and check out his thread! 🧵

Zach Nudelman@zednud.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to share my first #preprint with @matthiasnau.bsky.social on how gaze behavior shapes brain activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Gaze-dependent activity was widespread even during sleep, including in many visual cortices, and altered brain-wide functional connectivity! 🧵 1/8

my last PhD chapter is finally out 🪅🥳 (although not nicely formatted yet). it's very easy to introduce detection biases in otherwise appearance based tasks. A more digested thread coming later. w/ @cjungerius.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @svangaal.bsky.social @fahrenfort.bsky.social

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

We are excited to announce that we will host WMS2026! The tentative dates are July 14th-17th, and we are currently looking for a postdoc to join the WMS2026 organizer team. If you are interested, please submit your application using the link below (Deadline: March 29th) forms.gle/noqsuEja2tB8...

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📢 New paper in Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with my co-authors: Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social, Chris Jungerius @cjungerius.bsky.social, and Heleen A. Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social. Grateful to have collaborated with you on this work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... [1/5]

Grounding distractor inhibition in action control: Implicit distractor-location learning is viewer dependent

Spatial selective attention is typically thought to act as a sensory filter: prioritizing the processing of relevant information at a particular locat…

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I recently wrote a Journal Club article for Nature Reviews Psychology, which is published today: rdcu.be/e4yLI In it, I discuss a study by Bae and Luck that has been very influential for my research and for the way I think about visual working memory. I hope you enjoy the read!

I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out. Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I wonder if researchers who study attention and researchers who study emotion are aware about the strong parallel controversies regarding the theoretical targets? Let me describe them.

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Which Kind of Science Reform

What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

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Starting tomorrow! Join us for lots of ECR talks about topics from across the field of working memory research!

WMSymposium.bsky.social@wmsymposium.bsky.social · last yr.

Can you believe that WMS2025 (July 8-11) is less than a week away? If you are interested in Working Memory Research, WMS2025 is THE BEST online conference with THE AWESOMEST community of researchers across the globe! So DON'T FORGET TO CHECK IT OUT! www.wmsymposium.org/home

This Thursday we have our second OPAM online workshop! This one will address the best way to do power calculations to determine how many participants you should run in your next experiment - an increasingly important topic today! The talk will be given by @cjungerius.bsky.social from Cambridge!

>The earliest statisticians would spend hours thinking about their assumptions and models because the computations themselves might have taken days. Today we call those people Bayesians

Kit Noussis@kitnoussis.bsky.social · last yr.

Thirty years ago, Ian Hacking commented on the temptation to do push-button statistics without first thinking about the theoretical side. The earliest statisticians would spend hours thinking about their assumptions and models because the computations themselves might have taken days. #rstats

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

We are excited to announce that @cjungerius.bsky.social is joining the team of organizers of WMS 2025! With him joining, the prep for the party is in full throttle!

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Exciting updates! I defended my PhD under @haslagter.bsky.social in January—'Learning What Matters: How to Pay Attention in a Volatile World'—and today, I’m starting as a Research Associate in the @bayslab.org at Cambridge. Looking forward to new challenges ahead!

❗News Alert ❗ Our iBBA (Institute for Brain and Behaviour Amsterdam) is now flying on Bluesky 🦋. If you're passionate about groundbreaking interdisciplinary science focused on understanding the brain and body as a unified system, stay tuned and follow us at bsky.app/profile/ibba...

ReVISit 2.0 (revisit.dev) reached several exciting milestones recently: 📁 You can now define an entire experiment in a single file— from trial data, stimuli (visualizations and interactions, thanks to Vega-Altair), study blocks/sequences and randomization, questionnaires, etc.

"Power Rules: Practical Statistical Power Calculations" Preprint DOI: doi.org/10.31219/osf... #stats #polisky

I had missed this as well and it really underscores how badly discussions of reform have missed thinking about the models we use and why we use them 🧵

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 2y ago

Just now seeing this paper reanalyzing the "Many Teams" paper on racial bias in soccer (29 teams analyze the same RQ with the same data, find different results). This reanalysis finds that variation in findings results from theoretical / interpretive differences. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Our PNAS paper "Action similarity warps visual feature space in working memory" is out! www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10..... Thanks to @haslagter.bsky.social and Chris Olivers for guiding me through this project, and thanks to Luigi Falanga and Jannik Jeske for their great lab work. What a team! 🤩🤓

Now that more people are here, I’m signal boosting this great methods primer by my PhD student Chris. Chris is currently in the market for a postdoc, and comes highly recommended! #neuroskyence

Chris Jungerius@cjungerius.bsky.social · 3y ago

Excited to share my primer on simulation-based power analysis using R, Python, and Julia! Based on @debruine.bsky.social's approach applied to data collected by @kirsten-adam.bsky.social, I hope it's a helpful tool for those starting with simulations. Check it out: cjungerius.github.io/powersim/

Since this is making the rounds again, an updated version of my "Types of Political Behavior Papers" .

thanks to the iBBA VU our workshop on Info. Theory is in full swing with Dr. Ince (@robince.bsky.social) giving an intro. lecture on info. theory measures. Dr. Canales-Johnson (@canalesjohnson.bsky.social) will follow with a lecture on how to use these measures to study perception and cognition

Me, every time @cjungerius.bsky.social suggests Bayesian Models.

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bayes con: extra programming, angry reviewers, destroyed friendships Bayes pro: results look weaker

Excited to share my primer on simulation-based power analysis using R, Python, and Julia! Based on @debruine.bsky.social's approach applied to data collected by @kirsten-adam.bsky.social, I hope it's a helpful tool for those starting with simulations. Check it out: cjungerius.github.io/powersim/

Power Simulation: A primer in 3 languages - Power Simulation in a Mixed Effects design using R

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The second preprint of my PhD with @haslagter.bsky.social is out! In a followup to our previous work, we test the possible causes for our previous finding that reduced contextual uncertainty affects attentional capture: osf.io/exgvu

Monday morning journal club really spoke to the imagination this week

Science is great but academia not so much. Earlier this week I revised my talk "Science as Amateur Software Development". The unprofessional way that academics curate & process data would benefit from professional habits of software engineers and chefs too 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qzV...

Science as Amateur Software Development (2023 edition)

Software is both a cause of unreliable research and part of the solution. The bulk of scientific research relies upon specialized software for data managemen...

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