So, ehm, what the fish is happening? This seems like a weird way to self-immolate for one of the world’s foremost* institutions in this space? *Previously, now apparently a fish shop.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last mo.

Janelia’s decision to wind down its mouse work to focus on the Danionella fish is a “bold move” that caught some by surprise, researchers say. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ex...

Every single humans rights org — including Israeli ones — have been telling the same story. Given that Israel still bars journalists entry to Gaza, which in itself is bonkers, how about we trust any or all human rights orgs. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

🚨New preprint🚨 Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Do adolescents who report feeling addicted to social media share a single behavioural-emotional profile? We analysed data from >7,000 UK adolescents and found, strikingly, that **47%** feel addicted to social media.

In this time of redundancies all across UK higher education, it feels a bit worrying when administrators take an interest in your work...

Learn the basics of #Python in 4 days! Join @dalmaijer.bsky.social for "Introduction to Python for Data Analysis" on June 23-26 to explore how to use Python for data analysis, including handling datasets and writing full analyses.

Python for Data Analysis | Online Training | Statistical Horizons

Live online Python for data analysis course for researchers to use Python in data science, statistics, regression & machine learning.

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Average editor: Tick suggested names, send automated review requests. Good editor: Find relevant reviewers, send personalised messages. IEEE Systems Journal: Keep spamming the same potential reviewers even after they reject multiple times. One hundred “no” and one “yes” means “yes”, baby!

On the one hand, it's great to know people are using sunscreen. On the other, I would have preferred to learn this through other means than slipping off the building's greasy (but fresh-smelling!) door handle.

Big "for me, it was Tuesday" energy. Also, not all of us are like this! Some of us have a pathological need to be liked and will randomly wake up, drenched in sweat, stressing about that one slightly negative comment on an evaluation from 2021. Students can (and should) abuse these character flaws.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you are a professor students have all sorts of reactions to you, ranging from passionate dislike, through intense crushes, utter indifference, idolising admiration, and into contemptuous disdain. What I think students rarely appreciate though is how asymmetric this is.

As part of the #InternationalWomensDay we had the pleasure to collaborate with @psychopy.org (@hirstrj.bsky.social @kimdundas) creating a workshop series to ensure everyone can get started with experimental design 🗣️ All materials are now open access! 🔗 wicseurope.github.io/WiCSeurope/r...

Finally had enough of my smart watch. Constant notifications, patronising reminders, and low sleep scores for waking to attend children. I used to sell expensive watches. Disliked over-affluent customers, but loved the mechanisms. This one isn't particularly high-end, but so much less disruptive!

Actual email I just received: "🔥 NEW! Equine Castration Surgical Simulator 🐴" (emoji’s very much included)

Come work at the Bristol Baby Lab! Postdoc recruitment starting soon; read up and get in touch with relevant people now. (I’m not involved in recruitment, but always happy to informally chat about what the Bristol developmental psychology scene is like.)

Karla Holmboe@karlaholmboe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We (Karla Holmboe, Mara Cercignani and @rogierk.bsky.social) will soon be advertising for a postdoc on BLOCCS (Bristol Longitudinal study Of Childhood Cognition from infancy to School), funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Reads like an April Fool’s joke, but the last update to this was in October 2025. In brief: the Terms of Use suggest that Copilot is not a serious tool, can fuck up at any given point (no warranty), and users are solely responsible for any consequences (indemnity for Microsoft). Great software!

Ingrid Burrington@lifewinning.com · 4mo ago

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Amazing PhD project with a wonderful set of supervisors! This is a rare topic of study, so if you’re into it, embrace this opportunity!

Arnaud Tognetti@atognetti.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 4-year PhD 🚨 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20 📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

Funded PhD position at the @exeter.ac.uk with your time split between Exeter and Queensland (Australia) Digital Haptics and Proprioceptive Learning in Surgery www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... (warning, slightly gory VR surgery video from our industrial partner)

⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪 Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪 PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓 More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Psychology

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? We are currently looking for a driven and curious postdoctoral researcher who wants to join Mats J. Olsson’s research group in the Division of Ps

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Sperm whale pods came together to support (literally) the birth of a conspecific. There are only a handful of recorded sperm whale births in human history, and none with footage like this. Stop whatever you’re doing, and watch these videos: www.projectceti.org/whalebirth

Project CETI@projectceti.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Female sperm whales support one another during the birthing journey—behavior that was long considered unique to humans and a few primates. Read now in @science.org: bit.ly/4bIKkeo

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Come work with me and @dr-appie.bsky.social in Amsterdam!

Abdel Abdellaoui@dr-appie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬 You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL) werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures... Please RT for karma points ♥️

Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬 You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL) werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures... Please RT for karma points ♥️

The one thing I really appreciate about modern academic publishers is how much value they add. Their copy-editing is of such a high standard that they wouldn’t, for example, publisher a paper with two errors in the title.

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

IMPRS-QBEE@imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One of our IMPRS Faculty Members, @heesenr.bsky.social , is currently looking for applications. Please follow this link for more information: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/125923/docto...

Transparency is the default for windows, but we typically make an exception for those in bathrooms. So if you’re reading Psych Science on the toilet, you don’t have to preregister. Fully agree with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci: I don’t see what people find so hard about this.

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 5mo ago

For example, it is absolutely possible to consider transparency the default while allowing for exceptions in specific circumstances. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The last year has been an extraordinary journey for us at @elife.bsky.social as we have been establishing a new model of publishing and taken on some of the commercial forces in publishing. We have tried to capture some of the takeaways in this editorial.

eLife@elife.bsky.social · 5mo ago

2/ Alongside today's blog, eLife Editor-in-Chief, Timothy Behrens and Deputy Editors Yamini Dalal and Diane Harper assess the past three years and outline some of the changes that will be made over the course of 2026. buff.ly/O5IFD7j

My 2-year-old said "suncream makes us warm", and boy was he unprepared for the inevitable stats lesson.

Looking forward to presenting our research on digital technology use and wellbeing at this session today, free to attend if you're in Cambridge! www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/lonel... @promiseproject.bsky.social

Pupil Labs postet a neat summary of our mobile #eye-tracking study on how people look at #insect #snacks in their blog: Pupil Labs blog: pupil-labs.com/blog/bugs-at... @dalmaijer.bsky.social's summary: www.dalmaijer.org/2025/12/fora... Puplication: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... OSF project: osf.io/t4azu/

Bugs at the Buffet: Do We Stare at What Disgusts Us? - Pupil Labs

Bugs at the Buffet: Do We Stare at What Disgusts Us? - In Western societies, many people are unfamiliar with insect-based foods and reject them, despite their promise as a sustainable alternative to c...

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I bet this has that marbly thock.

This was a fun and humbling experience. I was smug initially, before close-reading the rules and finding no contemporary data was allowed! MUCH harder to predict depression onsets with only 3+ month old data... I combined p-hacking, naive Bayes, and Kohonen maps; but doubt it’ll be good enough.

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We extended the deadline of our machine learning competition by a few weeks until mid March! Still time to participate. We currently have 233 participants with 111 total submissions (some of them will be test submissions etc).