Rolf Zwaan is starting a new podcast 'As it Happens', following a large-scale psychology research project, where labs around the world collaborate to study human memory. (I am one of the collaborators). The first episode is out! shows.acast.com/research-as-...

Research as it Happens

Listen to episodes and learn more about Research as it Happens. What does science look like while it’s still unfolding?In Research as it Happens, we go inside a large-scale psychology project, where…

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Here is why I have started a podcast that takes us inside big team science. open.substack.com/pub/rolfzwaa...

Research as it Happens — A New Podcast

A behind-the-scenes look at a large-scale research project in psychology

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Music Ensemble: a large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians | Scientific Data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sometimes I remember that I have a bluesky account ;) I'm very happy to share our last paper, investigating how cognitive skills relate to different levels of musical expertise: url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

Musical expertise and cognitive abilities: no advantage for professionals over amateurs

Abstract. Cognitive advantages in musicians are often attributed to far transfer from music training. If this causal interpretation is correct, greater mus

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Learning to play a musical instrument is often assumed to improve brain functioning & cognition. To test this, a new #RSOS study compared non-musicians, amateur & professional #musicians: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @francescatalamini.bsky.social @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

New version of tenzing, with support for acknowledgments sections, is now live at tenzing.club. Please try to break it, @martonkovacs.bsky.social has already fixed all the errors I found!

Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Non-musicians? Anne-Caclin, Ragnya-Norasoa Souffiane, et Marie-Elisabeth Plasse from the PAM team contributed to this multilab study ! @francescatalamini.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

Francesca Talamini@francescatalamini.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables! A big thank you to all collaborators! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm reading an old, classic psychoacoustic experiment (N=3). It is written by 3 authors, and 2 are also subjects. In the procedure authors write: "Subjects [...] were encouraged to "bracket" the match before making the final adjustment". I'm wondering how authors were encouraging themselves.

Check out this really cool multilab project about the difference in short-term memory between musicians and non-musicians! By @masssimo006.bsky.social, @francescatalamini.bsky.social, and researchers from 33 institutions around the world.

Francesca Talamini@francescatalamini.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables! A big thank you to all collaborators! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fantastic display of collaboration in #musicpsych!!

Massimo Grassi@masssimo006.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Finally out! Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables! A big thank you to all collaborators! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...

Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...

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Finally out! Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.

Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...

Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...

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@martonkovacs.bsky.social is beavering away implementing something new for tenzing.club. We hope to make it easier for you to manage your collaborators, by also providing for acknowledgees (people you acknowledge but who aren't co-authors)!

Does this happen in your country (Italy here)? Do you receive communications from the head of the university that include sentences such as "working actively for the continuous improvement of" teaching, research or dissemination. Which is usually translated into a set of nonsense numerical indexes?

Updating my LEGO White House

😃 to share this new @plos.org Medicine 📄 written in collaboration with the super cool @kahin-tai.bsky.social (from the super cool @sharectd.bsky.social doctoral network), Gérard Legoff, @annelelouarn.bsky.social & @synthymama.bsky.social.

Have a paper ready for peer review? Consider sending it to PCI Psychology! We are a preprint recommendation platform and recommended papers can be easily submitted to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals! See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub

The paper mill probably forgot to include several sections in the paper, including the data and results. The Methods section mentions a survey that is never described in the paper. Immediately after the methods section comes the conclusion. Yet, the paper was still published.

We are back! 🎉 Cognitive Science Arena 2026 📍 Brixen-Bressanone (IT) 📅 February 5–7 📢 Call for papers: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Join Us! After the mighty @michelenuijten.bsky.social , this year’s smart talk will be given by the legendary Open Science black belt: Zoltan Dienes! 🥋 RT RT RT

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Cognitive Science Arena: Brixen-Bressanone (IT), February 5-7 2026 [Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute it widely!] Dear colleague! We are pleased to invite you to the fourteenth edition ...

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A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

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Little stat I update every now and then (source Scopus). In psychology only we published 33575 papers about COVID-19. I think it is about time we begin to read these papers.

My cat has a rather peculiar habit. He pees in his litter box and then cleans the area outside it. I have to admit, his method is surprisingly efficient. He cleans so well that I’ve never found the slightest trace of pee outside the box

You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.

For those working with headphones and that need precise intensity level. Calibrate your equipment often, and replace it regularly! I just measured the output of the headphones of the lab and... well, I'm buying a new pair of headphones 😬

A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:

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The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In

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One small step and it is done. Just one more small step. What a journey!

G*Power. Unbelievable. Every time I read a power analysis calculated with G*Power, no matter the input values, the output is invariably N=24. Is that software calculating anything or is just returning a fixed output?