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Zurich Cognition Lab@cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 2d ago

Open Postdoc (80%) in our Lab @uzh-ch.bsky.social (PI: Klaus Oberauer) Topics are: Working memory, long-term memory, attention; experiments, individual differences, computational modeling. Start Dec 2026 to Feb 2027, until June 2030. Apply by Oct 15; Questions to: k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

Release of CmdStan 2.40, including new Stan Math, core Stan, and Stanc, is now available! Blog post with new features blog.mc-stan.org/2026/09/16/r... Highlights - integrate_1d_double_exponential, a variadic version of old integrate_1d - integrate_1d_gauss_kronrod, a different quadrature rule ...

Release of CmdStan 2.40

We are very happy to announce that the 2.40.0 release of CmdStan is now available on Github! As usual, the release of CmdStan is accompanied by new releases of Stan Math, core Stan, and Stanc3. Thi…

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TeaP 2027 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen /Conference of experimental psychologists) Mannheim, Germany 21-24 March 2027 Contributions welcome from all topics in Experimental Psychology and neighbouring fields using the experimental method.

TeaP 2027

Die Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen findet vom 21. - 24. März 2027 an der Universität in Mannheim statt

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We're so very proud of this! Not much of the journal metrics per se (they don't always reflect well what they're supposed to measure...), but of the fact that we offer a reputable outlet for strong cognitive science outside of commercial logics. Send us your best papers, folks!

Gidon Frischkorn@gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is great to see! Also that @jcgntn.bsky.social has gained a good spot among these outlets. Obviously, I am not impartial (being AE at JoC), but it is great to see that non-profit journals that are backed by scientific societies & focused on serving the scientific community are faring well!

This is great to see! Also that @jcgntn.bsky.social has gained a good spot among these outlets. Obviously, I am not impartial (being AE at JoC), but it is great to see that non-profit journals that are backed by scientific societies & focused on serving the scientific community are faring well!

—— 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

—— 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

📣 Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity – ADHD, Working Memory & Learning I am recruiting a postdoc to join my research group at Queen Mary, London on a newly funded MRC New Investigator Grant. ⏱️Deadline: 2 July 2026 🗓️ Start date: 1 October 2026 Apply here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

New Publication Alert! 🚨 Along with @koberauer.bsky.social and @agnesrosner.bsky.social we investigated if eye movements are functional for memory retrieval in an associative recognition task and largely found evidence against it. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.3... #workingmemory

90% of my stats advice in a nutshell: - don’t do it - use a simpler model - stratify - it’s about 10%

Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu

A new #bmm release is available on #CRAN. With this version, #bmm now covers basic response time models. This release contains three new models plus several usability features. Here's what's in it 🧵 venpopov.com/bmm/ #rstats #bayes #openscience

Easy and Accessible Bayesian Measurement Models Using brms

Fit computational and measurement models using full Bayesian inference. The package provides a simple and accessible interface by translating complex domain-specific models into brms syntax, a powerfu...

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It was AWESOME to see lots of EXCITING WM research spearheaded by early career researchers at @vssmtg.bsky.social!!! WMS community would LOVE to see your cool research in a form of talks and blitz! Abstract deadline is May 31st! (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...)

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@wmsymposium.bsky.social 📢 📢 📢 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS OPEN 📢 📢 📢 The #workingmemory Symposium will be held online July 14-17, 2026. 🥳 🎤🎤🎤Talks will be either a standard 12-minute length (with 3 minutes for Q&A), or a 3-minute data "blitz" style presentation. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

WMS 2026 Abstract Submission Form

The Working Memory Symposium (WMS) is a virtual conference promoting scientific discourse on working memory for researchers using any model system, targeting any population, and using any research met...

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If you have benefited from Stan, you can contribute back to the project also by nominating yourself to be part of Stan Governing Body (you don't need to be a developer) discourse.mc-stan.org/t/elections-...

Elections for Stan Governing Body 2026

We’re renewing the Stan Governing Body (SGB) with 2 seats up for grabs (I’m continuing my 2-year term). Current SGB members may still run, however they are not guaranteed to preserve their seats. As i...

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Abstract submission for WMS2026 (July 14th-17th) is now open! If you are an early career researcher of working memory, please let us hear about your cool work by submitting your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...). Deadline is May 31st.

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BOLD is not a simple monotonic readout of local firing. Instead, it reflects the net activity of two opposing neural populations. Interpreting it may require modeling their latent composition, not just overall activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations - Nature

Combined functional ultrasound imaging and Neuropixels recording of mouse brains identify two neuronal populations with opposing arousal-related activity and distinct haemodynamic response functi...

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New paper out 🧠 We synthesize findings from aging, ADHD, dyslexia & OCD and propose that event segmentation emerges from the interaction of attention, working memory, and schemas/contextual modulation. Curious to hear your thoughts! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The mosaic of experience: How individual differences in attention and working memory shape event segmentation - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Episodic memories, although experienced as continuous, are structured into discrete events, a process supported by working memory (WM) and attentional control. Yet, the causal contributions of these m...

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I wrote up something that's been in my head for a while: psychometric methods alone can't tell us what cognitive tasks and their indicators measure. Correlating indicators across tasks is circular when constructs are defined by those same correlations. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/3

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

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📢 PhD position in the @cognition-zurich.bsky.social at University of Zurich I’ve been part of the lab for 7+ years, and it’s a genuinely collaborative and supportive place to grow as a researcher and do research on working memory and cognition 👇

Zurich Cognition Lab@cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here: www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...

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😐

New preprint with @chenyuli.bsky.social! We wrote a hands-on tutorial for applying the Memory Measurement Model (M3) to categorical recall data using the #bmm R package. It contains four examples, complete R scripts, and a parameter recovery workflow. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very happy to share that the first project of my PhD journey has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience 👩🏼‍🔬 Give it a read 📖 and let me know what you think! direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

The latent organization of white matter microstructure and its relation to fluid intelligence

Abstract. White matter microstructure is a candidate neurobiological substrate underlying individual differences in fluid intelligence, potentially through differences in neural information transfer. ...

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Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Henrike M. Jungeblut, Anna-Lena Schubert, et al: The latent organization of white matter microstructure and its relation to fluid intelligence doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Just a few more days left to apply! Come join our lab!🥳

Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab@womcogdevlab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are looking for a new colleague!🧠🇨🇭🦩 A new post doc position is available in our lab - check the link for more details! www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

@philippmusfeld.bsky.social , @joschadutli.bsky.social, @koberauer.bsky.social and I wrote up the result of three years of in lab discussions on setting priors in GLMs. Hope some of you find the proposed workflow and our recommendations helpful! #bayes #glm #brms #rstats

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 7mo ago

How to Set Priors for Hypothesis Testing in Generalized Linear Models: A Three-Step Workflow with an Application to Binomial Models: https://osf.io/q7byw

We Are R-Ladies 200+ chapters. 60+ countries. 100,000+ members. Since 2012, we've been promoting gender diversity in the R community — building a global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers. This is who we are. rladies.org #RLadiesIWD2026 #IWD2026

We are looking for a new colleague!🧠🇨🇭🦩 A new post doc position is available in our lab - check the link for more details! www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

Can We Process Information Without Encoding It into Working Memory? Our findings with @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social suggest that processing entails encoding. Task-irrelevant information enters working memory during processing, impairing memory for relevant information.