I think there is not better resource out there to educate people about the misconception that there is no effect when p>. 05 then my textbook. The chapter on equivalence testing, lakens.github.io/statistical_... And if needed, chapter 1 on p-values, and perhaps even the section on bayes factors.

Alex Holcombe@alexh.bsky.social · 2d ago

What explainer/resource do you direct researchers to when they conclude the null hypothesis is true on the basis of not rejecting it? It ought to mention that possible solutions include equivalence testing (or just interpreting the confidence interval) and Bayes factors. Maybe just "ask AI".

ESCIMate (escimate.app) is a small side project I've been working and has grown to something quite useful. Check it out, let me know if you have feedback. ESCIMate builds on idea of Statcheck, but goes further to calculate and check effect sizes and confidence intervals, and their many variants.

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · 2d ago

Congratulations to the project “ESCIMate website and ESCIcheck R package,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! ESCIMate is a tool that checks whether a paper's reported statistics are internally consistent, helping to surface errors and supporting the credibility of the reported evidence.

Do individuals show stable differences in how they learn and express habits? Yes! If you want to know more, read the shiny new preprint from the amazing @martinezlopezp.bsky.social

Pablo Martínez-López@martinezlopezp.bsky.social · 2d ago

Overreliance on habits is linked to maladaptive behaviors & clinical conditions. But are some people more habit-prone than others? Here, we tested the temporal stability of individual differences in both habit learning & expression. Our data suggest trait-like tendencies! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Overreliance on habits is linked to maladaptive behaviors & clinical conditions. But are some people more habit-prone than others? Here, we tested the temporal stability of individual differences in both habit learning & expression. Our data suggest trait-like tendencies! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

Have you built an LLM-based research tool and had to stumble your way through figuring out how to validate it? Me too! So I wrote a guide on how to systematically approach this. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This paper is now out in @pnas.org : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Long-horizon associative learning as a unifying framework for statistical learning across scales | PNAS

Sensory inputs are rich with temporal patterns that unfold across multiple timescales. Uncovering these regularities is essential for anticipating ...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

A proposal for unifying statistical learning at different scales: Long-Horizon Associative Learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642610v1

Psychological Science is running a special issue on "Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models", co-edited by me and @ruben.the100.ci. Check out the calls for submissions below! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required. Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026 Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky

🗣️Gran preocupación por el Programa María Goyri tras suspenderse la Conferencia de Política Universitaria ❗En el aire la transferencia de 150 mill en 2026 a las CCAA para financiar 5.600 plazas de profesorado ayudante doctor a las universidades públicas 👇 www.crue.org/2026/07/comu... #LOSU #MICIU

Comunicado sobre el bloqueo del Programa María Goyri - CRUE

Madrid, 31 de julio de 2026. Desde la Conferencia de Rectores y Rectoras de las Universidades Españolas (CRUE) queremos expresar nuestra gran preocupación por la incertidumbre innecesariamente generad...

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How does the brain represent the value of knowledge? In our paper--out now at Nature Neuroscience--we identify a representation of intrinsic information value within neural population structures in the orbitofrontal cortex in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02377-y #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 (1/8)

Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...

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Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"If I publish something in a journal with an IF = 10, it gets more citations than if I publish it in a journal with IF = 5. Right?" With the serious game CITED_, you can explore this relationship for your own works: t1p.de/cited

New paper alert! In this paper we were interested to formally test some of the assumptions made by computational psychiatrists - assumptions about parameter recoverability, reliability and validity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms - Volume 56

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Goal-directed action selection relies on conjunctive representations that bind goals, actions and expected sensory outcomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.24.740508v1

1/5 Over a decade of comparing deep neural networks to the human brain—but what have we actually learned? Our new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Feature Review synthesizes a decade of brain–DNN comparisons, asking what they reveal about brain function across vision and language.

Twelve quick tips for AI-assisted coding in science journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... - our latest by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social with @thisisadax.bsky.social , Zijiao Chen, Zhicheng Lin, @hritz.bsky.social and @joachim.cidlab.com

Twelve quick tips for AI-assisted coding in science

While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...

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The brain uses a fixed set of building blocks and flexibly recombines them, allowing adapting to new tasks. Learning stabilizes temporal activity but not neuronal selectivity in prefrontal cortex doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroscience

Learning stabilizes temporal activity but not neuronal selectivity in prefrontal cortex

Intelligent behavior requires neural representations to change with new demands while preserving learned structure. The prefrontal cortex is central to this ability, but the mechanisms are unclear. Here, we tracked medial prefrontal neurons for months as mice learned an association task with successive rule switches. Learning progressively stabilized when individual neurons were active during a trial, but not what task variables they responded to. Neurons repeatedly gained, lost, or changed selectivity even after their activity profile had stabilized. We developed Sparse Tensor Component Analysis to show that, rather than reflecting random drift, dynamic single-neuron selectivity arose through rule-dependent recombination of a fixed set of task representations. Thus, learning established a stable temporal scaffold in the prefrontal cortex within which neurons participated flexibly in different representations. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. European Research Council, https://ror.org/0472cxd90, 758032 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, https://ror.org/018mejw64, JA 1999/6-1, JA 1999/8-1 ONE Munich Strategy Forum, N/A

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Response duration tracking is now an option in jsPsych 8.3.0. Decide whether to trigger responses on key press (current default) or wait for key release to get both initial response time and response duration. We handle edge cases like multiple keys being pressed and tabbing away from the browser.

Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone.bsky.social · 3w ago

out today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“In our most detailed model, judge-level effects explained 61% of the total variance, whereas combined paper and journal-level effects accounted for only 7%.”

Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Here we show, in a large post-publication peer review database, that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research. " arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783

Excited to see this paper on learning about how to learn out in eLIFE, spearheaded by Jonas Simoens and the team from Ghent incl @sebraem.bsky.social @pieterverbeke.bsky.social and Tom Verguts)

Ghent Center for Cognitive Neuroscience@ghentccn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Excited to finally share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com: Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval www.nature.com/articles/s41... With @s-michelmann.bsky.social and @doellerlab.bsky.social

Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval - Nature Communications

How past experiences are reconstructed from memory remains unclear. Here the authors used intracranial EEG to show that hippocampal ripples reshape the geometry of cortical representations, supporting...

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Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr

Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions

Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...

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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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New registered report out in #Cortex, after exceptional handling from @pci-regreports.bsky.social! We introduce an instrumental conditioning (IC) task based on artificial grammars, and find nonconscious contributions to IC @andrei-preda.bsky.social @linaskora.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Very proud of SIPS commendation to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social 's paper with guidelines and recommendations to ECRs running their first manylabs study.

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · 2w ago

🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd

📌 Introducing the Metascience Bulletin Board—a new community resource from the Metascience Alliance. Share funding opportunities, job openings, calls for collaborators, events, and more with the broader metascience community beyond your existing network. Learn more:

Introducing the Metascience Bulletin Board

The Metascience Alliance's new tool, the Metascience Bulletin Board, is a shared place to post funding calls, datasets, jobs, calls for collaborators, and more.

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The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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