Major paper out: A heroic* demonstration that even acute stress increases drug intake in healthy people *4-session 2x2 RCT with ~4 oxycodone injections in 66 volunteers - with repeated blinded 2-panel stress/control inductions (ReSST) 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Effects of psychosocial stress on opioid self-administration in healthy participants: a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial - Nature Mental Health

In this triple-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial, Eikemo et al. tested whether acute psychosocial stress increases opioid self-administration using controlled stress induction, oxy...

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1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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Developmental psychopathology friends: I'm taking over and totally revamping our course for Spring – help me build a kick-ass reading list - what are your favorite recent review/perspectives articles? Self-promotions welcome! 🙏

Puzzled that an #lme4 model that didn't converge before now reported no issues, I found that as of lme4 1.1-38, "derivative-based convergence checks are now skipped for models with large data". I can't find any more information - what's best practice here? Assume the model is "fine"? 1/3 #rstats

Postdocs die nu al vervangen worden door Claude, wetenschap die afhankelijk wordt van dure tokens en universiteiten die leunen op commerciële AI-modellen buiten Europa. In het STOA-panel van het Europees Parlement werd duidelijk hoe snel generatieve AI de wetenschap binnendringt.

‘Betrouwbaar onderzoek dreigt luxegoed te worden nu Claude al postdocs vervangt’  - ScienceGuide

Bij een discussie in het Europees Parlement werd duidelijk hoe snel generatieve AI de wetenschap binnendringt.

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I am looking for a theory/computational POSTDOC position in EU or east coast US. I am interested in how learning and plasticity shape population dynamics & representational geometries & how these changes are reflected in behavior. If you are at #COSYNE2026 & interested, hit me up in Whova, not here

Unsurprising but still big: MTurk is on its way out, killed by AI. Mechanical Turk was a mainstay of social & survey research through the 2010s, as it allowed you to quickly buy access to many representative humans. It was pretty good at it, until LLMs came along and everyone started using AI

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 · 2mo 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!

New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...

Funny, but... also not.

Veep: Nervous Laughter Reaction

ALT: Veep: Nervous Laughter Reaction

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Dr Michele V@micheleveldsman.bsky.social · last mo.

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

I talk about the research on when AI undermines, versus supporting, thinking and learning here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-t...

Choosing to Stay Human

If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:

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#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky Since there is no polling option here (👀 @bsky.app ) How many of u were aware that while PsyArXiv is (& always will be) free to end users, @improvingpsych.org incurs annual costs for the technology that hosts the service, including user technical support and DOI minting?

Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!

—— 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

📢 Want to get involved in ESCAN? Applications are now open for the ESCAN Junior Committee. If you are an ESCAN Student/Junior Member (Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD student), consider applying to help organize activities and represent junior researchers within the society.

📢 ESCAN Full Members (postdocs and beyond),with diverse backgrounds and experiences, can also nominate themselves—or be nominated—for the ESCAN Board. 📅 Deadline: July 30, 2026 📧 escan@escaneurosci.eu #ESCAN2026 #SocialNeuroscience #AffectiveNeuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience

✨ ESCAN 2026 in Rome welcomed an amazing 950 participants! And, of course, one global group photo for research, in front of the ESCAN 2026 venue at Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Economics. #ESCAN2026 #SocialNeuroscience #AffectiveNeuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience

Jin Yan just presented cool preliminary fMRI findings of our new Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task #escan2026. Tomorrow Liwen Meng presents how exposure to virtual nature alters stress responses to this task Check out Poster 2-111

Have you thought of using unchained pupillometry to infer effort/arousal with _uncontrolled_ visual stimulation? Sounds crazy? @yuqingc.bsky.social shows that convolutional modeling of pupil responses with gaze-contingent luminance changes finally allows just that! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧠 ESCAN 2026 begins this week in Rome! June 3–6: almost 900 researchers gather at Sapienza University of Rome for the 8th ESCAN Meeting. Highlights: 🔹 Keynotes: Tallon-Baudry, Sandi & Knapska 🔹 Pre-conference events 🔹 General Assembly 🔹 750+ contributions escan2026.eu #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience

Home - ESCAN 2026

ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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“MRI scans of the marathon runners’ brains showed that myelin content was reduced in several white-matter tracts immediately after the race; two months later, myelin levels had recovered to baseline levels.”

Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠@nataliepeluso.com · 2mo ago

"Structure and metabolism should no longer sit in separate boxes. The brain’s wiring could also be part of its fuel strategy. Myelin may be more than insulation; it may also form part of the brain’s adaptive metabolic infrastructure." 🧠👇 #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/metabolism/b...

1/ New paper alert! Stress often builds over time, but many scientific studies treat it as just an on/off thing. In this paper, we introduce the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST): a new paradigm for inducing graded, mild-to-moderate stress in the lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task: A tool to reveal physiological dynamics using graded stress induction

Stress evokes a complex repertoire of psychological and physiological responses. This paper introduces the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST), a pa…

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1️⃣ week left before ESCAN conference in Rome!!! Are you excited? Can’t wait to see you soon! 😎 #neuroscience #escan #socialneuroscience #affectiveneuroscience #cognitiveneuroscience

Reviewing a paper, and it is so nice that the Metacheck R package we made allows me to download all OSF Files by just typing: metacheck::osf_file_download("2w123") (not the actual repo). All files are downloaded, maintaining the folder structure, without any hassle.

Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/

I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

ESCAN is now a @fens.org member society. ✔️ ESCAN members → automatic FENS membership ✔️ No extra fee ✔️ Access to grants, discounts & networking More: www.fens.org/membership/y...

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ernstige vertaalfouten in 'Onze man bij de vijand': Thomas Erdbrink stelt kritische vragen over de Russische oorlog tegen 🇺🇦 aan de nabestaanden van een dode soldaat, maar die worden door de tolk als mededelingen vertaald. Daardoor is het alsof ze niet willen antwoorden. 🧵1/9

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😐

Why you should be very careful installing packages from Github: github.com/BerriAI/lite...

[Security]: CRITICAL: Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 — credential stealer · Issue #24512 · BerriAI/litellm

[Security]: CRITICAL: Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 PyPI package — credential stealer Summary The litellm==1.82.8 wheel package on PyPI contains a malicious .pth file (litellm_init.p...

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