Julia Haaf
@juliaha.bsky.social
Professor of Psych Methods, Evaluation and Statistics at the University of Potsdam. Bayesian modeling, experimental psychology, and cats. But mainly cats. She/her.
Finding the lightest corner of the room to highlight our six WoMP-PRIME Travel & Networking Award winners. Congratulations! @mathpsych.org
Aline Bompas@alinebompas.bsky.social · 3w agoCongrats to our women of mathpsych and minority bursary laureates at mathpsych / ICCM conference !
Ok, problem two here, identify by McElreath is that correlations for assessing predictions is just kind of insane(?), no idea how that made it to print or even past the design phase. There's a pretty rich literature on evaluating predictions of models... bsky.app/profile/rmce...
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 4w agoThe quoted paper does find that by RMSE, the predictions are bad. That's not the title though. And all the figures use correlation. There's just no context in which assessing predictions by correlation makes sense.
Real full-circle moment loading- First semester of college I took "Introduction to the mind-brain: psychological, biological, & philosophical perspectives" & fell in love w cognitive psychology. I vividly remember learning about PDP connectionist models & thinking that they were so freaking cool 1/
We are currently expanding our Attentional Control Data Collection with new data sets. If you have a (public) data set with an attentional control manipulation (such as Stroop, flanker, Simon, negative priming, etc.), then please add! More info here: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/psych-met...
Attentional Control Data Collection
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This is...breathtakingly xenophobic. "NIH officials are telling grantees...to remove papers that name co-authors affiliated with foreign institutions if NIH had not previously approved a foreign component for the grant." www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
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I only found this series now, but it's a fascinating read! 🤓📖
Bissiges Mäuschen 🐭@bmauschen.bsky.social · 2y agoWith the new US administration demonizing diversity, equity and inclusion ( #DEI ) as a major enemy of their barbaric agenda and several institutions spinelessly removing information on female, black, queer and other scientists already, it is up to us science communicators to give those crucial >
This short read by my lab member Nicole Cruz is very much worth reading! Check it out!
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3mo agoNow reading 📖 Cruz, Nicole (2026). Illusions of Understanding from Outsourcing Thinking to LLMs. Computational Brain & Behavior doi.org/10.1007/s421... 1/🧵
Way too perfect metaphor for our times. Including the fact that it's all televised.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo agoA skydiver descending into Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium during a football game hit an electronic scoreboard and became entangled.
Fun new (to me) guessing game. Good addition to the nyt games. metazooa.com?utm_source=m...
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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When you let your kids decide the holiday menu. ("It should have a sad nose, not a happy nose!") 🐛
One of the parenting skills I am completely lacking is the ability to walk slowly.
a judge is sitting at a table in a courtroom pointing at someone .
Alt: a judge is sitting impatiently at a table in a courtroom pointing at her watch.
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So this! What drives me nuts is the stupid Christmas gnome stuff, a current German millennial parents thing. And now there are Easter gnomes. It is pure evil.
Josh Grubbs@joshuagrubbsphd.com · 5mo ago“I am begging other parents to fucking cool it” is a mantra in the age of millennial parents
Our lab is currently at #teap2026 in Tübingen, Germany (say hi if you are there!). Yesterday I had a full day of excellent vision, illusion and psychophysics talks (including some magic ✨). Let's see what today brings.
Only two days left to submit your abstract for this year's @mathpsych.org meeting. Some things to consider: 1. The conference is in Canada. 2. If you cannot attend in person, there is a virtual track. Consider submitting there! You can pick the track during the submission process. See you there!
Aline Bompas@alinebompas.bsky.social · 7mo agoAbstract submission are open for the MathPsych/ICCM 2026 conference in Montreal July 17 to 21, 2026 mathpsych.org/conference/23/ The submission deadline is February 28!
I want to be this person at *every* conference. Would be the most (and least) popular person. 🥱
Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 6mo agoSpeeches can not be too long- every year an 8 year girl has the task of shouting ‘Please stop, I’m bored’ until the speaker stops talking. @aaas.org #AAASmtg
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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If you are a PhD student in cognitive science, psychology or linguistics, come visit us in Potsdam! We have short fellowships available for this year (deadline is in two weeks). Shoot me an email if you are interested. Here is the call: linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...
LINGUIST List 36.3850 Internships: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: 3- to 4-month Fellowships at the University of Potsdam, CRC1287 L...
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
First time ever that I understood the utility of a video abstract. Check out Veronika! 🐮
Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró)@biotay.bsky.social · 7mo agoCow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
I have been a part of five psychology/public health departments over the years. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself — when I was really struggling and unhappy and felt like I didn’t belong in the field at all — how different your social experience can be from institution to institution.
In Sydney ist es am Sonntag zu einem Terroranschlag auf eine Chanukah-Feier in Bondi Beach gekommen. Rund 2.000 Menschen hatten sich am Strand zu einem fröhlichen Fest versammelt, um die erste Kerze des Chanukah-Leuchters zu entzünden. www.deutschlandfunk.de/zahl-der-tod...
Nach Anschlag am Bondi Beach - Zahl der Todesopfer in Sydney auf 15 gestiegen - Regierung will Waffenrecht verschärfen
Die Zahl der Todesopfer des antisemitischen Terroranschlags in Sydney ist auf 15 gestiegen. Sie sind zwischen 10 und 87 Jahre alt. Etwa 40 Verletzte würden im Krankenhaus behandelt, teilte die austral...
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I am so glad to live this close to Berlin sometimes: bmm-charite.de/en/exhibitio...
SLIME | Exhibitions | bmm – Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité
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