I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

It’s official! 🎓 My PhD - The effects of computational resource requirements and cognitive capacities on human decision-making - has finally been conferred 😁.

Recently, I got quite frustrated listening to a large group of economists discussing preregistration and pre analysis plans. So, I've channelled that into an argument for why they should be preregistering their work whenever performing confirmatory research kdoroc.substack.com/p/arguing-wi...

Arguing with economists: the case for preregistration

At a recent economics conference there was a long discussion on preregistration where we heard questions and comments from ~20 different people at varying levels of seniority.

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End of an era! 🤠🌅 Last week I gave what will likely be my final PhD presentations at the regional meetings of the Society for Experimental Finance & the Economic Science Association. The notorious "economist Q&A" rumors were greatly exaggerated—everyone was lovely! 🧵👇

Today, public school teachers in Victoria are going on strike 🎳⚾🎳. Here's what you need to know 👇📜

Chronic stress is a modern health epidemic that shortens lives, lowers quality of life, and costs billions. We thought it would break our ability to make good decisions. We were wrong. 📉🧠 New preprint on stress and decision-making under varying computational demands. 🧵👇 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Indiana Jones' tour of the Healthy Cognitive Ageing speaking circuit continued in Singapore last week at the Australasian Mathematical Psychology Conference 🤠🇸🇬 I spoke about decision-making with healthy ageing under varying computational demands + snagged an award for Best Student Talk 🏆🧵👇

Excited to see our research on stress and decision-making featured in Pursuit today 😁 It's great to see these findings reaching a wider audience and I hope people find it interesting! Read the full story here: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/str... #DecisionScience #Stress #Psychology #SciComm

Stressed and rushed? Your decisions might suffer

New University of Melbourne research reveals how the combination of stress and time pressure can wreak havoc on our ability to make good choices

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of... Cognitive Ageing? 🤠🧠 Wrapping up a big month at #ACNS2025! I presented my work on how healthy ageing impacts decision-making capacity. 📄 Read the full preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... A few highlights from the conference below👇

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Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 8mo ago

This study finds that acute stress has a limited effect on decision-making, irrespective of the decision’s complexity. However, on decisions with experienced time pressure, acute stress reduced decision quality. @karlodoroc.bsky.social @carstenmurawski.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🚨 New in Communications Psychology: we investigate the causal link between acute stress and higher-order decision-making. Using a task with multiple levels of complexity, we find stress impairs decision quality—but not in the way you might think. 📜 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Acute stress impairs decision-making at varying levels of decision complexity - Communications Psychology

This study finds that acute stress alone has a surprisingly limited effect on decision-making, irrespective of the decision’s complexity. However, on decisions with experienced time pressure, acute st...

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Philosophy meets Psychology. 🧠💭 Last week I was at #ASPP2025 presenting my work on how perceived chronic stress impacts decision-making. It was a fascinating few days of interdisciplinary ideas. A few highlights from the conference 👇

It’s been a massive month! 🌪️ Two weeks ago, I spoke at the Monash Business Behavioural Lab (MBBL) Symposium on judgment & decision-making in virtual/physical worlds. Huge thanks to Kristian Rotaru for pulling together such a stellar lineup, brief thread below 🧠👇

I need to stop drinking for health reasons. Will be transitioning from vodka to water. Via whiskey. Should be complete by 2070.

Someone tell the Albanese govt

Parents for Climate@parentsforclimate.bsky.social · last yr.

Here it is, finally. The truth. In a landmark #greenwashing legal case brought by @parentsforclimate.bsky.social, #EnergyAustralia has publicly acknowledged that offsets do not undo the harms of burning fossil fuels & apologised to more than 400,000 customers of its carbon #offsetting product

NEW paper! 💭🖥️ “Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?” — Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Here is a clip of the student's speech.

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · last yr.

NYU conditioned a student's right to speak at graduation on his agreement not to call attention to human rights abuses. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

“Instead of spending millions of dollars competing with one another using advertising campaigns that no longer work, universities could improve their reputations by investing properly in staff and lifting the quality of their courses." Hard agree from me

The Australia Institute@australiainstitute.org.au · last yr.

Australia’s universities spend hundreds of millions of dollars on travel, marketing and consultants, while cutting costs, staff and courses, according to new research by The Australia Institute's @joshuablackjb.bsky.social. Read:

Congratulations @olivia.science 🎊 🎉 So deserved. Thank you for all you do for the students and our education program. We are so lucky to have you working with us at the School of AI and @dondersinst.bsky.social !

Computational Cognitive Science@compcogsci.bsky.social · last yr.

We are proud and happy to announce that our very own @olivia.science won the university-level Talent Award for her innovative and inclusive teaching. www.ru.nl/en/staff/new...

Gave a talk to our PhD students today, and feeling appreciative of all the recent methods work on improving common practices. Thanks to all the authors who work to make their work accessible, especially on social media. A few articles we discussed:

Happy new year! Look what we found in the mailbox today. Here’s to all new milestones in 2025 🥂