saying you’ll stand up for attacks on science in the US while honouring the person responsible for the attacks is like handing out bandages to people who are being savaged by your pet dog, while doing nothing to restrain him

Dennis Hansen@dennish.bsky.social · last yr.

Abandoning everything you stood for, just to not make fascist billionaires and anti-science crusaders uncomfortable - well done, @royalsociety.org - it takes talent to be SO utterly pathetic and cowardly. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

tal boger@talboger.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge. Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

This is shocking behaviour by Wiley; the stated justification does not stand up. I will not be doing any peer review for Wiley journals in future.

Peer Community in Registered Reports@pci-regreports.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility. Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Well, it's a while since I gave these talks, but i'm pleased that UKRN has now got them up online with a DOI: Productivity and reproducibility: conflicting pressures on scientists? 10.52843/cassyni.504m8k How current research practices are damaging science: 10.52843/cassyni.dwp8lw Enjoy!

If only a handful of Republicans in the Senate had the decency to caucus with Democrats and end this madness, not because they agree with capital D Democrats but because they valued lower case d democracy. The fact that this is so implausible is capital D Depressing.

New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...

Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia

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Harvard sued the Trump admin today 💪🏽🥳💯 www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Today is the centenary of the birth of composer, conductor, writer, musical life creator Pierre Boulez (1925-2016). Here some essentials to get to know the man and his fascinating music

Royal Society honours pioneering scientists who were first female members @royalsociety.org www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Royal Society honours pioneering scientists who were first female members

A year-long series of events marks 80 years since admission of Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale in 1945

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Exciting new study uncovering a genetic link between sensory sensitivity and #autism via #alexithymia doi.org/10.1038/s413... by Yorke et al. @proffrancescahappe.bsky.social and Geoff Bird

Alexithymia may explain the genetic relationship between autism and sensory sensitivity - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Alexithymia may explain the genetic relationship between autism and sensory sensitivity

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Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam! Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck. More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!

Vacancy — Postdoc Investigating Human Sources of Bias in AI Face Classification Models

How are human ideologies and prejudices amplified by AI models? How do human biases get into AI model training data? And how does the output of such models influence the decisions and behaviors of use...

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New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

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Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence

New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣 In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶‍♀️ upright human form 🚶‍♂️ @dondersinst.bsky.social Open access link www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment

As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…

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Per @statnews.com, a group of researchers has filed a lawsuit against 6 academic publishers, alleging antitrust violations. "The need to confront what has been going on in the scientific publishing area is very overdue," said COS Sr. Director of Research Tim Errington. 🗞️: www.statnews.com/202...

Scientists’ suit against top academic publishers lays bare deep frustration over unpaid peer review

Researchers have sued six big academic publishers, arguing their practices are illegal and anticompetitive.

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong?

Being repeatedly told to bounce back and develop a thicker skin can mask a toxic lab culture.

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My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) www.cambridge.org/de/universit...

"... the best thing to do is to come back to the lab, meet a few times a day in the coffee room, and have all those discussions that we used to have" ☕️ New editorial: The coffee room and the future of perception research By Frans A.J. Verstraten journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The coffee room and the future of perception research - Frans A.J. Verstraten, 2025

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Well! royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

Science under threat | Royal Society

The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science.

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Birkbeck's offering fully-funded PhD studentships as part of its Diversity 100 scheme. If you qualify as a Home student, & come from an ethnic background that's underrepresented in academia, you're eligible! If that sounds like you, and you'd like to discuss PhDs in my lab, please do get in touch.

Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...

Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds

About 20,000 of the most cited researchers have 'implausibly high' publication and new co-author rates

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Research assistant position at UCL, contributing to study of the neural substrates of visual perception with 7T fMRI and MEG www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... via @peterkok.bsky.social @jhaarsma.bsky.social

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Paper🚨 "Objects, Faces, and Spaces: Organizational Principles of Visual Object Perception as Evidenced by Individual Differences in Behavior" by @heidasigurdar.bsky.social & @ingamariao.bsky.social JEP:G editor's choice ->free to read psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #visionscience #psychscisky 🧵1/13

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...