Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the balletic poise, calm elegance and graceful athleticism of the panda.

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

I've also found this shinyapp tool to be useful as a reference checker in manuscript reviewing: drkap.shinyapps.io/APA_Cheat_Ca...

JsonGeller@jgeller1phd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Going to start using www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/ in all reviews

I found the latest @quantitude.bsky.social episode insightful! If you (like me) love philosophy of science, this episode is a great refresher of some of the greatest theretical perspectives. You can find the episode here: quantitudepod.org/s7e23-philos...

Insightful: as with anything, enviromental context matters, we should be VERY judicious about the stimuli we exposue ourselves to. . .especially during goal-directed attention!

Marieke van Vugt@mvugt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Interesting discussion of whether attention spans are decreasing. I have trouble with one argument, though: that lab tasks are necessarily a good measure of real-world attention. They are surely less messy, but they may not actually reflect real life www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In a recent episode of The Boys, Soldier Boy made a reference to Kent State. Today is the day in reference. May 4. It was on this day in 1970 that 4 students were killed and 9 injured when the National Guard opened fire on student protesters in Kent OH. Here it is: www.kent.edu/may-4-histor...

URL for IDIC submissions: link.springer.com/journal/44504

Individual Differences in Cognition

Individual Differences in Cognition (IDIC) is an official journal of the Psychonomic Society focusing on empirical, measurement, and statistical-methods ...

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Michael J. Kane@michaeljkane.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please share with colleagues: The new Psychonomics journal, Individual Differences in Cognition, is accepting submissions! Please send us your empirical, measurement, & stats-methods research in all areas of cognition, including lab, daily-life, & applied work. www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...

In undergrad, I thought that TAKING an exam at ~7 A.M. was the worst, but PROCTORING my early morning exam this semester has SWIFTLY updated my belief system.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Celeste Labedz@celestelabedz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

Presenting my research at #Psychonomics is always a great time. This year was no different: great conversations and insightful research presentations, looking forward to next year!

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood

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Collaborate with us!! #workingmemory

Candice Morey@candicemorey.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Call for collaborators! 🧵 The TL;DR: we seek collaborators on a #ManyLabs #RegisteredReport about what causes rapid forgetting. In-principle accepted Stage 1: osf.io/ahjn5 Expressions of interest: cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Further details in the 🧵:

1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

Akira Miyake@amiyake.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Imagine you have Big 5 personality scores from over 300,000 people. You designate the scores in the "mean +/- 0.25 SDs" range for each trait (~20%) as the average range. QUESTION: How many people in this >300K sample do you think fall in the average range for ALL 5 TRAITS? What's your answer?

Excited to share my first publication! TLDR; mind-wandering is contagious & classmate behavior can cause an increase in task-unrelated thoughts! Thank you to my collaborator, @michaeljkane.bsky.social for guidance throughout this project. You can read it here - online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Thank you, Levi!

Congrats to @michaelwmchale.bsky.social on his UNCG MA thesis ms on "attention contagion" being accepted at Collabra (he's now in PhD pgm at Kent State)! TLDR: People watching a online lecture mind-wander more if other visible attendees (confed's) look inattentive. drive.google.com/file/d/1UF2m...

This is now published in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... with @annalschubert.bsky.social, @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social, and Klaus Oberauer

Cognitive models of decision-making with identifiable parameters: Diffusion decision models with within-trial noise

Diffusion Decision Models (DDMs) are a widely used class of models that assume an accumulation of evidence during a quick decision. These models are o…

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Michael D. Nunez@nunezanalyzed.bsky.social · 2y ago

We recently updated our preprint that explains how to deal with unidentifiability constraints when measuring participants' decision-making cognition as well as introducing new methods to measure participants' decision-making cognition from brain+behavioral data osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ahh, the irony. I feel that something else might be contributing to the fragmentation of scientific knowledge, but can't put my finger on it? Any ideas, lol /s?

Great news! For the past 7 months I have been applying for internships. I am proud to announce that I will be a program evaluation intern with the Smithsonian this summer! I am excited to contribute and make a difference. Attached is a plot that visualizes the process - hard, but worth it.

Troops on campus? We have experience with that. It's bad. Very, very, very bad. Some of us are very aware. To those that are not, here you go: www.kent.edu/may-4-1970

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · last yr.

If you’re a professor in a classroom today & you don’t mention this, I believe you’re doing your students a profound disservice. This is targeted 1st at international students, but it’s deliberately broad enough to lay groundwork for a scene Trump & Hegseth have fantasized: troops on campus.

Disgusted and disheartened.

Shefali Luthra@shefali.bsky.social · last yr.

RFK Jr. officially confirmed to head HHS, with only McConnell breaking ranks to vote no. He'll oversee a $1.8 trillion agency, and have vast power to influence vaccines, public health & national policy In his hearings, he expressed openness to restricting abortion nationally.

“Another unknown is whether NIH researchers will still be allowed to submit papers to peer-reviewed journals.” This is insanity, and could have major impact on entire fields of research worldwide (we all collaborate with one another)

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2y ago

"Officials halted midstream a training workshop for junior scientists, called off a workshop on adolescent learning minutes before it was to begin, and canceled meetings of two advisory councils." It could've been telegraphed in advance. The fear, uncertainty, chaos, and disruption are the point.

Entropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding. (E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?) Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.

Thank you to everyone that visited my poster at Psychonomics this year! It is always a joy to have great conversations and in-depth discussions about research! Here is to next year🎉.