The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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It’s been 10 years since this post and nothing’s changed 😭 www.ethanrosenthal.com/2016/07/20/l...

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tools from operations research solve so many problems and the fact they’re not super widely deployed really tells you that many bottlenecks are not technical

Three new lectureship positions available at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE550/l...

Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology (Three Posts) at University of Leeds

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology (Three Posts) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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A provocative, perhaps, little blog post on False Discovery Rates in the Social Sciences. They just keep cropping up everywhere in my inbox these days. Let me know what you think! #metascience joebakcoleman.com/blog/2026/FDR/

You love teaching psychology and London? Then we have the perfect position for you: Associate Professor (Teaching), Experimental Psychology, @uclpals.bsky.social. Your role: Develop a flexible portfolio of psychology undergraduate modules for Non-Psychology students www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB720/a...

Associate Professor (Teaching) at UCL

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📘 With the release of our textbook "Bayesian Workflow" (avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor...), I figured I'd also share the content of my graduate course on the topic at UBC. 🌎 charlesm93.github.io/stat547/ The course contains overlapping and complementary material, homeworks and reading.

Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

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“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...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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

Have you used Bayes factor to test point-null hypotheses in Hierarchical models and wondered: 1. Bridge sampling (BS) or Savage-Dickey density ratio (SDDR)? 2. If SDDR, which density estimation method? 3. How many MCMC samples? 4. What's the cost-benefit trade-off? This may be of interest to you.

Zurich Cognition Lab@cognition-zurich.bsky.social · last mo.

How to best estimate Bayes factors for standard hypothesis tests? We compared bridge sampling and the Savage-Dickey density ratio. The latter does a good job in most constellations typical for experiments in cognitive psychology.

Super exciting *3-year* postdoc opportunity at Queen Mary University in London. The goal is to use state of the art results from cognitive psychology to develop learning interventions that help individuals with ADHD. If you love basic research and want it to have a real impact, this is for you.

damnmemory@edamizrak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 Postdoctoral Researcher Opportunity – ADHD, Working Memory & Learning I am recruiting a postdoc to join my research group at Queen Mary, London on a newly funded MRC New Investigator Grant. ⏱️Deadline: 2 July 2026 🗓️ Start date: 1 October 2026 Apply here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Scientific journal editor here: If you're invited to peer review an article and you can't do it, please just click "no." That tells me "this person can't do it, I should invite someone else." Otherwise the system waits 3 weeks to tell me that you didn't respond and I should invite someone else.

Finally out in Psychological Review (psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...), our update to Signal Detection Theory. We show that contrary to the prevailing Gaussian assumption, evidence distributions in recognition memory are likely minimum extreme Gumbel!

Henrik Singmann@singmann.bsky.social · last yr.

Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

New Publication Alert! 🚨 Along with @koberauer.bsky.social and @agnesrosner.bsky.social we investigated if eye movements are functional for memory retrieval in an associative recognition task and largely found evidence against it. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.3... #workingmemory

Finally, our paper is out! Together with @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social, Javier Revuelta, and @mavadillo.bsky.social, we extend hierarchical factor models for skewed RTs and task validation, now in Psychological Methods: doi.org/10.1037/met0... Let me briefly explain what we did and why it matters!

A new #bmm release is available on #CRAN. With this version, #bmm now covers basic response time models. This release contains three new models plus several usability features. Here's what's in it 🧵 venpopov.com/bmm/ #rstats #bayes #openscience

Easy and Accessible Bayesian Measurement Models Using brms

Fit computational and measurement models using full Bayesian inference. The package provides a simple and accessible interface by translating complex domain-specific models into brms syntax, a powerfu...

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Looks like my summer read has finally arrived. #rstats @mc-stan.org

Meet Angel Au, UCL PALS alumna, mental health advocate and charity founder. Angel co-founded Overcome, a charity training volunteers to deliver peer-led online mental health support to people around the world. 🔗 Read more of Angel’s story here: www.ucl.ac.uk/about/search...

loving the new why_any() and when_all() functions #rstats dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/wh...

Elementwise any() and all() — when-any-all

These functions are variants of any() and all() that work elementwise across multiple inputs. You can also think of these functions as generalizing | and & to any number of inputs, rather than jus...

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Nigel Farage Listens to the News

Next Wednesday (June 10th), this semester's last session, we look forward to Dr @leedewit 's talk on how value divides in beliefs about social conformity and hierarchy drive polarisation (full details: tinyurl.com/ucl-ljdm). In person at UCL IoE or on Zoom. All are welcome!

John Fox (1947-2025) An obituary of R Foundation member John Fox by Peter Dalgaard. www.r-project.org/doc/obit/joh... #rstats

Next Wednesday (June 3rd) is our second last seminar of the term. We are excited to have Dr @mariaeckstein.bsky.social from Google DeepMind join us to talk about overcoming issues of generalisability in using RL in cognitive tasks (full details tinyurl.com/ucl-ljdm). All are welcome in person!

Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme

🚨 @rmcelreath.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social & @avehtari.bsky.social are coming on the show mid-June to discuss their new book, Bayesian Workflow! ONE listener gets to bring a real Bayesian problem onto the recording and have the three of them work through it live. Here's how to enter 🧵

[Now that's public] I've cancelled my donations to Wikipedia after some of us found out this happened. Again, "benevolent" executives are the fucking problem.

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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I’ve written more about statistics of the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, including: – Books that just missed out – Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out) – Best novelists – Alternative rankings – Weirdest and least-weird ballots mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...

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today, the debut album from my band Snailgun released. it's been a lifelong dream to release an album. what was a great start to the day was getting sent this glowing review of the album by Backseat Mafia: www.backseatmafia.com/album-review...

Album Review: Snailgun unveil their shattering debut ‘Glass Walls’ ahead of live dates.

Naarm/Melbourne band Snailgun have just delivered their debut album ‘Glass Wall’, and it’s a deliciously scabrous affair filled with blistering post punk cathartic noise. The gene…

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In light of our recently published @science.org paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjord

Early in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run...

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Crowd mind: is there some history about why within subjects designs were the obvious design in 19th century psychology, in particular psychophysics? #histsci #philsci