#PeerReview galt immer als Goldstandard der #Forschungsförderung. Aber musste er das je beweisen? @finnluebber.bsky.social und @soerenkrach.bsky.social erklären in unserem Essayheft, warum ausgerechnet eine Lotterie fairer, billiger und robuster sein könnte: 👉 www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Das Los der Wissenschaft: Warum die Forschungsförderung sich nie beweisen musste – und Lotterien es könnten Im aktuellen Laborjournal-Essay diskutieren wir aktuelle Trends in der Forschungsförderung - von KI-generierten Anträgen und Begutachtungen bis hin zum Einsatz von Lotterien.

Blackbox Bewilligungsausschuss? Hochdekorierter Forscher kritisiert DFG nach Ablehnung seines Sonderforschungsbereichs. Eine Geschichte über Vertraulichkeit, Vertrauen und die Wissenschaftlichkeit wissenschaftlicher Vergabeverfahren. Jetzt im Wiarda-Blog lesen: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/07...

🎉🥳📢: New article published in @commspsychol.nature.com! We show that causal attributions regarding success vs. failure modulate the formation and update of self-beliefs and these effects are moderated by self-esteem, pointing to the clinical relevance of the findings. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Heute: ARTE-Doku über Scham featuring @fmpaulus.bsky.social! 🙌

Excited to share that our new paper on causal attributions and their role in the formation of self-beliefs is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s44... Huge thanks to @annalinavmayer.bsky.social, @soerenkrach.bsky.social, @tobikube.bsky.social, @david-s-stolz.bsky.social and the whole team!

Causal attributions shape the formation of novel ability self-beliefs - Communications Psychology

Using computational modeling, this study shows that causal attributions are associated with how people form ability beliefs. Lower self-esteem and higher depressive symptoms were linked to stronger ne...

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New research Article in the journal by Annalina V. Mayer and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Causal attributions shape the formation of novel ability self-beliefs - Communications Psychology

Using computational modeling, this study shows that causal attributions are associated with how people form ability beliefs. Lower self-esteem and higher depressive symptoms were linked to stronger ne...

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This Belfast womens collective is raising funds to help victims. chuffed.org/project/1854...

Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

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How people explain success and failure - really cool "Behind the paper" by @annalinavmayer.bsky.social communities.springernature.com/posts/when-s...

When success doesn't stick: How the explanations we give for feedback shape our self-image

Why do some people embrace their successes while others dismiss them as luck? In this study, we used angel and devil robots, computational models, and a feedback-learning experiment to investigate how...

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"Causal attributions shape the formation of novel ability self-beliefs" New publication by @annalinavmayer.bsky.social et al. out in @commspsychol.nature.com 💫 📄 rdcu.be/fmCWs #Psychology #SelfEsteem #Learning #BeliefFormation #MentalHealth Short thread on the main findings below👇

Causal attributions shape the formation of novel ability self-beliefs

Communications Psychology - Using computational modeling, this study shows that causal attributions are associated with how people form ability beliefs. Lower self-esteem and higher depressive...

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Ehre, wem sie nicht gebührt? Umfrage unter frisch promovierten Medizinern zeigt, wie oft Hierarchie und Abhängigkeiten die Autorenzeile mitbestimmen. Langfristig leidet Vertrauen in die Forschung selbst. Gastbeitrag von Laura Klempp und Nils Hansson im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...

How to fund #research with less bias and lower costs? Use more lotteries! "Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced cost" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65660-9 Give that this is only one of many such reports over the last decades […]

in fact, this is probably one of the major/primary goals of the cuts.

hakwan lau@hakwan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

of coz they do www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Best location for a poster presentation so far 👀 And truly great program & people @igorbranchi.bsky.social @clbockting.bsky.social @seguir1milhao.bsky.social @h-merritt.bsky.social @soerenkrach.bsky.social @philippekerr.bsky.social @marilyngatica.bsky.social et al. ettoremajoranafoundation.com/en/

PessoaBrain@pessoabrain.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*Complexity in Mental Health* Interplay between brain, behavior and context Organized by Igor Branchi and Francesca Culirulli. Phenomenal location in Erice, Sicily.

Correlating brain maps across datasets is everywhere in neuroimaging. Here we ask: when you contextualize a brain map against genes, metabolism, or connectivity... What can you really conclude? How can we do better? We explore these questions here: tinyurl.com/2dudkevc

Opportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Despite rapid exploitation of the opportunities that contextualization of brain maps affords, potential limitations have received little attention. In this Roadmap, Royer et al. provide practical guid...

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🎉 My PhD work has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com! How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

“The costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth”, wasting public money. Two models minimise the overhead of grant writing and evaluation: – lottery – per capita funding www.nature.com/articles/d41...

„#DefundDFG“? Die Empörung über die Entscheidung der DFG, KI in der Begutachtung zu erlauben, ist groß. Ich glaube aber: Die Debatte greift zu kurz. Und die Entscheidung der DFG nur folgerichtig. 👉 Der Kommentar im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/01...

„The costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.“ Überbordendes Antragswesen in der Wissenschaft - und die Folgen: Viel Geld für Bürokratie, wenig für Forschung. Interview mit Gerald Schweiger TU Wien. www.deutschlandfunk.de/buerokratie-... 1/2

Bürokratie: Steuergelder fließen oft zu großem Teil in Anträge statt Forschung

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Eine gesamte @laborjournal.bsky.social Ausgabe zum Thema „Fördermittelvergabe“ mit Erfahrungsberichten der Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, der @volkswagenstiftung.de und weiteren Forschungsgruppen. 👇🏼 www.laborjournal.de/editorials/m...

Do check out this amazing opportunity to join the brilliant @lilweb.bsky.social's lab 🤩! Do apply, deadline is 4th Jan

Lilian Weber@lilweb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding www.nature.com/articles/d41... „Out of 215 submissions, only two projects are expected to be funded, giving a success rate of under 1%.“

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

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Highly recommended! Just cool to work with Lilian! 🎉

Lilian Weber@lilweb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Are authors fairly judged by assessing the #journals in which their work is published? @bihutchins.bsky.social &co reveal that most influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and more authors would be better recognized with #ArticleLevelMetrics #ALMs @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oV58Ed

Lottery-first approach to funding process can increase applications and success rate of ‘structurally disadvantaged’ researchers, study finds https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/adding-lottery-funding-process-improves-womens-success-rate

"Mehr Vielfalt, mehr Optionen, mehr Innovation" Warum ein Losverfahren in der Forschungsförderung den Frauenanteil steigen lässt – und was die Daten außerdem noch verraten: Ein Interview mit den Lübecker Forschern Sören Krach und Finn Lübber. Jetzt im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/12...

Intriguing study…! www.nature.com/articles/s41... /cc @rorinstitute.bsky.social

Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications

The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...

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These are the types of changes needed at funding agencies.

Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Leaders at @ukri.org should be seriously looking at the lottery first idea. 68% lower economic costs, increase in diversity of award holders and well received. www.nature.com/articles/s41...