David Luque
@davluque.bsky.social
Experimental study of habits and goal-directed actions. Málaga, Spain.
https://davluque.wordpress.com/
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I see this same pattern in psychology—there is a huge desire among early career scholars to do applied work
This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality
This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality
"Basic scientists consistently enhance scientific output quality, yet research and newly joining researchers have shifted toward applied orientations."
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530
#PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530
#PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I see this same pattern in psychology—there is a huge desire among early career scholars to do applied work
This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality
This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality
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Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!
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Desde @erilectura.bsky.social lanzamos encuesta para profesorado sobre vuestras experiencias, necesidades y nivel de preparación para utilizar herramientas de inteligencia artificial ¡Ayuda al desarrollo de soluciones prácticas y éticas para la educación!
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October 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Desde @erilectura.bsky.social lanzamos encuesta para profesorado sobre vuestras experiencias, necesidades y nivel de preparación para utilizar herramientas de inteligencia artificial ¡Ayuda al desarrollo de soluciones prácticas y éticas para la educación!
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We’re hiring a technician!!
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We’re hiring a technician!!
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
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“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
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Very happy to see this one finally published. Congratulations to all the co-authors for this brilliant piece of work! Especially to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social for her immense patience and excellent work. Well done!
Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: A multisite preregistered study: https://osf.io/sj7fz
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Very happy to see this one finally published. Congratulations to all the co-authors for this brilliant piece of work! Especially to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social for her immense patience and excellent work. Well done!
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PhD position (FPI) in the Causal Cognition Group, University of Málaga
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…
PhD position (FPI) in the Causal Cognition Group, University of Málaga
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ The Causal Cognition Group (CCG) at University of Málaga (Málaga, Spain) is offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity (with the possibility of converting the last year in a postdoc position if the thesis is finished in 3 years).
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October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
PhD position (FPI) in the Causal Cognition Group, University of Málaga
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…
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A Gentle Push Toward Leading Your First Multisite Registered Report: Resources and Recommendations from an Early-Career Coordinator: https://osf.io/td8ck
October 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A Gentle Push Toward Leading Your First Multisite Registered Report: Resources and Recommendations from an Early-Career Coordinator: https://osf.io/td8ck
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As a PhD student in the lab (with similar funding), I highly recommend this PhD opportunity 🧠 Don’t miss the chance to join our team in Málaga!
JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
As a PhD student in the lab (with similar funding), I highly recommend this PhD opportunity 🧠 Don’t miss the chance to join our team in Málaga!
JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
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New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.
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Corollary Discharge Dysfunction to Inner Speech and its Relationship to Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH)—the experience of hearing voices in the absence of auditory stimulation—are a cardi
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October 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.
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Results of the replication are in!
Chocolate is more desirable than poop:
Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]
N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.
w/
@jamiecummins.bsky.social
Chocolate is more desirable than poop:
Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]
N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.
w/
@jamiecummins.bsky.social
Make an effect size prediction!
@jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52)
Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.
@jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52)
Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.
October 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Results of the replication are in!
Chocolate is more desirable than poop:
Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]
N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.
w/
@jamiecummins.bsky.social
Chocolate is more desirable than poop:
Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]
N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.
w/
@jamiecummins.bsky.social
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Apply for our Scientific Traineeships!
A 5-months paid traineeship at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Open to graduates in different scientific fields.
All information: europa.eu/!mBn7wR
#ResearchJobs #EUScienceJobs #JRC
A 5-months paid traineeship at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Open to graduates in different scientific fields.
All information: europa.eu/!mBn7wR
#ResearchJobs #EUScienceJobs #JRC
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Apply for our Scientific Traineeships!
A 5-months paid traineeship at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Open to graduates in different scientific fields.
All information: europa.eu/!mBn7wR
#ResearchJobs #EUScienceJobs #JRC
A 5-months paid traineeship at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Open to graduates in different scientific fields.
All information: europa.eu/!mBn7wR
#ResearchJobs #EUScienceJobs #JRC
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Estamos de vuelta! 🥳
Hola de nuevo! Nuestro ya querido ReproducibiliTea está de vuelta un curso más 🤗. Para retomar el ritmo, este mes abordaremos un artículo en forma de comentario sobre la cuestión de si merece la pena coordinarnos mejor en ciencia 🤝. Os esperamos el próximo 27 de octubre a las 16h.
October 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Estamos de vuelta! 🥳
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Breaking Nobel news!🏅
Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants.
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Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants.
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October 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Breaking Nobel news!🏅
Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants.
🇪🇺
Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants.
🇪🇺
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📣The 2026 ERC Consolidator Grant competition is now open! 📣
Already preparing your proposal? Info links ⬇️
Info for applicants 👉 buff.ly/PSbeUxX
Application portal 👉 buff.ly/mauZoqo
Deadline: 13/01/26
General info on #ERCCoG 👉 buff.ly/KCN6GTh
Already preparing your proposal? Info links ⬇️
Info for applicants 👉 buff.ly/PSbeUxX
Application portal 👉 buff.ly/mauZoqo
Deadline: 13/01/26
General info on #ERCCoG 👉 buff.ly/KCN6GTh
September 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📣The 2026 ERC Consolidator Grant competition is now open! 📣
Already preparing your proposal? Info links ⬇️
Info for applicants 👉 buff.ly/PSbeUxX
Application portal 👉 buff.ly/mauZoqo
Deadline: 13/01/26
General info on #ERCCoG 👉 buff.ly/KCN6GTh
Already preparing your proposal? Info links ⬇️
Info for applicants 👉 buff.ly/PSbeUxX
Application portal 👉 buff.ly/mauZoqo
Deadline: 13/01/26
General info on #ERCCoG 👉 buff.ly/KCN6GTh
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Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️
October 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️
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Am slowly making my way through this paper. And it is an impressive body of work by a collection of great researchers.
However, I have a couple of problems with it...
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However, I have a couple of problems with it...
1/n
Benchmarks for Associative Learning Models: https://osf.io/qsgz8
October 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Am slowly making my way through this paper. And it is an impressive body of work by a collection of great researchers.
However, I have a couple of problems with it...
1/n
However, I have a couple of problems with it...
1/n
The symposium on habits at the International Spanish Comparative Psychology Society has been fantastic. Thanks to the organisers, the audience and of course the speakers. Here it follows what each talk was about:
October 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The symposium on habits at the International Spanish Comparative Psychology Society has been fantastic. Thanks to the organisers, the audience and of course the speakers. Here it follows what each talk was about:
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In which 94 benchmark phenomena are identified.
16 are domain- and species-general and should be explained by any theory claiming generality.
30 are species- and/or domain-specific but highly robust across procedures
16 are domain- and species-general and should be explained by any theory claiming generality.
30 are species- and/or domain-specific but highly robust across procedures
Benchmarks for Associative Learning Models: https://osf.io/qsgz8
October 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
In which 94 benchmark phenomena are identified.
16 are domain- and species-general and should be explained by any theory claiming generality.
30 are species- and/or domain-specific but highly robust across procedures
16 are domain- and species-general and should be explained by any theory claiming generality.
30 are species- and/or domain-specific but highly robust across procedures
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Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology, here we mimicked the striatal neuroinflammation seen in the brains of individuals with compulsive disorders and found that this facilitated goal-directed action, whereas activating the Gi pathway in astrocytes prevented it
Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology, here we mimicked the striatal neuroinflammation seen in the brains of individuals with compulsive disorders and found that this facilitated goal-directed action, whereas activating the Gi pathway in astrocytes prevented it
Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function
Neuropsychopharmacology - Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function
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September 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology, here we mimicked the striatal neuroinflammation seen in the brains of individuals with compulsive disorders and found that this facilitated goal-directed action, whereas activating the Gi pathway in astrocytes prevented it
Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology, here we mimicked the striatal neuroinflammation seen in the brains of individuals with compulsive disorders and found that this facilitated goal-directed action, whereas activating the Gi pathway in astrocytes prevented it
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Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?
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Call for papers on conflict adaptation across single- and multi-tasking paradigms in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition
The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.
The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.
www.apa.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Call for papers on conflict adaptation across single- and multi-tasking paradigms in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition
The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.
The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.
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1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
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I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...
GitHub - LewisPeacockLab/MorePower: Installer for MorePower 6.0 (windows)
Installer for MorePower 6.0 (windows). Contribute to LewisPeacockLab/MorePower development by creating an account on GitHub.
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September 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...