@hvansteenbergen.bsky.social
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The University of Amsterdam has cancelled its subscription to ScienceGuide, a leading Dutch platform for higher education, with disproportionate negative consequences for staff and students. Please consider to sign the petition to get our subscription back.
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Petitie inzake het UvA abonnement op ScienceGuide
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January 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM
The University of Amsterdam has cancelled its subscription to ScienceGuide, a leading Dutch platform for higher education, with disproportionate negative consequences for staff and students. Please consider to sign the petition to get our subscription back.
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Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
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Join us in Fribourg (CH) for the Swiss Stress Network annual meeting on April 30th!
✨Looking forward to our Annual Meeting on April 30 in Fribourg 🇨🇭
Expect excellent talks from our community, a keynote by Brenda Penninx, and lively exchanges around current topics in stress research.
👉 Register here: www.stressnetwork.ch/events/
Deadline: January 31
#stress #research #resilience
Expect excellent talks from our community, a keynote by Brenda Penninx, and lively exchanges around current topics in stress research.
👉 Register here: www.stressnetwork.ch/events/
Deadline: January 31
#stress #research #resilience
January 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Join us in Fribourg (CH) for the Swiss Stress Network annual meeting on April 30th!
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After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
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The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu
Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.
More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026
Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.
More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026
Home - ESCAN 2026
ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
escan2026.eu
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu
Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.
More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026
Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.
More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026
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Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
Home - ESCAN 2026
ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
escan2026.eu
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Cognitive and affective neuroscientists, are you ready? @ESCAN Rome 2026 is live! 🎉 escan2026.eu
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
Our Rome hosts @AgliotiLab and the ESCAN board have put together an inclusive event of groundbreaking, rigorous science, and fun, set in the stunning Eternal City.
✨ Submissions open December 1st!
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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#preprint 📢
Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps...
TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures.
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Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps...
TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures.
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OSF
osf.io
October 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
#preprint 📢
Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps...
TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures.
🧵
Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps...
TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures.
🧵
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Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Excited to share that our paper “Seeing the bigger picture: Endogenous opioids mediate attentional broadening after reward receipt” has just been published in Psychological Medicine!
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October 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Excited to share that our paper “Seeing the bigger picture: Endogenous opioids mediate attentional broadening after reward receipt” has just been published in Psychological Medicine!
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Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing.
Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!
Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!
August 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing.
Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!
Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!
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Last week I declared terror management theory dead and accused my friend Steve Heine of motivated reasoning. Steve responded like the mensch he is with a solid rebuttal instead of blocking me. Read his guest post and tell us both who you think is right in the comments!
The Reports of Terror Management Theory’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Last week I declared the social psychology of death officially dead.
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Last week I declared terror management theory dead and accused my friend Steve Heine of motivated reasoning. Steve responded like the mensch he is with a solid rebuttal instead of blocking me. Read his guest post and tell us both who you think is right in the comments!
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Are you working on issues of replication and reproducibility of methodological research in psychology? Consider submitting a proposal to my call for papers, happy to chat about your ideas or answer any questions! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
<em>AMPPS</em> Call for Papers on Replicability and Reproducibility in Methodological Research
Methodological reform has shaped the last decade of psychological research. Researchers have undertaken replication studies, journals and funders have emphasized registration and data sharing, and aut...
www.psychologicalscience.org
July 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Are you working on issues of replication and reproducibility of methodological research in psychology? Consider submitting a proposal to my call for papers, happy to chat about your ideas or answer any questions! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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This is how it works with AI help.
Contact Scottish Gas re disconnection. Chatbot can't handle this query, so send email. Get helpful reply, & am asked to evaluate my experience. Explain re need for better chatbox help on disconnection. Get generic reply saying I should use chatbot in future
Contact Scottish Gas re disconnection. Chatbot can't handle this query, so send email. Get helpful reply, & am asked to evaluate my experience. Explain re need for better chatbox help on disconnection. Get generic reply saying I should use chatbot in future
July 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This is how it works with AI help.
Contact Scottish Gas re disconnection. Chatbot can't handle this query, so send email. Get helpful reply, & am asked to evaluate my experience. Explain re need for better chatbox help on disconnection. Get generic reply saying I should use chatbot in future
Contact Scottish Gas re disconnection. Chatbot can't handle this query, so send email. Get helpful reply, & am asked to evaluate my experience. Explain re need for better chatbox help on disconnection. Get generic reply saying I should use chatbot in future
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Do you want to go to a metascience conference where AI will not solve all problems, you can ask critical questions, and El$evier is not invited? Sign up for the mailing list for the 8th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference in 2026 in Leiden! perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com
PSE8
Visit the post for more.
perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Do you want to go to a metascience conference where AI will not solve all problems, you can ask critical questions, and El$evier is not invited? Sign up for the mailing list for the 8th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference in 2026 in Leiden! perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
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July 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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26/ Gouda: bit.ly/4lKjjut
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26/ Gouda: bit.ly/4lKjjut
27/ Delft: bit.ly/3GdB2LX
28/ Den Haag: bit.ly/3Ih2VmT
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Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour.
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making
Studies of perceptual decision-making typically present the same stimulus repeatedly over the course of an experimental session but ignore the order o…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour.
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project!
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
Vacatures bij de RUG
www.rug.nl
July 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project!
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Come work in my dept! We are hiring a lecturer in psychology (ideally speaking Dutch) @leidenpsychology.bsky.social
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...
Docent Psychologie
De Sectie Cognitieve Psychologie van het Instituut Psychologie van de Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen heeft een vacature voor Docent Psychologie Dit ga je doen Als docent psychologie ga je onderwijs v...
www.academictransfer.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Come work in my dept! We are hiring a lecturer in psychology (ideally speaking Dutch) @leidenpsychology.bsky.social
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3529...
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
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👀This is impressive: Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work.
The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.
The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.
June 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
👀This is impressive: Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work.
The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.
The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.
