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Huw Jarvis
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Postdoctoral research fellow @ Monash in computational cognitive neuroscience. Previously: Fulbright scholar @ Yale, research translation @ NHMRC. huwjarvis.net
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Reposted by Huw Jarvis
mgarvert.bsky.social
🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀

🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling

We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.

📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!

More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt

#CognitiveNeuroscience
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Regular lunch spot at @monashuniversity.bsky.social complete with ducks 🦆 ✅
October 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...
Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)
YouTube video by Simons Foundation
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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docqhuys.bsky.social
New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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drrickadams.bsky.social
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
rb.gy
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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joebarnby.com
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!

3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.

Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.

DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
huwjarvis.net
Fascinating article (long read) from the New Yorker about psychosis and psychiatry, and more broadly about identity
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 22
Mary was in psychosis for 20 years; after she took immunosuppressants, the symptoms vanished. Her husband said it felt as if he were re-meeting the woman he used to know. “How come I lived all these years of darkness, and she suddenly looks normal to me?”
Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t
Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?
www.newyorker.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
What's the difference between emotions & moods?

While old (1994), this book dives into it.

Richard Davidson suggests a functional difference, whereby emotions bias action and moods bias cognition. (Hmmm... the action/cognition distinction is a tricky one).

psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...
Book cover: The Nature of Emotion (Ekman, Davidson)
August 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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talboger.bsky.social
Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style?

In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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xiaosigu.bsky.social
🔥💥📣 Excited to announce a new policy at the Computational Psychiatry (CPSY) journal @cpsyjournal.bsky.social. Starting from April 2025, CPSY will compensate reviewers for their time and effort invested in reviewing manuscripts. w/ @drrickadams.bsky.social
cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
One Small Step Towards Fixing a Broken System | Computational Psychiatry
cpsyjournal.org
May 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
huwjarvis.net
Some reflections from my foray into German 🇩🇪 #psychology #neuroscience academia
🧵 1/5
huwjarvis.net Huw Jarvis @huwjarvis.net · Jul 9
First stop 🗺️ is beautiful Tubingen for a poster presentation at #CPConf2025 #ComputationalPsychiatry, followed by talks in 🚂 Cologne and then 🚂 Bonn. Reach out if you’re in the area!
July 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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iansample.bsky.social
We’re hiring for a major role in the US, an investigative journalist to cover what’s happening with science in the US and beyond. This is extremely important territory for us. 🧪

workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795 The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter
The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter
workforus.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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tobiasuhauser.bsky.social
We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
July 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
huwjarvis.net
Bloopers reel of #CPConf2025:
-Spilling coffee onto an editor of a prominent journal 😑
-Finding that the QR code on my poster was redirecting to a site selling dodgy QR codes 💀
July 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
huwjarvis.net
If you’re at #CPConf2025 and interested in the role of dopamine in 💪 effort and ⭐️ reward learning, come and check out my poster (2.21) this afternoon!
huwjarvis.net Huw Jarvis @huwjarvis.net · Jul 9
First stop 🗺️ is beautiful Tubingen for a poster presentation at #CPConf2025 #ComputationalPsychiatry, followed by talks in 🚂 Cologne and then 🚂 Bonn. Reach out if you’re in the area!
July 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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micahgallen.com
Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵
July 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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alexandrapike.bsky.social
It'ssssss PREPRINT THURSDAY! (Sadly not a thing). Approximately an era ago, I spent a *lot* of time discussing the assumptions that underpin the field of #ComputationalPskychiatry with the brilliant @jonroiser.bsky.social and @olijrobinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
July 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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alexh.bsky.social
The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.
July 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
huwjarvis.net
✈️ Thrilled to be heading to Germany 🇩🇪 to present new findings on #dopamine 🧠 in #effort 💪 and #reward learning ⭐️.

Latest data from work with
@trevorchong.bsky.social
@coxon.bsky.social et al. @monashuniversity.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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befast.bsky.social
As a neurologist, I see the term "dopamine" everywhere: dopamine fasting, dopamine hits, dopamine culture. It's become a cultural shorthand for pleasure.

But the real story is far more complex and fascinating. Here’s a thread on what we actually know 🧠
What is Dopamine, really? Wanting != liking. Seeking loop (phone) vs Motivation in motion (runner)
July 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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christianwebb.bsky.social
🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @jamanetworkopen.com on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology w/
@hadarfisher.bsky.social and linked to excellent paper by
@whitneyringwald.bsky.social, @aidangcw.bsky.social & team. tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e
Tracking Psychopathology Dimensions Through Passive Smartphone Sensing
Mental health researchers are increasingly using passively collected data from smartphones and wearable devices (eg, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and smart rings) to continuously and unobtrusively ...
tinyurl.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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mbieleke.bsky.social
Do you enjoy a good, sweaty training session now and then? Then you’ll score high on our Value of Physical Effort (VoPE) scale—just out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social

Curious or want to use it?
doi.org/10.1525/coll...

w/ J Staehler, @wanjawolff.bsky.social & J Schueler
Development and Validation of the Value of Physical Effort (VoPE) Scale
Physical effort has instrumental value because it helps people attain their goals. Growing evidence suggests that people might also experience the exertion of effort itself as valuable. To test this i...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
huwjarvis.net
“The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage” 🎯

This rings so true. Pursuing academia is a huge financial investment, which means you have to be in the fortunate position to be able to make that investment.
June 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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liobanause.bsky.social
New preprint:
How does Behavioral Activation help with anhedonia in depression?

Our new study finds that early reductions in aversive Pavlovian Bias mediate symptom improvement - suggesting a specific cognitive mechanism in realistic treatment settings.

Read more here:

doi.org/10.31234/osf...
June 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM