Matteo Lisi
mlisi.bsky.social
Matteo Lisi
@mlisi.bsky.social
lecturer • research on human perception and decision-making • principled statistics • computational models • he/him • https://mlisi.xyz/
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Excited to finally have in my hands a copy of our new book Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective (written with Alasdair Clarke, not on bsky) !!

📘 www.mheducation.co.uk/statistics-f...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #statistics #statssky
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❗️Our next workshop will be on Nov 13 6 pm CET titled Building & Customising Stat Models with Stan and R: Introduction to Bayesian Inference by @mlisi.bsky.social

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
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November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
We are hiring, come work with us!

Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department

Deadline: December 1st

#neurojob #psychscisky #neuroskyence #VisionScience #academicsky
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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A very worrying escalation of online harassment.

Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"

x.com/EuropaIneffa...
Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X
In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match
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October 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’ll be giving a 'Workshops for Ukraine' session on Building and Customising Statistical Models with Stan and R: An Introduction to Bayesian Inference — online on Nov 13.

Open to all, with donations supporting Ukrainian organisations.

👉 sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

#stats #rstats #statssky
Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)
sites.google.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Turns out a university degree does still make a substantial difference to job prospects, once you account for the conditions when people enter the job market. Nice analysis by the FT.

on.ft.com/4q6Y8pm
October 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Deeply disappointing. Once again the @royalsociety.org has avoided explaining how *actions* by Elon Musk that clearly repudiate the Society's values are consistent with the code of conduct that Fellows must adhere to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society
A statement from Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.
royalsociety.org
October 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Amateur view. AI bubble shows that there is too much money chasing too few opportunities for genuine innovation. The solution is to take a medium/long view and put much more funding into basic science in universities rather than cutting as is happening now. (But I would say that wouldn’t I?)
September 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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❗️Our next workshop will be on October 2nd, 6 pm CEST, on Effective and Useful Feature engineering by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
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September 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence
Research Assistant at UCL
Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
t.ly
September 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to work with @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @ronimaimon.bsky.social on visual neuroscience experiments with children and adults, both with and without eye disease using cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs
Research Assistant at UCL
An academic position as a Research Assistant is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
New paper out! 📣

Syrian refugee children (4-9 yrs) show age-related shifts in judging trustworthiness from faces — older kids tend to see faces as less trustworthy; yet judgments are not tied to child or maternal mental health.

doi.org/10.1017/S095...

#PsychSciSky
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Trust perception in Syrian refugee children | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core
Trust perception in Syrian refugee children
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
New registered report out in BJHP📣

How to reduce demand for antibiotics?

Using Signal Detection Theory, we show that clinician explanations & CRP point-of-care results reduce antibiotic expectations and improve discernment

doi.org/10.1111/bjhp...

#PsychSciSky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Objectives Patients' expectations for antibiotics are among the strongest predictors of clinicians' decisions to overprescribe antibiotics. In this registered report, we used a signal detection theo...
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨

I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America.

In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks
christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi...
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Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom
Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.
christinapagel.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Excited to finally have in my hands a copy of our new book Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective (written with Alasdair Clarke, not on bsky) !!

📘 www.mheducation.co.uk/statistics-f...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #statistics #statssky
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Excited to share our new preprint...

...𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒! ⏳

We find temporal confounds in fMRI that emulate neural patterns of perceptual learning.

These can be hard to spot with conventional RSA, but may influence our understanding of how prior knowledge shapes perception.

tinyurl.com/4bwy6nre
August 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If you are at #CCN25 and interested confidence bias and confidence noise in humans come say hi at poster C13 this afternoon!

PDF link: mlisi.xyz/files/CCN25_...
August 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
New paper just out (open access) 📣

How do early adversity and war trauma shape children’s decisions under uncertainty?

We tested Syrian refugee kids (7–12) in Amman vs. Jordanian peers across a set of learning/foraging tasks.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
August 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
There can be useful applications of LLMs in research, but peer review is certainly NOT one of them — please don't offload your judgment to a dumb model!
July 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Just learned that Carlo Umiltà has passed away — a giant of Italian neuroscience 🧠 I was lucky to learn from him during my PhD (not my advisor, but a regular presence in the lab).
June 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Applications are OPEN for our MSc Applied Neuroscience! Lots of hands-on fMRI, TMS, VR, eyetracking & EEG training included.

#psychscisky 🧠📈 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer..

Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years.

(See Bauer 2007)
i’m not going to write a thread today about problems with latent class growth analyses nope nope NOPE i won’t do it
June 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM