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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 7h

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I’m also looking forward to the Professional Darts Council’s first Physics Prize which I guess will also be won by Donald Trump

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14h

FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/47LyluB

Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 3d

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)

Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...

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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 8d

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 20d

I recommend listening to Matteo, who’s a great friend, and a great scientist, even though I don’t understand half of what he says about stats

Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social · 21d

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)

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Aug 29

Remarkable. Uncontrollable laughing or crying can happen *without* emotion ("pseudobulbar affect"). Here's a video of one individual whose crying is triggered by real or imagined rubbing of his finger & thumb. Intense response but not sadness. /1

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Crying spells triggered by thumb-index rubbing after thalamic stroke: a case report

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

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Jobs - The University of York

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Peter Wade @peterwade.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Doesn’t matter to us who you’re fucking mingling with, or tingling with, or fingering with. It’s none of our fucking business."

Liam Gallagher Declares Oasis Concerts Safe for Cheaters: 'We Don't Have That Coldplay Camera'

Liam Gallagher jokes that Oasis concerts are safe for cheaters following an apparent infidelity incident that unfolded on a Coldplay jumbotron camera.

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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · Jul 17

in Oxford, a grade 7 (entry-level) postdoc costs about £180K for 3 years, including fringe. For UKRI grants, the university now adds **£460K** in overheads. is that normal? do other UK universities impose such outlandish FEC?

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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · Jul 5

Quite proud of this latest work from the KorbLab, which replicates behavioral effects of zygomaticus activation on happiness categorization, and also reveals an N170 reduction, suggesting reduced visual processing in combination with targeted facial feedback input

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Jul 3

Facial muscle activity can shape how we recognize emotions. Using electrical stimulation and EEG, the study found that activation of smiling muscles makes people more likely to see neutral faces as happy.
@themisefth.bsky.social @sebkorb.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Electrical stimulation of smiling muscles reduces visual processing load and enhances happiness perception in neutral faces - Communications Psychology

Facial muscle activity can shape how we recognise emotions. Using electrical stimulation and EEG, the study found that activation of smiling muscles makes people more likely to see neutral faces as ha...

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Jun 10

We are still looking for collaborators, especially from Africa, Asia and South America for our project on how people from around the world correct their intuitive reasoning errors. More information below. Pls join and share!

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PSA-JTF3: Error Correction – Psychological Science Accelerator

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ikauvar.bsky.social @ikauvar.bsky.social · May 30

Emotions are core to the human experience 😆😮🙂😊☹️😠😳😑
But how do they arise? Our brain-wide ⚡recordings in humans and mice reveal some answers @ScienceMagazine. A big team effort and debut paper from @Stanford's new Human Neural Circuitry program. bit.ly/4dEyX7Z

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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · May 30

On 24th June, we are hosting a 1 day event on Social Connections at UCL - come along to hear the latest research on wearable sensors and friendship and measuring social interaction. Please share widely
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London Social Connection Workshop at UCL on 24th June 2025.

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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · May 12

Thank you 🙏🏻

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · Apr 10

📣 COS is excited to launch the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)!

Seeking researchers with expertise in quantitative methods in health behavior, public health, epidemiology, health policy, & related fields for this large-scale, multi-team replication effort.

➡️ Details: www.cos.io/rphb

Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)

The Center for Open Science (COS) is launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB), which is a large-scale, multi-team effort to help support a transparent and trustworthy foundation in ...

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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · Mar 21

New paper day! Using EEG and frequency tagging, we show that posing a smile reduces neural discrimination of happy versus neutral faces, possibly by making neutral faces look happier. Led by Joshua Baker, with great help from Stephanie Van der Donck and Bart Boets. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

APA PsycNet

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 19

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

"I learned with concern that a French researcher" on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) "who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled ," said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). "This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy ," he added

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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · Mar 13

Postdoc opportunity in my lab at the University of Amsterdam!

Our project investigates human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Prof Andreas Schuck.

More details here: bit.ly/4kOS8ir

Deadline is April 15. DM me with Qs!

Vacancy — Postdoc Investigating Human Sources of Bias in AI Face Classification Models

How are human ideologies and prejudices amplified by AI models? How do human biases get into AI model training data? And how does the output of such models influence the decisions and behaviors of use...

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · May 7

We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!

Join the Lab

We're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellowship: Predictive Models for Cognitive Fluctuations Closing date: 12 noon (IST), June 1st 2024 We are seeking a Research Fellow to pioneer the development of passive s...

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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · Mar 6

Trump’s “free” speech:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Feb 10

We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.

Vol. 24 - Here is a revised version of your review with improved clarity

ChatGPT is not my peer. It should not review my papers.

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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · Feb 5

Unbelievably scary: www.science.org/content/blog...

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · Jan 28

It says a lot about the current funding crisis affecting UK universities when Wales' biggest university proposes to close its Nursing course to save money, at a time when the NHS is desperate for more nurses.

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs

Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says "it is no longer an option for us to continue as we are".

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Pascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · Jan 29

I am thrilled to announce that my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline 28 February.

pvrticka.com/2025-soneat-...

2025 SoNeAt Lab fNIRS hyperscanning workshop flyer

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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hope this link works 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).

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · Dec 10

What are the prospects for AI that is, or irresistibly appears to be, conscious? Here’s a substantially revised version of my paper “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism” - many thanks to many folks for super-helpful comments osf.io/preprints/ps...

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