Alex Danvers
@drdanvers.bsky.social
Social Psychologist, Data Scientist, Baseball Fan, Dog Dad, Improviser
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Great story by @ctrent.bsky.social
Scott Boras is De La Cruz’s agent. If he does not allow these small market teams to lock up their icons, the sport will be demolished.
I never thought I’d say it, but MLB needs a Salary Cap and Floor.
Scott Boras is De La Cruz’s agent. If he does not allow these small market teams to lock up their icons, the sport will be demolished.
I never thought I’d say it, but MLB needs a Salary Cap and Floor.
Last spring, the Cincinnati Reds made an offer to shortstop Elly De La Cruz that would have eclipsed Joey Votto’s club-record 10-year, $225M contract extension in 2012.
De La Cruz turned it down.
De La Cruz turned it down.
January 17, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Great story by @ctrent.bsky.social
Scott Boras is De La Cruz’s agent. If he does not allow these small market teams to lock up their icons, the sport will be demolished.
I never thought I’d say it, but MLB needs a Salary Cap and Floor.
Scott Boras is De La Cruz’s agent. If he does not allow these small market teams to lock up their icons, the sport will be demolished.
I never thought I’d say it, but MLB needs a Salary Cap and Floor.
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Reminder that the Los Angeles Dodgers had a higher luxury tax bill last year ($169 million) than the entire payrolls of 13 MLB teams
January 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Reminder that the Los Angeles Dodgers had a higher luxury tax bill last year ($169 million) than the entire payrolls of 13 MLB teams
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Abolish the Dodgers.
January 16, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Abolish the Dodgers.
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Neat to see this fantastic book come to life: highly recommend! I'm looking forward to learning more from my co-contributors by digging into the other chapters, too! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @sandersonspeaking.bsky.social #PsychSciSky
January 14, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Neat to see this fantastic book come to life: highly recommend! I'm looking forward to learning more from my co-contributors by digging into the other chapters, too! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @sandersonspeaking.bsky.social #PsychSciSky
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There are likely selection and attrition effects here, but the findings struck me, nonetheless. Preventing internet access on a person's mobile phone for 2 weeks led to increases in subjective well-being, mental health, and sustained attention. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being
Abstract. Smartphones enable people to access the online world from anywhere at any time. Despite the benefits of this technology, there is growing concern
doi.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
There are likely selection and attrition effects here, but the findings struck me, nonetheless. Preventing internet access on a person's mobile phone for 2 weeks led to increases in subjective well-being, mental health, and sustained attention. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Happy to share our (almost) new Stage 1 Registered Report at @pci-regreports.bsky.social with @tassilotissot.bsky.social and many bluesky-less collaborators from the @jresearcherprog.bsky.social, testing the effect of fatigue on effort moralization in multiple countries.
osf.io/exgm6/files/...
osf.io/exgm6/files/...
OSF
osf.io
January 12, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Happy to share our (almost) new Stage 1 Registered Report at @pci-regreports.bsky.social with @tassilotissot.bsky.social and many bluesky-less collaborators from the @jresearcherprog.bsky.social, testing the effect of fatigue on effort moralization in multiple countries.
osf.io/exgm6/files/...
osf.io/exgm6/files/...
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New paper published as ASAP by @megan-elaine-burns.bsky.social about how goal misalignment with work can spark positive union attitudes! #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
"The mission of HR is to help you thrive at work." This sounds good, but what happens when your organization shifts its priorities away from yours?
New work by @megan-elaine-burns.bsky.social suggests that unions become more appealing!
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🔓
New work by @megan-elaine-burns.bsky.social suggests that unions become more appealing!
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🔓
SPSSI Journals
As workplace inequality persists, understanding the psychological processes motivating collective action engagement becomes imperative. In one domain of collective action, labor unionization, members...
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
New paper published as ASAP by @megan-elaine-burns.bsky.social about how goal misalignment with work can spark positive union attitudes! #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc
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🌐Online First Publication:
Drawing on data from 151 older couples, Sönmez-Orhan et al.'s study shows that facial emotion perception in later life relates to cognition, empathy, and relationship satisfaction.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #ResearchPublishing
Drawing on data from 151 older couples, Sönmez-Orhan et al.'s study shows that facial emotion perception in later life relates to cognition, empathy, and relationship satisfaction.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #ResearchPublishing
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
doi.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
🌐Online First Publication:
Drawing on data from 151 older couples, Sönmez-Orhan et al.'s study shows that facial emotion perception in later life relates to cognition, empathy, and relationship satisfaction.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #ResearchPublishing
Drawing on data from 151 older couples, Sönmez-Orhan et al.'s study shows that facial emotion perception in later life relates to cognition, empathy, and relationship satisfaction.
doi.org/10.1177/0265...
#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #ResearchPublishing
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"Critical 4E Cognitive Science" by @liao.shen-yi.org and Zoe Brinner is forthcoming in 'Philosophy Compass' and up as a preprint at Phil Archive. This is a *really* useful and lucid overview of recent work on downsides/bad-sides of 4E cognition. /1
philpapers.org/rec/LIACEC-2
philpapers.org/rec/LIACEC-2
Shen-yi Liao & Zoe Brinner, Critical 4E Cognitive Science - PhilPapers
According to 4E cognitive science, our cognitive capacities depend on, and have been transformed by, the environments we have made. Most early works of 4E cognitive science tend to focus on ...
philpapers.org
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
"Critical 4E Cognitive Science" by @liao.shen-yi.org and Zoe Brinner is forthcoming in 'Philosophy Compass' and up as a preprint at Phil Archive. This is a *really* useful and lucid overview of recent work on downsides/bad-sides of 4E cognition. /1
philpapers.org/rec/LIACEC-2
philpapers.org/rec/LIACEC-2
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“Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.”
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January 11, 2026 at 10:37 AM
“Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.”
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A few days left to apply to join my lab as a PhD student! We study how people explore, how new ideas form, and how thinking develops. Learn more at liquinlab.github.io. Application review begins 1/15.
#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc
#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc
ELM Lab @ UNH
liquinlab.github.io
January 12, 2026 at 9:48 PM
A few days left to apply to join my lab as a PhD student! We study how people explore, how new ideas form, and how thinking develops. Learn more at liquinlab.github.io. Application review begins 1/15.
#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc
#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc
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The question, always, with Mark Solms’s project of neuropsychoanalysis, which I wrestle with whenever I write about it: when does neuropsychoanalysis cease to be something that might be construed as psychoanalytic?
(This from review of Solms’s latest by Tallis) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
(This from review of Solms’s latest by Tallis) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 AM
The question, always, with Mark Solms’s project of neuropsychoanalysis, which I wrestle with whenever I write about it: when does neuropsychoanalysis cease to be something that might be construed as psychoanalytic?
(This from review of Solms’s latest by Tallis) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
(This from review of Solms’s latest by Tallis) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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In previous work with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social we showed that in visual detection, true visibility affects decisions in target-present trials ("I see it"), but *beliefs about visibility* control decisions in target-absent trials ("I would have seen it")
July 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
In previous work with @ranimo.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social we showed that in visual detection, true visibility affects decisions in target-present trials ("I see it"), but *beliefs about visibility* control decisions in target-absent trials ("I would have seen it")
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I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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1/ Excited to share that our symposium review covering cognitive mapping in the PFC just came out in the Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Cognitive Maps in the Prefrontal Cortex
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is critical for our ability to rapidly and flexibly adapt our behavior in new environments based on our previous experience. Despite its importance, the neural substrates a...
www.jneurosci.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
1/ Excited to share that our symposium review covering cognitive mapping in the PFC just came out in the Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
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Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
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If you've never seen it, check out Baars' book. Candid interviews with all the players in early cogsci. It's actually a page-turner. Clark Hull really takes a beating, and he's not the only one. It's a fun way to get a feel for the intellectual history. The other book's pretty good too :)
2 new books today 👀 1 recommended by @jyoshimi.bsky.social and one written by him! 🥳 📖 🧠
January 14, 2026 at 11:16 PM
If you've never seen it, check out Baars' book. Candid interviews with all the players in early cogsci. It's actually a page-turner. Clark Hull really takes a beating, and he's not the only one. It's a fun way to get a feel for the intellectual history. The other book's pretty good too :)
Yes!
Enough time has passed I can admit I did not care for Adam Driver as Kylo Ren.
a cartoon of a family guy in a bathtub with the caption it insists upon itself yarn
ALT: a cartoon of a family guy in a bathtub with the caption it insists upon itself yarn
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January 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Yes!
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In a seminar now where the speaker is sharing advice from their PhD mentor:
“You will make a lot of mistakes… you will be wrong a lot… if you can’t handle this, then science may not be right for you.”
“You will make a lot of mistakes… you will be wrong a lot… if you can’t handle this, then science may not be right for you.”
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
In a seminar now where the speaker is sharing advice from their PhD mentor:
“You will make a lot of mistakes… you will be wrong a lot… if you can’t handle this, then science may not be right for you.”
“You will make a lot of mistakes… you will be wrong a lot… if you can’t handle this, then science may not be right for you.”
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My son is interested in learning some Māori as part of his Duke of Edinburgh award activities. Does anyone have any ideas about how someone in Leeds might do this? Good online resources, etc?
January 14, 2026 at 4:26 PM
My son is interested in learning some Māori as part of his Duke of Edinburgh award activities. Does anyone have any ideas about how someone in Leeds might do this? Good online resources, etc?
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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
January 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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It ain't your grandparents' working memory.
Synaptic Theory of Chunking in Working Memory
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
#neuroscience
Synaptic Theory of Chunking in Working Memory
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
#neuroscience
Synaptic Theory of Chunking in Working Memory
elifesciences.org
January 12, 2026 at 1:32 PM
It ain't your grandparents' working memory.
Synaptic Theory of Chunking in Working Memory
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
#neuroscience
Synaptic Theory of Chunking in Working Memory
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
#neuroscience
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I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks.
IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against
IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against
January 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks.
IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against
IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against
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In fact we have records of at least 65,000 immigrants in the late MEDIEVAL period. This means real numbers were significantly higher. In England more than 1% of the population was foreign born (never mind 2nd gen) with numbers as high as 1 in 10 in cities. There’s a database!
January 8, 2026 at 12:27 PM
In fact we have records of at least 65,000 immigrants in the late MEDIEVAL period. This means real numbers were significantly higher. In England more than 1% of the population was foreign born (never mind 2nd gen) with numbers as high as 1 in 10 in cities. There’s a database!
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I love this
Cheeseburgers are not natural.
My Graph is up on Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
My Graph is up on Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
January 11, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I love this