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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 2h

Nature Reviews Psychology is encouraging authors to include a citation diversity statement to draw attention to citation imbalances and confirm that they made efforts to cite publications from a diverse group of researchers.

Read more in our editorial: go.nature.com/4mTIpr2

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to the 2026 APS Mentor Award recipients 🎉 John F. Dovidio, @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social, Marci Lobel, Paul A.M. van Lange, John R. Weisz

APS Mentor Award

The APS Mentor Award honors the importance of mentoring in our field as well as the dedication and impact of individuals with a distinguished record of teaching, advising, and encouraging students and...

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 5d

We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.

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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 5d

📊 Attending #SNE2025? Check out @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social 's poster this afternoon (Session 1):

P1.E.17 – Trait reward sensitivity and behavioral motivation shape DMN–striatal connectivity during reward anticipation

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Trait reward sensitivity and behavioral motivation are associated with connectivity between the default mode network and the striatum during reward anticipation

Individuals vary substantially in their responses to rewarding events and their motivation to pursue rewards. While the ventral striatum (VS) plays a central role in reward anticipation, its functiona...

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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New from the lab! Excited to share work led by @jenyangyi.bsky.social, debuting today at #SNE2025 (Poster Session 1):
P1.F.38 – Emotion regulation and age shape trustee identity–related decision bias in the trust game
Come check it out this afternoon!
@socforneuroecon.bsky.social

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 6d

Reward-reset interval timing drives patch foraging decisions through neural state transitions in dorsomedial striatum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679309v1

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The Lustgarten Foundation @lustgarten.org · 6d

NIH will spend its full $48B budget — but multi-year funding means fewer projects, record-low grant success, and a warning for U.S. science.👉 lfdn.org/3KOs2hT
💜Learn how you can support NIH funding: www.lustgarten.org/forging-ahead
#ResearchMatters

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JAMA @jama.com · 7d

💬 Viewpoint: Academic medicine should adopt the "s-index" to recognize and reward nonresearch contributions like service, mentorship, and diversity initiatives, promoting equity and improving faculty retention.

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A "JAMA" article titled "Elevating Service in Academic Medicine—The S-Index" by Rebekah Mannix and Michael J. Bell, published online October 1, 2025, discusses the need for a service index in academic medicine.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7d

Here is NIDA

They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7d

Here is NIA.

NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.

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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 8d

New work led by @mattmattoni.bsky.social

“Overall, results suggest that BOLD activation to reward tasks, and likely other fMRI tasks, is more appropriate for within-person study than between-person study, highlighting a need for intensive longitudinal neuroimaging designs.”

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 9d

Precision Imaging for Intraindividual Investigation of the Reward Response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678878v1

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Matt Mattoni @mattmattoni.bsky.social · 9d

🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 13d

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

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Fiery Cushman @fierycushman.bsky.social · 15d

This was such a fun project! Dozens of philosophers wrote philosophical arguments trying to get people to donate more to charity, and we ask: Do any of these work? Which ones work best? Why?

Kirstan Brodie @kirstanbrodie.bsky.social · 16d

Can reasoned arguments shift moral behavior? In a new preprint, @eschwitz.bsky.social, Jason Nemirow, @fierycushman.bsky.social and I explore this question in the context of charitable donation. (1/10)

Title: Philosophical Arguments Can Boost Charitable Giving
Authors: Kirstan Brodie, Eric Schwitzgebel, Jason Nemirow, and Fiery Cushman

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 17d

PELICAN: a Longitudinal Image Processing Pipeline for Analyzing Structural Magnetic Resonance Images in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease Populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.677546v1

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 28d

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...

I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Tenure-Track

The Department of Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, plans to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, with a start date of September 1, 2026. We seek a candidate...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29d

Updating my analysis now that August data should be relatively complete.

Not great news...

The rate of investment of the appropriation is not increasing and it seems unlikely that the entire appropriation will be committed this year.

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Keith Maddox @maddblackprof.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Department of Psychology at Tufts University is conducting a search for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Computational Psychology with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, beginning September 1, 2026.

Details can be found here: apply.interfolio.com/172807.

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simine vazire @simine.com · Sep 4

If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10

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Lauren Atlas @laurenatlas.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow what a rich dataset! Amazing work @jungheejung.bsky.social !

Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · Sep 4

[7/7] 🚀 Sharing this to collaboratively advance naturalistic, cognitive, pain, & affective neuroscience!

Huge thanks to all amazing co-authors who made this possible!

Paper: rdcu.be/eBTy2
@ScientificData

Dataset: openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Sep 3

Some "good for now" news reported by @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social in case you didn't catch it last week.

With some good advice from @scott-delaney.bsky.social.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Legal adviser warns NIH not to kill 900 grants a second time

Advice follows Supreme Court ruling that threatened previously restored grants, but reprieve may be brief

www.science.org

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning - Nature

Human exploration is driven by two distinct neural mechanisms, a valence-independent rate signal and a valence-dependent global noise signal.

www.nature.com

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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · Aug 26

PCI-Psychology just start accepting submissions.

If you go through their peer review and get endorsed, you can automatically publish with PCI affiliated journals requiring no additional peer review. Some have a quick internal check decision process.

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PCI Psychology

Peer Community in Psychology

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 19

As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children.

Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody

Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · Aug 18

New work from the lab led by @jenyangyi.bsky.social !

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 18

Older Adults Show Altered Network Connectivity during Fairness Decisions with Similar and Dissimilar Partners https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.670194v1

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