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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 1d

One week left to apply!

Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 14d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 2d

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

codec lab

codec-lab.github.io

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 7d

Gather round, all those bayes curious, pragmatic, committed or indifferent, for an elegant and flexible way to approach reliability estimation using bayesian measurement models! All thoughts and ideas welcome

Giacomo Bignardi @bignardi.bsky.social · 7d

New preprint with @rogierk.bsky.social @paulbuerkner.com - we introduce "relative measurement uncertainty" - a reliability estimation method that's applicable across a broad class of Bayesian measurement models (e.g., generative-, computational- and item response theory-models osf.io/h54k8

OSF

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Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 9d

😍 Our latest is out now in @commspsychol.nature.com. 🤩 We show with Bayesian modelling and experimental manipulation of uncertainty that developmental differences in social influence depend on differences in the internal uncertainty people have about their choice
doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Internal uncertainty impacts social information use in risky choice across adolescence - Communications Psychology

Adolescents’ choices are influenced by others. A social risky choice experiment and Bayesian modelling reveal that age differences in internal uncertainty, being unsure how to choose, relate to differences in susceptibility to social influence.

doi.org

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 13d

Simonsohn has now posted a blog response to our recent paper about the poor statistical properties of the P curve. @clintin.bsky.social and I are finishing up a less-technical paper that will serve as a response. But I wanted to address a meta-issue *around* this that may clarify some things. 1/x

Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 14d

Would p-curve work if you dropped a piano on it?
datacolada.org/129

PIano being dropped on car in car testing facility

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Giacomo Bignardi @bignardi.bsky.social · 14d

📣New study 📣 We examined the prevalence of food insecurity and its association with mental health and wellbeing, using the 2023 @oxwell.bsky.social survey of 38,430 children and young people aged 8–19 in England with @sjblakemore.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/jcv2...

JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library

BackgroundWe aimed to assess the prevalence of food insecurity reported by children and young people in four areas of England in 2023 and examine its association with mental health and wellbeing. Met...

doi.org

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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 16d

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall

We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection

🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply

#comppsychiatry #socialneuro

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Thùy Vy T Nguyễn @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social · 28d

👋 We are running an online roundtable at #APSGlobal on 22 OCT at 5PM EDT. Come join @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social @ygirme.bsky.social and me to discuss:

"Solitude and Singlehood: Balancing the Need for Autonomy and Social Connection"

Early-bird registration due in 1 week!
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

APS Global Psychological Science Summit
Virtual conference from October 21-25, 2025
Early-bird rates end September 17

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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 22d

Check out @bcdavidson.bsky.social's preprint (w/ @georgiaturner.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social and co.) about the (computational) consequences of social isolation in social media use during covid!

Brandon C Davidson @bcdavidson.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media.

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Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited?

It turns out, yes!

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Livia Tomova @livia-tomova.bsky.social · 22d

So great to see this work out, led by the outstanding @bcdavidson.bsky.social !

Brandon C Davidson @bcdavidson.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media.

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Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited?

It turns out, yes!

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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Sep 8

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning.
@livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents - Communications Psychology

This study shows that, following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. Access to virtual social interactions duri...

www.nature.com

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Livia Tomova @livia-tomova.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very excited for this to be out! We found that acute isolation increased reward seeking and reward learning in adolescents aged 16-19 years
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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@emilyanntowner.bsky.social
@stepalminteri.bsky.social
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Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents - Communications Psychology

This study shows that, following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. Access to virtual social interactions duri...

www.nature.com

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · Sep 5

Teenagers are especially sensitive to loneliness, new #research has found.

But when social reconnection isn’t possible, this can drive them to seeking harmful rewards like alcohol or drugs.

Study by @campsydept.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social

https://bit.ly/464WGKS

Teen loneliness triggers ‘reward seeking’ behaviour

A study has found that adolescents become highly motivated to seek rewards after just a few hours of social isolation. This may be beneficial in driving them

bit.ly

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · Aug 8

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397

Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.

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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · Aug 8

@anagantman.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully gotten back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition

Everyday Revenge

We are interested in stories of everyday revenge—cases where you successfully got back at someone after being wronged. Please think up an experience of when you took revenge and tell us about it. Pl...

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · Jul 18

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · Jul 24

Delighted to share Resources for Researchers webpage has received a 2025 Commendation from @improvingpsych.org! We look forward to continuing this work to help everyone navigate academia and help academia be more welcoming to everyone!
www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...

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Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani.bsky.social · Jul 19

My colleague Quentin Atkinson wrote this piece - How Not To Run a University. It is an insanely good read about how managerialism is destroying universities.

Make time for it. Talk about it. Share it.

quentinatkinson.substack.com/s/how-not-to...

How not to run a university | Quentin’s Substack | Quentin Atkinson | Substack

A case study of one university’s managerial misadventures, why it is happening and what we can do about it. Click to read Quentin’s Substack, by Quentin Atkinson, a Substack publication. Launched a mo...

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Livia Tomova @livia-tomova.bsky.social · Jul 16

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an 8-year Wellcome Career Development Award to investigate how loneliness affects young people's brains and minds!! Grateful for the support and excited for the road ahead!
@wellcometrust.bsky.social

www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...

The impacts of loneliness in young people

£1.5 million investment into the impacts of loneliness on the brains of young people.

www.cardiff.ac.uk

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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science” www.cell.com/trends/cogni... new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social piece with @connectedmindslab.bsky.social we highlight how a focus on young adults as a benchmark of ‘human’ behaviour has shaped cognitive science in several ways 👇

Relying on PRIME young adults limits cognitive science

Cognitive science has made remarkable strides in understanding cognition and behaviour. However, a critical issue persists. Most studies focus on PRIME populations – young adults who are productive, r...

www.cell.com

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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · Jun 11

Nature Neuroscience

What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes

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

What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes - Nature Neuroscience

How does the brain learn to predict rewards? In this issue of Nature Neuroscience, Qian, Burrell et al. show that understanding how dopamine guides learning requires knowledge of how animals interpret...

www.nature.com

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Livia Tomova @livia-tomova.bsky.social · Jun 11

Wonderful news - congratulations Camilla!! 🎉

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · May 28

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

Postdoctoral Researcher in social/cognitive neuroscience with focus on social learning

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researcher.

shorturl.at

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · May 27

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Funded PhD opportunity.pdf

drive.google.com

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · May 12

Andrew Gelman on point here
sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/resea...

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