We’re hiring!
Interested in conducting research on cognitive control, multitasking and aging with @gethinhughes.bsky.social, @sarahdepue.bsky.social and me?
We are looking for a PhD candidate to join our lab @cogtex.bsky.social at KU Leuven.
RTs much appreciated!
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
New preprint with @chenyuli.bsky.social!
We wrote a hands-on tutorial for applying the Memory Measurement Model (M3) to categorical recall data using the #bmm R package. It contains four examples, complete R scripts, and a parameter recovery workflow.
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Just a few more days left to apply! Come join our lab!🥳
Postdoctoral Research Position in Cognition, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The successful applicant will work with Prof. Dr. Evie Vergauwe and Prof. Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock on a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Application deadline: 25th March 2026.
Join our lab in Geneva, as a postdoc working on #workingmemory, with both Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and myself !
Are you a postdoc enthusiastic about #workingmemory research? Then you should consider applying! I had the pleasure of being part of the @wmsymposium.bsky.social organizer team until last year. It has truly been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career!
Aarhus University is hiring:
Associate Professor of Educational and Developmental Psychology
#associateprofessorposition
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Sending this to all my PhD students, winning advisor of the year award (it was a mistake)
This. SO. Much.
This is going to take my thinking in circles to the next level.
Are we still using the #workingmemory tag? Relevant for anyone there – bring back the delayed reproduction task and the computational model wars! #teamnotpureslots #teamnotpureresourceseither
🎄 Ho-Ho-Holiday Alert! 🎄
Wishing you happy holidays & happy new year!
A shout-out to all our collaborators, students, & colleagues for an inspiring year 2025. Grateful to be part of such a supportive & curious research community!🤓
Here’s to exciting new ideas, discoveries, & exchanges in 2026! 🥂🎊
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.
Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”
Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Grassroots networks can help implement and harmonize open research efforts Agata Bochynska, Tamara Kalandadze, Max Korbmacher, Lewend Mayiwar, Julien Mayor, Daniel Quintana Abstract Grassroots networks are peer-led, bottom-up initiatives that can drive meaningful change in research reform. Norwegian Reproducibility Network (NORRN), a nation-wide initiative after the model from similar networks around the world, is an example of a grassroots network where a community of researchers works together towards more transparent, rigorous and robust research. By connecting with other researchers, librarians and research support staff across Norwegian universities and colleges as well as various stakeholders, including higher-education institutions and research funders, NORRN aims to help implement and harmonize open and reproducible research efforts across the country. In this paper, we describe the origins, mission,and structure of NORRN and similar networks, as well as successes, challenges and future directions of NORRN’s efforts that show a critical role of grassroots initiatives in supporting research improvement.
The map of NORRN’s local and institutional nodes at Norwegian universities and colleges (per 15.10.2025).
New paper!
We describe how grassroots networks can help implement and harmonize open research efforts via our experience establishing the Norwegian Reproducibility Network -@norrepro.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.7557/11.8...
[hands someone my beer]
Hear me out guys: "Many Adversaries"
Open Science NL is funding 27 replication studies with €5.2M. Projects will reanalyse data, repeat experiments, and explore variations across many fields. Read more 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/27-s...
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My holiday gift to you: three hours of the worst Christmas music known to humanity. Apple Music and Spotify links can be found at shitm.as
Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
New conspiracy theory just dropped:
What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?
For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience
Our lab at the University of Amsterdam is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to examine how young children’s emotions develop across cultures.
This position is part of our @erc.europa.eu project on the emergence of distinct emotions in human development.
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
🚨 Update on the SwissRN Annual Meeting
Find the complete program of our 4th annual meeting now here:
www.swissrn.org/contents/new...
📅 December 05, 2025, 09:30-17:00, Hybrid format
📌 Universität Basel, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056, room U1.101
Please register by 31 October 2025.
https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/eine-gelbe-gummiente-die-auf-einem-tisch-sitzt-m-V15qtqEns
Wir sind verzweifelt. Vorschläge? #ente #wurst #wicklungspsychologie
Faculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25
www.umb.edu/academics/pr...
#devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky
The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Collaborate with us!! #workingmemory
How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro
Make sure to stop at Ceren Arslan‘s (@scannedfruits.bsky.social) poster at #ICON2025 today at 3:30! She‘s presenting some of our recent EEG work on audiovisual object storage in #WorkingMemory! 👇
Congrats to @lauraklatt.bsky.social for being the #WomWoM research fairy of 2025! She is both a star researcher & incredibly generous and collegial with all in the field, especially the juniors! Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations & to @scannedfruits.bsky.social for making Laura's wand 🪄🧚♀️