saying you’ll stand up for attacks on science in the US while honouring the person responsible for the attacks is like handing out bandages to people who are being savaged by your pet dog, while doing nothing to restrain him
Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In Dutch / Flemish we say Only the sun rises for free (“Voor niks gaat de zon op”)
Given how intensely pressured academic careers are it is not surprising peer review systems and research outputs are at risk of becoming less thorough than expected. #slowscience
Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge.
Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
This is shocking behaviour by Wiley; the stated justification does not stand up.
I will not be doing any peer review for Wiley journals in future.
Well done, get better soon and enjoy your sabbatical!
The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility.
Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.
How bad will it be? Catastrophic.
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
Well, it's a while since I gave these talks, but i'm pleased that UKRN has now got them up online with a DOI:
Productivity and reproducibility: conflicting pressures on scientists? 10.52843/cassyni.504m8k
How current research practices are damaging science: 10.52843/cassyni.dwp8lw
Enjoy!
If only a handful of Republicans in the Senate had the decency to caucus with Democrats and end this madness, not because they agree with capital D Democrats but because they valued lower case d democracy. The fact that this is so implausible is capital D Depressing.
A group of researchers standing outside a building. At first glance they look like different people because they have distinctive hairstyles and are wearing different clothes. But their faces are in fact identical and were generated by averaging many faces. This image illustrates how some people with face blindness (prosopagnosia) find it very difficult to tell faces apart despite seeing them clearly.
New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology
openletter.earth/against-lang...
Congratulations and best of luck! Keep that enthusiasm for working in academia, it can be tough but is worth it.
Harvard sued the Trump admin today 💪🏽🥳💯
www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
From random walk to guided search
I wonder what the cost benefit analysis of having an ID card looks like - if ever there was one.
Come back to B’ham Kim!
A hand drawn graph showing the rise in global land temperatures published in 1938.
87 years ago.
In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming.
He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal.
87 years ago.
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
I guess Kiki can be edgy
Congratulations!
Today is the centenary of the birth of composer, conductor, writer, musical life creator Pierre Boulez (1925-2016). Here some essentials to get to know the man and his fascinating music
Royal Society honours pioneering scientists who were first female members
@royalsociety.org
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
I’d say those are signs one needs professional help. Just a break won’t do.
Exciting new study uncovering a genetic link between sensory sensitivity and #autism via #alexithymia
doi.org/10.1038/s413...
by Yorke et al. @proffrancescahappe.bsky.social and Geoff Bird
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!
New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence
New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣
In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶♀️ upright human form 🚶♂️
@dondersinst.bsky.social
Open access link
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Per @statnews.com, a group of researchers has filed a lawsuit against 6 academic publishers, alleging antitrust violations.
"The need to confront what has been going on in the scientific publishing area is very overdue," said COS Sr. Director of Research Tim Errington.
🗞️: www.statnews.com/202...