An aerial photograph of the Tilburg University campus.
I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.
We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.
tiu.nu/22989
New blog post!
Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot?
In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions.
#rstats
Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!
𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData
The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit
The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.
tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8
A welcome - and long overdue - step. But while it’s necessary, it’s deeply insufficient - and must be accompanied by urgent action to help bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and an end to all arms sales to Israel.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
The TMS-RAT v1.0 is now being tested!
It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses
All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned!
tms-rat.org
Speak out - name it as genocide - and then act. End all arms sales, impose a wide range of sanctions and call for the arrest and trial of all those guilty of war crimes, including prime minister Netanyahu.
Important new report out today ⬇️
Our briefing today calls for parliamentarians to respond urgently to Israel's chilling plans for escalation - and to uphold Britain's basic legal, historic & moral obligations to the Palestinian people.
Read it here: britpalcommittee.co.uk/nakba77briefing
Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal.
And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.
Yep. And @bartlettje.bsky.social wrote a tremendous tutorial on how to get started. Absolute solid gold. bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio...
the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person
👁️💡 How much do we really see?
@marco-gandolfo.bsky.social reveals how our brains process the unexpected, with surprising differences across age and gender.
With over 14,000 participants at muZIEum, it’s the largest public #inattentional #blindness experiment to date.
🔗 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
New post: Examining the gap between psychedelic promises and scientific reality. Small, transient effects with major methodological issues don't justify the revolutionary claims. Recreational use? Fine. Mental health miracle? Not so fast. Evidence just isn't there.
open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
🚨 Aid operations in #Gaza are on the brink of collapse.
The consequences are already deadly.
We call on world leaders to press for:
❗️Lifting the blockade
❗️A renewed ceasefire
❗️Letting aid organizations operate in line with humanitarian principles
#ActForHumanity
Introducing Dr Wendy Higgins and the Reading the Mammal in the Eyes Test.
I'm running a data upskilling workshop on using Quarto/Github Pages for dissemination. I cover books, presentations, and websites, and you can see all the materials here: bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio.... To quote @emilynordmann.bsky.social "For the love of god, share what you do"!
New research by Wendy Higgins, @vsavalei.bsky.social, Vince Polito, and me shows that the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test scores have poor structural properties. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interested in using behavioural science to tackle pollution? I'm advertising a fully-funded interdisciplinary PhD project at the Uni of Sheffield with @sheffielddust.bsky.social & Darpan Das (Uni of York), to start Sep 2025. Application deadline 4th April! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PsySciSky
💃🧠 Psyched to share my latest paper in Neuron on the past, present and future of dance neuroscience research! Crazy to think where this field will be in 20 more years 🚀
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkh3_KOmx...
#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience
Lay summary in The Conversation: theconversation.com/heads-vs-tai...
Open data and code: osf.io/zd5ey/
Unequal resource division that follows from a random difference with an individual may make discrimination more prevalent and occur for partly different reasons than is commonly assumed, whilst also raising questions for group-based theories of discrimination.
New paper with @dredeschrijver.bsky.social. Discriminatory tendencies emerge when participants are not divided into groups and only interact with a single person that demonstrates a different quantity estimate, painting preference, or even coin flip.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A tutorial on analysing time-to-event data (e.g. response times). @svenpanis.bsky.social and I provide guidelines and R code that show you how to prepare data, fit multi-level regression models and plan future studies using data simulation.
#rstats
osf.io/preprints/ps...
github.com/sven-panis/T...
How does learning to name or tie knots shape cognitive processes? Here we analyse old data from @escross.bsky.social to gain new insight into the computational mechanisms that govern experience-dependent plasticity.
preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
code: github.com/rich-ramsey/...
🤖 New Study on how people perceive Humanoid Robots!
How do we distinguish between humans and #humanoid robots?
Discover more about this work and big thanks to amazing people @escross.bsky.social @richramseyphd.bsky.social @scandle.bsky.social:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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