From Lab to Concert Hall: Effects of Live Performance on Neural-Acoustic Phase-Locking and Engagement. 1st MIND Lab × NEC collab, led by @arun-asthagiri.bsky.social Open access ⬇️ #neuroskyence #musicscience #psyscisky 2/2
academic.oup.com/scan/advance-article/doi/10.1093/scan/nsag021/8529477

'No difference across genders was found for either emotion expression or emotion perception.' #psyscisky

#ehbea #hbes
#EvPsych
#SocialPsychology
#PsySciSky
#Anthropology

@durham.ac.uk

Favourable ethics decision received, I can finally start data collection hooray!!!

#phdlife #musicscience #psyscisky how's your Tuesday going?

My impression is that Latent Class Growth Analysis is usually not that informative (or maybe I just don’t get what information we’re learning). Does anyone know a good critical paper on this? #stats #psyscisky

the tech industry’s flawed model of your brain: a case study in how… Two news stories today hit a consistent theme of mine: the tech industry has a serious problem - profound, deep, worrisome. BL, UF: they have precisely no idea how…

Today's tech stories were so dumb I had to write about them: the tech industry’s flawed model of your brain: a case study in how clever people can be so very stupid steady.page/en/cognitive...
#cognition #techbro #brain #affordances #psyscisky #neuroskyence #memory #learning

We've got another brilliant and FREE online UKPTS Bites coming up, with one of the architects of ICD-11 CPTSD diagnosis!

"Complex PTSD: What's next?"
Prof. Marylene Cloitre

Friday 17 October 2025
4-4.30pm (UK)

More information: ukpts.org/events

#trauma #PTSD #CPTSD #psychology #psyscisky

School changes minds: A meta-analysis shows that schooling modestly improves children’s executive functions Formal schooling places new demands on young children, requiring the inhibition of prepotent responses, sustained attention to instructions, and compl…

Have you ever wondered whether going to school IN AND OF ITSELF improves children’s thinking skills? We found that it does! But not by much (about 1/4 standard deviations). Meta-analysis with Jamie Donenfeld and @erikblaser.bsky.social #DevPsySky #PsySciSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond the Dyad: Infant Vocal Cues Organize Conversational‐Turn Taking in Infant‐Toddler Classrooms Conversations with caregivers scaffold infant language development. The importance of conversational turn-taking is widely demonstrated in dyadic interactions, particularly in home environments. Less...

- @rachelralbert.bsky.social et al. (2025): Infants’ directed & mature vocalisations predict ⬆️ educator convos in ECE classrooms. Group size did not predict convo length ➡️ educators skillfully maintain multi-turn convos w/ multiple infants #DevPsySky #PsySciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

The Infant Behavior Questionnaire Factor Structure Varies With Sample Characteristics The Infant Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ) has been widely used to assess infant temperament traits, though there is limited empirical support for the recommended three-factor structure. The present stu...

- @annamzhou.bsky.social, @drkoraly.bsky.social, Lobue & @kabuss.bsky.social (2025): The Infant Behavior Questionnaire’s 3-factor structure varies across sociodemographic groups, highlighting the need for alternative approaches in diverse samples #PsySciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

We're already getting excited for #UKPTS2026

🚨Get involved and submit your abstracts now!🚨

"The Burden of Care: #Trauma & #Moral Injury in the UK Public Sector"

26.01.2026

ukpts.org/conference2026

#conference #bluelight #healthcare #psyscisky #psychology #ethics

Psychology, Assistant Teaching Professor Special Instructions to ApplicantsApplications will be reviewed beginning October 1 and continue until the position is filled. Please feel free to con...

We have two full time teaching-track positions in the School of Psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi. usm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #AcademicSky #PsySciSky #psychology #teaching

Finished building my survey for my first empirical study *happy dance*

So grateful to friends and colleagues who have volunteered some time for piloting / de-bugging #phdlife #musicscience #academicscience #psyscisky

I should add that this would not have happened without federal support from the National Science Foundation’s Career award which not only paid the participants, but also enabled the combined #psychology and #music major @northeasternu.bsky.social #psyscisky to grow #musicscience 🎹🧠

#psyscisky
#metascience

#academicsky #musicscience #psyscisky #acoustics #Salford #auraldiversity

Revisiting the human sociobiology debate What have we learned 50 years on?

🚨 New, short article by myself, Clark Barrett and @kevinlala.bsky.social on the legacy of Wilson's 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis', which was published 50 years ago.

@science.org #ehbea #histbiol #evobio #psyscisky

Revisiting the human sociobiology debate |Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"I have good work-life balance. I only work like 50-60 hours a week."
Spoken by a friend, a true GenX -er.
How would you define work-life balance?

#AcadmicSky #PsySciSky #DevSciSky

Bilingual Language Input to Infants in Bolivia and the United States Characterizing dual language input in children's environments is critical to understand how early language experiences influence bilingual language development. However, little is known about how dua...

(1/2) Cychosz, Villanueva et al. (2025): In 2 bilingual communities, infants heard majority societal language from children > adults, and in child‐directed > adult-directed speech, opposite pattern for minoritized language #EarlyYears #PsySciSky #DevSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Looks like an interesting special issue on the evolution of cognition. Congrats to the editors.

#psyscisky #ehbea 🧪

We’ve got a wonderful UKPTS Bites coming, before we take a short break for the summer)

#Compassion Focused Therapy for #ComplexPTSD
Dr Deborah Lee
Fri 18 July 2025
12-12.30pm (UK)

It’s online. It’s free. Be kind to yourself and sign up: UKPTS.org/bites

#CPTSD #ESTSS2025 #trauma #psyscisky

I thought hunting for novelty got us in this mess to begin with
#Metascience #PsySciSky

Sex and the Riddle of Variability Scientific research associations, funders, and publishers have recently introduced sex inclusion mandates requiring the use of male and female specimens in preclinical research designs and the analysi...

Richardson (2025) @profrichardson.bsky.social: "The debate over measuring variability in preclinical science shows that operationalizing “sex as a biological variable”... requires... contextual judgements at multiple decision points".

@ptpbio.bsky.social #psyscisky #neurosky 🧪
tinyurl.com/3vvah3x7

There will be selected highlights here of our international gathering of #psycologicaltrauma professionals throughout the next few days. Do check out the full programme www.estss2025.com

#psyscisky #psychology #ptsd #trauma #AIinhealthcare #conference

MSN

We don't understand how networks of neurons in the brain give rise to intelligence and consciousness, and we don't understand how LLMs so convincingly emulate that.

We. Don't. Understand.

It's hubris to dismiss true AI in LLMs as logically impossible.

free article: bit.ly/4kVXk3c

3/3
#psyscisky

The findings (mentioned near the end of the article) about community-minded framing, if true, suggest our intuitions about the efficacy of shaming are misleading and unproductive. How strong is that evidence? It's intriguing because it is counterintuitive. Anyone know? #PsySciSky #EconSky

💪 Work has started on the next #psychoSoph #Comic.

#wisskomm #scicomm #psychology #psyscisky #webcomic

Soph works on her laptop. The text says: „#New chapter. Work has started! www.psychosophcomic.com“.

🎬 Let’s go! I started work on the next #psychoSophComic a while ago. Stay tuned!

📖 In the meanwhile, read the other chapters on the webpage: psychosophcomic.com

#wisskomm #scicomm #psychology #sciart #psyscisky #webcomic

Atari, Henrich & Schulz (2025): "We discuss the need for psychology to adopt a more holistic lens and propose a research agenda that integrates historical processes, cultural dynamics and ecological variations into psychological inquiry."

#psyscisky #ehbea 🧪

What podcasts, audiobooks, films, documentaries etc would you recommend to new Psychology undergraduate students?

Please reply below, for possible inclusion in our July/August issue 'Culture' section.

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