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David Luque

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Experimental study of habits and goal-directed actions. Málaga, Spain. https://davluque.wordpress.com/

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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 16h

Apply for our Scientific Traineeships!

A 5-months paid traineeship at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Open to graduates in different scientific fields.

All information: europa.eu/!mBn7wR
#ResearchJobs #EUScienceJobs #JRC

Scientific traineeships - apply by 21 October. Text accompanied by a photo of two researchers, one older man and a young woman, looking at a screen in a lab.

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Miriam Tortajada @miriamtg.bsky.social · 2d

Estamos de vuelta! 🥳

ReproducibiliTea UM @reproducibiliteaum.bsky.social · 2d

Hola de nuevo! Nuestro ya querido ReproducibiliTea está de vuelta un curso más 🤗. Para retomar el ritmo, este mes abordaremos un artículo en forma de comentario sobre la cuestión de si merece la pena coordinarnos mejor en ciencia 🤝. Os esperamos el próximo 27 de octubre a las 16h.

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 2d

Breaking Nobel news!🏅

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants.
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 2d

From Wikipedia "Aghion thus highlights the importance of institutional transitions: only the adoption of appropriate policies—higher education, support for basic research, developed financial markets, and effective competition—makes it possible to avoid growth slowdown..."

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 19d

📣The 2026 ERC Consolidator Grant competition is now open! 📣

Already preparing your proposal? Info links ⬇️

Info for applicants 👉 buff.ly/PSbeUxX

Application portal 👉 buff.ly/mauZoqo

Deadline: 13/01/26

General info on #ERCCoG 👉 buff.ly/KCN6GTh

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 6d

El lunes no te dejan depositar

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 8d

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 8d

That's one reason why I like preregistration so much

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 8d

Am slowly making my way through this paper. And it is an impressive body of work by a collection of great researchers.

However, I have a couple of problems with it...

1/n

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 14d

Benchmarks for Associative Learning Models: https://osf.io/qsgz8

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 11d

It was an excellent representation of current approaches to habit research

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 11d

And I talked about how habits persist over time

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 11d

Marta Miquel about habits, cocaine and the cerebellum

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 11d

Pilar Flores talked about electrophysiological markers for flexibility

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 11d

Paula Banca presented work about habits, automaticity and their relationship with OCD

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 11d

The symposium on habits at the International Spanish Comparative Psychology Society has been fantastic. Thanks to the organisers, the audience and of course the speakers. Here it follows what each talk was about:

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 13d

The authors could have been saved a lot of time and effort just asking Gonzalo @gurcelay.bsky.social 🤣

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 13d

In which 94 benchmark phenomena are identified.

16 are domain- and species-general and should be explained by any theory claiming generality.

30 are species- and/or domain-specific but highly robust across procedures

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 14d

Benchmarks for Associative Learning Models: https://osf.io/qsgz8

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Laura Bradfield (she/her) @bradfield-neuro.bsky.social · 16d

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Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology, here we mimicked the striatal neuroinflammation seen in the brains of individuals with compulsive disorders and found that this facilitated goal-directed action, whereas activating the Gi pathway in astrocytes prevented it

Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function

Neuropsychopharmacology - Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · 21d

Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?

David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 19d

From 10 to 20. One morning each. It is hard to write in a foreign language

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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 21d

Call for papers on conflict adaptation across single- and multi-tasking paradigms in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition

The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 25d

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

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Mike Le Pelley @mikelepelley.bsky.social · 26d

I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...

GitHub - LewisPeacockLab/MorePower: Installer for MorePower 6.0 (windows)

Installer for MorePower 6.0 (windows). Contribute to LewisPeacockLab/MorePower development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Francisco Garre-Frutos @frangfr.bsky.social · Sep 12

Does facilitation by irrelevant distractors reflect suppression or controlled attentional capture? By reanalyzing prior work using the perceptual load paradigm, we find evidence for the latter!

If you are interested, check out the latest version of our preprint 👇

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Francisco Garre-Frutos @frangfr.bsky.social · Sep 15

While measuring habits in humans experimentally is hard, on Bluesky it’s much easier: just count your “save omission errors” (the number of times you forget you can now save posts).