Alex Danvers
@drdanvers.bsky.social
Social Psychologist, Data Scientist, Baseball Fan, Dog Dad, Improviser
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🧪 Just spent the morning reading this review article by @colleenjg.bsky.social and team. Really highlights momentum and challenges to open science adoption.
Neuroscience has gotten substantially more computationally intensive over the years, and now requires new approaches, training and funding.
Neuroscience has gotten substantially more computationally intensive over the years, and now requires new approaches, training and funding.
Open Data In Neurophysiology: Advancements, Solutions & Challenges
Ongoing efforts over the last 50 years have made data and methods more reproducible and transparent across the life sciences. This openness has led to transformative insights and vastly accelerated sc...
www.eneuro.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🧪 Just spent the morning reading this review article by @colleenjg.bsky.social and team. Really highlights momentum and challenges to open science adoption.
Neuroscience has gotten substantially more computationally intensive over the years, and now requires new approaches, training and funding.
Neuroscience has gotten substantially more computationally intensive over the years, and now requires new approaches, training and funding.
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“I will die on the hill that population coding is the relevant level of encoding information in the brain.” In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Nancy Padilla-Coreano discusses a paper on mixed selectivity neurons.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
This paper changed my life: Nancy Padilla-Coreano on learning the value of population coding
The 2013 Nature paper by Mattia Rigotti and his colleagues revealed how mixed selectivity neurons—cells that are not selectively tuned to a stimulus—play a key role in cognition.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“I will die on the hill that population coding is the relevant level of encoding information in the brain.” In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Nancy Padilla-Coreano discusses a paper on mixed selectivity neurons.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
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Most basic neuroscience research in the U.S. is funded by the federal government, but there is an entire funding landscape that lies beyond those federal agencies. To bring those sources together, @thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a funding source directory: bit.ly/4pBBF2B
#StateOfNeuroscience
#StateOfNeuroscience
Neuroscience funding: A source directory
Our list features expected and lesser-known governmental and nongovernmental sources of funding for basic neuroscience research.
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Take-aways: Model-based planning …
🍽️ does not improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊, or iCBT 👩💻
🍽️ is not necessarily compromised in depression & appears specifically linked to compulsivity
🍽️ may be trait-like rather than state-dependent
🍽️ does not improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊, or iCBT 👩💻
🍽️ is not necessarily compromised in depression & appears specifically linked to compulsivity
🍽️ may be trait-like rather than state-dependent
October 24, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Take-aways: Model-based planning …
🍽️ does not improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊, or iCBT 👩💻
🍽️ is not necessarily compromised in depression & appears specifically linked to compulsivity
🍽️ may be trait-like rather than state-dependent
🍽️ does not improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊, or iCBT 👩💻
🍽️ is not necessarily compromised in depression & appears specifically linked to compulsivity
🍽️ may be trait-like rather than state-dependent
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Patients with depression often report cognitive problems incl. inhibition, task-shifting and updating; critical for model-based planning 💭 But, links with depression are unclear (small N’s & cross-sectional findings) & we don’t know IF or HOW treatments affect this capacity❓
October 24, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Patients with depression often report cognitive problems incl. inhibition, task-shifting and updating; critical for model-based planning 💭 But, links with depression are unclear (small N’s & cross-sectional findings) & we don’t know IF or HOW treatments affect this capacity❓
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Pay attention at #NIH to peer review of grant applications.
I don't think it's too much to say the keystone of US biomedical science is NIH's Center for Scientific Review.
CSR organizes peer review—relying on 25k US scientists. Review helps isolate grantmaking from political interference.
But! /1
I don't think it's too much to say the keystone of US biomedical science is NIH's Center for Scientific Review.
CSR organizes peer review—relying on 25k US scientists. Review helps isolate grantmaking from political interference.
But! /1
DOGE holdover who pushed for deep cuts at HHS is headed to the Navy
Rachel Riley, a former McKinsey partner, helped execute sweeping layoffs at the health department this spring. Behind the scenes, her methods sparked turmoil.
www.politico.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Pay attention at #NIH to peer review of grant applications.
I don't think it's too much to say the keystone of US biomedical science is NIH's Center for Scientific Review.
CSR organizes peer review—relying on 25k US scientists. Review helps isolate grantmaking from political interference.
But! /1
I don't think it's too much to say the keystone of US biomedical science is NIH's Center for Scientific Review.
CSR organizes peer review—relying on 25k US scientists. Review helps isolate grantmaking from political interference.
But! /1
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Holiday stress isn’t just about the turkey 🦃—when parents feel burned out during the holidays, their genuine emotional expression drops.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@juliareiter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@juliareiter.bsky.social
Higher momentary parental burnout predicts lower subsequent emotional expression in parents during the festive season - Communications Psychology
Using a 35-day experience sampling study with 293 parents, this research explores dynamic links between parental burnout and genuine emotional expression during the holiday season, uncovering unidirec...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Holiday stress isn’t just about the turkey 🦃—when parents feel burned out during the holidays, their genuine emotional expression drops.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@juliareiter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@juliareiter.bsky.social
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⬇️ A within-person lens to unpack parental burnout, focusing on their interplay and dynamic patterns during the Christmas season, an emotionally charged period that offers a valuable time window to study affective dynamics in parenting. #PsychSciSky 🧠📈
Holiday stress isn’t just about the turkey 🦃—when parents feel burned out during the holidays, their genuine emotional expression drops.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@juliareiter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@juliareiter.bsky.social
Higher momentary parental burnout predicts lower subsequent emotional expression in parents during the festive season - Communications Psychology
Using a 35-day experience sampling study with 293 parents, this research explores dynamic links between parental burnout and genuine emotional expression during the holiday season, uncovering unidirec...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
⬇️ A within-person lens to unpack parental burnout, focusing on their interplay and dynamic patterns during the Christmas season, an emotionally charged period that offers a valuable time window to study affective dynamics in parenting. #PsychSciSky 🧠📈
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New open access paper in which we apply the Nyquist-Shannon thereom from signal processing to 2 EMA datasets to figure out the optimal sampling frequency for EMA assessments.
🧪 #psychscisky #statssky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New open access paper in which we apply the Nyquist-Shannon thereom from signal processing to 2 EMA datasets to figure out the optimal sampling frequency for EMA assessments.
🧪 #psychscisky #statssky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Optimizing the frequency of ecological momentary assessments using signal processing | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Optimizing the frequency of ecological momentary assessments using signal processing - Volume 55
www.cambridge.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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New open access paper in which we apply the Nyquist-Shannon thereom from signal processing to 2 EMA datasets to figure out the optimal sampling frequency for EMA assessments.
🧪 #psychscisky #statssky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New open access paper in which we apply the Nyquist-Shannon thereom from signal processing to 2 EMA datasets to figure out the optimal sampling frequency for EMA assessments.
🧪 #psychscisky #statssky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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#CriminalJustice and #Legal scholars working on #empirical topics, do submit your work here. I had a fantastic experience, thorough reviews, short waiting time, great communication with the editorial team, and it is all 💎OA, so my university doesn't have to send £3K to Springer Nature stakeholders.
'Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls', with Melissa Hamilton & @pwgtennant.bsky.social, just out at the European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
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publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#CriminalJustice and #Legal scholars working on #empirical topics, do submit your work here. I had a fantastic experience, thorough reviews, short waiting time, great communication with the editorial team, and it is all 💎OA, so my university doesn't have to send £3K to Springer Nature stakeholders.
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🎉new paper out in Motivation Science🎉
Why are we eating fries when ego-depletion is wrong🍟?
While there is little evidence that ego-depletion (inhibited self-control after brief demands) is a robust effect, many have experienced troubles with their goals when being tired...
Why are we eating fries when ego-depletion is wrong🍟?
While there is little evidence that ego-depletion (inhibited self-control after brief demands) is a robust effect, many have experienced troubles with their goals when being tired...
And Yet They Tire: Cognitive Fatigue Facilitates Task Disengagement and Worsens Performance | Request PDF
Request PDF | And Yet They Tire: Cognitive Fatigue Facilitates Task Disengagement and Worsens Performance | The negative effect of prior task engagement on self-control performance is a salient human ...
www.researchgate.net
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🎉new paper out in Motivation Science🎉
Why are we eating fries when ego-depletion is wrong🍟?
While there is little evidence that ego-depletion (inhibited self-control after brief demands) is a robust effect, many have experienced troubles with their goals when being tired...
Why are we eating fries when ego-depletion is wrong🍟?
While there is little evidence that ego-depletion (inhibited self-control after brief demands) is a robust effect, many have experienced troubles with their goals when being tired...
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Graphic organizers (GO) support memory and comprehension, whether they are learner-generated or instructor-provided. Some publication bias but effects are still practically significant. Efficacy depends on how well they prompt generative learning. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Learner-Generated and Instructor-Provided Graphic Organizers as Aids to Learning from Text: A Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review
Graphic organizers are spatial representations of key textual information—such as matrices, flowcharts, or hierarchies—that can support learning through two primary approaches: as a generative…
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Graphic organizers (GO) support memory and comprehension, whether they are learner-generated or instructor-provided. Some publication bias but effects are still practically significant. Efficacy depends on how well they prompt generative learning. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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There are a few other good duck-rabbit cartoons.
I really like the old/young woman doing the duck/rabbit as shadow art.
I really like the old/young woman doing the duck/rabbit as shadow art.
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
There are a few other good duck-rabbit cartoons.
I really like the old/young woman doing the duck/rabbit as shadow art.
I really like the old/young woman doing the duck/rabbit as shadow art.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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On holiday break this week? Some new reading below!! ⬇️⬇️
New paper out in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social !
We (@kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social , Bob Fennis and I) found that encouraging counterfactual thinking reduces engagement with conspiracy theories (i.e., clicks on, and reading times for, conspiracy articles).
A 🧵
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We (@kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social , Bob Fennis and I) found that encouraging counterfactual thinking reduces engagement with conspiracy theories (i.e., clicks on, and reading times for, conspiracy articles).
A 🧵
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November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
On holiday break this week? Some new reading below!! ⬇️⬇️
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🌍New #PSPB research explores how approach, acceptance, and avoidance coping styles predicts re-entry stress for students coming home after studying abroad. Researchers illustrated the importance of using adaptive coping styles upon re-entry.
Read more: ow.ly/8Sl350XA2ly
Read more: ow.ly/8Sl350XA2ly
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🌍New #PSPB research explores how approach, acceptance, and avoidance coping styles predicts re-entry stress for students coming home after studying abroad. Researchers illustrated the importance of using adaptive coping styles upon re-entry.
Read more: ow.ly/8Sl350XA2ly
Read more: ow.ly/8Sl350XA2ly
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Angélica Valencia & Co found that PTSD symptoms are associated with 📉poorer #neurocognitive🧠⚙️ functioning among displaced Colombian adolescents, with effects intensified by economic adversity #ucccali
📖Read now: doi.org/10.1037/pac0000814
#ucccali #PeacePsych #AcademicSky #SocialPsych
📖Read now: doi.org/10.1037/pac0000814
#ucccali #PeacePsych #AcademicSky #SocialPsych
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Angélica Valencia & Co found that PTSD symptoms are associated with 📉poorer #neurocognitive🧠⚙️ functioning among displaced Colombian adolescents, with effects intensified by economic adversity #ucccali
📖Read now: doi.org/10.1037/pac0000814
#ucccali #PeacePsych #AcademicSky #SocialPsych
📖Read now: doi.org/10.1037/pac0000814
#ucccali #PeacePsych #AcademicSky #SocialPsych
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Apply to work in our wonderful CogSci dept. in Aarhus! See ad below.
CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof).
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice!
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
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November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Apply to work in our wonderful CogSci dept. in Aarhus! See ad below.
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So much this.
And waiting for the post that uses the terms that allow the day’s issue click into place. Before that, I am waiting for schema activation so things make sense.
The doing the laundry effect for any cognitive psychologists on here
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
And waiting for the post that uses the terms that allow the day’s issue click into place. Before that, I am waiting for schema activation so things make sense.
The doing the laundry effect for any cognitive psychologists on here
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
So much this.
And waiting for the post that uses the terms that allow the day’s issue click into place. Before that, I am waiting for schema activation so things make sense.
The doing the laundry effect for any cognitive psychologists on here
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
And waiting for the post that uses the terms that allow the day’s issue click into place. Before that, I am waiting for schema activation so things make sense.
The doing the laundry effect for any cognitive psychologists on here
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
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The enshitification of scientific publishing marches on. First arXiv had to clamp down on submissions thanks to a flood of AI-written papers.
Now ICLR authors say their peer reviews were churned out by AI. Reviews full of hallucinated content that didn’t exist and offering useless, vague feedback.
Now ICLR authors say their peer reviews were churned out by AI. Reviews full of hallucinated content that didn’t exist and offering useless, vague feedback.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The enshitification of scientific publishing marches on. First arXiv had to clamp down on submissions thanks to a flood of AI-written papers.
Now ICLR authors say their peer reviews were churned out by AI. Reviews full of hallucinated content that didn’t exist and offering useless, vague feedback.
Now ICLR authors say their peer reviews were churned out by AI. Reviews full of hallucinated content that didn’t exist and offering useless, vague feedback.
The penny is going away! I had no idea. I remember reading about this years ago and thinking it was weird we still spent more on materials than the value of the coin. But the issues raised are interesting--how do you do fair rounding?
#Penny
www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/b...
#Penny
www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/b...
The last-ever penny was minted today in Philadelphia | CNN Business
The American penny passed away today after a prolonged illness. It was 238 years old.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The penny is going away! I had no idea. I remember reading about this years ago and thinking it was weird we still spent more on materials than the value of the coin. But the issues raised are interesting--how do you do fair rounding?
#Penny
www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/b...
#Penny
www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/b...
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My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
What people do not do, they often lose the ability to do. Which is sometimes fine! In my own life, I don’t have any great need to know how to do some of the math I once learned. But I don’t want to forget how to write.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.