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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Jun 6

Whom do we want to see in power? People high in both benevolence and integrity - that's what a new paper by Annika Scholl, H Rapp, Gerben van Kleef and myself shows. 4 Studies (N=1151) provide consistent evidence for this interaction effect. Delighted to see this work out doi.org/10.1037/xap0...

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · Jun 6

Fun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Learning a Novel Number System: The Role of Compositional Rules and Counting Procedures

Humans count to indefinitely large numbers by recycling words from a finite list, and combining them using rules—for example, combining sixty with unit labels to generate sixty-one, sixty-two, and so...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jun 6

Dear lord: "On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled."

The U of Cali system alone accounts for $4B+ per year in federal R&D. If true, let's hope for another all-or-nothing fight like Harvard's.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Jun 6

(CNN) — The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 6

#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab.

Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr

Illustration of two people, one holding a large pencil, the other walking along a path of diverging arrows. Hedline is "Rules all PIs should follow."

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

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Bert De Smedt @bertdesmedt.bsky.social · May 8

New from the lab: "From language to mathematics and vice versa?: A longitudinal study on the associations between preschoolers’ mathematical language and mathematical abilities" Free access via this link 👇 lnkd.in/em8CHkQr with Eylül Turan, PhD

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Dan Hyde @dchyde.bsky.social · May 14

Interesting new study
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From language to mathematics and vice versa?: A longitudinal study on the associations between preschoolers' mathematical language and mathematical abilities

Mathematical language, such as quantitative (e.g., few) and spatial (e.g., after) terms, is critical for mathematical development. However, studies of…

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Dr. Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · May 20

Good thing publishers are launching “chat with an article” LLMs right on their webpages. s/

Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

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Hans-Christoph Nuerk @tuebang.bsky.social · May 22

The new Teach@Tuebingen fellowship call is open. For 1/2 or 1 year you can do research & teach here. Decent salary & benefits. If you are interested in joint numerical cognition research with our lab, feel free to contact me as a host professor. Deadline June 20th.

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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · May 29

Long-term SSRI use linked to reduced Alzheimer’s pathology but mixed effects on cognition

A new study suggests long-term SSRI use may reduce markers of Alzheimer’s disease and restore brain function in affected regions, but the impact on cognitive performance remains mixed depending on how it’s measured.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · May 29

The White House said the "Make America Healthy Again" report released last week by RFK Junior and HHS that reportedly cites studies that do not exist was subject to "formatting errors" and "will be updated". (CNN)

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · May 29

In this paper we show that even many preregistered studies never become public. doi.org/10.1177/2515... Most of the time, there is no valid reason, because when asked, it's either due to bad planning, or null results. Worth digging into these reasons more to prevent this bad practice.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 30

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

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Ulrike Luxburg @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social · May 23

Our cluster Machine Learning for Science is up for 7 years more funding!

ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · May 22

We're super happy: Our Cluster of Excellence will continue to receive funding from the German Research Foundation @dfg.de ! Here’s to 7 more years of exciting research at the intersection of #machinelearning and science! Find out more: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #ExcellenceStrategy

The members of the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" raise their glasses and celebrate securing another funding period.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · May 22

So Claude blackmails people and OpenAI is building a 24/7 surveillance tool.

Black Mirror was a warmup act.

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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · May 25

Very glad to see this out:

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Special Issue
Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights

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APA PsycNet

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · May 25

I recently reviewed this impressive body of data for predicting Alzheimer's and why I consider it a breakthrough

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The Breakthrough Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease

The p-Tau217 Biomarker for Prediction and Prevention

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · May 25

Too much protein in the diet appears to carry a risk of atherosclerotic heart disease secondary to leucine's effect. An important report considering recent advocacy for very high-protein diets.
@natmetabolism.nature.com
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Charley Wu | hiring PhDs/Postdocs @thecharleywu.bsky.social · May 19

Since traveling to #cogsci2025 may be particularly difficult this year, we’re hosting a local workshop in Tübingen!
📅 July 24 | Talks & posters + catering supported by @ml4science.bsky.social
Open to *everyone*, even without an accepted paper/abstr.
👉 Register by July 1: forms.gle/v6VtEE6UqYw5...

Tübingen pre-CogSci workshop 2025

July 24th from 10:00 - 15:00, Ground floor seminar room, Maria-von-Linden Str. 6 For the cognitive science community here in Tübingen, the annual Cogsci conference (https://cognitivesciencesociety.or...

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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · May 21

New study highlights power—not morality—as key motivator behind competitive victimhood

A replication study conducted during the first wave of COVID-19 confirms that need for power, rather than moral concerns, best predicts competitive victimhood in Israeli Arabs and Jews, pointing to deeply rooted motivations in intergroup conflict.

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Lillian Behm @lillianbehm.bsky.social · May 21

Studies targeting domains like object recognition or social cognition often require infants to encode and later recall complex information. We therefore argue that these tasks tap into episodic-like memory and that evidence for infant memory is more prevalent than previously recognized!

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Universität Tübingen @unituebingen.bsky.social · May 22

Am Montag wurde der Tübinger Preis für #Wissenschaftskommunikation 2025 offiziell an die beiden Preisträger, den Neurowissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Tobias Hauser und den Archäologen und Historiker Dr. Michael Kienzle, verliehen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 uni-tuebingen.de/exzellenzstr... #Wisskomm

Die Prorektorin Prof. Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland überreicht den Preis an Prof. Dr. Tobias Hauser (linkes Bild) und Dr. Michael Kienzle (rechtes Bild).

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Hans-Christoph Nuerk @tuebang.bsky.social · May 22

The new Teach@Tuebingen fellowship call is open. For 1/2 or 1 year you can do research & teach here. Decent salary & benefits. If you are interested in joint numerical cognition research with our lab, feel free to contact me as a host professor. Deadline June 20th.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 21

Wow.

Look at how rapidly preregistration has become the norm in experimental economics.

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bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · May 19

Nur noch einen Monat bis zur Psychologie und Gehirn 2025 Tagung in Würzburg @pug2025.bsky.social - wir freuen uns schon! www.pug2025.org

PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!

www.pug2025.org

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