Frederik Aust

1/ Our brains probably don’t store a new copy of “red” when we encounter something red. Yet we can reinstate distinct memories of red objects. How do we reuse what we already know when encoding memories? Excited to share new work led by @haoliu4391.bsky.social, with @marcelomattar.bsky.social 🧠🧵

'Statisticians learn hierarchical models as tools; nobody in a statistics seminar says, “This is a response to a 150-year-old problem in the foundations of probability.” And nobody in a philosophy seminar says, “The answer is lme4."' sudippaul.substack.com/p/partial-po...

Best academic auto response ever, from a colleague in Manchester <3

Behavior Research Methods is looking for two editors-in-chief to begin in 2028. The deadline to apply is February 15, 2027. See more information: buff.ly/32f06z3.

📣 Postdocs at Yale FDS! 📣 Tremendous freedom for work on the foundations of data science with faculty across campus, multi-year, great salary. Deadline 11/6. Spread the word! Application: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32396 More about Yale FDS: fds.yale.edu

Metacheck is now hosted by Surf! This offers us the possibility to offer an all in one online solution. Before we advertise this more, we would love to trial the new tool with data managers and editors of Diamond open access journals who want to try out automated checks. Especially of data and code.

Do you run #behavioural #psychology #experiments? Have you tried creating #JavaScript experiments with jsPsych but for stumped by all the coding needed? I've been working on Tachisto, a #jsPsych builder that should require little or no code. Give it a go and let me know! www.capro.dev/tachisto/

#OTD 1850 Gustav Fechner publishes Fechner’s Law describing the relationship between the magnitude of a physical stimulus & its perceived intensity. It is a precursor of probit regression later developed by Chester Bliss who rediscovered it & coined the term.

wow. 5% expected success rate for ERC starting grants

Happy belated 🎂 to George EP Box (18 Oct 1919-28 Mar 2013). One of the greatest statistical minds of the 20th century, he is best known for his quote “All models are wrong, but some are useful”. He made major contributions to experimental design for industrial & quality improvement applications

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

I’m hiring a postdoc in my lab at the University of Amsterdam! Interested in mathematical psychology, evidence-accumulation models & Bayesian hierarchical modeling? Join us to develop new models of cognitive fluctuations across multiple timescales. Please share! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Rolf Zwaan, discussing some low quality criticism on the replication studies he is planning by scientists on bluesky: "Those who wrote the Bluesky posts produced misinformation. Those who liked those posts fell for the misinformation." rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/a-case-of-...

T minus 7 hours to this public event on model interpretability for which I agreed to show up at 6:30am. Attendance is free!

This is unexpectedly awesome: Zenodo allows reserving a DOI before depositing the materials, so you can include the DOI in the materials themselves. This is very helpful because you can include the identifier in the metadata itself.

Hi all! I'm looking for people to try out my new collaborative writing platform. Think: Overleaf or GDocs for Mkdown LaTeX HTML Typst Quarto Free, open source, and full-featured. Many editors, chat, comments, track changes, history, AI, mobile, templates, etc Would ❤️ any feedback! librepaper.org

New paper! Accepted at Perspectives on Psychological Science. A textbook finding in infant psychology is that newborns - within ~1 hour of birth - visually track a simplified 'three blob' facelike stimulus further than its inverted control (see picture). This suggested inborn knowledge of faces!

We would like to thank 31 currently active PsyArXiv moderators and the leadership team who volunteer their time and energy to ensure that important psychological research is made available to the research community as quickly as possible. buff.ly/htX5xM0

Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated.

Highlight Text colours text and backgrounds in every Quarto format. Version 2.4.0 adds named styles, so '[Overdue]{.alert}' carries colours you define once. Change the red in one place and every element follows. m.canouil.dev/quarto-highlight-text #Quarto #OpenSource #QuartoPub

Are you: * A cognitive science (or adjacent) PhD (current or graduated, or equivalent research exp.)? * Interested in studying LMs abilities for conceptual reasoning about cog sci, and helping to improve them? If so, apply to our new conceptual reasoning fellows program! Link below:

🗓️ Reminder: The first OSF Projects transition deadline is 7 weeks away. Starting November 16, 2026, you will no longer be able to create new OSF Projects or add new components to existing projects. (🧵1/3)

fave new demonstration of survey items being really not that bad at tracking carefully-measured cognitive things: in 900,000 participants, a 5-item "how good are you at music" self-report (the colours) very directly tracks a 20min adaptive test of music perception ability (the x-axis)

Send your best work to PCI Psychology (psych.peercommunityin.org) where it will receive high quality & open peer review free of commercial interference. We review a variety of article types from a wide range of psychological topics (psych.peercommunityin.org/help/help_ge...).

quick screencap of qmd->docx->qmd comment flow in quarto 2/quarto-hub

Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Some months ago, I wrote a skeptical reply to a commentary on bots in online studies in PNAS, arguing that no evidence yet exists for such bots. Together with the authors of the original commentary, we now show that bots can pass (almost?) all online cognitive studies with human-like performance 1/n

Are you running a journal using OJS and are considering open peer review? OJS 3.6 will make that possible! with some colleagues we are looking for journals that want to talk to us about their process and what they might expect. See this call for participants: pkp.sfu.ca/2026/10/05/c...

We have a slew of special issue calls open at Psychological Science. One in particular that I’d like to draw your attention to, initiated by the marvellous @heatherurry.io and co-edited by me […]

Psychology people: If you haven't seen them yet, check out these upcoming special issues at Psychological Science. Submissions invited.

SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.

"The idea of naming R version releases was inspired by the naming system for Debian and Ubuntu versions. Dalgaard noted an additional reason for the use of Peanuts references in R codenames—the humorous observation that 'everyone in statistics is a P-nut.'" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(prog... #rstats

Support open-access research in psychological science – join the PsyArXiv Moderation team! 🧑‍🏫Moderator training is provided 🕰️Commitment: ~2 hours a month 📝Checking submissions for relevance, scope, and appropriate metadata 🌐Moderation work can be done asynchronously buff.ly/6TlgL7Q

Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵

I think I have cracked one of the final things that kept people in keynote over quarto revealjs slides. Introducing ✨️ quarto-revealjs-magic-move ✨️ emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-... #quarto #slidecrafting

Open Postdoc (80%) in our Lab @uzh-ch.bsky.social (PI: Klaus Oberauer) Topics are: Working memory, long-term memory, attention; experiments, individual differences, computational modeling. Start Dec 2026 to Feb 2027, until June 2030. Apply by Oct 15; Questions to: k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

DataPipe (pipe.jspsych.org) is ready for its post-OSF life. You can use it as before to save data from online experiments, but now the data can be sent to Zenodo, Google Drive, or a Dataverse instance. Existing OSF connections work until 11/16 I took this opportunity to do some major updates...

Inspired by a @f2harrell.bsky.social comment, I did some #rstats simulations about how big a sample needs to be for the central limit theorem to kick in and the sample mean be normally distributed for inference purposes. Yes, with skewed data the answer is "lots". freerangestats.info/blog/2026/09...

arXiv📈🤖 Dangers of Bayesian analyses and how to address them By Greenland, Oke

📢 ***Call for papers at Psychological Science (APS)*** Dr Roni Porat and I are editing a special issue, "From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World.” Please see the detailed call here (www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...) and send us your best work!

I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread.

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

Looking for a new Editor in Chief at Cognitive Psychology: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cogn...

An interesting thing is happening to me at the moment. I have a standing bug bounty policy for my first authored scientific work. That means, I've committed to pay people who report bugs in my code, up to 750€ for severe errors. Since GPT-6 Astra came out, I'm now getting several bug reports daily.

UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646