“One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar” – a weekly online seminar in Zoom featuring a presentation by a stellar cognitive psychologist followed by discussion open to anyone around the world. sowi.uni-mannheim.de/erdfelder/fors…

Who wants to work in a great young lab? Highly recommended!

A friend has a joke about intelligence but most people do not get it

I was thinking about this grant application I submitted back in 2016 with The Ward Lab and Bill Schief. Project title: "Structure-based immunogen design of a pan-betacoronavirus vaccine". Impact score: 47. The weaknesses in the summary statement didn't seem valid then. Less so now.

עו"ד ליאת בן ארי עוברת בשבועות האחרונים רצח אופי. כל מי שיעז לגעת בתיקי נתניהו - שופטים פרקליטים וכו' יעברו את אותו רצח אופי. זה המסר שהמאפיה מבלפור מעבירה לשאר האנשים הנוגעים בדבר. מה שעושים לעו"ד בן ארי זה ה"ראש של סוס במיטה" 2020

The National Autism Research Center of Israel at BGU has announced it will launch a national database that brings together Israeli scientists with clinicians to study nine key questions about #Autism. #autismawareness nocamels.com/2020/08/nation…

Are you a first-gen or minoritized grad student / post-doc? Are you in psychology or neuroscience? I'm running a virtual career development session on academic jobs, focusing on tenure-track positions. Interested? DM me to sign up for the group meeting. x.com/mariam_s_aly/s…

In many different fields, outsiders overestimate the value of ideas and underestimate the difficulties of execution. So it's probably a good strategy for learning about any new field to ask "why is execution harder than it seems to outsiders?"

New paper from my lab authors.elsevier.com/a/1bfaZiVKTX2q…

I can live with papers being rejected. But not when the main reason for being rejected is that did not find what we had expected. Really rather demotivating when I'm trying to train my PhD students the values of honest reporting, preregistration etc...

The Azrieli Foundation offers generous post-doc fellowships in Israel. See azrielifoundation.org/fellows/intern… I'm looking for talented and ambitious postdocs. If you're interested in working memory, cognitive control and collective behavior - please contact me directly.

Psych 4.0.8 is now on CRAN. Includes a vignette for doing omega (as well as introductory vignette). Adds formula interface to describe, error.bars, violin, densityBy. See news(Version > "2.0.7",package="psych" for complete list of additions as well as bug fixes. Use R!

Are you a first-generation, low-income, or minoritized student? Are you interested in grad school, or currently a grad student? Fill out this form to receive a free copy of A Field Guide for Graduate School, courtesy of fundraising by Midge! tinyurl.com/y33jrpt6

1/ I'm proud to announce that our new book ('The Psychology of Learning: An Introduction From a Functional-Cognitive Perspective') is now available from the MIT Press! See below for more info on the book as well as a link to the open-access (free) version.

I like "Spend less time wanting to be known, and more time having something to say... just like a watched pot, aspiring to be respected is the surest way to never achieve it."

Today I got an email from a journal editor thanking me for my "deeply thought-out review report". This small, kind, human gesture made my evening. Why do we not see it more often? Reviewers (and editors) would probably be happier if we at least acknowledged their hard work

Sports really do have the power to bring us together. When national teams win in Africa, people in that country become 37% less likely to identify with their ethic group over their country in the following months. Incidents of ethnic conflict & violence conflict also drop by 9%.

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All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

If you care about Israeli and Palestinian innocent lives, do not trust news coming from Hammas. Hammas are people who do not hesitate beheading children in front of their parents. They would certainly not hesitate to spread fake news!