📢 It's published!!! We (28 scientists) propose 4 Ways to increase Effect Sizes (not only Sample Size) to enhance the Replicability of Neuroimaging Research on Individual Differences. 🧠 >> check this out: doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a…

We are heartbroken to announce that Brewers icon & Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Uecker passed away today at the age of 90

‘Compositionality in large language models’ #academicdadjokes

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A recent paper led by amazing Demet, in collaboration with Aslı Özyürek! Demet Özer Prof. Asli Ozyurek @ozyurek_a

There's a PhD opening in Shervin's (Shervin Safavi) new lab at TU Dresden! I think this is one of the best opportunities to work on computational cogsci/neuro. Find out more: docs.google.com/document/d/1qy…

Cooked a new paper 😎 Full text coming along Here’s a sneak peak

I was inspired by the The Daily Show's segment on Monday to write this post relating some work that I did a few years ago with Sabina Tabacaru (Sabina Tabacaru) on the meaning of the phrase "raising eyebrows" . May 12th definitely raised some eyebrows open.substack.com/pub/raybecker/…

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on 4 inhibitory control tasks, Caterina Gratton et al. show that more than 1000 trials/participant are necessary to reduce within-subject variability and improve the reliability of the congruency effect. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Call for Submissions! Behavioral Medicine: Special Issue on Terminated Grants. Submit by June 30 at 5PM ET. Learn more here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering.

An international team of researchers has proposed an overall definition of questionable research practices (QRPs) and published a comprehensive list of them—as well as ways to detect and prevent them. Tamás Nagy #PsychScience psychologicalscience.org/publications/o…

We have put up all slide decks on the tutorial website: llm-guardrails-security.github.io 🥳🥳🥳 Although I was only able to deliver the tutorial remotely due to visa constraints, I was really thrilled to learn that our tutorial received a quite full room of audience for the entire 3.5 hr!

We’re rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max in late August. We estimate they’ll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage.

Looking for The ABCD Study® fMRI timeseries data? It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to Damien Fair and team at ABCC 🧠: docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/documen…

During the APS Awards Ceremony at #APS25DC in D.C., recipients voiced their concerns about federal actions that cut research funding, restrict international students from U.S. universities, and suppress diversity in higher education. #HigherEd #Academia

I have a new post about gaslighting and what it means raybecker.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-…

A Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries finds that decision-makers willfully ignore inconvenient information. Learning about the negative consequences of their choices increases prosociality, especially among guilt-prone individuals. @JF_Schul nature.com/articles/s4156…

We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…