Almost 3 years ago, not knowing what was to come, but thinking it should be documented, a bunch of us got together and launched the COVID-Dynamic Project (coviddynamic.caltech.edu). Finally the data release paper is out (tinyurl.com/nwhbey9v)! Congrats to the COVIDDynamic Team!

🔥🔥🔥 Published last week in Nature Human Behaviour: Quality research needs good working conditions. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Early morning classes are associated with lower attendance, shorter sleep, and poorer academic achievement: nature.com/articles/s4156…

This is extremely upsetting. Trust between researchers and their participants is critical. Perhaps an extra step of verification on the researcher side would provide for more accountability.

My lab held a hackathon yesterday to play with places where large language models could help us with our research in cognitive science. The mandate was, "how can these models help us do what we do, but better and faster." Some impressions:🧵

New in SPPS led by John Andrew Chwe: We find that people glean the trustworthiness of a group of faces in a half second. They extract a statistical average, which biases behavior toward the group and also affects how individual members in the group are perceived. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19…

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.

Hey SANS members, if you haven't seen it already, please check your inboxes (and spam folders) for the SANS EDIJ Survey! A reminder email went out earlier today. Your responses will help the SANS EDIJ Task Force evaluate the diversity and climate of SANS.

@AjayBSatpute introduces the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice (EDIJ) Townhall at #SANS2023

Excited that this new study from Nina Rouhani and the COVID-Dynamic team is out in the world!

Do you ever feel pulled in different directions, as if there is a tug of war going on inside your head? Our new PNAS suggests one reason why: When we have to balance many needs, having a dedicated sub-agent for each need has practical benefits. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

new review paper w/ @rtg2753 Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social and Franklab_LNCC! we discuss multiple mechanisms by which memory is improved/structured by emotionally relevant events, inc. classic ‘affect’ and our more recent work on ‘prediction’ (prediction-error) route💥 (1/6) doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

Come join us!!

Come work with us! Adelphi University is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Neuroscience! Especially interested in those with interdisciplinary expertise in cognitive, affective and/or developmental processes. Review begins 12/15. Please repost! t.ly/3iC7C

Excited to share our new preprint from the COVID-Dynamic Project (coviddynamic.caltech.edu): Bearing the Weight of Intersectionality: Longitudinal Mental Health Disparities in Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in the COVID-19 Era osf.io/preprints/psya… via Center for Open Science

🚨Please retweet🚨 I am recruiting a⭐postdoc⭐ to start in a year or so! Funded by my startup, guaranteed 2-year, extension pending on external funds. My lab UC San Diego study ⭐person perception⭐social cognition⭐computational modeling⭐& more! 👉impactlab-ucsd.github.io

So proud of Qianying Wu for her amazing work on this project, and honored to be one of her mentors!

The SCoNeLab is hiring a Lab Manager/Research Assistant. Come work with us to identify social computational signatures of mental health! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/care…