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Tom Wallsten receiving his SMP Senior Fellow award at his fireside chat with Tim Pleskac @mathpsych.org

And congratulations to Betsy Fox @elfox89.bsky.social, new president elect of the mathematical psychology society @mathpsych.org !

Congratulations to Hans Colonius on winning the senior fellow award @mathpsych.org . Hans will formally receive his award at his guest fireside chat at mathpsych 2027 in Leeds

Congratulations to Julia Haaf @juliaha.bsky.social for winning the Estes early career fellow award this year! Julia will formally receive her award at her guest lecture at mathpsych 2027 @mathpsych.org

Congrats to the best poster awardees at this year’s meeting of the math psych society @mathpsych.org well done Swapnika Dulam

Looking forward to Maria Robinson’s keynote talk following her receiving the early career award from the math psych society @mathpsych.org

Travel Award Deadline Alert! The deadline for submission of abstracts by Graduate Students for consideration of a Travel Award is approaching!  Submit your abstract before May 8 for consideration! buff.ly/T3ZJqo4

Looking forward to this!

Deadline is actually today (1st of May wherever on earth, not yesterday - apologies!), so keep sending nominations 🏆 @mathpsych.org

Registration is now open for MathPsych / ICCM 2026 🎉 July 17-21 Montreal, Canada early birds registration until June 19: mathpsych.org/conference/23/ @elfox89.bsky.social @mathpsych.org

a lot of work and careful thinking to get there! Please read and let us know your thoughts

Follow @mathpsych.bsky.social for updates from the Journal of Mathematical Psychology!

Nomination DL for the MathPsych Society awards 30 April: - Estes Early Career - Senior Fellow - JMP Outstanding Paper - CBB Outstanding Paper mathpsych.org/page/awards Send all nominations to info@mathpsych.org All winners announced at the main Math Psych Conference July 2026 in Montreal

Deadline 13 feb!

The Psychonomic Society is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Mid-Career Award, which recognizes individuals who have made exceptional contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology and are currently in the middle of their careers. The deadline is March 31. Submit today: buff.ly/Pct3kUM

The Psychonomic Society is now accepting nominations for the Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award, Mid-Career Award, and Early-Career Award. The nomination deadline is March 31. Learn more: buff.ly/wBFdEFt

Abstract submission are open for the MathPsych/ICCM 2026 conference in Montreal July 17 to 21, 2026 mathpsych.org/conference/23/ The submission deadline is February 28!

Here’s a PhD advert to join my lab in Cardiff, UK : www.findaphd.com/phds/project... open to applicants from the United Kingdom or the European Union DL for applications 13th of February Please share widely!

Apply for the 2026 John Keats Early Career Award | @mathpsych.org #iccmpsyched mathpsych.org/page/news/142

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

We will have an NHP position open at @westernu.ca this year. Posting is coming soon. If you're interested about our setup and the opportunities here, feel free to get in touch.

Assistant Professor opening at University of California, Irvine | @mathpsych.org #iccmpsyched mathpsych.org/page/news/131

I thinks weeks newsletter I breakdown why the data suggests that the 20mph limit in Wales wales actually an amazing idea. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/turns-out-...

Incredible work on paper mills. I really wonder what happened to the cluster of fraudulent editors/authors at PLOSone in the lower right corner? Were there any real repercussions or are they still milling around?

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Why do measures of putatively the same construct so often fail to correlate strongly across units of analysis (self/informant report, behavioral, physiological/neural): measurement problems or truly actually capturing different constructs (or some of both)?

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

🧠🧪💤 New preprint! Sleep-like Slow Waves During Wakefulness Mediate Attention and Vigilance Difficulties in Adult ADHD We show that intrusions of sleep-like activity during wake help explain attention lapses in ADHD. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ADHD #Sleep #Neuro

🎉AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🎉 The 2025 Computational Brain & Behavior Outstanding Paper Award goes to Daniel Cavagnaro & Michel Regenwetter for the paper "Probabilistic Choice Induced by Strength of Preference" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #iccmpsyched

Richter, T., Ulrich, R., & Janczyk, M. (2023). Diffusion models with time-dependent parameters: An analysis of computational effort and accuracy of different numerical methods. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 114, 102756. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work with Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd and WWT on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership! 🦉Join us as we inspire the next generation of nature lovers.🌳 krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Still time to register for our Metacognitive Science satellite at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social on 11th August! metacognitivescience.org We have an exciting lineup covering computational, neural and AI approaches to metacognition, plus keynotes from Uta Noppeney and @ingmarposner.bsky.social 🥳

New study out in Nature Medicine: Education does not protect against age-related decline of memory. Read more here: Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yesterday I became the new secretary of @mathpsych.org, filling Leslie Blaha’s left shoe for the next 4 years, wish me luck!

SMP is excited to recognize Dr Barbara Dosher, newest Society for Mathematical Psychology Senior Fellow! The SMP Senior Fellow Award honors the lifetime contributions of a Society member. #iccmpsyched

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 2025 MathPsych/ICCM meeting starts tomorrow with a day of workshops and symposia! #iccmpsyched but can't make it this year? Get your fomo here:

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Looking for some good news?Applications open for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships Programme. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

what a great idea, and registration is free (for those who can afford travelling to Ontario)

PhD position available to work at the Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre, with me and Petroc Sumner, to find better behavioural and cognitive measures to support mental health research www.findaphd.com/phds/project... please share widely and be in touch if interested bompasae@cardiff.ac.uk

Join us on February 26 for the upcoming One World Seminar “How big is that bagel? Differences in size constancy for perception and action.” presented by Mel Goodale from The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Register for free today! https://buff.ly/3CrCacG

New work with UCL PhD student Max Maier. We develop a risky-choice variant, the Extinction Gambling Task, for studying repeated choice situations where choices are consequential. Max also derived the optimal policies and developed a computational model to classify strategies. Check it out!

Definitely trying this!