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Rethinking how we measure affect: new insights into psychological well-being

Publications

News & Events

Affect dynamics

Well-being is better predicted by how we transition between positive and negative states than by how intensely we feel. Our new study in Emotion introduces the Affect Shift Ratio as a simpler, more intuitive measure of psychological health.

Feb 5, 2025

How to sell your journal: The secret business of academic journal acquisitions

Opinions

News & Events

Journal acquisitions

Academic publishing

A Singapore-based company offered to buy our journal for up to $300,000 — part of a plan to acquire 100 journals and sell them to a large commercial publisher. What this reveals about the responsibility of academic societies in the commercial takeover of scholarly communication.

Oct 28, 2023

Djokovic contra Ciencia

Opinions

Djokovic

Science

Reflexiones sobre las fortalezas y limitaciones de la ciencia a raíz de las críticas a los hábitos alimenticios de Djokovic, argumentando que la no significación estadística se malinterpreta frecuentemente como prueba científica.

Sep 3, 2023

Djokovic vs Science

Opinions

Djokovic

Science

Tennis

Reflections on the strengths and limitations of science triggered by the backlash against Djokovic’s dietary choices, arguing that statistical non-significance is often misrepresented as scientific proof.

Sep 2, 2023

Qué es una publicación científica y qué no lo es

Opinions

Science policy

Una comisión de evaluación de la Universidad de Granada aceptó columnas divulgativas sin revisión por pares como publicaciones científicas. El caso más extremo que he vivido en los procesos de selección académica en Andalucía.

Sep 12, 2022

¿Cómo quieren ser evaluados los investigadores en España?

Opinions

Talks & Presentations

Science policy

Survey

875 investigadores académicos en España valoran el número de artículos publicados más de lo que admiten, y el prerregistro apenas importa. Algunos resultados sorprendentes de nuestra encuesta sobre criterios de evaluación del CV investigador.

Sep 6, 2022

Jornada sobre Ciencia Abierta en el Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos

News & Events

Talks & Presentations

Open Science

Diapositivas de mi presentación en la 1ª Jornada sobre Ciencia Abierta organizada por el Spanish Journal of Psychology y el Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos en Madrid.

Jun 20, 2022

Report back from COAR’s annual meeting: celebrating a $4 million grant for the Notify Project

News & Events

Talks & Presentations

COAR

Notify

Open Scholar

Psicológica

Repositories

Report from the COAR 2022 annual meeting in Madrid, celebrating a $4 million Arcadia Foundation grant for the Notify Project and presenting the Psicológica diamond OA use case.

May 24, 2022

How do researchers in Spain wish to be evaluated?

Opinions

Publications

Science policy

Survey

Results from a survey of 875 research academics in Spain on what criteria should matter most in research evaluation — and why the answers are both encouraging and sobering.

Feb 23, 2022

Psicológica and DIGITAL.CSIC join forces for Sustainable Diamond Open Access and Repository as a Publisher Services

News & Events

DIGITAL.CSIC

Open Access

Open Scholar

Peer review

Psicológica

Publishers

Repositories

SEPEX

Joint press release announcing the relaunch of Psicológica as a Diamond Open Access journal published exclusively on DIGITAL.CSIC, demonstrating a sustainable publishing model without costs to authors, institutions, or libraries.

Feb 3, 2022

Psicológica y DIGITAL.CSIC aúnan esfuerzos a favor del acceso abierto diamante sostenible y de los servicios editoriales de repositorios

News & Events

Psicológica

Publishers

Repositories

Nota de prensa conjunta anunciando el relanzamiento de Psicológica como revista de acceso abierto diamante publicada exclusivamente en DIGITAL.CSIC, el repositorio institucional del CSIC.

Feb 3, 2022

Postdoctoral position to study HEP and interoception in Granada

News & Events

Postdoc position

Psychophysiology

Announcement of a postdoctoral position at CIMCYC in Granada to study heartbeat-evoked potentials and interoception, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Sep 14, 2021

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Academic Publishing

Talks & Presentations

Peer review

Academic publishing

Open Access

Slides and video from my invited talk at NYU Psychology on preprints, open peer review, routes to open access, and funder mandates.

Jul 5, 2021

What are transformative agreements and what to know before using them

Opinions

Publishers

Transformative agreements

A critical analysis of transformative agreements between publishers and university libraries, arguing they reinforce the academic publishing oligopoly and promote a distorted vision of open access.

May 7, 2021

¿Qué son los “transformative agreements” y qué necesitamos saber antes de utilizarlos?

Opinions

Publishers

Transformative agreements

Un análisis crítico de los “transformative agreements” entre editoriales y bibliotecas universitarias, argumentando que refuerzan el oligopolio editorial y promueven una visión distorsionada del acceso abierto.

May 3, 2021

Is there life beyond publishers?

News & Events

Talks & Presentations

Open Scholar

Psicológica

Slides from an invited talk at the SEPEX 2021 virtual conference presenting the new publication model of the society’s journal, Psicológica, as a diamond open access journal hosted on DIGITAL.CSIC.

Apr 21, 2021

¿Hay vida más allá de las editoriales?

News & Events

Talks & Presentations

Psicológica

Diapositivas de mi presentación en las jornadas virtuales de SEPEX 2021 presentando el nuevo modelo de publicación de la revista Psicológica como revista de acceso abierto diamante en DIGITAL.CSIC.

Apr 21, 2021

Things to consider before accepting your next peer review assignment

Opinions

Peer review

Science policy

Why I decline most peer review invitations and what we can all do to exert pressure towards a more open and transparent scholarly communication system.

Aug 25, 2020

CoVidAffect: monitoring mood variations following the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain

News & Events

Affect dynamics

COVID-19

CoVidAffect

CoVidAffect monitored real-time mood variations during the Spanish nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, generating the first dataset to study affect dynamics in a lockdown situation.

Aug 18, 2020

CoVidAffect: monitorización de variaciones en el estado de ánimo durante el confinamiento por la COVID-19

News & Events

Affect dynamics

COVID-19

CoVidAffect

CoVidAffect fue un proyecto para monitorizar en tiempo real las variaciones en el estado de ánimo durante el confinamiento por COVID-19, con 999 participantes y 17.454 registros entre marzo y junio de 2020.

Aug 18, 2020

Why think twice before submitting a preprint to bioRxiv

Opinions

Science policy

bioRxiv

Open Access

BioRxiv’s policy against hosting final published versions makes it incompatible with green open access — and its ecosystem ties raise deeper concerns about whose interests it serves.

Jul 14, 2019

What type of sports make you more alert?

Publications

Exercise

Our meta-analysis of 7 studies (361 participants) shows that only externally-paced sports like football lead to better cognitive performance, challenging the cardiovascular hypothesis of exercise-induced cognitive benefits.

Jun 17, 2019

Replicability crisis in Psychology: causes and solutions

Talks & Presentations

Psychology

Replicability

Statistics

Slides and summary of a talk at the University of Seville covering statistical, methodological and systemic causes of low replicability rates in Psychology, and proposed solutions including preregistration and repository-based scholarly communication.

Jun 14, 2019

Mi material docente para un curso de introducción a la estadística disponible en OSF

Teaching

Course material

Psychology

Statistics

Material docente para un curso de introducción a la estadística en psicología usando JASP, publicado en la plataforma OSF con licencia CC-By Attribution 4.0.

May 21, 2019

My teaching material for an undergraduate course in statistics using JASP available at OSF

Teaching

Statistics

Course material

Teaching material in Spanish for an undergraduate statistics course based on JASP, now publicly available on the OSF platform.

May 21, 2019

Jornadas de Ciencia Abierta en el CIMCYC

Talks & Presentations

Open Science

Informe de una mesa redonda sobre prácticas de Ciencia Abierta y su importancia para abordar la crisis de replicabilidad en Psicología, organizada en el CIMCYC de la Universidad de Granada.

May 18, 2019

Open Science round table at CIMCYC

Opinions

Talks & Presentations

Science policy

Report from a round table on Open Science practices and their relevance for addressing the replicability crisis in Psychology, organized at the CIMCYC research center in Granada.

May 18, 2019

How to upload your scientific software code to GitHub and get a DOI from Zenodo

Opinions

News & Events

Software

GitHub

Zenodo

A step-by-step guide to migrating scientific software to GitHub and linking it with Zenodo for automatic DOI assignment — illustrated with the KARDIA software.

Apr 14, 2019

Can increased interoception explain exercise-induced benefits on brain function and cognitive performance?

Publications

Exercise

Psychophysiology

New preprint on PsyArXiv reviews evidence for the hypothesis that physical exercise enhances cognitive performance by improving interoception, with implications for health and mental training programs.

Apr 10, 2019

¿Qué es la Ciencia Abierta?

Opinions

Open Science

Una definición pragmática de Open Science que va más allá del libre acceso: cualquier práctica que facilite y promueva la apertura mental y el escepticismo académico.

Jan 2, 2019

HEPLAB: Matlab scripts to facilitate heartbeat-evoked potential analysis

News & Events

HEPLAB

Software

HEPLAB is a collection of Matlab scripts released on Zenodo to facilitate heartbeat-evoked potential analysis using EEGLAB and Fieldtrip.

Feb 1, 2018

Which side are you on boys?

Opinions

Peer review

Science policy

A correspondence between a researcher and a journal editor over open peer review reveals the conflicting obligations and interests at play in scholarly communication.

Jul 3, 2017

How to detect the B point in impedance cardiography

Publications

Psychophysiology

Our new article in Psychophysiology compares three B point detection algorithms in Biopac’s Acknowledge software, finding dramatic differences in accuracy and providing a decision tree for manual detection.

Jul 1, 2017

Our preprint on brain-heart communication in athletes and sedentary young adults, available for peer review

Opinions

Publications

Exercise

Peer review

Psychophysiology

Science policy

SJS

Our preprint revealing differences in brain processing of cardiac signals between physically trained and sedentary young adults is available for open peer review on SJS and bioRxiv.

Jul 1, 2017

Slides from my Ghent talk on Open Science

News & Events

Talks & Presentations

Science policy

Slides from an introductory talk on Open Science given in Ghent, where researchers remain hesitant to adopt open practices without clear academic rewards.

May 24, 2017

Open scientists in the shoes of frustrated academics part I: Open-minded scepticism

Opinions

Talks & Presentations

Science policy

Open Science

Defining science as humanity’s collective effort to minimise uncertainty, and arguing that open-minded scepticism is the optimal approach to maximise its benefits.

May 15, 2017

Our two recent papers uncover a novel relation between neural and cardiac indices of enhanced attention in young athletes

Publications

Exercise

Psychophysiology

Two new papers show young athletes outperform sedentary peers on sustained attention tasks, with novel EEG and heart period findings pointing to a brain-heart interaction mediating exercise-induced cognitive benefits.

Jul 24, 2016

Report back from the COAR 2016 annual meeting

News & Events

Opinions

Talks & Presentations

COAR

Open Scholar

Repositories

Science policy

A report from the COAR annual meeting in Vienna, where discussions on next-generation repositories and journal-independent open peer review took center stage, signaling a turning point in open scholarship.

Apr 18, 2016

Using existing infrastructure to transform peer review

Opinions

Publications

Open Scholar

Peer review

Repositories

Science policy

A commentary coauthored with Gary McDowell for the ASAPbio conference on the future of preprints in Biology, arguing for building on existing open access infrastructure rather than starting from scratch.

Feb 15, 2016

How to negotiate with publishers: an example of immediate self-archiving despite publisher’s embargo policy

Opinions

Open Access

Science policy

A step-by-step example of how to negotiate with a publisher to make your research freely available without paying any money, and a broader reflection on what scholars can do to change the scholarly communication system.

Sep 9, 2015

Our new paper about stress in crisis managers published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Publications

Psychophysiology

A study comparing crisis managers with other professionals finds reduced stress, healthier lifestyle, and diminished psychophysiological reactivity to stressors in those experienced with crisis management.

Aug 9, 2015

Reconsiderando el asma: ¿es realmente crónico e incurable?

Opinions

Asthma

Breathing

Una revisión de las pruebas que demuestran que la definición actual del asma como inflamación crónica de las vías respiratorias no está corroborada científicamente, y que el entrenamiento respiratorio ofrece una alternativa eficaz.

May 4, 2015

Diapositivas de mi curso de Educación Respiratoria en el Colegio de Psicólogos

News & Events

Talks & Presentations

Asthma

Breathing

Diapositivas del curso de dos días sobre Educación Respiratoria en la sede del Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos, incluyendo fisiología respiratoria, hiperventilación y modificación de la respiración.

Mar 22, 2015

The Laboratory for Network Physiology launches its official website

News & Events

Network physiology

Psychophysiology

Professor Plamen Ivanov’s Laboratory for Network Physiology, dedicated to understanding how organ systems dynamically interact as a network, launches its official website.

Mar 4, 2015

Losing money is more stressful than bribing! Our new Frontiers article explores the physiology of corrupt behavior

Publications

Behavioural economics

Psychophysiology

Our new article in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience shows that people get more emotionally aroused when making ethical choices that imply monetary loss than when making unethical decisions.

Feb 7, 2015

Asthma revisited: is it really chronic and incurable?

Opinions

Asthma

Breathing

A review of evidence showing that the current definition of asthma as chronic airway inflammation is not scientifically substantiated, and that breathing training offers a remarkably efficient alternative treatment.

Sep 30, 2014

Our paper on University rankings makes the headlines of “Vima Science”

Publications

Science policy

University rankings

Our research paper on university ranking systems was featured as the cover article in the Greek newspaper Vima Science, highlighting how current rankings fail to capture Greek scientific productivity.

Jul 1, 2014

New article published at Prometheus: Academic self-publishing: a not-so-distant future

Publications

Peer review

Science policy

Our debate article in Prometheus describing how existing tools can enable academic self-publishing and proposing a bottom-up workflow to liberate research from commercial publishers.

Jun 26, 2014

Diapositivas de mi presentación sobre educación respiratoria en pacientes de Asma en la Universidad de Granada

Talks & Presentations

Asthma

Breathing

Diapositivas de una charla en la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Granada sobre la definición del asma como trastorno crónico inflamatorio y la evidencia a favor del entrenamiento respiratorio.

May 29, 2014

Audio de mi charla introductoria sobre educación respiratoria en el centro sanitario MENSANA

Talks & Presentations

Asthma

Breathing

Audio de la charla introductoria sobre educación respiratoria para el asma y otros trastornos relacionados con la respiración, dada el 7 de Mayo en el centro sanitario Mensana.

May 16, 2014

New article published in PLoS ONE: Impact of Stock Market Structure on Intertrade Time and Price Dynamics

Publications

Complexity

Stock markets

New article in PLoS ONE analysing intertrade times and price dynamics for NYSE and NASDAQ stocks, revealing that market structure strongly impacts scale-invariant temporal organisation in transaction timing.

Apr 11, 2014

Our article on University Rankings published in the Journal of Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics

Publications

Science policy

University rankings

Our critical analysis of global university ranking systems, exposing their mathematical shortcomings and biases, published in JESEP.

Mar 27, 2014

In a complex world is it always meaningful to ask why?

Opinions

Publications

Affect dynamics

Complexity

Psychophysiology

The discovery of nature’s intrinsic variability in biological systems—from heart rate to mood—challenges our linear causal thinking and suggests that not all fluctuations need an external cause.

Feb 25, 2014

Europe’s unpreparedness to support peer review innovation

Opinions

LIBRE

Peer review

Science policy

A report on attending the Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructures Information Days in Brussels, revealing that despite rhetoric, Europe is not yet ready to formally support peer review innovation.

Feb 25, 2014

LIBRE presentation for Horizon 2020

Talks & Presentations

LIBRE

Open Scholar

Science policy

Slides from my presentation of Open Scholar and the LIBRE project at the Information Days on Horizon 2020 in Brussels.

Feb 14, 2014

Beyond open access: facing academia’s real problems

Talks & Presentations

Open Access

Science policy

Slides and video of a talk at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich on how the journal monopoly over validation, evaluation and dissemination creates problems even more important than lack of accessibility to research.

Dec 10, 2013

On the future of peer review: LIBRE presentation at SpotOn London 2013

Talks & Presentations

LIBRE

Open Scholar

Repositories

Science policy

A 5-minute talk on the future of academic peer review and the LIBRE platform presented at SpotOn London 2013.

Nov 12, 2013

Psychophysiological Measures of Emotion: Application in Experimental Economics

Talks & Presentations

Behavioural economics

Psychophysiology

Slides from my lecture on psychophysiological measures of emotion for Master in Economics students at the University of Granada.

Mar 22, 2013

La enseñanza a la calle… (La Barraca Incendiada)

News & Events

Activism

La segunda edición de la iniciativa ‘Universidad a la Calle’ en la plaza Bib-rambla de Granada, con un texto de Alfonso Maso sobre el significado de esta acción colectiva.

Mar 17, 2013

Non-profit organisation ‘Open Scholar C.I.C.’ urges scientists to join their forces against flawed academic publishing model

News & Events

Open Scholar

LIBRE

Repositories

Science policy

Press release announcing the launch of Open Scholar and the LIBRE project, a non-profit community organisation dedicated to improving how scientists access and share research.

Mar 11, 2013

Universidad a la Calle

News & Events

Activism

As a response to severe government cuts in education, 28 University professors took their lectures to the streets of Granada, giving 14 talks to more than 500 participants.

Nov 12, 2012

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