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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 9h

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

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Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · 4d

📣 My lab will soon have an opening for a full-time #ResearchAssistant position. Please check out our ongoing research and contact me if you’re interested. 🧠🧠🧠

sites.brown.edu/oh-ctnlab/re...

Research

Brown Multimodal Imaging of Cognition, Aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease (MICAAD) Study An accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptides in the brain is one of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s dis...

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Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · 6d

If you are applying to a PhD program, be sure to check out these tips! 👇👇👇

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Applying for a Ph.D.? These 10 tips can help you succeed

Our Letters to Young Scientists columnists offer their advice

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 21d

This is one of the most outstanding examples of circuit understanding I've seen in a long time. The unification of theory and experiment is beautiful.

When Malcolm presented this in my lab, the audience was cheering at the end, and one person shouted (non-ironically) "You did it!"

Malcolm Campbell @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?

Read on to find out more! 🧵

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 29d

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them.

Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

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Alzheimer's & Dementia Journals @alzdemjournals.bsky.social · Sep 4

A&D Call for Papers: Alzheimer's & Dementia Special Issue: Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems in Alzheimer's Disease

Highlight your work on neurodegenerative disease pathogenesis in the NSS #AlzResearch

⏰Updated Deadline: Nov. 30, 2025

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Alzheimer's & Dementia

Enter your email to receive alerts when new articles and issues are published.

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Sep 5

This is an amazing success story. We are happy to have published several papers there - it really has become the top neuroimaging journal within just two years. Kudos to all who had the courage to make it happen!

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · Aug 15

My new university's logo is a PSI! How frickin cool is that!

Help me grow a new lab at in IU Bloomington! We're seeking brilliant young scientists interested in memory representations, neuromodulation & aging.

Coordinator: bit.ly/3Hu3UzT
Postdoc: bit.ly/4oBZF6j

Accepting GS apps in the Fall!

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Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD @ytquiroz.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚀 Join our Lab at @bostonu.bsky.social!
We’re welcoming motivated undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students to collaborate on innovative research projects 🌟 Speaking multiple languages is a big plus! 🌎 Join our vibrant, multidisciplinary team! 🧠 #Alzheimer

Learn more at bostonmapp.org/training 🎓

Training - MAPP: Multicultural Alzheimer's Prevention & Protection Lab

BU undergraduate and master’s students The lab is excited to welcome student researchers starting in Fall 2025. Current BU students interested in joining the lab are welcome to email us at mapplab@bu....

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Norman Lab @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social · Aug 13

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Jeff Zacks @jzacks.bsky.social · Jul 12

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. The Center offers a unique opportunity to craft a transdisciplinary research program with an unusual degree of independence.

ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

Postdoc Fellows

The CTCN funds a cohort of outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to work at the interface between theoretical and experimental labs and help forge new collaborations. Application deadline August 1st, 20…

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Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you to #AAIC25 for another amazing conference on #AlzheimersDisease research! Had a great time presenting new work from the lab, reconnecting with old labmates and mentors, and meeting new colleagues! #AAIC2025 #BrownMICAADStudy

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Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you are at #AAIC25, check out Ji-Hyun Kim's posters presenting our new #BrownMICAAD data on #LocusCoeruleus integrity, neural activity, & cognition in young & clinically intact older adults!

Mon (7/28) #455, #967 #OhLabBrown #fMRI #LCscan #XiaoyangHu #JasmineRanieri @heidijacobslab.bsky.social

Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · Jul 28

Grateful and exciting to be at #AAIC2025 in Toronto and be part of so many important #neuroimaging research on #AlzheimersDisease presented this year!

#BrownMICAADstudy #HEADstudy #OhLabBrown #BrownDPHB #CarneyInstitute #BrownMedicine

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Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · Jul 28

Grateful and exciting to be at #AAIC2025 in Toronto and be part of so many important #neuroimaging research on #AlzheimersDisease presented this year!

#BrownMICAADstudy #HEADstudy #OhLabBrown #BrownDPHB #CarneyInstitute #BrownMedicine

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Heidi Jacobs @heidijacobslab.bsky.social · Jul 23

Learn about our work towards earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease. Despite NIH-funding being delayed, terminated, and uncertain, we are fiercely committed to these goals! Link for donations to support our work is at the bottom of the page, or reach out.
giving.massgeneral.org/stories/earl...

Earlier Detection of Alzheimer’s Could Help Reduce Its Most Devastating Effects

Heidi Jacobs, PhD, is a leader in Alzheimer’s disease research whose personal experience with the disease strengthens her passion for finding a cure — something she is well on her way to achieving.

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Alzheimer's & Dementia Journals @alzdemjournals.bsky.social · Jul 14

Call For Papers! Alzheimer's & Dementia Special Issue: Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems in Alzheimer's Disease

Research on the intersection of the Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems and AD are welcome! #AlzResearch

⏰Deadline: Aug. 30, 2025

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Alzheimer's & Dementia

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, August 30 2025

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jake Vogel @jwvogel.bsky.social · Apr 24

I am so very proud announce my lab's first preprint!!

@xiaoyucaly.bsky.social delves into the mechanisms driving tau distribution:
* Tau sequence driven by connectivity dynamics
* Tau load driven by local factors

Check out her thread below

Yu Xiao (肖燏) @xiaoyucaly.bsky.social · Apr 24

🧠New preprint! What drives tau, the pathological protein in AD, to spread?
We found that WHERE tau appears and HOW MUCH accumulates are governed by different mechanisms. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 

#MedSky #neuroskyence #neurosky #alzsky #compneuro #MRI #neuroimaging #neurology

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Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · Feb 20

The CNTN study section scheduled on 2/20-21 that I am on was cancelled on 2/18 due to the closed federal register. My SRO also does not know when the register will re-open.

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · Dec 13

Just did a calculation of our lab's time from project conception to publication (e-pub) over the past x years. We're averaging 3.5 years from the first idea to acceptance. About 6-9 months of this is review time. Don't know how typical this is but good reality check esp. for trainees.

Histogram showing time to publication of papers in years; distribution centers on about 3/5 years

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Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · Nov 30

Please add me! Thanks!

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