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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 7d

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

ESLR | Membership

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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 8d

Positive self talk + coffee + naps is my current survival strategy.

hand holding a coffee cup. Coffee whispers with every sip. "You got this."

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 20d

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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MothProf @mothprof.bsky.social · 14d

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoc Position in Decision Making in Birds

Are you an expert in animal behavior? Do you have experience working with birds? The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is looking for a motivated researcher to investigate the ro...

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Ecological Dynamics Dept. | IZW Berlin @ecodynizw.bsky.social · 20d

Please RT!

📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦
Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

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Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social · 17d

Academic career symbolized in a picture.
#Ichbinhannah #postdocchatter

Staircase leading into a wall / into nothing.

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Alison Pearce Stevens @alisonpstevens.bsky.social · 23d

Welcome to the world, little book! Cover photo by @jeffreyrstevens.com. @holidayhouse.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social @wd4c.bsky.social #BookBirthday #MG #NF #K-12 #KidLit #Dogs #Conservation #InvasiveSpecies #SnifferDogs #STEMeducation #STEM #STEAM

It's a dog party! Happy Birthday Little book! Six silhouetted dogs celebrate the middle grade book Detective Dogs: How working dogs sniff out invasive species by Alison Pearce Stevens. Published by Holiday House.

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Sophie Boerman @crocsophie.bsky.social · 28d

📣 PhD position at Biogeology & Paleoclimatology (KU Leuven) 📣
Are you interested in studying past ecosystem responses to climate change?
Do you hold a Master's Geology or Biology, or a related field?
Join our team, apply now www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Charlène Gémard @charlenegemard.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 Calling researchers, students, technicians in cognition 🚨

We’re running a 10-min anonymous survey on how animal cognition is defined and studied across disciplines (from ecology, ethology, psychology, neurology, etc). 🧠✨

Scan the QR code & share widely

#AnimalCognition #ResearchSurvey #Science

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Ljerka Ostojic @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social · Sep 9

@ricogsci.bsky.social at the @osfestivalde.bsky.social in Vienna this week 👀

Cognitive Sciences Rijeka @ricogsci.bsky.social · Sep 9

Our Masters students @petrasaric.bsky.social and Roberta presented a poster about their work on Open Science at the @osfestivalde.bsky.social in Vienna yesterday!

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Anna Hughes @scienceanna.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you're a #visionscience or #psychscisky person starting to think about student dissertation projects, you might be interested in our visual search/foraging experiment code at github.com/scienceanna/.... You can configure everything via CSV files (lots of options!) and it all runs on Psychopy.

GitHub - scienceanna/visual_foraging_exp: Visual foraging experiment in PsychoPy

Visual foraging experiment in PsychoPy. Contribute to scienceanna/visual_foraging_exp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Aug 29

⏰ Only 10 days left to submit!

Showcase your research at #ABL2025, our free online conference on animal behavior research
🔹 15-min oral presentation
🔹 5-min video poster

📅 Deadline: September 7
📄 Register and submit your abstract here 👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · Aug 28

DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci).
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Stotra Chakrabarti, PhD @stotra.bsky.social · Aug 27

Folks looking for support/guidance/mentorship in Animal Behaviour, pls come talk to us! We are representing @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 @asab.org poster session!! What a joy to be able to do this with colleague phenomenal @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and @emmasmcewen.bsky.social 🐝🤝

Three members of the ABC standing by their poster at Behaviour 2025

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Jenny Wang 👶 🧮 @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social · Aug 12

📢 Come join us on Sunday, November 9th for the Rutgers Symposium of Learning with an amazing list of speakers and great company! More details: sites.rutgers.edu/symposium-le...

Rutgers Symposium of Learning

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · Aug 26

Going to start a program called Cat's Hype Train for Emerging Scholars there's no money involved I just post about your amazing first papers a lot to a bunch of people who otherwise don't really read science but want to appreciate you

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ASAB @asab.org · Aug 25

Our new meetings secretary @viveknityananda.bsky.social reminding everyone at #Behaviour2025 about our next conference #ASABWinter2025

We know everyone is busy but don’t forget the submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️

More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

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assafbreska.bsky.social @assafbreska.bsky.social · Aug 20

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social

M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9

@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social

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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation

Job Offer from August 11, 2025

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Aleksandra Lazić @alelazic.bsky.social · Aug 20

🌍 Glad to see our paper out!
How researchers in developing countries & other resource-constrained contexts (can) practice #OpenScience, with free tools, training, success stories, & more.

🔓 doi.org/10.1177/2515...
🛠 osf.io/gu7v4

More in this thread by @hcp4715.bsky.social 👇 #AcademicSky #PsychSky

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Lauren Walker @laurenwalkerphd.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excellent tips, particularly when University finances are tight and conference attendance may be limited!

Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · Aug 20

A PhD student asked our Solutions Lab: How can I build a dementia research network without costly conferences? 🧠 Here are some practical answers. #DementiaResearch

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/building-a-n...

Building a Network When You’re the Only Dementia Researcher - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER

Feeling isolated as the only dementia researcher in your department? In our Solutions Lab, we explore ways to build a strong network without costly conferences.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · Aug 15

Including data published in Brazilian journals, esp those published in Portuguese, inreased the representation of Brazilian species (x 10) and populations (x 7.6) in vertebrate population trend data. Data from Brazilian journals reduced trend variation. #languagebarriers
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Knowledge from non‐English‐language studies broadens contributions to conservation policy and helps to tackle bias in biodiversity data

Collecting data from local sources markedly further strengthens global biodiversity databases by adding species not previously included in international datasets. Furthermore, the addition of these d...

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Ljerka Ostojic @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social · Jul 23

"You can use LLM to take shortcuts. What are you taking shortcuts from? Being a credible professional? Thinking? Working? Innovating? Being yourself? Humanity? Living?"

Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · Jul 23

I enjoyed writing this little blog post on why LLMs are incompatible with being a credible scholar. www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/how-...

Why AI Shouldn't Be the Future of Academia

Personal Perspective: Artificial intelligence in academia appears to be inevitable—but it isn't, and it's worth deep consideration of what its use means for research, teaching, and scholarship.

www.psychologytoday.com

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