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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania
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Mind Center for Outreach, Research & Education - Penn's hub for the integrative study of the mind.
This starts at Noon! Join us for the seminar "Weaving Science into Philly Neighborhoods" with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social and/or the Science Zine Making Workshop at 1:30!

See you soon!
We are excited to host Philly's own doyenne of community science communication, Dr. Sarah McAnulty!

Friday, Nov 21, 1:30-3PM
Hands-On Science Zine Making Workshop

Registration for the workshop is limited by room size. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/hands-on-s...

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Applications for the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy awards close Dec 1, 2025.

Each award is $10K, plus 2 special awards are given: 1 for most innovative project (worth an extra $3K), and 1 for most outstanding project (worth an extra $5K).

www.horowitz-foundation.org/grant-info
Grant Information - Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy aims to support emerging scholars in the social sciences through small grants for their doctoral research.
www.horowitz-foundation.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This Friday is the deadline to have your donations matched 100% by @upenn.edu in the Penn's Way campaign.

Your donation can be doubled to local nonprofits to help make things better for our neighbors right here in Philadelphia!

Where are you directing your donation?

pennsway.upenn.edu
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Research poster design workshops tomorrow, Nov 19 and Dec 3!
Research Poster Design Workshops with the Penn Library - virtual

Weds, Oct 22: 4:45-5:45 - libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/15474686
Weds, Nov 19: 4:45-5:45 - libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/15474707
Weds, Dec 3: 4:45-5:45 - libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/15474739
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"New research from the Polarization Research Lab – a nonpartisan team of political scientists from the Annenberg School for Communication [...] and Dartmouth College – shows reducing polarization and “partisan animosity” is remarkably difficult."

www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Research Shows There Are No Easy Fixes to Political Hatred
www.asc.upenn.edu
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Phil Tetlock invested as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters

His work explores decision-making, the challenges of assessing “good judgment,” and the criteria that scientists use in judging judgment and drawing conclusions on bias and error.

penntoday.upenn.edu/news/alan-ch...
New members of American Academy of Sciences and Letters | Penn Today
Alan Charles Kors and Philip E. Tetlock have been invested as members of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters, a nonprofit that promotes scholarship and honors achievement in the arts and scie...
penntoday.upenn.edu
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Walnut Street Bridge crossing the Schuylkill river looking toward West Philadelphia circa 1920s;

Image source: Temple University Archives.

@temple-libraries.bsky.social @temple.edu
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Penn's Neuroscience Graduate-Led Initiatives and Activities (GLIA) is excited to invite 9-12th grade students to apply to participate in the Philadelphia Regional Brain Bee on Penn’s campus in Feb 2026.

Register here: www.upennglia.com/brain-bee

@pennngg.bsky.social @pennneuroknow.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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BEST DAY EVER!!! The award is called the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications & is run by @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social #scicomm #phdstudent
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I'm excited to share access to a video of the conversation @angeladuckworth.bsky.social & I hosted at Wharton w/ our brilliant friends @rthaler.bsky.social & @aleximas.bsky.social about their new book THE WINNER'S CURSE & how behavioral econ has evolved in the last 30 years. youtu.be/hH8UgQb-x4A?...
The Anomalies That Changed Economics | Richard Thaler and Alex Imas
YouTube video by Behavior Change For Good Initiative
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Delighted to announce that Penn linguist Mingyang Bian has been awarded the President Gutmann Leadership Award for Fall 2025!

www.mingyangbian.com
M. Bian's Homepage
About me
www.mingyangbian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Penn AI Seminar feat. Konrad Kording (PSOM, SEAS)
11-18-25, 12-2 pm
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-brains...
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Penn Arts & Sciences̛ Knowledge by the Slice lunchtime series offers educational talks led by faculty experts, plus there's pizza!

Wednesday, Dec 3, Noon
Café 58, Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St

Sudeep Bhatia, Assoc Professor of Psychology
Andrew Zahrt, Asst Professor of Chemistry
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Come do a joint postdoc with me and @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social, splitting your time between Princeton and Columbia. Come design new activity-dependent labeling enzymes and transcriptional reporters optimized for application in the peripheral nervous system.
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Postdoctoral Scientist- Kim and Abdus-Saboor Lab
Primary Work Address: Dept of Molecular Biology, Princeton, NJ, 08544 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Kim Lab at Princeton University and Abdus-Saboor Lab at ...
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
DYK, you can see many of our seminars on our YouTube page!

"Behind the CV" talks with Weiji Ma & Konrad Kording have thousands of views.

The newest talk is Allie Sinclair on "Resistance and Resilience: Science Communication and Advocacy in a Federal Funding Crisis"

www.youtube.com/@pennmindcor...
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
TODAY at 3 PM.
Early Childhood & Families Speaker Series: Dr. Allyson Mackey
Presented by ECEFS and PECF

Nov 17, 2025, 3-4:30 PM EST
Stiteler Hall 263–264, 3700 Walnut St

www.gse.upenn.edu/events/early...
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We're excited about back-to-back @sarahmackattack.bsky.social next Friday!

Noon Talk - Weaving Science Into Philly Neighborhoods
1:30 - Hands-On Zine Making Workshop

Register for zine making:
www.eventbrite.com/e/hands-on-s...

@pennngg.bsky.social @pennbgsa.bsky.social @pennneuroknow.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🧠 Paid Study: Commercials & News

The Wharton Neuroscience Initiative seeks participants for an EEG study on ads/news.

~90 min study at Pennovation at 3401 Grays Ferry Ave
$25 paid via ClinCard

Learn about brain science as a partcipant!

Sign up: wharton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
Survey Software, Enterprise Survey software for enterprise feedback management and CRM solutions. Enables high-quality data collection, panel management and results analysis. Perfect for market resear...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Join us in one hour (Noon!) in 111 NBS to hear Penn linguist Paloma Jeretič's talk and then stick around to hear from Ruthe Foushee at 1:30 on "Active Learning and Social Ecologies in Cross-Cultural Language Development"

Pizza at Noon.
Coffee and doughnuts at 1:30.

@pennlinguistics.bsky.social
MindCORE Seminar
Friday, November 14 at Noon with pizza!

“What does have mean? how patterns across languages can shed light on the building blocks of linguistic meaning”

Paloma Jeretič
Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
web.sas.upenn.edu/paloma-jeret...
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Tip: Read the alt text for a dose of ovine delight.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Just 1 month left to apply!

The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its PhD program in Demography. We look forward to recruiting a strong and diverse cohort for Fall 2026!

➡️ Applications are due December 15, 2025 ⬅️

Learn More:
Prospective Students | Graduate Group in Demography
demog.pop.upenn.edu
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Superb work by the stellar @bsevchik.bsky.social — a new fully processed open data resource focused on exec fxn in psychosis and ADHD.

‼️Also‼️ Brooke is applying to PhD programs now— great time to recruit an absolute star ⭐️ + wonderful human.
🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Early Childhood & Families Speaker Series: Dr. Allyson Mackey
Presented by ECEFS and PECF

Nov 17, 2025, 3-4:30 PM EST
Stiteler Hall 263–264, 3700 Walnut St

www.gse.upenn.edu/events/early...
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM