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Arjen Stolk

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Cognitive neuroscientist studying how interacting minds meet. Mutual Understanding Lab ‪ www.MutualUnderstanding.nl

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Arjen Stolk @stolkarjen.bsky.social · Nov 15

So impressed with the results! Louis and the team really dug into the research and came up with a clear and insightful video translation 🔬

Louis Charron @louischarron.bsky.social · Nov 13

🧠📄 How do you turn a complex neuroscience paper into a 3-minute story everyone can understand?
New collaboration with @interactingminds.bsky.social reveals surprising links between early childhood & overcoming stereotypes. 👇

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 2d

We are hiring at Emory Psychology in Developmental!

Come join a wonderful department in a great city ☀️

apply.interfolio.com/173594

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Colin Hoy @colinwhoy.bsky.social · 3d

Randolph is fantastic, and this will be an incredible opportunity to work on cutting edge science! Definitely consider applying

Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 3d

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 3d

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

codec lab

codec-lab.github.io

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 6d

🐘 Do elephants know when we're looking at them?

A new study shows that Asian elephants can recognise human visual attention by reading both body and face orientation.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #AnimalBehaviour 🧪

Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation

www.nature.com

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 6d

We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.

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Lorne Campbell @lornejcampbell.bsky.social · 8d

New ad for an open rank position in Psychology at Cornell. That Human Bonding course seems very popular! May be a good fit for a relationship scientist out there. Below is a snippet of the job ad.

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Arjen Stolk @stolkarjen.bsky.social · 13d

Got it, sorry to hear

Arjen Stolk @stolkarjen.bsky.social · 13d

Isn't "gezellig" about the highest goal humans can aspire to? ;) (forgive my vrimibo mood)

Arjen Stolk @stolkarjen.bsky.social · 15d

I feel ya

Arjen Stolk @stolkarjen.bsky.social · 16d

... this convergence extends to new linguistic referents and reshapes individuals’ local semantic representations. An elegant demonstration of how meaning is co-constructed in dialogue; definitely making its way into my course materials

Arjen Stolk @stolkarjen.bsky.social · 16d

Finally had a chance to read this study on conceptual alignment in human communication. Using a clever repeated reference game, it provides quantitative evidence that interaction drives people to converge on a shared, generalizable conceptual space:

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social

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Cory Inman @brainscout.bsky.social · 17d

Excited to share our new eLife paper from our lab's first Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Justin Campbell! In this paper, Justin explored the effects of direct electrical stimulation to the human amygdala on single-unit activity throughout the brain. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

Human single-neuron activity is modulated by intracranial theta burst stimulation of the basolateral amygdala

Firing rate analyses revealed neurons throughout the hippocampus, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex in humans that exhibited heterogeneous responses to intracranial theta b...

elifesciences.org

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Monica Ellwood-Lowe @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social · 24d

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States

The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

phxc1b.rfer.us

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 8

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Colin Hoy @colinwhoy.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy my abstract was accepted to #IEEE #NER25! Looking forward to sharing my work on "An integrated platform for identifying and targeting neural biomarkers of reward processing: Towards adaptive deep brain stimulation for mood in Parkinson’s disease" with the #neurotech #BCI #iBCI community

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Sebastian Michelmann @s-michelmann.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Sep 4

#CallforExpressionofInterest
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

📅Deadline: September 14, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy
🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy

@szymanikjakub.bsky.social

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!

Links below:

Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Original post on mastodon.social

mastodon.social

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 21

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

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tor @torwager.bsky.social · Jul 23

Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8!
3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

fMRI Course

Instructors

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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · Jun 9

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods.

If you know anybody, please tell them to email me.

Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

Wessel Cognitive Neurology Lab | The University of Iowa

Thanks for visiting the Cognitive Neurology Lab at the University of Iowa. The lab is directed by Dr. Jan R. Wessel. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Depa...

wessel.lab.uiowa.edu

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BottiniLab @bottinilab.bsky.social · Jun 9

📢 BottiniLab is hiring!

Join our ERC-funded team in Trentino to study memory, attention & cognitive maps (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG).

🧠 3 postdocs, 3 PhDs, 2 RAs
🌍 Int’l, dynamic lab
🗓️ Deadline: July 10, 2025
📍Workplace: g.co/kgs/Ysyne4V
🔗 Info & how to apply: pdf.ac/2Ppzmw

#ERC #NeuroscienceJobs

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · May 21

Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

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ckerren.bsky.social @ckerren.bsky.social · Apr 29

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.

We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

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