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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 15d

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Careers at Drexel - Human Resources

careers.drexel.edu

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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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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Aug 9

For fans of flexibility, new paper out in QJEP!
Domain-specific cognitive flexibility: Shift-readiness adaptations for task- and attention-switching are non-transferrable.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · Aug 7

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉

Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020

Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054

Please spread the word!

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · Jul 27

We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication.

At first, what we found was very confusing!

But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks

doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 2

Excited to share this new story from the lab and led by the very talented @bendevlin.bsky.social! In collab with Anne Schaefer and grateful for funding from NIH and @curealzheimersfund.bsky.social. a brief 🧵

Immunity @cp-immunity.bsky.social · Jul 2

Online now: Excitatory-neuron-derived interleukin-34 supports cortical developmental microglia function

Excitatory-neuron-derived interleukin-34 supports cortical developmental microglia function

While neurons and microglia are known to talk to one another, the signals that regulate their complex, important interactions are not comprehensively defined. Devlin et al. find that the cytokine IL-34 produced by excitatory neurons instructs the development and functional maturation of microglia in the mouse anterior cingulate cortex.

dlvr.it

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Jun 10

Highly recommended!!!

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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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Jun 3

New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility".
Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · May 13

When you successfully anticipate future events, what happens to your ability to encode the present? 🤔

Successful prediction increases the likelihood of successful encoding. We speculate about how switching between distinct encoding & prediction states can produce this effect.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · May 2

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · Mar 28

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · Apr 8

I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!

Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Mar 29

Nice, duly noted!

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Mar 29

Since the hotel bar is closed, you may as well check out some posters! #CNS2025: find our excellent grad student Jim Zhang at poster A91, "Neural correlates of concurrent demands on cognitive stability and flexibility".

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Feb 22

14 weeks, 29 lbs 🤔

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Feb 22

60% Pyr
15% German Shepherd
15% Siberian Husky
10% Chow Chow

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Feb 22

For something pleasant on your timeline, let me introduce you to our new family member, Captain: 60% Great Pyrenees, 100% cute!

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Amanda @dramandar.bsky.social · Feb 11

Research America has created an action item link that sends 3 letters to support #NIH to your US Senators and Representative based on your zip code.

It takes only a minute or two to fill out.

You don’t need to be an academic to support #Science!

advocacy.charityengine.net/Default.aspx....

Research!America

The Research!America alliance advocates for science, discovery, and innovation to achieve better health for all. We urge Congress and the administration to increase funding for the National Institutes...

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Feb 7

Wow, this would lead to a massive contraction of academic biomedical research in the US.

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Jan 25

I think it’s in the eye of the beholder: It’s reactive in the sense of being triggered by previous trial conflict but the fact that it hangs around for a while suggests that the brain expects (implicitly) that a similar challenge may be forthcoming, and in that sense you could call it proactive.

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Jan 8

Up in the gods at Cameron tonight - a real treat!

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Nov 17

Wow, this place is really blowing up. Lots of new follower but nothing new to report from the world of cognitive psychology and neuroscience? Let's go with Sunday morning vibes instead...

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Sam Verschooren @samversc.bsky.social · Oct 14

Some great news to start the week: our paper on ideomotor theory and voluntary control over autonomic processes inside the body (“interoactions”) was accepted in Psych Review!🧠💓🥳

With @mgblr.bsky.social and Marcel Brass

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

#PsychSciSky #cogpsych #interoception

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Senne Braem @sebraem.bsky.social · Sep 17

I've been recommending this review by @tobiasegner.bsky.social to many: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... It's a great overview on task control, with several interesting insights! However, w/ G. Dreisbach, @musslick.bsky.social, we disagreed with one conclusion: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... (1/7)

Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent - Nature Reviews Psychology

Nature Reviews Psychology - Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent

www.nature.com

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Sep 14

this is pretty amazing: @lucinauddin.bsky.social is taking on the giant, hugely profitable publishers of academic journals, on grounds of antitrust

If you'd like to join the case as a plaintiff you can sign up at www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac...

summary of the case:

The Publisher Defendants’ Scheme has three primary components. First, the Publisher Defendants agreed to not compensate scholars for their labor, in particular not to pay for their peer review services (the “Unpaid Peer Review Rule”). In other words, the Publisher Defendants agreed to fix the price of peer review services at zero. The Publisher Defendants also agreed to coerce scholars into providing their labor for nothing by expressly linking their unpaid labor with their ability to get their manuscripts published in the Publisher Defendants’ journals. In the “publish or perish” world of academia, the Publisher Defendants essentially agreed to hold the careers of scholars hostage so that the Publisher Defendants could force them to provide their valuable labor for free.

Second, the Publisher Defendants agreed not to compete with each other for manuscripts by requiring scholars to submit their manuscripts to only one journal at a time (the “Single Submission Rule”). The Single Submission Rule substantially reduces competition among the Publisher Defendants, substantially decreasing incentives to review manuscripts promptly and publish meritorious research quickly. The Single Submission Rule also robs scholars of negotiating leverage they otherwise would have had if more than one journal offered to publish their manuscripts. Thus, the Publisher Defendants know that if they offer to publish a manuscript, the submitting scholar has no viable alternative and the Publisher Defendant can then dictate the terms of publication.

Third, the Publisher Defendants agreed to prohibit scholars from freely sharing the scientific advancements described in submitted manuscripts while those manuscripts are under peer review, a process that often takes over a year (the “Gag Rule”). From the moment scholars submit manuscripts for publication, the Publisher Defendants behave as though the scientific advancements set forth in the manuscripts are their property, to be shared only if the Publisher Defendants grant permission. Moreover, when the Publisher Defendants select manuscripts for publication, the Publisher Defendants will often require scholars to sign away all intellectual property rights, in exchange for nothing. The manuscripts then become the actual property of the Publisher Defendants, and the Publisher Defendants charge the maximum the market will bear for access to that scientific knowledge.

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