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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations!!!

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Aug 6

Good stuff right here

Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · Aug 6

🆕 RESEARCH: Not all kids respond to early adversity the same way. We examined data from ~7,400 children for 4 years and found something notable about positive emotions & mental health outcomes...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Positive Affect as a Developmental Mediator of Early Adversity and Internalizing Psychopathology

Early life adversities (ELAs) including experiences such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction are strongly linked to psychopathology; yet, the developmental pathways connecting ELA to external...

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Aug 6

Wow, SUCH cool and important work! We're working on a theory paper right now that fits pretty perfectly with this result...

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João Guassi Moreira @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at
@uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold!

psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

Joao Guassi Moreira – Information for Prospective Graduate Students

Dr. Joao Guassi Moreira – Information for Prospective Graduate Students Website: https://psych.wisc.edu/staff/guassi-moreira-joao/ Current research: Dr. Guassi Moreira’s Computational Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory (CDNLab) studies the neurodevelopment of affective and social phenomena between late childhood and emerging adulthood. Currently, CDNLab is particularly interested in the development of emotion regulation and decision-making, and the nexus between the two.…

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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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Shannon Burns, PhD @shannon47burns.bsky.social · Jul 22

Calling out to #neuroskyence: Pomona College is hiring! This is a position for a tenure-track assistant professor in systems-level neuroscience. We are eager to hear from candidates with a commitment to teaching and research excellence with undergraduates academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30265

Pomona College, Neuroscience

Job #AJO30265, 1132 Assistant Professor, Systems Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Pomona College, Claremont, California, US

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

Brett Davis did a fantastic job organizing and leading this review of pharmacological strategies for enhancing fear extinction (and exposure therapy). Tell us what you think!

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Brain & Body Lab at UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate to work on a productive and dedicated team under the NIMH funded Teen Bugs study - investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Send your best and brightest! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072

Staff Research Associate in Los Angeles, California | The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus

UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate in Los Angeles, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!

jobs.ucla.edu

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Jun 14

NO WAY!!!!! Such incredible and well-deserved news!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · May 14

Thank you to everyone who helped me get here! I can't wait to get started 😎

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · May 14

In July, I will be starting as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Pomona College.

This is SUCH a dream come true and would not have been possible without a LONG list of people.... but especially @jasilvers.bsky.social, Michelle Craske, & the many friends I have made long the way 🙏

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · May 14

For ~13 years or so, it has been my dream to one day be Professor Rosenberg.......

At long last, I am overjoyed to share that it's finally happening!!!!

Standing at the entrance to Pomona College with a big smile

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · Apr 29

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.”

⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity

We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Apr 25

Toronto is simply stunning! #SOBP2025

Looking over the water near Harbour front in Toronto. The walkway is lined with blooming trees and the Toronto Islands form a horizon in the distance.

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Gio Ramos @gramos.bsky.social · Apr 18

UCI is hosting its annual Diversifying Clinical Psych Weekend. This program aims to support underrepresented students in pursuing PhDs in Clinical Psychology.
Apps open now until 4/25!
btRs://bit.ly/VCI-DW-2025

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tal yarkoni @talyarkoni.com · Apr 15

if you're a PhD student or postdoc working at the interface of personality psychology and CS/ML (construed broadly on both sides), and are interested in doing a full-time, remote, 3 - 6 month internship/residency at MidJourney, please DM me some kind of resume or CV-like thing

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · Apr 9

Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Mar 31

Just received word that our post-bacc RA position at the UPenn Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab should go live this week. Will post the link when it does but, for now, here' s a link with the description. Please repost + share with your team!
tinyurl.com/ycyzmmdx

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Mar 26

It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠

A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications

Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.

www.nature.com

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Mar 21

Congratulations!!!!! 🎉

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Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social · Mar 20

Dear colleagues & friends: In light of recent announcements, the search committees and I wanted to reassure potential candidates that the faculty search (three faculty openings) for our new UCI Depression Institute continues as planned. Please circulate

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Mar 19

I am so so sorry

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Mar 14

I would love to be added! Thank you for putting this together

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Naoshige Uchida @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social · Mar 10

Our new study: Dopamine in the tail of the striatum facilitates avoidance in threat–reward conflicts. Congrats Iku-Tsutsui Kimura, Melissa Tian and others! Led by Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ben Rosenberg 🧠👨🏻‍🔬 @benrosenberg.bsky.social · Mar 8

I am so proud to see @jasilvers.bsky.social speaking at this!

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