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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 5d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 7d

Gather round, all those bayes curious, pragmatic, committed or indifferent, for an elegant and flexible way to approach reliability estimation using bayesian measurement models! All thoughts and ideas welcome

Giacomo Bignardi @bignardi.bsky.social · 7d

New preprint with @rogierk.bsky.social @paulbuerkner.com - we introduce "relative measurement uncertainty" - a reliability estimation method that's applicable across a broad class of Bayesian measurement models (e.g., generative-, computational- and item response theory-models osf.io/h54k8

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · 19d

Deadline approaching fast (October 1st)!

Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · Jul 31

Applications open for the new #PhD program “Embracing Transformation” @leuphana.bsky.social (36 positions)

Research how societies respond to change – whether in climate, democracy, work, or digital culture.

Fin me in "Psychology of Transformation"

More info: www.leuphana.de/transformation-phd

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · Jul 31

Applications open for the new #PhD program “Embracing Transformation” @leuphana.bsky.social (36 positions)

Research how societies respond to change – whether in climate, democracy, work, or digital culture.

Fin me in "Psychology of Transformation"

More info: www.leuphana.de/transformation-phd

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 22d

A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective.

A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE.

levante-network.org/global-colla...

Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development - Levante

Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive ...

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · Jul 31

Applications open for the new #PhD program “Embracing Transformation” @leuphana.bsky.social (36 positions)

Research how societies respond to change – whether in climate, democracy, work, or digital culture.

Fin me in "Psychology of Transformation"

More info: www.leuphana.de/transformation-phd

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Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social · Jul 28

Studying children often comes with challenges such as high data variance, data loss, and sample attrition. A new study by Dr. Stephanie Wermelinger, @moritzdaum.bsky.social, and Marco Bleiker examined person- and situation-level factors that affect data quality in developmental research.

Link👇

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ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!

🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?

Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · Jul 21

Come and join us at the University of Sydney School of Psychology! 🦘 Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor position usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Psychology

Full time, continuing position, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to contribute to research and teaching in a world leading Psychology department Base Salary, le...

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P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann @patkanngiesser.bsky.social · Jul 18

Our (short) perspectives piece on challenging dyads as defaults in developmental psychology research is out (open access). Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With Roman Stengelin (MPI EVA)

Challenging dyads as defaults in research on childhood social cognition

www.sciencedirect.com

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Big Team Science Conference @btscon.bsky.social · Jul 6

Mark your calendars! BTSCON2025 is officially set for October 6-8th.
@psysciacc.bsky.social @abrir.bsky.social @manybabies.org

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Kathelijne Koops @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social · Jul 3

Join us!!! 2 (!) PhD positions on wild chimpanzees and bonobos in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group and Wildminds Lab!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Cat Hobaiter @nakedprimate.bsky.social · Jul 2

📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social

@snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪

two 4-year PhD positions in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Zurich, and the Wild Minds Lab of the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews, to study wild chimpanzees and bonobos.
The PhD candidates will work within the Creative Ape Project. The overall goal of the project is to enhance our understanding of the evolution of creativity, and to shed light on whether humans are a uniquely 'creative ape'. To do so we will apply a comparative approach, quantifying the creative capacities of wild non-human apes to investigate the underlying drivers that shape creative expression across species. The project explores four interconnected topics: i) Making mavericks, ii) Funny guys and arty-types, iii) Lone ape geniuses, and iv) Creative ape economies. We employ a comprehensive approach that leverages long-term datasets, new field data, detailed manual video-coding, bespoke automated deep-learning models, and advanced modelling, to extract rich information on the ways in which apes solve problems in their daily lives.

Excellent collaborative, independent working and time management skills are essential. Previous field experience (incl. behavioural data collection) is required, and experience working in remote places under difficult living conditions is highly recommended. The project will require strong data management and data analysis skills, and 12-18 months of field work split into 2-3 periods.

Please submit your application in a single PDF to kathelijne.koops@iea.uzh.ch and clh42@st-andrews.ac.uk – by 4th of August 2025. Feel free to get in touch if you have any inquiries about the positions. Applications should include: 1) cover letter stating your motivation and how your expertise fits the project (max. 1 page), 2) Curriculum Vitae, 3) copy of the highest degree obtained, 4) names and contact details of two referees, and 5) reprints of 1-2 selected publications

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Jul 1

PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground".

🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground
🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science
📅 Deadline: July 14
tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p

Please share!
@toddthelinguist.bsky.social

Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here:
uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

#linguistics + friends

CRC Common Ground

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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg @leuphana.bsky.social · Jun 13

We are hiring 14 early-career researchers!
In the programme “Embracing Transformation” researchers investigate what transformation is and how it can be successfully shaped.

Find out more: www.leuphana.de/en/portals/e...

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Oliver Genschow @olivergenschow.bsky.social · Jun 23

There is only this week left to apply for the Phd-position (75%; 4 yrs) about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability at Leuphana University Lüneburg @leuphana.bsky.social.

Oliver Genschow @olivergenschow.bsky.social · Jun 2

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

Hub Science Project “Psychology of Transformation towards Sustainability”: Doctoral Research Associate with a background in Psychology or a related field

www.leuphana.de

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are hiring! Two PhD positions for interdisciplinary work on great ape communication and language evolution in a joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social.

🎯 evolutionary or probabilistic modeling
🗓️ deadline: Aug 13
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cnzwakj

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · Jun 30

Come work with us on this really exciting interdisciplinary project!

Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

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@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

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Heidi Baumgartner @hbaum.bsky.social · Jun 26

It's been a ton of fun to work with @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social on this. I'm so lucky to get to support projects like this (and @manybabies.org and @btscon.bsky.social and ...)!

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jun 24

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) now features over 100 published articles! Editors-in-Chief @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social share their vision for this open, online reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition & intelligence:

A conversation with the editors of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

Editors-in-Chief Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid share their vision for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science as it surpasses 100 published articles.

mitpress.mit.edu

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Dietmar Till @dietmartill.bsky.social · May 30

Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

DFG fördert 13 neue Sonderforschungsbereiche

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · Jun 27

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition

Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

www.cell.com

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Dr Rebecca Koomen @rebeccakoomen.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳

Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?

All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
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Career Opportunities: PhD position Cooperative Sustainability (14208)

career2.successfactors.eu

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · Jun 3

Really looking forward to this - interdisciplinary in its best sense and with an amazing team!

Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

Dietmar Till @dietmartill.bsky.social · May 30

Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

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