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Jennifer Polk @fromphdtolife.com · 12d

There are more options for PhDs than you think. This free webinar will help you discover what’s out there—and what fits you best If you're thinking seriously about leaving higher ed for good, don’t miss this. Watch the free webinar now. #PhDSky

Free Training for PhDs - From PhD to Life

Leaving academia? You want a new career as a PhD without wasting time applying for the wrong jobs, but don’t know where to start. Get clarity with Dr. Jen Polk in this free training.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 13d

Today I started my grad cognition class for our masters program (we’re on a quarter system).

After introductions, I start with a brief historical consideration of cognitive psychology. I note that the Gestalt school was a cognitive approach based in Germany.

We then talked about what happened. 1/

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 12d

There is an entire cohort of students who will never have the same opportunities as others because of this last-minute posting.The honorable & sensible thing to do is to announce these criteria to begin NEXT CYCLE and keep the criteria from past years for the applications due in ONE MONTH. FUMING!

Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 12d

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

This means individuals in the following statuses at the time of application are eligible:

Undergraduate in the final (senior) year of a bachelor’s degree program
Bachelor’s degree-holder with NO enrollment in a graduate degree program (non-degree graduate coursework allowed)
Individual enrolled in a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree program with at least three undergraduate years completed
First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar)
Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs are considered graduate students. For GRFP, joint bachelor’s-master’s degrees are defined as degrees concurrently pursued and awarded.
Not be a current NSF employee.

Applications that do not meet eligibility requirements will be returned without review as being ineligible for a fellowship.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15d

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 15d

Neural selectivity for social interactions in the infant brain: https://osf.io/qydmj

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Thomas Luo @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social · 21d

How does the brain decide? 🧠

Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.

After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.

rdcu.be/eGUrv

Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature

Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...

www.nature.com

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 15d

Shorthand version of the paper: telling people that "Themaglin is associated with an increased probability of Pneuben” makes people think that Themaglin causes Pneuben.

(or maybe it is just associated with an increased probability of that inference?)

Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 15d

Timely reminder that 'associative' language leads lay people to confuse correlation and causation, as @tomerullman.bsky.social and I showed a few years ago.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Snapshot from the BBC:
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 15d

Yesterday I posted about how I used comet browser to take a Qualtrics survey almost undetected. Last night, I ran a pilot (N=400) on @joinprolific.bsky.social . I found that almost 10% of "respondents" identified as AI when directly asked.

Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 16d

I added a question in the survey to identify itself as an AI if instructed to be a human. That seemed to work. Though, I imagine I could jailbreak it eventually.

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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · 28d

::slowly stands while clapping::

Image of labubu doll labeled labubu next to image of spiky labubu doll labeled lakiki

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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 20d

@qmmmmliu.bsky.social and I just gave a presentation for the UChicago internship program on writing faculty job statements.

We talked through what makes them compelling (and what to avoid).

Slides are here if interested 👉 osf.io/3skx4/?view_...

Thanks to Dr. Shona Vas inviting us!!

Faculty Jobs

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's publication day for our first paper out of the www.csinequality.org lab completed entirely at NU. To write it, we asked: what research in the social psychology of inequality do we like and why do we like it? The answer is this paper:

Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Aug 21

A functional approach to the psychology of inequality

Perspective by Michael W. Kraus (@mwkraus.bsky.social‬), Daniel J. Sanji, Megan E. Burns, Aline da Silva Frost, Iseul Cha-Ju, A. Chyei Vinluan, LaStarr Hollie & Cydney H. Dupree (‪@cydneydupree.bsky.social‬)

go.nature.com/4fMVfVV

a, An example of the deficit-based model of the psychology of inequality, in which psychological processes related to cognition, emotion and motivation influence desirable behavioural patterns that sort people and groups into different levels of resources and opportunities in society. b, An example of a functional model of inequality as domination and resistance. Psychological processes that arise from the structural context promote actions that either support and reproduce structures of inequality or dismantle those structures.

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

1/n

Assistant Professor

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Monica Ellwood-Lowe @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social · 23d

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,.....

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs 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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NPR @npr.org · Jul 28

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Jun 29

OK, It is not just the HBCD release...
docs.hbcdstudy.org

It’s the ABCD Release time too!
docs.abcdstudy.org
nbdc-datahub.org

That means the ABCC 3.0.0 is live!!!

The largest release yet from the ABCD-BIDS Community Collection.

This is going to be fun!!
👇 Let’s dig in.

Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Jun 29

Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪

The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · Jun 26

The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available!

•Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows
•Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org

@theabcdstudy.bsky.social

NBDC Data Hub

NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Sharing Platform: Unifying ABCD and HBCD data management in one powerful platform.

www.nbdc-datahub.org

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Hyesung Grace Hwang @hghwang.bsky.social · May 28

Super interesting work! Can’t wait to share it with my grad seminar class in fall!

Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · May 28

🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe
w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola

When development constricts our moral circle

Nature Human Behaviour - Although many believe our moral circles expand with age, this Perspective discusses an early-emerging tendency to care for others.

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · May 27

The Spencer Foundation normally hears from 500 scholars applying for grants. This year, it got 2,000.

Philanthropies are facing a surge in demand in the wake of cuts to federal research subsidies. But they can't be a full replacement. @mkhaw.bsky.social reports: www.chronicle.com/article/as-t...

As the Nation’s Research-Funding Model Ruptures, Private Money Becomes a Band-Aid

Some foundations are offering much-needed stopgaps for researchers. But that’s not a permanent fix, scientists and advocates say.

www.chronicle.com

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · May 22

Instead they suggest two things: that who we are shapes what we can and do think. And that this means both that we are limited and ALSO that each of us “sees possibilities that the other cannot.” 2/2

KILLER talk by Laura Schulz

#SSM2025 #APS2025

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · May 22

Work on curiosity has focused on our drive towards accuracy. Yet, who we are shapes not only what we think but what we CAN think. Laura Schulz shows that boys DON’T learn “what tool X is for” when they see girls using them (and vice versa). This is at odds with accuracy and rational learning. 1/2

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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · May 22

NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.

Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · May 22

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · May 22

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · May 22

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨

We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8...

Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d)

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · May 22

curious what real outcomes this transformation is associated with. is the overall research quality better? do people ask better questions or design better studies? are more results reported in titles, abstracts, & media valid or measured? do fields move forward faster or more effectively? etc.

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 21

Wow.

Look at how rapidly preregistration has become the norm in experimental economics.

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