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Elsie Xu Yan @elsiexuyan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here are our wonderful faculty in the Penn State Child Clinical Psychology PhD Program who are accepting new students this year! 🌟

**Please RT and share with your postbac students interested in applying this cycle**

🔹 Dr. Cynthia Huang-Pollock (Child Attention and Learning Lab https://childattention.la.psu.edu/); Dr. Huang-Pollock is also excited to recruit students interested in helping with new projects leveraging technology to improve therapeutic outcomes.

🔹 Dr. Katie Burkhouse (Families, Affective Neuroscience, and Mood Disorders Lab https://famlab.la.psu.edu/)

🔹 Dr. Martha Wadsworth (Coping and Regulation of Environmental Stress Lab https://careslab.la.psu.edu/)

📅 Application deadline: 12/1/2025
ℹ️ Learn more about the program: https://psych.la.psu.edu/graduate/program-areas/clinical-adult-and-child/

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · Jun 16

The Trainee Professional Development Award program provides trainees with opportunities for networking & professional growth.

Awardees receive funding to present their research at #SfN25!

Find out if you’re eligible & apply by June 24, 5 p.m. EDT

🔗 bit.ly/4dWku7h

#NeuroSky #AcademicChatter

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Lisette Espín-Noboa @lespin.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 The NetSci-X 2026 Call for Abstracts is now open!
Submit your work and join us in #Auckland to explore diversity in network science.

📅 Deadline: 5 September 2025, 23:59 AoE
🌐 More info: netscix2026.github.io

@mluczak.bsky.social‬ Michael Small @droneale.bsky.social‬ Daniela Paolotti

Promotional graphic for NetSciX 2026 in Auckland, New Zealand. The image features a cityscape of Auckland with the Sky Tower prominently visible against a clear blue sky and harbor. On the right side, bold text reads "CALL FOR ABSTRACTS" with a note encouraging submissions on diversity in network science. The deadline is listed as "Friday, 5 September 2025 at 23:59 AoE." The website for more information is netscix2026.github.io.

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Clin Lai @ialnilc.bsky.social · May 24

Thank you to the organizing committee of @tsfnc.bsky.social for all their hard work setting up such an amazing conference. I am inspired by all the great (and do we dare say creative) ideas! Special shoutout to @hannahmerseal.bsky.social because we love her 💕

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Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · May 21

In keeping with the AI/human co-creativity theme, @ialnilc.bsky.social compares human/AI collaboration to human/human collaboration across verbal creativity tasks

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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · Apr 24

Want to share your research and build support for science, but don’t know where to start?

Register for our science communication workshop: tinyurl.com/scicomins

📝Practice your sci comm
🤳Make a video
🤝Meet amazing scientists on social media including @moadlc.bsky.social!

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Jan 8

An incredible opportunity for the right person:

The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels

For me, this has been the best possible job ever.

More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

sfiscience

SFI seeks applications for full-time, 12-month resident faculty positions at all academic levels.

santafe.edu

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Krystal Lang @krystallotuslang.bsky.social · Jan 22

Books to distract and inspire Part 1 #booksky #diversebooks @skylight.social

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · Jan 8

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Jan 9

@binarybits.bsky.social does some of my favorite technical writing that does not skimp on nuance and I feel like this is a good opportunity?

Neal Parikh @nparikh.org · Jan 8

Here are some interesting opportunities to collaborate with the excellent @binarybits.bsky.social on his newsletter, Understanding AI, if you or someone you know are interested in serious AI journalism. If not, I still recommend his newsletter.

www.understandingai.org/p/two-opport...

Two opportunities to work with me in 2025

You could get paid to write for Understanding AI for nine months.

www.understandingai.org

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Jan 9

I was worried about something like this but didn’t think about how medical would be one of the more susceptible target domains arstechnica.com/science/2025...

It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs

Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate.

arstechnica.com

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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · Jan 9

The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC) is now accepting nominations for our 2025 awards. We have three awards open to grad students and early-career creativity researchers:

Young Investigator Award
Dissertation Award
Sarah A. Burgess Award

Apply by Feb 1: tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards

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Frederic R. Hopp @fhopp.bsky.social · Dec 8

Busy bookworm or targeted hunter?
Check out this amazing work on using computational modeling for exploring #curiosity in book selection!

Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · Dec 8

In Jan 2022, over 🌮s, Jason & I kicked off a project on sequential media selection. A theory article (doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...) laid the foundation. Now, a new preprint using real-world data, careful experimentation, & computational modeling shows how curiosity modulates exploration. Way to go Jason!

Six panel scientific figure. Summary: We gathered two datasets of people’s book selections from real-world and experimental settings. The real-world dataset comprises large-scale records of sequential reading choices and subjective reading experience ratings. These book choices can be arranged in a multidimensional semantic embedding space which numerically represents the semantic meaning of the book synopsis. The experimental dataset collects book selection records from a multi-armed bandit task, which simulates the real-world book selection environment.

Panel A: real world books are embedded in a semantic space and labeled according to their genre. Books are naturally clustered by their genre in this semantic embedding space.

Panel B: Readers make sequential book selection trajectories in the semantic book space. These selections vary in terms of enjoyment, and distance (in semantic space) traveled.

Panel C: Probability distributions show that the distance (in semantic space) between book selections is lower than random.

Panel D: The experiment, a total of 15x15 options were arranged in a grid and presented for participants to make book selections. Each point encodes a book option, and the color encodes the genre of the books.

Panel E: The experimental procedure. Participants completed a total of 15 trials of a click-read-rate task, where they clicked one option from the grid, read the synopsis of the book, and then rated their reading enjoyment.

Panel F: Participant sequential book selection trajectories in the experiment. As in the real-world data, readers on the experiment make sequential book selection trajectories in the semantic book space. These selections vary in terms of enjoyment, and distance (in semantic space) traveled.

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Clin Lai @ialnilc.bsky.social · Nov 20

Submitting these two food photos!

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Clin Lai @ialnilc.bsky.social · Nov 19

I would like to be added, thanks!

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