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Lexi Decker @lexidecker.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨!

I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com

Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!

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Jorge Morales @jorge-morales.bsky.social · 9d

🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4

Laboratory Technician

About the Opportunity SUMMARY The Subjectivity Lab, directed by Jorge Morales, and housed in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University is excited to invite applications for a full-time L...

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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 15d

🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨

Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging.

Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible).

Salary: NIH levels.

Details 👇

Flyer detailing information about the position, compensation, and requirements.

If you need alt-text details to apply for this position, please email Steven Weisberg at steven dot weisberg @ uta dot edu for more information! We'd love to have you on board :)

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Jenny Crawford @jlcrawford.bsky.social · 28d

Catherine is an amazing person and scientist! Working with her would be a great opportunity to build skills in aging, AD, multimodal imaging, or daily life sampling! 🧠

Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang @rongxiang.bsky.social · 28d

✨I am recruiting PhD students this cycle to join my lab at TAMU in Fall 2026! The lab focuses on cognitive neuroscience of aging and early risk prediction for AD. For more information about the lab, please visit: lifespanhealthneuro.weebly.com.

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Jenna Merenstein @jmerenstein.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yay, thanks so much for sharing this! 🥳 I am excited to be starting my new lab this Fall! I’ll be reviewing applications this cycle for 1-2 graduate students to start in Fall 2026. More information about applications can be found here: psych.utah.edu/graduate/

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Jenny Crawford @jlcrawford.bsky.social · Jul 23

Come learn about how to design, implement, and analyze studies that use experience sampling and ambulatory assessment (e.g., passive sensing of geolocation, physical activity, and sleep) across the adult life span with the talented @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social and @maddyfrumkin.bsky.social!

Decision & Aging @srndna.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hey y'all. We've still got a few spots open in our Daily Life Sampling Workshop on October 6 - srndna.utdallas.edu/srndna-events/

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Decision & Aging @srndna.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨 Reminder: 1 week left to apply for the SRNDNA Daily Life Sampling Workshop!
Application Deadline: 🗓️ July 18, 2025 🗓️

🗓️ 1-day workshop on Oct. 6, 2025
📍 Brandeis University
🧠 Theoretical lectures and hands-on tutorials

More information: srndna.utdallas.edu/srndna-events/

Decision & Aging @srndna.bsky.social · Jul 7

⏰ APPLY NOW for SRNDNA's one-day workshop on the daily life sampling research method

🗓️ October 6, 2025
🏫 Brandeis University
🧠 Theoretical lectures and hands-on tutorials

‼️ Application deadline July 18 ‼️
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Maddy Frumkin (she/her) @maddyfrumkin.bsky.social · Jul 9

I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836

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Decision & Aging @srndna.bsky.social · Jun 18

Come learn how! Apply for SRNDNA’s one-day workshop on the daily life sampling research method on October 6 at Brandeis University (APPLICATION DEADLINE July 18)! utdallas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Colleen @colleenhughes.bsky.social · Jun 6

Recently I (& @richardfbetzel.bsky.social et al.) asked how much does functional connectivity change (i.e., reconfigure) between rest and narrative movie-watching in young and older adults? And does that relate to how well people understood those narratives? Answers here: doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

Functional reconfiguration between rest and movie watching relates to theory-of-mind performance among young and older adults

Abstract. Functional connectivity among macroscale brain networks is minimally modified across rest and task states, suggesting a shared functional archite

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Tabea Springstein @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social · Jun 4

I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside.
Sharing would be much appreciated!
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UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · May 16

May 16th is international Chartreuse day! Your assignment for tonight is to drink a Last Word, Bijou, or Naked & Famous cocktail. If you’d like to know WHY today we celebrate one of the oldest and most special spirits in the world, here’s me rambling about it back in 2020.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · May 7

I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/

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Kendra Seaman @kendraseaman.bsky.social · Apr 11

I’m hiring! 👀 for a Lab Manager starting in June. Apply by May 2 for full consideration.

More info on lab: agingwell.utdallas.edu

Apply: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/29116

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Welcome to the Aging Well Lab at UT Dallas Our research is dedicated to using basic and translational scientific research studies to promote health and wellbeing across adulthood. We use a variety of ...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 26

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Jadyn Park @jadynpark.bsky.social · Mar 14

Remember what your partner said during a heated argument? Or the rush of getting your first job offer? Why do these emotionally arousing moments stick? Across 3 studies, and 3 arousal measures, we found that emotional arousal enhances memory encoding by promoting functional integration in the 🧠 1/🧵

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Mar 14

Emotional arousal enhances narrative memories through functional integration of large-scale brain networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.13.643125v1

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Decision & Aging @srndna.bsky.social · Mar 4

What are you doing on your lunch break? Listen to the new
🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode featuring @marilynhorta.bsky.social where she discusses her participation with SRNDNA and her research for TRIP at the Moffitt Cancer Center

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investNscience @investnscience.bsky.social · Mar 4

Why does thinking sometimes feel like hard work? @awestbrook.bsky.social studies the neural basis of mental effort #depression #psychedelics #tms #marchforscince #sciencesaveslives

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Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊 @nataliepeluso.com · Feb 27

You had me at "MRI- compatible cello" 😲

#musicscience #neuroskyence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Feb 27

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Neural network retuning and neural predictors of learning success associated with cello training.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.

Design and behavioral results. (A) An MRI-compatible cello was used for training and scan sessions. (B) The longitudinal repeated-measure protocol with three scans and eight training sessions. (C) Group average pitch errors and tempo errors across training sessions. (D) Group average pitch errors, tempo errors, and performance scores across scanning sessions. Here, the performance scores were linearly rescaled considering the pitch and tempo datasets of both scans (Methods).

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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · Feb 25

So excited to announce Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference: 30th Sept-1st Oct @Brown University. Amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/informa... and free!

Abstract submissions open until 7th July

w/ Romy Frömer, Ohad Dan, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Matt Nassar. Please share!

CISE 2025

30th September - 1st October 2025 Brown University, Rhode Island

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Tutorial on exploring ecological momentary assessment data is online at AMPPS, with:
- Accessible ways to visualize data for better understanding
- Models to get some first insights
- Further reading boxes for more advanced topics
- Reproducible pipeline you can run over your own data

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Pandora Dewan @pandoradewan.bsky.social · Feb 11

Have you heard of the Matilda Effect?

When the work of female scientists is credited to a man🧪

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, so here are five victims of the Matilda effect:

(Add your favourite forgotten #womeninSTEM to this list!👩‍🔬)

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Jan 30

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

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Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Eric Boodman @ericboodman.bsky.social · Jan 30

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills

An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

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Jenny Crawford @jlcrawford.bsky.social · Jan 29

If you're interested in hearing more about this paper, and the integration of daily life sampling methods with aging and AD research, you can listen to me discuss these topics on the Decision & Aging Insight podcast: srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/

Podcast - Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging | The University of Texas at Dallas

Decision & Aging Insights Podcast Follow our podcast on Spotify Dec. 2, 2024 We spoke with Dr. Jennifer Crawford, a...

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