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Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics @ae.mpg.de · 1d

📢 Call for Abstracts!

The 2nd Annual Conference on #AestheticDevelopment takes place on Nov 20, 2025, at the MPIEA. We invite submissions on how children engage with and develop through the arts.

🗓 Deadline: Oct 12, 2025
🔗 indico.ae.mpg.de/event/29/abstracts/
#Aesthetics #Conference

Visual with a Call for Papers for the 2nd Annual Conference on Aesthetic Development.

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 1d

New paper involving @zoengo.bsky.social, formerly of LIP, now leading her own Emmy Noether Group RAVEN | Real-world Applications of Variability in Episodic memory and Neurodevelopment @mpib-berlin.bsky.social!

Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications

Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

www.nature.com

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 1d

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories

Longitudinal measurements of brain structure and function are critical for understanding how humans change over time. Traditional longitudinal approaches sample sparsely across large windows of time t...

www.cell.com

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 2d

We're looking for an experimental psychologist in Witten. Contact me if you have questions about the job (I'm not on the commission, so can talk freely :-)
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/59638545...

Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) bei Universität Witten/Herdecke

Wir suchen: Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) (Vollzeit) • Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58455 Witten, Deutschland

uni-wh.softgarden.io

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 1d

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉

I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty).

See lab page and doc below for details!

Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · Nov 18

The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab!

Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD

Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

www.vislearnlab.org

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · 2d

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 8d

If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Description: We are looking for a full-time data scientist to join the Developing Belief Network, a global team of psychologists studying...

docs.google.com

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 4d

Happy fall y'all

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 8d

The CogSci Society is accepting nominations for 🌟Fellows of the Society🌟

Fellows are individuals whose research has exhibited sustained excellence and had sustained impact on the #CogSci community.

Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/ and submit your nomination until November 1st!

Graphic announcing: “Nominations for Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society are open until Nov 1.” The word “Fellows” is large and bold. To the right, there is a calendar icon showing November 1. Decorative starburst graphic above the text.

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 5d

HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social

HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of human hippocampal organization - Nature Methods

HippoMaps provides an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities such as histology, fMRI, structural MRI and EEG.

www.nature.com

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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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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 4d

Several of the participants were LIP colleagues who were joined by others from all over Europe. A good time was had by all in this wonderful location!

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 4d

The excellent lectures were held by Gerd Kempermann, Martin Lövdén, Mackenzie and Alex Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social, @trackingskills.bsky.social, Naftali Raz, & Nathalie Rochefort, @tjryan.bsky.social supplemented by talks by some of the participants!

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 4d

The Neuroscience School for Advanced Studies "Brain Plasticity: Neural Basis of Individuality" led by LIP Director Ulman Lindenberger and Tobias Bonhoeffer @mpiforbi.bsky.social has just ended at San Servolo, Venice! #nsas

Group photo in front of old church in green scenery

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 5d

Check out this new Max Planck graduate school, for talented students interested in applying ML/AI tools to one of a wide variety of scientific fields. Deadline this October 31st!

Home

ai.mpg.de

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Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re in London next week, why not swing by?

London Judgement and Decision Making seminar series @ljdm.bsky.social · 6d

Hello everyone! Along with our first post here on Bluesky, we look forward to the new academic year, hosting our first #LJDM2025 session next week with Dr Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social. For more info and to keep updated, check our website!

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 7d

W3 Professorship in Computational Psychiatry at Uni Bochum

www.researchgate.net/job/1032595_...

PROFESSORSHIP FOR RESEARCH ON COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY (W3) (M/F/D) at Ruhr University Bochum in Bochum, GERMANY

Sep 29, 2025 | The Ruhr area, one of Europe’s largest metropolitan regions, offers attractive career opportunities for excellent scientists and scholars from... | NEW JOB

www.researchgate.net

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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Student Research Assistant Wanted (Deadline: October 31)

We are seeking a Bachelor/Master student research assistant to assist our ongoing research in all phases of the scientific process @mpib-berlin.bsky.social.

See the link below for more details!👇
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2170830/2025...

Student Research Assistant | Center for Adaptive Rationality

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 6d

New work by former LIP colleague @garvinbrod.bsky.social!

Garvin Brod @garvinbrod.bsky.social · 7d

You can learn better by making your own predictions than by watching someone else's predictions, even if they are the same as yours. New computational approach to show the benefits of active/generative learning developed together with the fabulous @ebonawitz.bsky.social rdcu.be/eILdR

Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning

npj Science of Learning - Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning

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IMPRS for Brain and Behavior @imprsbb.bsky.social · 8d

📢Only 4 weeks left to apply!
Join our IMPRS for Brain&Behavior to pursue a #PhD in #neuroethology. Learn how brain circuits are linked to interesting animal behaviors!
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025
🔗 imprs-brain-behavior.mpg.de
#neuroscience #neurojobs #sciencejobs #PhDOffers #FundedPhD

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 7d

If you have tenured and would share your own tenure application materials, I would love to build this section out on our Resources webpage! Please email me for eternal gratitude and as always, credit on the site: [email protected]
Please repost to help me reach folks to share!

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 7d

I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)

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MPI for Biological Intelligence @mpiforbi.bsky.social · 7d

We are recruiting PhD students! Join us in exploring the multiple dimensions of biological intelligence at our international and fully funded graduate program IMPRS-BI in the Munich area, Germany!

🔔 Application period: 1 October to 10 November
🧪 Apply here: imprs-bi.mpg.de

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 8d

When I was a younger faculty, I kept wavering on whether I should apply for the Rising Star every year. And then when I finally worked up the courage to apply, I was no longer eligible. Lesson here is that you should not miss your shot and just apply! Don’t pray for someone to secretly nominate you!

Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 9d

This designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. #AcademicSky

Nominate a colleague to be an APS Rising Star by October 1!
www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

APS Rising Stars

The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD. This designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has alre...

www.psychologicalscience.org

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