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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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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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dickretired @dickretired.bsky.social · Aug 8

What do graduates and postdocs most want of their PIs?

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Lydia Brundisch @brundisch.bsky.social · Aug 4

📣 We are seeking a student research assistant currently or soon-to-be enrolled in a master's program to join us in investigating how spatial memory develops in children using video games and fMRI
@markuswb.bsky.social @lipmpib.bsky.social
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2117010/2025...

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (w/m/d) | Forschungsbereich Entwicklungspsychologie

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Jul 16

🧠 One week left to apply for the School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Highly recommended if you’re looking for 1) a stimulating environment to deepen theoretical insight in neuroscience and 2) genuine time to think, exchange ideas, and join in-depth discussions.
Co-organized by @aleksanpi.bsky.social

Nencki Open Lab @openlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

We are super happy to announce the fourth edition of School of Ideas in Neuroscience! Come to Warsaw in September for in-depth talks, discussions and workshops that will help you to make sense of your data! The deadline for registration is July 21, 2025.

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · Jul 19

Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

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Max Planck Institute for Human Development @mpib-berlin.bsky.social · Jul 18

Congratulations, Ulman Lindenberger @lipmpib.bsky.social! The British Academy has elected him as an International Fellow!

👉 His profile on the British Academy website: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/ulma...
👉 Announcement on the MPIB website: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2109593/awar...

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jul 18

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025

92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Ruhr-Universität Bochum @ruhr-uni-bochum.de · Jun 24

Katzen schlafen bevorzugt auf der linken Schulter. Das haben Onur Güntürkün von der RUB und ‪@ocklenburg.bsky.social‬ mit internationalen Kolleg*innen herausgefunden. Sie vermuten, dass dieses Verhalten die Überlebenschancen der Tiere steigert. #CatContent
Mehr Infos: 👉 news.rub.de/wissenschaft...

Foto einer schlafenden Katze. Darauf in weißer Schrift: Katzen sind Linksschläfer. Warum?

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 24

🚨Hiding under 6 sections of science sounding rhetoric is an edict to appoint officers at each agency that will be responsible for detecting research that isn't "Gold Standard Science" as defined by the White House🚨

Stay tuned for rapid response action!

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

www.whitehouse.gov

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · May 4

Just 3 days left to register for Engrams and Ensembles in Learning and Memory '25.

We have 40 X outstanding speakers, 70 X Posters, a Keynote Lecture from Thomas Südhof & a neurophilosophical summation from @sarahrobins.bsky.social

Agenda:
event.fourwaves.com/engramsensem...

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Uni Mainz - Veranstaltungen @unimainz-events.bsky.social · May 4

8.5.2025, 14-16 Uhr - Diskussionsveranstaltung "Geschichte in der postkolonialen #Demokratie" im IEG Mainz im Rahmen der bundesweiten Aktionswoche "Demokratie stärken" 👉 www.ieg-mainz.de/institut/ter...

#Geschichte #DemokratieStärken #hist4dem
@hist4dem.bsky.social @clio2punkt0.bsky.social

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Uni Mainz - Veranstaltungen @unimainz-events.bsky.social · May 4

Offene Diskussionsveranstaltung im Rahmen der bundesweiten Aktionswoche "Demokratie stärken" des Netzwerks "Historiker*innen für eine demokratische Gesellschaft" 👉 hist4dem.de

#Geschichte #Demokratie #DemokratieStärken #hist4dem
@hist4dem.bsky.social @clio2punkt0.bsky.social

Historiker*innen für eine demokratische Gesellschaft – Gruppe von Historiker*innen und historisch arbeitenden Menschen, die das Ziel haben, durch ihre Arbeit demokratische Strukturen zu fördern und zu...

hist4dem.de

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Apr 15

Just saw another manuscript that was all "We applied model Z to X and Y." Time to repost this blog post: "Let's do statistics the other way around" www.the100.ci/2024/08/27/l...

If you're doing substantive research, the statistics are just a means to an end, not the centerpiece.

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · Mar 12

What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'?

My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience.

We are seeking interested participants in the below survey:

tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv

Representation: Past, Present & Future

This questionnaire is for a final year neuroscience student who is doing her capstone as part of the Representation: Past, Present & Future Project at Trinity College Dublin.

tinyurl.com

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Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social · Feb 23

Best project partners ever! #philsky #cogsci #TUBerlin #unkürzbar

nirfresco.bsky.social @nirfresco.bsky.social · Feb 23

You didn’t have the full Berlin experience without joining a protest. Universities face cutbacks, since the Berlin Senate failed to uphold the terms of the higher education pacts and unilaterally implemented cuts amounting to 142 million € – an 8% decrease to the 2025 budget. So we chipped in ;-)

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nirfresco.bsky.social @nirfresco.bsky.social · Feb 23

You didn’t have the full Berlin experience without joining a protest. Universities face cutbacks, since the Berlin Senate failed to uphold the terms of the higher education pacts and unilaterally implemented cuts amounting to 142 million € – an 8% decrease to the 2025 budget. So we chipped in ;-)

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Sarah Power @sarahdpower.bsky.social · Feb 11

Fun time recording with Crowd Science by @BBCWorldService alongside @tjryan.bsky.social Why can't I remember my early childhood? Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #CrowdScience #BBCScience @lipmpib.bsky.social

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why can't I remember my early childhood?

Some huge milestones happen in our first years of life - but why do we forget them?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Feb 5

I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

Neuro4Pros summer school

NeUroscience Computational LEAdership Retreat (NUCLEAR): happiness and success

compneurosci.com

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Lady of Impatience @ladyoi.bsky.social · Jan 16

Jedes Mal, wenn eine Frau für sich selbst eintritt, tritt sie für alle Frauen ein.

~ Maya Angelou

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Markus Werkle-Bergner @markuswb.bsky.social · Jan 17

Congratulations, Bernhard!

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Bernhard Spitzer @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social · Jan 16

I am overjoyed to share that I will be joining the Faculty of Psychology @tudresden.bsky.social as Professor/Chair of Biopsychology! Thrilled and excited about this new chapter for both myself and the lab!

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IMPRS on the LIFE Course (LIFE) @imprs-life.bsky.social · Jan 15

IMPRS COMP2PSYCH doctoral student @zoyamooraj.bsky.social presents this important review with co-authors including LIFE alumni and faculty @mjdahl.bsky.social, @markuswb.bsky.social, Ulman Lindenberger, and @garrettneuro.bsky.social!

Zoya Mooraj @zoyamooraj.bsky.social · Jan 14

Excited to share our function-oriented vision for the cognitive neuroscience of human aging, now out in Neuron: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

#neuroscience #aging

Toward a functional future for the cognitive neuroscience of human aging

Mooraj et al. outline why task-based functional neuroimaging must move center-stage to better understand the neural bases of human cognitive aging. In turn, the authors sketch a framework intended to ...

www.cell.com

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Douglas Garrett @garrettneuro.bsky.social · Jan 14

PhD student @zoyamooraj.bsky.social et al. with a remarkable vision for the future of the cog neuro of human aging, now live in Neuron: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt....

Task-related function is the future y'all... there can be no substitutes if we want to understand cognitive aging.

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Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social · Jan 8

To start off 2025, we are very pleased to introduce a Special Issue on the Neuroscience of Aging, curated by Axel Guskjolen.
We hope you enjoy every single piece of it as much as we do!
www.cell.com/neuron/current

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Zoya Mooraj @zoyamooraj.bsky.social · Jan 14

Excited to share our function-oriented vision for the cognitive neuroscience of human aging, now out in Neuron: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

#neuroscience #aging

Toward a functional future for the cognitive neuroscience of human aging

Mooraj et al. outline why task-based functional neuroimaging must move center-stage to better understand the neural bases of human cognitive aging. In turn, the authors sketch a framework intended to ...

www.cell.com

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