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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · Sep 3

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding.

✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p...

🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!)
#31days

Use and adapt our drafted comment below or write your own!

I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding. The science is clear: greenhouse gases unequivocally harm our health and our environment. Weakening or repealing the Endangerment Finding will make it harder, and costlier to protect our communities from pollution and from the effects of climate change.

Optional: I care about this issue because [insert your personal reasoning here -e.g. "my father has COPD," "I recently lost my home to a devastating hurricane"]

I urge you to keep the Endangerment Finding in place and to apply science to protect our health and our environment for generations to come.

****Remember, if you want to cite research to upload the paper as a file.****

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Susan Benear @susanbenear.bsky.social · Aug 6

here's my poster! also viewable here as a PDF: tinyurl.com/benearcogsci...

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Susan Benear @susanbenear.bsky.social · Aug 6

one thing about me is i'm gonna gesticulate.

great @cogscisociety.bsky.social conference this year! enjoyed sharing my ongoing work and hearing others' insights and ideas.

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The Hartley Lab @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social · Jul 31

@susanbenear.bsky.social will present poster B-12 “The effects of real-world novelty exposure on episodic memory specificity across development” at Poster Session 2 on Friday at 10:30 AM.

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The Hartley Lab @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social · Jun 16

At @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social last week, current and former members of our lab presented their research - here are a few highlights from @alanajaskir.bsky.social, @noraharhen.bsky.social and @susanbenear.bsky.social! Posters from @licezhang.bsky.social and Noam Goldway not pictured.

Alana Jaskir presents a talk at a workshop for RLDM 2025.

Nora Harhen and Susan Benear present a joint poster for RLDM 2025 entitled "Reinforcement learning computations modulate memory specificity".

Alana Jaskir presents a poster for RLDM 2025 entitled "Effects of offline consolidation on statistical learning across development".

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Susan Benear @susanbenear.bsky.social · May 29

Check out my interview in the CNS newsletter about my graduate research on free recall in children 😊

Cognitive Neuroscience Society @cogneuronews.bsky.social · May 29

"Sometimes when it seems like young children don’t remember something you ask them about, it may be more of an issue of cognitive search and verbal fluency than memory per se." Read a new Q&A with @susanbenear.bsky.social about the development of free recall:
#neuroscience #scicomm 🧪

How Was Your School Day?: Unpacking Free Recall in Young Children

A new paper finds that it can take some time for free recall to develop in young children, requiring multiple different cognitive skills.

www.cogneurosociety.org

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The Hartley Lab @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social · Apr 28

⭐️Two talks from our lab will be taking place at the SRCD conference in Minneapolis this week on Friday 5/2 and Saturday 5/3!⭐️ @srcdorg.bsky.social See thread for details!

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Feb 24

Please share:
@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.

They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze

On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.

delauro.house.gov

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 12

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · Feb 11

📣 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🔬

I made this short comic to explain what the #NIH cuts mean in practice because behind the abstract label of #overheadcosts are real people, doing important work!

#AcademicSky #resist #organize #scicomm

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Susan Benear @susanbenear.bsky.social · Mar 21

If you're at #CDS2024 in Pasadena, my former undergrad RA Obi Onwukanjo and I will be presenting our work on narrative event recall in young children on Saturday at 1:15 - Poster Session 3, poster #14! Come say hi!
@noranewcombe.bsky.social @ingridsbrain.bsky.social

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Susan Benear @susanbenear.bsky.social · Mar 5

📢🗣️The Hartley Lab at NYU (www.hartleylab.org ) is hiring a full-time lab manager to start this summer!!🧑‍💻

If you're looking for research experience before grad school & are interested in cognitive development and/or reinforcement learning, get more details & apply here: apply.interfolio.com/142391

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Susan Benear @susanbenear.bsky.social · Jan 8

🚨New pre-print on event recall in kids!🚨 w/ co-authors Obinnaya Onwukanjo, @ingridsbrain.bsky.social, @noranewcombe.bsky.social

We found age, prompted memory, verbal skill, & event cognition predicted free recall of a verifiable, naturalistic experience in young children 🗣️🎙️📖

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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