Dan Mirman
@danmirman.bsky.social
Professor of Brain and Language and Director of Postgraduate Programmes, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh. EiC Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. I study language processing and disorders.
Are you looking for a post-doc position where you can apply your neuroimaging expertise to neuroaesthetics and poetic language processing? Do you like working in interdisciplinary teams? Then come work with us!
🧠 1 post for researchers w/ neuroimaging and behavioral psychology experience, w/ interest in neuroaesthetics, poetic language processing & sharing/collaborating with researchers across multiple disciplines – more info in link or project website elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Psychology/Neuroscience)
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Psychology/Neuroscience) to be a core member of a new research project ‘Rewriting wor(l)ds: A transdisciplinary and participatory investig...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Are you looking for a post-doc position where you can apply your neuroimaging expertise to neuroaesthetics and poetic language processing? Do you like working in interdisciplinary teams? Then come work with us!
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🎉We're hiring!🎉
We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
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We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
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October 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🎉We're hiring!🎉
We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
Pls share!
We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
Pls share!
The @re-writer.bsky.social project will span from basic science to real-world applications, from neuroaesthetics of poetry processing to promoting creative engagement with poetry. The brilliant @pat-err.bsky.social thinks big and follows through on those ideas. I'm so excited to be part of the team!
🎉 Thrilled to share that I've received a @ukri.org #FutureLeadersFellowship for our transdisciplinary, participatory, & practice-partnered project #RewritingWor(l)ds @re-writer.bsky.social/ rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk researching #poetry, creative engagement, & #wellbeing for young people
Rewriting Wor(l)ds
Rewriting Worlds is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project researching young people's creative engagement with poetry at the University of Edinburgh.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The @re-writer.bsky.social project will span from basic science to real-world applications, from neuroaesthetics of poetry processing to promoting creative engagement with poetry. The brilliant @pat-err.bsky.social thinks big and follows through on those ideas. I'm so excited to be part of the team!
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When an eyewitness shares a memory, what might make a jury perceive it as accurate? 👩🏽⚖️ A recent #psynomPBR paper by Martinez et al. suggests that certain communication styles shape how accurate a memory seems, regardless of its actual accuracy. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/S4SeOyo
July 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When an eyewitness shares a memory, what might make a jury perceive it as accurate? 👩🏽⚖️ A recent #psynomPBR paper by Martinez et al. suggests that certain communication styles shape how accurate a memory seems, regardless of its actual accuracy. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/S4SeOyo
An amazing trip to China (first time for me!) to visit my first ever post-doc, Dr Qi Chen, now Director of School of Psychology at Shenzhen University, and my most recent post-doc, Dr Junhua Ding, now Associate Professor in the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
June 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
An amazing trip to China (first time for me!) to visit my first ever post-doc, Dr Qi Chen, now Director of School of Psychology at Shenzhen University, and my most recent post-doc, Dr Junhua Ding, now Associate Professor in the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
We're hiring a 1-year (fixed term) lecturer in Psychology of Individual Differences (e.g., personality or intelligence)! Ideal for recent PhD graduates / post-docs who want to build teaching experience in a supportive department, with great colleagues, in the best city in the world. edin.ac/4mzn4UM
Lecturer
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to appoint a teaching focused lecturer in Psychology on a full time, fixed term contract until 31st of August 2026.
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May 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We're hiring a 1-year (fixed term) lecturer in Psychology of Individual Differences (e.g., personality or intelligence)! Ideal for recent PhD graduates / post-docs who want to build teaching experience in a supportive department, with great colleagues, in the best city in the world. edin.ac/4mzn4UM
A great new journal section at Cortex! In addition to methods articles, this section will publish articles that examine/evaluate the auxiliary assumptions (often implicit and unstated!) behind our methods and tutorial articles that provide step-by-step guides and best practices.
Chuffed and excited to announce a new journal section in Cortex:
*Methods and Assumptions* is open for submissions starting today!
Read the opening editorial here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
*Methods and Assumptions* is open for submissions starting today!
Read the opening editorial here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
Methods and Assumptions: A new section in Cortex
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April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A great new journal section at Cortex! In addition to methods articles, this section will publish articles that examine/evaluate the auxiliary assumptions (often implicit and unstated!) behind our methods and tutorial articles that provide step-by-step guides and best practices.
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The #BACN2025 abstract deadline is 30 April! Share your latest work with us!
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Current, Future and past meetings — BACN
Conferences
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March 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The #BACN2025 abstract deadline is 30 April! Share your latest work with us!
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
My colleague is hiring a post-doc for a very cool project using text-mining and stats techniques to study the cultural evolution of archaeological information. You'd get to do interesting work with a very fun team and live in the best city in the world! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...
March 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
My colleague is hiring a post-doc for a very cool project using text-mining and stats techniques to study the cultural evolution of archaeological information. You'd get to do interesting work with a very fun team and live in the best city in the world! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...
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Save the date!!
#BACN2025
11-12 September 2025, Edinburgh
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
Submit talk and poster abstracts by 30 April 2025.
#BACN2025
11-12 September 2025, Edinburgh
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
Submit talk and poster abstracts by 30 April 2025.
February 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Save the date!!
#BACN2025
11-12 September 2025, Edinburgh
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
Submit talk and poster abstracts by 30 April 2025.
#BACN2025
11-12 September 2025, Edinburgh
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
Submit talk and poster abstracts by 30 April 2025.
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Call for papers: extended until May 2025! *#Neurocognitive perspectives on #discourse & connected #language*. This special issue will highlight advances from cog & clinical #neuroscience in modeling discourse that spans from multi-word utterances to naturalistic stories. #aphasia bit.ly/4hdKbBb
Call for papers - Cortex | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Cortex at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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January 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Call for papers: extended until May 2025! *#Neurocognitive perspectives on #discourse & connected #language*. This special issue will highlight advances from cog & clinical #neuroscience in modeling discourse that spans from multi-word utterances to naturalistic stories. #aphasia bit.ly/4hdKbBb
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We are currently seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social journal, AP&P, whether it be you or a colleague you'd like to nominate! For details, see our announcement at www.psychonomic.org/page/2025app...
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We are currently seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social journal, AP&P, whether it be you or a colleague you'd like to nominate! For details, see our announcement at www.psychonomic.org/page/2025app...
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Ever notice how colors link to your mood and emotions? Domicele Jonauskaite and Christine Mohr conducted a systematic review spanning 128 years of color psychology. 🎨 Post by Brett Myers. https://buff.ly/40zMkRR
January 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Ever notice how colors link to your mood and emotions? Domicele Jonauskaite and Christine Mohr conducted a systematic review spanning 128 years of color psychology. 🎨 Post by Brett Myers. https://buff.ly/40zMkRR
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✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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December 13, 2024 at 1:13 AM
✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP
December 18, 2024 at 9:00 PM
AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP
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CR:PI, an open access journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/4gCHBUH #gocrpi
December 18, 2024 at 10:00 PM
CR:PI, an open access journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/4gCHBUH #gocrpi
Are you a quantitative psychologist looking for a teaching-focused permanent position? I have good news for you! We're hiring: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Great department and Edinburgh is a fantastic place to live. Happy to answer any questions about working and living here
Lecturer
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to appoint one full time, open-ended, teaching-focused Lecturer to its Department of Psychology.
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December 16, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Are you a quantitative psychologist looking for a teaching-focused permanent position? I have good news for you! We're hiring: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Great department and Edinburgh is a fantastic place to live. Happy to answer any questions about working and living here
My colleagues and I are participating in a Movember drive to raise money for mental health services. If you want to see me grow a silly mustache, donate at this link and recommend your favourite silly mustache style www.justgiving.com/page/edpsych...
October 31, 2024 at 10:30 AM
My colleagues and I are participating in a Movember drive to raise money for mental health services. If you want to see me grow a silly mustache, donate at this link and recommend your favourite silly mustache style www.justgiving.com/page/edpsych...
So great to see people working on the difficult problem of how auxiliary assumptions affect theory testing/falsification!
What does it take to falsify a theory? New post by Maria Robinson & Jamal Williams on #psynomPBR paper by Robinson, Williams, John Wixted & Brady.
A case study on the challenges of theory testing in psychology
“But when does lack of 'simplicity' in the protective belt of theoretical adjustments reach the point at which the theory must be abandoned?” - Lakatos, 1976 What does it take to falsify a…
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September 26, 2024 at 10:00 AM
So great to see people working on the difficult problem of how auxiliary assumptions affect theory testing/falsification!
This job advert is live! I'm looking for a postdoc to work on a 2-year mixed methods project studying communication strategies in aphasia. Part of a big grant on language, neurodiversity, and flourishing elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
May 6, 2024 at 2:22 PM
This job advert is live! I'm looking for a postdoc to work on a 2-year mixed methods project studying communication strategies in aphasia. Part of a big grant on language, neurodiversity, and flourishing elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Join us for the upcoming One World Seminar “Different perceptual strategies in auditory processing” presented by Leah Fostick from Ariel University, Israel. Reserve your free ticket today! bit.ly/4aOs7KE
April 24, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Join us for the upcoming One World Seminar “Different perceptual strategies in auditory processing” presented by Leah Fostick from Ariel University, Israel. Reserve your free ticket today! bit.ly/4aOs7KE
PB&R has joined the Peer Community in Registered Reports as a PCI RR-interested journal. We're looking forward to increasing our engagement with the Registered Report format and contributing to PCI RR! bit.ly/3U7cI1a
April 23, 2024 at 7:23 AM
PB&R has joined the Peer Community in Registered Reports as a PCI RR-interested journal. We're looking forward to increasing our engagement with the Registered Report format and contributing to PCI RR! bit.ly/3U7cI1a
We are hiring a fixed-term (1-year) lecturer in developmental psychology. Great opportunity for an early career academic to boost their teaching experience in a supportive and vibrant department. Apply now (deadline: 25 April)! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
April 19, 2024 at 10:09 AM
We are hiring a fixed-term (1-year) lecturer in developmental psychology. Great opportunity for an early career academic to boost their teaching experience in a supportive and vibrant department. Apply now (deadline: 25 April)! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Another monumental piece of work from @melissathye.bsky.social's PhD thesis (with @paul-hoffman.bsky.social and me): doi.org/10.1038/s415.... This was a registered report examining semantic and social cognition during naturalistic narrative comprehension (watching a feature-length movie). 1/6
The neural basis of naturalistic semantic and social cognition - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The neural basis of naturalistic semantic and social cognition
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April 2, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Another monumental piece of work from @melissathye.bsky.social's PhD thesis (with @paul-hoffman.bsky.social and me): doi.org/10.1038/s415.... This was a registered report examining semantic and social cognition during naturalistic narrative comprehension (watching a feature-length movie). 1/6
I will soon be recruiting a postdoc for a ~2-year mixed methods (quali + quant) project about real-world communication strategies used by people with aphasia. Spread the word and get in touch with any Qs. I’ll post a link to the actual job description and app page when it's live.
March 11, 2024 at 10:48 PM
I will soon be recruiting a postdoc for a ~2-year mixed methods (quali + quant) project about real-world communication strategies used by people with aphasia. Spread the word and get in touch with any Qs. I’ll post a link to the actual job description and app page when it's live.