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Jenni Rodd
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Word Nerd. Professor of Cognitive Psychology. Language Comprehension & Learning. University College London. UCL. Lover of bicycles. Owner of a preloved kidney.
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries….

5. Comma fucker (Finland)
4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland)
3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway)
2. Counter of peas (Germany)
1. Sodomizer of flies (France)
April 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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A typically brilliant talk from @jennirodd.bsky.social for her @exppsychsoc.bsky.social Mid-career Award
April 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Later this week is #EPSLancaster25! ☀️🧠😎

For all the up to date information, please check our website.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …
eps.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Let your research do the talking!
We’re awarding 5 🦍 grants ($1,770 each)—could one be yours?

Submit a 500-word research proposal + overview on how one could support your next study for a chance to win!

If you're exploring #language, #linguistics or anything in between—apply now!
➡️ bit.ly/3FeV9rX
March 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Great opportunity to win a subscription from @gorillapsych.bsky.social
Let your research do the talking!
We’re awarding 5 🦍 grants ($1,770 each)—could one be yours?

Submit a 500-word research proposal + overview on how one could support your next study for a chance to win!

If you're exploring #language, #linguistics or anything in between—apply now!
➡️ bit.ly/3FeV9rX
March 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty from groups that are historically under-represented in academia. The program focus...
psych.princeton.edu
February 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Wonderful to see the symposium honouring Dr. Andy Johnson. A fantastic academic and colleague, and a friend to so many. All the best to the BU PGRs presenting your work with Andy at this event - you will do him proud
February 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Unspeakably excited about this meeting.
Already getting emotional about the thought of giving an EPS prize lecture.
February 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Every week, I see a new study talking about this or that effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists like #ozempic. FINALLY, we have a study evaluating all the outcomes (good and bad) in one dataset. There are some... surprises. 🧵
January 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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ICN is hiring at Prof / reader level. Come and join the best and most fabulous cognitive neuroscience department anywhere www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/.... Please share
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I have a student recruiting Cantonese speaking people living in the UK for a 20-minute vocabulary task.
Does anyone know good ways to recruit?
We can pay via paypal or Amazon vouchers.
January 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Announcing a new endowed Chair in Young People's Mental Health at @campsydept.bsky.social. An exciting opportunity to shape mental health strategy and conduct world-leading research in one of the most intellectually vibrant places in the world. Please share!
The Dawson Professorship of Young People's Mental Health - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
The Dawson Professorship of Young People's Mental Health in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6
January 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The April @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & Jo Taylor has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …
eps.ac.uk
January 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The April @exppsychsoc.bsky.social meeting opens for submissions on Monday. I'm giving a prize lecture & Jo Taylor has organised an amazing symposium: Recent perspectives on the mental lexicon.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: Lancaster University. 2nd – 4th April 2025. This meeting will include the joint 23rd EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Jennifer Rodd (with an accompanying symposium organised by Jo …
eps.ac.uk
January 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Uta’s here! Welcome!
The power of being social.
Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/
Project Manager (Part Time, Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Project Manager (Part Time, Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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The best award in psychology is now OPEN: The Glushko Dissertation Prize is a $10,000 award to a recent PhD in the field of cognitive science. Several awards are made each cycle. Deadline is January 18th. @cogscisociety.bsky.social
cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss...
Glushko Dissertation Prize - Cognitive Science Society
cognitivesciencesociety.org
January 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Welcome to Bluesky, @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. The best society in the world.*
January 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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A few spots still remaining for our Cognitive Science Research Skills workshop later this week at UCL (in-person), sign up for free here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/cognitive-...
Cognitive Science Research Skills Workshop
A Cognitive Science Research Skills Workshop sponsored by the Maria Skłodowska-Curie CODE programme https://confidentdecisions.org/
www.eventbrite.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Psychologist: causal inference is not possible without experiments, but I can describe the gap!
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Astronomer: Actually we’re not sure if it is a real gap in my resume or whether we just haven’t yet discovered what I did during that time. We’re going to need a bigger telescope to find out. 🔭
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Planetary scientist: It's a result of orbital resonances with Jupiter.
December 22, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Word of the day is ‘bellycheer’ (16th century): feasting, gluttony, and ‘the gratification of the belly’.
December 21, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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So I have some time to read over the break. What are the best psychology and neuroscience theory/concept papers of 2024 that I might have missed? Recommendations please 📄📄📄📄
December 19, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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We recently published a book of articles where neuroscientists, medics, and psychologists with neurological disorders discussed their own conditions.

Narinder Kapur organised an online conference where some of the authors presented. It's now online in full:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wfy...
Injured Brains of Medical Minds: Views from Within (online conference) - supported by UCL CNR
YouTube video by UCL QS IoN
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:07 PM