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Arjen Stolk
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Cognitive neuroscientist studying how interacting minds meet. Mutual Understanding Lab ‪
www.MutualUnderstanding.nl
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So impressed with the results! Louis and the team really dug into the research and came up with a clear and insightful video translation 🔬
🧠📄 How do you turn a complex neuroscience paper into a 3-minute story everyone can understand?
New collaboration with @interactingminds.bsky.social reveals surprising links between early childhood & overcoming stereotypes. 👇
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Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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How mood states shift in the brain remains one of psychiatry’s biggest mysteries.

With generous support from @bipolardiscoveries.org, our @sinaibrain.bsky.social team will apply cutting-edge techniques to map these transitions—aiming to build the most precise understanding of bipolar disorder yet.
PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $4.5 million @bipolardiscoveries.org grant! Led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social, team will investigate neural mechanisms underlying #BipolarDisorder & pioneer novel neuromodulation-based treatment strategies 👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...
October 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
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October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Our next MTS Guest Speaker is @stolkarjen.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth! Join us Monday (10/13) for "Building a Shared Conceptual Space" - examining the extreme flexibility of selecting and interpreting signals. Details in the flyer!
October 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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We are hiring at Emory Psychology in Developmental!

Come join a wonderful department in a great city ☀️

apply.interfolio.com/173594
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October 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Randolph is fantastic, and this will be an incredible opportunity to work on cutting edge science! Definitely consider applying
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏
codec lab
codec-lab.github.io
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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🐘 Do elephants know when we're looking at them?

A new study shows that Asian elephants can recognise human visual attention by reading both body and face orientation.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #AnimalBehaviour 🧪
Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation
www.nature.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.
October 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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New ad for an open rank position in Psychology at Cornell. That Human Bonding course seems very popular! May be a good fit for a relationship scientist out there. Below is a snippet of the job ad.
October 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Finally had a chance to read this study on conceptual alignment in human communication. Using a clever repeated reference game, it provides quantitative evidence that interaction drives people to converge on a shared, generalizable conceptual space:

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social
arxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Excited to share our new eLife paper from our lab's first Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Justin Campbell! In this paper, Justin explored the effects of direct electrical stimulation to the human amygdala on single-unit activity throughout the brain. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
Human single-neuron activity is modulated by intracranial theta burst stimulation of the basolateral amygdala
Firing rate analyses revealed neurons throughout the hippocampus, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex in humans that exhibited heterogeneous responses to intracranial theta b...
elifesciences.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....
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September 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
September 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Happy my abstract was accepted to #IEEE #NER25! Looking forward to sharing my work on "An integrated platform for identifying and targeting neural biomarkers of reward processing: Towards adaptive deep brain stimulation for mood in Parkinson’s disease" with the #neurotech #BCI #iBCI community
September 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1
September 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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#CallforExpressionofInterest
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

📅Deadline: September 14, 2025
📍 Rovereto, Italy
🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy

@szymanikjakub.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!

Links below:

Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970
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September 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
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September 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
August 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8!
3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
fMRI Course
Instructors
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July 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods.

If you know anybody, please tell them to email me.

Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org
Wessel Cognitive Neurology Lab | The University of Iowa
Thanks for visiting the Cognitive Neurology Lab at the University of Iowa. The lab is directed by Dr. Jan R. Wessel. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Depa...
wessel.lab.uiowa.edu
June 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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📢 BottiniLab is hiring!

Join our ERC-funded team in Trentino to study memory, attention & cognitive maps (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG).

🧠 3 postdocs, 3 PhDs, 2 RAs
🌍 Int’l, dynamic lab
🗓️ Deadline: July 10, 2025
📍Workplace: g.co/kgs/Ysyne4V
🔗 Info & how to apply: pdf.ac/2Ppzmw

#ERC #NeuroscienceJobs
June 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
May 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM