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Tobias Egner
@tobiasegner.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. Studying cognitive control, loving lots of other stuff.
www.egnerlab.org
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Sun. Nov 16 1pm-5pm: 137.10 / HH2

Intracranial EEG Correlates of Concurrent Demands on Cognitive Stability and Flexibility

Undergraduate Erin Burns and CNAP PhD Student Jim Zhang will present work from our lab and @tobiasegner.bsky.social Lab on cognitive control
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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chrisbaldassano.bsky.social
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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alexatompary.bsky.social
The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Careers at Drexel - Human Resources
careers.drexel.edu
September 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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aaronbornstein.bsky.social
Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
September 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
For fans of flexibility, new paper out in QJEP!
Domain-specific cognitive flexibility: Shift-readiness adaptations for task- and attention-switching are non-transferrable.
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August 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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ashenhav.bsky.social
These job ads have now been posted! 🎉

Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020

Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054

Please spread the word!
August 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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hritz.bsky.social
We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication.

At first, what we found was very confusing!

But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks

doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736

🧵
July 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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sbilbo.bsky.social
Excited to share this new story from the lab and led by the very talented @bendevlin.bsky.social! In collab with Anne Schaefer and grateful for funding from NIH and @curealzheimersfund.bsky.social. a brief 🧵
July 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
Highly recommended!!!
janw.bsky.social Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · Jun 9
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...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility".
Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc
June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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mariamaly.bsky.social
When you successfully anticipate future events, what happens to your ability to encode the present? 🤔

Successful prediction increases the likelihood of successful encoding. We speculate about how switching between distinct encoding & prediction states can produce this effect.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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May 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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drsl.bsky.social
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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katejj.bsky.social
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
March 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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charan-neuro.bsky.social
I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!
Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
April 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
Since the hotel bar is closed, you may as well check out some posters! #CNS2025: find our excellent grad student Jim Zhang at poster A91, "Neural correlates of concurrent demands on cognitive stability and flexibility".
March 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
For something pleasant on your timeline, let me introduce you to our new family member, Captain: 60% Great Pyrenees, 100% cute!
February 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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dramandar.bsky.social
Research America has created an action item link that sends 3 letters to support #NIH to your US Senators and Representative based on your zip code.

It takes only a minute or two to fill out.

You don’t need to be an academic to support #Science!

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February 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
Up in the gods at Cameron tonight - a real treat!
January 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
Wow, this place is really blowing up. Lots of new follower but nothing new to report from the world of cognitive psychology and neuroscience? Let's go with Sunday morning vibes instead...
November 17, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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samversc.bsky.social
Some great news to start the week: our paper on ideomotor theory and voluntary control over autonomic processes inside the body (“interoactions”) was accepted in Psych Review!🧠💓🥳

With @mgblr.bsky.social and Marcel Brass

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

#PsychSciSky #cogpsych #interoception
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October 14, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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sebraem.bsky.social
I've been recommending this review by @tobiasegner.bsky.social to many: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... It's a great overview on task control, with several interesting insights! However, w/ G. Dreisbach, @musslick.bsky.social, we disagreed with one conclusion: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... (1/7)
Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent - Nature Reviews Psychology
Nature Reviews Psychology - Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent
www.nature.com
September 17, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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mehr.nz
this is pretty amazing: @lucinauddin.bsky.social is taking on the giant, hugely profitable publishers of academic journals, on grounds of antitrust

If you'd like to join the case as a plaintiff you can sign up at www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac...

summary of the case:
The Publisher Defendants’ Scheme has three primary components. First, the Publisher Defendants agreed to not compensate scholars for their labor, in particular not to pay for their peer review services (the “Unpaid Peer Review Rule”). In other words, the Publisher Defendants agreed to fix the price of peer review services at zero. The Publisher Defendants also agreed to coerce scholars into providing their labor for nothing by expressly linking their unpaid labor with their ability to get their manuscripts published in the Publisher Defendants’ journals. In the “publish or perish” world of academia, the Publisher Defendants essentially agreed to hold the careers of scholars hostage so that the Publisher Defendants could force them to provide their valuable labor for free. Second, the Publisher Defendants agreed not to compete with each other for manuscripts by requiring scholars to submit their manuscripts to only one journal at a time (the “Single Submission Rule”). The Single Submission Rule substantially reduces competition among the Publisher Defendants, substantially decreasing incentives to review manuscripts promptly and publish meritorious research quickly. The Single Submission Rule also robs scholars of negotiating leverage they otherwise would have had if more than one journal offered to publish their manuscripts. Thus, the Publisher Defendants know that if they offer to publish a manuscript, the submitting scholar has no viable alternative and the Publisher Defendant can then dictate the terms of publication. Third, the Publisher Defendants agreed to prohibit scholars from freely sharing the scientific advancements described in submitted manuscripts while those manuscripts are under peer review, a process that often takes over a year (the “Gag Rule”). From the moment scholars submit manuscripts for publication, the Publisher Defendants behave as though the scientific advancements set forth in the manuscripts are their property, to be shared only if the Publisher Defendants grant permission. Moreover, when the Publisher Defendants select manuscripts for publication, the Publisher Defendants will often require scholars to sign away all intellectual property rights, in exchange for nothing. The manuscripts then become the actual property of the Publisher Defendants, and the Publisher Defendants charge the maximum the market will bear for access to that scientific knowledge.
September 14, 2024 at 9:35 AM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
For fans of *Cognitive Controversies* -> my comments on others’ comments on my opinion! TLDR: I propose to unyoke the constructs of cognitive stability and flexibility; others disagree; we argue politely...
Free read links:
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Reply to ‘Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent’
Nature Reviews Psychology - Reply to ‘Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent’
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September 10, 2024 at 2:05 PM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
Interested in cognitive stability and flexibility? Alright then: @RaphaelGeddert and I investigate contextual factors determining whether stability and flexibility tradeoff.

Free read link: rdcu.be/dTvTI

link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Contextual control demands determine whether stability and flexibility trade off against each other
rdcu.be
September 10, 2024 at 7:47 AM
tobiasegner.bsky.social
A fun project with @eren_gunseli and his gang, now out in J Neuro:
Effects of Context Changes on Memory Reactivation www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...
Effects of Context Changes on Memory Reactivation
While the influence of context on long-term memory (LTM) is well documented, its effects on the interaction between working memory (WM) and LTM remain less understood. In this study, we explored these...
www.jneurosci.org
September 5, 2024 at 5:30 PM