Excited to be part of this event next month with @pennmindcore.bsky.social! If you're at Penn, come learn about some possible career paths in behavioral & brain sciences outside of academia 🧠 mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/calendar_eve...

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology. pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

Thank you so much to Megan and to everyone who attended:)

I just successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation studying metacognition across domains! Thank you to @meganakpeters.bsky.social and so so many others for your support over the last 5 years!

Big news: I’m writing a book!! I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals. Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!

are you a @neuromatch.bsky.social student, TA, mentor, impact scholar, ambassador, volunteer at #SfN #SfN2025 #SfN25--or you're here & just want to say hi? come by our booth, meet some of the team, meet each other! & look out for other neuromatchers across SfN... there are literally 1000s of us!

Wow, what a huge loss. I was lucky enough to interview Smallwood for multiple pieces over the years- he was always generous with his time and clever with his words. He struck me as one of those rare scientists who wasn’t afraid to go against the grain and try something completely new.

well that was a lovely way to spend an evening! thanks for organizing these, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social !

On a related note, this September I attended @comm4rigor.bsky.social's C4R25 conference, where I had the chance to talk about rigor in science with a bunch of fellow researchers. (1/2)

A recent study shows what happens in our brains during a moment of insight. Nora Bradford reports: www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-bra...

My second piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social is out today with an amazing custom gif by Irene Pérez! www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-bra...

This one shouldn't get lost tonight.

Become a Visiting Fellow or Postdoc! Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows! More info and application link is available on our website at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/programs/overview/ #PhilosophyOfScience #ResearchFellowship #PostdocOpportunities

i love my neighborhood! billypenn.com/2025/11/01/w...

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

MindCORE Summer Fellowship Program May 31-Aug 7, 2026 This is a paid 10-wk research experience for undergrad students matched with select Penn faculty in mind sciences. Open to both Penn students & non-Penn US students through our REU. Apply by Jan 11: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/research/sum...

Calling all op-ed writers and editors! My Penn students are about to begin a unit on op-eds, and I'm wondering if anyone might be willing to talk to them for like 15-30 minutes on zoom about what makes a good op-ed, why op-eds are important, or anything else op-ed related!

Children can solve a difficult sorting task by spontaneously discovering efficient sorting algorithms. Older children outperform younger children, showing developmental growth in strategy use and problem-solving. @hw-yang.bsky.social‬‬ @celestekidd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes! @upenn.edu declines signing The Compact. I'm proud of this decision.

Neuromatch Academy 2026 is coming! ✅ Hands-on projects ✅ Global community ✅ Affordable fees Applications open Feb 2026. Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ Sign up for updates: neuromatch.io/mailing-list/ #ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning #ClimateScience #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI

Last chance to sign up for our event happening tomorrow from 4-530pm w/ Dr. Joe Romm tomorrow "Communication is a Climate Solution: How Taylor Swift Can Level Up Your Storytelling"! #upenn #climatechange #penncssm #pcssm #climateweekatpenn @michaelemann.bsky.social web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/calend...

The West Philly Tool Library has become an institution in its neighborhood over 18 years. Now, they're looking for a new home for their 5,000 tools and roster of classes. billypenn.com/2025/10/14/w...

"What is the point of science journalists if we’re just recapitulating the content that is in a press release without interrogating it? If we are little more than the machines we are so terrified of, what is the point...the standard we walk past is the standard we accept" !!!

new teaching experience unlocked: a mouse showed up in my classroom today

wooo!!

Made by @aaup-penn.bsky.social member!

sometimes I look around and start tearing up a little bit at how happy I am to live here

Why are some people more prone to believe in conspiracy theories? Part of the answer may lie in metacognition, i.e., the ability to correctly estimate one's own knowledge about topics. -> New paper with @kwinter.bsky.social, @kaisassenberg.bsky.social & Helen Fischer 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2044...

🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4

Hii! Last week Quanta published a project I've been working on all year — a special issue about climate science, or what research into climate change is revealing about how our planet works www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

13/ Paulina will definitely be in my book, but she deserves proper recognition in a major publication profile. I would do it, but I am writing a book. Someone should be beat me to it! I came across her work in the first chapter of the late David Golumbia's "Cyberlibertarianism."

We’re searching for TWO tenure-track cognitive neuroscientists here in the Wesleyan University Psychology Department! Apply here wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers

The first in-person Possible Futures workshop was amazing! As I run more of these, it strikes me how many themes are so consistent: desire for ecological restoration. Connection. Autonomy. Privacy. Dignity. Leisure. Peace. Again and again, we find common ground and shared visions. 🌱

Scientific American magazine is 180 years old. To celebrate, they're offering digital subs for $18 (about half price). Offer ends 9/2. www.scientificamerican.com/getsciam/

Thanks so much @dorsaamir.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social, along with @mcxfrank.bsky.social, for your input on this! And ofc @sarahexplains.bsky.social and @parshallison.bsky.social for your editing!

tldr; how does your field use white papers? do you have examples? I'm teaching a few classes on writing and they're based on topics in neuroscience and animal cognition. The first big assignment for students is a white paper and I'm hoping to give students an idea of how white papers can be used.

🤦🏼‍♀️ i can’t say i’m surprised but uchicago absolutely wont be the same place if this “restructuring” goes thru. all the science majors i knew are way better scientists *because* of the liberal arts education they got.

I am begging journalists to stop platforming him. These objects are SO EXCITING and there are people doing really good science on them and he is not one of them.

Potatoes! Evolved from tomatoes! The tastiest mystery ever solved? 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Scientific American is turning 180! 🎉 Celebrate with us: 🎂 Explore our anniversary collection 🧩 Solve digital jigsaw puzzles of vintage covers 🏆 Stay tuned for a contest announcement tomorrow! sciam.com/180 #SciAm180

aww! an intern is only as good as their mentor!!

Researchers found an interesting evolutionary relationship between potatoes and tomatoes!🥔🍅!! @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Journo request! Are you the Type B friend? Or are you a Type A person with thoughts on your Type B friend? Are you described as Type B but don't think that matches who you really are? Then I would love to chat with you for a Guardian article! Email is [email protected]. 🧪 #journorequest

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

PTSD has been treated pretty much the same way for about 40 years. Now, a controversial treatment offers a painless route to ridding veterans of their trauma responses.

What can slime moulds teach us about biological memory? Quite a bit, it turns out. Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social) dives into this question in a wonderfully engaging piece for @aeon.co. Give it a read—before it slips your mind! 👇 aeon.co/essays/what-... #HPS #philsky #HPbio #evobio #neurosky

Please welcome @sciam.bsky.social to bluesky!!