SAS will hold FIVE different preconferences this year🤩 Of note, each will be a half-day event, so you could even go to 2 if you want! Catch them on March 12th, 2025. For more info: society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...

It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

The Publications and Communications Board of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Science of Motivation has opened nominations for the editorship of Motivation Science, a multidisciplinary journal that publishes significant contributions to the study of motivation.

My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more

I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.

🚨Abstracts are due for the SAS annual conference today (November 3rd, 2025)! Get your submissions in soon!🚨 society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...

Job Alert! 🚨 We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>

so far during trump's second term, when democrats have "increased the salience of immigration," this has had the effect of significantly decreasing trump's approval rating. effect is moderated through rising negative press coverage of trump's immigration policy www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Oy...should I? I suppose. Perhaps because I'm old enough to remember 1972 and because Goldwater was my Senator, my instincts are to err on the side of moderation, even with the evidence supporting it very slim. But this also gets into what I wrote about yesterday...

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

i think it's very weird that seemingly the entire elite media has decided that it's going to be a strategy consultant for the democratic party — AND that it's going to base its opinions about politics and the world on what is essentially a PR campaign from a single aggressively ideological super PAC

Check out our new preprint, led by Romy Froemer and in collaboration with Chih-Chung Ting and Sebastian Gluth: “Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making”. 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

The deadline for SAS abstracts is getting close🥳 We are so excited to see all the new work our community has to share. Don't forget: you can serve as presenting author on TWO abstracts (as long as they're for different projects). Submit soon, and we'll see you in the Steel City~

Suzanne Haber was just elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Her work on the organization of the cortex and basal ganglia has had a huge impact. Please take the opportunity to congratulate her the next time you see her. www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/u...

Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making: https://osf.io/zvf8c

Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠 Link here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint led by @debyee.bsky.social: "Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and punishment on cognitive control". 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Female pediatricians’ temporary absences lead to lasting cuts to kids’ care—fewer visits, vaccines, and lead tests—showing work disruptions carry consumer costs, from @leilaagha.bsky.social , Na'ama Shenhav, and Myles Wagner www.nber.org/papers/w34360

This graph from a new AP-NORC poll out this week highlights a crucial point: The Democratic Party's favorability rating is so low today (when compared to the GOP's) because _Democrats_ are upset with the party, not because swing voters rate Ds more negatively than Rs. 1/3

how cooooooool! seems to intersect nicely with @ashenhav.bsky.social 's affective gradient framework. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (which I see is cited! amazing)

I’m hiring! We have an opening in my lab at UC Berkeley for a Staff Research Associate 2. This person will collect and analyze data, work with patients and families, act as point of contact btwn collaborators, maintain lab organization, + more. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...

alternatively, trump's at 41% approval — that's pretty "sour" right?

#preprint 📢 Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps... TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures. 🧵

We found attentional suppression might be related to re-coding salient singleton locations in a inverted format to target locations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new NYT as-told-to series, "Lost Science," documents the work of researchers who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. Share your story with us! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

New job 🚨: Our #SCIMaP (scienceimpacts.org) team is searching for a Research Communications and Media Outreach Specialist to facilitate public engagement related to federal investment in science and health research. Application review starts Oct 10: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

➡️P3.I.45: Validating predictions of a flexible decision-making model for varying decision goals and choice set properties by Ana Hernandez at 11:15 on 10/5. (2/2)

At #SNE2025? Check out our lab's presentations! ➡️O.03.02: "Competitors or Opportunities? Mutual exclusivity alters neural and attentional processing of choice alternatives" by @jasonleng.bsky.social at 9:00 on 10/4. (1/2)

Members of the Penn community: please sign this actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨! I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!

Hello #neuroeconomists and decision (neuro)scientists - did I miss you in this starterpack? Just reply to this post or DM if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/1K9Suh

Advance reading copies have arrived! 📚

Don't miss the EmoTe Lab/Prechter Program presentations at #SRP2025 this year!

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

What happens in your brain when you make up your mind? Postdoc (soon faculty at U. of Utah) @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and ex-grad student (now Shanahan Fellow at Allen Institute) @timkimd.bsky.social have some answers in this new paper out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 1/6

New preprint led by Ivan Grahek! Shifting demands of daily life require constant adjustments in how we allocate cognitive resources. Here we show that slower transitions between different cognitive strategies limit cognitive flexibility across the lifespan: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 A thread:

We're now accepting data blitz and poster abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social Emotion Preconference (Feb 26 in Chicago)! We've got an exciting lineup of invited speakers, including a themed panel on emotions in groups. Abstract portal closes October 23. spsp.org/events/annua...

How do we update our predictions when our environment changes? The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions. Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social By me + Hanna Hillman We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

📢 Now accepted at Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🤩 Our proposal offers a framework for understanding how fundamental regulatory sensations, such as boredom & effort, shape temporal experience through interoceptive mechanisms. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TL;DR: Check 🧵 below

The Trump administration's assaults on great American successes, like this one, leave many of us scientists bewildered and not knowing how to respond. But inaction is not an option. If you don't know what to do, put time and effort into figuring out what to do. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

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.

Update: the deadline for the Biological Basis of Behavior has been extended to Sept 18th! ✨ aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please reach out to Linda Wilbrecht if you have any questions about the position.