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

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.

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

My lab at USC is recruiting! 1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829 2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/

My department, cognitive sciences at UCI, is hiring at the assistant professor level. This is a fantastic place to be. Consider joining us!

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Deadline Oct 15: Asst. prof. (tenure track), AI in Psych Science, @uoftpsychology.bsky.social jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

📣 🚨 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

*Sharing for our department’s trainees* 🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology? ✨ Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered! 📝 Application: tinyurl.com/pathstophd2025

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

University of Rhode Island job posting: Open Rank Professor in Political Science / Director of new interdisciplinary PhD Program in Computational Social Science (CSS) jobs.uri.edu/postings/15597

NIH FY26 #SCIMaP scorecards are now available for * All states * All districts The White House has shared its vision of priorities for this year and years to come. This vision comes with consequences for our health and innovation economy. Explore and share: scienceimpacts.org/fy26

If you work on artificial or natural intelligence and are finishing your PhD, consider applying for a Kempner research fellowship at Harvard: kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/kempner-inst...

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle! We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate. It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations. Spread the words!

This year there are about 60-70% of the number of academic jobs of a normal year. This is better than I expected, but still devastating to lots of early career scholars and universities. This is from marketing, it’s unclear if this applies to other fields drive.google.com/file/d/1V4n-...

Deadline Oct 1: Asst prof (tenure track), cognitive neuroscience, newly formed Department of Neuroscience, Cognition and Behavior, University of San Diego jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social are now open for applications! (I should also announce a postdoc opening with me at Johns Hopkins pretty soon.) apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/complex...

Thinking of applying to US-based Ph.D. programs in neuroscience, psychology, or cognitive science? We’ve got your back! NYU’s Application Support Group is a student-led, free mentorship program offering 1-on-1 support and guidance. Apply now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨We are recruiting a lab manager who will spend 80% of their effort in my lab and 20% of their effort in @leorhackel.bsky.social's lab. Please share widely! Apply at usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange... with: completed questionnaire (socolab.org/lab-manager-application), CV & Cover Letter!

I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

📣 We are hiring! 📣 #BCBL has new PhD positions available for you! 🔸 1 PhD – #Neurolinguistics and #Aphasia Group 🔸 1 PhD – #PerceptualInference Group 🔸 1 PhD – #BrainRhythms and #Cognition Group The application deadline is soon! +info 👇 www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-n...

Do LLMs have consistent values? Em Smullen @emstrictly.bsky.social presents their work showing strikingly low consistency across convergent tasks, including revealed preferences. Today at #ICML2025, West Ballroom B, World Models Workshop poster session @ 3:45pm! Paper: tinyurl.com/5n7wte49

Thrilled to announce our symposium, Cognitively Inspired Interpretability inn Large Neural Networks, at #CogSci2025 featuring @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, Ellie Pavlick, Jiahai Feng, Gustaw Opielka, ‪‪@claires012345.bsky.social‬, and Idan Blank!

Detecting dementia earlier | With $4 million grant, UC Irvine cognitive scientist Aaron Bornstein seeks to develop inexpensive assessment of cognitive ability @ucirvine.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Join FAR.AI! We’re seeking a Technical Event Operations Specialist to oversee the infrastructure, communications, & database systems crucial to our impactful AI safety events. Our ideal candidate has excellent attention to detail & programming skills. 🔗👇

Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities. Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!

Children exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays at age 24 months: 🧠36% cognitive delays 🗣️64% communication delays 🏃57% had motor delays 🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth. buff.ly/AQSfBm9 #Medsky #Pedsky 🛟😷

I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀 I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales 👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare. Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home. Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl

We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Blog post: I often give advice, to mentees, friends, etc. This is hard! I'm often missing context My favourite approach is Socratic persuasion: guiding them through my case via questions. If I'm wrong there's soon a surprising answer! I can be opinionated *and* truth seeking

‘We will not go quietly’: The Māori Harvard student fighting for his future

Among my CA representatives, I highly commend @congressmin.bsky.social for having the best phone lines -- I get a live person and never a full voicemailbox. I can't say the same for @schiff.senate.gov or @padilla.senate.gov. I continue to ask how our reps plan to defend universities and science.

Appeal from colleagues at Harvard: "...we also call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students., including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes."

“This will destroy the university as we know it. Harvard is situated in the US physically, but its students & faculty hail from around the world; that is fundamental to the work & mission of the institution. You can't take that away & have an institution left." — Kirsten Weld, President Harvard AAUP

Registration for #CogSci2025 IS OPEN and you'll get the BEST RATE if you register before June 2! cognitivesciencesociety.org/registration/ If attending poses financial challenges, we're still offering financial hardship waiver and support for your additional family care costs! Apply by May 30!

I nominated a terrific, well-deserving Rising Star. You should too! (Nice video, @franciscorr25.bsky.social!)

I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026! I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory! RT appreciated! (1/5)

🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!   💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty   📈Apply until July 1st! 🔗https://imbizo.africa/

Political theory/philosophy job in our Department! Deadline 26 May. Happy to answer questions by email. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

📣🧪 $25k grants for those who: 1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and 2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Early-career scholars prioritized

This is why all faculty need to join @aaup.bsky.social in this moment. Come join your union and fight together for your future and a better university! Join here & automatically become a member of UAM-UMD too: www.aaup.org/membership/j...

Now out in JPSP ‼️ "Inference from social evaluation" with Zach Davis, Kelsey Allen, @maxkw.bsky.social, and @julianje.bsky.social 📃 (paper): psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... 📜 (preprint): osf.io/preprints/ps...

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620 See more details below:

Advice I often give to my students is to separately read the first sentence of every paragraph. Those sentences alone should make the argument you want to make. And then whatever follows each topic sentence should *only* be about what the topic sentence is about. This can help structure papers.