M&C's special issue for Larry Jacoby would be a good fit for memory control & automaticity papers, & many others. Deadline 12/31/25 www.psychonomic.org/page/MCjacoby Send questions to me, @cnwahlheim.bsky.social, Andy Y., or Steve L. See Larry's WIDE range work: scholar.google.com/citations?us...)

I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯 I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼 So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉

The Larry Jacoby special issue deadline at M&C is extended to 6/30. Feel free to contact me or @cnwahlheim.bsky.social if you want to check whether your work would be a good fit before deciding to submit. www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...

In case you haven't seen it yet, M&C is doing a special issue for Larry Jacoby. It says 4/30 for a due date, but I believe we're allowing for some more wiggle room. www.psychonomic.org/page/MCjacoby

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS SO FUCKING WEIRD, MAN.

This is billed as satire, but it's not. This is straight up nonfiction in my eyes. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cla...

Oh man, this I get

Does anyone have any recommendations for ECRs that might want to get reviewing experience in memory? I'm looking for people as an AE and also as someone who turns down review requests; I want to give the other AEs some suggestions.

There's a new TT cog neuro job at UNLV (mostly fMRI). I lived with intense humidity for my first 30ish years, so I can say the "but it's a dry heat" thing is real. Now I get irritated by humidity over 15%. I'd be happy to talk informally with anyone interested. www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...

bitch you ain't even got quals scheduled yet ain't no way you're defending in two years

Dear everyone: please please please, RECOMMED REVIEWERS when you submit papers. And if there's no dedicated space in the portal to do that, do it in your cover letter.🙏🙏🙏

"i realize this sounds a bit harsh (because it is), and some of the authors on that paper are people i like and respect (@briannosek.bsky.social is fr one of my intellectual heroes), but look, there really ought to be a point at which every person who takes themselves to be a serious scientist…" 🧵

Some folks in this thread would rather reach for brain damage from leaded gas rather than r____m. Research by Jennifer Richeson shows via MRI that white subjects testing high for implicit bias expend more cognitive energy during interaction with people of different race. Taxes executive function.

If you're going to RMPA in Denver, drop in on my students' first talks! It's a clinical and social oriented conference (regional APA), so I'm hoping there'll be more than 5 people in the audience (for the only cognitive session, with only 3 speakers). lol 😬

In a 🔥 post, @jessicahullman.bsky.social follows up on the recent NHB 'High replicability' paper. "It bugs me (though doesn’t not surprise me) to think that whether questionable practices get called out depends on who exactly is in the author list." tinyurl.com/4yr98zvw

(1/) One thing I wish more people knew about the Belgian genocide of the Congo is how one woman who heard something incredible at a dinner party and took it seriously was singlehandedly more responsible for ending a genocide than anyone else I can name in history. Meet Alice Seeley Harris.

<rant> If you refer to training your grad students as “hand holding,” I will understand that you are not good at your job. </rant>

Man, one of my colleagues got so mad at how hard it was to spend his grant money due to university admin obstructionism & bureaucracy that he ragequit the system, set up a whole separate nonprofit org, and now routes all NSF/NIH grants through the nonprofit. (Still a prof here, just no grants here.)

Uhh... men who are not rabidly conservative are seeing these posts (pictured in popehat) as threats to themselves too, right? RIGHT?

@npr.org Please correct this. So much is known about the benefits of aphasia therapy and treatments for primary progressive aphasia and FTD. You are misleading people.

Folks, the evangelical line on birth control is, more or less, that any hormonal birth control is an “abortifacient” and that IVF is inherently a form of abortion… they’ve not hidden at any point what the endgame is

This might be the most brutal rejoinder I have ever heard.

Roses are red. Please don’t get nervous. It’s not extra work. We call it “service.” #AcademicSky

I have never understood salary discrepancies by department. It's unfair and insulting. How is it even legal? The workload doesn't differ by department. 😡

She understands the probability of the Monty Hall problem but gets 10,000 letters about how wrong she is. "You made a mistake, but look at the positive side. If all those Ph.D.’s were wrong, the country would be in some very serious trouble. Everett Harman, Ph.D. U.S. Army Research Institute" 😆

"in the 1000s?!" "was he on vcr?" lol, I feel old

This piece about Tulving (Craik & Moscovitch) is fascinating. Conscripted by the Nazis & then freed by the Americans? Went to Canada in a manual labor program? & turned out to be possibly the most important memory researcher/theorist since Ebbinghaus. What a life. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

HOLY. SHIT. The Hawaii Supreme Court quoted Slim Charles from THE WIRE in their decision

Mid.

Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene.

that’s right

New paper by @helenagellersen.bsky.social in JEP:General on memory fidelity across the lifespan finds that any task with demands on representational fidelity is sensitive to ageing from midlife onwards. This is true for perception, short- and long-term memory psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Interesting!

"I forgot that you existed: Role of memory accessibility in the gender citation gap." Well, with that hook, everyone will remember the paper at least. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

A new, ecologically valid, method to study involuntary autobio mem, and an n=1 study testing it. Looks interesting -if it scales up, it could be a game changer for IAM studies "The frequency and cueing mechanisms of [IAM] while driving" #PsychSciSky #CogPsych www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Let me see if I have a few sources on hand for Academic Merit: Greatest Hits 1/ "Gender differences in recommendation letters for postdoctoral fellowships in geoscience" www.nature.com/articles/nge...

"... anatomical terminology might be the best place from which to begin to build a universal taxonomy of brain networks. We argued that naming a network according to its purported function was problematic — because ascribing a singular function to a brain region or network is likely erroneous..."

We’re excited to announce that the Psychonomic Society is now on Bluesky! Posts will begin in January. Please help spread the word by following us and reposting.

“I hear my full name, twice: “Mosab Mostafa Hasan Abu Toha.” I’m puzzled. I didn’t show anyone my I.D. when I was pulled out of line. How do they know my name?”

Does sleep itself promote memory consolidation? This is not evident at all. We will only ascertain this through well-designed experiments. Our fresh new article's aim is to elevate sleep and memory research to a higher level. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Dr. Patricia Navarro Velez (Business), Dr. Jerry Cha-Jan Chang (Business), and Dr. Naoko Takemaru (World Language and Cultures). Their students and colleagues painted a lovely picture of professors who were dedicated to their families and students, highlighting our loss.

lol, I received 105 Amazon Business UNLV points for being here for 15 years. Maybe if I'm here another 15 years I'll make it up to 210 points and could get something more interesting than paper.

2yr postdoc position w/ Erin Hannon unlvmusiclab.wixsite.com/website on the Development of misophonia and other auditory affective experiences in children and adolescents. Starts about March 2024. Reviewing applications immediately. More info at:  nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNLV-Externa...

Dropbox is defaulting to the use of a third-party AI.... so you might want to change that.

I have this posted on the wall of my office. And surely -- it will get better after this week...

Was it even a question that this would happen? Have you met humans?

Haven't read it yet, but looks really interesting! Authors: Tandoc, Dong, & Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social, @markietandoc.bsky.social, #PsychSciSky #Cognition

You would never do this. Warn your friends to never do this. Never ever. The best ppl warn everybody.

In better news, the lab made it to the Psychonomics picture gallery, lol.

I'm safe at home. Active shooter on UNLV campus. Close to my lab with students in it.