It's PhD application season. If you are applying for a PhD in neuroscience or biomedical field or are mentoring someone who is applying, please check out our @storiesofwin.bsky.social episode with advice! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Last 10 days to apply~~ #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky

APS joined 49 scientific societies & research institutions in urging Congress to protect & sustain funding for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences Directorate at #NSF in the FY 2026 appropriations process @fabbs.org www.psychologicalscience.org/redesign/wp-...

We're hiring a postdoc, to be based at Arizona State University, to research the PSYCHOLOGY OF ANTISEMITISM. Start date as early as Jan-12-25. Email for questions. Details: apply.interfolio.com/177756

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill. Jon Minadeo courts kids in video chat apps, berating children of color, encouraging white kids to arm themselves for 'race war' www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅 see website for details www.pbandjlab.com

On NPR's nationally syndicated radio program "All Things Considered," three SfN members speak about the funding and career challenges facing the neuroscience community. 🔗 vist.ly/4enax #NeuroAdvocate #SfN25 #neurosky #neuroskyence

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell @cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185 @spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social

In March, our grant and the broader DoD Minerva social science initiative were terminated. I haven’t said much until now. Thank you to Tim Wilson for inviting me to share. #research #socialscience #sciencepolicy #academia

Join our upcoming Free-Form Friday session, featuring a presentation by Sharon Hurley Hall, exploring how to foster a more equitable and welcoming academic landscape. 📆November 14, 1-2 PM ET Register here: ow.ly/x8AI50XqLQu

Excited to share a new preprint, accepted as a spotlight at #NeurIPS2025! Humans are imperfect decision-makers, and autonomous systems should understand how we deviate from idealized rationality Our paper aims to address this! 👀🧠✨ arxiv.org/abs/2510.25951 a 🧵⤵️

Early bird registration for #SANS2026 is now open! Register between now and March 9 for this discounted rate. socialaffectiveneuro.org/registration/

And don't forget to first renew your membership/become a member! In addition to major discounts on conference registration, membership in SANS comes with other bonuses, including a 20% discount on open access fees at SCAN (new this year)! Details here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/membership/

I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:

Looking at the new Tedx application and noticed this: "No talks with an inflammatory political or religious agenda, nor polarizing “us vs them” language." What does that even mean? This could eliminate talks on bias or polarization. I don't remember this language being included before 2025 🤔

We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶 northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️ tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics) econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

Our amazing department (Psychology) at U-Miami is hiring in their Adult division, with open topic / focus area! Come apply and check out the job ad here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...:

In March, our grant and the broader DoD Minerva social science initiative were terminated. I haven’t said much until now. Thank you to Tim Wilson for inviting me to share. #research #socialscience #sciencepolicy #academia

Want to connect with other scholars beyond the SPSP Annual Convention and hone your leadership skills? Consider volunteering for one of our committees that help advance personality and social psychology! 📆Application deadline: November 19 Apply here: ow.ly/XGvf50XnnKR

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com

This is an important new working paper from Kwan Woo Kim and Laura Hamilton at Merced’s Higher Education, Race, & The Economy lab showing that states that introduced anti-DEI legislation hired fewer faculty from marginalized groups. They are segregationists. osf.io/preprints/so...

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

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 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! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

🎉 Excited to share our new paper “Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members.” in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology: 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

The Speech, Sign, and Systems Lab (formerly VoiceLab) is seeking motivated PhD students to join us in Fall 2026! We are part of the University of Iowa’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, consistently ranked among the top 5 programs in speech sciences nationwide.

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

Our department is hiring two positions (2026 and 2027 start dates) - come be my colleague! apply.interfolio.com/175428

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989

Registration for our in-person event is still open! We hope to see you all in San Diego!

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

An interview with @news.illinois.edu about the possibilities of change in implicit bias and the opportunities and pitfalls of implicit bias education: news.illinois.edu/is-unintenti...

We've added even more to our Applying to Faculty Jobs 101! Follow the link below to find tips from @drnancypadilla.bsky.social and @moeneuro.bsky.social on everything from where to find job ads, how to advocate for yourself, what goes into a research statement, and more!

Job announcement! UN Reno Psychology (Cognitive & Brain Sciences division) is hiring for a tenure-track position. Come join us! We have a great group! Deadline December 1. Please share! nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Come be my colleague! careers.purdue.edu/job/Departme...

🎉 Get ready for Black In Neuro Chapters Week 2025! 🗓 Oct 27–31 — a week of connection, community & celebration 🖤 📣 Chapter Roll Call 🤝 Community Call 🍸 Manhattan Mixer 🧠 1st-ever Chapters SURP Symposium! ✨ Register: linktr.ee/BINchapters #BlackInNeuro #BINTogether #ChaptersWeek2025

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...

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

🧠 Amid growing concern about research funding in the U.S., our members shared amazing non-federal funding opportunities for personality & social psych research! From Russell Sage to Templeton Foundation - check out resources compiled by our community: ow.ly/PIfs50Wxoeo

Keynotes: @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social & Abigail Marsh Invited talks: @peez.bsky.social, Amrisha Vaish, @joshcjackson.bsky.social, @joodykeem.bsky.social, @sydneylevine.bsky.social, @nourkteily.bsky.social, Jessica Salerno, @mattlindauer.bsky.social Organizers: yours truly & @jowylie.bsky.social

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

Does anyone use #RedCap for child participant database management? If so, would you be willing to share screenshots etc. of what your user interface looks like or share the template, whichever is easier. #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky #cogsci

@npr.org just posted this to their instagram: "Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. It’s the beginning of a new chapter — but we’re not going anywhere."⁠ It's received more than 60k likes in just 30 minutes. www.instagram.com/p/DPREnmwjyBe/

so excited for this!

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2024 Best Social Cognition Paper Award! This award recognizes an outstanding article (theoretical or empirical) in the field of social cognition. Papers eligible if published in 2024. More info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...