Philosopher of mind John Searle has left the building dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j... He was best known for his Chinese Room Argument on artificial intelligence and wide-ranging work on the mind and consciousness

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

In a new paper, Mike Tanenhaus and I articulate the rationale behind different experimental tasks in the visual world paradigm and give recommendations for future studies. “Rethinking task importance in the Visual World Paradigm“ (Brain Research, in press). pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

Really enjoyed speaking at ESLP today! You can check out the slides for my presentation here: osf.io/nex2y

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Had the opportunity to present our #fNIRS hyperscanning study @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @saradefelice.bsky.social at #ICON2025 in the Social And Embodied Language Learning Symposium. Felt small in the huge auditorium but the room was filled w/ inspiring questions!

Come be my colleague! UW-Madison Psychology is hiring! Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an AI emphasis. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

✨ #ILCB Summer School 2025 – Just a few days to go! ✨ From September 1–5, we’ll welcome students, researchers, and lecturers at CIRM, #Marseille for a week of courses, workshops, and discussions on #language, #brain & #cognition. Looking forward to a stimulating week of scientific exchanges!

Reposting this bit of good news (all too rare these days). Congrats to @richardsever.bsky.social @johninglis.bsky.social & the whole @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social team, for their vision, dedication and transformative impact (well done @royalsociety.org)

📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢 Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia. 🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io 🚨closes September 12th!

What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Just over a week left to apply for this exciting postdoctoral research opportunity on children and nature! 🐾 The application deadline is Wednesday the 20th of August 2025.

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

Following a review, the Leverhulme Trust Board has decided to discontinue the International Fellowships as a standalone scheme. If you are considering applying for the Trust's Research Fellowship scheme, projects with an international research focus are welcome. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/interna...

How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time in the real-world? Check out the preprint by @saradefelice.bsky.social et al. Honoured to have been part of the team!

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, and (2) Biological Basis of Behavior. Official job ads coming soon... Send qs for (1) to Iris Mauss/Serena Chen, (2) to Linda Wilbrecht

Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social. #neuroskyence #neuroai www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...

Happy announcement (again :): Another brilliant PhD student from the lab passed her viva! Congratulations Dr @isobelslt.bsky.social! Many thanks to Isobel's great examiners: Beth Jefferies and Holly Robson; to @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social and to Brain Research UK for sponsoring her work!

I am really happy and proud to let you know that @viktorkewenig.bsky.social has graduated and is already off working at @msftresearch.bsky.social!!! Congratulations Viktor! Many many thanks to the two PhD examiners: @mtoneva.bsky.social and David Vinson (both looking severe in this picture :)

Credit goes to @viktorkewenig.bsky.social for the paper! We hope people will find it useful!

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

📣 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...

I am advertising 2 positions in language evolution with my group at ‪‪@dondersinst.bsky.social: 📢 Fully-funded PhD position (Robotics/AI 🤖) www.ru.nl/en/working-a... 📢 Postdoc position (Virtual Reality 🎮) www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Deadline for applications is August 14th. Please RT! :)

Fantastic positions available to work with Mark in beautiful Nijmegen - a thriving hub of language research

We are looking for a Postdoc who loves fMRI, psychophysiology and data analysis 🎉. We run studies on social cognition and related processes with a focus on schizophrenia. German skills could be beneficial, bc the position involves teaching, but not mandatory. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

📣 Last call to apply for #BCBL’ available positions! 📣 Three of the vacancies are for the #BIBALANCE project and the other one is for the #CorticalRhythms project. 📅 Deadline for application: 30/06/2025 +info👇 https://www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-nosotros/ofertas-trabajo

Postdoc position open in our #workingmemory lab! See here for more info: www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...

Thanks for the opportunity, Because Language! 👇

A most useful catch-up on what we now know about implicit bias, and concise recap of what the IAS does and does not show. Thank you Paul! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/implicit-b...

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

The new National Academies report on the Science and Practice of Team Science is out today: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2904... I was very excited to be a part of this group in order to discuss the role of open science in team science.

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) now features over 100 published articles! Editors-in-Chief @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social share their vision for this open, online reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition & intelligence:

Having the freedom to defend science is a privilege. Those who have it owe it to everyone the world over to make their voices heard https://go.nature.com/44guILv

New opinion paper out in Trends in Cognitive Science: Advancing a Temporal Science of Behavior. I'm really proud of this one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One thing that makes humans remarkable is baby talk. And that might be one reason why we have language. Here's my story [Gift link] nyti.ms/4k5duXd

new preprint - do you use #fnirs to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using #fnirs for real-world #cognitive #neuroscience osf.io/preprints/ps...

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Deadline today! #neurojobs #psychjobs #lingjobs #langsky

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Title of section 1 summarizes it: "The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience" The brain as a complex network. Looks like a fantastic book. #neuroskyence

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1st mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice for #psychedelics ☎️🗣️⏲️🪷: We find 5-MeO-DMT induces a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️‍🩹. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You are still on time to work with us! At #BCBL we have new positions available for you! Four of the vacancies are for the #BIBALANCE project and the other one is for the #CorticalRhythms project. 📅 Deadline for application: 30/06/2025 +info👇 www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-n...

🚀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....

Big changes to the ERC funding schemes! Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on: 📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD 📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

NEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18! The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠 We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers: @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

On 24th June, we are hosting a 1 day event on Social Connections at UCL - come along to hear the latest research on wearable sensors and friendship and measuring social interaction. Please share widely palslanguagelab.wixsite.com/socialconnec...

(1) Curious about research in the NIH-funded Cognition and Action Lab, directed by @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social? Visit the lab’s website to learn about the lab's focus areas, browse key publications, and more: research.jefferson.edu/labs/researc...