This is a great opportunity! Jin is a fantastic mentor and is working on exciting research in intra minority relations—apply to his lab if that's your "jam".

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

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...

Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us! We run short, game-like studies with kids. We offer in-person and online options, flexible scheduling (weekdays & weekends), and sessions that are fun for children and easy for caregivers.

It was such a delight to get to know @raziasahi.bsky.social & her research at Princeton! I can’t wait to follow along with her lab’s impactful work at Rutgers focused on interpersonal/social emotional regulation. 👀Best part? She’s accepting applications for PhD students for Fall 2026! Share widely!

Thank you for being a part of our little lemonade stand!! 🍋 @logicemotionlab.bsky.social

*Frantically putting the hyphen back in*

Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

A lab (and PI) to watch out for 🤩 Share with your trainees! This is *the* lab for affective scientists-in-training who want to do thoughtful (and awesome) work with thoughtful (and awesome) people. Simple as that.

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

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.

Interested in understanding how young humans think about social relationships? I am reading PhD applications this year! **Please note**, that Harvard now requires the GRE. More information here: www.ashleyjthomas.com/workwithme

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉 I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty). See lab page and doc below for details!

Honored to contribute a Journal Club piece to @natrevpsychol.nature.com! I explore Robert White's seminal "competence motivation" framework (1959) and why it remains relevant over 60 years later—from why toddlers insist on doing things themselves to designing intrinsically motivated AI. 🤖

Three cheers to @raziasahi.bsky.social for a *fantastic* talk on her work with @veravine.bsky.social investigating emotion vocabulary in therapy! And keep an eye out for opportunities to join her in her new lab at Rutgers!

Apply to work at the psych program at @bardcollege.bsky.social with me! I love it here and would be happy to answer any questions you have. Review starts 10/1. www.bard.edu/humanresourc...

Welcome @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social!! Very excited to have you with us for a few weeks!!

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan. @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social @starlabteam.bsky.social

📚 Dr. Brown (@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social) will be speaking at Princeton in the Department of Psychology’s Social Talk Series next week! If you’re on campus, be sure to check it out this Monday (9.22) at 12pm. Talk details: psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/...

Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year. dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...

The academic year has officially begun! Looking forward to a fantastic Fall semester together! 😄

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)? If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants. Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Delighted that PINE Lab will be accepting applications for PhD students to start Fall 2026! Please share with applicants looking for developmental & neuroscience programs? Our website is updated with current studies, questions, and guidance about fit: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

Does anyone know of any studies/experiments using abstract words as cues in verbal fluency? e.g., name as many 'scientific principles' as you can in 60s? (e.g., emotions, philosophical concepts, rules, conventions, etc)

Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

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...

Bonan's energy and excitement for CogSci are truly unmatched 🤩 Apply!

I am putting it out into the universe that I am available for guest lectures and any sort of talks or writing this fall! I’d be happy to talk to your students about body image, eating disorders, gender, sexuality, social identity, or violence/safety. :)

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at @uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold! psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

The CoLab is headed to #CogSci2025!! 🥳 Here's where to find us!

Major updates to our ConversationAlign R package - submitted to CRAN and JOSS today. If you're interested in computing alignment and main effects for >40 psycholinguistic dimensions in naturalistic conversation, this is the package for you reilly-conceptscognitionlab.github.io/Conversation...

Anyone out there know of US-based postdoctoral fellowships that are open to applications from non-US citizens?

How do we regulate each other's emotions? We talk big strategies (reappraisal, validation) and subtle mechanisms (acoustics, linguistics) in this new ep of @mindsmatter.bsky.social! Thanks for the fun convo @avamadesousa.bsky.social!

Does linguistic diversity when talking about emotions track wellbeing? In a new pre-print with @eriknook.bsky.social, we link emotion vocabularies to mental health in a large real-world psychotherapy dataset. Highlight: therapist emo vocab may help clients get better over time! shorturl.at/TKPN1

I'm now ready to share a rough DRAFT of the teaching resources list for cognitive psychology I've been compiling. As you'll see, I could use further help from you, esp. where there are no entries yet. Pls take a look & share your favorite resources.🙏 I'll keep updating the list this summer. Thanks!

As #SPSP2026 submission season begins, please consider me for your symposia! My students & I have recent work on: - Parents' estimates of their children's prejudices - Development of homophobia in childhood - Gender essentialism & domestic work disparities - Structural explanations & stereotypes 👋!

I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside. Sharing would be much appreciated! jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189

These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

Two days left to comment. Takes mere seconds. Saves lives. If you’ve been feeling helpless— this is a thing you can do! It’s been effective in the past. Healthcare is a human right. Disability & health justice is for everyone. Be LOUD. Our enemies are spineless, and we outnumber them.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

🎊 New preprint 🎊 w/ Tania Lombrozo Why do people engage in collective actions, even when they believe their actions won't make a difference? Based on evidence from the 2024 election and a hypothetical election, we find that *moral* responsibility, not causal, drives voting osf.io/preprints/ps...

Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Does anyone study how kids think about existential issues? Like why do we exist, what is our purpose, etc. I've got a thesis student interested in this area and I have this feeling like people are doing this work. I want to point her in the right direction!

Please share widely! #NPSP supports people applying to Psychology PhD programs in the US, including students from underrepresented groups. We're accepting applications til May 23 for mentees (undergrads/postbacs) & mentors (grad students/postdocs)! z.umn.edu/NPSP25-26

Benny is one of my favorite people on the planet and a ✨brilliant scientist! Pls repost/share to your networks!

The Learning and Brain Development Lab (PI: Juliet Y. Davidow, PhD) at Northeastern in Boston is hiring a full-time lab manager! Assist in conducting an NSF CAREER awarded project on adolescent neurocognitive development of motivated learning! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Huge congratulations to Chantal @talvaldivia.bsky.social for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to Dan @danmirea.bsky.social for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!

Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social