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associate professor, cognitive sciences, uc irvine
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pinned post!
Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team:
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896
I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896
about 2 months ago
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Rachit Dubey
about 2 hours ago
Honored and excited to share that I am the winner of Nomis & Science Young Explorer Award!! Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in
@science.org
today! The normalization of (almost) everything
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The normalization of (almost) everything: Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal
Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb2654
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Miriam Posner
about 5 hours ago
Today is the opening day for AAUP v. Trump, in which a historic coalition of unions is suing the Trump administration for using funding threats to suppress free speech. I just listened to the judge's opening remarks and they were SCATHING to the defendants.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71360...
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American Association of University Professors v. Trump, 3:25-cv-07864 - CourtListener.com
Docket for American Association of University Professors v. Trump, 3:25-cv-07864 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71360200/american-association-of-university-professors-v-trump/
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There is absolutely no need to comply with Trump's ridiculous demands at this time. No formal agreement, no force of law. A faculty-led lawsuit challenging the premise of the demand letter is being heard in court _tomorrow_. The only sensible explanation is that UC Regents *want* to comply.
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Natasha Lennard
1 day ago
Zohran Mamdani’s victory means so much — including a 'fuck you' to the Islamophobic weaponization of antisemitism...
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/z...
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They Tried to Smear Zohran Mamdani as an Antisemite. Voters Saw Right Through It.
Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York City means so much — including the repudiation of Islamophobic attacks and weaponization of antisemitism.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/zohran-mamdani-antisemitism-islamophobic-israel/
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Matthew Apps
3 days ago
Nearly ready to go! Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025!
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Aidan Horner
3 days ago
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#neuroskyence
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A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325002840
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Iris van Rooij 💭
5 days ago
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says
@olivia.science
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‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/opposing-the-inevitability-of-ai-at-universities-is-possible-and-necessary
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Stand Up for Science!
4 days ago
The science is clear - SNAP reduces food insecurity, improves health outcomes, and lower healthcare costs. Although fed judges ruled the admin can NOT withhold SNAP disbursements, it appears they plan to do just that. We’re mobilizing a national food drive - join here👇
zurl.co/BrvG5
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Lewis Doyle
2 months ago
New in
@pnas.org
. Preschool teachers were less likely to accept participation attempts by children from working-class backgrounds, regardless of their perceived language level. With a great team:
@andreicimpian.bsky.social
@sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social
& Louise Goupil.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Prison Policy Initiative
6 days ago
With SNAP expiring, at least one Calif community is responding not by helping people get food, but by threatening hungry people with arrest This is what we mean when we say policing is a policy choice that creates crime Here’s the math that proves it 🧵
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California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
Over 5.5 million Californians, including 2 million children, are set to lose their SNAP benefits this Saturday.
https://www.foxla.com/news/california-police-boost-patrols-grocery-stores-snap-benefits
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Jonathan A. Michaels
8 days ago
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09690-9
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Brynn Sherman
8 days ago
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)!
tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
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Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002951?dgcid=author
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Biological Psychiatry
10 days ago
Sookud and colleagues found that individuals with higher compulsivity and intrusive thoughts develop a less certain internal understanding of the external world, and this mediates the link between symptoms and goal-directed behaviors.
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Impaired goal-directed planning in transdiagnostic compulsivity is explained by uncertainty about learned task structure
Diminished use of goal-directed (“model-based”) decision-making is a hallmark of transdiagnostic compulsivity, promoting an over-reliance on inflexible and habitual behaviours. However, the origin of ...
https://www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S2451-9022(25)00306-4/fulltext
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Veena Dubal
13 days ago
Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
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darth™️
13 days ago
"UC warned that releasing the proposal would cause “irreparable harm” to its negotiations with Trump." yes this is the fuckin problem
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Jaweed Kaleem
13 days ago
BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-24/uc-publicly-release-trump-ucla-1-2-billion-settlement-offer
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samuel mehr
about 2 months ago
psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge
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Nina Rouhani
13 days ago
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
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Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
https://rouhanilab.com
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University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate | Science | AAAS
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University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate
School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices
https://www.science.org/content/article/university-california-faculty-push-back-against-big-brother-cybersecurity-mandate
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M.J. Crockett
16 days ago
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
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@lmesseri.bsky.social
& I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
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AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325002517?dgcid=author
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Ingrid Burrington
18 days ago
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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"a tendency to confuse linguistic form with epistemic reliability—a dynamic we term epistemia, the illusion of knowledge that emerges when surface plausibility replaces verification"
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The simulation of judgment in LLMs | PNAS
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in evaluative processes, from information filtering to assessing and addressing knowledge ga...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518443122
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bioRxivpreprint
25 days ago
A compressed code for memory discrimination
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681901v1
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Jaweed Kaleem
24 days ago
University of California & Cal State campuses have together shared the names of thousands of employees with the Trump admin as it probes antisemitism allegations. Faculty are demanding schools, which say they are legally required to share data, push back:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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UC, CSU released troves of personal employee information to the feds. Now the backlash
Cal State and UC have face campus protest and intense rebuke by faculty, students and staff for sharing employee personal information with the Trump administration as part of investigations into alle...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-13/trump-uc-csu-employee-data
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Mark D Humphries
25 days ago
🚨Registration for Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 closes October 20th 🚨 Speakers
@mkflugge.bsky.social
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
@benhayden.bsky.social
@ellileadbeater.bsky.social
@davidrobbe.bsky.social
@dlbarack.bsky.social
@becketebs.bsky.social
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https://uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanistic-basis-of-foraging/
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Nora Newcombe
about 1 month ago
Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and
@zoengo.bsky.social
. We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications
Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63934-w
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AAUP
about 1 month ago
This video is part of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's series, "Faculty on the Frontlines," which spotlights ten AAUP members who share their stories of repression and resistance in the face of partisan interference and violations of academic freedom. Learn more at the link below👇
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Faculty on the Front Lines:AAUP Members Share Stories of Repression and Resistance"Faculty on the Front Lines" is a series documenting the stories of AAUP members. While some of these participants hav...
https://www.aaup.org/faculty-on-the-front-lines
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Kevin M. King
about 1 month ago
Every time someone wants to decide something on merit alone
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Sam Nastase
about 1 month ago
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.
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Anna Schapiro
about 1 month ago
Members of the Penn community: please sign this
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...
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Just Say No to Trump's Compact for Academic Extortion
Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universitie...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/just-say-no-to-trumps-compact-for-academic-extortion?source=direct_link&
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Shannon Vallor
about 1 month ago
Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3
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"Among other steps, universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would 'punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.'"
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Karl Jacoby
about 1 month ago
Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.
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PsyArXivBot
about 2 months ago
Developmental changes in memory structure and precision alter the use of retrieved episodes during decisions for reward:
https://osf.io/78zmx
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PsyArXivBot
8 months ago
Developmental differences in exploration reveal underlying differences in structure inference:
http://osf.io/t8hpr_v1/
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"Faculty, like all University employees, are also entitled to First Amendment protection for speech on matters of public concern, but only insofar as the employee’s expressive interests outweigh the University’s interests in fulfilling its public service mission."
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about 1 month ago
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
about 1 month ago
👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning
about 2 months ago
Andrew Kyle Lampinen, Martin Engelcke, Yuxuan Li, Arslan Chaudhry, James L. McClelland: Latent learning: episodic memory complements parametric learning by enabling flexible reuse of experiences
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16189
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16189
https://arxiv.org/html/2509.16189
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Spineless.
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At this point the choice to "negotiate" has to be seen as willing complicity.
www.dailycal.org/news/uc/comm...
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‘Command and control’: University of California institutes information blackout amid federal negotiations
Over the past two weeks, leadership at UC Berkeley and the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, has come under fire following the disclosure that roughly 160 names of
https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/command-and-control-university-of-california-institutes-information-blackout-amid-federal-negotiations/article_78d56d29-f2b2-4d4b-9261-a7d1dae97538.html
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Outstanding cross-species work co-lead by Madison Tetzlaff and
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Jaweed Kaleem
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants
A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-22/rita-lin-federal-judge-restores-ucla-nih-grants
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samuel mehr
about 2 months ago
this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
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Eric Turkheimer
about 2 months ago
This study of intelligence in the UK Biobank is typical of a lot of current social science genomics. Impressive technically, and not over-interpreted. But still, a main result gets lost in the sauce. Within-families, the direct-effect polygenic score explains no more that 1-3% of the variance. /1
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Imputation of fluid intelligence scores reduces ascertainment bias and increases power for analyses of common and rare variants
Studying the genetics of measures of intelligence can help us understand the neurobiology of cognitive function and the aetiology of rare neurodevelopmental conditions. The largest previous genetic st...
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6916584/v1
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Jaweed Kaleem
about 2 months ago
Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts
University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/university-of-california-faculty-sue-trump-over-ucla-fine-research-cuts
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Veena Dubal
about 2 months ago
On behalf of the AAUP, I am so honored to share that today we joined our sister UC unions in a wall-to-wall lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the use of Title VI as a cudgel to bend the University of California in its ideological vision.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts
University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/university-of-california-faculty-sue-trump-over-ucla-fine-research-cuts
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Stacy Fahrenthold
about 2 months ago
TUESDAY 9/16: meet all your colleagues at the
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social
Regents meeting. They will be talking about Trump's latest demands. We will stand up and demand Hands Off Our UC! CUCFA, AAUP, AFT, UAW, CNA, and AFSCME. You want acronyms, we've got all of them! 2pm Sept 16 at UCSF, Join us!
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Union Jobs
2 months ago
The CUCFA (Council of University of California Faculty Associations) seeks an Operations Director. This position is Remote. Details can be found at:
unionjobs.com/listing.php?...
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#UnionStrong
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Emma Scholey
about 2 months ago
Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September! This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species.
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
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AAUP
about 2 months ago
The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4
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