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I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.

@jhucogsci.bsky.social is now on bluesky 🦋 Give us a follow and check out the info about our PhD program

PhD applications for Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown (@browncopsy.bsky.social) are due on December 1st. We have a great community, so please apply, share with your students, etc. Read more on our fancy new website here: copsy.brown.edu/graduate-study

Up in my grill

Two good spelling/word substitution errors heard in the last 24 hours: a) Basil ganglia; 2) Gene locust

@brutalismbot.com this one's for you brutalism bot

Et tu, Brute?

More Vanderbilt hiring! Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Computation & Psychology, College of Connected Computing We're searching for multiple Assistant (tenure-track), Associate, and Full Professors working at the intersection of psychology with computation or AI. 1/

⭐ My lab is recruiting a grad student for fall 2026! ⭐ 🧠 If you are interested in semantic learning & memory, and want to use fMRI + computational models to ask these questions, I'll be excited to hear from you. Come join us in Bing! 🔗 sites.google.com/view/spinslab

My kid just applied to college!

If you ever feel bamboozled about why people don’t cite you very much, just remember that Einstein only had 1500ish citations at his death in 1955. It might take a thousand years before anyone appreciates you. Don’t let that get you down.

With the amount of editing and suggestions I’m giving on my kid’s college essay, she could join the USC rowing team

Trader Joe’s brings out the worst in all of us

Now this is Shawshank funny

Lehigh Psychology is hosting a virtual open house Monday, 10/27 @ 4:15 pm for prospective PhD students! If you have students considering our program, encourage them to register! They'll have a chance to chat w/ faculty & current grads + learn more about our department! lehigh.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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

Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is publishing a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” Send in your research about reading, perceptual learning, sign language, dyslexia, etc! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

@timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social Here's a quick demo on loading data from a public github or OSF repo into R for when you want to distribute your own code that points to someone else's dataset. reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_loadsa...

We use a spherical mathematical model to measure pupillary dynamics in humans. Look at these goat pupils.

I wonder if it’s a curse or a blessing to be a neuroscientist named Brian.

Going through my sketchbook from a few years ago when I started taking an online drawing class on Proko. It’s such a fun hobby even for a person like me who thought they couldn’t draw

Brain Computer Interface (BCI) researchers - please band together and create a help page for patients and caregivers. People think that these devices are easily accessible from their family doctors. Info on clin trials and investigational medical devices is scattered and incomprehensible

Someone needs to invent a poster hologram device like when R2D2 projected that message from Princess Leia but for posters

LANGUAGE PEOPLE -- I'm hoping to analyze a contemporary dictionary of American English - looking at how concreteness of word definitions is matched/mismatched to concreteness of the entry. Does anyone have suggestions for open source dictionaries?

Still time to apply - the deadline is Oct 23!

I’m going to win the New Yorker caption contest this year and publish a horror short story. Laser focus on the things that matter.

Protest was so psychologically helpful for me yesterday. It made me remember that not everyone is a complete fuckwad. Plus my neighbor accidentally created a sign that said ‘More Kings’ and that made my day

More Mt Airy, Philadelphia - Support from the garbage truck driver was awesome

No Kings in Mt Airy Philadelphia!

Please join @mariamaly.bsky.social and me October 30th! We'll help you navigate the confusing world of peer review.

Nadine Martin (professor at temple) sat next to Data from Star Trek on a plane. They struck up a conversation. He told her he was an actor on a show called Star Trek Next Generation. She hadn’t heard of it but promised to watch, and they became friends. True story!

I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.

My R to Microsoft Paint pipeline is under threat.

Study Finds Voices Should Sound Normal Through Walkie-Talkies By Now https://theonion.com/study-finds-voices-should-sound-normal-through-walkie-talkies-by-now/

I’m hiring! We have an opening in my lab at UC Berkeley for a Staff Research Associate 2. This person will collect and analyze data, work with patients and families, act as point of contact btwn collaborators, maintain lab organization, + more. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...

Visits to the vet cause air pollution.

This door was all worth it! Coordinated with a historical preservation carpenter and a woodworker for months and omg it’s a work of art.

Rainy fall morning in Phila

No teenager has ever walked a dog

Model failed to converge

My kid is doing a college tour today at my college. I’ve been banned from any possibility of a ride along.

Our university purchased faculty subscriptions to the Calm app and then doubled many of our course loads. Join your faculty union and be the thorn in their side in your senates or assemblies.

I’ve spent six months working with a carpenter who does historical restoration and matching old finish woodwork. Commissioned a solid mahogany door and omg look at this thing. A few last steps…

My kid has never once made it to school on time.

I just had such a vivid memory of high school gym class where we had to climb a rope, and I couldn’t do it. The gym teacher yelled, “get up there sunshine!” — I almost fell off the rope because nobody ever called me that before and it was hilarious

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

demo for simple conversation hyperscanning sequence tracking valence between two speakers using ConversationAlign

Have to amplify a homophony joke from @luciapattullo.bsky.social - Scottish detective show where MORTAR actually references building materials