Just received a physical copy of the first textbook I've contributed to. As horrible as these past few days have been for personal reasons, this has cheered me up immensely.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Teach neuroscience to undergraduates? Check out our "Implementing Open Neuroscience Teaching Tools" workshop! Join us on July 19 at North Central College to get hands-on practice with inquiry-based activities using real #OpenScience resources. 🔗 https://bit.ly/46A5j15 🧠📈 #iteachbio

As some of you may know... we're down $5m and may or may not ever claw any of it back. So, we're writing new grants. If anyone would be willing to share a funded application for - NSF CAREER or NIH DP2 that is 100% dry lab-based - NSF BIO Capacity: Infrastructure I will owe you a coffee forever!

This video made me think about the current and future state of publishing as an academic. In no uncertain terms, these 'paper mills' undermine our mission as scientists. But the predatory commercialization of science that manifests these conditions must be discussed. youtu.be/SEwiOykoXXc?...

We are still hiring for our computational focus lab coordinator position! If you have a computational / software engineering background and are looking for more research experience before applying to graduate school, this would be a great fit. Read more about our lab here! www.vislearnlab.org

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

**Postdoc position in human category learning** @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social. www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

Structural Equation Modeling [2026, colourized] #rstats

🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌 Applications due: Feb. 26 Start date: flexible, as early as June More 👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Checking whether cited sources are real during grading has become somewhat of a favorite sport of mine

Last call for this PhD studentship! Deadline Sun 22nd Feb

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Want to come do a postdoc with us? We’re interested in how sensorimotor function is carried out by the cells and circuits of the spinal cord. We have an awesome team, lots of cool techniques, and we’re open to new ideas/approaches/connections. Get in touch!

The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow Position at the Visual Attention Lab of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Recently I finished the base game of Outer Wilds. It was a deeply introspective experience that left an impact on me. It is a marvelous example of environmental story telling, and I found myself adopting a Gibsonian mindset in my journey across the game's solar system. (1/3)

My essay on what I realized while writing Elusive Cures that got me *so excited* I decided to redirect my entire research program (from studying memory to studying mood). Out today in IAI news.

Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience job opening in our own @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

And like that, the last two years of my life have come to a wrap. Onwards to my PhD now!

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

Postdoc (80%) in the Cognition Lab at University of Zurich, Switzerland We are looking for a postdoc to work with us on the capacity limits of cognition (working memory, attention, long-term memory, ...). Application deadline: 10 September 2025

Really thrilled to be part of the Simons collaboration for ecological neuroscience - www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...

Rob Gray and I have started working our way through Turvey's book 'Lecture on Perception' on his podcast; the first episode on the first two chapters is up now, more in a couple f weeks! perceptionaction.com/journal-club/

Nice review of the affordance hypothesis by @edbaggs.bsky.social & @diovicen.bsky.social! Especially liked how it situates Gibson’s ideas within their historical context while linking them to today. Great read for those interested in the link between perception and action! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Week 3 in S&P at NDSU and students have their first assignment out (due this Friday). I thought this was a good time to share how I've set up assessments in the course, which has changed a lot from when I first began teaching this material. A 🧵 about my #VisionScience syllabus and grading. <1/n>

In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social discusses the paper that taught him that mathematical modeling can be used to understand how neural networks are organized. www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

Great write up on the 10 bits/s paper. Conjecture: this slow information flow rate is the price we pay for better generalization. We learn to pay attention to “slow varying features” for better generalization (a la slow feature analysis, Wiskott and Sejnowski).

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In today's lecture in my nonlinear dynamics and chaos course, I tried to give intuition for where chaos comes from. It's caused by repeated stretching and folding of phase space.

Kristina Suchotzki is looking for a PhD student in her group in Marburg (Germany) to work on a project investigating the cognitive and emotional processes involved in deception. Application deadline very soon! 8 December 2024, www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb04/ae-s...

Something very punk about this approach preview.redd.it/0a6nty6wgni9...

Can I just open one scientific article without being asked to opt into an ad tracking cookie?!?

Are you at #psynom2024? If so, see me at my poster in 1 hour if you are interested in #psycholinguistics! (Poster #2103) Many thanks to #PsychoPy for creating such great software so I could produce this project.

Attended a really interesting talk on Hierarchial Factor Models by Dr. Rouder. Only regret with #Psynom24 is the inability to clone myself so that I could attend all the talks I want to! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

Excited to announce that I will be at #Psynom24 this upcoming week! If you're interested in #Perception, #Action, and/or #Intent, make sure you stop by our poster! I will be presenting on Friday the 22nd at 12 pm (Poster Number: 2187).

Gould and Lewontin (1979)

Best part of my master's program? Me and my roommates (also students in my program) just being goofy with one another at random times of the day.

Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy! The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*. Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪

Conceptual space is of course not reducible to a set of points in a vector space. But even if it was, the dimensions that are represented would be species specific and depend on what matters to that species. Different species seem doomed to never fully understand each other's conceptual spaces.

New paper devises a metric for feature complexity, and uses it to show that simpler features are learned earlier and tend to be more important. They’re working with ResNet 50 and idk to what extent this applies to diffusion, but: cool map of visual experience. #MLSky arxiv.org/abs/2407.06076

📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

“Data descriptions are not models. Strictly speaking, a linear regression (for example) [or an LLM] is a model of sorts. It models the regularity in a data set. It can be a convenient summary of data. But a data summary does not explain the pattern or why the pattern is as it is.” rdcu.be/cGQpY 2/n

When you're in a Biology Dept, strange mail sometimes arrives. Here is a week before Halloween tale in multiple acts Act 1--a package arrives in the mailroom address to "Dept of Biology" and sits on the counter. After two weeks, I email an image of the package to the Dept & no one claims it 1/n 🧪

Happy early birthday to PsychResearchList! 🌍 Since 2020, PsychResearchList.com has connected over 85,000 students and faculty from 166 countries with free resources! Here’s to many more 🎂 #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

DO WE HAVE FREE WILL? Mitchell Versus Sapolsky Debate. Happening today, 12p PST / 3p EST. Zoom link here: mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/events/explo...

Gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation may be linked through a common process that reinstates past experiences during memory retrieval! doi.org/10.1101/2024... Check out our #Preprint that integrates eye tracking into the Sherlock fMRI Dataset! Postdoc work w/ @cibaker.bsky.social 🧠🟦 #PsychSciSky