Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey was born #OTD in 1913. A major figure in the uncovering of E. African prehistory, she is best known for her excavations of some of the earliest members of the human family, their footprints & artifacts. #WomenInSTEM leakeyfoundation.org#OTD#WomenInSTEM#paleoanthropology #fossils

We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email [email protected] with CV/questions. Please share!

Early face deprivation leads to long-lasting deficits in cortical face processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.04.703627v1

More on NSF funding data A deeper dive into the numbers of awards by Directorate. 1/9

One of the infuriating parts of listening to @melindafrennchgate.bsky.social is realizing that even billionaire women face abuse. Wealth does not equal safety. Women have to answer for the actions of Men who harmed them. Me rarely lose power when their victims are women. #Pinks #Momsky

Cerebellum! radiolab.org/podcast/song...

We are hiring a research specialist, to start this summer! This position would be a great fit for individuals looking to get more experience in computational and cognitive neuroscience research before applying to graduate school. #neurojobs Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21503/r...

Amazing work!!

New episode, first of 2026!! 🎉🎙️ A deep dive into metaphor with @sflusberg.bsky.social! Metaphors delight, provoke, captivate, shock, and galvanize us. What does it say about the human mind that we simply can't escape them—and frankly don't want to? Listen: disi.org/the-aura-of-...

Fighting wins! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

It’s a rich world, an evolved infant brain and a complex interaction.

This July, we are holding a virtual hackathon to explore LEVANTE data! If you're interested in data analysis, development, and cross-cultural variability, please join us! First week is open, second week is by application with mentorship on group projects. levante-hackathon-2026.github.io

Join us for a webinar next Wednesday with Dr. Rebecca Mellema of Getting Science Write to learn how to engage non-scientists in your community about science and your research! Spoiler alert: It's all about developing those captivating communications skills. Sign up at zurl.co/S7VlH & join on Zoom!

Does anyone know any organizers or community organizations in Springfield, Ohio? If so, please send me a message (or DM or email) We (Ohio neighbors a couple hours away from Springfield) are trying to organize some solidarity efforts!

So happy to finally see this out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We found that disrupted replay structure in an AD model was linked to reduced place cell stability and more repetitive behaviour on a radial maze 🧠 @abrate.bsky.social @caswell.bsky.social #neurosky tinyurl.com/yx52vzjd

Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. Each new turbine generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating how 3 decades of innovation have compressed land use while multiplying output. buff.ly/goiabIO #ShareGoodNewsToo

Hats off to the great Anne "I don't do fancy" Treisman!

One piece of good news. Bravo @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social

A year ago this week, an Executive Order came out on a Friday afternoon/evening that reduced all indirect costs rate recovery to 15% the following Monday. In this article I discuss what would have happened across the U.S. if this had not been halted. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Haiti accepted Jewish refugees during WWII before the US would.

📣 Opportunity for early-career researchers: Mentorship Program Associate position with the Cognitive Science Society. 💵 Paid role ⏲️ March–August 2026 🗓️ Deadline for application: February 20, 2026 See the website for details and application info. cognitivesciencesociety.org/get-involved/

Let’s step through the moon gate into another realm. Leith Hall, Aberdeenshire. #StaircaseSaturday

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.

This paper was an awesome collaborative effort of a @fitngin.bsky.social working group. It provides a detailed review of how DNNs can be used to support dev neuro research @lauriebayet.bsky.social and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵

An intervention that works to improve children's lives-- news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Thanks to everyone who fought this battle long and hard, for years!

Another in my series of libraries Wellcome Collection, London #SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position at Western Washington University. This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. Short 🧵 about this position. 1/? Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

We’re taking to the streets once more to protect our rights, freedoms, and humanity against tyranny. The next national NO KINGS protest is on March 28. Join us

We are thrilled to announce Francis S. Collins, former director of the NIH, as the 2026 NAS Public Welfare Medalist for his pioneering research in human genetics and critical contributions to public welfare as the leader of the Human Genome Project! www.nasonline.org/news/francis... #NASaward

An NIH source tells me that after this story was published, agency leadership held an emergency meeting about Council approval and is looking for ways to speed up the pipeline. "Better late than never?" the source says.

Check out this study, which explored and found how economic stressors impact worker sleep! #WhyPsychScience #workerhealth&wellbeing #OHP @psychscience.bsky.social

Congrats to @torwager.bsky.social and Deanna Barch for the @nationalacademies.org Atkinson prize!! Within the umbrella of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, they recieved it for their work in the psychiatric space (Wager: emotion/pain; Barch: Schizophrenia). www.nasonline.org/award/atkins...

Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter. How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)

Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union. It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join. If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.

New article in Cognitive Science Statistical learning does not stay stable across childhood. Longitudinal data reveal a gradual developmental decline and growing individual differences. Methodology matters: No process-pure tasks. No shortcuts without longitudinal data. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

@mattgoldrick.bsky.social Matt, congratulations on the Elman Prize! This is so richly deserved!

Now out in @nature.com: Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations. @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaigenetics.bsky.social cs.bsky.social @timbigdeli.bsky.social #CDNeurogenomics #MountSinaiPsych #MillionVeteranProgram and many collaborators Read: rdcu.be/eZ7he

Honored to see this paper from the lab profiled by JNeurosci’s “This week in the Journal”! www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Blocking microglia activity in young mice prevents infantile amnesia and enhances memory, indicating these brain immune cells play a key role in early memory formation and forgetting. doi.org/hbkphs

New paper led by Ilyse Resnick! Informal fraction knowledge grew Gr1–2 w/little instruction; nonsymbolic>symbolic; “half” led in Gr1, 3rds/4ths in Gr2; early fractions predicted later math beyond number sense (Resnick, Viegut, Barbieri, @noranewcombe.bsky.social & Jordan) tinyurl.com/Resnicketal2...

This paper is yet another new one from the group that I'm in with Nancy Jordan to look at early informal knowledge of fractional quantity. Here, we take it longitudinal! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...