Superb work by the stellar @bsevchik.bsky.social — a new fully processed open data resource focused on exec fxn in psychosis and ADHD. ‼️Also‼️ Brooke is applying to PhD programs now— great time to recruit an absolute star ⭐️ + wonderful human.

Early Childhood & Families Speaker Series: Dr. Allyson Mackey Presented by ECEFS and PECF Nov 17, 2025, 3-4:30 PM EST Stiteler Hall 263–264, 3700 Walnut St www.gse.upenn.edu/events/early...

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!

We've seen Konrad Kording host this workshop twice, and it really is remarkable how he deftly walks participants through the process of writing a memorable and clear abstract. Sign up if there is stil room.

Truly heroic work by the stellar @cieslakmatt.bsky.social + the HBCD dMRI working group team. Refactored QSIPrep + QSIRecon is the result of nearly 3y of concerted development + testing. It will be a total workhorse for HBCD -- and almost any other dMRI scan. Check it out for your data!!!

In Philly? Join us for a special seminar TODAY with MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner and APS Lifetime Achievement Awardee Stanford Professor Jennifer Eberhardt. 📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 4:30-6PM 📍 The Agora, Annenberg Public Policy Center @upenn.edu 📩 Register: bit.ly/4qF14dj

Seeking applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline, for our MindCORE Fellowship. MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort at Penn to understand human intelligence and behavior. Apply by Dec 1: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...

EARS is accepting submissions for the Trainee Session on Dec 16, 2025. The session will feature 4 presentations of 10 mins w/5 mins for Q&A. Submit by 11/24/25: forms.gle/xoCfoinid2UM... This is a great opportunity to use your SFN & APAN abstracts and give the presentation one more time!

Thursday, November 13, 3-5PM Class of 1955 Conference Room Van Pelt Library (2nd floor) Reason, Truth, and Power in Argumentation: The Case of Conspiracy Theories Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) The abstract and speaker's bio are here: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/novaes @sas.upenn.edu

Inquiry Science: A STEM Education Webinar for College Students Facilitator: Rebecca Lehr, Senior Director Programs & Professional Learning, TGR Learning Lab Philadelphia Nov 19, 7–8:15 PM Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...!

I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]

MindCORE Seminar Friday, November 14 at Noon with pizza! “What does have mean? how patterns across languages can shed light on the building blocks of linguistic meaning” Paloma Jeretič Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania web.sas.upenn.edu/paloma-jeret...

We are excited to host Philly's own doyenne of community science communication, Dr. Sarah McAnulty! Friday, Nov 21, 1:30-3PM Hands-On Science Zine Making Workshop Registration for the workshop is limited by room size. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/hands-on-s... @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

If you’re in Philly, don’t miss this special event tomorrow at Penn! Stanford Professor and McArthur “genius” award winner Jennifer Eberhardt will give a talk on Wednesday, November 12, at 4:30 pm. See flyer for info! Register: bit.ly/4qF14dj

🚨📣 We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣🚨 Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing? Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905

Our reporting has shown that recent policy changes at the VA are having an impact on working conditions and on patient care, but we need your help to understand the full picture. If you recently left the VA, here’s how you can reach us:

You're never gonna believe this, but we're out of archaeologists again. We have matched ~650 groups with archaeologists this semester! I am so grateful to the 196 Archaeologist volunteers! We have 60 unmatched groups rn Know archaeologists who could do a session? Send them to SkypeAScientist.com

Tomorrow on Skype a Scientist LIVE, we're talking about how physics weaves into our everyday lives! In these sessions, we ask YOUR questions, so come curious :) We'll be joined by @mleembruggen.bsky.social! RSVP for free here! givebutter.com/MXtxd5

There’s a lot of talk about vaccines and autism, but what does the science say? This week @pennngg.bsky.social student Nita Rome unpacks the history behind these concerns and how modern studies have debunked this misconception. pennneuroknow.com/2025/11/11/v... #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦🧪

Tomorrow, Weds, Nov 12, @upenn.edu we will have two Stanford psychologists speaking on campus! 2-3 PM Dr. Russell Poldrack Why Modeling Matters for Task FMRI Analysis JMB Class of '62 Auditorium 4:30-6 PM Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt Racial Bias: Here and There, Then and Now Agora, APPC @appc.upenn.edu

Call for Papers: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 4 June 10-12, 2026 University of Pennsylvania Abstracts due Dec 10. www.elm-conference.net/elm-4-2026/e... @pennlinguistics.bsky.social @upenn.edu

Through the Educational Pipeline Program at Penn, Hakiem Ellison helps Philadelphia students explore healthcare career pathways and plan for their future. Discover how Penn Matters to our community: https://www.upenn.edu/about/penn-matters

💥New preprint!💥 For democracy to be truly representative we need to include many more voices. But young voters (18-25yo) face unique barriers and are often overlooked. We describe these barriers, and propose a psychologically-informed approach to support and increase voter turnout among youth.

Sophie Rogers of the Corder @flybottleescape.bsky.social lab studies how a psychedelic drug with growing therapeutic promise can alter the brain in ways that help overcome traumatic fear memories. Read more in this brief by fellow NGG student Jafar Bhatti! www.upennglia.com/briefs/bib-p...

TONIGHT in Philly, we're getting together to make art centered around activism (environmental or whatever's important to you) This event is FREE! I'll have everything you need! I'll even give ya free beer & cheese (thanks to cheese sponsor Perrystead Dairy)! You just need to RSVP luma.com/w8v2xk5i

🎟️ RSVP to the workshop at c4r.io/events and submit your abstract for a chance to have it workshopped with Konrad Kording, live. ➕ Bonus! Participants can use the scientific project planner app, PlanYourScience.com, to kickstart a new study or fine-tune an existing one.

WEDNESDAY: MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner and @psychscience.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Awardee Stanford Professor Jennifer Eberhardt will give a special seminar at Penn. 📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 4:30-6PM 📍 The Agora, Annenberg Public Policy Center 📩 Register: bit.ly/4qF14dj @upenn.edu

This week, J.D. Porter speaks to our grad student working group about AI & LLMs—whether you love them or hate them, tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are increasingly hard to ignore in academic research. J.D. will explain how these tools actually work, enabling us to be better users/critics of AI.

"While the time that fathers spend caring for their children has increased, the time mothers spend has increased even more. Mothers today spend twice as much time with their kids as their own mothers did." - MindCORE affiliate Corinne Low @corinnelow.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

"Sometimes imposing constraints on a system is actually harder than relaxing those assumptions. We have to squeeze everything into this box to make sure that fMRI is measuring neuronal activity. -Jonah Padawer-Curry, Postdoc at Penn in Ted Satterthwaite’s lab www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...

Please help spread the word to all who will be in San Diego on Sunday, Nov. 16th. As part of SFN, SFN's scicomm arm is sponsoring an event. It's me, Shrek Chalasani (Salk), Kumar Narayanan (UIowa) and the brainfacts.org team. Short talks; trivia; lots of fun. Join us! It's free. Register here.

Today's scheduled MindCORE seminar at Noon with Dr. Simon DeDeo has been cancelled. Join us at next week's seminar: Nov 14, Noon, 111 NBS What Does Have Mean? How Patterns Across Languages Can Shed Light on the Building Blocks of Linguistic Meaning Paloma Jeretič @pennlinguistics.bsky.social

EARS is accepting submissions for the Trainee Session on Dec 16, 2025. The session will feature 4 presentations of 10 mins w/5 mins for Q&A. Submit by 11/24/25: forms.gle/xoCfoinid2UM... This is a great opportunity to use your SFN & APAN abstracts and give the presentation one more time!

My second piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social is out today with an amazing custom gif by Irene Pérez! www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-bra...

We are recruiting for a paid VR study! If you’ve been wanting to try Apple Vision Pro, here’s your chance.

Submissions are now open! The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.

Thank you to all who came out to our Biosafety Month events in October! We have one more event on Nov. 6 at Penn Vet in Hill Pavilion lobby from 10 - 11 AM. Don't miss your chance to learn, snack and ask our biosafety officers questions!

TODAY: Join @katymilkman.bsky.social for a conversation with @upenn.edu Professors Judd Kessler & @corinnelow.com. The first 200 attendees will receive free books! 📅 TODAY, Mon Nov 3 | 4-5PM 📍 Huntsman Hall G06 📩 RSVP: https://bit.ly/4hop005

Some nice publicity on our recent "Neural compass" paper, from @sfnjournals.bsky.social.

We are growing our Editorial Board! If you are interested in being an Editorial Board Member, register your interest here: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/01978... We welcome applications from across the globe to better represent the international community of psychology researchers.

For Penn undergrads with a nascent interest in DH, J.D. Porter’s spring course offers a practical introduction to computational methods for humanities research. No prior programming knowledge is required! More info on Path@Penn.

Applications are open for the #LakeConference on the Neurobiology of Mental Health in Lake Thun, Switzerland. 📆 May 17-21, 2026 🏔️ All career stages welcome ⏳ Apply by January 31, 2026 Learn more and apply: https://t.co/WcuXHdWnFa @lakeconferences.bsky.social#LakeConference

Job Alert! 🚨 We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>

Happy Halloween!!!! My little bookworm celebrating recent book launches from @itsafronomics.bsky.social, Judd Kessler, @falklab.bsky.social and more!

Applications for this year’s Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy awards are open. Each award is $10K and 20 awards will be given. Apply by Dec 1: www.horowitz-foundation.org/apply

Biology Seminar Mon, Nov 3, 2025 12-1 PM | NBS 111 (Sail Room) and Zoom The Neuroethology of Sociality and Its Role in Environmental Resilience Camille Testard, Harvard University @sas.upenn.edu

MindCORE Summer Fellowship Program May 31-Aug 7, 2026 This is a paid 10-wk research experience for undergrad students matched with select Penn faculty in mind sciences. Open to both Penn students & non-Penn US students through our REU. Apply by Jan 11: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/research/sum...

MindCORE Seminar Friday, October 31 👻🎃, Noon 111 NBS (formerly Levin) @sas.upenn.edu Pizza & candy. BYOB. Open to all. Allie Sinclair Annenberg Public Policy Center Resistance and Resilience: Science Communication and Advocacy in a Federal Funding Crisis @appc.upenn.edu @asinclair.bsky.social

‼️Event Alert‼️Join @katymilkman.bsky.social for a conversation with @upenn.edu Professors Judd Kessler & @corinnelow.com about their new books, Lucky by Design and Having It All. 📅 Mon Nov 3 | 4-5PM 📍 Huntsman Hall G06 📩 RSVP: bit.ly/4hop005

❗Reminder: The application deadline for the @theopennotebook.bsky.social early-career fellowship is this Friday, October 31. This fellowship is: ✅ Paid ($6,600) ✅ Part-time ✅ Remote ✅ Mentored ✅ Open to applicants anywhere in the world Learn more here: www.theopennotebook.com/early-career...