How do human minds make sense of big, messy problems? 😵‍💫🌀 How do we distill complexity into something simple enough to solve? 🤔💡 We’ll be tackling these questions (and more!) at two workshops on task representations, abstractions, and construals #CogSci2026 #CCN2026 🧵 framing-the-problem.github.io

Postdoc job ad is now live! faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/168298/...

Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to [email protected]

Job ad (1/2): Postdoc fellowship in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-pos... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share!

Excited to announce that I'll be starting my own lab in Tübingen this October! Hiring at all levels: Postdoc, PhD & RA. Want to work on computational cognitive science at scale? Apply: core-cognition.github.io Reposts and shares much appreciated 🙏

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lecturer in Philosophy of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: bit.ly/3Q7do8w Closing date 21-Jun-2026. #WeAreSTS #Science #Philosophyofscience

Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard! DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you attending #ESCAN2026 🇮🇹 and interested in computational modeling of reward and punishment as a transdiagnostic process in psychopathology? 💎💣 Come join our symposium feat. Rebecca Overmeyer @jasonleng.bsky.social @hanskirschner.bsky.social & myself! S3-3 @ Thurs Jun 4 5:30-7:00 PM, Rm 3

New posting: Waverley House Accelerator for Mental Illness & Addiction Research is seeking five early-career mental health research leaders — apply or learn more here: can-acn.org/waverley-hou... #neurojobs

We are looking for a research assistant to help with scanning an ongoing R01 project at MGH. The project involves working with older adults, and physio/fMRI data collection. Please send interested recent grads our way! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

⭐️WE ARE HIRING⭐️ The Han Research Lab is hiring a full time staff position to help run our studies. This is ideal for recent grads who are planning to apply for advanced health degrees and want to work for up to a few years before. Candidates can apply here: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

📣🚨📣 Job alert 📣🚨📣 Phd position (Maastricht, The Netherlands) at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and legal psychology. Apply now!! 👇 vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Researchers can use this email tool to tell Congress not to accept the House's substantial cuts to NSF and NASA funding agu.quorum.us/campaign/162... 📈

New ad posted: Postdoctoral Fellow / Senior Data Scientist / Biostatistician Neuroimmunology & Multiple Sclerosis Research Memorial University of Newfoundland can-acn.org/postdoctoral... @craigurs.bsky.social

PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Hiring! Please share! Two postdoctoral researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, to join an SNSF-funded project on stress, motivation, immersive VR, physiology, multimodal sensing and translational biomarkers. Details & applications: www.fens.org/careers/job-... www.fens.org/careers/job-...

We're hiring! FT research assistant @ UT Dallas Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging. Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk. App. deadline now May 15. Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31680

The ADAM lab is hiring a Research Specialist to join us! This role involves conducting human subjects research (EEG experiments on attention + working memory) and assisting with the execution and administration of ongoing projects. Job posting: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

We are hiring! Jointly with @felixwa.bsky.social and the Social Minds Lab at UMich, the Cognitive Evolution Group is accepting applications for a full-time lab coordinator for research on cognition in #children, adults, and #primates. More information at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...

Headed to #SOBP2026? Come visit our posters on stress and mental effort! F325: Investigating the Role of Serotonin in Stressor Controllability and Mental Effort Allocation (me!) S297: Learning and Generalization of Stressor Controllability for Mental Effort allocation (Tony El Nemer)

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

We will be at the SOBP conference this week! Come see our exciting lineup of posters on psychiatric translational applications of HNN and similar mechanistic models. Presented by @ntolley.bsky.social, @darcywaller.bsky.social , Stephanie R. Jones, David Zhou, and Pran Chanthrakumar.

🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!

New Annual Review with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social: “Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is.” We argue that the brain's 'planning' machinery is mostly used for learning from simulated experience, and that thinking prospectively at decision time is just one special case of this process.

📣 Call for Applications: 2026 SRNDNA Pilot Grant We’re excited to announce the final round of SRNDNA pilot funding supporting research at the intersection of decision neuroscience & aging. 🗓️ Applications due June 1, 2026 🧠 Priority: ADRD-related projects #DecisionNeuroscience #AgingResearch #ADRD

I'm SO pleased to announce that I'll be starting as an Asst Prof at @psychiowa.bsky.social this August. The lab will focus on neural & computational mechanisms of motivation, affect, & decision-making, with the aspirational goal of translation to neuropsychiatric disorders. 🧠 yeelabneuro.com

My lab is officially recruiting a postdoctoral research scholar: jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view... We are seeking someone who can help advance our research on predicting cognitive/behavioral/emotional outcomes after neurosurgerical lesions in patients with epilepsy using multimodal neuroimaging data.

I'm looking for a summer intern to work on computational neuroscience models of navigation and learning. Check out details on this and other project opportunities here: kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/kempner-inst...

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

The MultiTaskBattery toolbox is live: 20+ implemented tasks, object-oriented design and a battery optimizer built in! Docs: multitaskbattery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Github: github.com/DiedrichsenL... With @carobellum.bsky.social Jinkang Derrick Xiang @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social 🙌

Shackman Lab is Hiring - shackmanlab.org/study-coordi...

Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

📢📢 My lab at @utah.edu is officially open and I'm RECRUITING — especially techs/specialists and postdocs! Our research focuses on the neurobiology of interoception and learning & memory using tools from systems/comp neuro. Please share! 🧠🏔️🏜️ Apply/more info: zimmerman-lab.org#positions

Applications are now open for #DeepLearning (July 6–24, 2026); live, intensive online course from #Neuromatch Academy designed to take you from theory to practice in just 3 weeks. ➡️ Learn more and apply before 15 March: neuromatch.io/deep-learnin... #MachineLearning #AI #ComputationalScience

Apologies, here is the right link to apply for postdoc positions in the lab: forms.gle/Hb8rS9hD3BV7... Please repost to help us spread the word!

Excited to share the Psychopharm Special Issue on Stress, Trauma & Cannabinoids 14 papers examining how the endocannabinoid system shapes stress & trauma responses. Guest edited with @connorhaggarty.bsky.social, @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social & Christelle Baunez. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)

🎉 PINE Lab is hiring a postbacc Research Coordinator! Projects include cohort studies examining brain mechanisms linking adversity to cognition/language & RCTs of early interventions on neurodevelopment. apply: forms.gle/Dyay39x2XEMn... more info: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

Reminder: CCN 2026 Proceedings abstracts are due today, Feb 9, Anywhere on Earth (AOE).

🚨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!

Applications for #UMich #Psychology Diversity Recruitment Weekend are in 2 days! If you are thinking about applying to psychology PhD programs in the future this may be for you! The application is short, but the benefits are big lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

#CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open and due in *two* weeks! Info about how to submit in the thread below👇 Come share your science and hang out in NYC in August. :)

ICYMI: Here's a link to the recording of today's talk by Brian Knutson on Deconstructing Neural Predictors of Choice - youtu.be/bX-mzrnbE_E @sebastianshorn.bsky.social @zitamayer.bsky.social @kimberlychiew.bsky.social @colleencfrank.bsky.social @kendraseaman.bsky.social

I'm very excited to announce that the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of CUNY is hiring a tenure-track line in Cognitive Neuroscience. Applications are being accepted now, and review will begin on or after February 23rd, please repost! #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/...

Happy to be involved in a research topic accompanying a conference that is dear to my heart — the International Conference on Motivational and Cognitive Control (MCC)! Check out the conference and Frontiers research topic here: 🔗 www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc... 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

🚨 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

📣 Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro 🧠🐬🏖️ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048

Check out our Spring 2026 lineup!

New preprint: Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making. A review I was supposed to write 3 years ago for my VSS Young Investigator Award. Better late than never 😅 I tried to organize the literature and explore the likely mechanisms. Feedback welcome! osf.io/preprints/ps...