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Allyson Mackey, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor of Psychology at Penn

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Katie Insel @katieinsel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The CATS Lab is moving to Columbia next year, and I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle to start Fall 2027 in the Department of Psychology. Learn more about how to apply here: psychology.columbia.edu/content/prep... I am also recruiting a postdoc and staff for 2027. More info coming soon!
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Preparing to Apply | Department of Psychology
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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m happy to announce that I will be reviewing applications this cycle for Yale's Psychology PhD program (Clinical and Neuroscience areas) to join my lab when we move in 2027! psychology.yale.edu/people/brend...
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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens | Department of Psychology
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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My paper with @mikearcaro.bsky.social exploring the organization of the visual system in newborn infants is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social !
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
How are AI images and videos changing the world we live in? How can we even still tell what is real and what is not? In an effort to find out, I visited Hany Farid, „sort of the dean of digital forensics“, for a couple of days in Berkeley. It was eye-opening. My story in @science.org 🧪
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Deepfakes are everywhere. The godfather of digital forensics is fighting back
Hany Farid, who's spent his career building tools to detect fake images, is facing his biggest challenge yet: AI
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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Excited to see MindCORE & @upenn.edu connections on this APS Rising Stars list! ⭐Vlad Ayzenberg, former MindCORE Fellow & Asst Professor, Temple Univ ⭐Daniel Moriarity, MindCORE Faculty Affiliate & Asst Professor, Univ of Pennsylvania @sas.upenn.edu @dpmoriarity.bsky.social @vayzenb.bsky.social
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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
💥New paper alert! Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence (with @reutshachnai.bsky.social) One of my favorites! If you’re curious about what we’ve been up to in @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social, take a look! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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tyler bonnen @tylerbonnen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
starting fall 2026 i'll be an assistant professor at @upenn.edu 🥳 my lab will develop scalable models/theories of human behavior, focused on memory and perception currently recruiting PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, & computer science! reach out if you're interested 😊
a red building on UPENN's campus photographed during the fallthe Philadelphia skyline, with clear skies and autumn trees
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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
It's FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS FALL 🍁🎃🍂 Check out our free, upcoming talks and register here: fitng.org/fitng-togeth...
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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.
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Lexi Decker @lexidecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨! I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!
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Monica Ellwood-Lowe @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....
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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Review now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social! Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early life stress rdcu.be/ezzYq
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Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early-life stress
Neuropsychopharmacology - Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early-life stress
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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Excited to announce that my lab has moved to UC Berkeley Dept of Neuroscience and Dept of Statistics! I will be continuing to collaborate with colleagues and students in TX at UT Austin and Baylor College of Medicine, and will start new collabs in the Bay. Will be taking new grad students this fall!
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It's publication day for 📘Elusive Cures. What a moment! 1st book, 1st time on Mindscape (which, as many of you know, is one of my favorite podcasts). Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?
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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost. cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪
Dog-sled going past the Le Château Montebello.Main public room in Le Château Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".Le Château Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness
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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Excited to announce that our paper (led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith) is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com go.illinois.edu/Lee2025_NHB We use 36 days of testing in 4 inhibitory control tasks to examine the precision of inhibitory control measures in *individuals* and how they vary 🧵👇
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Precise individual measures of inhibitory control
Nature Human Behaviour - Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on four inhibitory control tasks, Gratton et al. show that more than 1,000 trials per participant are necessary to reduce...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social. In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much! Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career? Wonder it's like in Australia? Good news! Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries. Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers! www.monash.edu/research/eme...
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Our R01 was part of yesterday's "mass termination" at Harvard; 1 of ~1000 NIH grants in Trump's "fight". The irony of how many Jewish (& non-Jewish) researchers/scientists/physicians/patients/students will be harmed in the name of "fighting antisemitism" is sickening.deliberately cruel. #AcademicSky
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
📣 It's official: I'm super excited to share that I'll be joining Rice University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences! Lab will launch in Summer 2026— I'll be recruiting over the next year, so please spread the word! Short thread ⤵️
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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Last weekend, I had the incredible experience of sharing the science of adolescence with 3000 curious, engaged listeners at TEDx Portland. The day was filled with amazing talks and performances that opened minds – and brought tears to many pairs of eyes. It's hard to put into words... 1/
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Rebecca Hennessy @rebeccahennessy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The Learning and Brain Development Lab (PI: Juliet Y. Davidow, PhD) at Northeastern in Boston is hiring a full-time lab manager! Assist in conducting an NSF CAREER awarded project on adolescent neurocognitive development of motivated learning! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Lab Technician - Learning and Brain Development Lab
About the Opportunity SUMMARY The Learning and Brain Development Lab (PI: Juliet Y. Davidow) at Northeastern University in Boston, MA (https://lbdlpsych.sites.northeastern.edu/) is excited to invite a...
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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social
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Allyson Mackey, Ph.D. @apmackey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Excited to head to SRCD this week! @catehartley.bsky.social and I will be giving talks on Saturday morning, 8:30-10:00 AM in Auditorium 2 as a duo address on "Development of cognition, learning, and brain plasticity". Please join us!
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The Hartley Lab @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Saturday 5/3, 8:30-10:00 AM, Auditorium 2, our PI @catehartley.bsky.social will speak along with @apmackey.bsky.social as part of the duo address "Development of cognition, learning, and brain plasticity"! tinyurl.com/srcdhartley
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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
LIVID and horrified (but not surprised) to learn that our R01’s diversity supplement was terminated. This is just idiotic and cruel. Opinions / experience on submitting an appeal? I know it is very unlikely to result in funds being reinstated, but I wonder if there is still some use in submitting?
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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature
Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Grateful for Sen. Cory Booker! A black man breaking the record of a segregationist on the senate floor. Powerful. We need these moments right now more than ever!!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/04/2025
The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
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Audrey Luo @audreycluo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
We think of white matter as the brain's highways—uniform conduits between cortices. But what if we study development along tracts? Turns out the journey matters as much as the cortical destination! We're thrilled to share “Two Axes of White Matter Development” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
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Reut Shachnai @reutshachnai.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Overparenting can hold kids back—but our research shows that framing tasks as learning opportunities helps parents step back and foster kids' independence! ✨ Read more in our latest Psychology Today piece: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve... @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @mika-asaba.bsky.social
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Overparenting Is Holding Kids Back—Here’s What to Do Instead
Overparenting can hinder kids' independence. Research shows that reframing everyday tasks as learning opportunities helps parents step back and let kids grow.
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Allyson Mackey, Ph.D. @apmackey.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We're READY.
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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer! The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join #psychjobs #neurojobs
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉 #AcademicSky #Psychology @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social @chazfirestone.bsky.social @ashleylwatts.bsky.social @minuekim.bsky.social @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @markthornton.bsky.social @gemmasharpe.bsky.social
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Seven Psychological Scientists Honored With 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award
The seven recipients are honored for cutting-edge research on topics ranging from the neurocognitive mechanisms of information processing to the connections between psychopathology and addiction.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ok good work folks, we're up to being able to fund 6-7 (really depends on how much people ask for, the range is $300-1000, and people are asking generally for 500-1000 in the applications that have come in so far). Applications are open until Feb 14! Apply here bit.ly/scienceirl
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Allyson Mackey, Ph.D. @apmackey.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Shocked to receive the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) 🤯 Beyond grateful to the Biden administration, NSF, and the Changing Brain Lab members past & present!
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President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House
Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...
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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting. srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Overparenting—taking over and completing developmentally appropriate tasks for children—is pervasive and hurts children's motivation. Can overparenting in early childhood be reduced by simply framing...
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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci Thread /1
a graph showing a drop in cognitive performance during the summer months in the ABCD Study dataset
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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Super excited to share our official ACORN Lab website!! 🍁🧠 appliedcognitionlab.psychology.uconn.edu We are recruiting new team members at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels - join us! #Neuroskyence #neuroimaging #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #ClinPsych #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci
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Home | Applied Cognition and Personalized Neuroscience Lab
Welcome to the Applied Cognition & Personalized Neuroscience Lab!   The Applied Cognition and peRsonalized Neuroscience (ACORN) lab is a collabora ...
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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.
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