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Our recent work shows that age differences in response-conflict tasks are mostly due to slower processing speed, rather than anything specific to cognitive control. Check it out ⬇️

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Jacob Sellers @jacobsellers.bsky.social · 4h

Out now in Psych Science! With @hanzhang.bsky.social John Jonides and @tarazlee.bsky.social We show that apparent age-related deficits in inhibitory control (often measured by RT congruency effects) can be explained by age differences in processing speed journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Does Global Slowing Explain Age Effects in Inhibitory Control? - Jacob Sellers, Han Zhang, John Jonides, Taraz G. Lee, 2026

A long-standing debate in the study of cognitive aging centers around the issue of whether aging results in a selective deficit in inhibitory control beyond gen...

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Kate Hong @ykatehong.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Carnegie Mellon is hiring an Assistant Professor in NeuroAI 🧠🤖 Work across ML/AI, robotics, systems & cognitive neuroscience, and neurotech, with joint and courtesy appointments common at the Neuroscience Institute. Details + apply: apply.interfolio.com/189268 #NeuroAI #AcademicSky #FacultyJobs

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tor @torwager.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Explore probability distributions and their relationships with interactive graphs! torwager.github.io/probability... Thread 👇

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Jonathan Z Simon @jzsimon.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#NeuroJobs #ComputationalNeuroscience Faculty position in Computational Neuroscience, Assistant or Associate Professor, at the University of Maryland (please boost): “The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), invites applications from individuals using […]

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Jason Tsukahara @drjt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I will be accepting a Master’s or PhD student to join my lab at University of North Carolina Wilmington! If you know any students that may be interested, please share this post with them. My lab: calmlab.science Master’s: www.uncw.edu/academics/ma... PhD: www.uncw.edu/academics/ma...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Michael Hout @michaelhout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks to the generous funding support from the National Science Foundation, OPAM will again be hosting a "Lunch with an Expert" event. Applications are open until October 31st, and you can apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨 TT Job Alert 🚨 Florida is hiring a new TT asst prof in developmental psychology! Area/age open, early/middle childhood preferred. Come for the gators, stay for the awesome colleagues 🐊 Apply here (deadline 10/15): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

The Department of PSYCHOLOGY at the UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-accruing Assistant Professor in the field of Developmental Science.
The specific area of research is open but should focus on developmental research in both brain and behavior that complements and expands existing strengths in the department and the university at large, including the development of cognition, perception, attention, memory, language, decision making, emotion, and/or social functioning. Priority will be given to candidates with research expertise in children from early childhood through middle childhood. Research and training in our developmental psychology program encompasses the lifespan; hence, we will also consider candidates whose expertise spans multiple life stages, including childhood. Applicants should have an

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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience

Join the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience.

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, incorporating principles of human cognition makes artificial systems more efficient and robust. As much of the discussion around AI focuses on scaling up, perhaps cognitive science offers another approach to building better systems?

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We could even produce a human-like, history-driven effect, where the agent anticipates the upcoming target location:

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Compared to MLP and transformers, the priority-based agent trained more efficiently and handled unseen, hazardous scenarios better, even from simple demonstrations. Below is the agent handling x4 speed at ease, even without being trained on it.

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Then, we built this model in an artificial agent, and evaluated its performance in a reach-avoid task: the agent must avoid obstacles to reach the goal:

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We propose a general model of movement based on the idea of a priority map, and argue that eye movements are really just one special case of it. We fit the model to human saccades, and it produces classic patterns of visual search, including distractor suppression and target-location priming.

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Deciding where to move is essentially a problem of behavioral prioritization. For eye movements, they are widely understood to be guided by a priority map that integrates salience, goals, and history. But this is a problem that any agent navigating a complex environment would face.

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How can principles of human cognition be applied in artificial systems? Here, we present one such example: inspired by the idea of a "priority map" in visual attention, we built a "priority field" within an artificial agent. The results are quite interesting. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.30704

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From Visual Search to Movement Control: A Priority Field for Artificial Agents

Human spatial attention is widely conceptualized as being guided by a priority map that integrates perceptual salience, current goals, and past experiences. Here, we extend priority-based computation ...

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Anthony Zanesco @anthonyzanesco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pleased to announce that we are seeking two tenure-track Assistant or Associate professors in Cognitive Neuroscience and/or Clinical Neuroscience in the Psychology Department at the University of Kentucky. Full details here: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/648...

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Assistant or Associate Professor of Psychology

The Department of Psychology in the College of Arts Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill two tenure-eligible faculty positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor ...

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Job Alert: Our department is looking to recruit an eminent scholar for a distinguished, endowed professorship (full professor, tenured) in the domain of human neuroscience with high clinical relevance. Please broadcast widely! For application information, see academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32753

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Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience

Job #AJO32753, Professor (tenured), Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Jenn Veilleux @jenncveilleux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come be my colleague!! We are hiring THREE tenure-track folks at the University of Arkansas this fall: (1) clinical, (2) social, and (3) cognitive. Clinical is looking ideally for a child/adolescent person but the area is technically open. All ads linked here: psychology.uark.edu

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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New tenure-track faculty position at Duke! The Neurobiology department is looking for a computational neuroscientist. Join a highly collaborative & interdisciplinary community. My time at Duke has been amazing so far & we would love the opportunity to collaborate with you! Applications due Dec 1.

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Duke University, Neurobiology

Job #AJO32697, Tenure Track Assistant Professor - AI/ML Neurobiology, Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Aran Nayebi @anayebi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

CMU is hiring an Assistant Professor in NeuroAI! Come join our awesome NeuroAI community 🧠🤖: apply.interfolio.com/189268

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So, broad multimodal learning may acquire scene priors that support flexible attentional selection, even without direct gaze supervision. VLMs could become scalable models for where people look under different task goals. Feedback welcome!

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This alignment also shows in decoder-layer attention and intermediate thinking traces. Search thinking is semantically close to the target (a [bottle] could be near the table, under the table, behind the dishes), whereas free-view thinking is close to visual prominence.

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here, across thousands of naturalistic scenes, I tested whether VLMs show similar behavior, and indeed they do. Furthermore, model predictions aligned more closely with human fixations under matching goals than under mismatched goals.

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A classic demonstration of human goal-directed attention is provided by Yarbus, where observers show distinct eye movement patterns depending on the goal.

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New preprint: Can large vision-language models show human-like goal-directed attention, without ever being trained on eye movements? I tested two off-the-shelf VLMs on 4,887 natural scenes under search vs. free-viewing goals. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.05517

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Emergent Goal-Directed Attention in Large Vision-Language Models

Human observers prioritize visual information according to task goals. Most computational models of naturalistic viewing are gaze-trained for free viewing, leaving open whether goal-directed attention...

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Emory Psychology is hiring in Developmental Science (open rank)! Come join a highly collaborative and truly interdisciplinary department. Apps due Oct. 28. apply.interfolio.com/191436

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026

We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411

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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 WashU is hiring! 🚨 As part of WashU’s +AI Initiative, the search includes tenure-track opportunities in Psychological & Brain Sciences for people who place AI or machine learning at the center of their research. I'm on the committee, so feel free to reach out with questions. Please repost!

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Rules of Life

Recruiting interdisciplinary expertise to explore fundamental questions regarding living systems and the physical world

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets;
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 25/08/2026

Playing with the P, I, and D weights in a PID controller. P = Proportional: push in proportion to how far the ball is off I = Integral: accumulate historical error to fix slow drift D = Derivative: respond to how fast the error is changing, to damp it

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Debbie Yee @debyee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Are you on the #neurojob #psychjob market this fall? Come be my colleague! The Psych and Brain Sciences department @psychiowa.bsky.social is hiring TT faculty in clinical science and neuroscience, as well as clinical-track faculty. The initial review deadline is Sept 28. More info below!👇

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🚨Job Search announcement 🚨 @psychillinois.bsky.social is searching for an assistant prof in cognitive neuroscience. Come join us! Pls RT 🙏 Full ad: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging

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Assistant Professor- Psychology - College of LAS

Duties & Responsibilities

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.

All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience

Join the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience.

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JsonGeller @jgeller1phd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Been wanting to write this paper for a while: many experimental psychologists analyzing RTs with the ex-Gaussian in brms are doing it incorrectly. I've seen this mistake across several outlets. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's even stranger to see 10+ papers in the format of XXX: a narrative review in a single year, often published in the same journal. med.miami.edu/faculty/tiff...

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Tiffany M Field

Official website for the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

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browncopsy.bsky.social @browncopsy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Brown University CoPsy is hiring an Assistant Professor! Research areas: AI & cognition, collective behavior, or brain health. Starting July 2027. Apply by Sept 15: apply.interfolio.com/190677

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 11/08/2026

The Center for Open Science recently announced its decision to phase out OSF Projects. We want to share how those changes will affect PsyArXiv, a psychology preprint server run and maintained by SIPS volunteers but hosted on the OSF platform. improvingpsych.org/2026/08/11/w...

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What Researchers Need to Know about PsyArXiv Given Upcoming Changes to OSF Projects

In just a few short days (August 15th, 2026), PsyArXiv – the community preprint server for psychology – turns 10! 🥳 Over the past decade, our community has published over 58,000 preprin…

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yikes “Starting November 16, 2026, no new projects or child components of existing projects can be created on OSF. After February 19, 2027, all public and private OSF projects will become read-only.” www.cos.io/osf-changes

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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

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Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Congratulations, Kirsten! 🎉

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