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Jeff Johnson

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Dad, husband, cognitive neuroscientist, episodic memory enjoyer, former unexceptional college radio DJ

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Tim Ricker @timricker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Recruiting a new PhD student to start Fall 2027. Research would focus on Visual Working Memory, possibly with a developmental approach (but not necessarily). Check out my lab website where the are links to the application and contact info if you have questions. rickermemorylab.com
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Memory & Attention Laboratory
The Memory and Attention Laboratory at the University of South Dakota is part of the Human Factors & Applied Cognition  program in the Department of Psychology . We study memory, attention, and...
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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📢 We’re hiring! PNI is seeking a full-time Lecturer in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in computational modeling and human cognitive neuroscience. Priority consideration: Nov. 30 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/193741 #NeuroSkyence #NeuroJobs
exterior photo/rendering of the PNI and psychology building
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone and especially all the academics on AI task forces and initiatives should read this.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026
So rather than increase faculty payroll and lower student:teacher ratios, UMass would rather spend it on Claude. I would argue that a better investment would be hiring 100-200 tenure-line faculty.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is so patently historically correct and yet I am truly shocked by the number of academics I have met in recent months who are willingly lining up for this. Still a minority, but every single one breaks my heart
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/08/2025
Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We are hiring a new director for our brain imaging center at Northeastern University (Boston) in the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please spread the word. I'm on the search committee happy to speak with anyone who is interested. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experientia...
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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Cog Neuro/Cog Psych to join us at Rice! Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/192080
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I regret to inform you that these traditional college courses in AI are indistinguishable from the classrooms I sat in at for-profit colleges 15 years ago. Centralized curriculum & branding, technological control, “virtual” libraries, & bureaucratic alienation of labor.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
do we know of any universities/higher ed institutions that have explicitly stated resistance/refusal of genai as their official policy
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
this from upenn's student paper is worth reading as the term starts: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought."
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Editorial | Penn has an AI problem
The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 
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Jesse Rissman @rissman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our paper on context-dependent learning is now out in iScience! 👀 👇 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Spontaneous emergence of context-dependent statistical learning in humans and neural networks
biological sciences; psychology; cognitive neuroscience; computational bioinformatics; neural networks
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/08/2026
I wish more people talked about how universities embraced AI and this helped create a perfect storm for supposedly most students now cheating using chatbots. Many ways of undetected cheating have always existed, but were never promoted as ways to study or write. The complicity is flagrant. 1/
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Nick Gaspelin @ngaspelin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We're wrapping up our annual workshop on "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience." I wanted to take this opportunity to share some things that I have learned from teaching a coding course. Useful info for students and instructors. On my blog: gaspelinblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/w...
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What I Have Learned from Teaching a Large National Workshop on Coding
Over the past several years, I have had the opportunity to teach a national virtual workshop on R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience. Supported by the National Science Foundation and hoste…
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Dr. Jessie Stern @jessastern.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Please share widely: We're hiring!📣 The Departments of Psychological Science and Neuroscience at @pomonacollege.bsky.social are seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Psychological Science and Neuroscience. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32248
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Pomona College, Psychology
Job #AJO32248, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science & Neuroscience, Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, California, US
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: Vanderbilt's board just launched a horrifying assault on academic freedom that threatens the legitimacy of their university. 1/x #AAUP #academicsky #edusky
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Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom
A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.
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duncanlabuoft.bsky.social @duncanlabuoft.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Please spread the word: We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣 We study how shifting brain & attentional states shape memory and how people experience their worlds. fMRI/iEEG + a fun, supportive lab community + space to pursue your own ideas. 📅 Apply by Aug 15 tinyurl.com/fx5k7teb
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Nick Gaspelin @ngaspelin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We have recently published work in Psych Science and JEP:LMC showing a surprising relationship between initial capture and learned suppression of salient distractors. Ultimately, this has led us to believe that attentional control is much more flexible than often assumed. Read more on my blog!
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From Capture to Suppression: How Distraction Shapes Attentional Control
By Nick Gaspelin and Yue Zhang Zhang, Y. & Gaspelin, N. (2026a). From capture to control: Initial capture increases learned suppression. Psychological Science. 37(4), 2…
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Nicole Long @dorsolateralpfc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My lab is hiring! We are recruiting a full time research coordinator to support our projects on memory brain states. More info and application: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
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Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Other at University of Virginia
Apply for Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Other at University of Virginia
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 12/05/2026
Don Hertzfeldt: "When I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out & feel like you're hunting, to feel like you're living your life." [kottke.org]
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Being Fed Content
From an interview (gift link) with Don Hertzfeldt, creator of World of Tomorrow: Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way
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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If a slop generator can produce a "graphical abstract" considered suitable for publication "in minutes", then "graphical abstracts" don't add anything of material value to the publication.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Aline Bompas @alinebompas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Congratulations to Julia Haaf @juliaha.bsky.social for winning the Estes early career fellow award this year! Julia will formally receive her award at her guest lecture at mathpsych 2027 @mathpsych.org
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Unfettered access to chatbots can harm educational outcomes Using AI while solving problems improves performance by 48% (GPT base). When access to AI was taken away, students actually performed worse than those who never had access (17% reduction in grades) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
When the editor of Science writes soemthing you agree with ±90%, for which he'll surely face stiff headwinds from the AI bros you dispise, but you pile on of because "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" (which OBV funny), you have to ask yourself whether you're trying to affect change or in a culture war.
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thank you for your leadership @holdenthorp.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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Daniel Bor @daniel-bor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We've just published a small opinion piece in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, arguing for the under-estimated utility of resting state neuroimaging data, given exciting new methods to analyse it. Work led by @loopyluppi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the traditional Herculean pillars of constra...
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Sports Media LGBT+ @sportsmedialgbt.com · 14/07/2026
✍️ Megan Rapinoe, writing for Marie Claire “No girl deserves to be discriminated against. That’s why all girls, including trans girls, should be able to play with their classmates in the sports they love… girls who don’t fit someone else’s expectation of femininity, will face further harassment.”
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Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters
"If we really cared about safety and fairness in sports, we’d be breaking down barriers facing girls at every level," writes Megan Rapinoe.
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social
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Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
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Jeff Johnson @jeffdj.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
USMNT has a great opportunity to do something unexpected today, just saying www.ussoccer.com/respect-the-...
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Respect the Call
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Functional Neuroimaging of Memory Lab @fnim-lab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
fNIM lab is hiring! We are hiring a Research Assistant, for details check the link: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/32240
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Research Assistant I
Join the Center for Vital Longevity at The University of Texas at Dallas and contribute to cutting-edge research in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Rugg (https://fnim.utdallas.edu/). This role offers an...
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Thackery Brown @thackerybrown.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
New article with @yirenr.bsky.social ! Memory for pairs of visual stimuli can be strengthened by music as a contextual backdrop. Critically, this influence extends to indirect relational associations more---v @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Music enhances associative generalization: Evidence from a memory integration task - Memory & Cognition
Successful knowledge generalization requires integrating overlapping experiences into flexible memory representations that support inference beyond direct experience. Although context is known to infl...
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Igor Utochkin @utochkin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In a new preprint, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social and I investigated stimulus-specific memorability with ROC analysis. We find that the variability of latent memory effects (familiarity) caused by individual memory items across people is a game-changing dimension of memorability osf.io/c62an/files/...
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Preston Thakral @prestonthakral.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New paper from our lab in collaboration with @adevitt.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Episodic and semantic memory contributions to imagination and creativity
The ability to generate novel creative ideas (divergent thinking) is closely linked with our ability to imagine novel future events (episodic simulation). Here, we employed an individual difference...
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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New paper 🧵! There's a lot of interest in how brain regions represent information in fMRI. One popular approach uses searchlights that roam across the brain to decode conditions. We built a method to uncover the sub-networks within searchlight maps.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“If a program cannot show that it leaves its graduates financially better off than if they had never enrolled, it should not be underwritten by federal taxpayers” -Nicholas Kent Education is not just a means to make more $$. Don't swallow this lie. Don't let your school's admin swallow this lie.
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New Federal Rule Tying College Programs to Post-Grad Salaries Is Finalized
The Education Department made minor changes after a public-comment period. And higher-ed groups have dropped their lawsuit against President Trump’s first anti-DEI executive orders.
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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠
Preston Lab, University of Texas at Austin. Now recruiting 1–2 postdoctoral researchers in learning, memory, development, and flexible behavior. Methods: behavioral experiments, fMRI, computational modeling, and naturalistic stimuli. Apply with CV, research statement, and 3 references to apreston@utexas.edu. Photos show the lab group smiling together, members working at a table, and members at a celebration.
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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
No kidding I think I'm going to use this in my syllabus in the Fall, with appropriate citation of course
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Alejandro L. Vázquez, PhD @alvazquezphd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Added to the #psychsky list of starter packs developed @drspringflorjo.bsky.social #academicsky Latinx Psychology go.bsky.app/V9ey4RC Black in Neuro go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe LGBTQ+ Psych go.bsky.app/LsshH49 Personality Psych go.bsky.app/TwHBMQi Women Clinical Psych go.bsky.app/SsNPcGP
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