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Dylan Gee, PhD @dylanggee.bsky.social · 2h

New lab work showing that corticolimbic stucture-function coupling is sensitive to childhood adversity, led by @lucindasisk.bsky.social! 🧠 @sfn.org

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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 2h

🧠 So honored to speak at Rethinking the Future IV in São Paulo last week about our work on the social neuroscience of intergroup bias and how we might create more meaningful connections across group boundaries. 🇧🇷 What a fantastic group of folks! Check them out @inctsani.bsky.social

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 19h

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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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 14h

Just like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless.

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 7h

This is devastating not only for US scientists, but for science everywhere. Basic research into the brain & mind leads long term to better health outcomes, & also to better technology development including--if we are making appeals to government bodies--data providing the foundation for aligned AI.

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am able to take on new doctoral students through this amazing initiative! If you are interested please reach out to me by email to discuss.

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April Bailey @ahbailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🗣️ New preprint! @jialin-lin-zhou.bsky.social Western samples tend to think of a "person" as a man. How persistent is this? Striking evidence from two novel groups begins to answer this question; see below for findings from the matrilineal Mosuo and from an age-diverse mainstream Chinese sample ⬇️

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📊 New resource: ISAAC, an open corpus for studying social group attitudes 💬 527M+ Reddit posts (2007–2023) 🧠 Covers race, sexuality, age, ability, and skin tone 🗺️ Validated against Gallup and Google Trends 🔍 No-code or Python/SQL: isaac.psychology.illinois.edu 📖 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2609.27059

We introduce the Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus (ISAAC), an open, modular, and accessible corpus of 527 million+ English-language Reddit posts selected for relevance to six key social group distinctions based on race, sexuality, age, ability, body weight, and skin tone, covering the 17-year period from 2007 to 2023. A multi-step, human-audited filtering pipeline was used to keep irrelevant content in the curated dataset below 10%, both overall and for each social group distinction. Each post was then algorithmically annotated with the user's estimated home region, along with a suite of validated off-the-shelf and custom semantic labels including moralization, sentiment, emotion, and linguistic generalization. We confirm the validity of the resulting corpus through convergent evidence linking ISAAC to macro-level societal trends, such as online search behavior, temporal spikes during major societal events (both nationally and regionally), and long-term shifts in public attitudes. By offering a unified, public infrastructure, ISAAC eliminates research fragmentation and enables seamless replication while supporting diverse empirical workflows at scale. Specifically, ISAAC allows investigators to perform cross-category comparisons, conduct high-precision tracking of long-term temporal shifts in social group discourse, and map spatial variation onto localized public opinion and policy outcomes. ISAAC's fully public, modular pipeline facilitates easy extension of the corpus to new platforms, languages, and social categories. To accommodate various research needs, ISAAC is accessible both without coding through a point-and-click website and labeler web-apps, and programmatically via an SQL playground, a Python package, and HuggingFace.

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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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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...

the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our department at UC San Diego is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Open area, research addressing foundational issues in cogsci using modern computational methods. I love my department, and you will too. Apply!! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633 #cogscisci #cogsci #DevPsyc #PsychSciSky

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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📣 Please submit to this year's conference in Montréal!🧠 We would love to include all kinds of measures that can inform our understanding of the social brain, including physiological and neuro measures, computational models, theory pieces, and behavioral data!

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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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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Compared to high-status groups, members of low-status groups often show no implicit ingroup preference In low-status groups, ingroup preferences are accompanied by greater self-control than outgroup preferences (in an analysis of 5.7 million implicit bias tests) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have a question about the future of metrics for hiring and promoting faculty in science. Academic journal articles have been our currency for a long time, but are under extreme & mounting pressure. Is any dept or field already using a better metric *for hiring and promoting faculty*?

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚀 Project Implicit’s critical work continues! Our website remains fully operational 24/7, collecting data and launching new studies. We are finalizing a new organizational structure to carry our research and educational mission forward. Thank you to our global community. ➡️ implicit.harvard.edu

September 17, 2026
Project Implicit Continues its Critical Work
We are more excited than ever to not only continue but to expand the scientific collabora-tion at the heart of Project Implicit. With the non-profit that served as our operational home for two decades shutting down, a new organizational structure is being finalized to carry our research and educational mission forward.
In the meantime, the Project Implicit website (http://implicit.harvard.edu/) remains fully operational and continues to collect data 24/7. New studies, programs, and educational ef-forts are actively underway. We expect public data to remain available in perpetuity, and new data from 2026 will be released in January of next year.
We express our deep gratitude to everyone who has helped create, sustain, and grow Pro-ject Implicit. This includes the founders, members of the Board of Directors and the Scien-tific Advisory Board, staff members of the non-profit, international collaborators, and the students across dozens of labs tending to tasks big and small. We are also thankful to our generous donors who have answered our calls and supported our mission, and especially the millions of annual visitors who continue to honor us with their curiosity, time, and data.
We look forward to providing more details in the weeks ahead.
Jordan Axt, McGill University
Yoav Bar-Anan, Tel-Aviv University
Benedek Kurdi, University of Illinois
Calvin Lai, Rutgers University
Ryan Lei, Haverford College
Curtis Phills, University of Oregon
Kate Ratliff, University of Waterloo
Colin Tucker Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
Jennifer Steele, York University
Heidi Vuletich, University of Denver

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

SPSP members, assemble! 👇👇👇

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I expect to recruit a PhD student this cycle! The Control and Decision Making Lab at WashU studies control, effort, and decision making, combining behavioral experiments with modeling and neuroimaging. If that sounds cool, check out our work: cdmlab.wustl.edu. How to apply: psych.washu.edu/apply

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Control and Decision Making Lab

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Most cortical neurons exhibit mixed selectivity rather than specializing in a single function. Our limited ability to juggle tasks may therefore reflect interference among overlapping neural representations. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

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Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty - Nature Neuroscience

Using a combined approach of monkey electrophysiology, artificial neural networks and human psychophysics, Xue et al. show that neuronal interference from irrelevant information underlies behavioral e...

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Marlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do non-human primates have theory of mind? My new paper takes a new computational approach to this classic question. We implemented verbal theories of primates' mental representations as computational models. These models completed classic visual perspective-taking tasks.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 12/09/2026

Billionaires don't have to be evil.

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 ‼️ new paper ‼️ 🚨 With political scientist Nathan Chan, we used the latest 2024 and 2020 CMPS to look at why Asians and Latinos (the 2 largest immigrant groups in US) might support deportation policies. Out now in Political Psychology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Working hard to belong: Meritocratic ideology and deportation sentiments among Latino and Asian Americans

Why do some Latino and Asian Americans support conservative policies that may discriminate against them? Elaborating on system justification theory, we argue that ideologies such as meritocracy perpe...

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Dr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thrilled to announce that my department, UCI cognitive sciences, is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of computational social cognition. Further information including the application can be found at: 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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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646

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Assistant Professor in High-level Human Cognition

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ll be reviewing PhD apps for the 27-28 AY! My lab studies questions related to how people (1) talk and think about (their own/experiences with) racism, (2) have difficult conversations, (3) socialize their children about racism and identity. Learn more here: www.sciplab.com

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Shannon Burns, PhD @shannon47burns.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Are you studying human neuroscience broadly defined, and enjoy working with bright and motivated students? If so we'd love to see your application for this TT position at Pomona College! Review of applications begins on Oct 1.

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Stanford Psychology Department is having a search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Application deadline is 10/15. More infos here: 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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Efrén Pérez @handle.invalid · 03/09/2026

Out today, we test theoretically plausible moderators of shared discrimination's effects on PoC solidarity, finding mostly homogenous treatment effects. Produced w/ my super talented students, #KasheenaRogbeer (psychology) and #EmilyOrtiz (political science) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Shared Discrimination’s Effect on Solidarity between People of Color Is Uniform Across Major Racial, Political, and Social Differences | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core

Shared Discrimination’s Effect on Solidarity between People of Color Is Uniform Across Major Racial, Political, and Social Differences

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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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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Do you work with production data? We have some updates for you. My students and I developed a tool that was accepted for publication in Behavior Research Methods. The tool is called: TAPA (Toolkit for Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis). Yes, the name is influenced by the tapas tradition. #speechscience

Illustration of a tapas table set with small plates of food, one labeled /tapa/. The image is created by Adriana Ojeda. Text reads: TAPA, Toolkit for Acoustic Phonetic Analysis. Runs on your local machine. Open source, free.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Deadline Oct 1: Open rank, +AI cluster hire including "imaging and modeling the human brain and behavior", Psych+Brain Sci., Wash U. St Louis apply.interfolio.com/191452

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Deadline Sept 21: Asst. prof., cognitive psych (areas of interest include "attention, perception, working memory, cognitive control, psycholinguistics, and quantitative modeling"), Psychology, Iowa State Univ. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Deadline Sept 21: Asst prof., generative AI and cognitive science, Psychology, Univ Michigan apply.interfolio.com/188199

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We're currently hiring a new director for the renowned UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The director will be appointed as a Professor in our psychology department: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07814

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Director of the Center for Mind and Brain & Professor of Psychology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I have served on this committee. “Professor Sisyphus joined the committee that was drafting the new strategic plan. They held planning meetings. Then they held listening sessions. Then they drafted a draft strategic plan. Then they held feedback meetings on the draft strategic plan…

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Thomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're recruiting postdoc fellows in computational neuroscience for Brown's NIH T32 Training Program — brain & cognitive modeling from biophysics to AI, with connections to mental health & psychiatry. US citizens/PRs. Review begins Sept 1. @carneyinstitute @browncopsy apply.interfolio.com/190111

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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...

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GitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiency

Contribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub.

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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Amazing job from co-chairs Drs. Will Kenkel and Alexandra Castillo-Ruiz in leading and presenting for Symposium 4: The Neuroendocrinology of Developmental Programming by Perinatal Experiences ✨#SBN2026

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

How do we update our predictions when our environment changes? The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions. New work w/ @hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social – part of the theme issue on hippocampal predictions!

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The hippocampus rapidly integrates sequence representations during novel multistep predictions

Abstract. Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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