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Manuela Piazza

@manpiazza.bsky.social
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Cog neuroscientist @ University of Trento (IT) 🇮🇹🇪🇺 Interested in: Brains - Cognitive maps - Maths - Structures - Concepts - Learning - Semantics - Navigation #neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychscisci

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Open call for a permanent MEG Lab Manager position for our new MEGIN scanner at CIMeC Trento. You have extensive MEG experience, a degree in physics, engineering, neuroscience: Apply here lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/bando-pta/co... Deadline 29th April! p.s. call in Italian but foreigners welcome!! 🌎
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The Per2Con group at CIMeC is actively seeking Post-Docs interested in investigating how newborns 👶 🧒 perceive 👁️👂and learn, using 🧠 HD EEG and eye-tracking. ✨You are motivated to work on neurodevelopment: we would love to hear from you to prepare a grant proposal together (Marie-Curie, Fyssen...)
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Open Positions | Research Center
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I have a dream
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Another cool paper from Iran: nature.com/articles/s41... Prenatal stress makes mouse offspring more anxious, hyperactive, forgetful, and more drawn to morphine while laterodorsal tegmentum cholinergic neurons become hyperexcitable. From Kerman, a city with reported violent crackdowns on protests.
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The hyperexcitability of laterodorsal tegmentum cholinergic neurons accompanies adverse behavioral and cognitive outcomes of prenatal stress - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The hyperexcitability of laterodorsal tegmentum cholinergic neurons accompanies adverse behavioral and cognitive outcomes of prenatal stress
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Writing is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
💫 🧠💡This inspiring conference “Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain” has just ended, and I am very grateful for having been there among brilliant scientists connected by a common passion for the brain, and a common friendship with the great Stan Dehaene! Talks (including mine) are online here 👇
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Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain | Collège de France
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Alireza Karami | علیرضا کرمی @alirezakr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com! @elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social 🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices. 👇 A thread 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Alireza Karami | علیرضا کرمی @alirezakr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
🎉 New Chapter Published! 🧠 Title: Neurobiological underpinnings of developmental dyscalculia 👥 Authors: Paula A. Maldonado Moscoso, @alirezakr.bsky.social , @manpiazza.bsky.social #Neuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience #LearningDisabilities #Dyscalculia
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Strategic omission: knowingly leaving out relevant prior work to make findings seem more novel is academic dishonesty. Adding citations later doesn’t undo the damage. Citations are credit and respect, not decoration. Call out this practice to protect integrity. #AcademicIntegrity
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Feeling inspired following #DementiaActionWeek? Discover how @uclqsion.bsky.social‬ is shaping the future of dementia care and research.
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UCL MSc - Dementia: from Neuroscience to Clinical Practice MSc
Listen to the course co-Directors as well as current and former students talk about the MSc 'Dementia: from Neuroscience to Clinical Practice'. This MSc, off...
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Our lab at Carnegie Mellon is recruiting graduate students this year to study the development of the brain and cognition — come watch a brain develop, see how animals learn concepts, or take a canoe ride to see how folks learn across cultures. #PsychSciSky
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.
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ERC to double allowance for researchers moving to EU
The European Research Council (ERC) is doubling the relocation allowance it makes to researchers coming to the EU to take up one of its grants. At present it offers third-country researchers up to €1 ...
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Gallileo Gallilei museum. Firenze
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Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Our Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) @prereview.bsky.social club on #semantics has produced it's first review 👏🏼 prereview.org/clubs/snl-se... We're planning the next date/paper: don't hesitate to reach out!
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SNL Semantics
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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Deborah Talmi @dtalmi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We have an open postdoc position with Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social and Emily Holmes, at the Emotional Cognition Lab dtalmi.wixsite.com/emotional-co..., @uniofcam.bsky.social to conduct advanced memory modelling. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50770/ Apply by 21.4!
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Research Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🧠 Are you completing a PhD in neuroscience or psychology and seek a competitive postdoc abroad? Join my lab at CIMeC as a Marie Curie Fellow. We study abstract concept from newborns to adult using fMRI, EEG & more. Reach out for ideas! Call opens May 8, 2025. 🔗https://r.unitn.it/en/cimec/per2con
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The President of the US and richest man on earth, unilaterally STOPPED children’s cancer research and clinical trials because they view them as “wasteful”. If this doesn’t get your feet in the streets, I don’t know what will. #standupforscience #scienceforall
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I feel seen (from the second article)
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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky! From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more! 🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it #neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno
Welcome to the official profile of our Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences - University of Trento (Italy).
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#ICYMI New review from @uclpals.bsky.social finds that measures of cognition during menopause are often inadequate.
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Beyond brain fog: Urgent need to address the unmet cognitive needs of women going through menopause
Researchers at the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences find that measures used to assess cognition during menopause are often inadequate and highlight the need for an outcome measure of…
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Chris Murphy is very good here. Disappearances for political speech violate our core principles. Of course they test the waters with pro-Palestinian speech on the hope that people won’t protest, and then they can move on to everyone else. Call your congresspeople to demand that Khalil be released.
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
@mariamic.bsky.social benvenuta! 🤗
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Just a few more days left to apply! Deadline is this Friday, 7 March. #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
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Divyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
POSTDOC POSITION at @kingsioppn.bsky.social The postdoc will work on an @ukri.org funded project on disadvantage, the pace of neurodevelopment, and cognitive outcomes using openly available infant and adolescent data. See the job ad here: fluxsociety.org/postdoctoral... Please share and repost 🙏
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - Flux Society
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

Subject: What did you do last week?


Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.

Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.

Deadline is this Monday at 11:59pm EST.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Once again, @cantlonlab.bsky.social shows us just how amazing she is at rallying the rest of us. (If you missed it, she was once a Time Person of the Year.) So inspired by you, Jessica. I’m in! time.com/time-person-...
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TIME Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers
The voices that launched the movement against sexual harassment
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Attorney General, Kris Mayes of Arizona is a badass, speaking important truths to power: www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...
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From the law community on Reddit: Attorney General, Kris Mayes (Arizona)- Say Trump Administrations actions are an ongoing coup, says they are ignoring the judicial branch, undoing 260 years of U.S of...
Explore this post and more from the law community
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Jeremy Hogeveen @jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
😡 😡 😡
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
More details here: www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...
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Diversity100 PhD Studentships — Birkbeck, University of London
Find out about Birkbeck's Diversity100 PhD studentships, for BAME applicants with home fees status.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
To all those good people who are reaching out to help others around you, and working to make this world a better place: Happy Valentine’s Day I love you ❤️
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Teea Gliga @teeagliga.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New RA position! We are looking for an excellent graduate/MSc student with some experience in developmental psy and interest in language, deafness, conceptual knowledge, infancy @psychologyuea.bsky.social
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Research Associate (0.65 FTE, Fixed-term for 18 months) (RA2298) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Research Associate (0.65 FTE, Fixed-term for 18 months) (RA2298) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Social Sciences School of Psychology Research...
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If you are interested in understanding (a bit) what the heck is going on in the two major agencies of the US government for scientific research
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Saige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Literally all of my work on machine learning for brain health contains many of these words. Absolutely unbelievable.
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I can’t think of a single programme of research in psychology that doesn’t use at least one word from this list. And most of biomedical science.
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Academics with tenure: we aren’t supposed to cower and grovel for money like people do in other jobs. The whole point of tenure is to be liberated and courageous.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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WhiskeyTangoAlphaFoxtrot @interrogaomnia.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Everyone should send a copy of this to their Congressman and Senators. I did and asked why the hell they were ok with it: youtu.be/2B6gS_WyXKo
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An Act of War
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This might be hard to hear, but: We are not at the beginning of a war. We are near the end of a war many didn’t realize was being fought. This is what losing feels like. Start fighting. ___ You can start by joining @indivisible.org and/or by reading: survivethetyrant.infy.uk/SurviveTheTy...
SURVIVE THE TYRANT!
An RPG-style guide to living under an oppressive regime
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Oh, indeed.
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Debate resolved! Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined? Our study involved: 👨‍👩‍👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia) 👶 Italian pre-schooled kids 🎓 Italian schooled adults — see comment for the findings www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures - Nature Communications
This study examined the role of age and culture in determining spatial-numerical associations. Results showed all groups displayed implicit left-to-right biases, suggesting a biological basis for spac...
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
What are we waiting to quit x? #italianuniversities #unitn
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
😱 Octopus 🐙 replay? Amazing!
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BabyLab CIMeC @cimecbabylab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Dear community, here is a starter pack for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Please share it and feel free to send suggestions about people, labs etc. go.bsky.app/2WCr1TK
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