Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Open 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!! 🌎 01514
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaHugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 28026
Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The 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...)researchcenter.unitn.itOpen Positions | Research Center 185
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Another 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.nature.comThe hyperexcitability of laterodorsal tegmentum cholinergic neurons accompanies adverse behavioral and cognitive outcomes of prenatal stress - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - The hyperexcitability of laterodorsal tegmentum cholinergic neurons accompanies adverse behavioral and cognitive outcomes of prenatal stress 0186
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaScience News @scinews.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Writing is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44... 418060
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 👇college-de-france.frSeeing the Mind, Educating the Brain | Collège de France 251
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaAlireza Karami | علیرضا کرمی @alirezakr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025New 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... 1227
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaAlireza 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 173
Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Strategic 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 340
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaUCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Feeling inspired following #DementiaActionWeek? Discover how @uclqsion.bsky.social is shaping the future of dementia care and research.buff.lyUCL MSc - Dementia: from Neuroscience to Clinical Practice MScListen 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... 142
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaCantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2023Our 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 04325
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaEdouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 18/04/2025the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.sciencebusiness.netERC to double allowance for researchers moving to EUThe 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 ... 415176
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaAlex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Gallileo Gallilei museum. Firenze 022
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaValentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Our 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!prereview.orgSNL Semantics 1154
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/20251. 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. 382585927
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaDeborah Talmi @dtalmi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025We 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!jobs.cam.ac.ukResearch Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of CambridgeResearch Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. 22725
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 188
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The 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 512017686
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I feel seen (from the second article) 0175
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaCIMeC_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 1125
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaUCL 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.buff.lyBeyond brain fog: Urgent need to address the unmet cognitive needs of women going through menopauseResearchers 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… 032
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaNancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Chris 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. 02814
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaPeter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Just a few more days left to apply! Deadline is this Friday, 7 March. #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging 045
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaDivyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · 12/02/2025POSTDOC 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 🙏fluxsociety.orgPostdoctoral Researcher in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - Flux Society 11512
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaSarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The 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/...ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL 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). 43621
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/02/2025This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive). 2371954402
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Once 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-...time.comTIME Person of the Year 2017: The Silence BreakersThe voices that launched the movement against sexual harassment 1276
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025This 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. 774114911726482
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaNancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Attorney General, Kris Mayes of Arizona is a badass, speaking important truths to power: www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...reddit.comFrom 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 053
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaDaniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025More details here: www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...bbk.ac.ukDiversity100 PhD Studentships — Birkbeck, University of LondonFind out about Birkbeck's Diversity100 PhD studentships, for BAME applicants with home fees status. 011
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14/02/2025To 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 ❤️ 19613
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaTeea Gliga @teeagliga.bsky.social · 13/02/2025New 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.socialvacancies.uea.ac.ukResearch Associate (0.65 FTE, Fixed-term for 18 months) (RA2298) in University of East Anglia | UEAView 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... 048
Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 05/02/2025If 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 010
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaSaige Rutherford, PhD @beingsaige.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Literally all of my work on machine learning for brain health contains many of these words. Absolutely unbelievable. 031
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaLisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I 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. 4205
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaCantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Academics 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. 215817
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaDarby 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. 12652769415654
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaWhiskeyTangoAlphaFoxtrot @interrogaomnia.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Everyone 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_WyXKoyoutu.beAn Act of WarYouTube video by PoliticsGirl 1189
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This 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... 271581346
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaDorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Does 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): 331093423
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...nature.comA left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures - Nature CommunicationsThis 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... 4308
Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 08/01/2025What are we waiting to quit x? #italianuniversities #unitn 010
Reposted by Manuela PiazzaBabyLab CIMeC @cimecbabylab.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Dear 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 1177