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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 25/09/2026

Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain Institute focused on understanding and improving brain health across our lifespan, from early childhood through to old age. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4hpgZsl @mrccbu.bsky.social

A large brick building with two stories and a conservatory is surrounded by greenery. Text reads, "Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain institute."

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia

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Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kate Nation and I just pre-printed a review paper on incidental word learning during independent reading; specifically, how linguistic context shapes learning. We also proposed a theoretical framework (called ABC framrwork) to accommodate discrepancies in the literature. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Marking resit assignments for my Year2 statistics module & the whiff of LLM use is overwhelming: BSc students who failed the module are producing perfectly-written high-level academic text that you might find in papers by Lakens or other highly-qualified stats writers the future is exams & vivas 😢

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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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Veronica Diveica @veronicadiveica.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New paper in the Cortex Special Issue on Conceptual Knowledge! ✨ Erica Adezati, Daniel Mirman et al. show that different manipulations of evolving mental models of narratives recruit partly distinct neural systems that exhibit differential sensitivity to social vs non-social content 🧠 1/🧵

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

AI-driven peer review at Frontiers seems totally out of control

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Marc Coutanche @marccoutanche.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

How do older adults combine familiar concepts to make sense of new ones? We ask this question about semantic composition in a new paper out now: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #psychscisky #cognition Here's a breakdown of the main findings👇 1/6

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Frontiers | Mechanisms of semantic composition in older adults: control, semantic processing, and imagery

IntroductionSemantic composition is the ability to create meaningful novel concepts from familiar concepts. This can be achieved through a set of cognitive a...

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Evan Gordon @gordonneuro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Zhishun Wang, Jack Grinband, et al: MEPrep: A robust pipeline for multi-echo fMRI denoising and preprocessing doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Jobs - The University of York

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 01/02/2026

2026 big update to the psycholinguistic database page! If you know of corpora, lexical databases, or other resources that I've missed, please LMK. Trying to keep this thing relatively current and could use the help www.reilly-coglab.com/data

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Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory

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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Great work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?

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Rachel Ryskin @ryskin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Does our "semantic space" get stuck in the past as we age? New work by @ellscain.bsky.social uses historical embeddings + behavioral data to show we are truly lifelong learners. Older adults don't rely on historical meanings—they update them to match current language! 🧠✨ doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...

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Semantic Representations Are Updated Across the Lifespan Reflecting Diachronic Language Change

Abstract. Humans learn the meanings of words from the contexts in which they are used. Patterns of language use change over time, suggesting that the contexts in which some words are experienced chang...

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Dan Mirman @danmirman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Two-year post-doc position in my department working on a cool project applying cognitive science (transmission chain experiments and natural language processing) to study cultural evolution: tinyurl.com/bdeju6kw

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Post-Doctoral Research Associate

The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences are seeking a full time, fixed term Post-Doctoral Research Associate. This post is available from 1st of Septemb...

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Excellent paper. bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.tufts....

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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I want to extend my full support to staff threatened with compulsory redundancy at the University of Edinburgh. I have today written to the Principal imploring him to change direction.

A letter written to the principal of the University of Edinburgh, from Lorna Slater MSP

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.

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School of PPLS at The University of Edinburgh @schoolofppls.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Research from psychologists @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social and The University of Hamburg shows our brains don’t rely on one unified world model, but juggle multiple predictive threads at once. A glimpse into how experience gets fragmented then woven together. Read more: edin.ac/47cETTX #psychology

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Fragmentation and multithreading of experience in the default-mode network - Nature Communications

Here the authors show the prefrontal cortex simultaneously predicts context, the thoughts of others and future changes, while the precuneus acts as a hub to fuse these into a coherent experience.

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Zhenghan Qi @qzhever.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I am co-editing a special issue on the "Neural Bases of Language Processing in the Wild" together with @swathikiran.bsky.social on Brain and Language (zero embargo period). If you are interested, I am happy to chat more (currently at my favorite #snl2025). www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Brain and Language | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Brain and Language | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Brain and Language at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience @bacn.co.uk · 07/07/2025

Late abstract deadline is this Friday! We'd love to hear about your recent research at the #BACN25 meeting in Edinburgh

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Richard J. Binney @rjbinney.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge. Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience @bacn.co.uk · 04/02/2025

Save the date!! #BACN2025 11-12 September 2025, Edinburgh www.bacn.co.uk/conferences Submit talk and poster abstracts by 30 April 2025.

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Audrey Duarte @audreyduarte.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

First post and first paper of the year! We show that semantic memory space becomes denser with age. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... .

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Brielle Stark, PhD {she} @briellestark.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Call for papers: extended until May 2025! *#Neurocognitive perspectives on #discourse & connected #language*. This special issue will highlight advances from cog & clinical #neuroscience in modeling discourse that spans from multi-word utterances to naturalistic stories. #aphasia bit.ly/4hdKbBb

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Open letter to Sir Patrick Vallance

To sign the letter, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/eRydV6VpMQVFPtdF7 Please forward a link to this letter to any colleagues who you think may be interested in signing – we would li...

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Dan Mirman @danmirman.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

This job advert is live! I'm looking for a postdoc to work on a 2-year mixed methods project studying communication strategies in aphasia. Part of a big grant on language, neurodiversity, and flourishing elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

We are looking for a postdoctoral research associate for a full-time, fixed term post for 24 months from July 2024 to work as part of the Edinburgh team on the John Templeton Foundation funded project...

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

At @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social , we’re recruiting two new permanent Lecturers. We’re especially interested in recruiting in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational modelling 🧠 If you’d like to know about life & science at Birkbeck - please get in touch! 🧠🟦 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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