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Pablo Ripollés

@pripolles.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Psychology and Music Technology at NYU. Associate Director of MARL (steinhardt.nyu.edu/marl). CLaME affiliate (clame.nyu.edu). Cognitive neuroscience of music, reward, and language. www.ripolleslab.com

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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨Postdoc hiring alert! 🚨 Applications for the Flatiron Research Fellows 2027 cohort at the Center for Computational Neuroscience are now live: apply.interfolio.com/193800. Come work with us!
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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Columbia Psychology is hiring for a Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Assistant Professor position as part of our ongoing push to expand our Cognitive research program (including two hires last year). We'll be starting application reviews next week so get materials in asap! apply.interfolio.com/193975
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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are 2 tenure-track searches happening at UT Austin Psychology @utaustin.bsky.social! Dev/Social: apply.interfolio.com/194041 Clinical: apply.interfolio.com/194045 Please apply and be my colleague! Austin is awesome, UT is awesome, and the department is awesome⭐
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Carlos (Charlie) Magallanes @imecaldo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you are familiar with the Speech-to-Speech Synchronization Test (SSS-Test) my paper that just got published, tries to tackle the question, regarding what is really being measured. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sensorimotor coupling underlies individual differences in speech synchronization - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Sensorimotor coupling underlies individual differences in speech synchronization
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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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Diana López-Barroso @dianalopbarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Universidad de Málaga. Enlace directo al cuestionario de participación: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Participación en un estudio de resonancia magnética y estimulación cerebral no invasiva
¡Necesitamos tu colaboración para nuestro estudio! Este cuestionario está dirigido a las personas interesadas en participar en un estudio de neurociencia cognitiva. El estudio consta de tres sesiones ...
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NYU’s Center for Neural Science and the Department of Psychology are jointly running the Application Support Group again (I’m on the org committee)! Keep an eye out for information to apply soon, we aim to provide 1on1 PHD application mentorship with existing PhD students and postdocs at NYU
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Lucia Vaquero @luciavz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is happening today: #LunchAndLearnWebinar from the @nysyji.bsky.social 🙌 My amazing colleague and supervisor @pripolles.bsky.social and I will be presenting the #SMARTproject, moderated by Prof. LaNita Jefferson. Looking forward to discussing #mentalhealth and #artsinterventions in #youth
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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New paper alert! ⚠️ How does our environment impact our everyday, free-flowing thoughts? We used music as a window into the factors that influence the content of these thoughts. Nearly 1800 participants reported open-ended thoughts while listening to 120 excerpts of music.
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Joel Snyder @auditoryjoel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Please spread the word about this post-doctoral position to work at UNLV's new MRI facility with Dr. Ayan Sengupta, the facility's assistant director, and a fantastic cognitive neuroscientist. nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNLV-Externa...
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Neuroimaging, Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences, School of Integrated Health Sciences [R0153454]
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) appreciates your interest in employment. We ask that you keep in mind the following when completing your application: Once you start the application process ...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're hiring! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist to support & develop MRI. This is a new role to reflect our commitment to pushing forward MRI research at York. Come join the team! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #neurojobs #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Jobs - The University of York
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Aesthetics & Learning Lab (ALL) @allab-iwm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New paper! In this opinion piece, we argue for a broader, more integrative understanding of knowledge that distinguishes between internal knowledge, (within the perceiver) and external knowledge (within the environment). Interactions between these shape aesthetic experiences and new knowledge.
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Different knowledge, different aesthetic experiences (and vice versa)?
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/09/2026
I started translating the announcement into plain English, but got too depressed to continue before I even reached the most pernicious parts in the "full letter" linked.
Dear Colleagues,
The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. But the political landscape has. So it all ends. Now.
We've heard this message clearly from researchers across disciplines and settings. Science today is no longer a straight line from laboratory to application. We aim to cause maximal harm to universities by diverting funds elsewhere. Rather than investing public funding to generate massive positive externalities, we prefer allowing billionaires to set the scientific rese agenda . Someone—you’ll never guess who—convinced us to pour what money we do spend into AI.
To meet this moment, NSF is embracing a portfolio approach, where much more of our funding can be diverted to industry. We are expanding who carries out NSF-supported work and how, to enable ambitious, multidisciplinary inquiry at the scientific frontier, where frontier is defined as what we want to fund. We will find and support exceptional students and early-career researchers, at the stage when research creativity is high, so long as they US citizens of the right kind. Our new Office of Metascience will implement unproven methods to make a show of assessing the effectiveness of new initiatives, and more importantly will leverage that Gold Standard Science bullshit to eliminate programs in geosciences, basic biology, all aspects of social science, and anything else that makes the Christian right uncomfortable.  
We’e already pretty much gutted the entire agency. Funding is at a near stand-still, and the agency has become unresponsive to researchers to a degree that was unimaginable only two years ago. We know none of this succeeds without you, NSF's staff, reviewers, awardees, students, and partners across academia and industry. NSF's role is to create conditions for exceptional science to happen more often and more frequently. We are redoubling our commitment to do so through these efforts.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Am I me? Am I you? Who's who? How can I tell? A quirky and innovative study that shows a neural mechanism facilitating the self-other distinction in human dyads interacting. Thanks to Manuel Varlet and colleagues for allowing me to be part of this new work. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Lateralised neural mechanisms facilitate auditory self-other distinction and coordination in human dyads
In order to coordinate interactions with others, people need to distinguish between self- and other-generated signals, such as sound, but how the brain maintains this separation is unclear. This study...
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!
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Crockett Lab Statement on AI and Scientific Research
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How do we prevent memories from competing to guide attention? More distinct hippocampal representations for competing memories are linked to precise preparatory coding in visual cortex & more accurate eye movements to target locations. Thrilled to share this work by the incomparable Serra Favila!
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Hippocampal mechanisms underlying the resolution of competition in memory and perception - Nature Communications
Memory and perception both require selecting behaviorally relevant information. Here, the authors show that more distinct hippocampal memories are linked to precise anticipatory signals in visual cort...
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Rick does Math and Stuff @mathandstuff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reminder that the annual budget for the DoD is $1 trillion while the budget for NIH is less than $50 billion. The DoD doesn't need to be taking money from the NIH. This is all about defunding the NIH.
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sepex.bsky.social @sepex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Búsqueda de candidatos/as para solicitar contrato Juan de la Cierva (Universidad Jaume I) Os enviamos información sobre una búsqueda de candidatos/as para solicitar un contrato postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva en la Universitat Jaume I . La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en *****…
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Búsqueda de candidatos/as para solicitar contrato Juan de la Cierva (Universidad Jaume I)
Os enviamos información sobre una búsqueda de candidatos/as para solicitar un contrato postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva en la Universitat Jaume I . La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ Postdoc Project: Cognitive neuroscience of episodic memory sampling. Job Offer: Fully funded junior postdoctoral opening for a Juan de la Cierva fellow candidate at Universitat Jaume I(UJI) in Castelló, Spain.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:
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Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
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Moira (Molly) Dillon @moiradillon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thrilled to share my article—and cover!—for this month’s Trends in Cognitive Sciences: “The Cognitive Origins of Geometry.” From wandering in the world to triangles in the mind! 🔺 www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Heads-up: Doris Tsao is hiring 15 scientists/engineers to work on the neuroscience of consciousness at her new venture (Astera). astera.org/careers/#box...
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Roberta Bianco @robertabianco.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Our new opinion piece with R. Zatorre and @giacomonovembre.bsky.social is out. We discuss four key steps toward understanding the evolutionary origins of human musicality ..🎶
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Sebastian Michelmann @s-michelmann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thrilled to share this with the world! In this work led by Zihan Bai, we asked how episodic memory interacts with working memory and found evidence for a tight integration between the two systems. Zihan walks you through it in his thread 🧵🧠 🔥
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Biyu Jade He @biyuhe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New >100-author preprint led by @zixuanjia.bsky.social @yutoozaki.bsky.social and @danya-pav.bsky.social is IMO our most important yet. TLDR: music is not "useless" "auditory cheesecake" - across 901 participants speaking 30 languages, singing bonds us together >1.5x more than speaking. osf.io/pv3m9
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Wrong: "Music is "auditory cheesecake...useless...compared with language" -S. Pinker
Right: "Music is "more effective for collective bonding than language" - P. Savage, P. Loui, B. Tarr, A. Schachner, L. Glowacki, S. Mithen, W. T. FitchSynchronised group singing enhances social bonding more than group conversation or recitation does: A Registered Report across 30 languages

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Zixuan Jia* , Yuto Ozaki* , Danya Pavlovich* , Jiawen Huang , Emmanouil Benetos , Uswatun Khasanah , Sasha Calhoun , Gakuto Chiba , Yoichi Kitayama , Shinya Fujii , Dhwani P. Sadaphal , W. Tecumseh Fitch , , Sebastian Vaida , Simion Echim , Tudor Popescu , Zhuozhuang (Nelson) Shi ,  Massimo Grassi , Lucrezia Guiotto Nai Fovino , Jan Hajič jr. , Petr Nuska , Barbora Štěpánková , Prapatsorn Tiratanti , , Joseph A. Bulbulia , Ye He , Yukun Li , Fang Liu , Giacomo Novembre , Chloé Coissac , , Flavia Arnese , Yannick Jadoul , , Andrea Ravignani , , , , Florence Ewomazino Nweke , Oladimeji Adedayo Olajide , Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James , Neda Mousavi , Pauline Larrouy-Maestri , Ulvhild Færøvik , , Astrid Lenvik , Marianna Ruiz Loria , Jeronimo Quintero-Martínez , Juan F. Ariza , , Juan David Leongómez , Anne Cabildo , , Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden , , Polina Proutskova , Daniel Macholl , Jia Hoong Ong , Chloe Wider , Bahar Tunçgenç , Francesca Talamini , Lilly Leuschner , William Forde Thompson , Gemma Perry , Lee Wolff , Robert M. Ross , Adwoa Ampiah-Bonney , Shira Gabriel , Peter Q. Pfordresher , Hineatua Parkinson , Ferenc Honbolygó , Csaba Kertész , Yuri G. Pavlov , Alexandra Kosachenko , Dmitrii Tarasov , Wojtek Krzyżanowski , Piotr Podlipniak , Shahaboddin Dabaghi Varnosfaderani , Ann-Kathrin Beck , Inkuk Kim , Taeyun Jung , John M. McBride , , Teona Lomsadze , , Sara Ripley , Katerine Bilous , Laurel J. Trainor , Joshua S. Bamford , , Marc Thompson , Martin Hartmann , Bronwyn Tarr , Kai Yi (Kaye) Han , Aston K. McCullough , Psyche Loui , Ruwin Dias , Aitana Garcia-Arasco , Anouk Bellot , Katarzyna Pisanski , , Limor Raviv , , Remi van Casteren ,, Kristoffer Bæk Kortegaard , , Niels Chr. Hansen , , Dilyana Kurdova , , Zoya Mikova , Adwoa Arhine , Michael Ohene Okantah Jr. , Kofi Kudonu Labayili , Yiqing Ma , D…Figure 5. Pre- vs. post-experiment mean bonding scores from n=901 participants across 43 sites singing/conversing/reciting in groups of 5-10 individuals at a time (1,017 participants before planned exclusions; see Table S1). Social bonding score (y-axis) represents the mean of six self-report variables (scaled from 0-100): 1) “I feel I am on the same team with the other participants”; 2) “I am similar to the other participants’’; 3) ‘‘I trust the other participants”; 4) Inclusion of other in the self (IOS): ‘‘How close do you currently feel to all the other participants?”; 5) “I feel strong ties to the other participants”; 6) “I have a lot in common with the other participants”.Figure 10. Site-level mean bonding score differences across three conditions. Each row represents one experimental site, ordered by the magnitude of the bonding score change in the Singing condition, with the smallest change at the bottom and the largest at the top. Points represent site-level mean bonding score differences (Post- minus Pre-intervention) for each condition. The dashed vertical line indicates zero change. Site labels in green indicate Indo-European languages; labels in black indicate non-Indo-European languages. Sites with multiple locations within the same language are labeled with the location in brackets (e.g., “English [Auckland]”). See Figures S7-8 for alternative visualisations using raw differences in social bonding scores or effect sizes.
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Tom Olino @olinotom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We have enjoyed hosting our virtual event walking through the graduate application process -- we have faculty representation from clinical, developmental, social, cognitive, and neuroscience areas to talk about how they read applications!
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!
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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Excited to have Taylor's work with me and Daphna Shohamy out in Open Mind now: even at the end of an event, it's not too late to prioritize it for long-term memory!
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Itamar Jalon @jalon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Play people instrumental music they've never heard, and they independently imagine the same story. Play them that story in words instead, and the same brain regions light up in the same pattern. Our new paper is out today in @natcomms.nature.com
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Megan deBettencourt @mdebettencourt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Come work with me at Google! We have an open 6-month temp role on my team - it’s a great opportunity for someone with a cog neuro or psych background interested in exploring big tech. Looking for comp modeling experience (e.g. RL, DDMs) and Python/JS. Reach out to learn more or pass along any names!
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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📢 Open positions at @coe-mmbb.bsky.social — the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in Finland! We are recruiting 5-9 postdoctoral & 2-6 doctoral researchers to join our large, international research community 🇫🇮 #musicscience 🔹 Postdocs: bit.ly/4gADdbx 🔹 Doctoral: bit.ly/4g10xPz
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5-9 Postdoctoral researchers, CoE in Music, Mind, Body and Brain
The Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Music, Mind, Body and Brain at [the Department of Music, Art and Culture studies](https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/mutku) of the University of Jyväskylä is seeking to rec...
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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
✨Excited to announce a new post-doctoral position in my lab, focussed on the neural capacity limits of language processing using magnetoencephalography! Apply here: wp.nyu.edu/neurolinglab...
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Postdoctoral position – NYU Neurolinguistics Lab
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Marta Silva @martamasilva.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Check out our new paper! 🧠 Me, @xiongbowu.bsky.social and @fuentemilla.bsky.social review how reactivation at the end of events support memory formation and propose it serves multiple functions from preventing interference to helping preserve temporal continuity! ✨ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Neural reactivation supports memory formation when events end
Memory routinely transforms continuous experience into discrete episodes that support flexible retrieval. We propose that these structured representations are established via rapid neural reactivation...
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Anna Fiveash @anna5ash.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
📢 New publication alert ! 📢 🎵🧠 Is "having rhythm" one skill or several? *spoiler, we found differences between perception and production tasks, and groups of participants with strong beat-based, but weak memory-based perception. More here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A set of rhythm tasks administered via the internet showed evidence for distinct rhythmic competencies relating to perception versus production as well as sequence memory-based perception compared to...
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Victor Pando-Naude @pandonaude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New paper out in Journal of Parkinson's Disease! "Social interaction enhances the pleasurable urge to move to music in people with Parkinson's disease" Thanks to co-authors @stupacher.bsky.social and Peter Vuust. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @au.dk journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Social interaction enhances the pleasurable urge to move to music in people with Parkinson's disease - Jan Stupacher, Peter Vuust, Victor Pando-Naude, 2026
Background Music- and dance-based interventions can improve motor symptoms in people with Parkinson's disease (PD), but two key questions remain: whether t...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/08/2026
BREAKING NEWS! The Senate has paused the OMB rule that would put Trump appointees in charge of federal spending. Next step - Contact your MoC and tell them to permanently REVOKE THE RULE: zurl.co/1SXEN Article: zurl.co/23mF8
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Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
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Elise Piazza @elisepiazza.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New preprint alert: "Mapping the abstraction of song representations from perception to autobiographical memory", led by @rcassanocoleman.bsky.social, with @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Also if you're at #CCN2026 come chat with me about Minds, Machines, and Brains @mmb-journal.bsky.social A new journal we are launching with @mitpress.bsky.social with my co-EICs Kendrick Kay & Ellie Pavlick, and the rest of the wonderful editorial board: direct.mit.edu/mmb/pages/ed...
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Editorial Information | Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
Editorial Information | Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press Editorial Information All inquiries should be directed to mindsmachinesandbrains@gmail.com Co-Editors in Chief Leyla Isik ...
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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Very excited to share this preprint from me, @emmatempleton.bsky.social, @lindseytepfer.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social! "Friends and strangers engage in distinct regimes of body motion synchrony during conversation" osf.io/preprints/ps...
 Forms of body motion synchrony. A) Motion quantity synchrony – synchrony in the amount of motion (orange) people engage in over time. This form of synchrony is agnostic to the direction of this movement, may be positive or negative, occurs at varying time lags, and is not specific to matched body parts across members of the dyad. B) Pseudo-synchrony – motion quantity synchrony between people who are not actually interacting. That is, members of different conversations engaging in similar amounts of motion at similar points in the conversation relative to its initiation. And C) directional synchrony – people moving the same body parts in the same direction (or along the same axis in the opposite direction) at the same time (or at some specific time lag). Mechanisms of synchrony. A) Turn-taking, which causes increases in motion around the time of speaker role exchanges, as participants gesture to hand over or take over the floor. B) Conservation of motion in which one participant moves less when the other moves more, holding the total motion quantity relatively constant over time (note that the total amount of motion across the dyad is similar in the two panels, because one person reduces their motion to balance out the increase in the other’s motion). C) Entrainment, in which mutual following of the same conversational script leads to synchronized movement among people who are not directly interacting (i.e. pseudo-synchrony). Greeting gestures such as the handshakes depicted are one acute manifestation of this entrainment. D) Station-keeping, which maintains proxemic distance and eye level between members of the dyad. This mechanism accounts for directional synchrony, particularly between strangers who feel uncomfortable within each other’s personal space.Motion quantity synchrony among friends and strangers. A) Friends displayed significant positive synchrony in total motion quantity at short time lags (< 2.5 s) and B) this effect generalized across the majority of body part pairs (each line represents one pair). For example, one series of points might represent the synchrony between the amount of motion in one participant’s left hand and the other’s right foot. C) Strangers displayed significant positive synchrony in total motion quantity at short time lags (< 1 s) and significant negative total motion quantity synchrony at longer time lags (2.5 – 16.6 s). D) Again, this effect generalized to most body part pairs.Directional synchrony among friends and strangers. A) Among friends, we observed statistically significant directional synchrony in only two body parts (nose and eye) and only in the vertical axis. B) Among strangers, we observed statistically significant directional synchrony in a large number of body parts in the horizontal, vertical, and depth axes.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Catastrophic for science.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo headed to work like he would any other day on July 7. An immigration agent shot and killed him in his van during an enforcement operation — and he was not the target. This is the story of his life and death. nyti.ms/3Rd4A1p
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Alexis Pérez-Bellido @alepebel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I would like to announce the Cutting Gardens EEG conference, a new global, decentralized, and sustainable way of organizing conferences. This conference is on EEG methodology and analysis pipelines, and it is comprised of different "gardens" around the globe, taking place from Chile to China.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
As a high schooler, I hadn't considered why or how the Astro-Science Workshop existed or who funded it. But now, as a professor, I assumed it was probably the result of an NSF grant. So I looked it up and, yep, there it is, the exact grant that kicked off my scientific career.
screenshot of NSF award page granted to Adler planetarium
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 09/07/2026
I am horrified by the brutal killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE earlier this week. Mr. Araujo had no convictions and had been living here for decades, working toward the American Dream. ICE has provided ZERO evidence and has lied to us again and again. We need answers.
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Family demands an independent probe after ICE officer fatally shoots a man in Houston
The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in 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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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/07/2026
Monday, July 13th is the LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on Russell Vought's science-destroying OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3PM ET to learn what comes next, hear from experts, and learn how the proposal will affect you. Register at the link in our bio or go here:zurl.co/tH8hn
The graphic displays an image of Russell Vought and the logos of Stand Up for Science, teh American Association of University Professors, and the American Federation of Teachers. The graphic reads: "VIRTUAL & ACCESSIBLE, REGISTRATION LINK IN BIO! OMB DEADLINE DAY, Monday, July 13th, 2 - 3PM ET, The Fight is Just Beginnig, Learn what comes next in the fight, Hear from scientists, experts, and MoCs, Learn how the proposal will effect you".
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