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Sam Cooper PhD

@samcooper.bsky.social
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Clinical psych scientist, UT Austin asst prof | threat + anxiety, trauma/PTSD, OCD + learning/memory + HiTOP + quant + cog neuro + fMRI + more | he/him, views my own | Cronbach stan (not alpha, just two streams + validity) | dog is Frank | scoop-lab.com

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We got a new review/model on why we think psychedelics might be particularly useful in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Good work @htmcgovern.bsky.social on carrying this through the finish line.
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Resetting the hippocampal buffer: a neurocognitive account of psychedelic therapy for anxiety-related psychopathology - Psychopharmacology
Psychedelics (hallucinogenic 5-HT2A agonists such as psilocybin) are being investigated for their potential to treat a range of conditions, including anxiety-related psychopathology. Despite promising...
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Sam Cooper PhD @samcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
back on bsky after much time away, partly to shamelessly self-promote new papers and lab, partly to antagonize @dpmoriarity.bsky.social. i am only good at one of these.
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Sam Cooper PhD @samcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Culmination of many years of work and thought in my little sub area of psych and neuro. Big thanks to @gushennings.bsky.social and @plaing94.bsky.social for helping bring this one home. We hope it provokes thought and improvement in the realm of fear generalization research.
screenshot of title of trends in cognitive sciences review titled "trends in cognitive neuroscience"
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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Beyond snark: I am always amazed by the popular media's concept that neuroscientists are paragons of brain health.🧠 We study brains, but most of us are legit weirdos living unbalanced lives for the privilege of hyperfocusing on our esoteric interests. Insight, yes. Guiding 🌟... not so much.😂
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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...
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Research Assistant I
Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📈New research: To foster more thoughtful consumption, psychologists have developed an online tool that can inoculate consumers against misleading media tactics and could be used across educational, media, and healthcare settings. Read more in #PSPB: ow.ly/17F350YbXWl
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Katie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨Faculty position just dropped. We are seeking a Psychology Clinic Director at the @unm.edu Dept of Psychology psychclinic.unm.edu, this position is focused on clinical training of PhD students in sunny, affordable, and progressive New Mexico. Come join us! unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" (2nd ed) is up! solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/ 1/3 #rstats
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Statistical rethinking 2 with rstan and the tidyverse
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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🚨My trainee Victoria Murphy, data architect Gabriel Mongefranco, and I are pleased to share 🌟EMA-CleanR: R code to pre-process, clean, and visualize ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data! Documentation: teamdynamix.umich.edu/TDClient/210... Code: github.com/DepressionCe...
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EMA-CleanR: Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Data Processing in R
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Sam Cooper PhD @samcooper.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
chefs kiss for the raincloud plots finally showing up, esp in a major medical journal!
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Blair Wisco @bwisco.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557
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Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor
The Department of Psychology at UNC-Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2026. The Department of Psycholog...
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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Spread the word: new PhD track in Biomedical Informatics and Health AI - enrollment for Fall 2026 closing soon! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Please spread the word: new PhD track in Biomedical Informatics and Health AI - enrollment for Fall 2026 closing soon! | Antonina Mitrofanova
Please spread the word: new PhD track in Biomedical Informatics and Health AI - enrollment for Fall 2026 closing soon!
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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Me: The NIH Data Archive has to be the worst interface I’ve ever worked with! Clinicaltrials.gov: Hold my beer!
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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
%notin% coming soon to an #rstats environment near you 🤩 developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/...
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Daily News: R-devel/NEWS
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Demetri @phdemetri.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.
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Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's PhD application season. If you are applying for a PhD in neuroscience or biomedical field or are mentoring someone who is applying, please check out our @storiesofwin.bsky.social episode with advice! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
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Neuroscience PhD applications — Stories of WiN
Dr. Nancy Padilla-Coreano chats with Dr. Ben Giasson, the director of the neuroscience PhD program at the University of Florida, to demystify the PhD application process.
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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If you're a member of the HiTOP Society, I hope you'll consider voting for me for President 💛 I'd be delighted to lead us in this new chapter Ballots went out today so we can join the current deluge of exciting election results And whether or not you vote for me - please do vote!
A photo of me and statement I wrote about running for President/President-Elect of the new HiTOP Society: 

"I’m so excited to be nominated as President for our new HiTOP Society! I’ve been part of HiTOP for a decade now and have worked hard to advance both the science and the scientific organisation. My research has focused on strengthening the structural validity evidence at HiTOP’s foundations, and I’m committed to improving the model as much as we can.

My leadership in HiTOP started with co-chairing the Revisions Workgroup in 2018, and leading the development of our revisions protocol. This role gave me a seat on the Executive Committee of the Consortium where I’ve worked to strengthen the organisation—for example, proposing and writing our monthly updates for six years, building and maintaining our new website, and using feedback from our members to develop a strategic plan to address the issues many of you raised. That work has also underpinned our shift to a society model, and I would be very proud to have the opportunity to lead us in this new chapter.

I have some ideas of specific things we can work on—setting up awards and small grants for members, for example—but my main focus would be hearing from you all and working to build an organisation that reflects our shared values and ambitions in shaping the future of HiTOP."
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@samcooper.bsky.social @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social Target article for today's lab meeting...w/ help from ShackSlides & my Wisco buddy, Joao ... wishing Shmuel & Christian were in position to appreciate this
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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
When “OCD” is used as an adjective, it trivializes and invalidates the real suffering and courage of people living with this serious and debilitating condition.
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Come do a postdoc at the Wu Tsai Institute! WTI fellows have freedom to work with anyone at the institute, and preference is given to applicants who want to work on interdisciplinary projects with multiple faculty mentors. If you’re interested to work with me, please reach out!
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 24/07/2025
✨ The Quant Family Collective (QFC) is a mentorship and community network aimed at providing resources and support to trainees and researchers in psychology learning advanced quantitative methods.
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Anne Maheux - Quant Family Collective
Learning stats is hard. Join the QFC and we’ll do it together!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession
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Tom Olino @olinotom.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Applying for graduate studies in psychology and neuroscience can be challenging and confusing. Frequently, applicants have some support from mentors at their home institutions, but sometimes applicants are looking for additional reassurance, feedback, or perspectives on the processes.
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
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Matt Southward @mattsouthward.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Potential grad applicants: I'm hoping to take 1-2 new students this cycle! There's no need to email me in advance unless you have specific questions that aren't answered on the lab or psych department's website - everyone's applications will be considered equally. u.osu.edu/mattlab/2025...
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Accepting 1-2 new students this cycle! ☝️/✌️
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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
We are looking for a clinical psych postdoc to join our team in 2025 or 2026 to help with studies of mood disorders and suicidal behavior in youth and families (using EEG 🧠 and EMA 📱 methods). See www.moodemotionlab.com for more info on the lab and projects.
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Mood, Emotion & Development Laboratory
The Mood, Emotion & Development Lab at Vanderbilt University is directed by Dr. Autumn Kujawa. Our research examines social and emotional development and the ways in which alterations in emotion contr...
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Sam Cooper PhD @samcooper.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity @ UT Austin! I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026. Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats! 📄 Description: tinyurl.com/2jfk8d8m 🌐 Lab: www.scoop-lab.com
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
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Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology
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Yannik Stegmann @yannikstegmann.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🚨Our latest paper is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social: We show how aversive generalization and contexts interact at electrocortical levels, demonstrating modulations of cues and contexts into different frequencies of the ssVEP. With @gamerlab.bsky.social! Check it out: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat
Abstract. Adapting behavior to environmental demands is a fundamental aspect of survival. In the face of unfamiliar potential dangers, organisms display a wide range of defensive mechanisms, such as u...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/05/2025
🚨Hiding under 6 sections of science sounding rhetoric is an edict to appoint officers at each agency that will be responsible for detecting research that isn't "Gold Standard Science" as defined by the White House🚨 Stay tuned for rapid response action! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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HiTOP @hitop-system.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you’re open to acting as a local host for the 2026 HiTOP Conference, please get in touch with @miriforbes.bsky.social. We’re looking for inexpensive options (e.g., university spaces, rather than hotels) so very open to ideas or suggestions if you’ve had experience organising this kind of event!
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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Fleshed out this awesome slide to share with my lab too - keen for any feedback on things I might have gotten wrong
An infographic titled 'How Journals Make a Killing' that explains the profit in academic publishing, the life cycle of a journal article, and the cost for tax payers
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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
My opinion piece in today’s @nytimes.com . I discuss how clinical neglect of medication-related harms has made RFK Jr’s stance on antidepressants appealing to so many and moving the public conversation in a productive direction requires us to remedy this neglect. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/o...
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Opinion | What Kennedy Gets Right, And Wrong, About Antidepressants (Gift Article)
Harm from these drugs is real. Let’s not cede the conversation to Kennedy.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I AM NOT AN ACTIVIST. I AM A SCIENTIST. You don’t have to adjust your identity to meet the moment we find ourselves in—you simply need to engage in your civic duty as an expert in a given area by sharing your knowledge with the public and lawmakers. This is part of our duty as scientists.
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
@joeydunsmoor.bsky.social @gregoryrsl.bsky.social @samcooper.bsky.social @jimmycoan.bsky.social @ucdavispsych.bsky.social @mpwpaulus.bsky.social @raupperle.bsky.social @skhalsa.bsky.social @mariaironside.bsky.social @laurenatlas.bsky.social @socialbrain.bsky.social @jasilvers.bsky.social
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I HAVE LOCATED A SPINE IN THE ACADEMY!
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ALT: a man in a black jacket stands in front of a pink background with emile aleman written on it
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"The consolidation/RIF plan pulls power away from scientists and puts it in the hands of political employees. It sets up Trump and Musk to kill NIH as an evidence-based science funder. We must stop this plan." New contributed post on our blog: Please read. It describes Orban and authoritarianism. 🧪
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The NIH firing plan is really a radical institute merger and an authoritarian takeover
this is an Orbanization of US science: a move to exert political control over discovery, which will kill the US medical research industry and end cancer cures. The plan must be stopped. We can act.
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org
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SCiMaP
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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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LNCD @lncdpitt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
After searching through bluesky, I realized there wasnt a starter pack for Adolescent Neurocognitive Development (at least I couldnt find one), so decided to start one! Please help me in adding members of the awesome community go.bsky.app/R8mzr8W
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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If you identify as a Jewish member of the academic community, and are appalled by the actions being taken in the name of defending our community, please consider signing this letter (which can be done anonymously) and also sharing it with others: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...
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Open letter in response to federal funding cuts at Columbia
On March 7th, the Trump administration announced the immediate cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. This includes funding from the Departm...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/03/2025
Our work is far from done—science is still under attack. We’ve got ideas, but we want to hear from you. What’s worrying you most? What should we do next? How can we grow this movement together? Fill out this quick form to share your thoughts & stay connected: forms.gle/7EEQMZUveXN9...
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How do we keep Standing Up for Science?
A heartfelt thank you for everyone that Stood Up for Science with us on March 7th—whether it be volunteering, donating, sharing, or attending in event, we're forever indebted to people like you who ca...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th! More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
Image of Bill Nye, with text at the top of the image that says Speaker Announcement and at the bottom that says Stand Up for Science, March 7th, 2025 and a link to standupforscience2025.org.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
📢 JOB ALERT: Postdoc & PhD position in computational neuroimaging/computational psychiatry, to work with existing fMRI & behavioural (big) data. Apply by March 31 and reach out any time for more information. www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo... Image: K. Ojala, A. Tzovara 2022 (CC BY 4.0)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2025
It’s said that we live in a post-fact society. We disagree. Now, more than ever, facts matter, and ProPublica is going to continue to track how and when patently false statements are injected into conversations about the country’s future. By @sengelberg.bsky.social
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The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers
A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do…
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Erika Crable, PhD @erikacrable.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year. @altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
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