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Tijl Grootswagers

@tgro.bsky.social
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Cognitive Neuroscientist 🧠 in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 tijl.github.io

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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🌏 Come and spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺 The @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers for 2027. If you're in cogneuro and motivated, get in touch via DM or email. Apps due: 1 Nov 2026 Please share widely!
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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🏆 Congratulations to our 2026 #ARC #FutureFellows, Dr Tijl Grootswagers & Prof Celia Harris! @tgro.bsky.social – 'Seeing by Choice: How the Brain Recognises and Remembers in a Digital World’. @celiaharris.bsky.social – ‘Beyond Reminiscence: Benefits of Familiarity vs. Novelty for Older People’.
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve been awarded an @arc-gov-au.bsky.social #FutureFellowship 🎉 At the same time, it's tough to see so many great people missed out this round. Very grateful for my collaborators, mentors, and the @marcsinstitute.bsky.social for the support. Watch this space for PhD and postdoc positions! 🧠
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Elahe' Yargholi @elaheyargholi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
From our symposium on continuous movement tracking ECVP 2026. Thanks for joining, presenters @tmaniquet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social @omar jubran @ maximilian Wolkersdorfer and audiences.
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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025
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Melinda Sabo @sabomelinda.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Super excited to share that our paper, “Multiple Partially Overlapping Neural Modules Orchestrate Conflict Processing,” has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉 1/n w/ @tgro.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social Edmund Wascher, Patrick Gajewski direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Multiple partially overlapping neural modules orchestrate conflict processing
Abstract. Cognitive conflict is a ubiquitous aspect of our daily life, yet its underlying neural mechanisms remain debated. Competing theories propose that conflict processing is governed by either a ...
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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
📢 We're hiring: Charter Hall Senior Research Fellow - #Neuroscience of #Ageing & #Dementia | Help shape healthier futures for older adults. 📆 Closes 24 Mar 2026 💰 $147,138–$169,011 + 17% Super 🌎 Visa sponsorship available 👉 Apply now: lnkd.in/gKX_XR8r @westernsydneyu.bsky.social
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Alexander Huth @alexanderhuth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
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Manuel Varlet @manuelvarlet.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... New publication in PLOS Biology: plos.io/4hBhuPy Denise Moerel, with @tgro.bsky.social, @drquekles.bsky.social, Sophie Smit at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social
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Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task
Whether great minds think alike is up for debate, but the collaborating minds of two people working on a shared task process information alike, according to a study published November 25th in the open...
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Pre conference run - ready for ACNS2025 🧠 @acnsau.bsky.social
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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Can sight shape our feelings? 👁️‍🗨️🖐🧠 @theconversation.com article co-authored by Dr Sophie Smit & Dr @tgro.bsky.social, uncovers how fast our brain transforms what we see into what we feel. Read it here: theconversation.com/when-we-see-... The Imaging Neuroscience publication: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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When we see someone being touched, our brains automatically simulate how it feels
Within a fraction of a second of seeing another person being touched, our brains figure out who is involved and how it might feel.
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Dan Feuerriegel @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
New preprint from the lab led by @violetchae.bsky.social! We debut an open EEG dataset for research into food cognition and dietary choices. Featuring data from 117 different brains relating to 120 different food stimuli. @tgro.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social
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Violet Chae @violetchae.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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FOODEEG: An open dataset of human electroencephalographic and behavioural responses to food images
Investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying food choices has the potential to advance our understanding of eating behaviour and inform health-targeted interventions and policy. Large, publi...
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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Dr Denise Moerel and colleagues' article on how our brains make decisions in competitive settings is out now! Read the full Conversation article here: theconversation.com/even-in-a-si... The article published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
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Even in a simple game, our brains keep score – and those scores shape every choice we make
Humans are surprisingly bad at being unpredictable.
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🌏 Come spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺 @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs. Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections. 📅 Apply by 4 Dec 📍 Sydney, Australia Curious or keen? DM or email me
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Dan Feuerriegel @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
New article in @theconversation.com - featuring some exciting new findings on how our brains rapidly encode a wide range of food properties when we see a food item. Your brain is doing a lot of work when you scroll through food delivery apps! Led by @violetchae.bsky.social w/ @tgro.bsky.social
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Violet Chae @violetchae.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Using EEG 🧠⚡ and representational similarity analysis, we mapped how the neural representations of food attributes (e.g., taste & health) unfold over time when viewing foods🍎🍰🥗 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social theconversation.com/our-brains-e... doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We're looking forward to seeing you this week at the joint meeting of the 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 and the 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢-𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯! Don't forget to tag us on your conference-related Bluesky posts, so we can help you share with our wonderful community! 😀
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Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
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PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
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Dan Feuerriegel @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
New preprint from the lab! We used EEG⚡🧠 to map how 12 different food attributes are represented in the brain. 🍎🥦🥪🍙🍮 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Violet Chae in collaboration with @tgro.bsky.social
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Characterising the neural time-courses of food attribute representations
Dietary decisions involve the consideration of multiple, often conflicting, food attributes that precede the computation of an overall value for a food. The differences in the speed at which attribute...
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Sebastiaan Mathôt @cogsci.nl · 09/05/2025
Interested in pupillometry, eye movements, visual attention, visual working memory, or related topics? Apply with our group in in beautiful, livable, and friendly Groningen! Reach out to @elkanakyurek.bsky.social, @van-rijn.org, @olaf.dimigen.de, @miles2708.bsky.social or myself to explore options!
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Check out this preprint led by @sabomelinda.bsky.social which presents the outcomes of her @marcsinstitute.bsky.social visiting scholarship! We analysed EEG data from 500+ participants to investigate how the brain processes cognitive conflict. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Multiple Neural Modules Orchestrate Conflict Processing
Cognitive conflict is a ubiquitous aspect of our daily life, yet its underlying neural mechanisms remain debated. Competing theories propose that conflict processing is governed by either a domain–gen...
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Lina Teichmann @linateichmann.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🚨PhD opportunity Fall/Winter 2025🚨 Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs
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Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
👀 🚨 New scholarship available! We're hiring a PhD student to work on the neural basis of face perception, part of a collaboration between @marcsinstitute.bsky.social and #UNSW. DMs open if you want more info 🧠 #neurojobs
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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!
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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
#PhD #Scholarship Opportunity: Unlocking Person Identity Codes in the Human Brain 🧠 | Explore the extraordinary abilities of Super-Recognisers & contribute to the advancement of person identification technologies worldwide. #Neuroscience | Applications close 31 Jan 2025. | tinyurl.com/45c4m3kk
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Unlocking person identity codes in the human brain | Western Sydney University
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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#MRITogether 'Transferable open MRI skills: from academia to industry' will be on in 30 minutes! You can still register for that!
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Congrats @aramirezharo3.bsky.social ! Fantastic first conference talk 🎉 at @acnsau.bsky.social
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 19/11/2024
Are you an Australian cognitive neuroscientist 🧠 affiliated with the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society? This Starter Pack is a fast way to connect with your ACNS colleagues - reply here to be added! And don't forget to follow @acnsau.bsky.social Only 5 more sleeps! 🤩 #ACNS2024
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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Newly funded ARC Discovery Project will unlock the secrets of how children learn and provide parents & educators with insights to support #childdevelopment. Looking forward to transforming #education in Australia, one discovery at a time! @drquekles.bsky.social
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I just looked at a highly circulated starter pack for top science and science communicators and there are 58 men, 27 women, the rest orgs based in the US, and 95% white. Maybe, just maybe, do a bit of curation and check your biases and show some care with what you put out into the wild.
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Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Very excited to kick this project off in 2025! If you like brains, face perception, neural decoding, EEG, or some combination of the above then we want to hear from you 🧠👀📈
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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024 tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Pre-conference run and swim 😎☀️🌊 #acns2024 @acnsau.bsky.social
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Alexis Kidder @lexkidder.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Excited to share our recent work investigating the temporal dynamics of object space! It’s been wonderful working with @tgro.bsky.social and @drquekles.bsky.social at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social on this fun project😊
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Visit us in Sydney next year! Applications for 2025 MARCS visiting scholar scheme are now open! PhD Candidates & ECR welcome to apply to come and visit for 1-3 months to Sydney. Feel free to contact me (email or DM) if interested! tinyurl.com/3ztnrufd Applications close January 20, 2025.
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MARCS | International Visiting Scholar Program 2025
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New preprint! Work led by Alexis Kidder (@lexkidder.bsky.social) during a visiting scholarship at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social with @drquekles.bsky.social & @tgro.bsky.social "Mapping object space dimensions: new insights from temporal dynamics" 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2024... 1/ Summary: 🧵👇
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Tijl Grootswagers @tgro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This app is very useful for those starting out on 🦋 it suggests accounts to follow based on your follows' follows
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology @expsyanz.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2025, to be held at UNSW in Sydney, from June 17-20. Abstract and symposium submissions are open! epc.psy.unsw.edu.au/index.html
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Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @acnsau.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello world! Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society is on bsky! #ACNSnews
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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab! Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org
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Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD
Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!
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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
I may be able to nominate a Radboud Excellence Fellow - A talented postdoc who can spend 2 years working with us on shared interests. Eligibility: neither dutch nor dutch work experience. Ideal profile is some combination of psychometrics, cognitive (neuro)science, ESM. www.ru.nl/medewerkers/...
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Procedure Excellence Initiative | Radboud Universiteit
Kandidaten voor een Radboud Excellence-fellowship of -hoogleraarschap moeten worden voorgedragen door een van de aangewezen nominatoren werkzaam bij Radboud. Aanmeldingen zonder nominatie worden niet ...
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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Dear all, I will soon formally advertise a postdoc position on meditation and the predictive brain in my lab. An ERC funded project. More details can be found here for now: heleenslagter.com/positions Feel free to reach out with questions! Please help spread the word! #neuroskyence #consciousness
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Positions
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
🚨🚨🚨 ARC has made public the list of approved #DECRA #DE25 projects. This is the list of National Interest Test statements for “Approved Research Program”s, publicly available on ARC website but just not yet linked publicly: www.arc.gov.au/sites/defaul... 🙏 @n8sci.bsky.social for the tip-off.
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The MARCS Institute @marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
✨🔭🧠 Excited to share the Sydney Science Festival video! Relive the highlights: booth activities, <Meet a Scientist> session, and stage interviews on AI and space research. Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible! 🙌 Watch video and read more: www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ma...
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Federico De Martino @fedemar.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Two new assistant professor positions at the cognitive neuroscience department of Maastricht University. Come join us! More details in the link below! www.academictransfer.com/en/344342/tw...
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Two vacancies for assistant professors in cognitive neuroscience
We are looking to attract two new tenure track assistant professors to the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience (CN), which is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) at Maastricht Un...
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