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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Job Alert: Our department is looking to recruit an eminent scholar for a distinguished, endowed professorship (full professor, tenured) in the domain of human neuroscience with high clinical relevance. Please broadcast widely! For application information, see academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32753

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Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience

Job #AJO32753, Professor (tenured), Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New lab paper! @noraharhen.bsky.social and @catehartley.bsky.social investigate how children and adolescents differ in their use of episodic context for decision-making. Thread below.

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Cogan Lab @coganlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our new review paper lead by CNAP PhD Student Jim Zhang and @tobiasegner.bsky.social is now published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews: “Insights into the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive stability and flexibility from human intracranial EEG.” doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... 1/5

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New paper out: Led by super grad student Jim Zhang and in collaboration with Greg Cogan, we review and synthesize Insights into the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive stability and flexibility from human intracranial electroencephalography. For free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nRYWY3M3p...

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Sam Verschooren @samversc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social. We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them. 🧵

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Came across what I assume to be an interesting version of “going into industry”… with splendid results!

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

New review/theory paper out with Julie Bugg, Chris Nuno, and Changrun Huang. The upshot is that we don’t know for certain why it’s so hard to get people to engage proactive control from trial to trial (but it’s fun to think about it and speculate!).

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Changrun Huang @changrun-huang.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Our recent review led by Julie Bugg is out in PB&R. We explore why advance warnings to pay attention often fail to improve proactive cognitive control in conflict tasks. We introduce the TEPID framework to explain this. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

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The puzzle of profitless pre-cues

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Changrun Huang @changrun-huang.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Excited to share this work! The consistent lack of cue-driven proactive control challenges assumptions about our ability to readily deploy top-down control. We rule out S-R mappings, task pace and task difficulty as explanations, while showing that implicit, experience-driven control remains intact.

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories? We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate! Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

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Sam Verschooren @samversc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

New with @tobiasegner.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social! The relationship between external and internal attention is not fixed but varies between competition, concurrence, and cooperation. We shed light on the conditions that allow for each of these relationships to occur🔍 psyarxiv.com/ry94x_v1

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

New paper from the lab now out online! @changrun-huang.bsky.social asked whether people use informative pre-cues to up-regulate cognitive control in the spatial Stroop task. Surprisingly, they do not, and we rule out some possible reasons why. Enjoy!

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position at Western Washington University. This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. Short 🧵 about this position. 1/? Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Tenure-Track Position

The Department of Psychology at Western Washington University seeks applicants for a tenure track Assistant Professor position with expertise in applied cognitive psychology to begin September 16, 2026.

This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology. The position is open with respect to area of expertise. Possible applied topics in cognitive psychology might include, but are not limited to: culture and cognition, memory, human-computer interaction, eyewitness memory, learning and education, aging, embodied cognition, social cognition, and judgment and decision-making concerning current social issues. We are seeking candidates who have experience with equitable and inclusive teaching, mentorship, and research practices and share a strong commitment to promoting the success of students from historically underrepresented groups. The candidate will have teaching experience commensurate with their career level. They will be required to teach courses at the undergraduate level in cognitive psychology and research methods and statistics. The candidate should also be prepared to teach a cognitive course in a master’s level program. Responsibilities also include establishing and maintaining an active research program that involves undergraduate and graduate students, as well as service activities as appropriate. Review of files will begin on February 18th, 2026.

More information at: https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-faculty?job=502873

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Just spotted this on an afternoon walk in Princeton- kudos!

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Cogan Lab @coganlab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Next: Sun. Nov 16 1pm-5pm: 137.10 / HH2 Intracranial EEG Correlates of Concurrent Demands on Cognitive Stability and Flexibility Undergraduate Erin Burns and CNAP PhD Student Jim Zhang will present work from our lab and @tobiasegner.bsky.social Lab on cognitive control

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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428

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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

For fans of flexibility, new paper out in QJEP! Domain-specific cognitive flexibility: Shift-readiness adaptations for task- and attention-switching are non-transferrable. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

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Assistant Professor - Social Personality - Department of Psychology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵

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Convergent neural dynamical systems for task control in artificial networks and human brains

The ability to switch between tasks is a core component of human intelligence, yet a mechanistic understanding of this capacity has remained elusive. Long-standing debates over how task switching is i...

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Excited to share this new story from the lab and led by the very talented @bendevlin.bsky.social! In collab with Anne Schaefer and grateful for funding from NIH and @curealzheimersfund.bsky.social. a brief 🧵

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility". Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

When you successfully anticipate future events, what happens to your ability to encode the present? 🤔 Successful prediction increases the likelihood of successful encoding. We speculate about how switching between distinct encoding & prediction states can produce this effect. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283

University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

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Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!

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Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Since the hotel bar is closed, you may as well check out some posters! #CNS2025: find our excellent grad student Jim Zhang at poster A91, "Neural correlates of concurrent demands on cognitive stability and flexibility".

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

For something pleasant on your timeline, let me introduce you to our new family member, Captain: 60% Great Pyrenees, 100% cute!

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Amanda @dramandar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Research America has created an action item link that sends 3 letters to support #NIH to your US Senators and Representative based on your zip code. It takes only a minute or two to fill out. You don’t need to be an academic to support #Science! advocacy.charityengine.net/Default.aspx....

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The Research!America alliance advocates for science, discovery, and innovation to achieve better health for all. We urge Congress and the administration to increase funding for the National Institutes...

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Up in the gods at Cameron tonight - a real treat!

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Wow, this place is really blowing up. Lots of new follower but nothing new to report from the world of cognitive psychology and neuroscience? Let's go with Sunday morning vibes instead...

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Sam Verschooren @samversc.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Some great news to start the week: our paper on ideomotor theory and voluntary control over autonomic processes inside the body (“interoactions”) was accepted in Psych Review!🧠💓🥳 With @mgblr.bsky.social and Marcel Brass Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #cogpsych #interoception

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Senne Braem @sebraem.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I've been recommending this review by @tobiasegner.bsky.social to many: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... It's a great overview on task control, with several interesting insights! However, w/ G. Dreisbach, @musslick.bsky.social, we disagreed with one conclusion: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... (1/7)

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Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent - Nature Reviews Psychology

Nature Reviews Psychology - Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/09/2024

this is pretty amazing: @lucinauddin.bsky.social is taking on the giant, hugely profitable publishers of academic journals, on grounds of antitrust If you'd like to join the case as a plaintiff you can sign up at www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac... summary of the case:

The Publisher Defendants’ Scheme has three primary components. First, the Publisher Defendants agreed to not compensate scholars for their labor, in particular not to pay for their peer review services (the “Unpaid Peer Review Rule”). In other words, the Publisher Defendants agreed to fix the price of peer review services at zero. The Publisher Defendants also agreed to coerce scholars into providing their labor for nothing by expressly linking their unpaid labor with their ability to get their manuscripts published in the Publisher Defendants’ journals. In the “publish or perish” world of academia, the Publisher Defendants essentially agreed to hold the careers of scholars hostage so that the Publisher Defendants could force them to provide their valuable labor for free.

Second, the Publisher Defendants agreed not to compete with each other for manuscripts by requiring scholars to submit their manuscripts to only one journal at a time (the “Single Submission Rule”). The Single Submission Rule substantially reduces competition among the Publisher Defendants, substantially decreasing incentives to review manuscripts promptly and publish meritorious research quickly. The Single Submission Rule also robs scholars of negotiating leverage they otherwise would have had if more than one journal offered to publish their manuscripts. Thus, the Publisher Defendants know that if they offer to publish a manuscript, the submitting scholar has no viable alternative and the Publisher Defendant can then dictate the terms of publication.

Third, the Publisher Defendants agreed to prohibit scholars from freely sharing the scientific advancements described in submitted manuscripts while those manuscripts are under peer review, a process that often takes over a year (the “Gag Rule”). From the moment scholars submit manuscripts for publication, the Publisher Defendants behave as though the scientific advancements set forth in the manuscripts are their property, to be shared only if the Publisher Defendants grant permission. Moreover, when the Publisher Defendants select manuscripts for publication, the Publisher Defendants will often require scholars to sign away all intellectual property rights, in exchange for nothing. The manuscripts then become the actual property of the Publisher Defendants, and the Publisher Defendants charge the maximum the market will bear for access to that scientific knowledge.

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

For fans of *Cognitive Controversies* -> my comments on others’ comments on my opinion! TLDR: I propose to unyoke the constructs of cognitive stability and flexibility; others disagree; we argue politely... Free read links: rdcu.be/dTxqb rdcu.be/dTxql

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Reply to ‘Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent’

Nature Reviews Psychology - Reply to ‘Flexibility and stability can be both dependent and independent’

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Interested in cognitive stability and flexibility? Alright then: @RaphaelGeddert and I investigate contextual factors determining whether stability and flexibility tradeoff. Free read link: rdcu.be/dTvTI link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Contextual control demands determine whether stability and flexibility trade off against each other

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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

Please share and repost: Postdoc position in my lab at Temple University. Review of application begins on 8/19/2024 and continues until the position is filled. neurostars.org/t/postdoc-po...

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Postdoc position at Temple University

The Neuroeconomics Lab at Temple University (PI: David Smith; Neuroeconomics Laboratory – Principal Investigator: David V. Smith, Ph.D.) invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Associate (st...

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Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

I am looking for a new lab manager and SSNAP project coordinator. Please share this ad! #neuroskyence #science #philosophy www.imclab.org/lab-manager-...

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CURRENTLY HIRING | IMC Lab

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!

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Join the Lab

We're hiring! Postdoctoral Fellowship: Predictive Models for Cognitive Fluctuations Closing date: 12 noon (IST), June 1st 2024 We are seeking a Research Fellow to pioneer the development of passive s...

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

New paper alert! We probed the generalizabilty of one-shot stimulus-control learning. Upshot: one-shot associations between objects and control states generalize over different object viewpoints and exemplars, but not to other object category members. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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One-shot stimulus-control associations generalize over different stimulus viewpoints and exemplars - Memory & Cognition

Cognitive control processes are central to adaptive behavior, but how control is applied in a context-appropriate manner is not fully understood. One way to produce context-sensitive control is by mne...

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Norman Lab @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

Our paper on how blocked training supports learning of multiple schemas, with Andre Beukers, @collinsilvy.bsky.social, Ross Kempner, Nick Franklin, and @gershbrain.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/dEeaG #neuroskyence #psychscisky

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Yoav Kessler @yoavkessler.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

New paper alert! In a new study led by Shalva Kvitelashvili we developed a novel task to investigate how people voluntarily use their visual working memory. Spoiler: we tend to underutilize our memory capacity. Check it out! rdcu.be/dDKmq

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

📣 Now hiring for two positions at the (newly minted) Mind & Culture Lab at Duke University! I'm seeking a full-time lab manager & a full-time postdoctoral associate to join the team, ideally this August (flexible). See below for more information and QR codes to access the application portals.

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Kevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io · 26/03/2024

Our new paper out in Cognitive Science shows that when people make causal judgments about the past, their eye movements often relfect counterfactual thinking *even in the absence of visual stimuli*!

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