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Simon W Davis

@woodforbrains.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Indiana University Mnemology Lab: mnemology.org

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Florida Phoenix @floridaphoenix.com · 5h
Update: Swells from the storm are expected to hit the western and northern portions of the Yucatan Peninsula starting Thursday and spread northward toward the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week. floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/06/d...
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DeSantis issues emergency order as Tropical Storm Isaias heads toward the Gulf Coast • Florida Phoenix
This story has been updated to reflect that Tropical Depression 9 is now Tropical Storm Isaias and to update the storm’s trajectory. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order Tuesday night declaring...
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Dr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am recruiting graduate students for UCI's PhD in Cognitive Sciences - www.cogsci.uci.edu/graduate/pro... The lab's focus is on how relational structure and combinatorial reasoning is implemented in human brains and large language models--and if they are similar.
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GRADUATE PROGRAM
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Lee @cleverleedope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I loved "Digger". It's a bleak, BLEAK film, but it explores the limits of art generally,& satire specifically; fully engaging the overwhelming control money men exert on art - &, by extension - the righteous outrage of the masses, by offering false catharsis. Oh& the craft is Roy Andersson great.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Carlo Ferritto, Julie Coloigner, et al: Mind the brain age: How segmentation and template selection reshape structural connectomes doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN) @jocn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Enhanced Episodic Memory Encoding Following Modulation of the Amygdala via Transcranial Low-intensity Focused Ultrasound
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Enhanced Episodic Memory Encoding Following Modulation of the Amygdala via Transcranial Low-intensity Focused Ultrasound
Abstract. The amygdala is considered crucial to the formation of emotional episodic memories, yet causal evidence in humans is limited due to challenges in noninvasive neuromodulation of deep brain…
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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN) @jocn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Abstract Property-selective Clusters Link Continuous Property Representations to Discrete Category-selective Regions in Human Higher Visual Cortex
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Abstract Property-selective Clusters Link Continuous Property Representations to Discrete Category-selective Regions in Human Higher Visual Cortex
Abstract. Object representations in the human higher visual cortex (HVC) support complex recognition behaviors early in development, yet the principles linking continuous dimensional representations…
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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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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/09/2026
Join us on Monday, 9/28 to learn why billionaires like Marc Rowan want to destroy academic freedom & how faculty, campus workers, & students can fight back to defend the freedom to teach, learn, research & speak out without government censorship. RSVP 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
THE BILLIONAIRE ATTACK ON UNIVERSITIES
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9/28 @ 3 P.M. ET
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 25/09/2026
Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain Institute focused on understanding and improving brain health across our lifespan, from early childhood through to old age. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4hpgZsl @mrccbu.bsky.social
A large brick building with two stories and a conservatory is surrounded by greenery. Text reads, "Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain institute."
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So much fun talking to John Foxe @johnfoxe.bsky.social today on aging, memory, and brain stimulation. Absolutely fantastic series, give it a listen/watch! Audio: media.rss.com/neuroscience... Video: youtube.com/@urneuroscie...
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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience
The Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience brings together faculty across the University of Rochester who are engaged in neuroscience research. The central purpose of the Del Monte Institute is to reduc...
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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Out today with @pangeli95.bsky.social (co-lead) & @carolinerobertson.bsky.social ! The brain integrates internal thoughts with sensory information. Yet the networks serving functions are viewed as independent. How does the brain integrate across these systems? elifesciences.org/articles/110...
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Retinotopic coding organizes the interaction between internally and externally oriented brain networks
Internally and externally oriented brain networks are functionally coupled at a voxel scale through a common visuospatial code.
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 22/09/2026
The published version of my paper "Understanding, Prediction, and Compression" is now online at Synthese: rdcu.be/svRh41KcQyta
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Announcing two tenure-track faculty openings in the Psych Dept at Northwestern University: Cognitive/Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...
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Job Opportunities: Department of Psychology - Northwestern University
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Jeff Browndyke @jeffbrowndyke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is big. 🧪 www.the-independent.com/news/science...
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Human brain is actually two separate organs, scientists find
The Stanford University breakthrough stands to open new doors for research into fatal neurodegenerative diseases
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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excited to share a new discovery from @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social about the effects of neurostimulation on brain activity. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... With our colleagues at the University of Iowa, we explored how intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) changes neural excitability. A 🧵
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iTBS induces a suppression-rebound pattern in human cortical excitability
Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) is a widely used form of brain stimulation, developed on the premise that it promotes long-term potentiation (LTP) and neural excitation. However, this is n...
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Kendra Seaman @kendraseaman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm hiring! Come join us in the Aging Well Lab - you'll get to work on a newly funded NIA study and collaborate with the amazing @colleencfrank.bsky.social and @klempert.bsky.social. Don't wait - apply now! jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/32753
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Moira Rose: Why Wait?
ALT: Moira Rose: Why Wait?
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Jack Gallant @gallantlab.org · 18/09/2026
New paper from Dr. Tianjiao Zhang accepted in eNeuro: comparing semantic representations during passive movie watching to those measured during naturalistic navigation. Attention in different task contexts alters semantic representations to optimize task performance. gallantlab.org
Dr. Tianjiao Zhang has a new paper accepted in eNeuro.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/09/2026
The AAUP has assembled resources on Compact 2.0 for faculty, staff, & students here: 👇👇👇
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Compact 2.0
In 2025, higher ed workers and students soundly defeated Trump’s loyalty oath compacts—the administration’s attempt to impose a partisan litmus test over students’ right to learn and faculty’s freedom...
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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Link: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Computational or Theoretical Neuroscience - Durham, North Carolina job with Duke University Neurobiology Dept | 12864649
Seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational/Theoretical Neuroscience to advance brain science through innovation and collaboration.
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Duke University School of Medicine @dukemedschool.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New research from Duke shows brain-to-computer speech decoders can be trained using shared data across patients, with as little as five minutes of recordings from a new patient. #AcademicSky #MedSky medschool.duke.edu/news/new-path-br…
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tor @torwager.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
neuromarkers.io : Browse, view, and download fMRI neuromarkers, population-level predictive brain models that can be applied to new studies and populations
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Neuromarkers · CANlab
Population-level brain patterns for new studies. Browse, explore, and download published neuromarkers.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
OK folks I just made a new VIDEO: "Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s: What Large-Scale Brain Studies Reveal" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDqw... I hope you like it!
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Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s: What Large-Scale Brain Studies Reveal
YouTube video by Paul M. Thompson
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ha! Get stuffed.
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Jeff Browndyke @jeffbrowndyke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Knowing from where "brain fog" arises in the brain can then help the development of neuromodulation or other treatment techniques to combat the common complaints. 🧪 You can read more about it here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 10/09/2026
TONIGHT! 7PM ET! Join the AAUP & @aft.org for a discussion on how we are fighting back against Trump’s Compact 2.0 & how YOU can help block the Trump admin’s efforts to take control of American higher education. REGISTER HERE: aft.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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AAUP IU Bloomington Chapter @iubaaup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Check out the profile of our chapter in Academe magazine! www.aaup.org/indiana-univ...
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Indiana University Bloomington AAUP Chapter
This chapter profile is part of the preview of the fall 2026 issue of Academe. The full issue will be released in October.
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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 09/09/2026
Every afternoon at 4:30 I close my laptop to get my kid from school and mentally note the thousand things I will do once she is asleep and every evening at 8:30pm my brain leaks out of my nose, having in the intervening hours become a thin, elasticy goo not unlike albumen.
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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And there it is -- 900 fewer international students at Indiana University Bloomington compared to last year and over 2600 fewer compared to 3 years ago.
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IU international enrollment drops by over 900 students
Total international student enrollment has decreased for three consecutive years.
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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social: our latest on how episodic future thinking influences decisions (i.e., delay discounting). w/ @heidrunschultz.bsky.social. Open access: www-sciencedirect-com.colorado.idm.oclc.org/science/arti.... Quite improved manuscript, thanks to reviewers and editor.
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Shibboleth Authentication Request
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#NotTheOnion www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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Duke professor Dan Ariely seeks political office in Israel with Pirate Party
After having an article retracted due to allegations of research fraud, Dan Ariely is taking his efforts elsewhere: Israel. He is running on the Pirate Party slate in the Israeli legislative elections...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The agreement was signed out of the public view a month ago by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, echoing my reporting. It establishes a 10-year framework that officially runs through September 30, 2036.
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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Join @aaup.org - @aft.org next Thursday @ 7 PM EST as we resist Compact 2.0, the Trump administration's latest attempt at partisan control of higher education rutgersaaup.org/compact2
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Typically the IU pay schedule for grad students distributes funds in August before rent and bills are due. This year the first pay-day was Sept 4, after rents are typically due. The IGWC launched a fund to cover late fees on rent and bills. Please consider helping out. indianagradworkers.org/aid
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Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition – Emergency Mutual Aid
Support the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition by paying voluntary dues or donating to our campaign/strike fund. Learn how your contribution helps fund organizing, bargaining, and social events, and e...
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Lee @cleverleedope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Horizontal institutional sabotage and the elimination of inquiry into the nature of reality/the natural world are both cornerstones of fascism. This is just fascism.
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For the one millionth time: THIS IS FASCISM. IT'S MORE THAN JUST GRANT FUNDING. SCIENCE IS A CRITICAL PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Marcus Kaiser @connectomelab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Very pleased to share our latest work, led by Prof. Jeyoung Jung: “Transcutaneous auricular Vagus nerve stimulation for working memory enhancement: A comparative study of electrical and ultrasound stimulation” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ultrasound #neuromodulation #cognition #zenbud
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Based on a range of evidence it seems likely (but insanely hard to prove) that over-reliance on GPS is going to lower your hippocampal functional capacity and have for some increase risk of Alzheimer's disease so below is a good plan, but even better if its with a road atlas
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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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Careers
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We're currently hiring a new director for the renowned UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The director will be appointed as a Professor in our psychology department: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07814
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Director of the Center for Mind and Brain & Professor of Psychology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The last author (Carlos Cruchaga) is a very modest person, I had lunch with him on Thursday and we talked about omics/imaging for neuropath classification + he didn't even mention his amazing new cool finding !!
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 29/08/2026
*Sharing for our department’s trainees* 🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology? ✨ Apply by Sep 21st to Stanford Psychology's 10th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info session/workshop to have all of your questions answered! 📝 Application: forms.gle/4nujgDd3W2tx...
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Paths to a Psychology Ph.D.: An Information Session and Workshop
Join Stanford Psychology graduate students, research assistants, and faculty for a free one-day virtual information session and workshop on applying to research positions and Ph.D. programs in psychol...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Alright everybody, time to text the teachers in your life. The fall semester is open at SkypeAScientist and we are ready to match classrooms, scout troops, library groups, and more with scientists! Tell the educators in your life, and send them to SkypeAScientist.com
A frog uses its comically long tongue to catch a fleeing fly and the words say “send this to a teacher” pointing right. Then under the tongue it says “Skype a scientist matches classrooms with scientists for free Q&As” and there’s a little pond scene with lily pads and spatterdock flowers and a rock with a snail on it and a salamander with the words get a match at Skype scientist.com
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The Philosophy of Memory Organization @phomo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Interested in presenting your work on philosophy of memory at the APA? Submit your abstracts for PhOMO's next APA session, expected to be at the 2027 Pacific Division meeting in Portland, Oregon (March 24–27)! Submission deadline is September 18th. Full details: www.phomo.org/event-detail...
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3rd PhOMO APA affiliated group session | The Philosophy of Memory Organization
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A good man is hard to find
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Mnemology Lab is aggressively recruiting graduate students this year. We're working to understand how aging brains use semantic information to maintain episodic memory, and develop interventions for Alzheimer’s that rely on that understanding. Plz share! psych.indiana.edu/graduate/how...
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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
join our warm and supportive department
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Desmond Oathes, PhD @desmondoathes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Looking for a data analyst with good MRI skills and coding background 💻🧠👩‍🔧. Sorry but visa sponsorship isn't an option. Kindly re-post! Apply here: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
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Data Technician
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
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