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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 18h

Reposting, in case you missed it! 8-) Reskeet appreciated!

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fully funded PhD studentship investigating sleep’s role in forgetting unwanted memories at my lab at @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, starting in September 2027. Funding includes UK home fees and a 3-year tax-free stipend (~£22K per year). Please share widely www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Forgetting unwanted memories during sleep at University of York on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Forgetting unwanted memories during sleep at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience

Join the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience.

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Doeller Lab @doellerlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join us at @mpicbs.bsky.social as a fully funded 3-year PostDoc (m/f/d). Your project will focus on how cognitive maps shape learning, memory, and decision-making. Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by September 30: postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/58460

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The role of cognitive maps in learning, memory and decision making | Max Planck Postdoc Program

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026

Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Starting September 1, I will be working with a team to start a new research center at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. We currently have a couple of positions posted but there will be more so if you are interested stay tuned and feel free to get in touch.

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Zara Bergstrom @zarabergstrom.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I get that other countries think that the Norwegian football team doing viking stuff is "charming" or whatever but in Scandinavia that symbolism is so strongly associated with white supremacy. It's really putting me off, come on England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.

A photo of a Magnapinna squid captured by a deep sea drilling company.

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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Three!! teaching and research jobs in the lovely School of Psychology at the University of Leeds. Please pass on to anyone you know who might be interested. Its a lovely department, with great colleagues and some really interesting stuff going on jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology

Lecturer in Psychology x3School of Psychology These roles will be based on the university campus, with scope for them to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible wor...

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The greatest Mexico v England tweets you will ever read. 😂 As you were.

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Zara Bergstrom @zarabergstrom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Lots of people on my train in London are on their way to the Metallica gig... so jealous

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Zara Bergstrom @zarabergstrom.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Yesterday the English commentators were very dismissive of Sweden's performance against France, but at least we didn't let a goal in after <10 minutes so...

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Come be my colleague! Associate Professor level teaching position available at UCL in Experimental Psychology: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB720/a... Primary role: lead development of a flexible portfolio of undergraduate modules for non-BSC/MSci Psychology students. Closes 19th July.

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Associate Professor (Teaching) at UCL

Recruiting now: Associate Professor (Teaching) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/06/2026

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

A victorious Andy Burnham MP (24,937 votes), as the result of the Makerfield by-election is announced, flanked by defeated candidates Count Binface (a bloke in a vaguely sci-fi costume with a large bin for a helmet; 95 votes) and Robert Pownall (who is in a full body fox costume, holding a sign reading "Protect British Wildlife"; 18 votes). There are some other candidates there just out of shot but that's not important right now.

Photo: Jon Super/AP

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.

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Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.

Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...

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Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Interesting retraction notice at JEPG. Looks like major errors in part to inappropriate LLM use. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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APA PsycNet

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

So much this. We can see when it misrepresents the actual claims in the paper. We can recognize nonexistent citations (AI errors). We can grade down without having to accuse a student of using AI. The work will not actually be high quality for domain experts.

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Zara Bergstrom @zarabergstrom.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Härligt Sverige 🤩🇸🇪⚽️

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Dr Mel T @drmel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hey @royalsociety.org any chance of dumping this guy from your Fellowship yet?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

because I know y’all can’t click and read

1. "Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing.
Speech is the secondary or overlaid function.
Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
2. Drowning people's mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people's mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
3. Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water's surface.
Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
4. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
5. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people's bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs."

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

1/2 My take on the Dawkins/Claude/Claudia/Claudius kerfuffle in @thenerve.news - with many 🙏🏽 to @garymarcus.bsky.social for reminding me how Dawkins wrote so powerfully about the weakness of arguments from personal incredulity. www.thenerve.news/p/opinion-ri...

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Richard Dawkins’s chatbot isn’t conscious: it’s just all talk

The acclaimed scientist spent time with Anthropic’s ‘Claudia’ and couldn’t believe she wasn’t sentient. But his own work has taught us that complexity can exist without a divine spark, writes neurosci...

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 07/05/2026

Obviously sure you shouldn't do fraud HOWEVER I do feel "create a fake award to give to myself in order to get a promotion at work" is the kind of go-getter hustle that deserves a promotion at work anyway

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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

PhD program in Psychological Sciences, University of Padua, Italy A three-year programme entirely taught in English, 10 fully funded positions (scholarships included). Application deadline: 20 May 2026

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PhD Psychological Sciences

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL

Discover Postdoctoral Research Fellow jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

***4-year Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology now available at Oxford!*** Open to all areas of Psychology, including Cognitive/Behavioural Neuroscience. PhD in last three years, or be about to submit (some exceptions apply). Deadline: 21st May. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

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Career Development Research Fellowship

Career Development Research Fellowship in Psychology for full-time research offered by St John’s College to early career researchers who have recently completed or are close to completion of a doctora...

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Exciting news for ICOM7 (International Conference on Memory), in Glasgow, 26th-30th July 2027. The conference website is live and we can announce our keynote speakers!

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Nature @nature.com · 30/03/2026

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Jobs - The University of York

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

📢 We’re hiring! The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🔹 Associate Professor 📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

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Assistant or Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick

An academic position as a Assistant or Associate Professor (111338-0226) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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