Congratulations to Dr Dana Hayward on winning the 2025 Women in Cognitive Science Canada Mentorship Award! @wicscanada.bsky.social

Join us and WICS-E on July 8th at the University of Dundee for this year’s WiCSC+ meeting during the CSBBCS conference!
Please visit the following links to sign up for the speed mentoring session as a mentor or mentee before June 27th at 11:59 PM.

Mentor: shorturl.at/jtvsJ
Mentee: shorturl.at/k3HpR

Next Meeting EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. This will be a joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), and will include the 53rd B…

EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025.

A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS).

Submission portals for this meeting will open at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th 2025 for a minimum of 24 hours.

eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

📢 Big news! Our 2025 Annual Meeting will be a collab with @wicseurope.bsky.social, during the Joint @exppsychsoc.bsky.social/CSBBCS Conference in Dundee, Scotland on ⭐July 8⭐, and will feature a panel on international collaboration.
Questions for the panel? Share here:
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Are you a 🇨🇦 ECR (graduate student, postdoc) in Cognitive Science looking for a small grant to support a new collaborative research project? Apply for the @wicscanada.bsky.social Small Grant for Jr Scientists:
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Know someone who is a fantastic mentor to 🇨🇦 women in cognitive science? Nominate them for the @wicscanada.bsky.social 2025 Mentorship Award:
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Women’s representation and compensation in full-time faculty positions  - University Affairs A statistical analysis of Canadian universities from 1970 to 2022.

Gains made, but still underrepresented: Women in Canadian universities from 1970 to 2022
universityaffairs.ca/features/wom...

Online writing groups keep running until mid-May.

You can still join as they run on a drop-in/drop-out basis. Everyone is welcome with no commitment.

Sign up here:

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We’re hiring a 9-month LTA in Cognitive Psychology. @wicscanada.bsky.social

Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of @unesco.org's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and I wanted to share some important facts about how far we've come and how far we need to go. 🧵(1/7) #WomenInScience

Are you a 2024 or 2025 CSBBCS member?

If so, check your member-affiliated inbox for a ballot to renew WiCSC+ for another 5 years.

See our activities at wicsc.ca; follow us at @wicscanada.bsky.social, & check out our European colleagues at @wicseurope.bsky.social..

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Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. (Deadline January 6)

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Resources Resources Preparing for Academic Careers Resources in this section are aimed at success in academia. This includes tips and tricks on applying for graduate and post-doc positions, learning about fu…

Are you a #Canadian #cognitive scientist who is looking for resources to promote #equity in our discipline?

Check out the resource page at the Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ website (wicsc.ca/resources/), and follow us here (@wicscanada.bsky.social)

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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AI and Grants: guidance from Canada's expert panel on use of AI in development and review of research grants, convened by the 3 federal funding councils:
🌟In short, AI is ok (with conditions) for grant prep, not for grant evaluation
science.gc.ca/site/science...

FACULTY POSITION:
Assistant Professor: Perception and Cognition (Tenure-track)
The Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) invites applications for a full-time tenure stream Assistant Professor position in Perception and Cognition.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Strategies for women in leadership roles, from Dr. Verna Yiu, UAlberta Provost: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/when-...

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Are you an ECR (graduate student, postdoc) in 🇨🇦 looking for funding to start a new research collaboration? Apply for a Women in Cognitive Science - Canada+ Small Grant: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...