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We're hiring! FT research assistant @ UT Dallas

Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging.

Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk.

App. deadline May 6.

Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31680

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The pioneering child development study monitoring babies’ brains A unique study is tracking the development of hundreds of babies whose parents have also been studied since birth.

We (Karla Holmboe, Mara Cercignani and @rogierk.bsky.social) will soon be advertising for a postdoc on BLOCCS (Bristol Longitudinal study Of Childhood Cognition from infancy to School), funded by the Wellcome Trust.

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Open Call for Proposals 2026 - Levante Deadline for submission: June 10, 2026. The overarching objective of LEVANTE is to identify how individual variability, group heterogeneity, and contextual variability influence children’s learning an...

The @Jacobs Foundation has opened the 2026 Call for Proposals for the LEVANTE initiative, aimed at understanding of how children aged 3 to 12 grow, learn, and develop across times, places, and cultures. Apply before 10 June.
levante-network.org/open-call-fo...

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Join our next #ResearchSeminar with Prof. Sabine Seehagen on Sleep, Screens, and Science: A Contextual Approach to Early Development.

📅 April 27th, 2:30 p.m., Andreasstrasse 15 in Zurich, AND 4.55/57.

Everyone is welcome, no registration is needed.

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Veranstaltungsreihe Meet-the-data@Amtliche Statistik Die zweite Staffel der Veranstaltungsreihe startet am 10. Oktober 2024 mit Daten aus dem Bereich der amtlichen Statistik.

Daten-Nerds aufgepasst – und alle, die es werden wollen: Am 4. Mai stellt das Forschungsdatenzentrum des DZA beim KonsortSWD Daten des Deutschen #Alterssurveys vor. Weitere Infos und Anmeldung unter: www.konsortswd.de/aktuelles/me...

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LIFE alumna @sonjasudimac.bsky.social, that is.

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Check out this important work—developed together with researchers from our Center for Adaptive Rationality @arc-mpib.bsky.social!

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (100%, E 13 TV-L)

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research.

Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

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Be part of the city tour!
We are looking for children (ages 4-10) and adults (ages 18-35) to take part in a fun virtual online memory study. The study helps scientists understand how children and adults learn and remember new information. 

In this study, you will join a live video session with a researcher and then:
-Watch short animations of magical cities on a computer
-Answer simple questions about what they saw during the tour to cellect coins and clues to rescue a lost animal!
Study information:
-Meet with a researcher virtually online to play memory games
-Three separate sessions, spaced 2-3 days apart
-Each session lasts about 45 minutes
-Compensated with $35 Amazon gift card after study completion
Please fill out the survey using this link to see if you are eligible. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/research-groups/raven/participation/city-tour

Be part of the city tour! We are looking for children (ages 4-10) and adults (ages 18-35) to take part in a fun virtual online memory study. The study helps scientists understand how children and adults learn and remember new information. In this study, you will join a live video session with a researcher and then: -Watch short animations of magical cities on a computer -Answer simple questions about what they saw during the tour to cellect coins and clues to rescue a lost animal! Study information: -Meet with a researcher virtually online to play memory games -Three separate sessions, spaced 2-3 days apart -Each session lasts about 45 minutes -Compensated with $35 Amazon gift card after study completion Please fill out the survey using this link to see if you are eligible. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/research-groups/raven/participation/city-tour

Looking for kids (4-10) and adults (18-35) for an online memory study. Don't pass up this chance to tour some adorable magical cities!

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New book co-edited by LIFE alumna @morgancjerald.bsky.social!

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Come work with us, answering interesting questions in new ways

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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.

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.

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

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Professional Teaching Fellow - School of Psychology / Te Kura Mātai Hinengaro Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the largest and most highly ranked sci...

two teaching roles in Psychology at Auckland Uni, one of which will be focused on research methods. NZ$100K+ salary

these roles are unusual in that they are permanent teaching-focused faculty roles

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Through the Blue Book Traineeship, young professionals can join the ERC and gain first-hand insight into how an EU institution supports frontier, curiosity-driven research across Europe.

🔗 Apply now: traineeships.ec.europa.eu

#EUTraineeships #EUScienceJobs

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Congratulations to LIFE fellow @nataliehutchins.bsky.social! 🎉

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1/ NEW in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology — our first review of a decade+ of research on understanding & predicting cultural change, with Michael Varnum.
This one is personal. A thread on what we found, what surprised us, and how two kids reading Asimov ended up here. 🧵

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Honored to be among this year's APS Rising Stars ⭐️. I'm immensely grateful for my mentors, collaborators, colleagues, and friends for making science *fun*!

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Congrats Dr. Yucel for being selected as one of this year’s APS Rising Stars!

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Congratulations to Rising Stars LIFE faculty @jkmaccormack.bsky.social and LIFE alumna @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social! 🌟

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Postdoc Position: Affective Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Postdoc at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24.
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

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Postdoc position: Our team seeks a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying noradrenaline's role in tau progression and cognitive decline. The Martinos Center/MGH in Boston is a superb place to work. Reach out if you have any questions. Come and join us! 🎉🔵

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Work by LIFE fellow @luiantaverra.bsky.social et al.

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Book cover of Kathryn Paige Harden’s “Original Sin: On the Generics of vice, the problem of blame, and the future of forgiveness”

Book cover of Kathryn Paige Harden’s “Original Sin: On the Generics of vice, the problem of blame, and the future of forgiveness”

Just finished @kph3k.bsky.social’s “Original Sin” about genetic (and environmental) influences on behaviors that we morally condemn, and their implications for how we think about blame and justice. Greatly enjoyed reading this one!>

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Wir haben 2 Professuren in Bielefeld zu besetzen. 1) W2 Allgemeine Psychologie und Neurobildgebung (Nachfolge Werner Schneider) www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere... & 2) eine Lotte-Köhler-Stiftungs-Juniorprofessur (W1) für Psychodynamische Psychotherapie www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere...!

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Open Rank Faculty Cluster Hire Search for the New Department of Cognitive Science at Bocconi - Bocconi University

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:

www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...

Deadline: May 4th, 2026

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Vacancy ID 12681 The Faculty of Psychology and the Cluster of Excellence Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI) offer a position as

Dr. Evelyn Muschter, Junior Group Leader, is looking a talented research associate (PhD/Postdoc) to join her team at CeTi (@tudresden.bsky.social ) and work on exciting projects at the intersection of science and technology. Curious? Learn more and apply here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

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New Collectivism Index Offers Dataset for Exploring Regional Differences and Change Over Time A new study offers a validated index of individualism versus collectivism for provinces and prefectures across China. This provides high granularity. Unlike most studies, this index has data across ti...

I wrote a little blog post about my new study creating a collectivism index for regions in China (and why I think it's neat!). communities.springernature.com/posts/new-co... @natureportfolio.nature.com @springernature.com @springer.springernature.com

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⏰ Last call! Applications for the 23rd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality close next week, on March 16!

✨ Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social, June 08–16, 2026, to explore "Decision Making in the Age of AI"

Don't miss your chance to apply 👇
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

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A Collectivism Index for Investigating Cultural Variation in China across Regions and Time - Scientific Data Scientific Data - A Collectivism Index for Investigating Cultural Variation in China across Regions and Time

New study just out! 🚨 We created a way to rewind and fast forward through cultural differences in China.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

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