My lab is recruiting a postdoc and a full-time research technician to work on an NIH-funded project studying age-related changes in memory for naturalistic events. Behavior, fMRI, and blood-based biomarkers. 3+ years funding guaranteed.
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykjfbnj8
Tech: tinyurl.com/2f2hw3f5
R SemanticDistance package beta version live. Computes pairwise distance (dog:leash, dog:wolf) in both ordered (ngram-to-word) and unordered text (word list to matrix of distances, word pairs in columns). Suggestions welcome, demos coming. reilly-conceptscognitionlab.github.io/SemanticDist...
Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June.
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
Thank you @psypost.bsky.social for this piece on our work on music-evoked nostalgia!
A US Senator Joins the Fray. Thank you
@murray.senate.gov ! More of this, please!
www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...
The university of arizona psychology department is hiring faculty with a strong interest in teaching to join our outstanding career track teaching unit! Please use this link to apply:
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
SUPER excited to share this opening for a senior (Assoc/Full) Professor of Psychiatry + endowed Chair at Dartmouth! You: a translational research scientist using imaging (fMRI, fNIRS, fUS) and/or neurostimulation (TMS, tTIS, tACS/DCS, tFUS). Please apply and repost!
tinyurl.com/dartmouthneuro
Hey folks, save the date for #TAMeG2025, our 10th anniversary! 🎉🥂
Featuring @charan-neuro.bsky.social author of NYT Bestseller WHY WE REMEMBER. linktr.ee/whyweremember
Stay tuned for call for panel announcement & call for papers
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@barense.bsky.social @marymcandrews.bsky.social
🚨🔔Calling all Neuropsychologists and those who know and support them!!!
Check out a new position posting here.
Come join me and other awesome colleagues @ucimind.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social 🚨🔔
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09362
This is presuming the "result" is a good grade in the assessment, whereas the result should be the learning and understanding itself. How we re-centre that is the big question.
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky
1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
If you've been meaning to catch up on some important discussions around preregistration, I'd recommend this exchange in Assessment, beginning with this paper by @klonskylab.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... (continued, 1 of 3)
Neuroscientists: please consider following the BNA @britishneuro.bsky.social - a professional society that supports neuroscience and neuroscientists
Wow! Nice job!
...so just as we don't expect all possible trait- or state effects to emerge in all tasks, we don't expect to see them in all movies. That said, I do think pushing ourselves to quantify *what it is* about a "naturalistic" stimulus that pulls out effects of interest will help us make progress...
Grateful to @cnn.com for featuring our #NIA supported work at @uscpsychology.bsky.social linking financial vulnerability in older age and #Alzheimers disease. You can check out the video segment here, which also features my amazing lab running a brain MRI session:
www.cnn.com/2024/12/10/h...
It is shocking how big the gaps in knowledge are! Thanks for doing this research.
Good to know!
That’s perfect. Whole chimney of charcoal, and over the coals the entire time?
Feather on a stick on top tower?
Peer reviews can vary from harsh and demoralizing to constructive and kind. How can we make sure the peer reviews we write fall into the latter group?
Join us for this virtual workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social to learn about the dos and don'ts of effective & constructive peer reviews!
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to bruce.caughran@northwestern.edu] - please repost
Want to level up your data skills before the end of 2024? This is the best intro textbook I've found for R: psyteachr.github.io/ads-v3/ by the brilliant @emilynordmann.bsky.social and @debruine.bsky.social
Fascinating new blindsight piece from Beatrice de Gelder, Nicholas Humphrey, and my wonderful UQ colleague Alan Pegna, about their blindsight patient (TM) - who not only accurately detects colour but reports the 'experience' of colour, especially red #visionscience
doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
Noun or verb?
The two books that are foundational for memory researchers represent this difference.
Ebbinghaus (1885) Memory. Treated memory as a thing, both as a capability and as individual traces.
Bartlett (1932) Remembering. Treated memory as an activity, the reconstruction of events.
Question for my #neuropsychology colleagues. Do you prefer using regression-based demographic norms over traditional (e.g., age-stratified) norms? What are your reasons for favoring one over the other?
It takes a LONG time to manually score autobiographical memory narratives for internal and external details (in Autobiographical Interview terms). Here, we report a new model that automates this process, matching manual scorers, but much faster (5s instead of 10m per memory). osf.io/preprints/ps...
What a wonderful space and group of people!
I just set up @jcogneurosci.bsky.social ; at some point it will post papers as they publish, if folks want to friend that account. thx