Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage π resources.
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561
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 Alzheimerβs disease risk.
App. deadline May 6.
Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31680
π₯ NEW PAPER/TUTORIAL JUST OUT
"How Much Data is Enough? The Zeta Law of Discoverability in Biomedical Data, featuring the enigmatic Riemann zeta function"
π§ Check out the PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.17581
π Abstract: arxiv.org/abs/2604.17581
Did they ever develop a good explanation for the effect?
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In this study, we showed that tuning a brain rhythm called the individual alpha frequency (IAF) through #neurofeedback improves attentional performance. 1/7 πhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121912
JOB ALERT
Anne Krendl's Neuroscience of Mind & Behavior Lab is looking for a lab manager. Cool new imaging project on social cognition and aging. Come work for the world's greatest boss in the country's oldest Psych Department!
Anne's lab:
krendlab.iu.edu
Job Posting:
hrms.iu.edu/psc/PH1PRD_P...
neat analysis of brain endocasts of palaeanodonts, an early mammal (think pangolins without the armor), ~40mya
Dino endocasts get all the glory, but to make good inferences on endocasts on extinct species, we need these close comparisons to extant species
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides:
gershmanlab.com/lectures.html
I'll continue to update these as I improve them.
Dementia incidence declines - we find generational improvements in level and age-change in episodic memory combined account for the full effect. Effects strongest with most decline, supported by hippocampal atrophy. ~783,000 memory assessments www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tenure-track faculty at U. Illinois Springfield have been on strike for fair pay with real raises for 13 days. Click the card to email the Chancellor and demand she settle a fair contract NOW! #AcademicSky #UnionYes
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This May Day, join higher ed workers across the nation and fight for an affordable and safe education that serves the common good. Learn more and register at www.labor4highered.org
#HandsOffHigherEd
#MayDayHigherEd
#HigherEdOverBillionaires
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This @cp-neuron.bsky.social neuroview paper of the brilliant @ji-joan-lin.bsky.social on the neural basis of aesthetics provides a conceptual cornerstone for an ongoing series of impressive empirical studies in which we unveil the multidimensional nature of aesthetic experience.
Supports the anxiety that NIH is being retooled to support industry to the exclusion of universities.
White matter pathways mediating dorsolateral prefrontal TMS therapy for depression
New @natneuro.nature.com paper led by Caio Seguin, Robin Cash, and Andrew Zalesky.
We map (indirect) pathways from DLPFC to SGC and link individual variation with response efficacy.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The "2-body problem" affects many in #AcademicSky & #PsychSciSky.
Join us April 28, 2pm EDT, for an open & honest conversation with women who have navigated this reality firsthand. Jointly organized by @sparksociety.bsky.social @wicsc-trainee.bsky.social
Register: tinyurl.com/yc86by7f
Inferno, Canto III.
The apathetic, who lived without praise or blame and are condemned to wander, chased by wasps.
youtu.be/QMv_sgqq2Mk?...
Follow @unionnow.org ! Sign up. Donate! Build union power and party with us in NYC tomorrow!
How to join zillions of lexical norms to each word in your language sample the easy way: a quick tutorial and demo reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_JoinLe...
New paper from our group out in @pnas.org! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... Big thank you to coauthors @vosstacular.bsky.social and @anikka-jordan.bsky.social. Anikka spearheaded this project during her time as an RA and is now a grad student at Yale.
If we are using taxpayer fairness as a criterion, Black Americans make up ~14% of the population yet receive less than 1% of of NIH funding.
5/5
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Indirect Costs (But Were Afraid to Ask)
I have been working on this post for some time.
Lots of data, analysis, and some policy recommendations.
goodscience.substack.com/p/everything...
Questions and comments welcome.
π§ Fun new paper from Mnemology lab π§
Aging is associated with a reduction in the quality of sensory information coupled with increased reliance on semantic information
Here, we show that structural connectivity mediates this visuo-semantic representational shift (VSRS)
Semantic Support in action!
We received the an invitation from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) for CNS members who are faculty to join a discussion on 4/10 about federal science funding:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This is in response to the the President's budget request for FY27. 1/
The Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS) is seeking nominations for new members. Self-nominations are welcome! The society is broadly focused on memory research; not just disorders.
Here is the nomination form, which includes info about eligibility criteria: forms.gle/Qn7mchoPpaqL...
Saturday was a good day for a fun chat about dreams and stuff with Katherine Bell on her podcast "the Dream Journal" (on ksqd.org/the-dream-jo...) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4H...
If we ever come out of this, you, @cnwahlheim.bsky.social and @nadiabrashier.bsky.social are going to come out as the most important psychologists since Anne Treisman started pushing Ts
