Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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 🐒 resources.

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

🧠Welcome to the official Bluesky for the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS) Early Career Researcher (ECR) members🧠

Here we'll share information about upcoming ACNS conferences, workshops, and other ECR-relevant opportunities!

#ACNS #EarlyCareerResearcher #Science #ACNSECR

Childhood electroencephalographic signatures predict distinct developmental trajectories to adolescent anxiety and depression Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of anxiety and depression, yet their neurodevelopmental origins remain unclear.

My close friend/colleague (Dr Pengfei Xu) has published an impressive 7-yr prospective study with nearly 400 young people, showing that functional brain dynamics in early childhood relate to adolescent anxiety and depression. www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... #PsychSciSky

1/8 New preprint alert!

How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain?
What could be the functional implications of cardioception?

We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Culture-specific pathways to the emerging sense of agency in early vocal development: https://osf.io/9g8zd

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

Psychology | Alex Holcombe FYI for this psychology lecturer job you must already have unrestricted work rights in Australia

Psychology lecturer job in Sydney. Apparently for this job you must already have unrestricted work rights in Australia www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: Academic Level A Salary package: $89,313 - $112,103 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time, Fixed term (up to 24 months)  The Position The Postdoctoral Fellow will work with ...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Psychology at the Australian National University

jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

"every talk is a job talk" is absolutely true, but imo the less formal settings (analogous to the rehearsals) are as important, or even more so.

eg if you're hiring a postdoc or a colleague, credible information on how they collaborate or how they work with students (etc) is absolutely actionable

Meet our second keynote speaker for APCV & EPC 2026!

Prof. Elaine Reese from the University of Otago will deliver a keynote lecture titled "Memory Development: From Basic Science to Applied Approaches."

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...

new review paper in press, on a brand-new line of research that's personal for me and that I'm excited about — music in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

this one led by a wonderful student Sophia Moret and in collab with my kickass Yale Neurology colleague @carolynfredericks.bsky.social

If you're working on health topics and are into mobile sensing -- the non-profit data4life supports early-career researchers with access to their GDPR-compliant data collection platform, mentorship, open-access coverage and travel support!

www.data4life.care/en/about-us/...

I missed all this kerfuffle last year becuase I was preoccupied with other things but gawd this is some bullshit. I'm glad now that I didn't submit my last paper to a Wiley journal as I had considered...

Age differences in innovation strategies: Children favour exploration and adults prefer exploitation Innovation plays a fundamental role in human cognitive development, yet the mechanisms by which it emerges in childhood are complex. Innovation abilit…

A fresh take on kid innovation in relation to task properties. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sometimes it does make sense to give awards for individual contributions to science. Simine is a force for good, and brings everyone along.

Next up: Keynote Speaker Announcements.

Introducing the first speaker for APCV & EPC 2026!

Prof. Hakwan Lau will present a keynote lecture titled "Prefrontal Mechanisms for Perception."

'No difference across genders was found for either emotion expression or emotion perception.' #psyscisky

Emotional women? Testing gender effects on emotion expression and recognition with genuine and dynamic emotion expressions: https://osf.io/u7erj

A new paper from @yuyan0m.bsky.social on how children acquire the meaning of the word "zero". Tl/dr: It ain't nothing.

A 3D cartoon alien with a round pink face looks forward. It has large green eyes, a small pink nose, bright blue lips, and short orange eyebrow shapes above its eyes. Blue ear-like shapes stick out on both sides of its head. Two thin antennae rise from the top of its head and bend outward, each ending in shiny, speckled spheres. The background is plain light gray.

How do humans learn to weight signals when reasoning about emotions? Children change both kinds of cues they rely on and the ways they use cues in their reasoning. New work from Andrea Stein using adorable stimuli, too. 🧪 dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc... #cogsci #devsci #AffectSci
#PsychSciSky

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

Bridging developmental and statistical approaches to variation and evolution | PNAS Phenotypic variation is the raw material for evolutionary diversification and adaptation. However, a critical gap remains in evolutionary theory be...

How does development shape the variation evolution can act on?

In our new paper in @pnas.org , we bridge developmental dynamics and quantitative genetics, linking dynamical models of phenotype formation with the statistical parameters used to study evolutionary change

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

Pediatrics & Child Health has been publishing fictional case studies for 25 years and is now "correcting" them to acknowledge they are fictional. I have never seen anything like this.
retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

"it'll look good on your cv"

Calibrated deference: Children's evaluations of responses to disagreement across knowledge gaps Declaring that you are right or wrong is not merely a factual matter, but often a deeply social decision about when to own up to the limits of your kn…

New paper with Ben Morris and Alex Shaw out last week in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! We find that children are sensitive to who has better evidence when evaluating how people behave in disagreements.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Affective Forecasting Accuracy in Everyday Life - Affective Science Affective Science - People often predict how they might feel in the future, with varying degrees of accuracy. Such affective forecasts can centre around periods of time (e.g., tomorrow, next week)...

In work recently out in Affective Science we investigated how accurately people can forecast their emotions in everyday life. Study 1 focused on forecasts for specific time periods (tomorrow, next week). Study 2 focused on forecasts for daily unpleasant events. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎫 APCV & EPC 2026 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Don’t miss early‑bird pricing and limited‑availability event tickets!

For more details, go to: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

See you all on 1 July!

⚡SYMPOSIA SPOTLIGHT #1

We are super excited to announce a series of symposia taking place throughout our conference.

Here is a preview of some featured sessions and speakers. Of course, there is more to come. Stay tuned!