Tessera
Folgen

Jeff Zacks

@jzacks.bsky.social

Cognitive neuroscientist

73 Posts3433 Follower148 Folgt
Yining Ding@liliand.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our new paper on aging and temporal order memory (with @jzacks.bsky.social) is now out in Psych & Aging! Using a narrative paradigm, we found that older adults have preserved event-based memory organization and show greater knowledge-related benefits in temporal memory than younger adults. 🌟

Jeff Zacks@jzacks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is good news for NIH-funded behavioral scientists and for the public; it resolves an unfortunate Catch-22 situation that inflated administrative burden and occasionally excluded basic behavioral science from funding opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-26-032: Basic Experimental Studies in Humans (BESH) Will No Longer Be Considered Clinical Trials by the NIH

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Basic Experimental Studies in Humans (BESH) Will No Longer Be Considered Clinical Trials by the NIH NOT-OD-26-032. NIH

grants.nih.gov

Jeff Zacks@jzacks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A thoughtful exposition of the liberal arts approach to the undergraduate major (no bias on my part): www.instagram.com/p/DTf7yehETmx/

washuartsci on Instagram: "we’re kicking off the spring semester with episode three of our Major Impact series 🤸🏾in this episode, mathematics & economics ma…"

we’re kicking off the spring semester with episode three of our Major Impact series 🤸🏾in this episode, mathematics & economics major Delia Zacks shares her major decision journey, her advice for prospective WashU students, and why she thinks YOU should choose to be a part of the ArtSci family 🫶

instagram.com

Michael J. Kane@michaeljkane.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

Psychonomic Society@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 9mo ago

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

Andrew R. A. Conway
Jeff Zacks@jzacks.bsky.social · 10mo ago

WashU responded to the White House's "compact for excellence in higher education" with a defense of core principles that was less public and less clear than it should have been. Baby steps. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa... (Requires creating a free account to read.)

Reading Between the Lines on Compact Responses

Universities that rejected the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education emphasized merit in their responses and highlighted core values in turning it down.

insidehighered.com

Jeff Zacks@jzacks.bsky.social · 10mo ago

@fabbs.org wants to hear from you about the recent NSF Graduate Research Fellowship announcement and its impacts on scientists in clinical psychology! Current or past NSF grad fellow in Clinical Psychology? tinyurl.com/36r9znke Current student who hoped to apply? tinyurl.com/yhbz3d5u

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has finally released the solicitation for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for fiscal year 2026. The new solicitation includes two significant chan...

tinyurl.com

Sam Gershman@gershbrain.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Baccarelli was paid $700/hour for his work on a case against Tylenol. I will charge $0/hour to tell courts, FDA, and everyone else that correlations can arise from latent variables in the absence of a direct causal relationship. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump admini...

thecrimson.com

Dr. Cheri A Levinson@cherilev.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The @nsf has also decided that clinical psychology is not eligible for NSF. This is a crock of 💩 Clinical psych (actually clinical science) is a RESEARCH degree. Let’s just completely not support research training in mental health then. Bad bad bad bad decision

Bild
Erica D. Pratt@pratted.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

This means individuals in the following statuses at the time of application are eligible: Undergraduate in the final (senior) year of a bachelor’s degree program Bachelor’s degree-holder with NO enrollment in a graduate degree program (non-degree graduate coursework allowed) Individual enrolled in a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree program with at least three undergraduate years completed First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar) Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs are considered graduate students. For GRFP, joint bachelor’s-master’s degrees are defined as degrees concurrently pursued and awarded. Not be a current NSF employee. Applications that do not meet eligibility requirements will be returned without review as being ineligible for a fellowship.
Hayoung Song@hayoungsong.bsky.social · 11mo ago

How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬? We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do! Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇

A neural network with episodic memory learns causal relationships between narrative events

Humans reflect on past memories to make sense of an ongoing event. Past work has shown that people retrieve causally related past events during comprehension, but the exact process by which this causa...

biorxiv.org

Jeff Zacks@jzacks.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (@fabbs.org) is searching for a short-term technology policy fellow. Great opportunity for a new PhD interested in policy, maybe before a research postdoc or faculty position: fabbs.org/news/2025/08...

We’re Hiring: Technology Policy Fellow – FABBS

Location: Washington, D.C. (hybrid) Salary: Approximately $7,000 per month Start Date: September 15, 2025 Duration: 3 months, with potential for longer Position

fabbs.org