Please spread the word: We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣 We study how shifting brain & attentional states shape memory and how people experience their worlds. fMRI/iEEG + a fun, supportive lab community + space to pursue your own ideas. 📅 Apply by Aug 15 tinyurl.com/fx5k7teb

We have recently published work in Psych Science and JEP:LMC showing a surprising relationship between initial capture and learned suppression of salient distractors. Ultimately, this has led us to believe that attentional control is much more flexible than often assumed. Read more on my blog!

From Capture to Suppression: How Distraction Shapes Attentional Control

By Nick Gaspelin and Yue Zhang Zhang, Y. & Gaspelin, N. (2026a). From capture to control: Initial capture increases learned suppression. Psychological Science. 37(4), 2…

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My lab is hiring! We are recruiting a full time research coordinator to support our projects on memory brain states. More info and application: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Other at University of Virginia

Apply for Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Other at University of Virginia

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Don Hertzfeldt: "When I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out & feel like you're hunting, to feel like you're living your life." [kottke.org]

If a slop generator can produce a "graphical abstract" considered suitable for publication "in minutes", then "graphical abstracts" don't add anything of material value to the publication.

Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)@jperkel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Also new @nature.com, how to use #AI to create a graphical abstract in minutes. By Ananya Thakur. 🧪🎨🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2mo ago

The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation.

Congratulations to Julia Haaf @juliaha.bsky.social for winning the Estes early career fellow award this year! Julia will formally receive her award at her guest lecture at mathpsych 2027 @mathpsych.org

“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”

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Unfettered access to chatbots can harm educational outcomes Using AI while solving problems improves performance by 48% (GPT base). When access to AI was taken away, students actually performed worse than those who never had access (17% reduction in grades) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

When the editor of Science writes soemthing you agree with ±90%, for which he'll surely face stiff headwinds from the AI bros you dispise, but you pile on of because "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" (which OBV funny), you have to ask yourself whether you're trying to affect change or in a culture war.

Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).

Thank you for your leadership @holdenthorp.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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We've just published a small opinion piece in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, arguing for the under-estimated utility of resting state neuroimaging data, given exciting new methods to analyse it. Work led by @loopyluppi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the traditional Herculean pillars of constra...

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✍️ Megan Rapinoe, writing for Marie Claire “No girl deserves to be discriminated against. That’s why all girls, including trans girls, should be able to play with their classmates in the sports they love… girls who don’t fit someone else’s expectation of femininity, will face further harassment.”

Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters

"If we really cared about safety and fairness in sports, we’d be breaking down barriers facing girls at every level," writes Megan Rapinoe.

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The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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USMNT has a great opportunity to do something unexpected today, just saying www.ussoccer.com/respect-the-...

fNIM lab is hiring! We are hiring a Research Assistant, for details check the link: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/32240

New article with @yirenr.bsky.social ! Memory for pairs of visual stimuli can be strengthened by music as a contextual backdrop. Critically, this influence extends to indirect relational associations more---v @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Music enhances associative generalization: Evidence from a memory integration task - Memory & Cognition

Successful knowledge generalization requires integrating overlapping experiences into flexible memory representations that support inference beyond direct experience. Although context is known to infl...

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In a new preprint, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social and I investigated stimulus-specific memorability with ROC analysis. We find that the variability of latent memory effects (familiarity) caused by individual memory items across people is a game-changing dimension of memorability osf.io/c62an/files/...

New paper from our lab in collaboration with @adevitt.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Episodic and semantic memory contributions to imagination and creativity

The ability to generate novel creative ideas (divergent thinking) is closely linked with our ability to imagine novel future events (episodic simulation). Here, we employed an individual difference...

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New paper 🧵! There's a lot of interest in how brain regions represent information in fMRI. One popular approach uses searchlights that roam across the brain to decode conditions. We built a method to uncover the sub-networks within searchlight maps.

“If a program cannot show that it leaves its graduates financially better off than if they had never enrolled, it should not be underwritten by federal taxpayers” -Nicholas Kent Education is not just a means to make more $$. Don't swallow this lie. Don't let your school's admin swallow this lie.

New Federal Rule Tying College Programs to Post-Grad Salaries Is Finalized

The Education Department made minor changes after a public-comment period. And higher-ed groups have dropped their lawsuit against President Trump’s first anti-DEI executive orders.

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We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠

No kidding I think I'm going to use this in my syllabus in the Fall, with appropriate citation of course

Added to the #psychsky list of starter packs developed @drspringflorjo.bsky.social #academicsky Latinx Psychology go.bsky.app/V9ey4RC Black in Neuro go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe LGBTQ+ Psych go.bsky.app/LsshH49 Personality Psych go.bsky.app/TwHBMQi Women Clinical Psych go.bsky.app/SsNPcGP