📢 Job Alert! The @compcommlab.bsky.social at the University of Vienna is hiring a University Assistant (Postdoc) in the area of computational communication science! 💻 📍 Vienna | 6-year position | full-time Apply until the 3rd of October via the University of Vienna job portal ⬇️

After six months of navigating immigration, media requests, and new funding schemes, my wife and I spent last week hiking through the mountains of Georgia’s remote Tusheti region. Ancient, atmospheric, and vast — exactly the sort of reset a busy mind needs.

Funding curves (if you can call the fiscal year 2026 one that) for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) from grant-witness.us

Strong recommend.

Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Read my biography of Henri Bergson and: - wow your family and friends with your insights into pure durée - learn about the time Marcel Proust was best man at a wedding -access the immediate data of your consciousness - find out why a philosopher caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway

📣Post Doc Alert! I am hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in political language and NLP/LLMs 🤩 Come join a great, interdisciplinary team at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social in Odense! Applications due October 15, 2026. Detail here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Computational Political Communication Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre

Application deadline: October 15, 2026

fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com

Looks like a very useful neuroscience funding searcher from the good folks @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Neuroscience Grants Funding Finder

Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages.

thetransmitter.org

A new CCL #SeniorScientist position is now officially open on the @univie.ac.at job portal! Please apply and/or share with colleagues with a matching profile! 📑

I’m pleased to report that Salzburg lives up to the hype

Hello, Game Studies/Video Game scholars or developers with an interest in games scholarship! I'm looking for one or two *very very very* quick turnarounds for a manuscript with @gpccomm.bsky.social.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 4mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

My MS thesis involved comics, and I had the opportunity to present it in Lent’s group at IAMCR. He was such an intellectually generous leader of that group — and such a warm presence in the room. Can’t imagine a better representative for the academic study of comic art — a gentle titan.

Ernesto Priego@ernestopriego.com · 4mo ago

Saddened to hear of the passing of pioneering comics and cartooning scholar John A. Lent: a true giant who educated, inspired and encouraged so many of us. 2025 marked John Lent’s 90th birth year and 2026 the 40th anniversary of his first, self-published international bibliography on comic art.

Very excited for this! See you next week, Vienna!

Audrey Lin, DPhil@undeaddandy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm pleased to present with my fellow APART-USA colleague @mattminich.bsky.social at Pint of Science Wien next week! We will be speaking on our research & why science needs freedom. Our event sold out! See ya'll there! Pub quiz!!! tinyurl.com/wynn557p

Great documentary from @annikahorne.bsky.social on where early career researchers are right now.

MagnoliaBouton@magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please take a moment to listen to the stories of early career researchers that have been negatively affected by this administration’s unruly decisions. Don’t forget their stories! ✊🩷 youtu.be/SvrAxKGniys?...

Our lab (w/ @patrickgbissett) is hiring a full-time research coordinator to work with us on cognitive control, dense fMRI, computational modeling, and human-AI interaction. Designed for post-bacs looking to start a Ph. D in ~2 years. Please repost. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDNLbWAG

Social Science Research Coordinator (Hybrid Opportunity) in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States

Professor Russ Poldrack’s lab is seeking a new full-time Research Coordinator. The RC will work closely with and report directly to Dr. Patrick...

phxc1b.rfer.us

@anniewald.bsky.social, @aytalina.bsky.social, and I present at the Long Night of Research!⚛️ How do social issues compete for public attention?🤔 You will learn via playing with an agent-based model 🤖🎲 langenachtderforschung.at/station/5656 📍24.04, 5-11 PM 📍Stand C04, Main Building of @univie.ac.at

Wie konkurrieren soziale Themen um öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit? - #LNF26 Lange Nacht der Forschung

Warum setzen sich manche Themen in der Öffentlichkeit durch – während andere rasch verschwinden? An dieser Station interagieren Sie mit einer Computersimulation und erfahren, wie Aufmerksamkeit in soz...

langenachtderforschung.at

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Found a really nice Dutch grant for turning our WARN-D pipeline that forecasts depression onset for young adults into an actionable system for people at risk. Grant requires a Dutch tech partner, preferably with an existing app that can be adapted to ours needs. Any interest? Please get in touch.

Important to note, I think, that this very good news is from 2024 -- remains to be seen whether trends will continue after the decimation of federal US tobacco control centers.

Smoking rates are at a historic low. You're not hearing about it from the government

The CDC had remarkable data on smoking rates last fall, but it no longer had smoking experts available to review it and disseminate it.

statnews.com

I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)

This is really interesting!

Colin Gorrie@colingorrie.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

An American-made hunger crisis. A worsening cholera epidemic. Our reporters journeyed to some of the places most devastated by Trump’s dismantling of foreign aid. They spoke to hundreds of people who witnessed and experienced how political appointees cut programs in arbitrary ways:

What Really Happened When USAID Was Cut

YouTube video by ProPublica

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My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

Hey... that's me! Extremely happy to be here---in a city and department that have so far exceeded all hype.

IPKW - Department of Communication@ipkw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Welcome aboard! 🛶 We’re excited to welcome Matt Minich (University of Wisconsin–Madison), who has joined the department as an ÖAW APART-USA Research Fellow. A former social scientist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Matt is now researching digital health communication here in Vienna 🇦🇹

I’m proud to say I was tear gassed repeatedly during the first Trump administration… and this refreshingly creative piece perfectly captures the experience and its implications.

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 8mo ago

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Inspiring — it’s never too late to become your best (physically largest) self.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.@arctomet.bsky.social · 8mo ago

phys.org/news/2026-01...

A good complement to the very misleading take that (some) science funding may soon be restored.

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

statnews.com

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 8mo ago

This is wrong: “Science is doing OK,” Ms. Zimmermann, of @aaas.org, said. “Things are not bad at all, given our expectations.” No. I might guess that this quote was taken out of context, meant to be solely about the budgeting process. Because the agencies are still being corrupted internally.

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

My wife and I both had our careers effectively nuked by DOGE this year. It’s been a nightmare for us and thousands of other Americans. This analysis is welcome but maddening — all of our pain and fear served to make these “cuts” look and feel meaningful…. but they weren’t.

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

nytimes.com

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Duncan Bell@duncanbell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...