Nora Newcombe
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
Cognitive and developmental scientist at Temple University
Cortical territories compete in developmental space race doi.org/10.53053/HIF...
Cortical territories compete in developmental space race
Sensory and association regions are established through a reciprocal process, according to a new model of cortical development.
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Super excited to be back @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in NYU - this year presenting new exciting work from Project Simsom with @camerontellis.bsky.social, Dan Yamins and the team. Are we ready to build an AI model of infant development? We think so ... come check it out Thursday 10:30 E39 👶🤖
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hayley Bree Caldwell, Sebastian Michelmann, et al: Phase similarity between similar objects indicates representational merging across retrieval training but not sleep doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Susan Snyder reports Andrew Martin was among drafters of the proposed reforms. Martin, with Diermeier, commissioned the "Vanderbilt Report" which claimed "a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of political criteria" in the humanities: www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...
Nora Newcombe@noranewcombe.bsky.social · yesterdayCovered in a veneer of reason, but a right-wing oligarchy is behind the vision. Universities should be wary. Gift link below. Great reporting from Susan Snyder @inquirer.com share.inquirer.com/GWDsgO?utm_s...
Covered in a veneer of reason, but a right-wing oligarchy is behind the vision. Universities should be wary. Gift link below. Great reporting from Susan Snyder @inquirer.com share.inquirer.com/GWDsgO?utm_s...
Trump administrator asks colleges to agree to reforms. Penn is a member of the group that helped draft them.
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on Monday asked colleges to agree in public statements on their websites to wide-ranging reforms involving protests, admissions, tuition costs and more areas.
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I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
But this is history. Back in 1931, university professors were asked bend the knee to Mussolini. 12 out of 1200 refused to do so. 15/ blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...
The Italian university professors’ oath of allegiance to fascism (1931)
«I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist Party’s] Statute and the other laws of the State, and to fulfil …
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Researchers (led by @jeroenpasterkamp.bsky.social) demonstrate how sparse genetic labeling enables comprehensive reconstruction of individual dopamine neurons in mice; Subtypes exhibit distinct developmental & adult morphologies, as well as responses to axon degeneration www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Inspirational effort! Maybe a model for other communities ? www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Vaccines, Tylenol, and Leucovorin: Autism Scientists Band Together to Refute Misinformation
A year after the Coalition of Autism Scientists was established, Helen Tager-Flusberg talks about the creation, impact, and future of the organization.
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My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...
Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology
The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...
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I'm back! Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 July 31 (Year 2, Week 31) - student visas, asylum cases & ICE surge at airports - "Golden Age" & Vanderbilt reports - kangaroo courts, grant terminations & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Year 2, Week 31
Jul 11-31, 2026 – the abracadabra of it all
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@psychiowa.bsky.social has two tenure-track positions open: one in Clinical Science, one open-area in Neuroscience. Iowa City is a great place to do science (and to live)! Come join us! psychology.uiowa.edu/about/job-op...
Job Openings
Learn more about the job opportunities available at University of Iowa in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
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Exciting and informative thread!
Kari Hoffman@karihoffman.bsky.social · 6d ago📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩🔬#OpenAccess
When children start school, how do their brains change to support learning of formal mathematics? Our new paper, with @standehaene.bsky.social, just out in PNAS, followed ~50 children with yearly fMRI scans over 3 years, from preschool to 2nd grade, to see how this network develops. 🧵
Initial organization and progressive expansion of the math-responsive brain network during the first school years
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Prominent researchers in my field spent over 2 decades telling big stories about the relation between brain & mental health with very little robust data. This has led to really crazy stuff like this, impossible if we had not normalized this bizarre storytelling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
A scientist says he can scan prisoners’ brains for signs of evil. Did his disputed science put a man on death row?
Kent Kiehl convinced the US legal system he can find violence in prisoners’ brains. His theories have been since used by defense lawyers – with grave consequences for prisoners
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Like humans, monkeys likely use symbolic features to encode geometric shapes, such as symmetry, parallelism, and right angles. Geometric intuition may be the latest trait that turns out not to be unique to humans after all. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/rAwU50Zto10
If you are interested in memory development come join the team! @mpib-berlin.bsky.social
Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development@lipmpib.bsky.social · last wk.📢 LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student for her project "Mapping Early Memory Trajectories Across Species (ATLAS)". careers.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/jobs/8116017...
I’m incredibly honored to receive the Psychonomic Society Early Career Award! I’m deeply grateful to the mentors, trainees, colleagues, and collaborators who have shaped my work and made the science better at every stage. I’m excited to celebrate with the community at the Annual Meeting!
SCANN Lab@scannlab.bsky.social · last wk.Congratulations to Dr. Weisberg on receiving 2026 Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society! We're excited to celebrate this well deserved recognition of his significant contributions to the field. @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
What is #Anhedonia? What drives changes in reward responsiveness during adolescence? In this #MindtheKids podcast, we explore how adolescents learn from rewards and what this means for #depression risk and #mentalhealth outcomes with Holly Sullivan-Toole. https://bit.ly/4hcqSLk
Jessica Knurick is a science communicator and nutrition scientist, specializing in chronic disease prevention. Here, Knurick details the inspiring life of Betty Carnes, an Arizona ornithologist who fought for smoking bans in public places after losing her friend to lung cancer. #WeAreAmerica250
🚨 new lab preprint! Research from @gordonfeld.bsky.social during his DFG personal fellowship to my lab many moons ago: Global structure of new relational knowledge networks is represented in retrosplenial complex, and node-distance in hippocampus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Cogent argument from @deevybee.bsky.social !
Dorothy Bishop@deevybee.bsky.social · 2w agoFurther analysis of Packalen & Bhattacharya article, where they claimed #NIH-funded research was slow to pick up on new ideas. I argue that their approach is flawed, and I present an analysis that shows the exact opposite. pubpeer.com/publications...
ENJOY an ARTY summer ☀️ on... Womensart! Thank you for following 🧡 xx
I co-sign this great summary from @dereklowe.bsky.social . The goal is to destroy academic science, and these are the reasons. And all the “gold standard” and “needs reform” and “not high risk” stuff is transparent bullshit to hide the ball on what they are doing.
Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2w agoThoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
On the transmission of texts: Written cultures as complex systems academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
On the transmission of texts: Written cultures as complex systems
Abstract. Knowledge of past cultures relies heavily on surviving written material. Over the centuries, texts were copied, altered, and often lost, leaving
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It's hard to believe that OECS has now published 200 articles!🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to OECS—our authors, reviewers, readers, and fantastic section editors, and especially @mcxfrank.bsky.social frank.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social Excited for the next chapter!
Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 2w agoToday's #OA spotlight is extra special. Just this week, @mitpress.bsky.social published the 200th article in our OPEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Congrats to @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social! We've come far since the 2023 @cogscisociety.bsky.social in Rotterdam! oecs.mit.edu
