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Cog neuroscientist @ University of Trento (IT) 🇮🇹🇪🇺 Interested in: Brains - Cognitive maps - Maths - Structures - Concepts - Learning - Semantics - Navigation #neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychscisci New in Bluesky :)
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The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

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Once again, @cantlonlab.bsky.social shows us just how amazing she is at rallying the rest of us. (If you missed it, she was once a Time Person of the Year.) So inspired by you, Jessica. I’m in! time.com/time-person-...

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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Attorney General, Kris Mayes of Arizona is a badass, speaking important truths to power: www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

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😡 😡 😡

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To all those good people who are reaching out to help others around you, and working to make this world a better place: Happy Valentine’s Day I love you ❤️

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

New RA position! We are looking for an excellent graduate/MSc student with some experience in developmental psy and interest in language, deafness, conceptual knowledge, infancy @psychologyuea.bsky.social

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If you are interested in understanding (a bit) what the heck is going on in the two major agencies of the US government for scientific research

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Literally all of my work on machine learning for brain health contains many of these words. Absolutely unbelievable.

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I can’t think of a single programme of research in psychology that doesn’t use at least one word from this list. And most of biomedical science.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Academics with tenure: we aren’t supposed to cower and grovel for money like people do in other jobs. The whole point of tenure is to be liberated and courageous.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 19 days ago • 1330 comments

This might be hard to hear, but: We are not at the beginning of a war. We are near the end of a war many didn’t realize was being fought. This is what losing feels like. Start fighting. ___ You can start by joining @indivisible.org and/or by reading: survivethetyrant.infy.uk/SurviveTheTy...

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

submitted 29 days ago • 31 comments

Oh, indeed.

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Debate resolved! Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined? Our study involved: 👨‍👩‍👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia) 👶 Italian pre-schooled kids 🎓 Italian schooled adults — see comment for the findings www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

What are we waiting to quit x? #italianuniversities #unitn

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Interested in the psychology of climate solutions? Come work with us at Stanford! @smconstantino.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoctoral fellow to work with us on interventions to stimulate collective climate action. Apply here (we review on a rolling basis): forms.gle/GdWg11LX7Msk...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

😱 Octopus 🐙 replay? Amazing!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Dear community, here is a starter pack for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Please share it and feel free to send suggestions about people, labs etc. go.bsky.app/2WCr1TK

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Can you predict the future? Your brain and your eyes can. 🧵 I had the honour of writing a @currentbiology.bsky.social Dispatch in which I discuss exciting new findings from @philippbuchel.bsky.social, Klingspohr, Kehl & Staresina (2024). Read the Dispatch here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 1/3

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for a PhD in Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience or related in Germany? One week left to apply for the Max Planck School of Cognition: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #PsychSciSky #compneurosky #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #Neuroimaging

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You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search? I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke. "Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...

submitted 93 days ago • 135 comments

Important work

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We now publish rich fMRI data in Scientific Data where participants viewed magic trick videos. Curiosity, memory, and reward manipulation are available: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments