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-Assistant Professor @URochester studying naturalistic, interactive human communication and speech/music perception 🧠 -PI of the SoNIC Lab (piazzalab.com) -BA @Williams | PhD @UCBerkeley | Postdoc @Princeton -Halfling bard irl 🎶 -she/her 🌈
Please share: New postdoc position in human intracranial neuroscience is open in the Castellucci Lab.
www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/pos...
#Postdoc #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs #HiringAcademics #JobSearch #Neuroscience #ResearchJobs #STEMjobs #ScienceJobs
We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Prof in Computational Neuroscience/Cognition at
@uor-braincogsci.bsky.social! Join a Simons-supported cluster across Math/Physics/Biology/BCS. Apply by Nov 1, 2025: www.sas.rochester.edu/bcs/jobs/fac... #ComputationalNeuroscience #Cognition #FacultyJobs
The daily news is so rapid and horrific that I almost missed that Jane Goodall passed away today. One my greatest scientific achievements to date was being interviewed on NPR's Science Friday right after her. www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/oct...
My cousin is a social worker at a public school in Rochester, and she can't stop talking about how much this no-cellphone policy has already transformed her school community: kids are looking up and interacting more in the halls, engaging more in the classroom, seem happier, etc. Start of a new era?
Excited to share a new preprint from our lab! Led by @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social, with @coralineiordan.bsky.social + @aaronstevenwhite.io
The SoNIC Lab is in San Francisco for #CogSci2025; come check out our latest research!
Music is an incredibly powerful retrieval cue. What is the neural basis of music-evoked memory reactivation? And how does this reactivation relate to later memory for the retrieved events? In our new study, we used Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Come to @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social 's lightning talk tomorrow at PEER2025!
Congratulations to @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social for winning a Best Poster Award at UR's Graduate Research Day. This is actually the second time Ruby has won this award, in two different years and for two different projects. Wow!!
Congratulations to @rcassanocoleman.bsky.social for winning an Open Scholarship Award for making her research accessible and reproducible to the community! Our lab is so proud of her! opensci.lib.rochester.edu/open-scholar...
Stay tuned for some updates to our lab "resources" page.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science.
Call Congress, 202-224-3121.
Awesome paper alert! Excited to finally see those wobbling blobs make their debut...and in PNAS!
📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social
Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience
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Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy!
The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*.
Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head?
Then you might be interested in our new #musicscience work just published in PLOSBiology
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We used decoding to investigate how the brain represents perceived and imagined musical sounds.
Check it out!
Led jointly by postdoc Sarah Izen and PhD student Riesa Cassano-Coleman (rcassanocoleman.bsky.social). Come by Riesa's #Psychonomics poster (Saturday 7:45-9:15, #7059), which mainly discusses Expt 3.
You can hear our wacky scrambled music here: osf.io/mej7a/
#musicscience
This is a beast of a study! E.g., Experiment 3 alone uncovers new fundamentals of musical event segmentation (a relatively understudied topic). One takeaway here: musicians are more likely than non-musicians to perceive long-timescale (multi-phrase) events.
In general, we show that non-musicians use context quite effectively, which is surprising b/c this is relatively high-level tonal context (not driven by dynamics/timbre/tempo/pitch proximity). But musicians do perform better overall across tasks (including identifying the degree of scrambling).
Our lab has a new #musiccognition preprint out! This is a comprehensive look at how listeners integrate musical context across multiple timescales to complete a diverse array of tasks: memory, prediction, and event segmentation. osf.io/preprints/ps...
My entire lab will be there! 😀
Please add me--thanks!
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
Two anchors of the trans rights movement, and the anchors for our package, are @erininthemorning.bsky.social and @zoandbehold.bsky.social.
Their essay will blow your socks off. I could literally feel my resolve strengthening as I read. Do not miss this.
Excited to announce that I'll be starting a lab at the University of Montreal (psychology) and Mila (Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms) starting summer 2025. More info to come soon, but I'll be recruiting at the Masters and PhD levels. Please share / get in touch if you're interested!
Congrats, Taylor!!!
Hi--please add me. Thank you!
Hi--please add me. Thanks!