Colleen Parks

😆I just got rick rolled in one of my undergrads' papers (possibly a bad AI link?). But it made me laugh (while grading!), so I'm allowing it. The roll that is, not the AI.

M&C's special issue for Larry Jacoby would be a good fit for memory control & automaticity papers, & many others. Deadline 12/31/25 www.psychonomic.org/page/MCjacoby Send questions to me, @cnwahlheim.bsky.social, Andy Y., or Steve L. See Larry's WIDE range work: scholar.google.com/citations?us...)

[Aly Lab Logo: schematic of brain in shades of blue with two cut-out seahorses facing each other]. Postdoctoral Position in the Aly Lab at UC Berkeley. We are recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work on NSF-funded research examining competition and cooperation in memory-guided attention. The position will be supervised by Dr. Mariam Aly (https://www.alylab.org/) in the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Candidates should have a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, or a related field, and expertise in studies of behavior as well as neuroimaging and/or eye tracking. This is a two-year position with a flexible start date. More details here: https://tinyurl.com/alylabpostdoc

I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯

I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼

So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉

Memory & Cognition Special Issue - Psychonomic Society D. Stephen Lindsay, University of Victoria, Canada

The Larry Jacoby special issue deadline at M&C is extended to 6/30. Feel free to contact me or @cnwahlheim.bsky.social if you want to check whether your work would be a good fit before deciding to submit. www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...

Memory & Cognition Special Issue - Psychonomic Society D. Stephen Lindsay, University of Victoria, Canada

In case you haven't seen it yet, M&C is doing a special issue for Larry Jacoby. It says 4/30 for a due date, but I believe we're allowing for some more wiggle room. www.psychonomic.org/page/MCjacoby

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS SO FUCKING WEIRD, MAN.

Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job Our most-read article of 2024. - - -Originally published March 27, 2024. - - -Dear Students — I am sorry to say that I will need to cancel all cla...

This is billed as satire, but it's not. This is straight up nonfiction in my eyes. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cla...

Oh man, this I get

I'm in!

Does anyone have any recommendations for ECRs that might want to get reviewing experience in memory? I'm looking for people as an AE and also as someone who turns down review requests; I want to give the other AEs some suggestions.

Assistant Professor - Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience [R0144548] - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

There's a new TT cog neuro job at UNLV (mostly fMRI). I lived with intense humidity for my first 30ish years, so I can say the "but it's a dry heat" thing is real. Now I get irritated by humidity over 15%.
I'd be happy to talk informally with anyone interested.
www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...

heading: "openAI's GPT-5: set to achieve Ph.D.-level intelligence by 2026, says CTO Mira Murati" this is an extremely asinine thing to say, even by the standards of the asinine things the OpenAI scammers say constantly

bitch you ain't even got quals scheduled yet ain't no way you're defending in two years

I accidentally read "opinion" as "onion", so I had an "lol, imagine if that really happened" reaction at first.

Dear everyone: please please please, RECOMMED REVIEWERS when you submit papers. And if there's no dedicated space in the portal to do that, do it in your cover letter.🙏🙏🙏

"i realize this sounds a bit harsh (because it is), and some of the authors on that paper are people i like and respect (@briannosek.bsky.social is fr one of my intellectual heroes), but look, there really ought to be a point at which every person who takes themselves to be a serious scientist…" 🧵

Some folks in this thread would rather reach for brain damage from leaded gas rather than r____m.

Research by Jennifer Richeson shows via MRI that white subjects testing high for implicit bias expend more cognitive energy during interaction with people of different race. Taxes executive function.

time of two talks for cognitive session at RMPA 2024

If you're going to RMPA in Denver, drop in on my students' first talks! It's a clinical and social oriented conference (regional APA), so I'm hoping there'll be more than 5 people in the audience (for the only cognitive session, with only 3 speakers). lol 😬

In a 🔥 post, @jessicahullman.bsky.social follows up on the recent NHB 'High replicability' paper.

"It bugs me (though doesn’t not surprise me) to think that whether questionable practices get called out depends on who exactly is in the author list."

tinyurl.com/4yr98zvw

An antique cameo portrait of an English woman with glasses and strong features captioned "Mrs. John H. Harris"

(1/) One thing I wish more people knew about the Belgian genocide of the Congo is how one woman who heard something incredible at a dinner party and took it seriously was singlehandedly more responsible for ending a genocide than anyone else I can name in history. Meet Alice Seeley Harris.

<rant> If you refer to training your grad students as “hand holding,” I will understand that you are not good at your job. </rant>

Man, one of my colleagues got so mad at how hard it was to spend his grant money due to university admin obstructionism & bureaucracy that he ragequit the system, set up a whole separate nonprofit org, and now routes all NSF/NIH grants through the nonprofit. (Still a prof here, just no grants here.)

Uhh... men who are not rabidly conservative are seeing these posts (pictured in popehat) as threats to themselves too, right? RIGHT?

@npr.org Please correct this. So much is known about the benefits of aphasia therapy and treatments for primary progressive aphasia and FTD. You are misleading people.

Folks, the evangelical line on birth control is, more or less, that any hormonal birth control is an “abortifacient” and that IVF is inherently a form of abortion… they’ve not hidden at any point what the endgame is

This might be the most brutal rejoinder I have ever heard.

Roses are red.
Please don’t get nervous.
It’s not extra work.
We call it “service.”

#AcademicSky

I have never understood salary discrepancies by department. It's unfair and insulting. How is it even legal? The workload doesn't differ by department. 😡

She understands the probability of the Monty Hall problem but gets 10,000 letters about how wrong she is.

"You made a mistake, but look at the positive side. If all those Ph.D.’s were wrong, the country would be in some very serious trouble.
Everett Harman, Ph.D.
U.S. Army Research Institute"
😆

"in the 1000s?!" "was he on vcr?" lol, I feel old

This piece about Tulving (Craik & Moscovitch) is fascinating. Conscripted by the Nazis & then freed by the Americans? Went to Canada in a manual labor program? & turned out to be possibly the most important memory researcher/theorist since Ebbinghaus. What a life.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...