2/ Work with June Kim, Josh Koh, @jzacks.bsky.social, @zreagh.bsky.social, and @alexbarnett.bsky.social.
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2/ Work with June Kim, Josh Koh, @jzacks.bsky.social, @zreagh.bsky.social, and @alexbarnett.bsky.social.
Excited to share our paper (with @jzacks.bsky.social), now out in JEP:LMC!
Event boundaries sometimes disrupt temporal order memory in list-based paradigms—but what happens in narratives with more complex structures that better resemble real life?
✨ Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...
As we're hearing about exponentially increasing rates of gain in AI, this seems relevant again:
www.science.org/content/blog...
The Aging & Development training program at WashU has an opening for a postdoc!
psychaging.wustl.edu
This is good news for NIH-funded behavioral scientists and for the public; it resolves an unfortunate Catch-22 situation that inflated administrative burden and occasionally excluded basic behavioral science from funding opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
A thoughtful exposition of the liberal arts approach to the undergraduate major (no bias on my part):
www.instagram.com/p/DTf7yehETmx/
🧠 Hiring a Research Assistant/Lab Manager! Share widely! 📍 St. Louis | ⏰ Full-time
We're launching the How We Learn Lab @WashU, studying attention, learning & memory interactions. Perfect for anyone interested in dev cog neuro who wants hands-on experience before grad school.
deckerlab.com
Spotify wrapped informs me that my listening age is "deceased."
Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!
WashU responded to the White House's "compact for excellence in higher education" with a defense of core principles that was less public and less clear than it should have been. Baby steps.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
(Requires creating a free account to read.)
Thoughtful essay about the importance of standing up to open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
@fabbs.org wants to hear from you about the recent NSF Graduate Research Fellowship announcement and its impacts on scientists in clinical psychology!
Current or past NSF grad fellow in Clinical Psychology? tinyurl.com/36r9znke
Current student who hoped to apply? tinyurl.com/yhbz3d5u
New eLife preprint from Tan Nguyen—Pattern-based functional MRI and computational modeling show evidence for multiple signals contributing to updating the brain's representations of events: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Baccarelli was paid $700/hour for his work on a case against Tylenol. I will charge $0/hour to tell courts, FDA, and everyone else that correlations can arise from latent variables in the absence of a direct causal relationship.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The @nsf has also decided that clinical psychology is not eligible for NSF.
This is a crock of 💩
Clinical psych (actually clinical science) is a RESEARCH degree. Let’s just completely not support research training in mental health then.
Bad bad bad bad decision
How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬?
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇
Short videos highlighting the science that is not getting done due to federal science cuts:
www.youtube.com/shorts/2J_BW...
Share them!
(Thanks to Timothy Wilson and his collaborators for making these!)
New preprint from Yining Ding @liliand.bsky.social! People use semantic event knowledge and grouping to remember the temporal order of events.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
The Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (@fabbs.org) is searching for a short-term technology policy fellow. Great opportunity for a new PhD interested in policy, maybe before a research postdoc or faculty position:
fabbs.org/news/2025/08...
Flyer for the Black In Neuro Conference on Wednesday, September 10. The background is a soft peach with vibrant geometric patterns in mustard yellow, coral, teal, and pink at the top border. A bold orange "#BlackInNeuroRollCall" title is centered. The main text below reads: "BIN was founded five years ago and we have all made big moves since then. Record a quick video sharing where you were when BIN launched in 2020 — and where you are now. Whether it's new degrees, new cities, or new roles, we want to hear how far you’ve come! Be sure to use #BlackInNeuroRollCall and tag us @BlackInNeuro.". Black In Neuro logo appears in the bottom left corner and to the right reads "#5YearsofBIN".
It’s been 5️⃣ years of #BlackInNeuro! 🧠✨
Join the annual #BlackInNeuroRollCall on September 10th and tell us where you were in 2020, and where you are now!
New role? New city? New degree? We want to hear it!!
Post your video + use #BlackInNeuroRollCall so we can celebrate YOU!! #5YearsOfBIN
I live in rural Missouri, population 480. I travel to DC a few times a year.
The President is lying.
The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket.
It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.
We must speak up now.
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🚨ATTENTION CDC AND ALLIES!🚨 Our genes/jeans are GREEN tomorrow
To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY (tomorrow) to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health. Spread the word! #courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor #wearthecolor
New review paper with Maverick Smith on improving memory for stuff people actually want to remember:
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
STEM EDUCATION Appropriations, 2025 ............................................................................. $1,172,000,000 Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,000,000,000
New update today (on Senate version, House version is worse):
👎 Though overall NSF budget would remain flat, STEM education would still see a 15% cut:
$1,172 --> $1,000 million
From a bill report out today after the bill passed in committee yesterday: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Another (small) update today:
The analogous subcommittee in the House will now meet next Tuesday, July 15, also about NSF/NASA/NOAA budgets (link below).
House has recently been more hawkish on $ than Senate, so will be interesting. Here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/subcommittee...
Agree. But my lab is so good at making fun of me that I don't think AI will put them out of a job just yet.
Brenda Milner just turned 107. Happy birthday!
On my very first day as a PI at the MNI, she was right in front of me in the cafeteria line.
She was already nearly 100, and still coming to work.
What a legend.
The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. The Center offers a unique opportunity to craft a transdisciplinary research program with an unusual degree of independence.
ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...
Thoughtful column by @marccoutanche.bsky.social about parallels between the current federal challenges to science and the history of Soviet science:
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...