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Tess Forest

@tessforest.bsky.social

PostDoc in Columbia's Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (PI: Dima Amso). I study how learning changes with experience and brain development. @UBC cogs & @UofT psych alumna, Wisconsinite. https://sites.google.com/view/tessforest

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Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowships - Connected Minds INTRODUCTION: New technologies are revolutionizing society, creating a 'techno-social collective' where humans and intelligent technologies are deeply interconnected. While such advances present excit...

Interested in doing a postdoc on misinfo/belief change with me and @gordpennycook.bsky.social? We are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at York University. Contact me for more details! #PsychJobs

02.02.2026 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

29.01.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

So exciting!!

12.01.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How We Learn Lab

🧠 Hiring a Research Assistant/Lab Manager! Share widely! πŸ“ 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

12.01.2026 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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We're collecting examples of funded F31 and F32 grants in Psych/Neuro that folks are comfortable sharing for a new section of our Resources website, please email me if you'd be willing to share! Small token and eternal gratitude if you do! L.gabard-durnam@northeastern.edu

07.01.2026 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sign up for our final winter session of Scan Camp!!

Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area!

8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus.

Wear an Oura ring and answer daily surveys.

Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain!

northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

10.11.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please share widely!

31.10.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CATS Lab Child & Adolescent Translational Science Lab at Northwestern University

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠

Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com

Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

29.10.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Volume 37 Issue 11 | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | MIT Press Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | 37 | 11 | November 2025

"We hope to inspire curiosity ... prompting researchers to uncover why children experience the world so distinctively and what this reveals about cognitive development."

@jocn.bsky.social's November issue presents a special focus on the development of event segmentation: #NeuroSky #cognition

20.10.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Budding Minds We are a developmental cognitive neuroscience lab located on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. Our research aims to understand how we form and recall memories, and how we can use...

The Budding Minds Lab at the University of Toronto is hiring a Postdoc in the developmental cognitive neuroscience of memory 🧠 🫧 This is (one of) my graduate labs and I can't recommend the department's people, resources, location, or culture strongly enough! see buddingmindslab.utoronto.ca for more

10.10.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally πŸ‘€

Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases.

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08.10.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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ERC Grants: Q&A and testimonials EURAXESS North America will host an online meeting with officials from the European Research Council Executive Agency, which administers ERC grants, as well as current ERC grantees, who will share the...

For researchers in Canada and the USA πŸ‘‡

Online info session about ERC research grants, on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 12:00 noon ET (9:00 AM PT, 6:00 PM CEST).

The meeting is free but advance registration is required.

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/no...

08.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

05.09.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Spontaneous reinstatement of episodic memories in the developing human brain The hippocampus supports episodic memories in development, and yet how the brain stabilizes these memories determines their long-term accessibility. This study examined how episodic memories formed in...

How does spontaneous memory reinstatement at rest relate to episodic memory during development? And how do early experiences influence neural mechanisms of episodic memory encoding and reinstatement? New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

16.09.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am recruiting (CanadianπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

15.09.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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πŸ“£πŸ“£πŸ“£ Hi Everyone! I'm accepting PhD students for the Fall 2026 cycle! Our lab topics include the developmental origins and elaboration of moral cognition/prosocial behavior, persistence, and optimism. More info below!!

11.09.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sinclair Lab The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!)

To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

08.09.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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WORK WITH US | Join Our Research Team Today β€” The AND Lab Explore research opportunities at The AND Lab in Psychological & Brain Sciences. We are hiring for a fully-funded graduate research position focused on neuroimaging and childhood attention development...

🧠 We are recruiting a fully-funded PhD student (Fall β€˜26) to study attention in kids using fMRI, MRS & eye-tracking.

πŸ“© Email Dr. Andrew Lynn to inquire (UofL website under construction).

πŸ”— Visit www.theandlab.org/work-with-us to learn more.

27.08.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just a reminder about this session tomorrow. Hope to see you there!

21.08.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're also excited about the mechanistic explanation this work starts to provide for why early caregiver predictability is linked to long-term cognitive outcomes in children!

06.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most exciting to me, in each dyad, infants look most at their caregiver when she is being moderately predictable relative to herself. This shows an infant's own, unique experience with the statistics of their environment shapes the development of early attention and learning processes.

06.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We measured caregiver unpredictability (entropy) by hand-annotating hundreds of videos of caregivers interacting naturally with their babies, and then found that the predictable structure of caregiver's behavior shapes infants moment-to-moment attention during dyadic interaction.

06.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather i...

Happy to share "The Dynamics of Caregiver Unpredictability Shape Moment-to-Moment Infant Looking During Dyadic Interaction," out now in Child Development thanks to a large team of people I worked on this with! srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

06.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Research Associate Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share!

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

24.07.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

08.07.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!!
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca
RTs appreciated πŸ’«

26.06.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
CCSN Postdoctoral program | McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience | Washington University in St. LouisWashU Medicine CCSN Postdoctoral Funding Now OpenFace Page &amp; Mentor FormApplications Due by 5:00 pm Friday, May 2, 2025.Funding expected to start July 1, 2025....

Excited that we are recruiting for a new postdoctoral program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at #WashU! Get in touch if you have questions!
sites.wustl.edu/systemsneuro...

16.04.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
US Applicant Week

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?

Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.

U.S. Applicant Week:

www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

07.04.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 426    πŸ” 333    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 23
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If the NIH gets messed up, there is no alternative. Not just in the US, but globally. It is by far the biggest engine of health research in the world. Which is why the idea that US scientists can just do their work elsewhere is a little fanciful.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...

20.03.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 633    πŸ” 298    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 18

Hadn’t found an important use for my first blue-sky β€œtweet”… but then all our training grants were taken. @tristansyates.bsky.social wrote what I’m feeling quite eloquently

11.03.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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