Christopher "Tyler" Short

My Own Lab at Westlake University is OPEN! We are recruiting cool people at all levels NOW!
By tinkering behaviors and neural circuits in distinct animal species (mouse, sugar glider, etc), we are exploring new ways of doing social neuroscience in vivo, in silico and at home!

I had such an incredible time at @s4sn.bsky.social. I took a lot of pictures of Portugal but none at the conference, so here's a video of an otter at the aquarium.

Thanks so much to the organizers for putting together a great conference, and thanks to all the presenters!
#S4SN2025

The NSF GRFP is an amazing opportunity for students in the first two years of a PhD or those applying to a PhD right now.

Below, check out our special episode with advice for both applicants and those who write letters of support!! 🧐

Please help us spread the word 📢

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Announcing our FALL Schedule! Please like and share!
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Join us at the Southeaster Conference for Animal Behavior to learn about this year's theme, Behavior in the Southeast!

We now have an updated time: 9/26 to 9/27!

Register here by 9/11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I had a great time in Birmingham learning and connecting with people about computational social cognition #CSC2025. Thanks Dr. Ili Ma & @alosecaatv.bsky.social for being great group leaders, and thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social & @lei-zhang.bsky.social and everyone else for a great summer school

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🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!

3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.

Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.

DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

I had a great day 1 presenting a poster, seeing posters, and getting to know everyone

Speaker list for the Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia: 2025-09-12 | Doruk İriş (Sogang University) 2025-09-26 | Talbot M. Andrews (Cornell University) 2025-10-10 | Setayesh Radkani (MIT) 2025-10-24 | Christian Ruff (University of Zürich) 2025-11-07 | Bianca Beersma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 2025-11-21 | Kristopher M. Smith (Washington State University) 2025-12-05 | Alex Mesoudi (University of Exeter)

⚡ Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia ⚡

We are excited to announce the next run of Cooperation Colloquia. With @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, @setayeshradkani.bsky.social, @kris-smith.bsky.social, @alexmesoudi.com, & more.

Every second Friday, 15:00 CE(S)T

Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

🔊Up to 10 individual AIAS-AUFF FELLOWSHIPS are open for application by curiosity-driven and talented researchers from all over the world, from any research discipline & with 2-10 years of experience after completion of their PhD.
📆APPLY by: 28 October at 12:00 (noon, CET)
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‘Hearing’ heat data … with science : Short Wave Feel like summers are hotter than they used to be? It’s not just your imagination. Climate researchers say that average annual temperatures around the country have been trending upwards for the past 5...

New Orleans climate data represented as New Orleans music. I love @npr.org

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EXPRESS: Providing choice enhances reading motivation - Amrita Bains, Carina Spaulding, Jessie Ricketts, Saloni Krishnan, 2025 Multiple literacy programmes embed choice of reading material into their programmes, as this is believed to enhance motivation for reading. Yet, this practice h...

It’s not just what you read—it’s whether you chose to read it.

In our new paper out at QJEP 🎉 we show that:
👉 Having a choice over what you read makes reading more enjoyable
👉 …and makes people willing to pay more for books

Sisyphus’s Inbox “And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autore...

“There, Sisyphus toils—straining to zero the inbox, only for Nathan to smite him with that cruelest of follow-ups: ‘Just checking if you saw this?’”
— Virgil, Aeneid

TRIO disappearing entirely & Federal Work Study reduced by 82%

Text from tweet: Only a moron--a shit-for-brains-level moron--would support citing papers based on authors' race, sex, and sexual orientation, rather than on content

Drops in on Twitter to see how things are going over there.

Oh, so that’s how academics are interacting with each other in the world’s town square*.

Never look back, folks.

Omg, I tried finding the tweet and...

I was lucky enough to get 2 podcasts featuring @nicolecrust.bsky.social this week: @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social's Theoretical Neuroscience & @storiesofwin.bsky.social
I was surprised by how different and engaging both conversations were. Thanks to everyone involved!

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🚨 New Job Opportunity! 🚨

We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to support active clinical research studies within the Hub (principally the METPSY research study) at the University of Edinburgh.

📍Edinburgh
📆 Apply by 11th September
🔗 More info 👇

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I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-As...

A no-miss opportunity to join EPFL. We are a vibrant (had to use it 😉) community working in all branches of basic sciences and engineering, and interdisciplinary studies are strongly encouraged.
If you want more information, contact the committee heads, or feel free to DM me.

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Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
@the-node.bsky.social @marcotrizzino.bsky.social

Why do these amazing individuals volunteer their time to @storiesofwin.bsky.social?

“academic culture often pressures scientists into hiding their uncertainties, setbacks, and the quirks of their career journeys in order to preserve a certain status in the scientific community. “

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Oof, I expected to read that the author knew something secret or that they'd be exaggerating. Instead, they simply pointed out all the signs I've been ignoring. Everything is awful. Also makes me scared for the future of my precious Google Photos

Oxytocin in the amygdala sustains prosocial behavior via state-dependent amygdala-prefrontal modulation Prosocial behaviors are crucial for maintaining primates' complex social relationships. As central regions involved in social decision-making, the basolateral amygdala (BLA) processes social salience ...

Super excited to share this new work from the lab! We show that oxytocin infusion in the amygdala sustains prosocial behavior via state-dependent amygdala-prefrontal modulation
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There are incentives for people to commit misconduct, obviously, this doesn't address that. It wouldn't be considered misconduct if it was just negligence, so is the disincentive that if you're caught you'll have to pretend to pay attention to a course for 2 hours?

Granted, even ~1/3 of sleuths also 'agreed' to the option, so maybe I'm missing something, but it feels like it shouldn't even be an option to make a university feel like they did something when it's less than a slap on a wrist and acts like education could solve the problem.

There is a prompt of: "Which of these practices should be options for institutions when serious research misconduct is confirmed" One of the options was: "Educational retraining for researchers who have committed misconduct" Around 85% of Integrity Officers responded with 'agree' or 'strongly agree' while only around 33% of Sleuths.

I'm definitely no expert so I was ready to be educated by what research-integrity officers thoughts were, but the proportion of integrity officers that gave any credit to "educational retraining" is baffling.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...