Dan Mirman

Two-year post-doc position in my department working on a cool project applying cognitive science (transmission chain experiments and natural language processing) to study cultural evolution: tinyurl.com/bdeju6kw

Are you looking for a post-doc position where you can apply your neuroimaging expertise to neuroaesthetics and poetic language processing? Do you like working in interdisciplinary teams? Then come work with us!

🎉We're hiring!🎉
We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
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The @re-writer.bsky.social project will span from basic science to real-world applications, from neuroaesthetics of poetry processing to promoting creative engagement with poetry. The brilliant @pat-err.bsky.social thinks big and follows through on those ideas. I'm so excited to be part of the team!

When an eyewitness shares a memory, what might make a jury perceive it as accurate? 👩🏽⚖️ A recent #psynomPBR paper by Martinez et al. suggests that certain communication styles shape how accurate a memory seems, regardless of its actual accuracy. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/S4SeOyo

An amazing trip to China (first time for me!) to visit my first ever post-doc, Dr Qi Chen, now Director of School of Psychology at Shenzhen University, and my most recent post-doc, Dr Junhua Ding, now Associate Professor in the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

We're hiring a 1-year (fixed term) lecturer in Psychology of Individual Differences (e.g., personality or intelligence)! Ideal for recent PhD graduates / post-docs who want to build teaching experience in a supportive department, with great colleagues, in the best city in the world. edin.ac/4mzn4UM

A great new journal section at Cortex! In addition to methods articles, this section will publish articles that examine/evaluate the auxiliary assumptions (often implicit and unstated!) behind our methods and tutorial articles that provide step-by-step guides and best practices.

The #BACN2025 abstract deadline is 30 April! Share your latest work with us!
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences

My colleague is hiring a post-doc for a very cool project using text-mining and stats techniques to study the cultural evolution of archaeological information. You'd get to do interesting work with a very fun team and live in the best city in the world! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

Save the date!!
#BACN2025
11-12 September 2025, Edinburgh
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences

Submit talk and poster abstracts by 30 April 2025.

Call for papers: extended until May 2025! *#Neurocognitive perspectives on #discourse & connected #language*. This special issue will highlight advances from cog & clinical #neuroscience in modeling discourse that spans from multi-word utterances to naturalistic stories. #aphasia bit.ly/4hdKbBb

We are currently seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social journal, AP&P, whether it be you or a colleague you'd like to nominate! For details, see our announcement at www.psychonomic.org/page/2025app...

Ever notice how colors link to your mood and emotions? Domicele Jonauskaite and Christine Mohr conducted a systematic review spanning 128 years of color psychology. 🎨 Post by Brett Myers. https://buff.ly/40zMkRR

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...

looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

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AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP

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CR:PI, an open access journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/4gCHBUH #gocrpi

Are you a quantitative psychologist looking for a teaching-focused permanent position? I have good news for you! We're hiring: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Great department and Edinburgh is a fantastic place to live. Happy to answer any questions about working and living here

My colleagues and I are participating in a Movember drive to raise money for mental health services. If you want to see me grow a silly mustache, donate at this link and recommend your favourite silly mustache style www.justgiving.com/page/edpsych...

So great to see people working on the difficult problem of how auxiliary assumptions affect theory testing/falsification!

This job advert is live! I'm looking for a postdoc to work on a 2-year mixed methods project studying communication strategies in aphasia. Part of a big grant on language, neurodiversity, and flourishing elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Join us for the upcoming One World Seminar “Different perceptual strategies in auditory processing” presented by Leah Fostick from Ariel University, Israel. Reserve your free ticket today! bit.ly/4aOs7KE

PB&R has joined the Peer Community in Registered Reports as a PCI RR-interested journal. We're looking forward to increasing our engagement with the Registered Report format and contributing to PCI RR! bit.ly/3U7cI1a

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We are hiring a fixed-term (1-year) lecturer in developmental psychology. Great opportunity for an early career academic to boost their teaching experience in a supportive and vibrant department. Apply now (deadline: 25 April)! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

But it made the up-front work a lot more challenging and we later realised that some of our planned analyses didn't make sense, and updating the plan required a lot of explicit explanation. On balance, I think it was worth it, but I wouldn't use the RR format every time 6/6

Some meta-science lessons: we used the registered report format because we wanted reviewer feedback and buy-in *before* we ran the analyses so we could avoid arguing about post-hoc interpretations. This largely worked and sped up publication, which is good for career development 5/6

Ventrolateral ATL seems sensitive to both semantic and social content (as do IPL and SMA). We think this pattern reflects those regions’ connections with the DMN, which is important for maintaining the narrative situation model, and updating it with important new content 3/6

Those results aren’t be too surprising, but those networks overlap quite a lot, esp. in ATL, where we found both overlap and (graded) specialisation: superior/dorsolateral ATL seems particularly sensitive to amount of linguistic/semantic *input*… 2/6

The neural basis of naturalistic semantic and social cognition - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - The neural basis of naturalistic semantic and social cognition

Another monumental piece of work from @melissathye.bsky.social's PhD thesis (with @paul-hoffman.bsky.social and me): doi.org/10.1038/s415.... This was a registered report examining semantic and social cognition during naturalistic narrative comprehension (watching a feature-length movie). 1/6