Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development

Cognitive Neurophysiology (CNP) - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences We are now hiring two PhDs and a Post Doc:Deadline 1st of March:https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/294553/phd-research-fellow-in-machine-learning-for-cognitive-neuroscienceDeadline 4th of ...

We have PhD positions and Post Doc positions available! www.med.uio.no/imb/english/... Please apply if you are interested in human invasive intracranial recordings or applied machine learning in a neuroscientific context.

Deadlines 1st of March (Sunday!) and 4th of March.

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UZH: Postdoctoral Position Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individ...

We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

If you want freedom to work on what you are curious about with secure funding until you retire, and you love rural areas near the sea, this is for you. 🧫🦠

The deadline to apply for the Brain Prize Cajal summer course in Computational Neuroscience has been extended to March 9! We’re excited for you to join us in sunny Lisbon! Please do not hesitate to send in an application and learn about computational neuroscience! @gjorjulijana.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Psychological & Brain Sciences Position Summary Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at WashU in St. Louis, to work on department-funded res...

Postdoctoral Job Opportunity: Join me and the WELLab at WashU in St. Louis to study well-being in daily life and across the lifespan. This position is perfect for folks interested in ESM and longitudinal data analysis and well-being and affective science.

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Lunch Lectures Entwicklungspsychologie!

📅 10.03.2026
⏰ 12:00 Uhr
via Zoom

Wir freuen uns auf den Vortrag von Prof. Louisa Kulke (Universiät Bremen; @loukulke.bsky.social ) zum Thema:

Social development – Insights from infants, robots and videochats

Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1gfrH...

The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

This informational video on enshittification by the Norwegian Consumer Council is absolutely glorious.

MB8 Screen Use

ManyBabies8: Screen Use 📱

MB8 aims to document early screen use across diverse cultural contexts & examine links to language & socio-emotional development in children under 3.

We’re inviting you to join!

Interested?
🔗 Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/7ASVadD7LT4j...

More: manybabies.org/MB8/

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories?

We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate!

Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

The effects of a second pregnancy on women’s brain structure and function - Nature Communications Extending their previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, the authors show that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnancy effects and distinct changes in other networks.

Extending previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, a study in Nature Communications shows that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnancy effects and distinct changes in other networks. #Neuroskyence #medsky 🧪

Scientists: for a new story, I have one big question—>

What is a “good day” in the lab?

I’m looking for epic examples of the best day ever to general criteria for what constitutes a “good day” compared to a nothing-burger day.

Ping me if you have examples to share!

Re-posts appreciated!

Online Studies Psychological Science requires that authors who use samples from online data collection include a statement in the Method section explicitly addressing their approach to preventing and detecting automated or AI-generated responses. Rationale As large language models and other generative AI tools become more accessible, the risk of data contamination by non-human respondents has increased dramatically in research. Psychological science (and the social sciences generally) is particularly susceptible to this issue given its growing reliance on online data collection. Preventing automated responses during data collection and detecting them afterward often involve methodological trade-offs. For instance, technical barriers that aim to prevent LLM use (e.g., blocking copy-pasting functionalities) may eliminate behavioral indicators needed for detection (e.g., pasting rather than typing). This policy aims to enhance transparency and reproducibility of reported results by requiring authors to articulate their approach across both prevention and detection dimensions, enabling readers and reviewers to assess the likelihood of reported data being influenced by automated responses. Scope This policy applies to any submission with at least one study that includes data collected online without direct human supervision (e.g., via crowdsourcing platforms, student participants who complete the study online, online recruitment ads, or remote survey distribution tools). Required Reporting Authors must include in the Methods section either: A statement confirming that procedures were in place to prevent and/or detect and exclude automated or AI-generated responses, including a description of those procedures (e.g., explicit participant instructions against LLM use, disabled copy–paste functionality, CAPTCHA use, IP filtering, consistency checks, attention checks, adversarial prompting) as well as the types of automated responses that these procedures are suitable …

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Why can’t we remember being toddlers? 🧠
In @time.com, Sarah Power @sarahdpower.bsky.social @lipmpib.bsky.social explains how a specially designed lab helps uncover how memories form in early childhood.

More news about LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social's work!

Workshop zu Klimawandel und psychischer Gesundheit: Leopoldina und Südafrikanische Akademie fördern junge Forschende Extreme Hitze, Naturkatastrophen, Ernährungsunsicherheit: Die Folgen des Klimawandels sind vielerorts bereits deutlich und immer mehr spürbar. Die Folgen für die körperliche Gesundheit sind zunehmend ...

📢 #CallForParticipation: Nachwuchsforschende aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum und Südafrika haben die Chance, an einem Workshop zu „Klimawandel und mentaler Gesundheit“ vom 8. bis 10. September 2026 in Südafrika teilzunehmen. 🇿🇦 Bis Freitag, 3. April 2026 bewerben: www.leopoldina.org/newsroom/nac...

Studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d) | Forschungsbereich Entwicklungspsychologie

📣 We are seeking a student research assistant to join us in investigating how spatial memory develops in children using video games and fMRI
@markuswb.bsky.social
@lipmpib.bsky.social
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2285306/2026...

Registration open 🎉

MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep

www.zi-mannheim.de/forschung/ab...

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🚨 JOB alert: 📢
We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

**Postdoc position in human category learning**

@thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social.

www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

I never studied molecular biology, but have found epigenetics to be an exciting substrate to probe evo-devo theories (lifespan plasticity, developmental origins of health and disease, life history, gene X social inequality). Cheers to reuniting the divorcées "social science" and "life science" 💗

New work from members of the Cognition Lab Zurich!

@chenyuli.bsky.social, @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social & @koberauer.bsky.social tested whether information can be processed without entering working memory.

Results suggest that processing brings even task-irrelevant information into working memory.

Call for Submissions for the Theory Methods Conference 2026, September 30-October 2! theorymethodssociety.org/conference.h...

We invite you to:
1) Submit your proposal: edu.nl/mj9x6
2) Invite your colleagues/lab/(PhD) students, and encourage them to submit
3) Share this post

What does a Bach masterpiece have to do with 86 billion neurons? At our February #ScienceMeetsMusic, Dr. Moritz Helmstaedter spoke on a journey from the intricate "cables" of the brain to the timeless Goldberg Variations. We explored how our synapses sculpt memories as we listen.

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Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Image of the visual foraging task where a participant "collects" items on a tablet PC using a stylus. The screen content (blue berries) is AI generated.

🧠 #Psych & #CogNeuro people — #attention!

Hiring a Research Associate (WissMA) in #Cologne to study #SelectiveAttention in action-related contexts (e.g., #VisualForaging)! PhD opportunity! Some teaching in German ...

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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Long-term effects of working memory retrieval from prioritized and deprioritized states - Communications Psychology Testing items in working memory improves long-term memory, especially for deprioritized items. This benefit shows when WM retrieval requires continuous recall, suggesting self-generated reports streng...

Briefly not attending something may help you remember it later 🪄: new paper led by phenomenal PhD student Frieda Born (not on Bsky) out now in Comms Psychology:

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A new perspective on the confusing term of “cognitive reserve” from Rik Henson the importance of multiple brain measures in explaining why some people maintain their cognition into late life: https://doi.org/10.1177/23982128261422282

Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain | doi.org/10.1007/s004...

How do neuroreceptor distributions vary across people?

Join the 2nd IMPRS CoNI Summer School and register now!
📅Dates: 29 June – 1 July 2026
📍Location: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
🚨Registration deadline: 15 March 2026
📝Details: imprs-coni.mpg.de/summerschool...