IMPRS on Learning, Institutions, and Future Evolution (LIFE)

A fantastic opportunity for early-career researchers — these pre-conference workshops are always inspiring and rewarding experiences.

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Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. She is wearing a long dress and a hat, standing among large plants and looking to the side. public domain

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

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Coming up on November 11! Dr. Corinna Loeckenhoff @loeckenhoff.bsky.social (Cornell University) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social series: "Aging Differences in Decision Making: A Conceptual Framework" 1/

Reminder!

We have an upcoming Special Issue at Developmental Psychology.

LOIs are due to the guest editors by November 30.

@apajournals.bsky.social

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I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.

We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.

tiu.nu/22989

We’re hiring a permanent Lecturer (R&T) in cog neuro and development / lifespan psychology at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social. Join a supportive, research-intensive dept - with a new MRI scanner on the way 🙂

Info below - and get in touch to learn more!

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging

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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

With @mdkraemer.bsky.social, @chopwood.bsky.social, Urte Scholz, Jaap Denissen, and @wiebkeb.bsky.social

Preprint by LIFE fellow @rosalieandrae.bsky.social with co-authors who are all LIFE alumni or faculty!

New preprint! 📚📱 osf.io/3kpf9_v1
Did you ever stand in a bookshop and wondered who tends to buy self-help books, and whether people who buy them actually change? Here, we looked at these questions for self-help products more generally (also apps, seminars, etc.), which are a rapidly (1/3)

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

*Job alert*

Exciting job at UCL: Lecturer in Child Mental Health

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!

Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...

YES! "to explain all human cognition, we inherently must include development".
Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy - Ward - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

Looking for postdoc opportunities? Check out the call for applications for a MSCA masterclass @rwth.bsky.social . Reach out to me for potential projects in our lab on issues of ambulatory assessment and life span development @ambulatory-assessment.org
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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...

We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

🚨 The Power of Wellbeing
🚨 Epigenetic Studies in Twins

We are thrilled to be co-hosting epigenetics researchers Dr Jenny van Dongen and Dr Meike Bartels at the
@mpib-berlin.bsky.social next week. Join us live or online on 4.11. for their fascinating talks.

➡️ shorturl.at/z3v2s
➡️ shorturl.at/p9dW1

Congratulations to Iyad Rahwan (@iyadrahwan.bsky.social), recipient of the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025, recognizing groundbreaking research in complex systems and data science! 🌍🤖

More info @isi.it:

www.isi.it/press-releas...

Postdoctoral Position in Social Science Genomics | Max Planck Research Group Biosocial

We have an open postdoc position in Social Science Genomics in Berlin!

Includes gene-environment interplay within German population cohorts & experimental online survey studies to probe public perceptions of potential DNA biomarker applications

🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2196134/2025...

A chapter by LIFE fellow @luiantaverra.bsky.social et al.

Ever forgotten to do something really important? 🧠 Explore the science behind memory failures with Matthias Kliegel, as he discusses how prospective memory shapes autonomy from childhood to old age.🔗https://buff.ly/ozmJ6i9 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/x) - MEG and Cognition of Interaction – - Göttingen (Stadt), Niedersachsen (DE) job with Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization | 12846778 Postdoc in dyadic OPM-MEG at MPI Göttingen: develop dual-MEG platform to study neural bases of human interaction. Apply by Nov 23, 2025.

Max Planck Institute seeks Postdoc in MEG & Cognition of Interaction to build dyadic OPM-MEG in Göttingen; deadline 23 Nov, 2025.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
#Hiring #Postdoc #MEG #Cognition #Göttingen
@maxplanckpress.de

Online talk by LIFE alumnus @igi.bsky.social coming up later today!

2025 Symposium - Jacobs Foundation On the occasion of the presentation of the 2025 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize and in honour of the laureate, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, the Jacobs Foundation is pleased to invite you to the symposium Impact...

Event alert!

On 14 Nov, the #JacobsFoundation Symposium honours Prof. Hirokazu Yoshikawa, 2025 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize laureate, and explores how science drives better outcomes for children. You are welcome to join!

More information: jacobsfoundation.org/activity/202...

#Research #ChildDevelopment

I’m recruiting #PhD students to join my Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social! We study how infants learn about the natural world from others 🌱 If you’re interested in #devpsych, #EvPsych, and #infantstudies, please reach out and apply! More info below (1/2)

Academic Advisory Board of the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS): Call for Applications The Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS) invites applications for 3–10 positions on its Academic Advisory Board (AAB). The Board will play a central role in ensuring the scientific rigou...

Academic Advisory Board of the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS): Call for Applications

www.grios.org/academic-adv...

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✨ Join us! We're inviting expressions of interest from experts wishing to join our Scientific Advisory Network. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in shaping the scientific direction of our longitudinal cohort studies. Deadline Monday, 17 November. Find out more: bit.ly/4o4qyiD

So sad to hear we lost Judy DeLoache this week. Judy’s brilliance, her warmth, her humor, were grad school highlights. Whether it was at a dept party, on a sailboat, or in her home high in the Blue Ridge mountains, Judy made me feel like I mattered.

“Eyes open, minds open.” - JD

Sail on, Judy 💔