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

Come join us in Dublin:

Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Neuroscience position available at UCD!

Let me know if you have any questions :)

full advert here: lnkd.in/dW_uFuab

Congratulations also to LIFE faculty Adriene Beltz, @christophermonk.bsky.social, and Cynthia (Xin) Tong on their APS fellowships!

Congratulations to LIFE alumnus @thomastalhelm.bsky.social! 🎉

New paper by LIFE alumna @erinwestgate.bsky.social and colleagues out now!

An ancient trick to think more wisely It’s hard to reason through problems, but there are ways to be more objective and less biased in your thinking.

Take a look at the BBC article about work by LIFE alumnus @igi.bsky.social!
www.bbc.com/worklife/art...

Join our lab in Geneva, as a postdoc working on #workingmemory, with both Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and myself !

Today we want to highlight the session I „Evolution of Cognition and Social Behavior“ of the 2nd #IMPRS CoNI Summer School from 29th June–1st July 2026 led by experts as Cathy Crockford, Onur Güntürkün, and @sofievalk.bsky.social. 😍🧠👩‍🎓👨‍🎓
Apply now: is.gd/cE1pdf

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

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. 🧫🦠

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...

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.

Please RT!

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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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.

🎓 Die Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie (DGPs) vergibt derzeit bis zu 4 MiniGrants à 1.500 € zur Förderung von Vernetzung und Laborbesuchen in frühen Karrierephasen. Die Grants ermöglichen Einblicke in neue Arbeitsgruppen, Methoden und Forschungsprozesse durch Aufenthalte.

Good morning, Chicago! Looking forward to a very chilly #SPSP2026

Thanks to everyone who helped make the culture pre-conference a “successful failure!” We didn’t make the main pre-conference time, but we had a packed house and a great time. #SPSP2026

1/3 AI is getting smarter, but is it getting wiser? 🤔 Thrilled to share our new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social paper on building wise machines, co-authored with Sam Johnson, @amirhkarimi.bsky.social, @yoshuabengio.bsky.social , @sydneylevine.bsky.social , @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, & more!

New paper involving LIFE alumnus @igi.bsky.social and LIFE faculty @iyadrahwan.bsky.social:
Imagining and building wise machines: The centrality of AI metacognition

Assistant Professor Tenure Track for Social Psychology with a Focus on Environmental Psychology - Universität Bern Universität Bern is looking for Assistant Professor Tenure Track for Social Psychology with a Focus on Environmental Psychology

Our institute is hiring
1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology)
ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology
ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Children's upward mobility is related to higher life satisfaction among parents – even when it brings no extra financial or practical support

These children weren't more emotionally close, weren't sending money home, weren't helping out more.

So what explains it?
Read our commentary here:
share-eric.eu/research-res...

#AgeingResearch #PublicHealth

Hi everyone, if you're looking for a #SPSP2026 talk to go to at a ridiculously early hour (8am), I'm giving a talk on how your childhood memories change when you're an adult (Room E258, Level 2; McCormick Place). Here's a preview!

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...

Registration open 🎉

MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep

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

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...

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...

Congratulations to LIFE fellow @rosalieandrae.bsky.social on publishing her first PhD paper! 🎉‪

Interview with LIFE faculty @laraffington.bsky.social: essgn.podbean.com/e/3-laurel-r...

**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...

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

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...