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Allyson Mackey, Ph.D.

@apmackey.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Psychology at Penn

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It's FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS FALL ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ‚

Check out our free, upcoming talks and register here: fitng.org/fitng-togeth...

28.10.2025 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Yes! I'll be here! Looking forward to your visit!

04.10.2025 11:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations!!! So excited for you & your lab!

03.10.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

01.10.2025 22:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 118    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
DeckerLab

Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! ๐Ÿง โœจ!

I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com

Reposts are very welcome! ๐Ÿ™Œ Please help spread the word!

01.10.2025 18:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

Iโ€™m hiring!! ๐ŸŽ‰ Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. Weโ€™ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
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15.09.2025 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations! I am so lucky to learn from you!

10.09.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early-life stress Neuropsychopharmacology - Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early-life stress

Review now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social!
Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early life stress
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06.08.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Excited to announce that my lab has moved to UC Berkeley Dept of Neuroscience and Dept of Statistics! I will be continuing to collaborate with colleagues and students in TX at UT Austin and Baylor College of Medicine, and will start new collabs in the Bay. Will be taking new grad students this fall!

04.08.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's publication day for ๐Ÿ“˜Elusive Cures. What a moment! 1st book, 1st time on Mindscape (which, as many of you know, is one of my favorite podcasts).

Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?

10.06.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 102    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Dog-sled going past the Le Chรขteau Montebello.

Dog-sled going past the Le Chรขteau Montebello.

Main public room in Le Chรขteau Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".

Main public room in Le Chรขteau Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".

Le Chรขteau Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.

Le Chรขteau Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.

Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness

Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFARโ€™s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost.
cifar.ca/next-generat... ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿงช

03.06.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 79    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Precise individual measures of inhibitory control Nature Human Behaviour - Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on four inhibitory control tasks, Gratton et al. show that more than 1,000 trials per participant are necessary to reduce...

Excited to announce that our paper (led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith) is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com
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We use 36 days of testing in 4 inhibitory control tasks to examine the precision of inhibitory control measures in *individuals* and how they vary
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28.05.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily

Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily

You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social.

In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!

Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com

28.05.2025 14:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 644    ๐Ÿ” 360    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
EMERGE

Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career?

Wonder it's like in Australia?

Good news!

Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries.

Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers!

www.monash.edu/research/eme...

27.05.2025 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Our R01 was part of yesterday's "mass termination" at Harvard; 1 of ~1000 NIH grants in Trump's "fight". The irony of how many Jewish (& non-Jewish) researchers/scientists/physicians/patients/students will be harmed in the name of "fighting antisemitism" is sickening.deliberately cruel. #AcademicSky

16.05.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 102    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃ It's official: I'm super excited to share that I'll be joining Rice University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences!

Lab will launch in Summer 2026โ€” I'll be recruiting over the next year, so please spread the word! Short thread โคต๏ธ

16.05.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 255    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Last weekend, I had the incredible experience of sharing the science of adolescence with 3000 curious, engaged listeners at TEDx Portland. The day was filled with amazing talks and performances that opened minds โ€“ and brought tears to many pairs of eyes. It's hard to put into words... 1/

03.05.2025 00:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Amazing news! So well-deserved! Congratulations!

30.04.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Lab Technician - Learning and Brain Development Lab About the Opportunity SUMMARY The Learning and Brain Development Lab (PI: Juliet Y. Davidow) at Northeastern University in Boston, MA (https://lbdlpsych.sites.northeastern.edu/) is excited to invite a...

The Learning and Brain Development Lab (PI: Juliet Y. Davidow, PhD) at Northeastern in Boston is hiring a full-time lab manager! Assist in conducting an NSF CAREER awarded project on adolescent neurocognitive development of motivated learning! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

29.04.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social

28.04.2025 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Excited to head to SRCD this week! @catehartley.bsky.social and I will be giving talks on Saturday morning, 8:30-10:00 AM in Auditorium 2 as a duo address on "Development of cognition, learning, and brain plasticity". Please join us!

28.04.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Saturday 5/3, 8:30-10:00 AM, Auditorium 2, our PI @catehartley.bsky.social will speak along with @apmackey.bsky.social as part of the duo address "Development of cognition, learning, and brain plasticity"! tinyurl.com/srcdhartley

28.04.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

LIVID and horrified (but not surprised) to learn that our R01โ€™s diversity supplement was terminated. This is just idiotic and cruel.

Opinions / experience on submitting an appeal? I know it is very unlikely to result in funds being reinstated, but I wonder if there is still some use in submitting?

24.04.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...

Excited to share our new study:

"Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"

by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

24.04.2025 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 100    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

02.04.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 136296    ๐Ÿ” 20238    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10620    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1608

Grateful for Sen. Cory Booker! A black man breaking the record of a segregationist on the senate floor. Powerful. We need these moments right now more than ever!!

01.04.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 95    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.

01.04.2025 23:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2889    ๐Ÿ” 515    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Amazing!! Congratulations!!

28.03.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

YAYYYYY!!!!

26.03.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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