Steven Weisberg

🎧 New Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode
‪@vpmurty.bsky.social describes his research for an SRNDNA Pilot Grant and finding inspiration at a haunted house. He also talks about moving his lab across country and the impact of a single line in his presentations.
Listen now: srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/

Muncie! Oh Muncie! The Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities & Towns · Indiana Songs Best for Ever! · Song · 2020

Stay tuned for more news and info here or on my (currently out-of-date) website: adamjbarnas.com. Happy Friday!

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I am grateful for the support of my friends, family, colleagues, and mentors, including Steve Weisberg (@stevenmweisberg.com), Natalie Ebner (@natalieebner.bsky.social), and Adam Greenberg (@snaplab.bsky.social).

Way to go Adam!!!!

Ball State is lucky to have you :)

Thank you 🙏

Thanks Aidan!!

I will always be grateful to my friends and colleagues at #UF who helped me launch my faculty career. Plus, I have a whole suite of college teams to root for as my own :) Go Gators!

Stay tuned for a new website, new project announcements, and potential hiring plans!

#GoMavericks!

The SCANN Lab will have access to a brand-new imaging center (lnkd.in/ghub5NM7) and will now be located in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex!

While a lot will change for us, much will stay the same. My research program will continue to examine the cognitive neuroscience of spatial navigation using #fMRI and #virtualreality in younger and older adults.

📰 Professional Update 📰

I’m thrilled to announce that I am joining the University of Texas at Arlington Psychology Department as an Assistant Professor starting in Fall 2025!

🙏 so glad you could make it!

Loving this intersection of our fields!

Much enjoyed @olivia.science ’s amazing talk about Cognitive Maps and ‘small cakes’.

Link to the paper: philarchive.org/rec/GUEANR Check out the thread below for some highlights.

Thank you @stevenmweisberg.com for organising this online event and the wonderful hosting!

So glad for the turnout and the discussion! Thank you @olivia.science !!

Barnstorming talk and Q&A from @olivia.science on her recent paper on cognitive maps and small cakes. Really thought provoking and now my head hurts. Also, I could listen to Olivia & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social talk about theory all day!

@multisensorylab.bsky.social has now joined blue sky ! 💙💙💙

(In the same week as @tcdpsychology.bsky.social !)

Please connect with our lab for updates on #perception #multisensory research

#psychology #academic

PhD Timeline

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We have a new paper online at Psych & Aging!

Why and how do older adults navigate?

First author Adam Barnas (@adamjbarnas.com) alongside Natalie Ebner (@natalieebner.bsky.social), Eliany Perez, and others.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Link to official version: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Sounds pretty cool, and not hard to prototype. Works well for text + code + data.

So maybe git-like version control for a paper.

You could fork it, edit your own version.

You could pull request to get typos/minor things fixed.

Issue tracker / discussion for what to add/why.

All of it version-controlled, so you cite a paper + version (Weisberg et al., 2021-0a19)

Is this about presenting data primarily or summarizing theoretical view / arguing with evidence?

Because to me a manuscript can do both, to varying degrees, but separating out a - “here’s some data, what do we think” vs “what is consciousness, let’s discuss” seem to beg very diff solutions.

Excited that we are recruiting for a new postdoctoral program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at #WashU! Get in touch if you have questions!
sites.wustl.edu/systemsneuro...

Call for Papers Special Issue: Decision Neuroscience and Aging Psychological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series B Guest Co-Editors: Karolina Lempert, PhD

Excited to share that The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences now has a call for a special issue on 🌟DECISION NEUROSCIENCE IN AGING🌟, led by @debyee.bsky.social, Nathan Spreng, and @klempert.bsky.social as Special Issue Editors! @srndna.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

Could this mean to say they have NOW been posted?

That way parents can allow kids to access “KidBook” or “InstaTot” without supervision. Or other platforms too with more mixed moderation!

Why is there not a rating system for social media platforms? Like for video games?

Rated G - heavily moderated. ID and age verification required
Rated T - mildly moderated. ID and age verification required
Rated M - no moderation or verification (hint - this is all social media now, right?)

Excited to share this new empirical work funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social, replicating & extending the work of John Grimes on change blindness during saccades: osf.io/preprints/ps...

It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

Looks awesome!!

❤️ 🧪

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12