Ignacio Rivero Covelo

1/2 Multiple faculty positions available at Stony Brook University, in the Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior. Its a wonderful environment, with great colleagues and students at a public AAU. @sbuneurobiology.bsky.social
School of Medicine positions:
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Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

The Texas legislature obliterates these traditions, stripping faculty of any meaningful decision-making role in how their institutions are run. Under this law, faculty senates at public universities and colleges can now exist only if permitted by the institutions’ governing boards — the oversight bodies whose members are politically appointed by the state governor. In mockery of democratic principles, half of the faculty senate members must be chosen by the university president, and administrators can remove faculty for not conducting their duties within vague “senate parameters.”

Extremely bad university governance changes coming in Texas
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Effects of Ventral Pallidum–Nucleus Accumbens Shell Neural Pathway Modulation on Sucrose Consumption and Motivation in Female Rats: Chemogenetic Manipulation Background: The neural control of food intake involves interactions between homeostatic and nonhomeostatic systems. The nucleus accumbens shell (AcbSh) and ventral pallidum (VP) play key roles in regu...

Finally published! Effects of Ventral Pallidum–Nucleus Accumbens Shell Neural Pathway Modulation on Sucrose Consumption and Motivation in Female Rats: Chemogenetic Manipulation @jmirpub.bsky.social! xbio.jmir.org/2025/1/e68519

There were 28 premodern history TT job postings for 2022-2023 -- for the whole of the United States.

It’s the end of tenure as we know it (opinion) And no, Ellyn Lem writes, it’s not fine.

Ellyn Lem from UWM CGS on the mass termination of tenured faculty

A new kind of drug for schizophrenia promises fewer side effects A medicine that sidesteps the brain's dopamine receptors to reach different targets represents a new approach to schizophrenia treatment. The Food and Drug Administration approved it Thursday.

A medicine that sidesteps the brain's dopamine receptors to reach different targets represents a new approach to schizophrenia treatment. The Food and Drug Administration approved it Thursday.

Dissociable Roles of the Dorsolateral and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Human Categorization Models of human categorization predict the prefrontal cortex (PFC) serves a central role in category learning. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) hav...

Dissociable Roles of the Dorsolateral and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Human Categorization
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...
#neuroscience

2023-2028 Strategic Plan The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved the UW System’s 2023-2028 Strategic Plan on Dec. 8, 2022. University Financial Assessments A third-party reviewer has completed financial a...

UW System has now released all of the Deloitte reports on the non-Madison campuses. Extremely embarrassing for Deloitte to have some 23-year-old flunkies fill in the same slide template twelve times. Scandalous for UW System to pay them north of $2 million to do it

www.wisconsin.edu/president/st...

Why Student Ratings of Faculty Are Unethical - Journal of Academic Ethics For decades, student ratings of university faculty have been used by administrators in high stakes faculty employment decisions such as tenure, promotion, contract renewal and reappointment, and merit...

"Why Student Ratings of Faculty Are Unethical"

Food for thought (curious what others think).

#AcademicSky

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Head of UW-Milwaukee’s faculty senate: Layoffs of tenured faculty were financially necessary “We live in a capitalist society where, when there is not demand for certain work, businesses lay people off,” said the head of UW-Milwaukee’s faculty senate after a decision to lay off more than 30 t...

Quoted at some length in here on the CGS badness and the Wisconsin Idea

Do you teach philosophy of science in a way that connects with issues or philosophy outside of the English-speaking canon? Maybe submit your syllabus for this prize!

The Social, Personality, & Health area at the University of Houston is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. Applications are due 10/07. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me!
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Wisconsin voters reject ballot questions restricting governor's power over federal funds Wisconsin voters on Tuesday voted down two referendums that asked to give the state Legislature more power over distributing federal funding

Wisconsin Republicans were very mad that the governor was able to Do Things with federal money, so they put two constitutional amendments on a low-turnout August ballot and they still lost by 16 points

A protein called Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s Early in life, the protein Reelin helps assemble the brain. Later on, it appears to protect the organ from Alzheimer’s and other threats to memory and thinking.

A key protein that helps assemble the brain early in life also appears to protect the organ from Alzheimer’s and other diseases of aging.

Instead of whatever thing you are feeling stressed about right now, consider that you could rather be watching League of Pigs pig racing.

Wisconsin university chancellor fired over ongoing porn career with wife as 'Sexy Happy Couple' Joe Gow, former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, said the termination violates his First Amendment rights and the school's own policy on freedom of expression.

Found the new president of Harvard www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Synapusyu is a character named after the synapse and appears in a TV show for babies.

Polisky: please help us spread the word about the Saltzman Institute’s postdoc, and tell your best students to apply!

www.siwps.org/programs/cal...

New here? I’ve started a curated list of some of my favorite cognitive neuroscience, #psychology, and neuroscience accounts here: bsky.app/profile/did:... - you can use it to quickly find people to follow! 🧠🟦 🧪

Psychology at Ohio State invites applications for two positions involving diversity science and racial/health disparities.
Open Rank Faculty Search: tinyurl.com/2wzbjjjj
Fellow to Faculty Position: tinyurl.com/3e5b4wdv
#psychscisky