Looking forward to expanding our small team a bit as the lab prepares for its 2nd year.
We will be hiring 2-3 more volunteer, in-person RAs for our team to start in the fall. Details and application info are at our website.
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Curious about how psychological theories are built, tested, and refined in practice? This summer, the Theory Methods Society is launching the very first edition of the summer school Theory Building in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (July 6–10, 2026).
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We're still accepting applications! Review will begin 3/23 for a full-time Junior Specialist Lab Coordinator in the Cognition in Context Lab at UC Davis. #psychjobs
Grading assistant
Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking:
Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods?
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Our lab handbook has a highly specific (some would say anal) file naming protocol. Yet this does not stop students from referring to e.g., "dissertation study 3" and expecting me to remember what the heck that is.
I could swear I had two cats but no, apparently there is only one
Many such manuscripts sadly. Or if you have longitudinal data you can also discover increasing, decreasing and unchanging groups too.
But Julia, what if we really need to discover there are low, medium and high groups? /s
Per the website this is an ongoing process since 2019 (scroll down for earlier years), they are just doing one batch of study sections at a time. It is hard to figure out what is alarming and what is business as usual these days, but this seems to be the latter public.csr.nih.gov/EvaluationIn...
Happy New England “spring “ to all who celebrate
We’re looking for a new Research Tech! Our research tech is heading to graduate school (very exciting!), which means we’re recruiting someone new to join our team. The position involves hands-on neuroscience research in a collaborative environment.
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Apparently your friend is not the only one who needs this memo
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You know that annoying NSF form "List every coauthor/co-PI from the last 4y" ?
At @cevianlabs.io we built a free tool that drafts the COI form from your PDF CV in minutes. Check it out 👇
Sounds like Darwin Award contender!
Oh no!
I think that would be impossible on mine - you have to hold the safety bar in or it immediately stops running.
Today's MVP - not sure what I would have done without it! Sidewalks are now tunnels with at least 4' snowbanks. Will try to help out some more neighbors tomorrow.
Hope everyone else in the snowpocalypse zone is safe and warm!
James Peak
Mt. Alice
You might be amused to know that both my cats, James and Alice, are actually named after two of my favorite Colorado 13ers, James Peak and Mt. Alice. I thought it was fun to give them human/not-human names
James, who does not have to shovel, enjoys the storm from his heated window perch
I can see out the front windows so I can confirm outside still exists at least locally. It is a very white outside. I was going to attempt a second round of snow blowing but it would probably be immediately blown right back.
A snow covered window
current view of my backyard
There is definitely a learning curve but most things are pretty straightforward. But if you are more comfortable with Python and starting from scratch, it would make sense to just use PsychPy, especially given it is open source vs. paying for E-Prime.
Gearing up to start incorporating some behavioral tasks into the lab- is E-prime still the best "go-to" re: features and flexibility, or are their other softwares that have superseded it?
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We still use E-prime (largely because we don't want to have to reprogram all our tasks and processing pipelines) but a lot of folks use PsychoPy and seem happy with it.
The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1
🚨Postdoc alert! T32 training grant on Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication, position begins in Summer/Fall of 2026. Applications due March 1st. Get in touch with a program mentor for more info! cncct.research.uconn.edu/postdoc-trai...
(US citizens/ green card holders only, sorry)
Squirrel hanging upside down by it’s back legs to reach a suet feeder
I’ve given up trying to keep the squirrels out of the bird feeders and am just enjoying the acrobatic show
Postdoctoral Training in Developmental Psychopathology
The Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota offers NIMH-funded 2-year postdoctoral on our T32.
If you are interested in learning more, contact me at gunnar@umn.edu
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His dad was so excited to read it to him that when we snuck in a chapter while he was at work kiddo agreed to move the bookmark back so dad wouldn’t miss out on it that evening 🥰
