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Brent Pitchford
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Interested in Brains and Cognition. Postdoc in both the Hoplab and the Mathlab (Leuven, Belgium). Passion for Music, History, and Nature.
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Brent Pitchford @bpitchford.bsky.social · Sep 23
Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.
Distinct neural processing underlying visual face and object perception in dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia is a disorder marked by difficulties in reading, spelling, and connecting sounds to written language. The high-level visual dys…
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icevislab.bsky.social
🚨Paper alert🚨 Here we try to tackle the tricky problem of measuring the inherently private experiences of visual imagery. Now out and open access in Cortex:
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
@heidasigurdar.bsky.social @arnig.bsky.social
#imagery #visualimagery #visionscience #psychology #cogsci #aphantasia
September 10, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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rhodricusack.bsky.social
We're hiring! 2 postdocs + 3 PhD students to join InfantNeuroAI at Trinity College Dublin: awake infant fMRI & OPM-MEG, plus computational models of how infants learn.

Aims: understand infant visual cognition, infant neuroimaging methods, more energy-efficient learning 🧵
www.cusacklab.org/vacancies
September 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Live at MapQuest Headquarters:
August 29, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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perreaux.bsky.social
This is a decent representation of the past five minutes but I don't know why they totally skipped past the threats to our sovereignty that set the national mood.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23d
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada abruptly cut off trade negotiations with the U.S. this week, delivering the message to President Trump that he would rather engage in an ugly trade war than submit to an unfair deal.

Listen to "The Daily."

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Canada Is Done With Trump
Canada suspended trade negotiations this week, setting off President Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods.
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August 25, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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icevislab.bsky.social
Hello #ecvp! We are so happy to be with you yet again. Here is our #ecvp2026 schedule, please come see us. 🚨We are looking for a doctoral student🚨 -- let's chat! #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cogsci
IVL ECVP schedule We are looking for a doctoral student
August 24, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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gordpennycook.bsky.social
David Frum nails it here.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Against Canada, Trump is fighting a trade war that very few Americans support, under leadership that most Americans reject, to achieve results that virtually all Americans would dismiss as pointless if not crazy. Against Trump, Canadians are fighting a trade war that the great majority support, under leadership that commands broad assent, to defend their independence and self-respect. That’s a war that even the weaker side can win, especially if it needs to hold on only a few months longer to survive.
August 22, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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tahnee-engelen.bsky.social
Lots of open positions in Jyväskylä! Come for the great science, stay for the Summers that don’t reach 40 degrees 😜
tuomaseerola.bsky.social Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Aug 17
📢 Open positions at @coe-mmbb.bsky.social — the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in Finland!

We are recruiting 5-9 postdoctoral & 2-6 doctoral researchers to join our large, international research community 🇫🇮 #musicscience

🔹 Postdocs: bit.ly/4gADdbx
🔹 Doctoral: bit.ly/4g10xPz
5-9 Postdoctoral researchers, CoE in Music, Mind, Body and Brain
The Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Music, Mind, Body and Brain at [the Department of Music, Art and Culture studies](https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/mutku) of the University of Jyväskylä is seeking to rec...
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August 17, 2026 at 2:45 PM
bpitchford.bsky.social
Everything is just satire at this point in the timeline.
July 18, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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michaeljkane.bsky.social
Please share with colleagues:

The new Psychonomics journal, Individual Differences in Cognition, is accepting submissions! Please send us your empirical, measurement, & stats-methods research in all areas of cognition, including lab, daily-life, & applied work. www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...
Individual Differences in Cognition - Psychonomic Society
www.psychonomic.org
April 23, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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zlab.bsky.social
Recent work by Kelly Hiersche in collaboration with @osherlab.bsky.social demonstrates that language and theory of mind are functionally and spatially distinct in the brain of 3-9 year old children! @zeynepsaygin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Functional dissociation of language and theory of mind in the developing superior temporal lobe - Communications Biology
Functional MRI in young children demonstrates that brain regions supporting language and theory of mind are functionally and spatially distinct within the superior temporal lobe, and these functions a...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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yi-joan-lin.bsky.social
🚨 Very happy to share our *Neuron* paper: Rethinking neuroaesthetics authors.elsevier.com/a/1miuj3BtfH...

With @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & Johan Wagemans, we argue that neuroaesthetics should move beyond a focus on beauty alone and embrace the multidimensional nature of aesthetic experience.
April 3, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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escop.bsky.social
PhD position in Brain & Cognition, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

A PhD candidate would conduct research in the field of cognitive control, multitasking and aging, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Eva Van den Bussche and Dr. Gethin Hughes.
PhD researcher for the project: Cognitive Control and Multitasking in the Digital Age
We are looking for a motivated PhD researcher to study the behavioral and neural dynamics between cognitive control and multitasking in young and aging populations.
www.kuleuven.be
April 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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natesmith.dev
we should put whoever makes broccoli rubber bands in charge of more stuff
April 3, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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cblevins.bsky.social
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
April 3, 2026 at 11:23 AM
bpitchford.bsky.social
I want someone to explain why wearing new york yankees hats has become fashionable in Belgium of all places. As a Jays fan... this is torture.
March 29, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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sbmost.bsky.social
In my >25 years as a researcher, this is one of my favorite and most personally meaningful studies to come out of my lab:

𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚: 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝

Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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#AcademicSky #EduSky #AI #HigherEd #SciComm
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March 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience — a Perspective by Stephan Pohl, Edgar Y. Walker, David L. Barack, Jennifer Lee, Rachel N. Denison, Ned Block, Florent Meyniel & Wei Ji Ma

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Appeals to representation are widespread, despite neuroscientists’ uncertainty about what kind of findings count as evidence for such claims. In this Perspective, Pohl and colleagues develop a unified...
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March 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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yonghoonchung.bsky.social
New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/
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February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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mehr.nz
free video for intro lectures on auditory perception
February 8, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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mgreenephd.bsky.social
🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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clionaod.bsky.social
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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coltoncasto.bsky.social
The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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nschawor.bsky.social
📆 updated for 2026!

list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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commsmed.nature.com
🚨 NEW RESEARCH! ⚕️ 🩺

De Pue et al. find differences in cognitive control with healthy aging.

http://dlvr.it/TQMjtf

#HealthyAging
@sarahdepue.bsky.social
@evdbussc.bsky.social
@neuropsylab.bsky.social
A comprehensive study of cognitive control in healthy aging - Communications Medicine
De Pue et al. administer a cognitive control test battery measuring inhibition, updating, shifting, and proactive and reactive control in young and older adults. While some cognitive control functions decline with age, others are spared or even improve, highlighting the importance of distinguishing multiple cognitive control functions.
dlvr.it
January 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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sarahdepue.bsky.social
📢 New Publication Alert!
Our study on cognitive control in healthy aging is finally out (for early access) in Communications Medicine bit.ly/48tkF9g

We administered a comprehensive cognitive control test battery in 231 older adults (different cohorts) and 75 young adults 🧠

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A comprehensive study of cognitive control in healthy aging - Communications Medicine
De Pue et al. administer a cognitive control test battery measuring inhibition, updating, shifting, and proactive and reactive control in young and older adults. While some cognitive control functions...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM