Joel Snyder

At long last, our paper is published @AMPPS failing to replicate the effect size of an influential paper on neural correlates of musical beat perception. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨Job alert: be my colleague!🚨 Barnard College is hiring someone at the intersection of Cognitive Science and Computer Science. Please share and reach out if you have questions! barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

In addition to the stipend and valuable editing experience is the great opportunity to work directly with the brilliant and wise editor-in-chief Dr. Isabel Gauthier!

Call for submissions: Special Issue in Cortex "Conscious awareness across the senses" co-edited by @renzolanfranco.bsky.social @arvidguterstam.bsky.social @leahbanellis.bsky.social @nfaivre.bsky.social & @canalesjohnson.bsky.social #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

My college dean’s office is cooler than yours!

This is insane! And tracks with some communication I've had from current or recent NSF program officers recently, and nothing they told me gave me hope this is going to improve much anytime soon.

A study in Nature on perception of butterfly motion is exactly what I needed today to restore my faith in science! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I thought I was going to hate this article but I actually found it very thoughtful and even a little persuasive. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

If you can spare ~20 min on an online study on perception & #mentalimagery please consider participating: #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence tstbl.co/131-782

Want a little distraction that can help me with a class demo in Intro Psych? Take a short (1-2 minute) color perception test at ismy.blue Then report your results in the google form below! I'll post a figure of results by gender and age later this week. 🙂 forms.gle/dPkMztpNLNQK...

Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵

Announcing two tenure-track faculty openings in the Psych Dept at Northwestern University: Cognitive/Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...

I thought about writing a commentary but I agreed so much with Anil I didn’t see the point!

UCSD Cognitive Science Department is hiring an Assistant Professor incorporating novel computational approaches in the study of biological and/or artificial intelligence. I have had the privilege of working in this department for 10 years and the intellectual environment really is unique. 1/3

Please spread the word about this post-doctoral position to work at UNLV's new MRI facility with Dr. Ayan Sengupta, the facility's assistant director, and a fantastic cognitive neuroscientist. nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNLV-Externa...

Interested in doing a PhD in philosophy of animal minds in lovely Murcia? We have just published a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD as part of our research project on ecological validity in comparative cognitive science. Please consider applying if this is up your street!

Welp, I had a grant and a proposal for a review paper to a journal rejected this week. At least I get a 3-day weekend to [fill in the blank].

Shout out to all the philosophers contributing to the science of consciousness. This interdisciplinary field is one of the best examples of scientists and philosophers working closely together to develop and test theories!

We are hiring a new director for our brain imaging center at Northeastern University (Boston) in the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please spread the word. I'm on the search committee happy to speak with anyone who is interested. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).

@unlv.edu did an article featuring the new MRI scanner we have and some of the scientists planning to use the facility. www.unlv.edu/news/article...

We're currently hiring a new director for the renowned UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The director will be appointed as a Professor in our psychology department: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07814

Latest edition of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab @unlv.edu

Please talk to me or @arnig.bsky.social at #ecvp2026 if you know of an interested potential Ph.D. student -- or are that interested student ;) #ECVP #visionscience #neuroskyence #psychscisky #psychology #imagery #visualimagery #phd #cogsci

I appreciate the possibility of putting to the test whether something doesn't replicate because of 'tacit knowledge', as has sometimes been claimed. OTOH, we're not all going to wear head-mounted cameras (or eye-trackers) while doing science, are we?

Another great study on musical narrative perception by @margulisa.bsky.social

Very disappointed in NPR interviewing a political science professor on AI/LLMs, as if she is an expert on the benefits and downsides of using the technology based on her own anecdotes. www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...

Good change blindness demo, says the cognitive psychologist

Looking for a postdoctoral fellowship to study consciousness? Talk to me about applying for this scholarship - we’ve had a wonderful experience with it in the past: azrielifoundation.org/fellows/inte...

A second paper by Nelson Cowan on his parietal funneling theory of consciousness. Looking forward to reading this soon! #consciousness #psychology #neuroscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Does anyone else wish the OSF changes hadn't been announced right before the Fall semester starts, as if I didn't have enough stressful, uncertainty-inducing things starting to pile up?

Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Scientist friends, please read the thread & share your thoughts (Doesn’t have to be public, you know how to reach me!) re:blast radius question, we have a survey out right now trying to get a handle on overall impacts, how close labs are to funding cliff & coping strategies

1/ New paper out today from my group, in @natneuro.nature.com, in which we review the anatomical & functional data on insula structure across species. This was a "whole lab" project led by @joeycharbonneau.bsky.social. It's been a 5 year in the making (a full 3 years in review)! rdcu.be/fyd7T

This is what I was planning to tell my students at the beginning of the coming semester. "The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling — an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs." #psychology #ai #neuroscience #highered

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

Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

What if the fastest way to be more creative... was to stop trying so hard? Neuroscientists have been scanning the brains of musicians, and what they found might change how you think about creativity (thread ⬇️)

Birdsong acoustics! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I will never understand why people interested in animals don’t just watch nature shows on @pbs.org