Tess Forest

Tess Forest

@tessforest.bsky.social

Incoming Assistant Prof. of Psychology at Notre Dame (Jan 2027). PostDoc at Columbia, with Dima Amso. I study how learning changes with experience and brain development. @UBC cogs & @UofT psych alumna, Wisconsinite. https://sites.google.com/view/tessforest

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I'm starting a lab at the University of Notre Dame! 🎉🍀🧠 Doors open Jan 2027. I'm most excited to meet my future students (recruiting psych grad students for 2027!), help grow a budding neuroscience area, and head home to the midwest after many years away. Please reach out! @notredame.bsky.social

The Notre Dame psych department keeps growing! Tenure-Track Cognitive and Developmental psych positions, deadline Sep. 15th. Please Apply! :)

Matthew Robison@matthewrobison.bsky.social

The Department of Psychology at Notre Dame is hiring! We have two TT Asst Prof ads out, one in cognitive psychology and another in developmental psychology. Come be my colleague in South Bend!

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Excited to be editing a Developmental Science special issue on Culture, Context, and Brain Development with Heather Bortfeld, Laura Katus, and Bruce Rawlings. Seeking papers from diverse contexts using novel approaches! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Please share!

onlinelibrary.wiley.comDevelopmental Science Call for Papers Culture, context, and brain developmentDevelopmental Science is an international journal publishing contemporary scientific developmental psychology and developmental cognitive neuroscience research.

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Check out Neuro Funding Finder! Its a free to use, international database where researchers can find funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages! #neuroskyence

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social

NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place: thetransmitter.org/neuroscience... #neuroskyence

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I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

rdcu.beEpisodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 HzNature Human Behaviour - Biba et al. show that episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz.

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Interested in doing a postdoc on misinfo/belief change with me and @gordpennycook.bsky.social? We are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at York University. Contact me for more details! #PsychJobs

yorku.caConnected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowships - Connected MindsINTRODUCTION: New technologies are revolutionizing society, creating a 'techno-social collective' where humans and intelligent technologies are deeply interconnected. While such advances present excit...

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🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

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We're collecting examples of funded F31 and F32 grants in Psych/Neuro that folks are comfortable sharing for a new section of our Resources website, please email me if you'd be willing to share! Small token and eternal gratitude if you do! L.gabard-durnam@northeastern.edu

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Sign up for our final winter session of Scan Camp!! Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area! 8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus. Wear an Oura ring and answer daily surveys. Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain! northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Katie Insel@katieinsel.bsky.social

Scan Camp is in session at the Northwestern CATS Lab! 🧠 We're looking for teens for a 5 week study. Participants complete 8-10 MRI scans and can earn up to $1,210! Parents and teens can learn more: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please spread the word!

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Please share widely!

Alona Fyshe@alonaf.bsky.social

I'm hiring (another) post doc, this time in collaboration with Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social at Columbia! We will be exploring some of the characteristics of human development using deep learning models. Email with questions! iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The Budding Minds Lab at the University of Toronto is hiring a Postdoc in the developmental cognitive neuroscience of memory 🧠 🫧 This is (one of) my graduate labs and I can't recommend the department's people, resources, location, or culture strongly enough! see buddingmindslab.utoronto.ca for more

buddingmindslab.utoronto.caBudding MindsWe are a developmental cognitive neuroscience lab located on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. Our research aims to understand how we form and recall memories, and how we can use...

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Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally 👀 Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases. 1/5

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I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

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📣📣📣 Hi Everyone! I'm accepting PhD students for the Fall 2026 cycle! Our lab topics include the developmental origins and elaboration of moral cognition/prosocial behavior, persistence, and optimism. More info below!!

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Just a reminder about this session tomorrow. Hope to see you there!

Karen Campbell@karampbell.bsky.social

Join us for "From PhD to Postdoc: Finding Your Academic Fit" Fri Aug 22 @ 1pm jointly presented by @sparksociety.bsky.social @wicsc-trainee.bsky.social & CSBBCS Visit the following link to register for the event: shorturl.at/BVPtC We hope to see you there!! #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Most exciting to me, in each dyad, infants look most at their caregiver when she is being moderately predictable relative to herself. This shows an infant's own, unique experience with the statistics of their environment shapes the development of early attention and learning processes.

We measured caregiver unpredictability (entropy) by hand-annotating hundreds of videos of caregivers interacting naturally with their babies, and then found that the predictable structure of caregiver's behavior shapes infants moment-to-moment attention during dyadic interaction.

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I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comResearch AssociateScreen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

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Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

grad.uwo.caUS-CAN Doctoral Excellence AwardWestern University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca RTs appreciated 💫

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Hadn’t found an important use for my first blue-sky “tweet”… but then all our training grants were taken. @tristansyates.bsky.social wrote what I’m feeling quite eloquently

Tristan Yates@tristansyates.bsky.social

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.

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