Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds.
Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths.
Make no mistake: this is fascism.
Thrilled to be featured in the @thetransmitter.bsky.social Liftoff Series! Grateful for the opportunity to share more about our launching lab's ethos and the big questions surrounding mechanisms of affect and mental health we aim to tackle in the coming years! 🧠
The new deadline for the 2026-2027 SAS Student Committee (SASSC) is June 22 at 11:59pm (your local time).
Members-at-Large represent and advance the interests of SAS trainees, attend committee meetings, organize events, and contribute to the annual conference.
Apply here: forms.gle/95K1aiaDDkjG...
"The test will be a simple one: Are you sufficiently loyal to the president? If the answer is no, it will result in the
We have a new Cognitive Control Collaborative website:
www.cognitivecontrol.net
Six labs, more than 20 trainees, six years of collaboration (and counting).
Consider joining us, many of us are looking for new grad students in the fall!
Postdoc job ad is now live!
faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/168298/...
✨ VERY excited to share our new paper led by Holly Bowen (SMU) & former ugrad Kyle Thurmann "Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis" finally in press @ Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 💵🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thread 1/n
Robert Reich
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to [email protected]
Jan R. Wessel
Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
And if you are in the Washington DC area this coming weekend, feel free to come to our conference!
futurerealities.org/FOR2026/
Society for Affective Science
🚀What motivates children to persist through challenges?
@julia-a-leonard.bsky.social looks back on her top 10 piece: “I hope readers connected personally with these questions: How do we figure out what is worth our effort? And how can we help children push through difficulties to reach their goals?”
We're excited to share our latest profile! Dr. Suzanne Haber studies the circuits underlying reward-based learning & decision making, and how those circuits can be therapeutically targeted to treat disease.
Follow the link below to learn more! #WomenInNeuro
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
Kimberly Chiew
Ali Cohen
Julia Leonard is uncovering what motivates children to put in the effort to learn
boldscience.org
The LUMeN Lab at Emory is hiring ✨
We’re seeking a full-time RA/lab manager and a postdoc to work on new NIH-funded studies! Formal job ads/apps forthcoming. We’re eager to hit the ground running so please share these flyers and/or reach out if interested!
In this month’s “Liftoff,” @marisosa.bsky.social discusses the challenges and excitement of task-switching as a new PI, and @debyee.bsky.social shares how she plans to foster a culture of reproducibility in her lab. #neuroskyence
By @franciscorr25.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...
Extensive evidence suggests that cognitive performance is typically enhanced under increased motivation, often in the form of reward anticipation. Whi…
