Neurofrontiers @neurofrontiers@qoto.org

Please share this widely, esp. among diverse junior scientists. Posted on behalf of the editor (Isabel Gauthier) of my favorite journal and the one I'm an action editor for, JEP:HPP:

Call for nominations for intern junior editorial positions at JEP:HPP
Deadline November 20th, 2023. Open to PhD Students and post-doctoral fellows.

The editorial leadership team for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance seeks nominations for intern junior editorial positions for early-career psychologists (IJEs). These positions are meant for those with an interest in developing skills for future roles in the scientific publishing process.

IJE’s will serve 12-month terms beginning January 1, 2024 and the position includes an honoraria stipend of $1,500 USD.

In service of APA’s recent resolutions to address systemic racism in psychology, this program seeks to provide opportunities for people from historically excluded groups, particularly Black, Indigenous, and other psychologists of color, as well as members from other communities which have been historically excluded from leadership opportunities in research and publishing.

IJE positions are open to all qualified candidates, including those from historically excluded groups, who have completed at least 3 years in a PhD program and are no more than 5 years postdoctoral. Individuals in non-academic positions with suitable qualifications are also eligible. Qualified candidates should have published original research in an area broadly relevant to the Journal.

IJEs will work with the journal’s editor, Isabel Gauthier, to work on the Journal’s pre-external review process. Each IJE will work on 3-4 manuscripts a month. The pre-external review process includes screening manuscripts for appropriateness, verifying adherence to instructions for authors and providing authors with feedback that can increase transparency and strengthen the manuscript before external review. This work will be done in concert with the editor, who will co-sign pre-external review letters.

This position does not require experience with peer-review, although it is welcomed, and IJEs will be working on manuscripts on a broad range of topics as represented in the Journal.

How to apply (Deadline November 20th, 2023)
Interested and qualified candidates should send a letter of interest introducing themselves, their expertise, and an explanation of their interest in and appropriateness for the position, along with a copy of their CV, to Isabel Gauthier (Isabel.gauthier@vanderbilt.edu) and put “IJE nomination” in the subject line. Nominees are asked to send the contact information for their current mentor and let them know that they may be contacted for a reference.

Appointments will be made in December and positions will begin January 1, 2024.

#psychology #neuroscience #science #journal

Alrighty folks, Skype a Scientist is doing alright. 1,130 classrooms signed up this fall. That's...ok!

Buuuut we have so many scientists twiddling their thumbs waiting to get matched.

SO!

Do the thing humans are built to do. Connect with people! Tell an educator you know we exist! Send them this picture! Send them a link! Send them both!

Folks can sign up to be matched on our website here https://www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

My expert advice?

Do NOT volunteer for this.

Unless you want to surrender your grey matter to a hideously insecure man baby narcissist who will try to flood your synapses with conspiracy theories and ads for cryptocurrency. In which case, you do you, I guess

Not many editorials make me laugh out loud… but this one did https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02036-0

"The notion that all complex processes could be understood in terms of underlying simple universal laws is indeed an article of faith, but one which has been put increasingly to the test [...]. Previously we have tended to sidestep problems arising from complexity; we could argue that these problems could be dealt with if necessary, but since there were many simpler and more tractable problems at hand, we would concern ourselves with those."
Rosen (1977) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03081077708934768

@cogsci

STOP SAVING DAYLIGHT

* CLOCKS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CHANGED TWICE A YEAR

* YEARS OF 'SAVING' yet NO NET GAIN OF DAYLIGHT

* Sunset keeps getting earlier by a few minutes per day, which is sad but we can adjust to it, but then BAM we are all supposed to change the clocks so that it's suddenly A FULL HOUR EARLIER and it's PITCH DARK AFTER WORK what the hell.

"Hello I would like my saved daylight back please"

They have played us for absolute fools.

Integrated information theory as pseudoscience?

Some thoughts about recent discussions on IIT and accusations of pseudoscience.

https://selfawarepatterns.com/2023/09/17/integrated-information-theory-as-pseudoscience/
#consciousness #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #neuroscience #IIT #IntegratedInformationTheory

What if consciousness is just epiphenomenal, a projection of other primary phenomena that we misattribute to being primary itself?

If so, we’d all feel really stupid spending so much time trying to explain it.

#consciousness

OMG this thread is wild!

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

New blog post just dropped: "The thing about epistemic humility:" http://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/the-thing-about-epistemic-humility.

Know when to be humble, and (even more importantly) when to stand up with conviction and call out people's bullshit.

If you have a WordPress-powered blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse server and people will be able to follow the blog from Mastodon etc.

More info on how to do this here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/

This works through the AcitvityPub for WordPress plug-in, which has just been updated to version 1.0:

➡️ https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

The plug-in is by @pfefferle in association with #Automattic, one of the major players behind WordPress itself.

#WordPress #Fediverse #FediTips #ActivityPub

The SpikeInterface project is recruiting a Software Engineer to develop automated spike sorting tools. This is a great opportunity to work with theoretical and experimental neuroscientists innovating open source software for systems neuroscience. Will be based in Edinburgh - vibrant neuroscience community and a fantastic place to live.

SpikeInterface: https://tinyurl.com/spikeint

How to apply: https://tinyurl.com/yk8ymc35

Please boost so we can get the word out to as widely as possible.

I keep seeing people saying they are happy to use AI text generators as sources of factual information, because they're confident that when the thing generates an inaccurate answer they'll easily spot it.

Speaking from my experience of 20+ years of professional fact-checking: the errors you can spot easily are not the ones you need to worry about.

Have Attention Spans Been Declining? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Pweg9xpKknkNwN8Fx/have-attention-spans-been-declining
A lack of long-term studies means we can't tell whether #attention spans have actually declined. Yet, reviewing related research indicates that individual attention spans might indeed have been declining

I’ve been creating a montage of all the #LeavingAcademia folk on Twitter for a talk.

1) My heart 💔
2) Notice anything?

Your weekend read is here! 😊

Advancing Neuroscientific Understanding of Brain-Behavior Relationship: A Conversation with Nicole C. Rust (@NicoleCRust ), a Professor and brain researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/advancing-neuroscientific-understanding

I've spent a lot of time over the last couple years thinking about #sciComm, both in sharing research with the public and other scientists.

Doing research for my latest Penn NeuroKnow post debunking common myths about the brain was fascinating as I traced through where several of these myths originated. Oftentimes they start with real #neuroscience results that get twisted into something overly generalized or not quite accurate. In some cases, as with the "tongue map" myth, we have a pretty clear idea of what single decision or moment in time caused the confusion, but in other cases it's less clear how we got to such widespread misconceptions.

In my post I briefly talked about how anyone can help stop this cycle of miscommunication, but I'm eager to hear other opinions about where the responsibility to prevent future neuromyths lies and what we as neuroscientists can do to stop them.

You can read my post, "Neuro MythBusters: The truth behind 10 common myths about your brain", here: https://pennneuroknow.com/2023/09/05/neuro-mythbusters-the-truth-behind-10-common-myths-about-your-brain/

Everybody go update your iPhones.

The new 0-click vuln exploited by NSO Group is sent via a malicious image in iMessage.

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/

Do you like it when browsers share any function of your browsing history with every random website you visit to target Ads? Well, get ready, Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/06/google_privacy_popup_chrome/ #privacy #security