
Ali Cohen
@aliocohen
asst prof at Emory studying how motivation & emotion influence learning, memory, & brain function across development. 🇵🇪🇺🇸
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http://thelumenlab.org 27-02-2016 18:17:39
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We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to become a LUMeNary Emory Psychology in Summer 2025! ✨ Applications accepted here: staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/job And feel free to reach out to me!


New article by Ryno Kruger where he shows that facial dominance predicts intelligence. Children expect dominant-looking individuals to be "really smart." Less consistent in these data was a gender stereotype about intelligence. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Impact of NIH funding in Georgia: NIH AWARDS FUNDING: $780 M JOBS SUPPORTED: 11,816 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $2.18 B Bio Industry Impact in the State: Jobs: 37,031 Businesses: 3,284 Cutting NIH indirects will kill jobs and cause a recession. unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-st…

These great public universities in GOP states will lose at least $1 billion due to Trump NIH cuts. I wonder how their senators feel about decimating their universities of innovation… Ted Cruz Senator John Cornyn Sen. Marsha Blackburn Senator Bill Hagerty James Lankford Markwayne Mullin



Straight 🔥🔥🔥from Michael S Roth on the need for college presidents to reject anticipatory obedience and speak out in defense of their sector. slate.com/life/2025/02/c…

Hi GA AG Chris Carr I called your office today to voice my concern about Georgia not working to protect the $2.18 billion and 11,000+ jobs supported by NIH awards in GA but couldn’t reach anyone wasn’t given an option to leave a voicemail CC Ossoff's Office Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock Brian Kemp

Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and U.S. National Science Foundation funded labs in universities With uni labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed


1. Help: NIH study sections and council meetings not already published in the Federal Register as of Jan. 21 have not been allowed to meet (thetransmitter.org/funding/federa…). This appears to be an 'end run' around a recent injunction and came from HHS officials. You can help (see below):

🔊 ATTN NIH U.S. National Science Foundation and VA funded scientists: love hearing about your papers here but please acknowledge UPFRONT that your beautiful science was enabled by federal funds Please do the same when you give talks or lectures, AND during your interviews with lay media and podcasters






Atlanta stands up for science Ossoff's Office Reverend Raphael Warnock Brian Kemp #StandUpForScience #StandUpForScience2025



Thrilled to share that I will pursue my PhD in Clinical Psychology at Emory University under the mentorship of the incredible Ali Cohen! Shoutout to my lab mates in the Learning and Brain Development Lab lab for their unwavering support - I could not be more excited for this new chapter! 🧠🎉
