Mary C Whatley

Assistant Professor of Psychology at @WCU interested in memory, metacognition, and successful aging. PhD from @UCLA, BS from @UNC. Also a dog mom 🐾

[Mary C Whatley @MaryCWhatley1]

The paper shows that while our general tendency to be curious remains stable or even slightly declines as we age, our state curiosity, or interest in specific material, may actually increase into older age. This provides opportunities to improve cognitive function in older age.

[Mary C Whatley @MaryCWhatley1]

Excited to share that our collaborative paper on how trait and state curiosity change across the adult lifespan is now out!

https://t.co/VpTIMh9E8P

[Western Carolina University @WCU]

Campus Alert: Mass Outage of Internet and Cellular Service Due to the impacts of Hurricane Helene, throughout Western North Carolina we are currently experiencing a widespread outage of both internet and cellular services.

[Mary C Whatley @MaryCWhatley1]

Thrilled to share that I've earned my PhD @UCLA and will be starting my next chapter as an Assistant Professor of Psychology @WCU! I'm excited to return to my home of Western NC and join such a fabulous department. Thanks to mentors, friends, and family for helping me get here!

[Roger Beaty @Roger_Beaty]

The postdoc position in our Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab at Penn State is now live: https://t.co/tZkYKzrXPC

[Mary C Whatley @MaryCWhatley1]

@crewalsh @jesse_rissman @NatureComms Very cool work, Catherine! Congrats!

[Dylan Wiwad @D_Wiwad]

If you're a PhD student who is industry-curious, please reach out and/or apply for our internship at @SlackHQ! This is a super unique group that does a mix of normal industry work and straight up academic work and collaboration!

Info in thread!

[Benjamin Katz @DrBenKatz]

📣Want to do psych grad school in the US but are not a US citizen? 📣

Thrilled to host @aijia_yao on the morning (EST) of October 13 for how to navigate postbacc's and grad applications as a non-citizen.

Please help signal boost and DM/email us for the Zoom info!

[Gordon Pennycook @GordPennycook]

I'll be recruiting a PhD student in the next cycle - please pass this along to anyone who might interested in joining my lab at Cornell! Open-ended, but interest in topics relating to intuition/reason, metacognition, overconfidence, misinformation, or beliefs is a bonus!

[Audrey Duarte @AudreyDuarte15]

The Memory and Aging lab (my lab) is recruiting a PhD student next year. If you're interested in working in individual differences in episodic memory in diverse populations, hit me up (or whatever the kids say these days for contact me).

[Mary C Whatley @MaryCWhatley1]

@LugerLab @GarciaLabMS Yikes, trying to call out people on twitter who have a full PhD and don’t do free labor for you is a bad take

[Mary C Whatley @MaryCWhatley1]

@Juggleguy76 @uaw2865 @UofCalifornia Lol ok there is no use for science in society. Everyone should just be a lifeguard 😂👍🏻

[Mary C Whatley @MaryCWhatley1]

@AJ99482144 @uaw2865 @UofCalifornia ?? They’re literally doing some of the most impactful research in the country (cancer research, mental health, education, climate change, etc.). All those big studies from UC schools you hear about in the news were done by grad students and post docs.

[Mary C Whatley @MaryCWhatley1]

@Juggleguy76 @uaw2865 @UofCalifornia These workers are literally getting the education to seek out higher paying jobs. They’re grad students and post docs. However, they do a majority of the grunt work for research and teaching and are paid $25k for working 40+ hours per week at skilled labor.

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

The multi-campus UC strike includes teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, tutors, fellows and others, and it’s expected to majorly disrupt classes and day-to-day campus life.

https://t.co/c766mfrnAz

[Dr. Bridget Callaghan @Dr_BCallaghan]

Very important #ucstrike today at UCLA.

[Zach Reagh @zreagh]

Hey, want to hear something cool?

Jeff Zacks and I are jointly recruiting a postdoc. This is truly a unique and cool position bridging two neighboring labs equally obsessed with event memory, narratives, and cognitive aging.

Get in touch! Retweets greatly appreciated :)

[Chris Wahlheim @CWahlheim]

I am pleased two share two pieces of news. I just received an NSF award to research ways of improving memory and belief accuracy for fake news! I am also looking for a graduate student to join our program and collaborate in this work. Please RT / forward to interested students.

[Aaron Kucyi @neuroperson]

My lab is interested in neural mechanisms of spontaneous thought, brain network dynamics, and mental health. Active projects with real-time fMRI, EEG-fMRI and intracranial EEG.

Hiring a postdoc and research assistant soon and grad students for fall 2023. Reach out if interested!

[Mary C Whatley @MaryCWhatley1]

@marybhargis Congrats on the new job, Mary!! 🎉 wishing you all the best in your next chapter 🙂