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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Dear Colleagues,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Please share with relevant recent (or
imminently finishing) undergrads and feel free to contact me with
questions. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">This is for a <i>lab technician</i> in
Duke's Psychology & Neuroscience department, starting <b>summer 2018.</b><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Apologies for cross-posting.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">best,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Elika<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">


















</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Elika Bergelson, PhD</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Crandall
Family Assistant Professor<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Duke
Psychology & Neuroscience Department & Center for Cognitive
Neuroscience<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Center
for Developmental Science<span></span></span></p>





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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://bergelsonlab.com/index.html" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(126,87,194)">The Bergelson Lab at Duke</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">, an NIH and NEH funded lab in
Duke's Psychology & Neuroscience department, is seeking a lab
technician with <span style="background:yellow">excellent
programming skills</span> for a summer start date.  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">The Bergelson Lab studies
language acquisition, with a focus on early word learning. Research projects in
the lab investigate both the relation between word learning and other
aspects of linguistic representation (phonetics, syntax, prosody) and the
interface between word learning and socio-cognitive development writ large.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Research in the lab centers around <b>corpus</b> methods,
used to analyze the <a href="http://bergelsonlab.com/seedlings/index.html" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:rgb(126,87,194)">SEEDLingS Corpus</span></a> (a
rich longitudinal audio/video/comprehension/production corpus), and <b>behavioral</b> methods
(e.g. eye-tracking, discrimination, and production studies) to query infant language
development.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">The lab technician will also have the
opportunity to be part of an international collaborative project, </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/aclewdid/home" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(126,87,194)">ACLEW</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">, involving speech-technology, computational modeling, and
naturalistic recordings.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">The lab technician will work alongside a
full-time lab manager, PhD students, postdocs, undergrads, and the PI to
maintain our codebase (</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(107,119,112)"><a href="https://github.com/BergelsonLab/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:rgb(0,99,118);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Bergelson Lab GitHub repo</span></a>,
</span><a href="https://github.com/SeedlingsBabylab/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,99,118);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">SEEDLingS GitHub repo</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(107,119,112)">)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">, create and document
new scripts and workflows (</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(107,119,112)"><a href="https://osf.io/3qg96/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:rgb(0,99,118);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Bergelson Lab OSF Wiki</span></a>,
</span><a href="https://osf.io/cxwyz/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,99,118);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">SEEDLingS OSF wiki</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(107,119,112)">)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">, help manage our </span><a href="http://bergelsonlab.com/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">website</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">, and provide support for working with
experimental and naturalistic data in the lab. There are often 1-2
undergraduate RAs directly supervised by the lab technician in this role. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(107,119,112)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Our lab staff typically go on to excellent
research positions and/or PhDs (n=5) at top institutions and have taken
advantage of opportunities to co-author research publications and presentations
in their own areas of interest and in ongoing projects in the lab.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Desiderata include:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">* strong programming
background (python along with some combination of matlab, R, ruby, bash, html,
Go, C++, java, and latex)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">* experience with Python's
scientific libraries (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, IPython Notebooks) </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">* experience with R's
tidyverse. experience with RStudio's Shiny application framework is a plus.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">* high skill level and
comfort with Github</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">* experience with Linux is a
plus </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">* experience with backend
server development in Go is a plus</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">* familiarity with relevant
software (e.g. Praat, Python, Audacity, Datavyu, R, FFmpeg)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">* coursework and research
experience in algorithms and data structures, data science, machine learning,
human research design and implementation (cognition and/or developmental psych,
cogsci, linguistics, and related fields)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Duke Psychology and Neuroscience has a strong
community of researchers (see primary faculty </span><a href="http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/people/primary-faculty" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(126,87,194)">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">). Colleagues with highly relevant research in the department
notably include Drs. Michael Tomasello, Rita Svetlova, and Makeba
Wilbourne. We are part of </span><a href="http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/childstudies" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(126,87,194)">Duke CHILD Studies</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">To apply, please send an email to </span><a href="mailto:elika.bergelson@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(126,87,194)">elika.bergelson@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> with the subject line <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">"Bergelson Lab Technician Position"
and the following items:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span>a)<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">current CV (including
contact details of 3 references)<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span>b)<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">sample code (and/or
its resulting products) that you’ve written from scratch<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span>c)<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">letter of Interest
highlighting how your background complements the labs' needs and
interests.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Applications will be reviewed beginning <b>April
16^th </b>and will continue until a suitable candidate is selected in
May. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Start date will be early summer. This is a one
year position with possibility of renewal.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.3pt;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without
regard to an individual's race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual
orientation, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, or
disability.<span></span></span></p>





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