<div dir="ltr"><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-pv" style="color:rgb(117,117,117)"><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">Dear Colleagues--A clarification at the outset: this is a *separate* position from the lab manager position we recently advertised (for which we are not considering further applicants). This one has different technical skill desiderata--happy to answer further questions!</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">best,</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">Elika</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;color:rgb(228,175,10)"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bergelsonlab.com_index.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=l_ojTR8zgQkhIYApbJYvgvlizEjJwe_GuRGmzHCTJbk&m=ZebnTF_Fg8v4VzAlxKzWj8tmjXRFBqMAnYOf8gxfg8o&s=sT5htn8CJrAh8vGiXJfzgV-IrFmaasrfrul_kN8NDro&e=" target="_blank">The Bergelson Lab at Duke</a></span>, an NIH and NEH funded lab in Duke's Psychology & Neuroscience department, is seeking a lab technician with excellent programming skills for a summer start date.  </div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">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.</div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">Research in the lab centers around <b>corpus</b> methods, used to analyze the <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bergelsonlab.com_seedlings_index.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=l_ojTR8zgQkhIYApbJYvgvlizEjJwe_GuRGmzHCTJbk&m=ZebnTF_Fg8v4VzAlxKzWj8tmjXRFBqMAnYOf8gxfg8o&s=ERuWpq20_iBQC8tKHX0fJnwG_z-P6IoXM4ptfdEIep0&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">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.</div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">The lab technician will also have the opportunity to be part of an international collaborative project, <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_view_aclewdid_home&d=DwMFaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=l_ojTR8zgQkhIYApbJYvgvlizEjJwe_GuRGmzHCTJbk&m=ZebnTF_Fg8v4VzAlxKzWj8tmjXRFBqMAnYOf8gxfg8o&s=iVEtACiYYgdhRRya7uzD-nR6IdUqTMXA9f9q2gTiGdg&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">ACLEW</span></a>, involving speech-technology, computational modeling, and naturalistic recordings.</div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p></div></div></div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-F3hlO"><div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">The lab technician will work alongside a full-time lab manager, PhD students, postdocs, undergrads, and the PI to maintain our codebase (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_BergelsonLab_&d=DwMFaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=l_ojTR8zgQkhIYApbJYvgvlizEjJwe_GuRGmzHCTJbk&m=ZebnTF_Fg8v4VzAlxKzWj8tmjXRFBqMAnYOf8gxfg8o&s=4nqJTXN_fmuegGWLeQ6q3qekmaSCLc4klreTzz8exS4&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">Bergelson Lab GitHub repo</span></a>, <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_SeedlingsBabylab_&d=DwMFaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=l_ojTR8zgQkhIYApbJYvgvlizEjJwe_GuRGmzHCTJbk&m=ZebnTF_Fg8v4VzAlxKzWj8tmjXRFBqMAnYOf8gxfg8o&s=IxhwMBFW0ebrRZoLVES9hhoy9SYNA4wOWOPGjCF75UU&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">SEEDLingS GitHub repo</span></a>), create and document new scripts and workflows, help manage our <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bergelsonlab.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=l_ojTR8zgQkhIYApbJYvgvlizEjJwe_GuRGmzHCTJbk&m=ZebnTF_Fg8v4VzAlxKzWj8tmjXRFBqMAnYOf8gxfg8o&s=7g7wKCMKPqAvTpugDZbAMV8hXl8zStwO3ggKKK-K87E&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">website</span></a>, 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.</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-pv" style="color:rgb(117,117,117)"><div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">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.</div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><b>Desiderata include:</b></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-F3hlO"><div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">* strong programming background (python and R along with some combination of ruby, bash, matlab, html, Go, C++, java, and latex)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-pv" style="color:rgb(117,117,117)"><div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">* experience with Python's scientific libraries (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, IPython Notebooks) </div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-F3hlO"><div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">* experience with R's tidyverse library; experience with RStudio's Shiny application framework is a plus.</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-pv" style="color:rgb(117,117,117)"><div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">* high skill level and comfort with Git</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">* experience with Linux is a plus </div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">* experience with backend server development in Go is a plus</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-F3hlO"><div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">* familiarity with relevant software (e.g. Praat, Audacity, Datavyu, FFmpeg)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-pv" style="color:rgb(117,117,117)"><div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">* 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)</div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">Duke Psychology and Neuroscience has a strong community of researchers (see primary faculty <a href="http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/people/primary-faculty" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">here</span></a>). Colleagues with highly relevant research in the department notably include Drs. Michael Tomasello, Rita Svetlova, and Makeba Wilbourne. We are part of <a href="http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/childstudies" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)">Duke CHILD Studies</span></a>.</div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">To apply, please send an email to <a href="mailto:gladys.baudet@duke.edu">gladys.baudet@duke.edu</a> with the subject line </div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">"Bergelson Lab Technician Position" and the following items:</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">a)     current CV (including contact details of 3 references)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-uyb8Gf" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><div><div class="m_5337645641520739618inbox-inbox-F3hlO"><div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">b)     GitHub page, with highlights on particular projects with code (and/or its resulting products) that you’ve written from scratch</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">c)     letter of interest highlighting how your background complements the labs' needs and interests.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>