We’re hiring a permanent Lecturer (R&T) in cog neuro and development / lifespan psychology at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social. Join a supportive, research-intensive dept - with a new MRI scanner on the way 🙂 Info below - and get in touch to learn more! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging

Royal Holloway Psychology@rhulpsychology.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025. jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

In the context of the Sycamore Gap tree sentencing today, I've written a short opinion piece for @lbc.co.uk on the role of landmarks in shaping place identity and connectedness. Find it here: www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... 🧠🌎 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Why the loss of the Sycamore Gap Tree saw an outpouring of emotion

The sentencing of the two men who felled the Sycamore Gap Tree has brought back the incredibly strong emotions of the loss of such a world-famous, iconic national piece of history.

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Re-posting for the weekday crowd - MR Physics job available at our site in West London. We do cool stuff. Clinical trials, psychedelics/other drugs, lots of different MRI modalities, scope to do your own projects, etc.

Matt Wall@mattwall.bsky.social · last yr.

We're looking for an MRI Physicist to support our (honestly, really cool and exciting) clinical trial work at our London site. Details and application at the link. Please share, tell your friends, post on other networks if you can, etc. etc. Thanks! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

We’re all set for #RHULPSYCHFEST25 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing www.nature.com/articles/d41...

World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing

Device translates thought to speech in real time.

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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Very pleased to share that our latest paper, "The limited place in cognitive space", is now out in Topics in Cognitive Science. Link below👇🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Limited Place in Cognitive Space

The idea that objects can be represented within multi-dimensional ‘cognitive spaces’ remains popular within psychology and neuroscience, and yet the restrictive topology of such spaces is seldom cons...

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Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

‘Natural Neuroscience,’ an excerpt

In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.

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This is a great (and accessible) summary of our latest @commspsychol.bsky.social paper, which examines the link between curiosity, spatial exploration, and memory within virtual environments. www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29... Paper link 👉🏻: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Virtual reality research explores curiosity and spatial memory

Virtual reality research reveals that curiosity is key in spatial memory and mental map formation.

cardiff.ac.uk

Curious about spatial memory in 3D? Our new preprint explores how environmental boundaries and the way we move affect our memory for locations in volumetric space! Huge congrats to co-1st @theoschaefer.bsky.social w/ Leonard König, Misun Kim, Christian Doeller. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Locomotion-dependent use of geometric and body cues in humans mapping 3D space

The ability to represent locations across multiple dimensions of space is a core function of cognitive maps. While the influence of boundary-dependent environmental geometry on spatial representations...

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Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category, and eccentricity from birth, and develop in parallel within each cytoarchitectonic area from infancy to adulthood. https://www.nature.c...

White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity and category-selectivity from birth - Nature Human Behaviour

Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category and eccentricity from birth, and also develop in parallel within each cytoarchitectonic area from infancy to adulthood.

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New work from us led by the brilliant @drjk.bsky.social from our grant with the @britishacademy.bsky.social ⭐ Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents A brief explainer below... 📜 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'? My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience. We are seeking interested participants in the below survey: tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv

Representation: Past, Present & Future

This questionnaire is for a final year neuroscience student who is doing her capstone as part of the Representation: Past, Present & Future Project at Trinity College Dublin.

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@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences - Nature Human Behaviour

How does sleep transform the way we remember our experiences? This study finds that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related...

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Since we all should be currently boycotting Amazon, a reminder that Bezos owns Goodreads and there is a great, Black woman owned, alternative that you can easily migrate to. Highly recommend. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

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For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

@drberry.bsky.social testing his new VR anxiety and exploration paradigm on an unsuspecting @kavishinia.bsky.social!

Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms @cjhodgetts.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, @danlucen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans - Communications Psychology

Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms

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Loved being part of this project w/ @danlucen.bsky.social & @mjgruber.bsky.social! Using a virtual exploration task, Danlu showed curiosity not only drives exploration but also leads to more precise spatial memories (i.e., curiosity shapes spatial knowledge). Link below! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Matthias Gruber@mjgruber.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans." We are excited to share this novel paradigm and findings on curiosity-based exploration. This project was led tirelessly by @danlucen.bsky.social in collaboration with @cjhodgetts.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Very saddened to hear this. I didn't know Eleanor personally, but her work and perspectives profoundly shaped the memory field and my own path studying the hippocampus. Many who worked in her lab spoke highly of how she supported and empowered them as scientists. A huge loss.

Felipe De Brigard@felipedebrigard.bsky.social · 2y ago

I just learned the very sad news that Eleanor Maguire passed away. It is very unlikely that I would be where I am if it wasn't for the work that she did since the early 2000s. She was a real trailblazer in the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory, and conducted some (1/n)

Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Yana Fandakova@yanafandakova.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interested in curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence? Come work with us at the University of Trier - we have an open PhD position together with @mjgruber.bsky.social (Cardiff, UK) and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Bordeaux, France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

So happy for @eleanoralderman.bsky.social, who won the the best poster prize at the AVA conference! She presented her planned analyses on linking visual exploration to scene memory! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

In today’s research tea event, @ashleysymons.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk on mistakes in research and led fruitful discussions on how we can create a culture that collectively mitigates the impact of mistakes in research

Great to see that @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has arrived at BlueSky! Please follow for psychology and neuroscience research updates from Royal Holloway's amazing Department of Psychology! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Happy to share an updated version of our paper, which explores how everyday variability in social and spatial experiences influences how we perceive events. In collab w/ @drberry.bsky.social, Mark Postans, and Angharad Williams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Individual differences in experiential diversity shape event segmentation granularity

Parsing experience into meaningful events or units, known as event segmentation, may be critical for structuring episodic memory, planning, and navigating the spatial and social world. However, little...

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Such a vivid and lovely summary of knowledge on the human brain by Kerri Smith and Nik Spencer at Nature mag. I was particularly struck by this figure about the relative proportion of oligodendrocytes and other cells between mice and humans... Connections matter. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I'm pleased to share that the Department of Psychology @ Royal Holloway will be supporting Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship applications: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... (internal deadline for one-page EOI = 22nd November!) Please reach out if you are interested (see link for eligibility)!

Wonderful to see that the first paper from @kavishinia.bsky.social's PhD is now online! Here, Kavishini explores how the #hippocampus and #cerebellum are functionally connected across the adult lifespan. Check out her thread below to find out more! 👇🏻 #neuroskyence #neuroimaging

Kavishini@kavishinia.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧠 Excited to share our new preprint: Mapping hippocampal-cerebellar functional connectivity across the adult lifespan biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We have dived into understanding the topography of the hippocampal-cerebellar connection in humans.

We're thrilled to announce the release of the Visual Experience Dataset — over 200 hours of synchronized eye movement, odometry, and egocentric video data. This dataset will be a game changer for perception and cognition research. arxiv.org/abs/2404.18934 1/

The Visual Experience Dataset: Over 200 Recorded Hours of...

We introduce the Visual Experience Dataset (VEDB), a compilation of over 240 hours of egocentric video combined with gaze- and head-tracking data that offers an unprecedented view of the visual...

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