Breathing sets the timing for memory processing during sleep! In our new preprint, precisely shifting memory cues within the respiratory cycle changed oscillatory coordination, memory reactivation and next-morning recall. Fabulous work by @estebanbt.bsky.social, with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social!👇

Esteban@estebanbt.bsky.social · 22h ago

Summer Preprint Alert 🔥🚨 Breathing isn't just for oxygen; it’s a rhythmic pacemaker for the sleeping brain. Our new preprint shows that the respiratory cycle actually gates memory reactivation during NREM sleep! 🧠😴💨 👇🧵(1/8)

I’m also on the job market — if you’re going to post a job in Canada, I’d love to talk!

Looking forward to #CCN2026 next week! On Monday I’m running a keynote & tutorial with @pessoabrain.bsky.social on whole-brain modelling using probabilistic state space models 💫 Materials coming soon: 2026.ccneuro.org/k-and-t-lang...

brilliant scientist whose amazing longevity has nothing to do with bio hacking.

Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal)@theneuro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy 108th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

Very excited to have my first first-author paper published in @plosone.org! In our sample of young adults, subjective cognition varied substantially day to day, and greater cognitive variability over the study period correlated with lower self-reported cognitive functioning. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Daily variability in mood and subjective cognitive function: An experience sampling study in young adults

In older adults, greater day-to-day fluctuations in cognitive function appear to be associated with higher rates of cognitive decline, relative to those showing less daily cognitive variability. Such ...

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New preprint in which we developed a task to measure motivation to exercise in rats! This will hopefully open many doors. 🏃🐀 Big thanks to Prof. Desiree Seib, who led this effort, and @dr-stan.bsky.social !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A Novel Operant Conditioning Task to Assess Motivation to Exercise in Rats

Voluntary physical activity is a highly motivated behavior with important implications for physical and mental health, yet the neural and endocrine mechanisms underlying motivation to exercise remain ...

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❤️ Hobbies for people in general = reading books 📕 vs. My hobbies = reading fun memory papers 🍤 ❤️ 🌟 New paper alert: The properties of personal semantics 🌟 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

The properties of personal semantics - Memory & Cognition

Recent cognitive neuroscience research has uncovered some similarities and some differences between general semantic memory (GS; e.g., knowledge about family in general) and personal semantic memory (...

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Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees

Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...

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One month left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab at UBC! Funding is available for up to five years #DevBio #cellbio

jobRxiv@jobrxiv.org · 3mo ago

Love live imaging? Join us to study cell division, cytoskeletal dynamics, and morphogenesis in C. elegans embryos. Postdoctoral Researcher in Developmental Cell Biology, Sugioka lab UBC University of British Columbia See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-b

So cool to see all the wonderful research being conducted at NOWCAM this year! Incredibly grateful for receiving the Stephen Lindsay Award for Best Presentation. The work on display was phenomenal! To be recognized amongst such excellence is truly humbling. Looking forward to next year!

Presented my most recent work on intraindividual variability in daily cognition at this year's NOWCAM at UBC (nowcam.org). Such a pleasure to present alongside my peers and make new connections with local researchers!

Erika Yamazaki and I wrote about something we don’t even have (probably) — sleep apnea theconversation.com/sleep-apnea-...

Sleep apnea compromises far more than a good night’s rest – 2 neuroscientists outline the risks and the need for better diagnosis

This condition’s prevalence is rising worldwide, and it is very treatable, but disparities in access to care remain.

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Congratulations to @kiransoma.bsky.social, @minseonjung.bsky.social and Désirée Seib on receiving the Journal of Endocrinology's 2025 Best Paper Award! Learn more about the paper's findings: www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/how-doe...

👋 Happy to see this paper published in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2529176123 Asking: is curiosity a homeostatic drive, or a policy learned through reinforcement? How can we tell, and why does it matter? 🧵👇 With Jane Mok, @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social, Caroline Marvin, and Daphna Shohamy 🙏

Learning reinforces curiosity for related information | PNAS

Human curiosity is dynamic, however the principles governing its fluctuations remain debated. Here, we test two competing hypotheses about how past...

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Yaniv Abir@yanivabir.bsky.social · last yr.

What drives human curiosity? Is it a need to balance stimulation — or something we learn over time? In our 🚨 new preprint, we show that learning reinforces curiosity, especially for related content. osf.io/9bw6j_v2 w/ Jane Mok, @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social , Caroline Marvin, Daphna Shohamy 🧵👇

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

Glad that this paper is finally out!

Cognition@cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Gaze patterns reveal attention-based modulation of lure discrimination" 📢New paper from: Tarek Amer, Jordana Wynn, Margaret Porterfield, Daniel Schacter, & Lila Davachi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @tarekamer.bsky.social ky.social @jordwynn.bsky.social @liladavachi.bsky.social

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit. You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

1 more week to register for NOWCAM. visit. nowcam.org for details.

it’s raining hard in Vancouver so the season of pink snow begins.

1 more week to register for NOWCAM. visit. nowcam.org for details.

Congrats Dr. Alaifan! psych.ubc.ca/news/2026-be...

Psychology PhD graduate receives 2026 Best Dissertation in Affective Science Award - UBC Department of Psychology

Congratulations to UBC Psychology alumnus Dr. Nada Alaifan.

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Meet Peter King, a UBC Psychology Honours student who discovered his passion for research through the Psychology Inclusive Excellence Student Fund's (PIE) Early Research Award. This UBC Giving Day (April 8), help create more stories like Peter's 💙. Read Peter's story: psych.ubc.ca/news/pie-fun...

How the PIE Fund shaped Peter King’s research journey - UBC Department of Psychology

Peter shares how the PIE Fund advanced his research and ensures equity and diversity in the field.

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A huge milestone for the NANo Lab @sfu.ca - our first pre-print is now out in the wild! 🥳 Driven by rising star Sean Kriwokon, we find that changes in energetically-expensive brain signaling in folks with AD may be due to energetic limitations imposed by mitochondrial dysfunction 📃🔗👇

In my >25 years as a researcher, this is one of my favorite and most personally meaningful studies to come out of my lab: 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚: 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/4 #AcademicSky #EduSky #AI #HigherEd #SciComm

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

How does the brain build a memory? A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram. In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deconstruction of a memory engram reveals distinct ensembles recruited at learning - Nature Neuroscience

Pouget et al. identified distinct CA1 neuron ensembles active during specific moments of fear learning and uncovered the core engram essential for memory formation.

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Really neat work by Fountas and colleagues at UCL: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04688 They propose that consolidation reflects a form of "predictive forgetting" that aids generalization.

Why the Brain Consolidates: Predictive Forgetting for Optimal Generalisation

Standard accounts of memory consolidation emphasise the stabilisation of stored representations, but struggle to explain representational drift, semanticisation, or the necessity of offline replay. He...

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Ex-labbies' labs mingle #CNS2026! @danipalombo.bsky.social @signysheldon.bsky.social @pstjacques.bsky.social