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Marina Bazhydai@marinabazhydai.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🎉 Congratulations to @edonoghue.bsky.social for leading this in-principle accepted Registered Report with Peer Community In: osf.io/dwy6c. We're now gearing up for major data collection. 📣 Cardiff families with curious 10–14 year olds: get in touch at curiousbrain@cardiff.ac.uk to sign up!

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Jo Cutler@drjocutler.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thank you so much to @drjocutler.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and to @chbh.bsky.social and @uob-sop.bsky.social for the warm welcome. I really enjoyed sharing ideas and connecting over our shared research interests!

Great to have @mjgruber.bsky.social visit @chbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social today and give a great talk on curiosity, exploration & memory 🧠

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 11mo ago

Is curiosity the key to ageing well? Big thanks to Madeleine Finlay for the thoughtful conversation and for giving Mary Whatley and me the opportunity to share insights from our latest research on The Guardian Science Weekly podcast. 🎧 Listen here: www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Is curiosity the key to ageing well? – podcast

Scientists are discovering that rather than tailing off, our curiosity actually becomes more targeted and specific in our later years. Madeleine Finlay finds out what this new understanding could tell...

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Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. @livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents - Communications Psychology

This study shows that, following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. Access to virtual social interactions duri...

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Deadline is tomorrow so get your applications in people! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Aidan Horner@aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Gosia Gocłowska@ggoclowska.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please repost! We're looking for a PhD student to join us on a project exploring how ADHD is linked to greater curiosity. The PhD student will be based across Cardiff University and the University of Bath working with @ggoclowska.bsky.social , Kate Langley, and me as part of a collaborative team.

Is ADHD linked to greater curiosity? How? Why? We (with @mjgruber.bsky.social and Kate Langley) are seeking a PhD candidate interested in exploring this fascinating question. This psychology/neuroscience project will be based in Cardiff and Bath. Please repost and email inquiries. lnkd.in/dGEcnxdZ

Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 12mo ago

So happy to see this work out! 🥳 Huge thanks to our two amazing reviewers who pushed us to make the paper much stronger. A truly joyful collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, @sobeckerneuro.bsky.social, and Johanni Brea! 🥰 Tweeprint on an earlier version: bsky.app/profile/modi... 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Open Mind@openmindjournal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that! Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Studying memory narratives with natural language processing

Cognitive neuroscience research has begun to use natural language processing (NLP) to examine memory narratives with the hopes of gaining a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms underlying differenc...

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Lynn Borton@choosetobecurious.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thank you so much, Lynn @choosetobecurious.bsky.social, for having me on the podcast! In our conversation, I reflect on my research journey into curiosity, share insights from our current developmental and educational projects, and even tap into my poetic side. Choose To Be Curious with us! 😊

I knew neuroscientist Matthias Gruber had played an important part in my curiosity journey -- but I didn't know I'd played a part in his! What a delight to finally get to talk with him about his wonderful work on #curiosity, #education and #memory. lynnborton.com/2025/08/21/c...

Yana Fandakova @yanafandakova.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to see our new paper highlighted in this week’s issue of #JNeurosci: we showed that metabolites linked to neuropil contraction are related to gray changes in the PFC across childhood and adolescence #devpsyc #neuroscience #neuroskyence

SfN Journals@sfnjournals.bsky.social · last yr.

This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | A Mechanism for Behavioral Maturation in Male Mice; Exploring Gray Matter Changes in Childhood and Adolescence https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/30/etwij45302025

Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · last yr.

Is curiosity good for us, or should we learn a lesson from what curiosity did to the cat? A fascinating discussion on the psychology of curiosity, contributed to by Cardiff University’s very own @mjgruber.bsky.social ! Find it here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, The Psychology of Curiosity at Cheltenham Science Festival

Claudia Hammond, Major Tim Peake and panel discuss the psychology of curiosity.

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For all who didn't make it to the Cheltenham Science Festival this year, here is the recent BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind episode on the Psychology of Curiosity. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, The Psychology of Curiosity at Cheltenham Science Festival

Claudia Hammond, Major Tim Peake and panel discuss the psychology of curiosity.

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Very much looking forward to today's BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind event about the Psychology of Curiosity at the Cheltenham Science Festival, together with astronaut Tim Peake. This will be fun! www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/all-i...

All in the Mind: The Psychology of Curiosity | Cheltenham Festivals

Curiosity – it’s what leads us to discovery and inspiration. For astronaut Tim Peake, curiosity has taken him all the way to the International Space Statio

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Motivated Cognition Meetings@motcogmeet.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you so much for the invitation to speak and for all the insightful questions at the Motivated Cognition Meeting this week!

ICYMI: You can watch Matthias Gruber's talk on How Curiosity Shapes Spatial Exploration and Cognitive Map Formation here: youtu.be/GA16g5p47Ns

Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · last yr.

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change | PNAS

Mitigating climate change requires urgent action at individual, collective, and institutional levels. However, individuals may fail to act because ...

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · last yr.

My Sir Henry Dale Fellowship funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social & @royalsociety.org ended last week — an incredible 6-year journey. Huge thanks to the brilliant PhD students & Postdocs in the lab — your ideas, persistence & curiosity drove it all. Thanks also to funders, collaborators & mentors!

The call for MSCA postdoc fellowships is out and the deadline is 10th September. More generally, people should apply! More specifically, if you'd like to come work in York with me I'm happy to support applications from awesome people 🙂

Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

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Lluís Fuentemilla @fuentemilla.bsky.social · last yr.

1/2 Just like social groups, human memory is organized in interconnected patterns. Activating one memory can trigger related ones, similar to how information spreads through a community. Could social sharing shape how memories are formed? #PsychSciSky

Final repost: Our deadline is tomorrow for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity as part of an international collabration!

Louis Renoult @renoultlouis.bsky.social · last yr.

Please repost! Our deadline is fast approaching for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity. Join a great lab with fantastic collaborators! 🙂

Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

Senior Research Associate (RA2312) in University of East Anglia | UEA

View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2312) vacancy in University of East Anglia. School of Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences Senior Research Associate Ref: RA...

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Interested in curiosity and metacognition in childhood and adolescence? Join us at Cardiff University (UK) for a Postdoc position in an international collaboration with @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Germany) and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social (France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer.bsky.social · last yr.

Grateful to @yanafandakova.bsky.social for the wonderful days at the University of Trier, advancing our joint projects. Thanks to all students and staff who attended and asked great questions at my talk. Especially honoured to give the commencement speech at the Psychology Graduation in Trier.

We are starting a new major research project investigating the joint development of curiosity and metacognition in adolescents, where the Flowers lab will collaborate with @mjgruber.bsky.social 's lab at Univ. Cardiff, and Yana Fandakova at Univ. Trier !!! Open postdocs positions, see below 👇