The calm before the season of new student projects, paper submissions, and funding and job apps. Happy long weekend everyone! Get some rest!

There should be serious conversations about pausing lateral hires. This is an emergency for Canadian postdocs.

Alex Usher@alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 4w ago

2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.

Our new event-tagging approach may improve memory performance in older adults. However, cognitive aging is idiosyncratic, and likewise, memory interventions are not one-size-fits-all. We’re continuing to investigate who can benefit from this approach and why, with the goal of extending its reach.

Karen Campbell@karampbell.bsky.social · 4w ago

New paper in JARMAC by @sarahehenderson.bsky.social on our new tagging intervention aimed at improving episodic #memory in older adults. And a little story about our foray into applied work. 🧵👇🏻 Bottom line: guys, it's hard. #PsychSciSky doi.org/10.1037/mac0...

My two awesome summer students, David Choi and Erin Wills, are presenting their projects at #OSNC2026! Erin will present on-going work testing the application of markerless prospective motion correction to fMRI. Results are mixed, but we hope to share our recommendation on this technology soon!

Note I’ll be on the postdoc market this year (graduating Spring ’27)! Interested in continuing to work w/ nonspeaking autistic ppl and/or furthering training in psychophysiology. I bring experience w/ nonspeakers + HRV, & could help labs extend existing physio work to this group!

Kayden Stockwell@kaydenstockwell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to be presenting some of my dissertation work next week at #INSAR2026! Friday 12:30 in Hall 4A! "Effects of Social Support & Speech on Task Performance in Minimally/Nonspeaking Autistic Teens & Adults." Come get a preview of my HRV findings as well!

New preprint w/ @barense.bsky.social! How does revisiting real-world memories reshape them, and their links to each other? Here, we examined how retrieval/restudy/no review shape more-naturalistic event memory strength (do we observe a testing effect?) and integration between related memories. 🧵

Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

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calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

Attention all prospective ICOMers! We've just sent out our first email newsletter. If you haven't received the newsletter despite signing up please check your spam folders. Otherwise, please sign up our website ASAP so you don't miss out on any further updates! icom-memory.org

ICOM - International Conference on Memory 2027

The International Conference on Memory 2027, will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between 26 - 30 July 2027.

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New paper out w/ Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense! Why do some memories update when our expectations are violated, while others remain stable? What matters most is the strength of a memory at reactivation—not how old it is. And, I designed the cover! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error-driven updating of naturalistic event memory

Abstract. Prediction error during memory reactivation is posited to be a key driver of memory updating. However, prediction error leads to varied memory ou

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We’re currently running an online study on aging and attention! If you’re interested in participating or know someone who might be, here is the link with more information: brocku.ca/lifespan-dev...

Have you ever wondered how focus and attention affect everyday life as we get older?

What is this study about? We all experience moments where our mind wanders and then snaps back during everyday activities. We're interested in understanding these natural shifts in attention, and how ...

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If you're at #CSBBCS, come hear me talk about @sarahehenderson.bsky.social's work on event tagging - a novel intervention aimed at improving event memory in older adults. 🌞 9am, HNE room 37 🌞

Excited for a few days of science at CSBBCS! I’ll be sharing a poster and talk on two different but exciting projects. Stop by Poster Session A (A03) today to chat about aging, attentional lapses at encoding, and the consequences for later memory of targets and distractors. @karampbell.bsky.social

Happy long weekend!

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Great science and great friends at CNS. I shared new work from my postdoc @audreyduarte.bsky.social We find that depressive symptoms are linked to greater neural evidence of proactive interference at encoding which predicts subsequent errors at retrieval. This effect seems to be exacerbated by age.

You know what's better than eating ice cream?🍦Eating ice cream and seeing @retorresh.bsky.social's cool poster (C115) about the time it takes to decode high vs low memorability objects using EEG! Later today #CNS2026

If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging & memory, come see @emilyedavis.bsky.social's poster on implicit associative memory tomorrow at 8am (#63)

We had a great time at #LOVE2026 #psychscisky In case you missed it, message @hannahgthomas.bsky.social to learn about the relationship bw sustained attention & inhibition

If you're at #LOVE2026, check out our poster today! We are sharing some exciting (preliminary) fMRI data from a non-speaking Autistic individual who listened to intact and reverse audio clips in the scanner. We show that we can localize regions sensitive to language processing in this individual!

Localized regions sensitive to language processing in my own brain today!

PhD students: Do you have experience with structural or fMRI data analysis? Are you interested in data harmonization, open science, and cognitive aging? 🧠📊 💻 If yes, this post-doc position in my lab is perfect for you! Please share with your networks! jobs-ca.silkroad.com/Baycrest/Car...

Opportunity to move to Canada. 🍁 The Lifespan Institute @brocku.ca is looking to hire a Canada Excellence Research Chair In Healthy Development Across the Lifespan. More info in the job ad (salary negotiable). brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree....

Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell on the autism-microbiome theory www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...

Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell

A new review of 15 years of studies on the connection between the microbiome and autism reveals widespread statistical and conceptual errors.

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I couldn’t recommend working with Karen and Linda enough. Good people, good researchers. Bonus: office with a window that overlooks the Bruce Trail.

Karen Campbell@karampbell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣Hey international PhDs & Postdocs, the Canadian Government has an upcoming fellowship opportunity. nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/canada-im... I will be looking to sponsor a Postdoc to work with Linda Geerligs & me on LONGITUDINAL changes in neural states during movie watching & memory. ✉️ me your CV

Women make up 2/3 of Alzheimer’s patients in Canada. On (MIS)Treated, @namshine.bsky.social talks to @mnrajah.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) about how menopause impacts brain health, and the need for more research.

The CDC amended its website to suggest that vaccines may cause autism. It now declares that experts “ignored” a potential link between infant vaccination and autism, and asserts that its earlier rejection of such a link was not “evidence-based.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...

C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism

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If you'll be at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, check out @hannahgthomas.bsky.social's poster (#11) on the relationship between sustained attention and inhibitory control. Wish I could be there! #FOMO🗻🔬🎉🍻 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC

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Catalina Yang@catalinayang.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1