My lab is hiring! We are recruiting a full time research coordinator to support our projects on memory brain states. More info and application: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Other at University of Virginia

Apply for Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Other at University of Virginia

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SO proud of @raynatang.bsky.social - this is such a fun, creative, and rigorous study that she busted her ass to take to the finish line ❤️

Rayna Tang@raynatang.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to share that my first-ever first-author paper (w/ @atabk.bsky.social @AngeliqueDelarazan @zreagh.bsky.social) is now out in PNAS! Building a story to link two objects boosts associative memory and inference, but not memory for the objects themselves. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

Working from home on a rainy summer day has its perks

The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling. thesonglab.github.io

I legit want to go back to grad school so I can work in Hayoung’s lab. Folks, you know what to do 📝

Hayoung Song@hayoungsong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.

🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.

🧠 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

Congratulations to Dr. Angelique Delarazan for a wildly successful dissertation defense. “Proud” doesn’t even begin to cover it ❤️

Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain?🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we show that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects changes in attention. Out in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New from me @thebulletin.org We have effective interventions against health misinformation, but they don't do us much good when tech companies aren't willing to add protections and the misinformation is coming from those in charge of our health system 1/ thebulletin.org/premium/2026...

How to counter health misinformation when it's coming from the top

Health misinformation is now being generated and spread by those in charge of the United States’ public health system. Multiple interventions against health misinformation have been identified and are...

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If you are at #CNS2026 and are interested in hierarchical structures in event segmentation and "neural state segmentation," come and chat with me at poster A111 this afternoon from 3-5pm :) Poster Session A #111: "Neural State Segmentation in Naturalistic Goal-directed Activities" 🧠🎞️

I’m pleased to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Lots of feelings that words can’t really do much to unpack, but to quote a probably obscure song I’m fond of: “I love you all, and thank you.” (The next line is “I can’t do this alone,” which is accurate.)

Check out this *incredibly* cool work led by Adi and June Kim. Also, never a bad time to do science with @jzacks.bsky.social and @alexbarnett.bsky.social 🥳

Adi Upadhyayula@adibuoy23.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ 🚨 New preprint Key Moments Scaffold the Semantic Structure of Narratives Using spoken recall and annotations from three naturalistic datasets with topic modeling, we ask: which parts of a narrative contribute most to its semantic structure and subsequently memory? Preprint: osf.io/dcfvw

Explain to Congress how important it is to keep multiyear funding of NIH grants in the funding bill. This protects against Russell Vought's trick, which is to make this year's NIH budget cover multiple years of research in advance. Tell your Congresscritter. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Don’t let Russell Vought trick Congress into destroying science by removing multiyear funding limits from the NIH funding bill.

My lab is recruiting a postdoc and a full-time research technician to work on an NIH-funded project studying age-related changes in memory for naturalistic events. Behavior, fMRI, and blood-based biomarkers. 3+ years funding guaranteed. Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykjfbnj8 Tech: tinyurl.com/2f2hw3f5

Prohibiting academics and researchers from associating with, in some cases, the premier organizations in their field is counter to the core mission of a university. This *needs* to see resounding pushback. Otherwise, what are we even doing here? fabbs.org/news/2026/01...

University of Kentucky Flags Nearly 1,200 Organizations for Termination/Deeper Review – FABBS

On December 1, 2025, the University of Kentucky (UK) Office of Legal Counsel sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) r

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Validity of the observation notwithstanding, it is incredibly frustrating to see the current moment assessed in terms of branding. People could lose their access to healthcare and food. That’s a lot more important than your “brand.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

The Toronto Blue Jays have the opportunity to do the funniest thing to the United States in 2025, and I am 100% here for it.

I would obviously prefer a resounding “no” in favor of sticking to our principles, but I suppose it is worth acknowledging that a university such as ours - located in a place subject to deeply conservative politics - is not in the easiest position one could imagine. In the end, I’ll take it.

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Arts & Sciences Dean says WashU will not sign Trump’s higher ed compact as-is - Student Life www.studlife.com/news/2025/10...

Traveling from the US to Canada for a conference next week, and Air Canada just emailed me warning me how risky it is to be in the United States right now 🫡

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me! I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that. #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Aidan Horner@aidanhorner.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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

Should I start telling students to get degrees in AI instead of cognitive neuroscience? Asking for a field.

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!) To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website: www.sinclairlab-rice.com Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

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The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

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Another new-ish paper: Events in the stream of behavior Maverick Smith, @jzacks.bsky.social, and I discuss how the brain (esp. the Default Mode Network) represents event models, leveraging different information domains and scales of information processing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Next up, from @atabk.bsky.social and @wouterkool.bsky.social: Free recall is shaped by inference and scaffolded by event structure. In sum, Ata stuck hidden (and shifting) rules into a word list learning task, creating "events" that influenced the structure of recall. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I'm a behind on shouting out new papers! From Angelique Delarazan: Narrative Coherence Warps the Timeline of Recalled Naturalistic Events. In sum, when recalling stories, people systematically deviate from temporal organization to follow the narrative threads. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Check out a new preprint from Adi, postdoc working with me and Jeff Zacks. I’m *extremely* excited to finally, officially get this out into the world 🙂

Adi Upadhyayula@adibuoy23.bsky.social · 11mo ago

1/ 🚨 Preprint alert! How does the brain make sense of continuous experience? We find that continuous experiences can be compressed using a subset of key moments that dominate comprehension and recall. 👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.30.673233

I just got NOAs on an NSF grant and an R01 in the same week, and I cannot begin to put into words the bizarre combination of relief, exhaustion, elation, and survivor’s guilt I am currently feeling.

What a fun and surreal day. Huge congrats to @atabk.bsky.social for defending his dissertation. I couldn’t be more proud ❤️

I’m just sitting here looking at the list of grant applications I had planned to work on this summer, and struggling to avoid the conclusion that it will be a huge waste of time.