🚨 💫 💥 Interested in PhD / Postdoc opportunities in computational psychiatry / cognitive neuroscience? My lab at University College Dublin 🇮🇪 is currently accepting expressions of interest for internally funded PhD/Postdoc applications for positions starting in September 2027 (!). 1/

Can’t wait to welcome the memory community here! Save the date, sign up for the newsletter, and see you in Glasgow for ICOM7!

International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow@icom-memory.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧠 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

📢 new preprint from the lab on action-guided memory reactivation lead by the fabulous @julia-sc.bsky.social see thread 👇

Julia Schaefer@julia-sc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Episodic memory forms through action: gaze shifts sequentially sample experience as it unfolds 👀🏞️ 🧠 But actions may also help organize how the brain reactivates episodic memories! 👀🧠💭 🏞️ Check out our new preprint 👇 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🎉 @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social & Aditya Chowdhury 👇🧵

Episodic memory forms through action: gaze shifts sequentially sample experience as it unfolds 👀🏞️ 🧠 But actions may also help organize how the brain reactivates episodic memories! 👀🧠💭 🏞️ Check out our new preprint 👇 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🎉 @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social & Aditya Chowdhury 👇🧵

Check out our new paper! 🧠 Me, @xiongbowu.bsky.social and @fuentemilla.bsky.social review how reactivation at the end of events support memory formation and propose it serves multiple functions from preventing interference to helping preserve temporal continuity! ✨ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Neural reactivation supports memory formation when events end

Memory routinely transforms continuous experience into discrete episodes that support flexible retrieval. We propose that these structured representations are established via rapid neural reactivation...

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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)

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The breathing cycle gates memory reactivation during human NREM sleep https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741474v1

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 · 2mo 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)

Finally a Dr.🎓(well, once my certificate is printed 😄) A few weeks ago, I defended my thesis, and shortly after, graduated from GSN @lmu.de! I learned so much on this journey, not only about how action structures episodic memory (preprint coming soon!) but that persistence is key😄 #PhD #Neuroscience

Excited to finally share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com: Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval www.nature.com/articles/s41... With @s-michelmann.bsky.social and @doellerlab.bsky.social

Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval - Nature Communications

How past experiences are reconstructed from memory remains unclear. Here the authors used intracranial EEG to show that hippocampal ripples reshape the geometry of cortical representations, supporting...

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Can MEG provide a non-invasive window onto human ripple physiology during sleep? Our new preprint suggests it can. Led by the fantastic @fabian31415.bsky.social. Many thanks to our collaborators @olejensen.bsky.social , @doellerlab.bsky.social , and @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social #Neuroskyence

Fabian Schwimmbeck@fabian31415.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can we study MTL ripples non-invasively? New preprint! We show that source-resolved MEG tracks ripple-like activity during sleep that: • localizes to the MTL • follows the canonical SO–spindle hierarchy • matches an iEEG benchmark • indexes memory reactivation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Can we study MTL ripples non-invasively? New preprint! We show that source-resolved MEG tracks ripple-like activity during sleep that: • localizes to the MTL • follows the canonical SO–spindle hierarchy • matches an iEEG benchmark • indexes memory reactivation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Non-invasive tracking of ripple-like activity during human sleep using MEG

Hippocampal ripples are considered a key mechanism of sleep-dependent memory consolidation. In humans, however, their direct investigation has relied on invasive recordings from patients with epilepsy...

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📣 In meiner Arbeitsgruppe (LMU München) ist eine PhD-Stelle zu besetzen. Gesucht werden motivierte Bewerber:innen mit Interesse an experimenteller kognitiver Neurowissenschaft. Bewerbungsfrist: 10.08.2026. Bewerbungen bitte per Email. Mehr Infos hier: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...

Thrilled to share our new #preprint, and super proud of @zednud.bsky.social and our work on eye–brain dynamics during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Also excited to share that Zach started his PhD with me recently! 🎉 Lots of ideas and cool work ahead. Follow him on Bluesky and check out his thread! 🧵

Zach Nudelman@zednud.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share my first #preprint with @matthiasnau.bsky.social on how gaze behavior shapes brain activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Gaze-dependent activity was widespread even during sleep, including in many visual cortices, and altered brain-wide functional connectivity! 🧵 1/8

We're finally getting the tools to study replay in humans. But why bother? What can we learn from it that we don't know from rodent recordings? Our thoughts are now out in a new TICS Forum Great fun writing this w @smfleming.bsky.social + @maritpetzka.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

What can we learn from studying replay in humans?

Noninvasive methods are making it possible to study neural replay in humans. Although focused on alignment with rodent findings, human research often …

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(1/2) Hiring! 🦠🧠 Postdoc position in my group @univie.ac.at on microbiome-brain interactions as part of the ERC-funded project “MemoryLane: Neural plasticity through the lens of gut-brain interactions”. 📍 Vienna, Austria 📅 Application deadline: 2 Aug 2026 ℹ️ shorturl.at/2E4sf

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Technical University of Munich @tum.de is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Implantable Brain–Computer Interfaces! We’re looking for someone to help build the next generation of robust, clinically scalable #implantable #BCIs. portal.mytum.de/jobs/profess... 🧵👇

🔁 LOOPs is at FENS 🎉 we're exited to be represented with several talks by @grohlex.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, and Johannes Letzkus, alongside multiple posters from across the LOOPs consortium. Stay tuned for highlights and updates! #FENS2026 #Neuroscience #SPP2411 #BrainLoops

Finally out: my review in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social covering how my lab and others have been ‘Looking into working memory through micro eye movements’ over the years. What does the microsaccade bias buy us? A lot I argue. Go see for yourself at: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Last week I had the chance to present our work @bottinilab.bsky.social @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social at #PuG2026. Thanks to @xiongbowu.bsky.social for the invitation and for organizing a fantastic symposium, with @tafgmcb.bsky.social, @baiweiliu.bsky.social, Ziad Hafed. It was a pleasure to take part!

The omitted first half of the sentence—“using a rare opportunity to directly record from the human thalamus…”—already highlights a key difference, among others. Contrary to claims made here & elsewhere, we do mention Snipes (2025) in our paper, alongside other relevant reports of cortical activity.

Thomas Andrillon@thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"hitherto-unreported brain-state-specific oscillation of approximately 19–45 Hz"??? Sophia Snipes published a paper on very similar findings in scalp EEG: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.... The authors of the NHB paper were made aware of these findings! Quite disappointing...

Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans

Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02446-zChowdhury et al. report the discovery of a 19–45-Hz thalamic oscillation that is present during human wakefulness and REM sleep, but not NREM sleep.

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📢 New paper out in @nathumbehav.nature.com: we identify a previously undescribed fast thalamic oscillation (~19–45 Hz) in rare intracranial human recordings that appears specifically during wakefulness and REM sleep — but disappears during NREM sleep. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic new tool to manage stimulation parameters and outcome scores in a machine readable and standardized fashion – a big step toward reproducibility in the field of DBS imaging! 👇👇

Lead-DBS@lead-dbs.org · 5mo ago

With SPARK-DBS, @savirmadan.bsky.social adds a new tool to the ecosystem of Lead-DBS: The small-scale databasing tool can store, analyze and integrate stimulation parameters and scores in BIDS-compliant fashion. Toward standardized data analysis in DBS! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW PAPER🚨👀 in Science Advances with a wonderful transatlantic team. (incl @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @katduecker.bsky.social) Using human MEG, we found lower-order and higher-order neural processes that underlie illusory transitions in conscious visual perception. 🧵👇

Hierarchical brain dynamics supporting visual perceptual transitions

Illusory transitions in conscious visual perception involve both early visual cortex and higher-order motor cortices.

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Very excited to have this officially published: A neural state space for episodic memories A brief thread... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

A neural state space for episodic memories

Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Olivia R. Christiano and Sebastian Michelmann: Reliability and signal comparison of OPM-MEG, fMRI & iEEG in a repeated movie viewing paradigm doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Very excited to share our latest paper led by @nbinish.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com We demonstrate how a communication subspace channels higher-dimensional PFC dynamics into lower-D motor activity to enable efficient behavior using human iEEG. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

A communication subspace relays context-dependent actions from human prefrontal to motor cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Context-dependent behavior selects actions according to task demands. Using direct brain recordings in humans, Binish et al. uncover how coordinated population activity efficiently channels informatio...

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Misinterpreting Electrophysiology in Human Cognitive Neuroscience, by Tzvetan Popov 👇👀🧠 ... in psychophysiological experiments relying on vision, EEG components relate to cognition indirectly through their more direct relationship with oculomotor action... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...