Burnham is the first PM who went to Cambridge since Stanley Baldwin. Were it not for 38 days of Kwasi Kwarteng, Healey would be the first Chancellor who went to Cambridge since Ken Clarke.
Jon Simons
@jonsimons.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, and Head of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge. Husband, father of two boys and one dog, half-pint rower and ex-cricketer www.memlab.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Excited about new @cam.ac.uk Professorship that will soon be advertised for a behavioural change expert to address challenges affecting biodiversity, conservation and sustainability
Cambridge seeks behaviour change expert to tackle climate crisis as first Hatton Professor of Sustainability
Trinity College and University of Cambridge launch global hunt for new professor of sustainability who can help help effect change in choices and actions taken by the public.
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Brenda Milner is a hero and 108!! She did a lot more than discover the hippocampus is linked to declarative memory, but that work is the most famous.
Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 3w agoNeuroscientist Dr. Brenda Milner is recognized as one of the fundamental founders of modern cognitive neuropsychology. She proved the hippocampus is essential for forming long-term "declarative" memory (facts, names & events). She was born #OTD in 1918--she's 108 years old today! #WomenInSTEM
I wonder if all these rapid changes of Prime Minister have led to an increase in diagnoses of dementia
The arts, humanities, and social sciences are essential to understanding our history, culture, and shared humanity, yet their value is increasingly being overlooked at a time when society needs them most. It baffles me.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w ago‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Invitation to sign open letter: "The University of Exeter has proposed to make redundant a significant proportion of staff who are members of the Cognition Group in the Department of Psychology... We are writing to urge you to immediately withdraw this proposal..." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter
To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...
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Shaping the future of Biological Sciences at Cambridge How do you design research environments for the next 30–50 years? Our Future Estate Programme is rethinking how science, sustainability and people come together. Find out more: www.bio.cam.ac.uk/future-estat...
We’re running a short dog owner survey 🐶 examining dog social cognition & trainability - which could be used in future by assistance dog charities to help selection for breeding 🦮 £50 Amazon voucher if completed again in 1 week (eligibility UK residents only) york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
We are very excited to officially announced that ICOM - The International Conference on Memory - is back in 2027 from 26th-30th July! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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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Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough! 🎂 A legendary broadcaster, natural historian and Clare College alumnus whose voice has inspired generations worldwide for decades. Thank you for a century of curiosity, wonder and unwavering dedication to life on earth.
Last year my book The Animal and the Thinker came out. Basic idea – how the operating principles of instinct and reason together answer big human questions. Right and wrong. Culture wars. Family and work. The meaning of life. That sort of thing. Now as an add-on I’m starting a blog…
Welcome the great @john-duncan.bsky.social to Bluesky. A neuroscientist renowned for his work on the brain's "multiple-demand" system, which supports complex thinking, problem-solving, and intelligent behaviour. His research has shaped how we understand cognitive control and human intelligence.
This review is more a practitioner guidebook than an academic paper. Focused specifically towards educational psychologists, SENCOs, teachers and parents, we hope this review can facilitate evidence-based interventions for children with episodic memory impairments caused by early hippocampal injury.
Evidence-based interventions to support children with developmental amnesia in education
Developmental amnesia (DA) is a memory disorder that emerges in early childhood following an injury to the hippocampus (a brain region associated with memory). The core deficit is in episodic memor...
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How well do you remember lockdown and how do you feel about it now? Please take part in our short survey, which takes about 10-15 mins. It’s so much harder to get participants these days so please do take part if you can and do ask friends or family to do it too: research.sc/participant/...
Racing in the spring sunshine very much how it should be done
“The week’s contrasts, of scarlet robes and quantum computing, are not a contradiction. They are a symbol of how Britain’s leading universities, with their rich histories, can lead the world into the future, if we continue to back them.”
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Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.
New MemLab publication led by Will Duckett finds that only trial-by-trial measures reveal links between subjectively experienced vividness and objective memory accuracy in younger and older adults, and people with aphantasia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Poignantly illustrated with an image that evokes a thousand cuts...
UK Research and Innovation@ukri.org · 6mo agoToday, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
🌟 Congratulations to @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social, who was awarded The Brenda Milner Best Paper Prize by a PhD or MPhil Student in the Cambridge Department of Psychology
📣 Four exceptional researchers in the School of Biological Sciences have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants! Congratulations to all ERC awardees! @camzoology.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social
New paper in Psych Review on a model of false recognition in Deese-Roediger-McDermott DRM task. Not just recognition responses, but also associated RTs! And not just the semantic task, but also the structural task - where words overlap in orthography/phonology! A thread!
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As someone who regularly stands on this station platform, I can tell you it looks a lot less idyllic now
Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 8mo ago'Letchworth Station, Hertfordshire.' Painted in 1912, Spencer Gore's series of compositions between August and November in this year were the most radical of his career. They have an intensity of colour and originality, which is unparalleled amongst the Camden Town artists.
We are recruiting volunteers for in-person studies run by the Memory Lab at the University of Cambridge. If you are interested, please complete this form: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... If you have any questions, please email memlab@psychol.cam.ac.uk
