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 · yesterday

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

🌙 Our new preprint is out! We present Nyx, an open-source unsupervised framework for sleep scoring across species, lifespan and modalities. Validated on 19 datasets and 8,000 hours of sleep, from mice to humans, lizards and birds, across development, ageing, health and disease.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last wk.

Nyx: a flexible framework for sleep scoring across species, lifespan and modalities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.24.740558v1

Good news from LIP colleague @brandmaier.bsky.social!

Andreas Brandmaier@brandmaier.bsky.social · 6d ago

Meet Ωnyx - our open-source GUI for structural equation models #onyx #sem #latentvariables This is the latest SaaS-style promo video by the incredible Jonathan B. #noai Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaql... Download at onyx-sem.com

Just a few more days left to nominate your female colleagues! 🧚‍♀️ Help spread some joy and appreciation for the women who do so much for our field, not just in terms of their outstanding research, but also all the labor that they do to support the wonderful WM community that we have!

Vanessa Loaiza@vmloaiza1.bsky.social · last mo.

⏰ What time is it? 🧚‍♀️It's research fairy time! Please share widely and nominate early and often (by Aug 2) those fantastic female researchers that we are privileged to have have in our field ✨🪄 forms.gle/Znh4zgtXgWQK...

ctsem has a GUI now -- visual, SEM-like spec, fit & diagnostics for hierarchical discrete or continuous time state space models (i.e., DSEM's). github.com/cdriveraus/c... State-space (process + measurement) and individual difference views shown. Ideas welcome! Workshop @saa2026.bsky.social

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

🌿 Nature may do more than help us recover from stress. A new review by @johanna-prugger.bsky.social & Simone Kühn @cen-mpib.bsky.social suggests that natural environments can also strengthen attention, mood, and well-being even without prior strain. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2397749/pm-2...

📢 LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student for her project "Mapping Early Memory Trajectories Across Species (ATLAS)". careers.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/jobs/8116017...

PhD Position (m/f/d) in Berlin, Germany - Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung

At the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, we study how and why people develop differently over the course of their lives, and how physical, societal, and technological aspects of the envir...

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🧠 EEG / ERP researchers wanted! We are testing ways to visualize uncertainty in EEG topoplots ⏱ ~15min 💻 Best on Laptop, mobile possible 🎁 2 "Muse-2" headsets will be raffled among participants. Survey: www.soscisurvey.de/uncertain_to... #EEG #ERP #Neuroscience #DataVisualization

I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!

Neue Perspektive der Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie in der Psychologischen Rundschau: KI aus Sicht der biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Grenzen econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1...

KI aus Sicht der biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Grenzen: Eine Perspektive der Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Psyc...

Zusammenfassung: Die Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie (BNP) untersucht die biologischen Grundlagen psychischer Prozesse – von molekularen Mechanismen bis hin zu endokrinen Regulationssyste...

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1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

Yale is hiring in developmental psychology (open rank )! We're especially interested in complementing and broadening our area, including via somewhat less traditionally central such as cross-cultural and comparative approaches. Feel free to reach out with questions!

🟠 Now open: ERC Starting Grant 2027 call for proposals! 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Oct 2026 📄 Call details: link.europa.eu/RwNMpX Planning to apply? Let our ERC Classes videos guide you through the application evaluation process. 👉 t.co/qGPy7Y8UhS #ERCStG #FrontierResearch @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

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 ago

Neuroscientist 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

The postdoc position is advertised here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline: 20 July. 2/3

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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📑 New paper by @sonjasudimac.bsky.social, Johanna Drewelies, Carolina de Weerth & Simone Kühn 🔎How does spending time in residential natural and urban environments affect stress in mothers and infants? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Environmental #Neuroscience #Nature #MentalHealth

Effects of a walk in a residential natural vs. urban environment on objective and subjective stress indicators in mothers and their infants

Despite growing evidence that being in nature positively influences mood and stress, its effects on children are not well understood. Previous cross-s…

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We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Assistant Professor in Metascience

Personal type: Scientific staff

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Ausgezeichnet🎉 Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) @dgps.bsky.social verleiht Ralph Hertwig @arc-mpib.bsky.social die Wilhelm-Wundt-Medaille 2026, ihre höchste wissenschaftliche Auszeichnung.🏅 #BehavioralScience #DecisionMaking #Boosting 🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2388152/2026...

Wilhelm Wundt Medal 2026 awarded to Ralph Hertwig

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Cognition is rhythmic. Competing items in working memory take turns guiding attention in rhythms coordinated by brain oscillations. Visual working memory guides attention rhythmically in humans doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroscience

Visual working memory guides attention rhythmically in humans

Working memory alternates between remembered items in a rhythmic theta cycle.

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📆 On July 28th, we are happy to welcome Prof. Simone Kühn, Director of the Center for Environmental Neuroscience (@cen-mpib.bsky.social) at the @mpib-berlin.bsky.social! 🔗 As always no registration is needed. You can find all further information here: www.psych.mpg.de/events/44834...

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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Very pleased that this fantastic study led by @trinhnguyen.bsky.social & @giacomonovembre.bsky.social is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Inofficial title: Tiny dancers 🕺💃🏻

Development of auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over the first postnatal year

Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantially over the first postnatal year, without reaching full matu...

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New review, forthcoming in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology: "From Seconds to Seasons and Days to Decades: Timescales in Development." Let me walk you through some key points. 👇 BC its a review, these are based on many others' work. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

Very happy to see this out! Our new paper, "Boosting Media Literacy Using Lateral Reading and Online Search Interventions," is now published in Psychological Science.

Seit einem Monat bin ich als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Koordinatorin einer interdisziplinären Arbeitsgruppe zu gesundheitlicher Prävention an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften tätig. Wir suchen eine/n studentische/n Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d).

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften@bbaw.bsky.social · 4w ago

#Stellenanzeige: Die Akademie sucht für die Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe (IAG) „Zielgerichtete Prävention – Innovative Methoden und Maßnahmen zur Vermeidung von Krankheiten” zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine/einen studentische/n Mitarbeiter/in. 🔗 www.bbaw.de/stellenangeb...

How do children remember the important things in their lives? In this article, Zoe Ngo @zoengo.bsky.social and Pedro Espinosa‑Villafranca describe their research approach to studying the development of memory processes in childhood.🧠 boldscience.org/how-do-child...

BOLD@boldinsights.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Memories of real-world experiences are shaped by personal meaning, emotion, a child’s own sense of agency, and social interaction.” Zoe Ngo and Pedro Espinosa-Villafranca ask how children remember experiences. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/how-do-child...

I'm hiring! I am currently establishing my new Research Group for Personality Psychology at Ulm University and am looking for a motivated researcher to join the team starting October 1, 2026 (or by arrangement). 🧵👇 (1/4) 🔗 Full description and details: stellenangebote.uni-ulm.de/jobposting/a...

Akademische/r Beschäftigte/n (m/w/d) - Abt. Persönlichkeitspsychologie - Referenz-Nr. 26091

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Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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New open dataset out in Scientific Data 🚨 We are releasing BBBD: the Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work with @parralab.org

The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos

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