Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)

🚨 💫 💥 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/

Another postdoc piece out today in @natneuro.nature.com! 🧠💤 In unimpaired older adults, frontal tau pathology tracked with lonely NREM slow waves that fail to travel — and these waves predicted worse overnight memory. full-text: rdcu.be/jDcgH2sK8VZa @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 🧵👇

Human tau pathology is associated with lonely, nontraveling slow waves linked to memory impairment - Nature Neuroscience

Frontal cortical tau pathology in aging humans is associated with reduced slow-wave travel during sleep. This reduced propagation is associated with poorer overnight memory retention, supporting a lin...

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Not sure who decided I was grown-up enough to be first author on anything, much less a paper, and in @plos.org #CompBio - nevertheless, our paper and toolbox on circular permutation testing for #BrainBody interactions are out now! 🫶🏻 @eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social & @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

Daniel S. Kluger@danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nothing quite like finding a perfect home for work close to your heart. Out now in @plos.org CompBiol is our #open-source toolbox for circular permutation testing in #brain-body #neuroskyence. 🫂 @teresaberther.bsky.social & @eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social 🔗 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🧵🔽

Interesting evidence that sleep-dependent memory processing may begin before we even fall asleep: Denis et al. found that theta activity during learning predicted later slow oscillation–spindle coupling during sleep, which in turn predicted better memory. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Theta oscillations tag episodic memories for sleep-dependent consolidation

Why some experiences are retained while others fade remains a central question in memory research. This study shows that theta-band activity during learning marks memories for sleep-dependent consolid...

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Thrilled to share this with the world! In this work led by Zihan Bai, we asked how episodic memory interacts with working memory and found evidence for a tight integration between the two systems. Zihan walks you through it in his thread 🧵🧠 🔥

Zihan Bai@zihanbai.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to share the first first-author preprint of my PhD at NYU with @s-michelmann.bsky.social andDaryl Fougnie. Using eye-tracking in a novel behavioral paradigm, we reveal the mechanisms by which episodic memory (EM) and working memory (WM) interact. 🧠 doi: doi.org/10.64898/202...

And we’re off! 🚀 Symposium submissions for ICOM7 are open! Can’t wait to see what ideas you’ll be bringing to Glasgow!!

International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow@icom-memory.bsky.social · 2w ago

Symposium submission is now open! The deadline is 2nd November, so please get your applications in on time. We welcome not just traditional formats but also encourage panel discussions or other creative formats! icom-memory.org/symposia-sub... #philsky #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪

Come join my team at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social! I have an open PhD position (3 years fully funded) for a project investigating interoception and mental health, using lots of fun methods (EEG, EGG, tACs, TMS). More info and applications here: ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor... #NeuroJobs

Doctoral Researcher, RCF project

Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit a Doctoral Researcher to work in the RCF project starting 1 November 2026, or as soon as possible after that for three years. The fixed-term position is ...

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📢 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 · last mo.

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 👇🧵

Now out in J Neuro Methods! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ncNe_3m9L... Code, data and materials are also available on OSF.

Eitan Schechtman@eitans.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In our most recent preprint, Neda Morakabati trained classifiers to distinguish between words and images of different categories (during wake). This methods paper (and the dataset) should be helpful for any of you deciding which type of stimuli you should use in your sleep/wake decoding study. 10/12

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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Skater kids have very special stickers these days..

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 · last mo.

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)

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 · last mo.

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

I am so grateful to my supervisor @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social my office buddies and everyone who supported me through this chapter. Excited for what's next: finding a postdoc in human brain data & cognition, curious about all the ways to stimulate the brain! Know of any opportunities? #PostdocSearch

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...

Together, convergence of spatial, temporal, and mnemonic signatures suggests that source-resolved MEG may provide a scalable, non-invasive window onto hippocampo-cortical memory mechanisms during sleep, extending the study of human ripple physiology beyond the constraints of intracranial recordings

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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Together, convergence of spatial, temporal, and mnemonic signatures suggests that source-resolved MEG may provide a scalable, non-invasive window onto hippocampo-cortical memory mechanisms during sleep, extending the study of human ripple physiology beyond the constraints of intracranial recordings.

Ripples are thought to orchestrate memory consolidation by coordinating hippocampo-cortical communication during sleep. In humans, however, studying ripple physiology has largely been restricted to intracranial recordings. Could source-resolved MEG provide a non-invasive alternative?

📣 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...

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

Brain-wide gaze-dependent activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep

Gaze behavior and brain activity are tightly coupled during perception and mental imagery. Whether this coupling extends to eyes-closed states remains largely unknown, primarily because measuring eye ...

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Join us at @mpicbs.bsky.social as a fully funded 4-year PostDoc (m/f/d) in Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience (Area: Functions of the Perirhinal Cortex). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 17 August: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?

I would like to announce the Cutting Gardens EEG conference, a new global, decentralized, and sustainable way of organizing conferences. This conference is on EEG methodology and analysis pipelines, and it is comprised of different "gardens" around the globe, taking place from Chile to China.

🚨 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... 🧵👇

We're proud to introduce Brainbow, a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Brainbow aims to provide a safe space, even for those in the closet (emails & names are optional). It also includes channels for communities within the LGBTQIA+ umbrella (eg, trans/non-binary) 1/2

Join Brainbow on Slack

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New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples

Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....

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📣 Thrilled to share our recent work in @natneuro.nature.com. Using direct recordings from the human hippocampus and visual cortex, we asked how the brain prepares to encode information when upcoming events are unpredictable, and what ripples do in that process. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human hippocampal ripples tune cortical responses based on predicted uncertainty - Nature Neuroscience

Using direct recordings from the human brain, Frank et al. show that hippocampal ripples increase ahead of unpredictable events and tune the visual cortex to respond faster and more strongly to surpri...

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