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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Jul 30

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · Sep 3

At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...

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Karen Campbell 🇨🇦 @karampbell.bsky.social · 10d

The brain represents the world around us as a series of neural states - stable patterns of activity that change as we move from one event to the next.

New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky

nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4

Temporal dedifferentiation of neural states with age during naturalistic viewing - Communications Biology

Movie fMRI data reveals age-related lengthening of neural states in visual and prefrontal regions, reflecting reduced temporal differentiation while preserved alignment with perceived events suggests stable coarse event segmentation.

www.nature.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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M. Natasha Rajah 🇨🇦 @mnrajah.bsky.social · 2d

@sfn.org please consider hosting your next meeting outside of the 🇺🇸

Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 2d

#SfN25 is packed with amazing science and networking opportunities!

The 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner makes it easy to find exactly what you're looking for.

Search, explore, and start planning your experience today.

🔗 vist.ly/49qex

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Dr Jen Ryan @drjenryan.bsky.social · 2d

Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally 👀

Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases.

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Alexa Morcom @alexamorcom.bsky.social · 2d

Not to mention the terrible effect on universities and research…

Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 3d

You can't have a successful economy by kowtowing to bigots who want to close the country to the rest of the world. It'd be nice if a politician had the brains or guts to point this out.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3d

Wilful ignorance of how trade and migration actually work in a globalised economy.

The idea that the (short and long-term) movement of people -especially between India and the UK - has nothing to do with trade and investment is (obviously) wrong.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Alexa Morcom @alexamorcom.bsky.social · 3d

Evidence-based review of the Tylenol/ paracetamol - autism controversy stirred up by MAGA and their friends - FREE podcast + detailed notes

from evidence-based health/ longevity/ exercise podcaster Peter Attia (not on BSky): share with US friends!! peterattiamd.com/tylenolandau...

#367 - Tylenol, pregnancy, and autism: What recent studies show and how to interpret the data

“Science is not about being right or wrong in an absolute sense. It's really about constantly updating our priors, understanding the probability of something as new evidence becomes emergent.” —Peter ...

peterattiamd.com

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Alexa Morcom @alexamorcom.bsky.social · 4d

Education isn’t zero sum - why are so many in Labour @teamlabouruk.bsky.social down on universities and allow HE to be run down as if that helps those who would not go to Uni - we need to support apprenticeships and FE and HE because all are vital!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

No idea what this is supposed to mean. The 50% target doesn't exist and nothing in the Gove reforms said more people had to go to university. It's a demand led system.

Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 4d

Burnham says he never supported the 50% university "Blair target", which became "hardwired" by Michael Gove's reforms

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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 4d

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu

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Alexa Morcom @alexamorcom.bsky.social · 21d

Looks interesting! Can you add a link?

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 24d

New book— just got my copy! I know people often don’t read book chapters but I think that’s a mistake. They are usually much more reflective and wide ranging than journal articles.

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · Sep 6

New from our CNTRACS collab: Santiago Castiello finds that people with schizophrenia false alarm speech in sine wave stimuli, and benefit more greatly from the templates - particularly if they are voice hearers osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Alexa Morcom @alexamorcom.bsky.social · Aug 14

This looks important for anyone wanting to define ROIs in lateral PFC…

Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · Aug 14

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied.

👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Image of brain networks in a group average and individual LPFC. Individuals show:
1) smaller FP network
2) more interdigitation
3) conserved motifs
4) idiosyncratic features
This was validated with task and rest fMRI

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Aug 8

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Alexa Morcom @alexamorcom.bsky.social · Aug 4

A nice one for Pride!

John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Aug 3

The more positive intergroup contacts you have, the fewer LGBTQ+ conspiracies beliefs you will report

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · Aug 1

REMINDER to PLEASE vote in the consultative ballot on the 25/26 pay claim!

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · Jul 22

#UCU members: please vote in the consultative ballot (unique voting link should be in your inbox by now).

Personally, I am going to vote to reject the offer, and vote No to willingness to participate in industrial action (IA). Here are a couple of reasons why:

Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social · Jul 21

Ok #UCU folks, the consultative "ballot" is out from @ucu.org.uk.

Please participate! It will likely have a strong influence on HEC's next steps.

My personal vote is to vote to reject the offer but say No to willingness to participate in industrial action. (I will if it happens.)

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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · Jul 30

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.

The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years.

eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...

An Open Call for the next Editor-in-Chief of QJEP.

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal. The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor An…

eps.ac.uk

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Jul 30

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian children to death.

It cannot be sugar coated.

It is a fact - an engineered famine - and it’s abhorrent.

#Genocide #Gaza

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hive mind: Has anyone seen a good, and realistic, policy around the use of AI in writing articles for publication?

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Norman Lab @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social · Jul 28

New paper led by @codydong.bsky.social now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, exploring the relationship between memory-augmented LLMs and human episodic memory – see Cody’s post below for a short thread and a non-paywalled paper link! #NeuroAI doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hundreds march in solidarity with Palestine in Brighton and Hove

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2534538...

People take part in city centre marches over war in Gaza

Dozens of people took part in a march against Israel’s attacks on Gaza in Brighton at the weekend.

www.theargus.co.uk

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Jul 28

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Obituary: Professor Maggie Boden

The University of Sussex mourns the loss of Professor Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a pioneering figure in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

www.sussex.ac.uk

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Nov 21

Paper accepted!!!

The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects

osf.io/preprints/ps...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

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