Eitan Schechtman
@eitans.bsky.social
Asst prof at Dept of Neurobiology & Behavior + Center for Neurobiology of Learning & Memory @ucirvine.bsky.social
Sleep, cognition & wellbeing 🛌💤🔀🧠.
PhD: Hebrew U; Postdoc: Northwestern U.
He/him.
Views are my own & don't reflect those of my employers.
Sleep, cognition & wellbeing 🛌💤🔀🧠.
PhD: Hebrew U; Postdoc: Northwestern U.
He/him.
Views are my own & don't reflect those of my employers.
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Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!!
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
A unifying account of replay as context-driven memory reactivation
A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.
elifesciences.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!!
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
Save the date for ICOM-7 (aka the Memory Olympics)
January 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Save the date for ICOM-7 (aka the Memory Olympics)
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
Episodic memory consolidation by reactivation of human concept neurons during sleep reflects contents, not sequence of events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.10.698827v1
January 11, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Episodic memory consolidation by reactivation of human concept neurons during sleep reflects contents, not sequence of events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.10.698827v1
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Workshops, Socials & Special Events - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 CNS Account CNS 2026 | Workshops, Socials & Special Events SESSION DATE TIME LOCATION Satellite – International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Salon F Wor...
www.cogneurosociety.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
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Just saw this paper today (even though it was out yesterday😱) and it is super interesting and powerful that so much clinical data with predictive power can be extracted from one night of sleep data www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction - Nature Medicine
A deep learning-based model, developed using the rich, multimodal data available from polysomnography-derived sleep recordings, performs well on common sleep analysis tasks and predicts future disease...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Just saw this paper today (even though it was out yesterday😱) and it is super interesting and powerful that so much clinical data with predictive power can be extracted from one night of sleep data www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It's wild to watch a live performance of the Martin Niemöller poem unfold.
"First they came for the trans people, and I did not speak out because I was not a trans person".
If you're American and not speaking out, you need to read the final verse again.
"First they came for the trans people, and I did not speak out because I was not a trans person".
If you're American and not speaking out, you need to read the final verse again.
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
It's wild to watch a live performance of the Martin Niemöller poem unfold.
"First they came for the trans people, and I did not speak out because I was not a trans person".
If you're American and not speaking out, you need to read the final verse again.
"First they came for the trans people, and I did not speak out because I was not a trans person".
If you're American and not speaking out, you need to read the final verse again.
The 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop is just 80 days away- Mar 6th in Vancouver!
isrw.bio.uci.edu
If you'd like to be considered to give a short talk, register by December 19th, 2025.
General registration & poster submission ends February 15th, 2026.
@cnsmtg.bsky.social
Please repost
isrw.bio.uci.edu
If you'd like to be considered to give a short talk, register by December 19th, 2025.
General registration & poster submission ends February 15th, 2026.
@cnsmtg.bsky.social
Please repost
International Sleep Replay Workshop – International Sleep Replay Workshop
isrw.bio.uci.edu
December 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop is just 80 days away- Mar 6th in Vancouver!
isrw.bio.uci.edu
If you'd like to be considered to give a short talk, register by December 19th, 2025.
General registration & poster submission ends February 15th, 2026.
@cnsmtg.bsky.social
Please repost
isrw.bio.uci.edu
If you'd like to be considered to give a short talk, register by December 19th, 2025.
General registration & poster submission ends February 15th, 2026.
@cnsmtg.bsky.social
Please repost
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep - Nature Neuroscience
Through continuous multiday recordings in rats, the authors reveal that hippocampal sharp waves reflect sleep need and define a homeostatically regulated sleep state that enables the hippocampus to di...
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
OSF
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
Pls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI.
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
Apply - Interfolio
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November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Pls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI.
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838
#hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
Announcing the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop (ISRW): March 6, 2026, Vancouver, prior to CNS.
Program: poster session, discussion groups, 2 symposia, 7 short talks, & many opportunities to interact.
Register by Dec 19 at isrw.bio.uci.edu
All researchers focused on sleep/cognition welcome.
Program: poster session, discussion groups, 2 symposia, 7 short talks, & many opportunities to interact.
Register by Dec 19 at isrw.bio.uci.edu
All researchers focused on sleep/cognition welcome.
The 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop
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November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Announcing the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop (ISRW): March 6, 2026, Vancouver, prior to CNS.
Program: poster session, discussion groups, 2 symposia, 7 short talks, & many opportunities to interact.
Register by Dec 19 at isrw.bio.uci.edu
All researchers focused on sleep/cognition welcome.
Program: poster session, discussion groups, 2 symposia, 7 short talks, & many opportunities to interact.
Register by Dec 19 at isrw.bio.uci.edu
All researchers focused on sleep/cognition welcome.
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
😴 Sleep stabilises old memories and supports new learning. Are these benefits of sleep causally linked, driven by a common underlying mechanism, or largely independent? Our new paper digs into this important question!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
😴 Sleep stabilises old memories and supports new learning. Are these benefits of sleep causally linked, driven by a common underlying mechanism, or largely independent? Our new paper digs into this important question!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!
#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Workshops, Socials & Special Events - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 CNS Account CNS 2026 | Workshops, Socials & Special Events SESSION DATE TIME LOCATION Satellite – International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Salon F Wor...
www.cogneurosociety.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
I'm delighted to see this come out: "Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities" from Carly Busch and Sara Brownell and colleagues www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities | CBE—Life Sciences Edu...
Few LGBTQ+ biology instructors reveal their identities to undergraduates, often without considering the potential student benefits. Although instructors who have revealed their LGBTQ+ identity perceiv...
www.lifescied.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I'm delighted to see this come out: "Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities" from Carly Busch and Sara Brownell and colleagues www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
Relational Cognition Lab
www.relcoglab.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
New Podcast from our collaborators in Colombia!
El Sueño tiene ciencia is a new podcast on the neuroscience of sleep, hosted by psychologist Daniela Moreno Arrieta.
The podcast is in Spanish and has translated subtitles available via YouTube. We hope you enjoy!
www.youtube.com/@Elsue%C3%B1...
El Sueño tiene ciencia is a new podcast on the neuroscience of sleep, hosted by psychologist Daniela Moreno Arrieta.
The podcast is in Spanish and has translated subtitles available via YouTube. We hope you enjoy!
www.youtube.com/@Elsue%C3%B1...
El sueño tiene ciencia
Somos un podcast de divulgación sobre neurociencias del sueño. Este es un podcast que surge en el marco de una investigación ejecutada por la universidad de los Andes, la universidad de Cardiff y la u...
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
New Podcast from our collaborators in Colombia!
El Sueño tiene ciencia is a new podcast on the neuroscience of sleep, hosted by psychologist Daniela Moreno Arrieta.
The podcast is in Spanish and has translated subtitles available via YouTube. We hope you enjoy!
www.youtube.com/@Elsue%C3%B1...
El Sueño tiene ciencia is a new podcast on the neuroscience of sleep, hosted by psychologist Daniela Moreno Arrieta.
The podcast is in Spanish and has translated subtitles available via YouTube. We hope you enjoy!
www.youtube.com/@Elsue%C3%B1...
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
📖 DAY 3 related read: Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers – The guidelines in an editorial featuring tips to make sex and gender data collection & reporting more inclusive.
🔗 loom.ly/N0DiSgI
@dgrijseels.bsky.social @eitans.bsky.social @dpagliaccio.bsky.social
🔗 loom.ly/N0DiSgI
@dgrijseels.bsky.social @eitans.bsky.social @dpagliaccio.bsky.social
Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers
Queer people are still underrepresented both as STEM researchers and participants, partially due to a dearth of accurate data on this demographic. The lack of consideration for queer identities in dat...
loom.ly
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📖 DAY 3 related read: Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers – The guidelines in an editorial featuring tips to make sex and gender data collection & reporting more inclusive.
🔗 loom.ly/N0DiSgI
@dgrijseels.bsky.social @eitans.bsky.social @dpagliaccio.bsky.social
🔗 loom.ly/N0DiSgI
@dgrijseels.bsky.social @eitans.bsky.social @dpagliaccio.bsky.social
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We are searching for a lab manager!
If you are detailed oriented, like southern california, HSV-1, sequencing and microscopy, please get in touch :)
If you are detailed oriented, like southern california, HSV-1, sequencing and microscopy, please get in touch :)
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
We are searching for a lab manager!
If you are detailed oriented, like southern california, HSV-1, sequencing and microscopy, please get in touch :)
If you are detailed oriented, like southern california, HSV-1, sequencing and microscopy, please get in touch :)
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
We may not know who needs these resources, so let's share as widely as possible.
October 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We may not know who needs these resources, so let's share as widely as possible.
Registration is now! Come one, come all
#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom
CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu
@cnsnews.bsky.social
CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu
@cnsnews.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Registration is now! Come one, come all
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom
CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu
@cnsnews.bsky.social
CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu
@cnsnews.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom
CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu
@cnsnews.bsky.social
CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu
@cnsnews.bsky.social
Reposted by Eitan Schechtman
There is a link between dreaming and memory consolidation. In this experiment, researchers put this theory to the test by recording dreams after #REM and #NREM sleep. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...
Incorporation of complex narratives into dreaming
Statement of Significance This study introduces a systematic approach to assessing dream incorporation by linking presleep experiences to dream content usi
academic.oup.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
There is a link between dreaming and memory consolidation. In this experiment, researchers put this theory to the test by recording dreams after #REM and #NREM sleep. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...