Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
@karampbell.bsky.social
Professor & Canada Research Chair at Brock University | Grad Program Director | neurocognitive aging, memory, & attention | mom of 3 | ally | mostly kvetching
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Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
@karampbell.bsky.social
· Sep 30
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
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
New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky
nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩
Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...
(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...
(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If you'll be at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, check out @hannahgthomas.bsky.social's poster (#11) on the relationship between sustained attention and inhibitory control. Wish I could be there! #FOMO🗻🔬🎉🍻
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you'll be at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, check out @hannahgthomas.bsky.social's poster (#11) on the relationship between sustained attention and inhibitory control. Wish I could be there! #FOMO🗻🔬🎉🍻
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC
TFW you have so many emails, you forget what your actual job is.
Seriously, what am I supposed to be doing here? 🤔😵💫
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
Seriously, what am I supposed to be doing here? 🤔😵💫
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
TFW you have so many emails, you forget what your actual job is.
Seriously, what am I supposed to be doing here? 🤔😵💫
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
Seriously, what am I supposed to be doing here? 🤔😵💫
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
Involved in grad admissions? This is worth a read 👇🏻
I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Involved in grad admissions? This is worth a read 👇🏻
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
I encourage every PhD student to set up an academic website, even if they don't feel like they have a lot to put on it. Why? Helps to get discovered by search engines and establish a search-friendly presence.
What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀
What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I encourage every PhD student to set up an academic website, even if they don't feel like they have a lot to put on it. Why? Helps to get discovered by search engines and establish a search-friendly presence.
What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀
What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀
Someone thinks they're my 4th baby. 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Someone thinks they're my 4th baby. 🤣
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
Maths...
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Maths...
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
An update on this story - grad students are now exempt from the cap in student visas. 🧪
Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Canada’s new budget aims to lure U.S. researchers to relocate
Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared
www.science.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
An update on this story - grad students are now exempt from the cap in student visas. 🧪
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
women, are they bitches?
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
women, are they bitches?
So you apparently can't trust a banker with the environment. Huh. 🤔 #Budget2025
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
So you apparently can't trust a banker with the environment. Huh. 🤔 #Budget2025
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
a gross parliamentary overreach — article by @picardonhealth.bsky.social in the globe and mail; #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91587b9...
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
a gross parliamentary overreach — article by @picardonhealth.bsky.social in the globe and mail; #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91587b9...
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
It’s insulting to tell 🇨🇦 scientists we need international scientists to run to our rescue & ensure innovation.
🇨🇦 scientists have exceeded expectations with paltry funding. If the gov funded Tricouncil > & sustainably; imagine how innovative we’d already be!! /End
🇨🇦 scientists have exceeded expectations with paltry funding. If the gov funded Tricouncil > & sustainably; imagine how innovative we’d already be!! /End
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It’s insulting to tell 🇨🇦 scientists we need international scientists to run to our rescue & ensure innovation.
🇨🇦 scientists have exceeded expectations with paltry funding. If the gov funded Tricouncil > & sustainably; imagine how innovative we’d already be!! /End
🇨🇦 scientists have exceeded expectations with paltry funding. If the gov funded Tricouncil > & sustainably; imagine how innovative we’d already be!! /End
This is what passes for fun in my house. 7yo repeatedly testing which side of the 🎲 will reach 100 the fastest. The 16yo's idea, not mine! 😂
#statistics #data #mathisfun
#statistics #data #mathisfun
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is what passes for fun in my house. 7yo repeatedly testing which side of the 🎲 will reach 100 the fastest. The 16yo's idea, not mine! 😂
#statistics #data #mathisfun
#statistics #data #mathisfun
Two factor authentication? Really?
If someone else wants to review these grants for me, have at it. 😂
If someone else wants to review these grants for me, have at it. 😂
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Two factor authentication? Really?
If someone else wants to review these grants for me, have at it. 😂
If someone else wants to review these grants for me, have at it. 😂
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
But, as @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I have written about extensively at this point, it is a complete myth that federal research funding is being unfairly allocated to "woke" or "leftist" research.
Alberta’s Bill 18: Who gets the most federal research funding? Danielle Smith might be surprised by what the data shows
The ideological war waged by Smith will only endanger high-quality research void of political interference from the government.
theconversation.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
But, as @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I have written about extensively at this point, it is a complete myth that federal research funding is being unfairly allocated to "woke" or "leftist" research.
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
🧵The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research has put forward a motion to release ALL data in relation to federal research funding applications.
This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."
This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."
November 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
🧵The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research has put forward a motion to release ALL data in relation to federal research funding applications.
This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."
This motion was put forward by conservative MPs who are skeptical of funding being allocated "fairly."
Let's go #BlueJays / Happy #Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Let's go #BlueJays / Happy #Halloween!
I have become my former supervisor. Late to all meetings, distractable, perpetually annoyed by bureaucracy. Hopefully half as creative?? 😶🌫️
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicChatter
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I have become my former supervisor. Late to all meetings, distractable, perpetually annoyed by bureaucracy. Hopefully half as creative?? 😶🌫️
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicChatter
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
Programming skill is just a set of rules you've inferred via personal suffering
October 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Programming skill is just a set of rules you've inferred via personal suffering
Has anyone ever looked at Reviewer Credits (e.g., on Web of Science) for anything?
No? I thought not. So let's stop kidding ourselves.
#Science #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
No? I thought not. So let's stop kidding ourselves.
#Science #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
a sign that says " and you get a gold star "
ALT: a sign that says " and you get a gold star "
media.tenor.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Has anyone ever looked at Reviewer Credits (e.g., on Web of Science) for anything?
No? I thought not. So let's stop kidding ourselves.
#Science #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
No? I thought not. So let's stop kidding ourselves.
#Science #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Reposted by Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
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