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Carlos González-García @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social · Jul 16

🧠💻 We (a bunch of colleagues at @cimcyc.bsky.social) just released a programming guide for psych & cog neuro students. Instead of a tutorial, this is a starting point: a collection of reflections, examples, and recommendations.

👉 Still growing, but ready to explore: wobc.github.io/programming_book/

Programming in psychological science

A practical introduction

wobc.github.io

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María Jesús Maraver @maravermj.bsky.social · Jul 8

WiCS+ Europe @wicseurope.bsky.social · Jul 8

We're especially proud! Both 2025 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Distinguished Leadership Awardees are active WiCS+ members who’ve used their leadership to advance visibility and equity for women in cognitive science research.
Congratulations, Teresa & Helene!
www.psychonomic.org/page/2025Dis...

Distinguished Leadership Award

The Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award honors individuals for their significant contributions to the field of cognitive psychology. Recipients have been in the field for 10+ years and have demonstrated sustained leadership and service to the discipline. For the full nomination criteria and selection process, click here.

www.psychonomic.org

María Jesús Maraver @maravermj.bsky.social · Jul 8

Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Jul 7

Congratulations to Teresa Bajo, University of Granada, Spain, recipient of the 2025 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award. The award honors exceptional scientists who have demonstrated sustained leadership and service to the field and to the Society. bit.ly/401ldi0

Blue background with PS branding and photo of Teresa Bajo as a recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Leadership Award.

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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · Jun 28

Happy Pride Month! We celebrate our #LGBTQIA+ colleagues, researchers, students, and community members!

🏳️‍🌈 We believe that diversity in all its forms strengthens our research and that embracing all identities enriches our pursuit of knowledge

🤝 An inclusive scientific community is a stronger one!

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María Jesús Maraver @maravermj.bsky.social · Jun 27

Very much looking forward to this!
@pakitochus.bsky.social

Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are pleased to announce our last #CIMCYCSessions of this season!

🔴 Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Biological Data to Decode Brain - Francisco Jesús Martínez Murcia

📢 If you'd like to attend in person, please register.

📍 You can also join online

cimcyc.ugr.es/informacion/...

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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁

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María Jesús Maraver @maravermj.bsky.social · Jun 17

Un primer trabajo con datos comportamentales donde comparamos distintas estrategias basadas en feedback para mejorar el recuerdo y reducir la interferencia de los errores de memoria en jóvenes y personas mayores: doi.org/10.1080/1382...

How do older adults correct memory errors? The effects of practice and metacognitive strategies

Older adults often exhibit a higher susceptibility to false memories compared to younger adults, partly due to age-related declines in executive functions. Mullet and Marsh (2016) demonstrated that...

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María Jesús Maraver @maravermj.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hoy @cimcyc.bsky.social publica un resumen divulgativo de nuestro último artículo sobre la corrección de falsos recuerdos en el envejecimiento.

Y aquí la pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · Jun 17

🧠👵 A new study by the Memory and Language Lab (@cimcyc.bsky.social @universidadgranada.bsky.social) offers strategies to reduce false memories in older adults.

The goal: to promote healthier cognitive aging and autonomy.
#Memory #Neuropsychology #HealthyAging

cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Effective Strategies to Reduce False Memories in Older Adults

Researchers from the Memory and Language Lab at CIMCYC (University of Granada) have investigated effective strategies to reduce false memories in older adults, a common phenomenon that impacts their a...

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Guille Tomás @guicre27.bsky.social · Jun 17

¿Sabías que en la mitología griega, Mnemósyne (diosa de la MEMORIA) dio vida a las musas, encargadas de la producción artística y la CREATIVIDAD🎭🎨🎼?

¡Pues las musas me han inspirado para investigar con CIENCIA, en mi tesis, cómo las ideas creativas proceden de la memoria! #hilotesis

a picture of a group of people with the words " we are the muses "

ALT: a picture of a group of people with the words " we are the muses "

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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · Mar 26

Plot twist 😮, memory 🧠and AHA moments🤓: what do they have in common? Johannah Völler, our PhD student, explains!

If you don't want to lose her #3MT speech, let's watch this video 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkff...

Johannah Völler gana el concurso 3MT en la UGR

YouTube video by UGRmedia

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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · Mar 24

📣 ESCoP Family Care Grants

We are announcing the opening of applications for the Family Care Grants for the upcoming conference. The grants aim to support attendees facing additional family care expenses arising from participation in the conference.

ESCOP - Family Care grants

ESCOP is a dynamic scientific society that provides a venue within which current research in cognitive psychology and neighboring disciplines can be presented, discussed and encouraged.

www.escop.eu

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María Jesús Maraver @maravermj.bsky.social · Mar 25

Happy to have contributed to the review of this paper in a journal that truly supports open science with a fully-transparent peer review process. Congratulations @psicologicajournal.bsky.social but mostly to the authors!

DOI: doi.org/10.20350/dig...
psicologicajournal.com/enhancing-me...

Enhancing memory through error correction | DIGITAL.CSIC

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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · Mar 21

We are back! AI and EEG+ meetings 🦾https://cimcyc.ugr.es/informacion/noticias/cimcyc-sessions-joint-event-2025

Inauguración CIMCYC Sessions 2025: AI, Mind and Brain & Time-resolved Neuroimaging (EEG +)

Nos complace anunciar un evento conjunto para inaugurar las CIMCYC Sessions de 2025. Este evento será clave tanto para anunciar nuestros nuevos encuentros de investigación como para planear interesant...

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Marta Rivera Zurita @martarivz.bsky.social · Mar 7

Con motivo del día de la mujer, @WiCSEurope ha organizado un evento muy pertinente sobre la violencia en la academia. Abierto y gratuito.
El mundo académico también tiene acciones que merman la incorporación de las mujeres y tenemos que aprender a frenarlas.
¡Os esperamos!⬇️

WiCS+ Europe @wicseurope.bsky.social · Feb 25

🧵Follow this thread to learn more about #GenderInequalities in R&I, the topic of our next Seminar "Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Academia"

📆Monday, 10th March 2025
🕐1pm GMT / 2pm CET
📍Online

🔗Free Registration: shorturl.at/PLeZt

Hosts: WiCS-E & @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

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Addressing gender-based violence in academia - Online seminar

WiCS-Europe & RHUL host this seminar on how to create safe environments and drive action against gender-based violence in academia.

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WiCS+ Europe @wicseurope.bsky.social · Mar 5

🙋‍♀️Are barriers to women's promotion a form of gender-based violence? What concrete strategies can institutions implement to pursue real equality? How can EU countries coordinate to achieve safe environments of EDI in science?
Get the answers to these questions and more next Monday: shorturl.at/PLeZt

Addressing gender-based violence in academia - Online seminar

WiCS-Europe & RHUL host this seminar on how to create safe environments and drive action against gender-based violence in academia.

shorturl.at

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WiCS+ Europe @wicseurope.bsky.social · Feb 13

For the International Women's Month, WiCS-E & @rhulpsychology.bsky.social are hosting the online panel discussion "Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Academia" with Prof. Anne Laure Humbert (U. of Gothenburg)
📆10th March 2025
🕐1pm GMT / 2pm CET
📍Online

🔗Free Registration: shorturl.at/PLeZt

Addressing gender-based violence in academia - Online seminar

WiCS-Europe & RHUL host this seminar on how to create safe environments and drive action against gender-based violence in academia.

shorturl.at

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Mujeres con ciencia @mujeresconciencia.com · Feb 11

#HaceCincoAños Motivos para un día internacional

Motivos para un día internacional - Mujeres con ciencia

Motivos para una celebración. Marie Curie. Científicas. Presencia de las mujeres en el mundo de la ciencia. Falta de reconocimiento. Atención y cuidado de las personas. Presiones sociales y familiares. Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia. Brechas sociales y económicas. "Somos capaces".

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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · Feb 3

El CIMCYC y la Facultad de Psicología UGR invitan a la conferencia "¿Hay desigualdad en la investigación?" con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia #11F

✅ Se abordarán soluciones y propuestas para promover la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres en Ciencia.

Invitación a la conferencia ¿Hay desigualdad en la investigación?

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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · Jan 27

👋 Welcome to our Bluesky profile!

We are an international hub for psychological and neuroscience #research at @universidadgranada.bsky.social

🤔 If you want to know more about our history, resources and
research groups, please visit our website: cimcyc.ugr.es/en

#Psychology

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María Jesús Maraver @maravermj.bsky.social · Jan 27

¡Muchas gracias por este mega recurso @torressalinas.bsky.social!

Daniel Torres-Salinas @torressalinas.bsky.social · Jan 13

Si alguien está preparando un #sexenio de ANECA
aquí os dejo un ejemplo/modelo de como he defendido yo cinco aportaciones, con un guión a seguir en la defensa y las diferentes narrativas y métricas que he utilizado. Suerte🍀
zenodo.org/records/1463...

Mi sexenio de investigación: un modelo de defensa de cinco aportaciones con sus narrativas e indicadores

Muestro un modelo de defensa de aportaciones para la convocatoria 2024 de sexenios de investigación siguiendo este guión: Referencia y repositoriosComprobar que está en un repositorio si no lo está s...

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WiCS+ Europe @wicseurope.bsky.social · Jan 24

WiCS+ Spring Drop-in Writing Groups kick off next week!

Register below 👇🏽

WiCS+ Europe @wicseurope.bsky.social · Jan 20

We provide a dedicated online space for focus writing time and collaborative peer support.

As in previous editions, groups run on a drop-in/drop-out basis. Everyone is welcome to join with no commitment.

Join this new edition here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

WiCS+ Spring 2025 Drop In Writing Groups

The Spring 2025 writing groups will be open to all on a drop in basis starting January 27 to mid-May. Meetings will be held three different days and four times each week. You are welcome to join as of...

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · Jan 23

Fascinating paper from Roddy Roediger on the fuzzy boundary btwn cognitive and social psychology. As someone who now finds herself living on that boundary it was cool to realize that my undergraduate research mentor lived there too. 1/

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Reflections on intersections between cognitive and social psychology: A personal exploration

I appreciate the opportunity offered by the editor to reflect on the relationship between cognitive and social psychology. This topic has interested me my entire professional life, because I was admi...

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Lorena Fernández Álvarez @loretahur.bsky.social · Jan 24

Las científicas que se convirtieron literalmente en notas a pie de página en la historia científica, a pesar de haber contribuido a construir esa historia www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes

In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Laura Marston @kidfears99.bsky.social · Jan 16

Insulin should be free.

Full stop.

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Laura Marston @kidfears99.bsky.social · Jan 21

Your daily reminder that the PRICE of insulin has never been capped in the history of the US bc both parties represent billionaires and both are on PhRMA’s payroll.

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