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Ken Paller
@paller.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist at Northwestern U investigating memory, sleep, consciousness, other stuff http://kenpaller.com
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Nov 18
Do House-Elves Clean Your Brain While You Sleep?
-- the title of a fun paper I wrote covering memory and sleep from a cognitive neuroscience perspective, intended for young readers... and for the young at heart
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Do House-Elves Clean Your Brain While You Sleep?
Sleep will consume one-third of your life. You can’t avoid it, nor should you. Sound slumber can make you feel wonderful. But there’s more to it. Sleep is also essential for learning. Much of who you ...
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 2d
New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 24d
Great ideas, @laurahelmuth.bsky.social — we’re working on sleep-engineering methods with wearables to supplement such strategies, but they aren’t ready to use yet. A good therapist knowledgeable about behavioral sleep medicine can also help, and they have a community = SBSM www.behavioralsleep.org
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · Sep 8
Indiana (and any state) can #DitchDST in coordination with surrounding states. Tell your state legislators to file our pact bill now for this January! savestandardtime.com/legislation/...
DRAFT LEGISLATION TO DITCH DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME | Save Standard Time
Abolish Daylight Saving Time and restore permanent Standard Time.
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 29
New Speculative Article — I'm happy Andrew Budson invited me to write an article with him. We wondered what happens in our minds when we're sleeping? --> Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness
Insights into the mysteries of dreaming and waking conscious experience can be gained by considering fundamental concepts in memory research. To support this assertion, we first provide an overview...
www.tandfonline.com
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 29
Announcing the return of the ISRW, this time in Vancouver!
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 29
For >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops (ISRW) have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @cogneuronews.bsky.social). Follow the link for details and to join the mailing list.
isrw.bio.uci.edu

Pls repost! #sleep
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 24
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
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Felicia Tuchman, MS @feliciatuchman.bsky.social · Aug 21
Thanks to Northwestern News for publishing an extended version of my @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social / @scholars.org op-ed! Grateful to have had an opportunity to speak in detail about memorable mentors @jnfrltackett.bsky.social & @cmbrandes.bsky.social 💜

news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...
This is why I’ll never stop fighting for science
Northwestern alum Felicia Tuchman chronicles her path from high school science student to pursuing a Ph.D. — and what she’s learning along the way
news.northwestern.edu
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 19
Check out our latest preprint! BlueSky-less Gayathri Subramanian tried combining odor & sound presentation during sleep to shape memories and discovered that multisensory cuing of unassociated memories nullified the benefits of reactivation. @paller.bsky.social
Concurrent presentation of memory-related odors and sounds nullified sleep reactivation benefits
Reactivation of recently acquired memories during sleep supports their longevity. Reactivation can be biased during sleep using odors or sounds through a technique termed targeted memory reactivation ...
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Monika Schönauer @mschoenauer.bsky.social · Aug 15
Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.”

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Aug 14
Dream start for database that aims to improve our understanding of conscious experience in sleep

Free link to the paper in Nature Communication is rdcu.be/eAwni !
A dream EEG and mentation database
Nature Communications - The authors present a multicenter database to investigate the neural correlates of dreaming, including physiological, behavioral and experiential data. This database could...
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 7
In class on paper, one short-answer question you select from a list given to students in advance?
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 6
@karenkonkoly.bsky.social welcome to bluesky
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 6
See also: the new paper co-first-authored by PhD students Daniel Morris and Blaise Elliott, which describes a way to provoke lucid dreams about revisiting a profound Virtual-Reality experience - academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Lucid dreaming of a prior virtual-reality experience with ego-transcendent qualities: a proof-of-concept study
Abstract. The immersive environments of virtual reality (VR) have potential to engender a vast range of experiences. Although participants recognize these
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 6
See also, Karen Konkoly's new paper:
“Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 6
After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper:
“Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 6
The VR experience is from David Glowacki and colleagues, and described in this paper: "Group VR experiences can produce ego attenuation and connectedness comparable to psychedelics,” Nature Scientific Reports, 12, 8995 (2022), doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-12637-z
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 6
What would you like to dream about? Here's a suggestion. Our new paper, co-first-authored by PhD students Daniel Morris and Blaise Elliott, describes a way to provoke lucid dreams about revisiting a profound Virtual-Reality experience - academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
article published in Neuroscience of Consciousness
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Aug 1
“Acquiescence to the administration’s tactics would make Northwestern complicit in an assault on institutions of higher education, which are an essential bulwark of civil society,”

www.wbez.org/education/20...
Northwestern University professors urge campus leaders not to make deal with Trump
The university has had $800 million in federal funding frozen over accusations that fostered antisemitism. Northwestern faculty are worried the university will follow others and try to make a deal wit...
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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · Jul 21
Important read on how the attacks on science are going to destroy a generation of scientists and a generation of opportunities to advance science.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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Sam Goldstein @samschuelstein.bsky.social · Jul 21
"Science is not just something I do; it’s a core facet of who I am. If science is taken from me, an important piece of me will be gone."- @feliciatuchman.bsky.social
@sciforgood.bsky.social

Bravo, friend! So well done. We can't just switch off what inspires us, especially when it is under attack.
OPINION: Moments are being taken away from the next generation of scientists
I’m 17 years old. In AP Psychology, our final project is to design an experiment, collect data, and write up the results. My teacher suggests that our group, fascinated by
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Jul 21
A very important message for people to see! Way to go @feliciatuchman.bsky.social
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Felicia Tuchman, MS @feliciatuchman.bsky.social · Jul 21
I wrote an op-ed for the Albuquerque Journal about moments that shaped my journey as a young scientist and are being taken away from the next generation of scientists. Because, as any passionate scientist knows, funding is not all that is at stake. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
OPINION: Moments are being taken away from the next generation of scientists
I’m 17 years old. In AP Psychology, our final project is to design an experiment, collect data, and write up the results. My teacher suggests that our group, fascinated by
www.abqjournal.com
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Jul 13
Interested in consciousness? The Landscape of Consciousness website has you covered. It has everything from science to not science.
loc.closertotruth.com
#neuroscience
Explore consciousness theories and implications
A global hub for theories of consciousness—authenticated by leading theorists, designed for professional consciousness communities, and open to all
loc.closertotruth.com
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · May 2
Collection of websites I've seen highlighting the impact of federally funded research at various institutions

First is Chicago's very own Northwestern University, which ended FY2024 with $>1 billion in research funding

Northwestern University: Research Impact
www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...
Research Impact : Northwestern University
www.northwestern.edu
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Jul 5
Mayor of Evanston
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Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · Jul 3
The Republicans just passed tax breaks for billionaires, and to pay for it, they’re cutting Medicaid and SNAP benefits and Planned Parenthood and clean energy programs and so much more.

It is an unprecedented betrayal of the American people.
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Jul 5
The Governor of Illinois fighting back
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Jul 5
Donald Trump's bill is a betrayal of the American people.

That's who Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans sold out for tax cuts to their wealthy donors.

Know that I'll keep fighting back to address the real issues Illinoisans are facing.
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · Jul 1
Thanks to @siliconrepublic.bsky.social for doing this profile! @maynoothuniversity.ie
www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/r...
This expert wants us to wake up to the power of sleep for our health
Maynooth University’s Prof Andrew Coogan wants to understand how sleep affects human health ‘out in the wild’ of the real world.
www.siliconrepublic.com
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