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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 1d

Let this be a motto for all of us, when we peer review:
“Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed.”
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JoCNForum @jocnforum.bsky.social · 2d

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Principles for proper peer review

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 8d

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day – a time to raise awareness for the ongoing impacts of residential school and remember the children who never came home.

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Jorge Morales @jorge-morales.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵

Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models

This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in th...

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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 8d

New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 13d

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ReconciliACTION: seed2STEM Summer 2025 recap

YouTube video by ICORD Admin

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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 13d

Research is the key to unlocking Canada’s future and it needs proper funding.

The federal government must uphold its Budget 2024 commitment to Canadian researchers.

Read the Coalition for Canadian Research’s open letter: www.caut.ca/news/coaliti...

Coalition for Canadian Research calls on federal government to fulfil the Budget 2024 research commitments

The Right Honourable Mark Carney, P.C., M.P.Prime Minister of CanadaOffice of the Prime Minister80 Wellington StreetOttawa, ON K1A 0A2

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M. Natasha Rajah 🇨🇦 @mnrajah.bsky.social · 19d

While Canada plans for another round of CERC hirings (which costs millions); support to retain international talent & support 🇨🇦 researchers may be cut!

Sign this letter to request @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social to stop the proposed cuts to
research & innovation!

CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 20d

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.

Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.

Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats to all the authors! 🎉🥳

SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 20d

#eNeuro | Depression Levels Are Associated with Reduced Capacity to Learn to Actively Avoid Aversive Events in Young Adults
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0034-25.2025

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 20d

Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 22d

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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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 22d

New #AllThingsCognition episode! Repeated events form the structure of our everyday lives. How do we recall them? Jonathan Caballero interviews #psynomM&C authors Oliver Bontkes & Eva Rubínová @obontkes.bsky.social @evarubinova.bsky.social @danipalombo.bsky.social

Exploring the structure of our memories

In this podcast episode, Jonathan Caballero interviews Oliver Bontkes and Dr. Eva Rubínová about their recent paper published in Memory and Cognition about repeated‑event memories and how their pos…

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British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience @bacn.co.uk · 28d

#BACN25 started off with the Early Career Award talk by Christopher Madan (@engra.me).

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Dani Palombo @danipalombo.bsky.social · 27d

Yay congrats!! Well deserved.

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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations to @engra.me on receiving the @bacn.co.uk Early Career Award. Great talk! #BACN25

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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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Joey Dunsmoor @joeydunsmoor.bsky.social · Sep 3

New paper alert. 🚨 Lock your doors. 🔐 Hug your dog 🐕

Neural Reinstatement of Encoding Context Mediates the Switch between Fear and Extinction Recall.

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Neural Reinstatement of Encoding Context Mediates the Switch between Fear and Extinction Recall

Abstract. Fear conditioning and extinction generate conflicting memory representations for a conditioned stimulus (CS). Retrieval of either memory is largely determined by the context where the CS is ...

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Dani Palombo @danipalombo.bsky.social · Sep 3

2025-2026 Memory & Imagination Team! Excited to work with this incredible group.
memlab.psych.ubc.ca/team/

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 28

New opinion piece!

@amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

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Dani Palombo @danipalombo.bsky.social · Aug 29

For >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @CogNeuroNews). Follow the link for details and to join the mailing list.
isrw.bio.uci.edu

Pls retweet!

International Sleep Replay Workshop – Join us for the virtual ISRW-IV in December 2024!

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Dani Palombo @danipalombo.bsky.social · Aug 29

Congrats Harrison!!! All the best to you and your family! <3

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · Aug 25

We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory.

Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!

Hippocampal mismatch signals are based on episodic memories and not schematic knowledge | PNAS

Prediction errors drive learning by signaling mismatches between expectations and reality, but the neural systems supporting these computations rem...

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Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · Aug 23

This isn’t because of team science. It’s because we don’t give appropriate credit for grants and promotions for those participating in team science.

Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 23

As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers, according to research from last year. https://scim.ag/3JHinJs #ScienceMagArchives

Larger teams worsen academic career prospects

As teams grow, new Ph.D. graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · Aug 22

I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯

I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼

So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 22

#sleeppeeps:

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨New Paper🚨

I spend a lot of time trying to control what people dream about.

Usually, we are looking at dreams of recent memory.

In this new paper, for the first time, we caused people to dream about a specific REMOTE memory from their distant past.

#cogsci
#psychscisky
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Experimentally Inducing Dreams of Remote Emotional Memory

Abstract. People frequently dream of recent experiences, which may reflect the consolidation of memories in the sleeping brain. Many studies demonstrate th

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Dani Palombo @danipalombo.bsky.social · Aug 22

Wonderful. Congrats, Mariam!

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