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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · 5d

Love this article! We need more real-life memory studies.
Here is an example study and review from our lab…child development focus.

cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10....

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t remember when I first heard of Jane Goodall. She was there before I knew anything, showing me that you can do science without following the old rules. Thank you Jane, for creating a path through the forest.

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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to reading this. Congrats!!

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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · Jul 25

Congrats!!

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · Jun 9

Among all the craziness, exciting and beautiful science from Jessica Cantlon’s lab — Intersection of spatial and numerical cognition in the developing brain url:https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/35/6/bhaf126/8157441

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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · May 29

It was good! Thanks to all the organizers, panelists and speakers including @charan-neuro.bsky.social. Thanks to all the amazing trainees for the impressive talks. #TAMeG2025 Already looking forward to next year.

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · May 25

#TAMeG2025 is coming and it's gonna be good!

Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · Feb 28

#TAMeG2025 is coming (our 10th anniversary!) May 27 feat keynote @charan-neuro.bsky.social and panel on SciCom & Disinformation, with Carrie Boyce of RCIScience, @schalllab.bsky.social & @barense.bsky.social (chair)

Call for presentations is open for GTA and southern ON trainees 👉 tameg.ca!

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lindsaymalloy.bsky.social @lindsaymalloy.bsky.social · Mar 15

My Global @mitacs.bsky.social @mitacscanada.bsky.social student presenting our research at the @ap-ls.org conference in Puerto Rico from her visit to our lab at @ontariotechu.bsky.social last summer #APLS2025

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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · Apr 25

“We want scientists who hold identities that may be under attack to know that we are proud to be your colleagues, and that our science is stronger as a result of your being in this field.“

Thanks Amy for sharing!Thinking about you & all my colleagues & friends in the US.

Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · Apr 25

“..we want students and colleagues––especially those working in areas that are under attack––to know that we believe the science you are doing is important and will make children’s lives better, and we urge you to keep on doing it.”

Amy Needham @amyneedham.bsky.social · Apr 25

Full article: The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This article is important! Please read!

The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times

Published in Journal of Cognition and Development (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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The Spark Society @sparksociety.bsky.social · Apr 21

Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.

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Kathleen Hughes, PhD @kathmhughes.bsky.social · Mar 27

I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate.

#childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social

Dear Developmental Colleagues,
I’m a developmental psychologist, Associate Professor (Teaching), and Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. I specialize in social emotional learning, peer relationships, and children’s media.
On March 25th, a developmental psychology graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts was abducted by the United States government. Rumeysa Ozturk is a PhD student in Child Study & Human Development with a focus on prosocial development and children’s media. She is from Turkey and was studying in the USA on a student visa. Her visa was revoked when she participated in political letter writing asking Tufts University to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide. This political activity made her a target.
No peaceful political activity should ever lead to unlawful detainment. The Palestinian-Israel conflict is heartbreaking. My spouse and child are Jewish, we lost an Israeli family member on October 7th, 2022. I’ve seen increases in anti-semitism on university campuses in the past two years, but I know and I acknowledge that the majority of protestors are not hateful, and they want peace and human rights.
Rumeysa Ozturk is one of us. Therefore, I am calling on leaders in Developmental Psychology to stand up for Ozturk, to pressure academic societies such as SRCD, SRA, & ISSBD to release a statement regarding her unjust abduction. We need to shine a spotlight and put international pressure on this abduction to help ensure her safety and release. Please also consider writing your political representatives. Ozturk has been relocated from Massachusetts to Louisiana. Her lawyer has lost contact with her in the past day. Our efforts can make a difference during these critical days.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Hughes, PhD
Associate Professor (Teaching)
Undergraduate Program Director
University of Calgary

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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · Mar 20

Congrats! Developmental cognitive neuroscience at its best.

Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · Mar 20

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants

Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

www.science.org

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Mar 11

@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences - Nature Human Behaviour

How does sleep transform the way we remember our experiences? This study finds that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related...

www.nature.com

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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · Feb 28

Congrats!!

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Brian Levine @brianlevine.bsky.social · Feb 28

#TAMeG2025 is coming (our 10th anniversary!) May 27 feat keynote @charan-neuro.bsky.social and panel on SciCom & Disinformation, with Carrie Boyce of RCIScience, @schalllab.bsky.social & @barense.bsky.social (chair)

Call for presentations is open for GTA and southern ON trainees 👉 tameg.ca!

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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · Dec 3

Please see www.childmemorystudy.com for more info.

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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · Dec 2

New study alert!! For families with kids 4-16 years old. Amazing team of students and collaborators including @lindsaymalloy.bsky.social This first study is open to families in Canada and USA. (Watch these 3 video clips to learn more and please share)

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Jeni Pathman @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thanks Nick! Next year I am teaching a newly developed grad course (Professional issues in Dev Psych and Neuroscience). Plan to discuss careers outside academia with examples and this article would be cool to include. Thanks for sharing.

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