Erin Morrow
@erinmorrow.bsky.social
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PhD student in cognitive neuroscience @UCLA. 🧠 Studying how & why we remember (emotional) events. 🏛️ Science policy, comms, & ethics. https://erinmorrow.squarespace.com/
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Agree! We don’t live in a vacuum. As you mentioned, the scientific questions we ask are affected by who we are (our humanity!) and the society we live in. How can we separate something that’s already bound?
erinmorrow.bsky.social
So cool to see these results out, Allie!
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And that work is never done alone!! You rock 🙂
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Multiple federal agencies are suspending research funding at UCLA over allegations it didn’t properly deal with antisemitism on campus. scim.ag/4lbLAcx
NSF and NIH suspend grants to UCLA
Move follows Trump administration finding that school didn’t effectively combat antisemitism
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Coming down the home stretch for #McClintockLetters! If you signed up to participate, there is still time.

Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! We are here to help.

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Early-career scientists: Barbara McClintock's birthday may have passed, but it's not too late to write a #McClintockLetter to your hometown newspaper about science funding! 🗞️

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erinmorrow.bsky.social
Thank you Ali! I really appreciate it.
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Thank you Dave! 🙂
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Really appreciate your support Berna 🤍
erinmorrow.bsky.social
So grateful to be one of the 500+ early-career scientists returning to their roots this month. The SNAP team behind this campaign has been such a blast to work with! @snapcoalition.bsky.social

Check out my piece in the Marietta Daily Journal, as well as other national coverage: bit.ly/3HXlfB4
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Early career folks, please consider taking *1 minute* to sign our open letter for the future of U.S. science ✍️

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You are a star! ⭐️
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So excited to share our new preprint! We used behavior & pupillometry to examine how reinterpreting negative emotions shapes memory for emotionally charged events.

Huge thanks to my spectacular advisor, Dave, for all his help and support with my first project of grad school!

Check it out 👇
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Emotions create vivid and lasting memories - but how are those memories organized? We find that negative emotions fragment experience, disrupting the flow of memory. Reframing negative feelings also carves up experiences, but in a way that supports integration and wellbeing.

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erinmorrow.bsky.social
Shout out to my good friend and fellow UCLA grad student Kayla Lim for introducing me to this great Lightman quote!
erinmorrow.bsky.social
"In this world, there are two times....The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along." - Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams 🕰️

Amid these wild times, I'm grateful to first-author this super cool fMRI study started by my great advisor @davidclewett.bsky.social! 🧠
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New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it.

We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories.

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Dopaminergic processes predict temporal distortions in event memory
Our memories do not simply keep time - they warp it, bending the past to fit the structure of our experiences. For example, people tend to remember items as occurring farther apart in time if they spa...
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Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress.

Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.

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