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Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · 4d

If you are applying to a PhD program, be sure to check out these tips! 👇👇👇

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Applying for a Ph.D.? These 10 tips can help you succeed

Our Letters to Young Scientists columnists offer their advice

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 12d

Make your voice impossible to ignore. If you support the Menopause Care Equity Act let @gavinnewsom.bsky.social know in the link below 👇🏼 #AB432

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨Attending ISPNE in New Orleans?🚨

Be sure to stop by graduate student Beatriz Brandao’s poster today 9/3 5:30 - 8 pm.

She will be discussing results from her recently published Hormones & Behavior paper examining emotion regulation and memory in hormonal contraceptive users!

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Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out a new preprint from Adi, postdoc working with me and Jeff Zacks. I’m *extremely* excited to finally, officially get this out into the world 🙂

Adi Upadhyayula @adibuoy23.bsky.social · Sep 3

1/ 🚨 Preprint alert!
How does the brain make sense of continuous experience?
We find that continuous experiences can be compressed using a subset of key moments that dominate comprehension and recall.
👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.30.673233

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Aug 28

These findings suggest that hormonal contraceptives influence both the ability to regulate emotions as well as subsequent impact on memory for those experiences in ways different than naturally cycling women.

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Aug 28

When examining memory, we found that HC users who applied ER strategies during encoding showed reduced negative lure discrimination and increased positive lure discrimination.

Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Participants rated their negative and positive affect during encoding. Then, we tested participants memory for the images.

We found that HC users showed more successful ER use, particularly those using the distancing and immersion strategies.

Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Aug 28

We trained participants in several emotion regulation strategies (distancing and reinterpretation towards negative images and immersion towards positive images). Participants applied these strategies during encoding of an emotional mnemonic discrimination task.

Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out our latest paper published in Hormones & Behavior!

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

We found that hormonal contraceptive users were better able to apply trained emotion regulation strategies, which reduced negative memory!

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Aug 20

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Psychology

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Aug 18

What we discover at UCLA goes far beyond our lab - this work is meant to make an impact on society to change how we treat conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and PTSD. #ResearchPowersProgress
🧠🎼💙💛
newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/mus...

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Aug 8

Congratulations @morales-calva.bsky.social! 2025 best article in CABN ❤️ If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to check it out. Link below 👇🏻

Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Fernanda Morales-Calva has been honored with the 2025 Best Article Award for CABN. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. Read the paper here: bit.ly/4ooPcuL #psynomCABN @F_Morales_Calva

Graphic with blue background and PS branding indicating the name, institution, and paper title of the 2025 Best Article Award recipient for each of the Society's journals.

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 1

We’re hiring! Pls share widely:

In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.

Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Jul 28

Fun chat with @theguardian about the power of music in stirring up our emotions and how that impacts our memories 🎶

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 26

Does a song conjure painful memories? Try to rehabilitate it, say scientists

The urge to avoid music that brings up trauma from the past is powerful, but it may be better to ‘actively engage’

www.theguardian.com

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Heidi Jacobs @heidijacobslab.bsky.social · Jul 23

Learn about our work towards earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease. Despite NIH-funding being delayed, terminated, and uncertain, we are fiercely committed to these goals! Link for donations to support our work is at the bottom of the page, or reach out.
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Earlier Detection of Alzheimer’s Could Help Reduce Its Most Devastating Effects

Heidi Jacobs, PhD, is a leader in Alzheimer’s disease research whose personal experience with the disease strengthens her passion for finding a cure — something she is well on her way to achieving.

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Jul 19

Hi Alicia, would love to get involved in any way I can! Looks like a great opportunity for students.

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨Attending SBN?🚨

Stop by graduate student Beatriz Brandao’s poster tomorrow Tuesday July 15 4:30-6:30pm (Poster Session 2, #32) examining the impact of hormonal contraceptive use on memory and emotion regulation! #SBN2025

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Jul 12

Exciting to see our work featured in Forbes!

Eva Amsen @easternblot.bsky.social · Jun 24

Emotional music makes it easier to remember, but whether we remember details depends on how strong that emotion is. 🧪 #scicomm www.forbes.com/sites/evaams...

Memory Is Shaped By The Music We Listen To

Music therapy can be used in memory recall, but which music works best? A new study found that our emotional response to music affects what we remember.

www.forbes.com

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is awesome!

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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · Jul 2

Do you ever get tired of cables getting caught as you're putting a research subject into the MRI scanner? Do you wish you had a 3D-printable model of clips that slide into the slot on the side of your Siemens MRI scanner bed? Well look no further! github.com/Kirwanlab/MR...

GitHub - Kirwanlab/MR-compatible-clips: STL files for 3D printing MR-compatible clips for a Siemens scanner

STL files for 3D printing MR-compatible clips for a Siemens scanner - Kirwanlab/MR-compatible-clips

github.com

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨Check out our latest work published in The Journal of Neuroscience! We examined post-encoding music impacts on memory and found gist verses detail tradeoffs in memory that depended on music-induced emotional arousal. 🎼

SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · Jun 24

New in #JNeurosci from Clark and Leal: How strongly music arouses emotions in people influences which aspects of their memories are improved by music. vist.ly/3n7prv5

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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · Jun 16

Electric art by Saiman Chow for today's essay: Everything, everywhere, all at once: Inside the chaos of Alzheimer’s disease. by Michael A. Yassa @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/alzheimers-d... #sciart

Everything, everywhere, all at once: Inside the chaos of Alzheimer’s disease

To truly understand Alzheimer’s disease, we may need to take a systems approach, in which inflammation, vascular injury, impaired glucose metabolism and other factors interact in complex ways.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · Jun 3

Same 🫠

Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · May 23

10 more minutes to stop by!

Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · May 23

🚨Attending APS 2025?🚨

Be sure to stop by @morales-calva.bsky.social poster TODAY from 4-5pm! Fernanda will be presenting her work examining cultural impacts on perception and memory. Details below. #APS25DC

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