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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · 8d

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?

Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.

📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)

#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · 9d

Job alert: We at the University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, are seeking two tenure track Assistant Professors in open areas, incl. cognitive / cognitive neuroscience. It’s a great place here! Apply by Oct 12 via jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta....

Assistant Professor

jobs.colorado.edu

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Matthias Gruber @mjgruber.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you so much, Lynn @choosetobecurious.bsky.social, for having me on the podcast!
In our conversation, I reflect on my research journey into curiosity, share insights from our current developmental and educational projects, and even tap into my poetic side.
Choose To Be Curious with us! 😊

Lynn Borton @choosetobecurious.bsky.social · Aug 21

I knew neuroscientist Matthias Gruber had played an important part in my curiosity journey -- but I didn't know I'd played a part in his!

What a delight to finally get to talk with him about his wonderful work on #curiosity, #education and #memory.

lynnborton.com/2025/08/21/c...

Curiosity Becomes the Engine for Learning, with Matthias Gruber

This was a wide-ranging and exciting conversation about neuroscientist Matthias Gruber's ongoing efforts to understand curiosity's role in learning and memory. There's a lot here. You may have to list...

lynnborton.com

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Ziyao Zhang @bulezz.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excited to share my first fMRI paper in @pnas.org We found that suppressing the encoding of one event can strengthen the neural representation of the next in CA1, and bias retrieval-related neural restatement away from suppressed information. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Maintenance suppression enhances subsequent associative learning | PNAS

Removing irrelevant information from working memory (WM) can free cognitive resources and reduce interference with current task goals. Beyond these...

www.pnas.org

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Aug 15

Congratulations, what a big move!

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Jul 30

Evidence for dlPFC contribution to #memory suppression using #TMS! Now accepted @jocn.bsky.social. Great team effort and collaboration with Gesa Hartwigsen’s lab @mpicbs.bsky.social‬. We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social‬ & @bradpostle.bsky.social‬.

fredbergmann.bsky.social @fredbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 30

1/3 Excited to share my first paper w/ co-first-author Davide Stramaccia in @rolandbenoit.bsky.social's lab! Causal evidence for right dlPFC involvement in #memory control: #TMS made it harder to stop intrusive memories & suppression didn't cause forgetting @jocn.bsky.social
-> tinyurl.com/prfra87k

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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · Jun 24

To my complete surprise, our Nature Reviews Neuroscience review on the Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Inhibitory Control of Thought has landed on the cover! Cover art below! For an "explainer thread", see earlier tweet. bsky.app/profile/memo...
@mrccbu.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #memory #ptsd

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Jun 19

Much looking forward - hoping to see you there! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Heidrun Schultz @heidrunschultz.bsky.social · Jun 19

At #PuG2025? Into memory? We've got just the symposium for you. "The emergence and transformation of memory representations in the human brain". Co-chaired with @rolandbenoit.bsky.social and featuring @denizkumral.bsky.social, Anne Bierbrauer, and @mgarvert.bsky.social. Today, 2:30pm in 0.004 Z6.

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Jun 5

Hey fellows of the Psychonomic Society! Two grad students in my lab would be keen to present @ #psynom25 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social. Would any of you be able and willing to sponsor the submission of their poster abstracts? (Caveat: They would need a sponsor letter in time for today's deadline.)

Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Jun 3

Deadline Alert: Submit Your Abstract by This Thursday, June 3! Don’t miss your opportunity to present your research at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA (November 20–23). Submit a paper or poster abstract before the deadline closes. 🔗Apply now: bit.ly/4lnWkWW #psynom25

Call for Abstracts. Psychonomic Society 66th Annual Meeting, November 20-23, 2025. Deadline Alert: June 5. Text over a light blue background with brown mountain landscape.

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · May 13

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊

Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · May 13

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change | PNAS

Mitigating climate change requires urgent action at individual, collective, and institutional levels. However, individuals may fail to act because ...

www.pnas.org

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Apr 29

Ever wondered how imagining prospective events helps us make farsighted decisions? Our preprint w/@heidrunschultz.bsky.social elucidates how it affects delay discounting. It notably reveals that the same mechanism can also nudge us towards more impulsive choices. @mpicbs.bsky.social @colorado.edu

Heidrun Schultz @heidrunschultz.bsky.social · Apr 29

Check out our latest preprint! "It’s about time: Specific and unspecific effects of episodic future thinking on farsighted decisions" with @rolandbenoit.bsky.social - osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/9

OSF

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Apr 25

Wonderful news - congratulations Karen! 🎆🥳 Any goals left in life ;)?

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jan 24

Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰

To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.

Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Jan 16

Are there dates yet for 2026? After missing out this year, would love to return to #ABIM2026.

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Jan 9

Why do we suffer from more intrusive thoughts when we're sleep deprived? Find out in this SciAm article on our latest work by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, featuring @zarabergstrom.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...

Bad Sleep Lets Intrusive Thoughts Flood In

Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived

www.scientificamerican.com

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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · Jan 8

Can someone forget much of their life? Yes! In Psychogenic amnesia, extreme stress leads to the loss of years of memories, including all the people the patient knows. Why? Read about what we have discovered in @laura-marsh.bsky.social‬ 's new paper or in the outstanding thread below #neuroskyence

Laura Marsh @laura-marsh.bsky.social · Jan 8

Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Prefrontally mediated inhibition of memory systems in dissociative amnesia | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Prefrontally mediated inhibition of memory systems in dissociative amnesia

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Dec 19

I just signed the letter and hope that the MRC will maintain this extraordinary research environment. Closing the units with all their huge added value would be a great loss for science at large.

Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · Dec 19

Are you a fan with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit? If so, read this Science story and then join the 500 scientists (inc two Nobels and two former Royal Society heads), who are asking the MRC to adjust course by signing the Open Letter linked in the story. www.science.org/content/arti...

Funding overhaul threatens historic U.K. research units

Scientists protest new “challenge-led” grants replacing funding that supported long-term basic research

www.science.org

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Dec 18

Congratulations to the awesome Dr. Ann-Kristin Meyer, who defended her thesis on memory suppression with flying colors - summa cum laude! How lucky we were to have her in the Adaptive Memory Lab back at @mpicbs.bsky.social! Find some of AK's work at elifesciences.org/articles/71309, w/ more to come.

Dr. Ann-Kristin Meyer, celebrating the defense of her thesis. Wearing the traditional German doctor hat crafted by her peers.

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Dec 13

Good old "Elements of Style".

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · Nov 21

Peer reviews can vary from harsh and demoralizing to constructive and kind. How can we make sure the peer reviews we write fall into the latter group?

Join us for this virtual workshop w/ @blackinneuro.bsky.social to learn about the dos and don'ts of effective & constructive peer reviews!

Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · Nov 21

What strategies can you use to provide effective peer reviews?

Join us for a virtual workshop with @blackinneuro.bsky.social! We'll discuss the structure & content of peer reviews & provide advice about how to write your first review.

Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Dec 3

Congratulations, Gordon!

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FOR 2812 @for2812.bsky.social · Nov 25

GEM 2025 is now on line. Find out who our keynote speakers for 2025 are!
for2812.rub.de/gem2025
#DFG_for2812 #gem2025 #interdisciplinaryresearch #generative_episodic_memory #memory #neuroscience

GEM 2025: Generative episodic memory: interdisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. June 2 - 4, 2025. Graphic shows a person remembering the same event at different times in their life and illustrates how memories change over time. In this case the person remembers studying as a university student.

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Nov 21

How can we motivate action to address climate change? We tested 17 psych interventions at once in a tournament! @falklab.bsky.social

If you’re attending #psynom24, come to my talk from 11:40-12 TOMORROW (11/22) to find out the winning strategies! Marquis B-C!

@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

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Roland Benoit @rolandbenoit.bsky.social · Nov 19

Congratulations, Ken!

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