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Emma Sullivan @emmacsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Paper 3/4 of my PhD is out! 🎉 Published in Neuropsychologia’s special issue on Sleep, Memory & Emotion - a review from my thesis introduction on how sleep helps disentangle emotion processing.

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Anna á V. Guttesen @annaavali.bsky.social · Jul 21

Excited to share our newly published paper! 👇 Massive thanks to @harrington-mo.bsky.social @sacairney.bsky.social @mggaskell.bsky.social

Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Does overnight memory consolidation support next-day learning?"

📢 New paper from: Anna Guttesen (annaavali.bsky.social), Marcus Harrington (@harrington-mo.bsky.social), Gareth Gaskell (mggaskell.bsky.social), & Scott Cairney (sacairney.bsky.social)

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Does overnight memory consolidation support next-day learning?

Sleep supports memory consolidation and next-day learning. The Active Systems model of consolidation proposes that sleep facilitates a shift in the me…

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

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Jobs - The University of York

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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Jobs - The University of York

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Jul 2

I can't think of anyone more deserving, Anna. Congratulations 🥳

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Jun 5

Just over a week left to apply for these roles! Postdoc is for 3 years with a possible extension to 5. RA is for 2 years and ideal experience for securing a PhD studentship.

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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British Association for Psychopharmacology @bapsych.bsky.social · May 29

High quality clinical and non-clinical symposia, interactive poster session, short orals, career development workshop, three guest lectures, featuring all the latest science, all crammed into three and a half days. #BAP2025 Register now

The British Association for Psychopharmacology | 2025 Summer Meeting – Manchester

The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) promotes research and education in psychopharmacology, and brings together people in academia, health services, and industry

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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · May 20

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital [email protected] sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The capacity to prevent unwanted thoughts is important for cognitive function and mental health. Anderson et al. describe insights into the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory control of thought that ...

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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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Matthias Gruber @mjgruber.bsky.social · May 2

Please repost! Our deadline is fast approaching for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity. Join a great lab with fantastic collaborators! 🙂

Matthias Gruber @mjgruber.bsky.social · Apr 11

Interested in curiosity and metacognition in childhood and adolescence? Join us at Cardiff University (UK) for a Postdoc position in an international collaboration with @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Germany) and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social (France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Apr 28

😂 appreciate your enthusiasm, Lucy, thank you!

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Apr 28

Very excited and honoured to receive this prize and looking forward to giving an award talk at the @bapsych.bsky.social Summer meeting in Manchester!

Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Apr 28

Psychology's own Dr Scott Cairney has been awarded the Senior Translational Research Award by the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) for his academic career to-date in improving understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms linking sleep to mental health.

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Fabian Schwimmbeck @fabian31415.bsky.social · Mar 23

In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social

A role for respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation

Memory consolidation is thought to rely on the interplay of sleep-related brain oscillations. Drawing on recent findings that highlight the influence of respiration on these rhythms, we outline a fram...

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Lewis Ball @lewis-ball.bsky.social · Feb 19

Very happy to share our new preprint revealing no evidence for a targeted memory reactivation (TMR) effect on word-meaning priming (1/8): osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · Feb 16

REM sleep and nightmares as transdiagnostic features of psychiatric disorders:

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Systematic review: REM sleep, dysphoric dreams and nightmares as transdiagnostic features of psychiatric disorders with emotion dysregulation - Clinical implications

Fragmented rapid eye movement (REM) sleep disrupts the overnight resolution of emotional distress, a process crucial for emotion regulation. Emotion d…

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Tobias Staudigl @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social · Jan 29

📢 New preprint from the lab:

We are very excited to report the discovery of an oscillation in the Central Thalamus using rare direct recordings of human thalamic electrophysiology.

The novel oscillation is tightly coupled to specific, natural states of consciousness.🧵

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.28.635248v1

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Jan 22

Go work with Anna!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Jan 13

Shakespeare called sleep the “balm of hurt minds.” Sleep deprivation increases susceptibility to intrusive memories of traumatic experiences by disrupting prefrontal inhibition of memory retrieval during REM, according to an MRI study. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · Jan 13

Suppressing memories promotes resilience! Terrorist attack survivors who recovered from PTSD showed normalised inhibitory control of the hippocampus during retrieval stopping before intrusive memory declines, mitigating hippocampal atrophy. #memory #PTSD #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plasticity of human resilience mechanisms

PTSD remission is linked to improved fronto-hippocampal inhibitory mechanisms during memory control.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jan 9

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
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A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

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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

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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
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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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SLEEP and SLEEP Advances @sleepjournals.bsky.social · Jan 4

Dr. Alkalame and colleagues examined the association between REM sleep prior to analog trauma and intrusive memories. Findings suggest REM sleep may serve to protect individuals against experiencing intrusive memories.

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The relationship between REM sleep prior to analog trauma and intrusive memories

Abstract. Intrusive memories are a common experience following trauma exposure but can develop into a symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Rece

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Jan 2

Late post due to Christmas vacation, but more great work from @emmacsullivan.bsky.social showing that good quality sleep and adaptive emotion regulation strategies independently reduce the persistence of negative affect doi.org/10.1080/0269...

Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality*

Emotional inertia (i.e. the tendency for emotions to persist over time) is robustly associated with lower wellbeing. Yet, we know little about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Good qual...

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Jan 2

Out now in @pnas.org "Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain | PNAS

Sleep disturbances are associated with intrusive memories, but the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning this relationship are poorly understood. ...

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