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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 20h

CDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.”

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CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet”

Grace Lindsay’s new YouTube series turns climate-AI research into five-minute videos for a wide audience.

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Caro Hautekiet @carohautekiet.bsky.social · 1d

The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social · 2d

The human-neuroscience N2pc marker of covert and internal attention co-occurs with spatial biases in microsaccades, 200-300 ms after prompted to shift attention. (How) are these empirical phenomena related? Check it out in the latest work led by @baiweiliu.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not directly cause the EEG N2pc marker of spatial attention

Researchers often study human attention using microsaccades and the N2pc EEG marker, but it is unclear to what extent microsaccades contribute to N2pc. This study shows that microsaccades modulate N2p...

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Sebastiaan Mathôt @sebastiaanmathot.bsky.social · 7d

I set out to write the book that I would want to read. The result is Een Wereld vol Denkers (A World of Thinkers) Here’s how and why the book came to be! 🤩✍️ cogsci.nl/blog/my-expe... #booksky #popularscience #psychology #ai #eenwereldvoldenkers @theodanes.bsky.social @uitgeverijbalans.bsky.social

My experiences writing and publishing popular science // Cogsci

cogsci.nl

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Thomas Christophel (He/Him) @tbchristophel.bsky.social · 22d

The IfaDo sessions have become really a community staple and I am very glad to be able to chip in.

Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 22d

On the 23rd of September we will welcome @tbchristophel.bsky.social for our IfADo colloquium at 16:00 (CET). The event is hybrid and open online. You can reach me out for Zoom invitation, or use the following link to sign up for both the link and our email list.
www.ifado.de/en/press/eve...

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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 22d

On the 23rd of September we will welcome @tbchristophel.bsky.social for our IfADo colloquium at 16:00 (CET). The event is hybrid and open online. You can reach me out for Zoom invitation, or use the following link to sign up for both the link and our email list.
www.ifado.de/en/press/eve...

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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 22d

On the 23rd of September we will welcome @tbchristophel.bsky.social for our IfADo colloquium at 16:00 (CET). The event is hybrid and open online. You can reach me out for Zoom invitation, or use the following link to sign up for both the link and our email list.
www.ifado.de/en/press/eve...

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Laura-Isabelle Klatt @lauraklatt.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 This is TODAY!

📍Auditorium

⏰ 13:45

#ICON2025 #CogNeuro #AcademicSky #MetaScience

Laura-Isabelle Klatt @lauraklatt.bsky.social · 23d

This is the line-up 👇We‘ll cover recent result from #EEGManyLabs & #EEGManyPipelines as well as ongoing projects from @scone-neuro.bsky.social and @igor-dgps.bsky.social ! Join us tomorrow at #ICON2025 - 13:45 in room Boavista!

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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 24d

1/4 I’m really excited to share that my first PhD manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience 🎉! Until it becomes available, don’t forget to check out our updated preprint (with some additional insights) #JNeurosci

Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · Mar 7

Preprint Alert!!

In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task.

Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motor control processes moderate visual working memory gating

Gating processes that regulate sensory input into visual working memory (WM) and the execution of planned actions share neural mechanisms, suggesting a mutual interaction. In a preregistered study (OS...

www.biorxiv.org

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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 24d

4/4 Thanks to our reviewers, the accepted manuscript now includes a more comprehensive discussion and additional insights.

This has been a very exciting journey, and I’m truly grateful for the support of my PI, Daniel Schneider, and our collaborator, @erengunseli.bsky.social, on this project!

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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 24d

3/4 Our new analyses reveal that this facilitates a bias in WM toward interference (rather than a swap of the target with the interference). And when this happens, we observe a control mechanism at work, evident in frontal theta activity, that mitigates further disruption of WM from this process.

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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 24d

2/4 Our main results provide novel evidence for selective WM gating that depends on motor control. We show that when the main task and the interfering task share motor components, visual WM interacts more strongly with distracting perceptual information.

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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 24d

1/4 I’m really excited to share that my first PhD manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience 🎉! Until it becomes available, don’t forget to check out our updated preprint (with some additional insights) #JNeurosci

Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · Mar 7

Preprint Alert!!

In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task.

Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motor control processes moderate visual working memory gating

Gating processes that regulate sensory input into visual working memory (WM) and the execution of planned actions share neural mechanisms, suggesting a mutual interaction. In a preregistered study (OS...

www.biorxiv.org

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 26d

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study

Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project

... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration

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Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study

This study aims to compare the neural representational geometry of visual perception and visual working memory using human fMRI. In our pilot experiment, observers viewed a face-scene blended image (s...

www.biorxiv.org

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Melinda Sabo @sabomelinda.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to share that the last paper of my PhD is out in Communications Psychology! This project has been a long journey, with the tremendous challenge of collecting EEG data from 86 participants. That’s why it feels soo rewarding to see it published. Grateful for every step along the way! 1/n

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Aug 27

Attentional prioritization and testing in working memory not only effect immediate memory recall but can also enhance long-term memory and its underlying neural representation.
@sabomelinda.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Processing in working memory boosts long-term memory representations and their retrieval - Communications Psychology

Attentional prioritization and testing in working memory not only effect immediate memory recall but can also enhance long-term memory and its underlying neural representation.

www.nature.com

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Olaf Dimigen @olaf.dimigen.de · Aug 22

🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher:
👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) with a consumer monitor: A proof-of-concept

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) enables neural frequency tagging at rates above the flicker fusion threshold, eliciting steady-state responses to flicker that is almost imperceptible. While R...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 22

Attending #ECVP next week? Please seek me out if you're potentially interested in a postdoc:
Thursday – 08-28-2025 - 08:30 am
Out of sight, but not out of mind: How the human brain represents images that are not directly seen
Chair, Rosanne Rademaker

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MarleneRoesner.bsky.social @marleneroesner.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hi everyone, I have recently joint the @uni-magdeburg.de and the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology #teamLIN.

The LIN is hosting the XV #learning & #memory Conference (28.09-02.10). Looking at #memory &
😴 sleep
🧠 #hippocampus
👂 auditory #learning
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Information & Registration: lnkd.in/d-Q6J8JV

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Caro Hautekiet @carohautekiet.bsky.social · Aug 12

New preprint alert! 🤩 Together with Klaus Oberauer, I wrote a review article on how focused attention in #workingmemory affects long-term memory formation. osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

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Lea Bartsch @leabartsch.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Applications are invited for a
Postdoctoral Position (80%)
at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal
start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for
initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years.
The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus
Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course
per semester).
Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular
working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental,
individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see:
https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html
We offer:
- An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team
- Excellent lab infrastructure
- Salary according to Cantonal regulations
We expect:
- a PhD in psychology or a related discipline
- experience with experimental research
- excellent method knowledge and skills
- very good command of English
- interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology
In addition, it would be desirable if you had:
- experience with publishing in international journals
- programming skills
- experience with mathematical / computational modeling
Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter
no later than September 10, 2025
electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch
For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · Jul 29

Now out in JEP:G! We (@fridaprintzlau.bsky.social & @keisukefukuda.bsky.social ) resolve inconsistent attentional protection in WM by addressing discrepancies in cueing. Upshot: Attention changes how perception biases memory, but *not* how memory biases perception!

doi.org/10.1037/xge0...

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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨PhD student position in #cognitive_psychology and #neuroscience, on a project directed by André Knops and in collaboration with the Dugué Lab!

@upcite.bsky.social | @cnrs.fr

Funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social (Agence nationale de la recherche)

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Université Paris Cité hiring Doctoral Student in Paris, Île-de-France, France | LinkedIn

Posted 1:38:05 PM. PhD Student Position at University Paris CitéIn the context of a collaborative project involving…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Irene Echeverria-Altuna @irenetxeberria.bsky.social · Jul 15

Looking for a summer read? Look no further! ☀️

Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩

Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠

Sensory and motor contents are prioritized dynamically in working memory

Attention flexibly modulates sensory contents in working memory, but the dynamics of motor content modulation in working memory remain unclear. This study shows that brain representations of both sens...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Jul 13

Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform

Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

www.theguardian.com

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