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Chanel Meyers @chanelkmeyers.bsky.social · 8d

Last Friday, Curtis Phills and I ran our first conference! Introducing CODES. The Consortium of Oregon Diversity and Equity Scholars! We were excited to bring together folks across Oregon who do diversity science work. We need community more than ever. Hope we can continue this in future years...

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Aug 24

Standing on the shoulders of a giant?

Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Aug 21

Gross!!!!! Beer ice cream. These are for kids!

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Aug 21

Should I make cherries do back flips into a Sundae?

Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Aug 21

I promised my nieces we would make moonbeam ice cream when I came to visit. Hivemind, what should that mean. I am currently thinking ice cream, mini marshmallows, and silver sprinkles.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Aug 8

The great thing about AOL instant messenger was that you knew when your friends were free to chat. I wish my cell phone contacts had that.

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 5

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

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March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...

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Jeff Zacks @jzacks.bsky.social · Jul 25

New review paper with Maverick Smith on improving memory for stuff people actually want to remember:
doi.org/10.1177/0963...

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 24

Jen saw 15 seconds of it through a window!

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 24

If you bike home crying, you are ready for full professor!

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 24

Tenure Pro-Tip: If you are ever worried about your ego inflating, take a U-Jam dance class at the YMCA that has far too many windows.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hahahaha! See there is always room for human innovation.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 16

My favorite slam: Next you'll tell me value affects recall! Wait... oh, you did. 10/10 for repackaging common sense with fMRI and calling it Cognition.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 16

Umm my non-science friend wanted to roast me, and fed my papers into chat GPT. I would have guessed that deeply hurtful comments would have to come from people that know me well, but ouch.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 13

Gurrrrrrl….

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 11

Tenure pro tip: Playing Mars, Bringer of War during an automatic car wash really elevates the experience.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 10

Good news! My lab isn’t a failure 🤷🏾 . Jkjkjk they are the best!

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 5

Either way, I see all of you doing the work, and sincerely appreciate that those efforts come at a cost! Happy 4th of July I guess 🤷🏾.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 5

Resistance is hard. It is likely better for my mental health to dissociate from the constant threats to my identity as a researcher and queer man. But dissociating also undermines my authenticity as a person. Maybe the solution is continued resistance but fostering joy and silliness along the way.

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Jul 2

When an eyewitness shares a memory, what might make a jury perceive it as accurate? 👩🏽⚖️ A recent #psynomPBR paper by Martinez et al. suggests that certain communication styles shape how accurate a memory seems, regardless of its actual accuracy. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/S4SeOyo

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jul 4

Not all voting has to be bad and malicious (Re: big stupid bill). Psychonomic Society voted two of my favorite researchers for mid-career awards! Congrats Jason Chein and Shayna Rosenbaum!!! @mindimager.bsky.social

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jun 27

Advice for junior colleagues: If you are feeling old bike to graduation in regalia and everyone will tell you congratulations and you can pretend you are 28 getting your PhD.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jun 16

I get so worried someone will log in and do all my reviews for me so I have time for my own work.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · Jun 16

Where were the minions on January 6th? That’s what I want to know.

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Deepu Murty @vpmurty.bsky.social · May 24

Advice for junior colleagues: If you get a large matcha smoothie you can use it’s a microphone to sing Break Free by Ariana Grande. I didn’t learn this til post tenure.

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