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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 4d

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

Home Page - Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

The Georgetown Difference We are invested in providing a transformative experience through holistic training, accessible resources, and personalized career strategies to help you reach your aspiration...

neuroscience.georgetown.edu

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Sleep Science Podcast @sleepsciencepod.bsky.social · 4d

*PhD positions available**Deadline - 10th November**

The NaPS lab are recruiting 2 Research Assistant roles to undertake a PhD developing novel treatments for depression and PTSD through the manipulation of memory in sleep - apply here:

#sciencejobs #phd

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY753/r...

Research Assistant (2 posts) at Cardiff University

Discover Research Assistant (2 posts) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 6d

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 6d

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

How to get PhD funding in the UK

It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...

aidanhorner.blogspot.com

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 10d

I won't be in SD until Saturday, but you should all attend this fantastic event.

Middle Eastern Neuroscience @middleeasternneuro.bsky.social · 10d

Going to SfN? Join us for the first Middle-Eastern Systems Neuroscience meeting the day before SfN! We’ve got great speakers, all with Middle-Eastern origins! But also an exclusive chance to network with leading Neuroscientists!
Visit our website for more information:
www.middleeastneuro.com

Middle Eastern Systems Neuroscience Symposium

Join the Middle Eastern Systems Neuroscience Symposium on November 14, 2025, at UCSD Faculty Club, San Diego, in conjunction with the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting. This event fosters scienti...

www.middleeastneuro.com

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 10d

Welcome to UCI!

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 11d

Just checked the schedule today and I have schedule conflicts for almost all. 😔
I did sign up though, hoping that they'd send a recording.

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 11d

Was the webinar recorded? Would love to watch it if it is.

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Sleep Science Podcast @sleepsciencepod.bsky.social · 12d

Our new episode is out now!

We're joined by Professor Xioaqing Hu from The University of Hong Kong to discuss his work using Targeted Memory Reactivation to alter negative bias and update disturbing memories.

www.buzzsprout.com/787211/episo...

S3E7 - Can sleep help us unlearn negative bias and update disturbing memories?- Xiaoqing Hu - Sleep Science Podcast

Can sleep help us unlearn biases and make our memories more positive?Implicit biases are unconscious stereotypes that influence our judgments and decisions - like assuming a particular gender for a sp...

www.buzzsprout.com

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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 12d

New paper from the lab led by Ali Golbabaei. If you’re interested in systems consolidation, generalization and hippocampal neurogenesis a short 🧵 follows:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsO73QW8S...

authors.elsevier.com

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Alexa Tompary @alexatompary.bsky.social · 17d

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Careers at Drexel - Human Resources

careers.drexel.edu

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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 26d

How does spontaneous memory reinstatement at rest relate to episodic memory during development? And how do early experiences influence neural mechanisms of episodic memory encoding and reinstatement? New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spontaneous reinstatement of episodic memories in the developing human brain

The hippocampus supports episodic memories in development, and yet how the brain stabilizes these memories determines their long-term accessibility. This study examined how episodic memories formed in...

www.biorxiv.org

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · Sep 11

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Yuval Nir @labnir.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨(1/6)

Excited to share our work, out now in Science Advances

We show that a rapid norepinephrine surge along a brainstem pathway (LC→PRN) is a key driver of sound-evoked awakenings
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An early surge of norepinephrine along brainstem pathways drives sensory-evoked awakening

The locus coeruleus has a specialized pathway to the brainstem that controls sound-evoked awakening from sleep.

www.science.org

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Sep 6

Kudos to the Philly Inquirer for actually centering the voices of trans youth and their families.

"It's not about protecting the kids. It's about taking away the rights of people who you don't want to exist."

share.inquirer.com/TE1hNg

Transgender kids’ lives are on the line as CHOP fights Trump over patient medical records, parents say

Trump’s justice department wants CHOP to hand over medical records for transgender children receiving gender-affirming care. Many parents support CHOP’s fight to protect their private information.

share.inquirer.com

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · Sep 2

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?

Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall.

Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Repeated Viewing of a Narrative Movie Changes Event Timescales in The Brain

Many experiences occur repeatedly throughout our lives: we might watch the same movie more than once and listen to the same song on repeat. How does the brain modify its representations of events when...

www.biorxiv.org

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · Sep 2

Online Now: Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations

Memory editing during sleep: mechanisms, clinical applications, and technological innovations

Sleep is not merely a passive state: it actively consolidates memories via reactivation of recent experiences. Beyond preserving precious memories, sleep provides a critical, yet underappreciated window for editing aversive memories. We propose an integrative framework for sleep-based memory editing, outlining three key strategies: extinction via reactivation of original memories, interference reactivation via strengthening of wakeful interfering memories, and interference induction via the introduction of new stimuli during sleep reactivation. These strategies leverage sleep’s neural processing to weaken aversive memories. Moreover, emerging evidence suggests that sleep-based memory editing can aid the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Technological innovations, including closed-loop neuromodulation, wearable devices, and neural decoding, allow more accurate and accessible interventions. These developments position sleep for adaptive memory editing, ultimately safeguarding mental health.

dlvr.it

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 29

For >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops (ISRW) have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @cogneuronews.bsky.social). Follow the link for details and to join the mailing list.
isrw.bio.uci.edu

Pls repost! #sleep

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john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · Aug 28

Now here’s the really cool part: theory predicts medial temporal lobe (MTL) first stores memories, but cortex is the final storage site. Our models show this after one night of sleep! MTL models decode presleep, while frontal cortex (FC) decodes postsleep, but not vice versa. 5/6

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 29

Interesting! I would have guessed the opposite, if for no other reason than that cue-locked activation would be better timed and therefore more detectible.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yes, this is very important! Intentionally rehearsing information, recalling it based on a cue, spontaneously thinking about it, and non-consciously reactivating it are all VERY different things. (I would argue that memory reactivation during sleep sometimes can be conscious too though 🙂).

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 28

New opinion piece!

@amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

authors.elsevier.com

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow! Congrats!

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our lab is starting a new study on dreaming
🚨GREAT NEWS!🚨: YOU may be eligible to participate!

If interested, follow this link to a screening survey: furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#SleepPeeps #psychscisky #cogsci 🧠🟦

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Aug 26

thinking about the time someone tried to impersonate our Department Chair on July 4th

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Aug 24

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Martyna Rakowska, Penelope A. Lewis, et al:

Distributed and gradual microstructure changes are associated with the emergence of behavioural benefit from memory reactivation

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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