Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One month left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab at UBC! Funding is available for up to five years #DevBio #cellbio

So cool to see all the wonderful research being conducted at NOWCAM this year! Incredibly grateful for receiving the Stephen Lindsay Award for Best Presentation. The work on display was phenomenal! To be recognized amongst such excellence is truly humbling. Looking forward to next year!

Presented my most recent work on intraindividual variability in daily cognition at this year's NOWCAM at UBC (nowcam.org). Such a pleasure to present alongside my peers and make new connections with local researchers!

Erika Yamazaki and I wrote about something we don’t even have (probably) — sleep apnea theconversation.com/sleep-apnea-...

Congratulations to @kiransoma.bsky.social, @minseonjung.bsky.social and Désirée Seib on receiving the Journal of Endocrinology's 2025 Best Paper Award! Learn more about the paper's findings: www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/how-doe...

👋 Happy to see this paper published in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2529176123 Asking: is curiosity a homeostatic drive, or a policy learned through reinforcement? How can we tell, and why does it matter? 🧵👇 With Jane Mok, @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social, Caroline Marvin, and Daphna Shohamy 🙏

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

Glad that this paper is finally out!

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit. You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

1 more week to register for NOWCAM. visit. nowcam.org for details.

it’s raining hard in Vancouver so the season of pink snow begins.

1 more week to register for NOWCAM. visit. nowcam.org for details.

Congrats Dr. Alaifan! psych.ubc.ca/news/2026-be...

Meet Peter King, a UBC Psychology Honours student who discovered his passion for research through the Psychology Inclusive Excellence Student Fund's (PIE) Early Research Award. This UBC Giving Day (April 8), help create more stories like Peter's 💙. Read Peter's story: psych.ubc.ca/news/pie-fun...

A huge milestone for the NANo Lab @sfu.ca - our first pre-print is now out in the wild! 🥳 Driven by rising star Sean Kriwokon, we find that changes in energetically-expensive brain signaling in folks with AD may be due to energetic limitations imposed by mitochondrial dysfunction 📃🔗👇

In my >25 years as a researcher, this is one of my favorite and most personally meaningful studies to come out of my lab: 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚: 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/4 #AcademicSky #EduSky #AI #HigherEd #SciComm

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

How does the brain build a memory? A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram. In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really neat work by Fountas and colleagues at UCL: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04688 They propose that consolidation reflects a form of "predictive forgetting" that aids generalization.

Ex-labbies' labs mingle #CNS2026! @danipalombo.bsky.social @signysheldon.bsky.social @pstjacques.bsky.social

Kicking off the symposium on how emotion shapes our memory @danipalombo.bsky.social and her PhD student Chantelle Cocquyt by asking: does a reminder cue affect how you recall an emotional event differently if it comes before vs after it? Turns out this research reveals order matters! #CNS2026

My first ISRW. Great meeting! CC: UBC grads @omransafi.com @brandonforys.com

Time isn’t just a clock on the wall — it’s how you remember it! Come see me at poster session B (B67) on Sunday morning if you’re interested in how segmenting in space affects how we remember time! Here’s sneak peek of the novel VR paradigm we used. #CNS2026 youtube.com/shorts/2y6Jp...

As an early celebration of 2026 #BrainAwarenessWeek, @neuroethicsubc.bsky.social will be hosting its Annual Distinguished Neuroethics Lecture on March 10, featuring Dr. Oliver Rollins from MIT. Learn more and register: neuroethics.med.ubc.ca/baw2026/

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. @zachtpennington.bsky.social and Dr. @milanium.bsky.social as Assistant Professors in our Behavioural Neuroscience area and members of the @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social. Read their Q&As: psych.ubc.ca/news

What episodic memory reveals about the default mode network osf.io/preprints/ps...

Congratulations! Nice to see the first paper from the BreDAD Collaboratory’s Special Issue of @neurobiology-aging.bsky.social out! 🎊

I was recently promoted to Associate Professor. I’m so grateful and I also wanted to tell the truth behind what people call “effortless” success. I wrote about infertility, fostering, work as coping, and choosing differently in this next chapter Full story: destenienock5.wixsite.com/destenienock...

We were told (by some) not to tell anyone in academia about family planning, pregnancy, or juggling kids w/ work. Or else say bye to your career. Thankfully, this was not my experience with my supervisors (or hiring committees), though I did witness it elsewhere. Let's keep pushing change!

On #IDWGS, we honour Dr. Kirsty Duncan, a scientist, leader, and lifelong advocate for fairness and representation in research. Her work helped create lasting change in Canadian science, opening doors for women and underrepresented scholars. Her impact continues.

RSVP here: quinn.psych.ubc.ca/quinn-memori...

2–3 cups of coffee or 1–2 cups of tea a day was associated with the greatest reductions in rate of cognitive decline. Coffee linked to slower brain ageing in study of 130,000 people www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Valentine's Day is coming up😍 Do you have a funny neuroscience-themed pickup line? Share it below! A selection of responses may be featured as illustrations on our Instagram. Bonus points for creativity!

An amazing effort, led by a dream team of scientists, including the late Ricardo Insausti. Congrats to Ana Daugherty and everyone involved. (Was honoured to play a very small role.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Knowing that there are people actively working toward a better and more peaceful world gives me hope. This Friday, you can hear from some folks who have been carefully thinking about ways in which behavioral and neural sciences can contribute to peace building. www.neuropaz.com/en

Why do some experiences stay with us for years, while others disappear almost instantly? Dr. Davachi will explore this question and more in her talk on 'The wisdom of the unconscious mind: offline reactivation consolidates, integrates and updates knowledge.'

We’re proud to support a National Framework for Women’s Health through Bill S-243 by partnering with @whcwomenshealth.bsky.social, organizations across Canada and Senator Henkel. The time for change is now 💪 Learn more and take action: thewhc.ca/whframework womenshealthresearchcluster.com/advocacy

So fun to be a part of this.

Infantile #amnesia limits our recall of early-life memories, but what is its cellular basis? @tjryan.bsky.social &co reveal that transient #microglial activity during postnatal development regulates infant #memory persistence & retrieval in mice @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4a0SoGH

This amazing woman worked so hard for science and sport in Canada. She set up the Standing Committee on Science and Research, was a powerful voice for science in parliament and after being diagnosed with two cancers continued to advocate for good. Proud to have known the Rt Hon Kirsty Duncan. RIP 💔

Minister Duncan was an inspiration for so many of us, and often a lone voice in Parliament advocating for the need for supporting science in Canada! May her memory be a blessing!

I was maybe 2.5 years into my position as an Assistant Professor when my phone rang, and it was Kirsty Duncan, the new federal science minister, calling out of the blue. I had never met her. She asked me what she could do for early career investigators. /1

Sad news. She was very much a solo voice in cabinet for science. Even agter she was bumped, she continued to be a voice for the scientific community. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One of my amazing students, Khushi Sharma, has started this gofundme page for her best friend's family. Saadia, a single mother, has stage 4 cancer and her family needs help to manage expenses. Funds will give this family more precious time together. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Very pleased to see our review published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience today! Here’s the link: trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...

Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter. How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.

If you're joining @cnsmtg.bsky.social in Vancouver, consider coming one day early and joining the International Sleep Replay Workshop. Even if you're only remotely interested in sleep, you're likely to find this event interesting. Check out the program and share with your friends and colleagues!