Today, I went on CNN to inform people of the ways ICE is tormenting our communities with unwarranted violence and I will not let it stand. Watch the full interview on YouTube ➡️ youtu.be/G_g7VD5mzWs?...

Registration is now! Come one, come all

#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu @cnsnews.bsky.social

“For the first time” say these authors in 2025 — but what about glowacki et al 2022 www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1...

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Indiana (and any state) can #DitchDST in coordination with surrounding states. Tell your state legislators to file our pact bill now for this January! savestandardtime.com/legislation/...

New Speculative Article — I'm happy Andrew Budson invited me to write an article with him. We wondered what happens in our minds when we're sleeping? --> Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Announcing the return of the ISRW, this time in Vancouver!

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Thanks to Northwestern News for publishing an extended version of my @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social / @scholars.org op-ed! Grateful to have had an opportunity to speak in detail about memorable mentors @jnfrltackett.bsky.social & @cmbrandes.bsky.social 💜 news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Check out our latest preprint! BlueSky-less Gayathri Subramanian tried combining odor & sound presentation during sleep to shape memories and discovered that multisensory cuing of unassociated memories nullified the benefits of reactivation. @paller.bsky.social

Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.” doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Dream start for database that aims to improve our understanding of conscious experience in sleep Free link to the paper in Nature Communication is rdcu.be/eAwni !

After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper: “Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences” authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...

What would you like to dream about? Here's a suggestion. Our new paper, co-first-authored by PhD students Daniel Morris and Blaise Elliott, describes a way to provoke lucid dreams about revisiting a profound Virtual-Reality experience - academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

“Acquiescence to the administration’s tactics would make Northwestern complicit in an assault on institutions of higher education, which are an essential bulwark of civil society,” www.wbez.org/education/20...

Important read on how the attacks on science are going to destroy a generation of scientists and a generation of opportunities to advance science. @standupforscience.bsky.social

A very important message for people to see! Way to go @feliciatuchman.bsky.social

Interested in consciousness? The Landscape of Consciousness website has you covered. It has everything from science to not science. loc.closertotruth.com #neuroscience

Collection of websites I've seen highlighting the impact of federally funded research at various institutions First is Chicago's very own Northwestern University, which ended FY2024 with $>1 billion in research funding Northwestern University: Research Impact www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...

Mayor of Evanston

The Governor of Illinois fighting back

Thanks to @siliconrepublic.bsky.social for doing this profile! @maynoothuniversity.ie www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/r...

Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread! cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/

What is on your mind when you are about to fall asleep? Help us unravel the diverse ways humans experience this mysterious transition! Please share your unique experiences by filling up this short online questionnaire: redcap.link/DriftingMinds

Visiting the amazing IMT-Lucca today where they are hosting my seminar on Sleep and its Benefits for Cognition - livestreamed on teams: urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

More leadership from the trenches Project McClintock Graduate students writing local op-eds [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

The Trump administration froze Northwestern’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back. @nidhisubs.bsky.social and Sara Randazzo report. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... via @wsj.com

My new piece in Nature Human Behavior: "We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers" All trainees need 3 things to thrive. In the US, those things have been ripped away. Let's brainstorm and fight to get them back. (share link): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...

Friends, we are in such a time

Amazing synthesis!

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

Sharon et al., Slow wave synchrony during NREM sleep tracks cognitive impairment in prodromal Alzheimer's disease alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Dear science journalism, Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti... and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

A propos of this fine article by @talkingpointsmemo.com can we begin to assemble accounts by patient groups/orgs on here? Tag any you know in the replies please (or simply reply if you run a patient group account?) Hoping to assemble a list. Thanks! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

This passage from @joshtpm.bsky.social piece on biomedical research is spot on.

Research suggests sleep—especially slow-wave deep sleep—enhances the memory of the *sequence* of events, though not of the *detail* of the events—an effect that persists up to 15 months: buff.ly/osEZtGa via @psypost.bsky.social

Clear summary of just what got cancelled in the recent misinformation grant terminations - lots of valuable research on how to improve the information environment and ensure that people have easy access to accurate information www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Excited to announce the Madison Symposium on Memory and Control! postlab.psych.wisc.edu/msmc/: @paller.bsky.social, @karihoffman.bsky.social, Joel Voss, @charan-neuro.bsky.social , Thilo Womelsdorf, @earlkmiller.bsky.social . Best talk titles ever! (vote for your favorite here 🤗)

NIH IRTA program resumes recruitment. Good sign!

Thanks to CNS for this honor and to a great audience yesterday! @lisampmunoz.bsky.social #CNS2025 — I’ll always have fond memories of that day!

In today's @chicagotribune.com I wrote about how federal policy on diversity, as well as university surrender, is based on lies, misperceptions, and distortions all aimed at resegregating higher education. Combating these lies is a battleground: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/o...

The IIT debate-debacle (also sometimes referred to as the "Consciousness Wars") continues with this letter: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Followed by a response by several IIT proponents: www.nature.com/articles/s41... And a rejoinder(?) by Gomez-Marin & Seth: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A great postdoc opportunity at UVA in Contemplative Science!