Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories

Members of the Penn community: please sign this actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...

I defended my dissertation! 🥹 I am incredibly grateful to Phil Gehrman, @annaschapiro.bsky.social, and Martha Farah for their mentorship over these six wonderful, whirlwind years! There are not enough !!!s in the world to convey my gratitude for all of the many others who supported me along the way!

The first chapter of my dissertation is officially published! 🎆🌺💤 We found that folks with depression show similar impairments in cognitive functioning after total sleep deprivation as non-depressed folks (and bounce back similarly after recovery sleep): 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

Incredibly excited and grateful to share that I’ll be starting a lab at The Ohio State University this(!) fall! My lab will study human learning and memory, with related interests in sleep, stress, and time perception. More info soon, but do get in touch if you’re interested in joining!

Me editing a draft of a "methods" section that I myself wrote

New preprint! How do we integrate new information into prior knowledge? We find that existing knowledge enables rapid new learning but that interleaved replay during sleep promotes integration of new and old information. Modeling suggests a sleep context suppression mechanism. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I'm in Seattle at #SLEEP2025! Come see me at poster 52 on Tuesday 6/10 at 11am! It's called "No Added Benefit of Targeted Memory Reactivation During Naps on Negative Memory Rescripting" because that is what we found!

pedestrianize the Italian Market! it's one of the biggest no-brainers out there—who wants to drive up 9th Street anyway?! www.inquirer.com/food/angelos...

I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.

In Veterans Affairs facilities across the U.S., therapy and other mental health services have been thrown into turmoil amid the dramatic changes ordered by President Trump and pushed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Don't mess with our clocks!

We had a great crew this morning working on signs before they headed out to @standupforscience.bsky.social in Philly! STEM-related activities account for 40% of the US GDP and are a main economic driver for Philadelphia. Science makes America great.

Let’s goooo

Are there any lists of which labs are hiring postbacs this year? With the IRTA program down, there are many more undergrads looking for positions! 🧪 🧠 #science #neuroscience #psychology

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Hi! I'm a political scientist who studies what makes advocacy effective (sent here by my psychologist spouse @tierneylorenz.bsky.social ). A phone call with the staffer dealing with the issue > letter you compose on your own >>>>> a form letter. Key: be unique + courteous + make effort.

Why do we suffer from more intrusive thoughts when we're sleep deprived? Find out in this SciAm article on our latest work by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, featuring @zarabergstrom.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...

"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!! Check out the ToC! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

We are extremely excited to announce Anna Schapiro from the University of Pennsylvania as the first keynote speaker of CCN2025! Join us next August for the 8th CCN conference, on cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI. Details on paper submissions (both short & full) below!

New paper out! Memory for object features is warped according to their role in a category, w/ features shared across category-mates misremembered as more similar. We explored the phenomenon in our NN model of the hipp. w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social & @codydong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi...

Are you #QueerinSTEM in the fields of #neuroscience or #psychology? Please fill out our survey if you haven't already. We're close to 300 responders, but I know we can get an even better (and hopefully diverse) sample! Also, please share and/or tag others (but don't out anyone). #PrideInSTEM

"continuing to do and teach science vociferously in the face of political attacks is doubly necessary now" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Do dreams serve a biological function? If so, why do we forget most of them? Here we propose a solution for this apparent paradox: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

How is it possible that AI can do so many things for me on my computer but every time I try to put a figure into a Word document it acts like I'm asking it to format my paper in 4D

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

I am also very amused by this

Is it really social media if this hasn't circulated yet

Me: "I have two cats but I'm not really a cat person" Also me when the cats fell in love with a cardboard box:

Dream Science 2.0 — AKA New Strategies for the Cognitive Science of Dreaming - Online ahead of print in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2024 doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.004. by Remington Mallett, Karen R Konkoly, Tore Nielsen, Michelle Carr, and Ken A Paller

go.bsky.app/SsNPcGP Here is the Starter pack!!! We have over 100 spots available (and if we hit the limit of 150, I'll make a part two). PLEASE share, ask to be added, and let me know if you'd like to see anyone added.

once again reminder to go support your local libraries and your local libraries

Excited to use my 1st-ever tweet to share my 1st-ever 1st-author paper! We did a meta-analysis and found that sleep protects against intrusive memories after analogue trauma exposure. Huge thanks to co-authors Phil Gehrman (@sleepmh) and @AnnaSchapiro: