📢 Please repost! 🧠 PhD opportunity in my lab: a fully funded project on the cognitive neuroscience of curiosity-based learning across the lifespan at @cubriccardiff.bsky.social (CUBRIC). 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhDOpportunity #Curiosity #CuriosityResearch #CognitiveNeuroscience

Last week, we had three amazing days full of discussions and wondering what curiosity actually means. Thank you to @modirshanechi.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, and Lisa Beinborn for being there with us, it was a pleasure. Special thanks to Azzurra Ruggeri for her great talk!

PhD student Nina Curko and I wrote a short article about the superpowers of memory! Now published in Frontiers for Young Minds: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Me too! 😊 Excited to see what we find -- thanks so much to @marinabazhydai.bsky.social, @pci-regreports.bsky.social, and the reviewers for their thoughtful handing of the process.

🎉 Congratulations to @edonoghue.bsky.social for leading this in-principle accepted Registered Report with Peer Community In: osf.io/dwy6c. We're now gearing up for major data collection. 📣 Cardiff families with curious 10–14 year olds: get in touch at [email protected] to sign up!

Thank you so much to @drjocutler.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and to @chbh.bsky.social and @uob-sop.bsky.social for the warm welcome. I really enjoyed sharing ideas and connecting over our shared research interests!

Is curiosity the key to ageing well? Big thanks to Madeleine Finlay for the thoughtful conversation and for giving Mary Whatley and me the opportunity to share insights from our latest research on The Guardian Science Weekly podcast. 🎧 Listen here: www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Following social isolation, adolescents show increased sensitivity to rewards during effort-based decision making and reward learning. @livia-tomova.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @emilyanntowner.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social @lei-zhang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Deadline is tomorrow so get your applications in people! #neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Please repost! We're looking for a PhD student to join us on a project exploring how ADHD is linked to greater curiosity. The PhD student will be based across Cardiff University and the University of Bath working with @ggoclowska.bsky.social , Kate Langley, and me as part of a collaborative team.

So happy to see this work out! 🥳 Huge thanks to our two amazing reviewers who pushed us to make the paper much stronger. A truly joyful collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, @sobeckerneuro.bsky.social, and Johanni Brea! 🥰 Tweeprint on an earlier version: bsky.app/profile/modi... 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that! Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Thank you so much, Lynn @choosetobecurious.bsky.social, for having me on the podcast! In our conversation, I reflect on my research journey into curiosity, share insights from our current developmental and educational projects, and even tap into my poetic side. Choose To Be Curious with us! 😊

Thrilled to see our new paper highlighted in this week’s issue of #JNeurosci: we showed that metabolites linked to neuropil contraction are related to gray changes in the PFC across childhood and adolescence #devpsyc #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Is curiosity good for us, or should we learn a lesson from what curiosity did to the cat? A fascinating discussion on the psychology of curiosity, contributed to by Cardiff University’s very own @mjgruber.bsky.social ! Find it here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

For all who didn't make it to the Cheltenham Science Festival this year, here is the recent BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind episode on the Psychology of Curiosity. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Very much looking forward to today's BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind event about the Psychology of Curiosity at the Cheltenham Science Festival, together with astronaut Tim Peake. This will be fun! www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/all-i...

Thank you so much for the invitation to speak and for all the insightful questions at the Motivated Cognition Meeting this week!

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My Sir Henry Dale Fellowship funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social & @royalsociety.org ended last week — an incredible 6-year journey. Huge thanks to the brilliant PhD students & Postdocs in the lab — your ideas, persistence & curiosity drove it all. Thanks also to funders, collaborators & mentors!

The call for MSCA postdoc fellowships is out and the deadline is 10th September. More generally, people should apply! More specifically, if you'd like to come work in York with me I'm happy to support applications from awesome people 🙂

1/2 Just like social groups, human memory is organized in interconnected patterns. Activating one memory can trigger related ones, similar to how information spreads through a community. Could social sharing shape how memories are formed? #PsychSciSky

Final repost: Our deadline is tomorrow for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity as part of an international collabration!

Please share; My lab at @psychologyuea.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is recruiting a post-doc for a cognitive neuroscience memory project. It is a 3-year post, with a proposed start date of 8th September. Application deadline is 15th of June. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

Please repost! Our deadline is fast approaching for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity. Join a great lab with fantastic collaborators! 🙂

Grateful to @yanafandakova.bsky.social for the wonderful days at the University of Trier, advancing our joint projects. Thanks to all students and staff who attended and asked great questions at my talk. Especially honoured to give the commencement speech at the Psychology Graduation in Trier.

We are starting a new major research project investigating the joint development of curiosity and metacognition in adolescents, where the Flowers lab will collaborate with @mjgruber.bsky.social 's lab at Univ. Cardiff, and Yana Fandakova at Univ. Trier !!! Open postdocs positions, see below 👇

Interested in curiosity and metacognition in childhood and adolescence? Join us at Cardiff University (UK) for a Postdoc position in an international collaboration with @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Germany) and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social (France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

How do changes in memory and experience across the lifespan shape our judgments and decisions? Together with @yeeleeshing.bsky.social @yanafandakova.bsky.social we have edited a special issue on the theme, check it out here: tinyurl.com/EPSpecial @dr-julia-nolte.bsky.social @loeckenhoff.bsky.social

ICYMI: Here is a great summary of our @commspsychol.bsky.social paper examining the link between curiosity, spatial exploration, and memory via virtual environments. with @cjhodgetts.bsky.social @danlucen.bsky.social www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29... Paper link 👉🏻: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!

We’re recruiting for 5 faculty positions in cognitive neuroscience, psychology & animal neuroscience! Exciting science going on @UofG, Glasgow is an amazing and green city with the friendliest people, and you’ll have the stunning highlands on your doorstep! tinyurl.com/mbn6yf56 Please repost!

Interested in dopamine? Have fMRI data? We’ve identified a temporal BOLD feature that carries rich information about dopamine physiology. This measure, obtainable from resting-state and task fMRI, opens new ways to indirectly probe dopamine’s role in cognition and disease. 1/n tinyurl.com/bddyz67b

Registration is now open for Replay@CUBRIC-25. Check out our preliminary programme here: www.sleepengineering.co.uk/event-detail...

Will you be the Cognitive Neuroscience meeting in Boston on March 29 from 12-1pm? If so, see @paulacroxson.bsky.social @ayannakim.bsky.social & I for a FREE science communication workshop. Learn about explaining the mind for a broad audience. Afterward, I'll be signing copies of "Why We Remember"!

Now that it's preregistered, super excited to get started on this project! Using a yoked design, @danlucen.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social and I will ask whether the benefits of curiosity are direct, or dependent on the ability to actively engage in curiosity-guided exploration.

Dear neuroimagers, here is the Welsh Advanced Neuroimaging Database (WAND) - a new 170-participant multi-modal neuroimaging dataset from the team at CUBRIC. McNabb et al. (2025) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We've been able to collect data from hundreds of LGBTQIA+s in neuro/psych, but the vast majority of them are in the US. We're hoping to get a more diverse sample. If you are in academia outside of the US, please share this and consider sending it to colleagues who may be interested.

Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to @braintumourrsch.bsky.social 20% discount from Routledge in January. routledge.com/Memory-and-t...

🚨 New fMRI preprint from our lab 🚨 "Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity" Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

"The relationships between curiosity and wellbeing: a systematic review" Alisa Priemysheva thoroughly reviewed the literature to synthesise our current knowledge of how different types of curiosity might affect wellbeing. osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 New funded PhD position at UCL 🚨 Funding is provided for a PhD student in our new centre to help work with Fiona Zisch & Sean Hanna to apply agent-based-modelling to analyse the crazy data set from 100+ people navigating a giant maze in PEARL. See details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...

Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms @cjhodgetts.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, @danlucen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans." We are excited to share this novel paradigm and findings on curiosity-based exploration. This project was led tirelessly by @danlucen.bsky.social in collaboration with @cjhodgetts.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Still looking for a book to read over the holidays? "Memory and the Brain: Using, Losing, and Improving." A new popular science book on memory written by the great John Aggleton! I just ordered my copy and can't wait to start reading. www.routledge.com/Memory-and-t...

Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Proud of my first contribution to memory research: “Brain and eye movement dynamics track the transition from learning to memory-guided action” out in @currentbiology.bsky.social, great team effort together with Janina Klingspohr, Marcel Kehl & Bernhard Staresina. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Thank you so much to @sabinehunnius.bsky.social for inviting me to speak and share our findings and future research ideas on curiosity-based learning in development.