Prospective memory researchers! The next international meeting has been announced for July 12-16, 2026. Jan Rummel will be hosting it in Heidelberg, Germany. Stay updated at: www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/konferenz/ic...

Excited to share Nat Hum Beh pub, a 5 year effort w/Jared Benge. Does digital tech use worsen risk for dementia? No. In the "digital pioneer generation," tech use reduced risk of cognitive decline (OR=0.42;k=57;N>400k). The findings support the tech reserve hypothesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lesson 3 from COVID-19: Teenagers need to sleep in, but schools won’t let them #startschoollater #sleeppeeps www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The dynamic version is even more disturbing...

Here is really good info on what indirect rates are and are not. TL;DR - the Republican administration’s plan to cut indirect rates will make Americans sicker, poorer, and more vulnerable. Call your congressional representatives to tell them to fund American success. research.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Sleep Lab: The Exhibit has its soft opening tomorrow at the Mayborn Museum. Great working with @paulpow.bsky.social and April Love at @baylor.bsky.social

Museum exhibit installation is in progress! Pictured: REM-ee the dino-Snore-us welcomes kids to learn about sleep via 4 interactive fixtures. This sleep exhibit was designed for the general public and made possible by grant funding from the National Science Foundation.

DEI-related content was still up on NSF's site last night, so thought maybe someone there was making a stand... but no... pages about diversity are now being removed. LEFT: Yesterday RIGHT: Today [this page was top google hit for NSF + DEI] #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Interesting analysis of 400 random samples of psychology articles in 2022: "Relatively few articles had a preregistration (7%), materials (16%), raw/primary data (14%), or analysis scripts (8.5%) that were immediately accessible without contacting authors or third parties" #psychscisky

Advice needed! I'm looking for teaching resources to help guide undergraduate students how to read journal articles effectively. #EduSky #teaching #STEMteaching #ScienceEducation #cogpsy #psychscisky

AWESOME research by Patricia Bauer on self-derivation of semantic memory. (How we expand our world knowledge without it being directly taught). Link introduces how to teach the concept in #psychology classes using #retrievalpractice @psychscience.bsky.social #cogpysc #DevPsyc #teaching #Memory

7 years ago we found that writing a to-do list before bed helped people fall asleep quicker. It made the media rounds back then and somehow still continues to do so today #sleeppeeps I'm often asked if we've followed up on it...nope, couldn't get a PO to bite on an LOI. bbc.com/future/artic...

Only 8 spots left in the #SleepPeeps Starter Pack Pt 1! There's no way i caught everyone, so please let me know and/or send peeps my way! If it's been awhile, you may want to re-follow the starter pack to connect with the latest additions & subscribe to the #SleepPeep feed! go.bsky.app/7zW7D9J

Do you teach Neuroscience or Biopsychology? We’d love to have your insight on how you teach this course. We are also happy to collect resources for this as we work on our chapter for the Oxford Handbook for Undergraduate Psychology Education. tinyurl.com/teachingneural…#teachpsychc#neurosciencece

Fun time at #psynom24 NYC with the prospective memory peeps

Sleep loss is known to be bad for mental health; now documented is that extending sleep from 6.6 hours to 7.4 hours/night improves feelings of gratitude, resilience, life satisfaction, and purpose in life, even when accounting for people's current mood state (1/2) www.sleep.com/sleep-health...

Night owl tendencies aren't always in one's best interest: "aligning with one’s chronotype was not the best choice for everyone’s mental health. It was better, in fact, for night owls to lead a misaligned life...Zeitzer recalled 'We spent six months trying to disprove it, and we couldn’t'.”

Seriously loving this new work from @denisejcai.bsky.social on offline memory integration. Its awesome on its own, but also... I think this kind of process will end up explaining a lot about dreaming. #neuroskyence #sleeppeeps www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Destroyed bilateral MTL and worse anterograde amnesia than H.M, but Patient A.V. still lives by himself, drives, and works two jobs. How? He offloads tasks to his smartphone 84x/day and texts with his mom >1hr/day. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Injecting amyloid-beta oligomers into the hippocampus increases some SWA metrics. This could explain why some studies have counterintuitively found negative associations between cognition and SWS outcomes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Alway teaching sleepy students? End next class by giving them a simple 'sleep challenge' they hadn't thought of. #EduSky news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

Textbook depictions show a linear, near-deterministic worsening of sleep in older age. However, such views arise from group-averaged cross-sectional data. Individual-level longitudinal PSG analyses in N=2,202 over 5 years from NSSR display severe heterogeneity. One size does not fit all.