🚨Check out our latest paper from the lab! Great work @morales-calva.bsky.social !

If you are applying to a PhD program, be sure to check out these tips! 👇👇👇 www.science.org/content/arti...

Make your voice impossible to ignore. If you support the Menopause Care Equity Act let @gavinnewsom.bsky.social know in the link below 👇🏼 #AB432

🚨Attending ISPNE in New Orleans?🚨 Be sure to stop by graduate student Beatriz Brandao’s poster today 9/3 5:30 - 8 pm. She will be discussing results from her recently published Hormones & Behavior paper examining emotion regulation and memory in hormonal contraceptive users!

Check out a new preprint from Adi, postdoc working with me and Jeff Zacks. I’m *extremely* excited to finally, officially get this out into the world 🙂

Check out our latest paper published in Hormones & Behavior! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We found that hormonal contraceptive users were better able to apply trained emotion regulation strategies, which reduced negative memory!

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

What we discover at UCLA goes far beyond our lab - this work is meant to make an impact on society to change how we treat conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and PTSD. #ResearchPowersProgress 🧠🎼💙💛 newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/mus...

Congratulations @morales-calva.bsky.social! 2025 best article in CABN ❤️ If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to check it out. Link below 👇🏻

We’re hiring! Pls share widely: In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred. Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Fun chat with @theguardian about the power of music in stirring up our emotions and how that impacts our memories 🎶

Learn about our work towards earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease. Despite NIH-funding being delayed, terminated, and uncertain, we are fiercely committed to these goals! Link for donations to support our work is at the bottom of the page, or reach out. giving.massgeneral.org/stories/earl...

🚨Attending SBN?🚨 Stop by graduate student Beatriz Brandao’s poster tomorrow Tuesday July 15 4:30-6:30pm (Poster Session 2, #32) examining the impact of hormonal contraceptive use on memory and emotion regulation! #SBN2025

Exciting to see our work featured in Forbes!

Do you ever get tired of cables getting caught as you're putting a research subject into the MRI scanner? Do you wish you had a 3D-printable model of clips that slide into the slot on the side of your Siemens MRI scanner bed? Well look no further! github.com/Kirwanlab/MR...

🚨Check out our latest work published in The Journal of Neuroscience! We examined post-encoding music impacts on memory and found gist verses detail tradeoffs in memory that depended on music-induced emotional arousal. 🎼

Electric art by Saiman Chow for today's essay: Everything, everywhere, all at once: Inside the chaos of Alzheimer’s disease. by Michael A. Yassa @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/alzheimers-d... #sciart

🚨Attending APS 2025?🚨 Be sure to stop by @morales-calva.bsky.social poster TODAY from 4-5pm! Fernanda will be presenting her work examining cultural impacts on perception and memory. Details below. #APS25DC

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause. Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974 Or help us spread the word 💫

So incredibly proud of the two graduates from the lab today!! Lorena is the first PhD student to graduate from my lab, and Maddie received her Masters along the way to her PhD! Enjoy and celebrate these moments! 💙

New opportunity for Bay Area undergrads to gain computational neuroscience exposure and training! I’m teaming up with @neuronush.bsky.social to offer this to students in our communities 💕🧠🧪 Please share with any students who might be interested! Tiny.cc/ucsfcompneuro

The 2025 @alzassociation.bsky.social Alzheimer's Disease Facts & Figures report is out today! Once again, I was honored to work on this report with our crack team of researchers and provide the most up to date information on this devastating condition #AlzheimersinAmerica www.alz.org/alzheimers-d...

Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI

Congratulations to graduate student @morales-calva.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Excellence in Research, Teaching, & Service Award in the Psychological Sciences Department at Rice University! So proud of you!

Hi all, if anyone knows of any aging or mental health focused postdoc or research scientist positions, please share them with me! Lorena is on the job market and would be a great asset!

Congratulations to the Leal Lab RAs for presenting their research projects at the Undergraduate Research Symposium! Great job! Extra congrats to Jacob, Ahi, and Giselle for winning awards for their presentations! 🎉

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!

My paper reviewing how different neurodegenerative diseases affect autonomic function was just published.

Congratulations to Madelyn Castro for successfully defending her masters thesis today AND for being awarded the 2025 Laughery Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in Psychology! So proud of you!❤️

Congratulations to the first graduate student in my lab, Dr. Lorena Ferguson, who successfully defended her dissertation today! So proud of you and all your accomplishments 🥹

Don’t forget to come hear Beatriz Brandao talk about hormonal contraceptives and emotion regulation! Flash talk at 11:15 today! #AffectScience2025

Attending SAS? Come see graduate student Beatriz Brandao’s flash talk on the effects of hormonal contraceptives on emotion regulation and emotional reactivity on Sat, March 22 11:15am! Details below 👇🏻

Interesting New Feature in @nature.com Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Grad student Lorena Ferguson examined how subclinical depression and job stress was associated with emotional memory in retired and working older adults. Check it out 👇🏻 rdcu.be/d7rZN

My lab at UCLA is recruiting a research coordinator to start ASAP, who will be involved in lab and research management and take the lead in MRI & PET imaging data collection & analysis in aging! Please reach out if interested (& please share widely). Apps due by Feb 16! jobs.ucla.edu/careers-home...

The Undergraduate Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program at UCLA is recruiting a lecturer! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10124 The candidate would teach M116A, which is a Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory course. Please reach out if you have any questions! Apps are due Fri, Feb 21!

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

🚨New paper out in Learning & Memory!🚨 We examined how current perceived stress impacts emotional memory and found that high AND low current perceived stress enhanced emotional memories. learnmem.cshlp.org/content/31/1...

Definitely recommend the series for anyone interested in women's brain health research (and who isn't?)!

POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to [email protected]] - please repost

Loneliness is one critical risk factor for cognitive health 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The ADAM lab will be at #opam and Psychonomics #psynom24! @olgakozlova.bsky.social has a talk on goal setting + WM, friend-of-the-lab @philippmusfeld.bsky.social has a poster on the effect of long-term learning on neural WM representations, and I have a talk on behavioral signatures LTM + WM!

If you are interested in learning about @alzassociation grant opportunities, don’t forget to always check alz.org/grants. We fund globally! 📚🖊🔬🩺🧠 #endalz

Most recently, @morales-calva.bsky.social published a comprehensive review on episodic memory, highlighting the importance of considering the “why” of our memories that often gets left out of the “what”, “where”, and “when”. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Next up, Lorena Ferguson published her work investigating the role of retirement on memory dynamics in her paper titled “Retirement through rose-colored glasses: greater positivity bias in retired relative to working older adults” academic.oup.com/workar/advan...

To get started posting on here, going to re-share the papers the lab has published this year! First up, earlier this year @morales-calva.bsky.social published her work on examining how memorability of images can modulate emotional mnemonic discrimination. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...