Excited to see this work out! We show that attention can rapidly learn to ignore salient distractions within 1-2 exposures. Interestingly, this learned suppression is highly contingent on an initial instance of capture! More to come! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @yuezhang-mu.bsky.social

the feed is incredible today bc you can't tell which posts are about Trump and his world-ending clown show and which are about a football match in Europe and it doesn't matter because they make perfect sense either way

this is my favorite slide from the talk though, because it's all the doctorates I've hooded since I've been a faculty member... we always focus on the impact of our research when I really think the greatest impact we have is on the folks we get the privilege of mentoring

Goodbye Vancouver. Thanks for the good eats (oh, and science). ✌️ #CNS2026 (Even the airport #Poké is good!)

Conferences are for science, but they are also for catching up with old friends. Nice to see these and so many others at #CNS2026

You know what's better than eating ice cream?🍦Eating ice cream and seeing @retorresh.bsky.social's cool poster (C115) about the time it takes to decode high vs low memorability objects using EEG! Later today #CNS2026

If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging & memory, come see @emilyedavis.bsky.social's poster on implicit associative memory tomorrow at 8am (#63)

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why? If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment. Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

TFW you've missed a couple emails/wrote down the wrong meeting times and you're wondering what else is going to come out of the woodwork...🫠 #AcademicSky

My measly human brain, with my measly human hours left on earth, does not want to read your manuscript/assignment/thesis if you used #AI to help write it. Fuck off, go ask a robot. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Back to in-lab studies it is! (which we were already doing, really, because online participants are doing loads of other shit in addition to your task - ask me how I know!) #PsychSciSky

Just spent way too long revising procedures that will inevitably lead to an argument with the person who devised the procedures. And really, it's difficult to convey how little I care about this... #AcademicSky

Elsevier journal sending angry automated emails about my overdue review. Bitch, please. #AcademicSky

Can't talk, #olympics. 🥇

We had a great time at #LOVE2026 #psychscisky In case you missed it, message @hannahgthomas.bsky.social to learn about the relationship bw sustained attention & inhibition

Day 2 of #LOVE2026 and it's so nice to not be an organizer this year. I can drink my ☕️ before speaking to people. Win-win for everyone 🤣 #psychscisky

New preprint by @sarahehenderson.bsky.social. The *real* blood, sweat, and tears of her PhD - trying to develop an intervention to improve episodic memory in older adults under naturalistic conditions. "Event tagging" is simple, but holds real promise. #PsychSciSky #memory doi.org/10.31234/osf...

So sad. Love this woman 😭😭😭 #nationaltreasure

Important review by @mnrajah.bsky.social et al. on why we need to increase the diversity of our research on #aging and #dementia. I'm very proud to be part of this collaboratory 🤩 #psychsciscky #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#psychscisky #neuroskyence #development #aging #lifespan #mentalhealth #cognition #physiology #kinesiology

Opportunity to move to Canada. 🍁 The Lifespan Institute @brocku.ca is looking to hire a Canada Excellence Research Chair In Healthy Development Across the Lifespan. More info in the job ad (salary negotiable). brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree....

Hey you, Professor, you don't look busy. Would you mind telling us (yet again) everything you've done over the past 7 years. Cheers, NSERC

Fixed it!

Olli thinks I should just stay home for all of January. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Home for the holidays, so it's gotta be my teen drink at my teen hangout. From before social media, when we talked IRL. 😂

Why does everyone and their uncle think they need to email season's greetings? I don't want a look back at 2025 for your shitty journal/office/company? How'd you get my email?! 🤨 #AcademicSky #BahHumbug

Me having trouble focusing while reading about mid-life hormonal changes affecting one's ability to focus. #PsychSciSky #perimenopause #sendhelp

The one validated intervention to slow aging and extend healthspan is not for sale. It's exercise. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This includes Canadian PhDs & Postdocs looking to return to Canada 🍁 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

📣Hey international PhDs & Postdocs, the Canadian Government has an upcoming fellowship opportunity. nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/canada-im... I will be looking to sponsor a Postdoc to work with Linda Geerligs & me on LONGITUDINAL changes in neural states during movie watching & memory. ✉️ me your CV

Okay, I've finally lost it. Went to put my contacts in this morning, they weren't in the case. Was like, "who threw out my contacts!?! Wait, why can I read the clock from over here...okay, yah, they're in my eyes."

When an 8-page grant proposal could have been 4...

We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

The Groningen Spring school on Cognitive Modeling is back! Join us from March 30th-April 2nd, 2026! www.ai.rug.nl/springschool/

Hilarious. And my teens' listening ages were 48 and 74. We're doing it right! 😂 #SpotifyWrapped. www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

The term "girl math" fills me with a special kind of rage.

Had a great time presenting to the Applied Cognitive Neuroscience group @torontomet.bsky.social and seeing old friends. Thanks for having me, Julia Spaniol, @mnrajah.bsky.social, and @thinkauditory.bsky.social!

#PsychSciSky Grad Student Data Blitz @brocku.ca yesterday. From moralized prejudice to sustained attention to the role of hormones is adolescent social behaviour, it was fun hearing about the wide range of amazing research being done in our department. @brockufoss.bsky.social

So long Jays, back to our family's primary obsession 😂 #soccersaturday #avfc #shitonthecity

We put #AI in the job title because, um, reasons. #PsychSciSky #2025JobMarket

Last 10 days to apply~~ #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky

If you'll be at the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition, check out @hannahgthomas.bsky.social's poster (#11) on the relationship between sustained attention and inhibitory control. Wish I could be there! #FOMO🗻🔬🎉🍻 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom25 #SIDIC

TFW you have so many emails, you forget what your actual job is. Seriously, what am I supposed to be doing here? 🤔😵‍💫 #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Involved in grad admissions? This is worth a read 👇🏻

Guys, I just wrote a review proposal while on a run that I was unable to write all of yesterday, sat at my desk. New #lifehack? 🤯 (Yes, I probably have #ADHD 🤣)

I encourage every PhD student to set up an academic website, even if they don't feel like they have a lot to put on it. Why? Helps to get discovered by search engines and establish a search-friendly presence. What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀

Someone thinks they're my 4th baby. 🤣

Maths... If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars. If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars. Tax the rich.