Nora Newcombe
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Cognitive and developmental scientist at Temple University
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Fernanda Ferreira
2 days ago
Super thrilled that my article "Prosody" is now available to read in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science!
oecs.mit.edu/pub/1w4cqquc...
Thanks to
@asifamajid.bsky.social
and
@mcxfrank.bsky.social
for the opportunity and for creating such an amazing resource for our community!
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Prosody
https://oecs.mit.edu/pub/1w4cqquc/release/1
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Andrej Bicanski
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New book on navigation (open access). The result of the Ernst Strüngemann Forum 2024. Was great to be there and discuss for a week with 50+ wonderful colleagues. Many thanks to the organizers, Julia Lupp + ESF team, the editors
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
, Ken Cheng
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Challenges in Navigation Research
This open access book explores navigation across species using a multidisciplinary approach to address challenges in research and clinical applications.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-20563-6
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Thackery Brown
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1 mo. left to submit an abstract for the Conference for Research and Education in Navigation! We have a stellar lineup of speakers and submitted talks and posters already!
@aliprestonphd.bsky.social
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
@russellepstein.bsky.social
@tammyish.bsky.social
@gtsciences.bsky.social
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This book has just been published, open access, edited by Ken Cheng and me. It contains multiple chapters originating in a wonderful Strungmann Forum held in Frankfurt around a year ago.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Challenges in Navigation Research
This open access book explores navigation across species using a multidisciplinary approach to address challenges in research and clinical applications.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-20563-6
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Quote and headline are quite misleading IMO. Click on the link for better understanding of the state of play.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫
5 days ago
One incentive for being a study section member for NIH is “continuous submission.” Or the ability to get extra time for submitting grants when you are a peer reviewer. NIH is terminating this in August.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴
5 days ago
NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source:
grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
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Lauren J. Myers
7 days ago
A developmental psychology Onion headline! 🤣
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Musicology Duck
8 days ago
amazing
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Andy Ribner
9 days ago
Excited to announce THREE new publications in the last couple weeks.
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Mr Natural
10 days ago
Alexandra Buckle. Bluebell Memories.
#Linocut
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Vlad Ayzenberg
10 days ago
My (very) short piece on how prenatal experience with the mother's voice may rapidly scaffold the development of face perception in newborn infants is now out in
@natrevpsychol.nature.com
!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Prenatal and multimodal origins of face perception - Nature Reviews Psychology
Nature Reviews Psychology - Prenatal and multimodal origins of face perception
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-026-00555-0
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Casey
10 days ago
If you cannot go Saturday, I know of this online option! Run by
@standupforscience.net
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Rare piece of good news in this morning’s reading. San Francisco Killed 8th-Grade Algebra. Now It’s Set to Come Back.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
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San Francisco Killed 8th-Grade Algebra. Now It’s Set to Come Back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/san-francisco-public-schools-algebra.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Antoine Coutrot
11 days ago
⚠️New review straight out of the oven! "Spatial navigation in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: A review"
arxiv.org/abs/2603.23082
We focus on spatial navigation as a sensitive cognitive marker in preclinical AD, compiling evidence from cognitively unimpaired individuals with positive AD biomarkers.
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Jörn Diedrichsen
12 days ago
Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what
@actlab.bsky.social
and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution....
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions?
The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery looks...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003688
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Admirable Women
12 days ago
Biochemist Florence Seibert developed the Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) in the 1930s. Before her work, TB skin tests were inconsistent & unreliable. Her PPD formula was adopted as the internat'l standard (1952) & remains the gold standard for TB testing today.
#WorldTuberculosisDay
#WomenInSTEM
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Zack Hawes
15 days ago
Is mental imagery a single process? Our meta-analysis of 46 fMRI studies suggests not. We find a key divide between object imagery (visualizing an object in rich detail) and spatial imagery (mentally transforming objects). This split mirrors the ventral and dorsal streams of vision
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Admirable Women
15 days ago
Celebrating Dr. Marthe Gautier on World Down Syndrome Day. In May 1958, she discovered the extra 47th chromosome. Jérôme Lejeune took her slides, claimed the discovery as his own & robbed her of credit for 50 years. Today, we recognize the true pioneer of
#Trisomy21
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#WomenInSTEM
#MatildaEffect
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Crimson Courage
15 days ago
Harvard's statement on today's lawsuit ends: "We... will defend the University against this lawsuit, which represents yet another pretextual and retaliatory action by the administration for refusing to turn over control of Harvard to the federal government."
www.harvard.edu/media-relati...
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Statement on the March 20 lawsuit
We will continue to prioritize this important work and will defend the University against this lawsuit, which represents yet another pretextual and retaliatory action by the administration for refusin...
https://www.harvard.edu/media-relations/2026/03/20/statement-on-march-20-lawsuit/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=hu-facebook-general&utm_medium=social
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"Recognizing pain as a temporally structured brain state has important implications." Beggs & Frankland, in overview of 2 fascinating articles in Science
www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...
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Jen Bendery
16 days ago
"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award
www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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Prestigious Kennedy Award Goes To 'The People Of The Twin Cities'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_69b7cd6ce4b0e8cdfdd30114/liveblog_69bc601ee4b0bb6debb83ee0
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Nanthia Suthana
19 days ago
New lab paper! 🧠 Human hippocampal & MTL theta activity is linked to eye movements, but only during memory-guided navigation. Theta is also strongest during longer, more exploratory eye movements.
plos.io/4dwJhR8
Huge congrats to Humza & team! 👏
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Would a similar approach work for sorting all sorts of psychological constructs?
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Max Kozlov
19 days ago
BREAKING:
@delauro.house.gov
announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night. That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.
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This news was welcome in a sea of horrible news.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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867-5309: number from 1980s hit song Jenny now routes callers to cancer support
Music’s most famous number is being repurposed to offer resources and support for patients and caregivers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/17/867-5309-jenny-tommy-tutone-cancer-support?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Neuroskeptic
23 days ago
What does it mean for culture to 'shape' cognition?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41807136/
"Culture can (i) privilege some cognitive processes, while leaving alternative processes intact; (ii) prune unused alternative processes (iii) produce new cognitive processes; or (iv) have no effect"
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David Barner
24 days ago
Happy to announce that the RR for ManyNumbers 3 was accepted (in principle) at Developmental Science today. This project will investigate the socio-demographic correlates of preschool numeracy in US sites participating in ManyNumbers 1. If you're interested, it's not too late to join these projects.
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This paper changed my life: Talia Lerner reflects on dopamine neuron diversity and the value of simple experiments
In a 2011 Neuron study, Stephan Lammel and his colleagues showed that dopamine neurons with different projections have different physiological properties. The work inspired Lerner to think about how…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-changed-my-life/this-paper-changed-my-life-talia-lerner-reflects-on-dopamine-neuron-diversity-and-the-value-of-simple-experiments/
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD
25 days ago
🧠 The DEN Lab (@UIowa) is hiring a Lab Coordinator! A wonderful opportunity for recent grads preparing for grad school. Come do meaningful developmental cog neuro research with us in Iowa City, a vibrant college town with rich intellectual and cultural life!
jobs.uiowa.edu/research/vie...
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Research Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.
https://jobs.uiowa.edu/research/view/926
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Nature Reviews Psychology
26 days ago
Determinants of individual navigation ability Review by Emre Yavuz & Hugo J. Spiers
go.nature.com/4sHHH3A
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Determinants of individual navigation ability - Nature Reviews Psychology
There is substantial variation across people in navigation ability, which is shaped by multiple factors. In this Review, Yavuz and Spiers organize these factors into lifetime, lifestyle and personal a...
https://go.nature.com/4sHHH3A
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Mark Histed
27 days ago
The most impt change at
#NIH
and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and
@nataliebaviles.bsky.social
in
@nature.com
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How Congress can restore the independence of US science
Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00703-9
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Andrej Bicanski
27 days ago
1/N: Dear cognitive map fans, I’d like to share a model I’ve been working on for a while (clearing backlog :). I show how a vector navigation architecture (VNA) and a “positional inference network” (PIN) can build Universal Cognitive Maps (UCMs) for abstract spaces.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.07.705326v1
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#StandUpForScience
Philly division
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tweety fish
about 1 month ago
@kjhealy.co
has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so
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Data Visualization
A Practical Introduction
https://socviz.co
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Matt Wall
about 1 month ago
🚨🚨New paper day!🚨🚨 Wonderful work from the longitudinal arm of our cannabis-users study showing how brain reward-system function changes over 12 months in regular users. 🧵⬇️
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The association between cannabis use and brain reward anticipation: a 12-month longitudinal study of adults and adolescents who use cannabis and age-matched controls - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - The association between cannabis use and brain reward anticipation: a 12-month longitudinal study of adults and adolescents who use cannabis and age-matched controls
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-026-02377-3?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20260226&utm_content=10.1038/s41386-026-02377-3
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Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure - The Lancet
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure
In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2826%2900414-9/fulltext
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Leverhulme Trust
about 1 month ago
This
#InternationalWomensDay
, we are proud to share a spotlight on Professor
@annavignoles.bsky.social
, the first woman to be appointed Director of the Leverhulme Trust. In this
@expeditions.bsky.social
video, she shares why we need to recognise research as a collective endeavour.
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Anna Vignoles – Research: a collective endeavour
In this Expeditions video, Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, dispels the myth of the scholar being an island and shares why we need to recognise research as a collective endeavour
https://media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/avignoles-research-collective-endeavour
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Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan
about 1 month ago
This Women’s History Month, we recognize the women leading ISR, the major centers and initiatives at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Their leadership drives research that informs policy and strengthens communities worldwide!
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Mary Gillis
about 1 month ago
How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist. It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.
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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein
The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”
https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-three-scientists-who-said-no-epstein
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Shooti
about 1 month ago
#ResistanceRoots
Alice Hamilton was born on this day in 1869 in New York City. She was a physician, research scientist and humanitarian who is considered the “Mother of Industrial Medicine.” Her rigorous research led to the creation of the Occupation Safety and Health Administration in 1971. /1
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Crimson Courage
about 1 month ago
Register now! This webinar is limited to 1,000 guests and will not be recorded. We'll take a close look at how research and grants work at Harvard and why the cuts from the Trump administration are so detrimental to the Harvard community. More details/registration:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Deepu Murty
about 1 month ago
I’m excited to announce a special issue I am guest editing at SCAN with Johanna Jarcho and
@maureenritchey.bsky.social
on the intersection of memory and social cognition. Find more info here:
academic.oup.com/scan/pages/c...
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The Contribution of Episodic Memory to Social Cognition
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience invites submissions to a collection on “The Contribution of Episodic Memory to Social Cognition”. Making decisions i
https://academic.oup.com/scan/pages/cfp-contribution-of-episodic-memory-to-social-cognition
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tbiba.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here:
rdcu.be/e6pzS
. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠
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Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz
Nature Human Behaviour - Biba et al. show that episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz.
https://rdcu.be/e6pzS
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Hugo Spiers
about 1 month ago
From
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's lab: Deep learning approaches to map individual differences in macroscopic neural structure with variations in spatial navigation behavior
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Deep learning approaches to map individual differences in macroscopic neural structure with variations in spatial navigation behavior
Understanding the association between structural properties of the human brain and individual differences in behavior is an ongoing endeavor, challeng…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393225002878?via%3Dihub#fig5
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Admirable Women
about 1 month ago
Before Marion Downs, childhood hearing loss wasn’t caught until age 3+.
#WorldHearingDay
The 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 advocated for early detection/intervention & established the first large-scale newborn screening program (1963), proving early intervention is the key to language.
#WomenInSTEM
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Audiobooks don’t really count as reading? Think again. — Harvard Gazette
Education scholars say rigor, learning same as paper, stigma an unnecessary hurdle.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/03/audiobooks-dont-really-count-as-reading-think-again/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020260303%20(1)&spMailingID=36185579&spUserID=MjM3NjI4OTMzODA4S0&spJobID=3103036910&spReportId=MzEwMzAzNjkxMAS2
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