Nora Newcombe
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Cognitive and developmental scientist at Temple University
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Mueller, She Wrote
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BREAKING: SANDWICH GUY ACQUITTED. NOT GUILTY!
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Who will they come for next?
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Lorna Quandt
about 13 hours ago
Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here:
tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026
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Educational Neuroscience PhD: Application Information
Fully-Funded Ph.D. Positions in Educational Neuroscience At Gallaudet University in Washington, DC The Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) Program at Gallaudet University invites prospective st...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x5EhW5Pt5bAH1spmSawEmzUFfjmXANqc38s8ykhmKWw/edit?usp=sharing
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Cognitive Science Society
about 10 hours ago
⏰ Reminder Nominations for the
#ElmanPrize
close November 18🗓️ Know a mid-career cognitive scientist who combines stellar research with community service? Nominate them today!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/
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Jeremy Berg
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2025 Here the largest fraction is for R01 awards, followed by RF1s, and R21s. In most cases, these were R01s that had not particularly reason to be forward funded except that NIH had put itself in a situation when large amounts of funding needed to be committed by the end of the fiscal year 21/25
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I'm very excited about this conference!
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a nicely balanced article on The Compact from
@inquirer.com
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Trump’s college compact identified problems in higher ed. But experts fault its approach.
The compact has some worthy ideas, some higher education experts say, such as addressing the cost of college, but a federal compact requiring a tuition freeze isn't the right cure.
https://www.inquirer.com/education/colleges-trump-compact-upenn-bucknell-20251105.html?utm_source=bsky.app&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_bluesky_traffic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo=
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I’ve seen those wiggly curves before in the work on spatial location! Typicality weighting is everywhere.
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Dr Anna Leshinskaya
2 days ago
I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website -
www.relcoglab.org
for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
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Relational Cognition Lab
https://www.relcoglab.org/
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Dr. Cate Peña
3 days ago
Happy Tuesday after the first Monday in November! For those who are eligible and haven’t yet, please exercise your right to VOTE!!!! 🇺🇸
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On my lab reading list— A neural state space for episodic memories: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories that predict a unidirectional process where memories are first supported by the hippocampus and then the neocortex. Here, I propose a 3D state space for episodic memories. The first two dimensions relate to whether episodic retrieval is driven by the hippocampus and the neocortex, critically allowing for independent and additive contributions from both regions. The third dimension relates to the episodic specificity of retrieval. Memories can be located at any point in this state space and move to any other location. The state space captures the dynamic nature of episodic memory and broadens the search space of possible memory states and transformations across time.
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613%2825%2900284-0
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Kevin Mitchell
5 days ago
Been reading "What is Innateness?" by Paul Griffiths (2002)
philpapers.org/rec/EGRWII
in which he offers this very sound advice:
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YES! "to explain all human cognition, we inherently must include development". Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy - Ward - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library
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Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy
In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.70028?campaign=wolearlyview
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Bravo! Standing up for the rule of law and for human rights in a tough time-- Lakeview resident calls on CPD to investigate federal agents for immigration raid on his property
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/l...
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Lakeview resident calls on CPD to investigate federal agents for immigration raid on his property
Leo Feler said federal agents violated the Fourth Amendment by bursting into his property last week while trying to arrest construction workers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/lakeview-resident-cpd-arrest-federal-agents-immigration-raid/
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Lovely work by my colleagues, great illustration of what happens when cognitive science meets real world readoning
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Recording and communicating uncertainty in science: how geologists manage variability in spatial data - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
All scientists must cope with variability in data to make inferences about the world. However, in observation-based geology, how scientists cope with variability is particularly consequential because ...
https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-025-00682-x
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I was excited to get to know Pablo at
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in Warsaw!
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What a great idea!
www.inquirer.com/education/ma...
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A high school in Maine offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results.
After their first hikes — smelling pine trees, listening to birds chirping and discussing their lives — the student realized hiking wasn’t so bad. In fact, they found it actually improved their moods.
https://www.inquirer.com/education/maine-high-school-hiking-detention-20251017.html?utm_source=bsky.app&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_bluesky_traffic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo=
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Very clear overview by Brian Hare
www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...
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Science Magazine - Chimpanzees are natural scientists
The ability of humans to identify relevant information as evidence and update their beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence is foundational to all
https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/library/item/30_october_2025/4303975/
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The French version of the Rosalind Franklin tale. But Martha lived longer, went on to many achievements, and yet…. Marthe Gautier, 96, Dies; Had Key Role in Down Syndrome Breakthrough
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h...
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Marthe Gautier, 96, Dies; Had Key Role in Down Syndrome Breakthrough
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/health/marthe-gautier-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Sander van der Linden
8 days ago
I hear a lot about misinformation as a "symptom" of "distrust". Here we test this & find that while trust is important, it doesn't buffer: misinfo isn't mitigated by high trust. Both misinfo & distrust *independently* predict vaccine denial. It's a disease of its own!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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❤️ local papers
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Carl Zimmer
8 days ago
Here's my latest contribution to the "Lost Science" series at the New York Times: Jay Falk, a scientist who studies why some female hummingbirds look just like males. Gift link:
nyti.ms/4qF7Qje
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Brynn Sherman
9 days ago
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)!
tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
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Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002951?dgcid=author
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Katie Insel
8 days ago
I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. đź§ Come join the CATS Lab:
nucatslab.com
Learn about our latest research:
iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
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CATS Lab
Child & Adolescent Translational Science Lab at Northwestern University
https://nucatslab.com
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PessoaBrain
9 days ago
Congrats, great choices for Cogneuro research:
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Will Bunch
10 days ago
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/house-speaker-johnson-trump-government-shutdown-20251028.html
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Dan Lewer
10 days ago
We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research.
bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
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Marcel S. Kehl
11 days ago
🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe 1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning? In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
The Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) is key to human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, navigation, and semantic coding. Rare direct human MTL recordings revealed concept cells, which were ...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.21.682935
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Julia M. Rohrer
10 days ago
When researchers bring up confounders without ever having declared the actual analysis goal
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Estimates of each protestbon
#NoKingsDay
and the bottom line. Biggest ever except for an asterisk for Earth Day 1970
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No Kings!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pNcxWyUnqXjYAuxKG9NUyCnGxd-lEAUTC36miO1B4ow/htmlview#gid=0
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And the left isn’t full of diversity and contradiction?
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The world we want-
www.unicef.org/ethiopia/sto...
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Towards a malaria-free future for children
Ethiopia rolls out new malaria vaccine integrated with mass distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets
https://www.unicef.org/ethiopia/stories/towards-malaria-free-future-children
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
12 days ago
Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.
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Lisa Fazio
12 days ago
All the more reason for universities to stand strong - the public recognizes this is a rotten deal My message to Vanderbilt and all univs - "it is essential to reject the entire idea of trading away institutional, faculty and student freedoms for government benefits"
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These tips vary from useful to slightly crazy but they are interesting—
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory
12 days ago
Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages
observer.co.uk/news/science...
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Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang...
Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...
https://observer.co.uk/news/science-technology/article/they-were-grabbing-me-saying-marrald-kirrk-thukand
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
12 days ago
Stress drives the hippocampus to prioritize statistical prediction over episodic encoding
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.25.683838v1
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Scott Santens
11 months ago
Babies born healthier may be the most transformative of all Universal Basic Income effects. Epigenetics shows that healthier babies will be healthier adults, who will have healthier babies, and low birth weight is correlated to less healthy adults who earn less.
www.science20.com/news/correla...
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When we go to Chicago we live here. Terrifying. Federal immigration agents tear-gas Lakeview, raid Lincoln Park as feds focus on city's affluent North Side
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/f...
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Federal immigration agents tear-gas Lakeview, raid Lincoln Park as feds focus on city’s affluent North Side
Lincoln Park Ald. Timmy Knudsen, 43rd, said masked immigration agents hit “every corner of the ward” he represents, one of the city’s wealthiest communities.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/federal-immigration-agents-chicago-north-side/
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Mikey Pasek
13 days ago
So close to where I live. Ice was a block away today. About to go escort students from our local school to their transit home. Just evil.
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_15387403_nl_Daily-Briefing_date_20251022&fbclid=IwZnRzaANorJNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoBXbiMuxeQLgp4prnTJZNCYlG9eT3P9RyAgkSKzyQG0I2lHTtb7fyYW87Vv_aem_WuLwkVurUmdXcObcUZIPDA
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Natalie Brito
14 days ago
I owe my whole career to Judy. As an undergrad in her lab, her enthusiasm for research motivated me to ditch my med school plans & pursue dev psych. She paid me a stipend so I didn’t have to work full-time & could spend more time in the lab. So much gratitude to have learned from the best 💖
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Josh Pasek
14 days ago
Wondering about the dispute? Watch the full Reagan radio address here:
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14 days ago
My comments to the Michigan Daily on what to make of being added to the "Professor Watchlist."
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UMich Professors react to Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist
Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist lists 30 University of Michigan professors. Gaining popularity following Charlie Kirk's death.
https://www.michigandaily.com/news/government/umich-professors-react-to-turning-point-usas-professor-watchlist/
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Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts
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Developmental alterations in brain network asymmetry in 3- to 9-month infants with congenital sensorineural hearing loss
Early sensorineural hearing loss disrupts lateralization development of the brain network.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx1327?fbclid=IwZnRzaANoHHFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkIxGirp4gyGRVV8cJXERUwMsospQL1b6gmt01Y-VnzF_Sul7A-I1mz67K5D_aem_QUJxeMMqdaxX3dLJA7XhmA
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One of the folks involved is
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www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/10...
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New Texas initiative could shape the future of dementia research, scientists say
Researchers hope the proposed institute will expedite scientific discoveries and AI innovation.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/10/22/texas-initiative-dprit-dementia-research/?fbclid=IwZnRzaANncGBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHicni_he9ZBxuG1Edj-Pq2HaRPR3z9uDQ3mqOGVdgF37GYaCvwRPC9fUH060_aem_7j5p-ZM-8OWgjv6zQ5m9nA
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New paper with
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Samantha Cohen and First authored by Kate Hill. Her postbac project -- great work, Kate!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/X62JS...
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The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall
Children’s episodic memory improves sharply between 4 and 7 years. Here, we asked whether the developing ability to impose narrative structure on events may be one reason for this change. Children ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/X62JSRFP9VMT8XKWXJP8/full?target=10.1080/15248372.2025.2571554
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Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds
Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5581409/mental-exercise-reverse-brain-change-aging-acetylcholine?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20251023&utm_term=10417426&utm_campaign=news&utm_id=71541574&orgid=440&uniquet=duhz518x23jMjGcoKO25Zw&utm_att1=
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
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mRNA vaccines seem to work synergistically w/ cancer immunotherapy. In patients, the vaccine acts like a siren that triggers the release of immune signaling proteins, instructing the immune system to attack tumors. We need to funding for mRNA based therapeutics. đź§Ş
www.science.org/content/arti...
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A surprise bonus from COVID-19 vaccines: bolstering cancer treatment
Patients who got shots of mRNA before starting a type of cancer immunotherapy lived much longer
https://www.science.org/content/article/surprise-bonus-covid-19-vaccines-bolstering-cancer-treatment
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