I promised my nieces we would make moonbeam ice cream when I came to visit. Hivemind, what should that mean. I am currently thinking ice cream, mini marshmallows, and silver sprinkles.

The great thing about AOL instant messenger was that you knew when your friends were free to chat. I wish my cell phone contacts had that.

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

New review paper with Maverick Smith on improving memory for stuff people actually want to remember: doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Tenure Pro-Tip: If you are ever worried about your ego inflating, take a U-Jam dance class at the YMCA that has far too many windows.

Umm my non-science friend wanted to roast me, and fed my papers into chat GPT. I would have guessed that deeply hurtful comments would have to come from people that know me well, but ouch.

Tenure pro tip: Playing Mars, Bringer of War during an automatic car wash really elevates the experience.

Good news! My lab isn’t a failure 🤷🏾 . Jkjkjk they are the best!

Resistance is hard. It is likely better for my mental health to dissociate from the constant threats to my identity as a researcher and queer man. But dissociating also undermines my authenticity as a person. Maybe the solution is continued resistance but fostering joy and silliness along the way.

When an eyewitness shares a memory, what might make a jury perceive it as accurate? 👩🏽⚖️ A recent #psynomPBR paper by Martinez et al. suggests that certain communication styles shape how accurate a memory seems, regardless of its actual accuracy. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/S4SeOyo

Not all voting has to be bad and malicious (Re: big stupid bill). Psychonomic Society voted two of my favorite researchers for mid-career awards! Congrats Jason Chein and Shayna Rosenbaum!!! @mindimager.bsky.social

Advice for junior colleagues: If you are feeling old bike to graduation in regalia and everyone will tell you congratulations and you can pretend you are 28 getting your PhD.

Where were the minions on January 6th? That’s what I want to know.

Advice for junior colleagues: If you get a large matcha smoothie you can use it’s a microphone to sing Break Free by Ariana Grande. I didn’t learn this til post tenure.

Oh man, what a self-own. A govt lawyer brought up DEI in passing, Judge Young was Not Happy: "If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion? Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"

Remember when science social media could be fun. Real housewives research taglines go. I’m like consolidation, your fear makes me stronger.

One student *did* write a cognition haiku at the end of their exam! “Saccades, to and fro Attend to the relevance Select, remember.” I love it! #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky

Status update: Billie Eilish is everything!

"Scientists might also be realizing that there’s little safety in silence." #SpeakOut www.science.org/content/arti...

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!

NIH IRTA program resumes recruitment. Good sign!

A helpful read on some of the legal avenues for appeal. What the new administration is doing to #NIH (& other HHS orgs like #CDC, #FDA) is not only economically wasteful but blatantly, morally bankrupt. People will be more sick and die needlessly as a result of these actions, now and in the future.

Are you at CNS: hot* symposia alert featuring myself, @aaronbornstein.bsky.social, @chelseahelion.bsky.social, and @iancballard.bsky.social talking about uncertainty resolution across learning, memory, social cognition, and decision-making. See you Monday at 10:00 AM. *I sweat a lot giving talks

That feeling when you realize you can’t survive 5 days without reading glasses, so you buy them in the airport and feel super old, and then put them on and immediately have your hand wrinkles magnified. See you at CNS!

Hey everybody! #CNS2025 bleepstorm incoming! 9 POSTERS! I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!) (All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...

The MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

My lab’s latest paper, with @vpmurty.bsky.social. Memory for a scary real-world event (a haunted house) is reflected in the “authenticity” of expressed memories, but listeners mistakenly think accuracy is reflected in how “analytic” the expressed memory is - oops! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

MY WASHING MACHINE HAS BEEN INFECTED BY DEI

Today I cut off all of my hair while singing Iggy Azalia’s hook “I have one less problem without you”. I think I am officially losing it.

I’m proud to be affiliated with a department with a massive strength in Diversity Science, and am going to start placing words like diversity and equity in my emails/website to help produce some noise into the system that is trying to systematically erase them.

I think we are asking the wrong question. It isn’t is this the end of the world, but which dystopian sci fi novel best captures this end of the world scenario? Post pandemic I thought Oryx and Crake, but now I am feeling 1984.

Oh no. I told my graduate student that I would have AI generate pictures of an N-armed bandit, and then went to post it here and saw that all the NIH study sections have been cancelled. Is there still room for levity?

Did we decide we are going to ignore seeing the Teslas are colleagues are driving? Asking for a friend….

New paper with Johanna Jarcho, Isabel Leiva, and Sam Reisman looking at distortions in perceived liking and its relationship with bullying (in adults!). Don’t worry we collected memory data for future analyses! www.jmoodanxdisorders.org/article/S295...

New paper out! Memory for object features is warped according to their role in a category, w/ features shared across category-mates misremembered as more similar. We explored the phenomenon in our NN model of the hipp. w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social & @codydong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi...

Anyone want to collaborate on teaching children to Dab to cover their mouth to stop the spread of flu?

There has never been a better book than this one.

Am I talking about family stress for Thanksgiving or the end of the quarter/semester. Maybe I am just being subversive to Big Cat’s agenda. I’ll never tell.

Today begins the season known only as, “Let’s pick this up after the Holidays.” Congratulations to everyone who celebrates.

I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech. Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.

I just set up @jcogneurosci.bsky.social ; at some point it will post papers as they publish, if folks want to friend that account. thx

Does anyone else feel like we should be turning researchers into a game of Magic The Gathering with all these starter packs…..

Our lab is recruiting a PhD student this cycle! Apps for Emory are due in exactly 2 weeks & many of my awesome colleagues are also recruiting including @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social @vanessabrown.bsky.social @jaredmedina.bsky.social & more! More info: psychology.emory.edu/home/graduat...

In 7th grade at my school’s variety show I had to do a dance to Blue Skies in a sequence bow tie. I forget the dance moves but remember the bow tie. This is a great example of my lab’s research on motivated memory and a great way to re-engage with this app. @maureenritchey.bsky.social

Excited our new paper is out now in PNAS with @vpmurty.bsky.social & @benrottman.bsky.social! We found that the benefits of the spacing effect on item and associative memory depend on the variability in the content and the timescale of the spacing intervals. Read more: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our hot take on mechanisms of information seeking is published! It’s an awesome synthesis of multiple literatures by Xinxu Shen with @chelseahelion.bsky.social and @dvsmith.bsky.social. Empirical papers coming soon! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37944120/

Is psychodynamic therapy effective for ‘desk rejection sensitivity’? Hahahaha

This year for Halloween we had a dress up as your favorite Super Smash character. The AML nailed it!