And now back to reality, providing feedback on mock exam essays that need to all be done before the weekend

Amazing few days at the Japan-UK Neuroscience Symposium. Super interesting neuroscience research across a wide range of topics and approaches and some excellent whiskey from both countries!

❗We are recruiting a Post-Doctoral Research Associate❗ The PDRA will be based in the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University and will investigate the #molecular and #cellular changes in #schizophrenia. Please see link 👇 tinyurl.com/32u753js

***Please forward to interested colleagues*** The call for symposia (deadline 15 April) and abstracts (deadline 1 May) for Biomag 2026 in Beijing (23-25 Aug) is now open: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn

Reupping this, deadline is 9th April!

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience? Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory. Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Now time for the poster datablitz, including the amazing @arimoccia.bsky.social!

Day 2 of the UK-Japan Neuroscience Symposium and we're starting with learning and memory, meaning everyone has to endure 20mins of me talking about systems consolidation!

Three studies of EU, UK, and US elections show that self-serving bias moderates the relationship between future thinking and remembering. @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social @scottcolepsych.bsky.social @clarerathbone.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

3 new fellowships 👇🏼

Interesting article. I've definitely felt this recently. It's great having multiple paths to go down career-wise, but eventually you have to choose/prioritize. I'm not sure I've got to that point yet, but it feels like it's getting closer.

Sometimes my primitive brain needs vistas to make it happy

Revise & resubmit!!

One for all the psycholinguistics people teaching about lexical ambiguity

We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

"decision in process"

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Agreed. I enjoyed this. I like when I don't really have the time for a long read like this but get sucked into it all the same.

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

Very excited to be hosting @darya-frank.bsky.social today, who will be speaking in our @yorkpsychology.bsky.social external departmental seminar: Novelty, surprise, and their long-lasting effects on episodic memory #psychscisky #cognition #neuroskyence

Need to make the effort to get back to CNS conferences as getting FOMO from #CNS2026. First international conference I ever went to and loved it but haven't been for years. Mostly as West Coast travel is far from ideal with children.

The School of Biosciences @unibirmingham.bsky.social is recruiting five Assistant/Associate Professors working across a range of areas, including neuroscience. Join a vibrant interdisciplinary research environment. Deadline: 14 April 2026 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging, schemas and episodic memory, check out Sophie O'Reilly's poster tomorrow 8-10am (D71)

"required reviews completed" 😬 pray for me and my fellow co-authors

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)

We’re excited to share that members of the SCANN Lab will be presenting two posters (as part of the Sketchpad Series!) at #CNS2026! Previews are below and here: scannlab.org/cns-2026 Drop by and say hello if you’re at CNS! #CognitiveNeuroscience #SpatialNavigation #Aging #Memory #Aphantasia

Matlab >> R

Awesome work, using RT modelling to show clear prioritisation of semantic features during WM maintenance! Especially for information that had fallen outside the focus of attention ➡️ more evidence that “silent” WM traces behave like episodic memory.

CfA: Workshop “Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation” (@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Jun 2–3 2026. Deadline: March 31. Further Speakers: @adriendoerig.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @gualtiero.bsky.social, @seelikat.bsky.social, Oron Shagrir. philevents.org/event/show/1...

I'm not gonna touch most of this but two things: 1. The apprenticeship model of science was never supposed to be about the PI's workflow. The point isn't to have research assistants to help to publish stuff faster. Training the next generation researcher *is* the point. Because we care. Allegedly.

Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1/6 Happy to share our new paper with @grassocamille.bsky.social and @virginievanw.bsky.social: "Nested contextual change and the temporal compression of episodic memory". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories? We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate! Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Join us in Brighton this September! www.bacn.co.uk/conferences Symposium submissions due 31 March.

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

Well there's a graph for you.

Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.17.706430v1

What episodic memory reveals about the default mode network osf.io/preprints/ps...

📢 We’re hiring! The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🔹 Associate Professor 📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

Hey #Edusky COGSCISCI 2026 is coming back to London! Join us for a day of talking all about 'Implementing CogSci in the classroom' (That's sure to spark some online discussion 🤣) Fri 29/5/26 Call for speakers: cogscisci.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/c... PLEASE SHARE

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory. Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal! eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...

Weekend bake. Enriched (with butter) sourdough loaf

Just realised Cool Runnings was released 33 years ago. The equivalent 33 year old film when it was released would be Psycho or Spartacus. Bet you are feeling old now.

Doing Valentine's day correctly with a family film night watching Cool Runnings and eating pizza and chocolate trifle

Clemency Cooper’s PhD research aims to understand how perceptions of the landscape have shaped the North York Moors, and how evidence of past change might influence decisions about its future character. @northyorkmoors.org.uk www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Join us in York! 12-month full-time *development-focused* psychology lectureship in our very friendly York St John team. Quant research methods too. Deadline 24th February. Please share: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL260/l...

Starting my Memory & The Brain module for the 10th time this year! Always a bit of anxiety before I start, but then it's always enjoyable and the students are always engaged.

On the edge of the cognitive neuroscientists leaning towards cognitive psychology and open science stuff, which is probably about where I'd place myself TBH