This week a study of ours was (briefly) covered on NPR's All Things Considered during their bi-weekly science roundup. It's a short listen, covered third in this section (starting around 5m30s) featuring comments from @charan-neuro.bsky.social . www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...

Our very own Rick Robins received the prestigious @spspnews.bsky.social 2025 Block Award in recognition of the many accomplishments throughout his career. Several other members of our Social-Personality Area also received honors and awards from SPSP. lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-notewor...

You learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect. Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out! www.momentslab.org

Word. "General" intelligence will involve inherent compromises. More data or layers is not the answer. Metacognition is what helps humans calibrate confidence.

Very cool new results from @alexbarnett.bsky.social !

Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week! We're thrilled to spotlight 💫Dr. Qianqian Wan💫, a postdoctoral scholar in @charan-neuro.bsky.social's Dynamic Memory Lab and Dr. Joy Geng's Attention Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social. Learn more: dml.ucdavis.edu #PostdocAppreciationWeek2025 #NPAW2025 #LabsToLives

We are looking for our next colleague. Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions!

😏 ...Next? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I really enjoyed talking to Meryl Horn about memory, & the Science Vs. team put it together w/interviews from Jan Born & Loren Frank and made an episode that's clear, true to the science, and fun!

So my book, "Why We Remember" (English and Italian versions) plus a ton of my papers are in this database. Sad but unsurprising given that ChatGPT can tell me all sorts of things about my book. Sharing this for anyone else who might be affected.

New study examining predictive eye movements during naturalistic events. These effects can occur without awareness and show sleep-mediated consolidation effects. Cool stuff! (I only made a small contribution to the study but it was fun to be involved)

Breaking: A federal judge ordered the Trump admin. to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants that it suspended at UCLA, delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1 billion settlement buff.ly/cJKbdTY 📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social 📸 Jules Hotz

My first PhD paper - with @lhuntneuro.bsky.social and @summerfieldlab.bsky.social - is now out in @plosbiology.org! We ask: how do humans (and deep neural networks) navigate flexibly even in unfamiliar environments, such as a new city? Link: plos.io/45uSwNm 🧵 (1/6)

"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

New paper led by @codydong.bsky.social now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, exploring the relationship between memory-augmented LLMs and human episodic memory – see Cody’s post below for a short thread and a non-paywalled paper link! #NeuroAI doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

I was given the opportunity to write a brief highlight of a paper that is important to the field & personally meaningful, and I chose to write about @drjenryan.bsky.social's elegant work linking the hippocampus to eye movement markers of relational memory. Read more about it here! 👇🏼 rdcu.be/eyaXA

This is a terrible take, starting with the assumption that models based on *text* accurately reflect Language, snd that Language itself is an amodal, arbitrary, symbolic system, which it’s not. Language is inherently multimodal and polysemiotic, and text is not natural language production

Being a scientist is my day job, but I also write and perform music. I've finally posted some live vids by my band, theNULL: youtu.be/Zdu6Z2XpqeM?... We also have an Instagram @thenull_davis and it would really help us to get some follows for getting gigs. Speaking of which, merch is coming soon!

I've been building a model of how intrusive thoughts can warp cognitive maps (world model) in PTSD & derail goal-directed behavior. It combines successor representation & prioritized replay. I started off with a grid world, then embeddings. Today in a story recall task, reading the text was moving:

🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l

A very cool follow-up on one of the first studies I did with @fnim-lab.bsky.social. Older adults do not gate task-irrelevant information during episodic retrieval. New data reveal that this is not due to age differences in memory strength, but may instead reflect a decline in inhibitory control.

Super cool to see this replayed! @nprfreshair.bsky.social

I am recruiting a postgraduate research assistant to work in the Cambridge Memory Lab, administering cognitive tasks and helping with lab administration. Would suit someone who's just finished their degree and wants to gain research experience before further study. Please apply!

Trump vs Musk

Just coming back after an exhilarating meeting at #TAMeG2025. Thank you to @brianlevine.bsky.social & the amazing student organizing committee for putting together a stellar day of science. Coming back inspired for organizing the Bay Area Memory Meeting! #BAMM

🎙️New Episode Out Now! We spoke with Dr. Charan Ranganath (@charan-neuro.bsky.social) about the science behind memory. He explained why our brains are built to forget, how stress and aging shape memory, and shared strategies to strengthen it. 🔗 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5llQ...

👀 Sneak peek alert! We sat down and chatted with Dr. Charan Ranganath (@charan-neuro.bsky.social‬), author of Why We Remember and leading memory researcher. 🧠✨ Full episode drops next week —you won’t want to miss this! #Neuroscience #Memory #WhyWeRemember #Podcast

Can't wait!

New from our lab: your brain doesn’t just remember time - it bends it. We show that the dopamine system responds to natural breakpoints in experience, and this relates to more stretched memories of time. Blinking also increases, signaling encoding of new memories. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

APA leads a coalition of 76 organizations fighting for science and health! Check it out!!! unitedsciencealliance.org/united-call-...

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read here: rdcu.be/ek01F

GTA researchers register NOW #TAMeG2025 feat @charan-neuro.bsky.social w SciComm panel C Boyce @schalllab.bsky.social & @barense.bsky.social Don't miss our 10th Anniv Gala 🎊 feat alumni panel @diamondn.bsky.social @ivabrunec.bsky.social, S Pishdadian, S Parimoo & S Rosenbaum tameg.weebly.com

Excited to announce the Madison Symposium on Memory and Control! postlab.psych.wisc.edu/msmc/: @paller.bsky.social, @karihoffman.bsky.social, Joel Voss, @charan-neuro.bsky.social , Thilo Womelsdorf, @earlkmiller.bsky.social . Best talk titles ever! (vote for your favorite here 🤗)

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!

Charan Ranganath, neurocientífico experto en memoria: "A medida que envejecemos, la corteza prefrontal no funciona tan eficientemente y nos encontramos luchando cuando tenemos que encontrar la información correcta en la memoria". www.infosalus.com/salud-invest...

🐘 'Popular science at its best: entertaining and thought-provoking.' FT 🐘 'Life-changing.' Siddhartha Mukherjee The unforgettable New York Times bestseller, Why We Remember by Dr Charan Ranganath is out now in paperback.

Boosting Your Learning and Presenting with the Science of Memory with Dr. Charan Ranganath The science behind our brain’s capacity to remember (and forget) How emotions shape memory How to hack your brain for enhanced retention The 4 C’s of memorable messaging

Neurovědec a psycholog Charan Ranganath na základě aktuálních výzkumů a poutavých osobních příběhů boří zažité mýty o vzpomínkách, zapomínání i efektivním učení. Odhaluje nejen způsob, jímž náš mozek pracuje s minulostí, ale především, jak tyto informace dále využíváme k porozumění sobě samým. ⤵️

I'm reading THE DOOR-TO-DOOR BOOKSTORE by Carsten Henn and (for research) WHY WE REMEMBER (on the science of memory) by Charan Ranganath.

Surprising truths about memory with Dr. Ranganath Dr. Charan Ranganath, author of "Why We Remember" reveals why forgetting isn’t a flaw but a feature of our brains and how simple strategies can dramatically improve recall.

Humans learn very differently to machines, thanks to our biased, malleable memory – and that's a good thing, says Charan Ranganath, director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis

@paller.bsky.social starts by asking this packed house how many people slept well last night. A decent number....good job #CNS2025! Let's learn more about what this means at the cognitive level!

I can say personally that my scientific career would not have existed if @paller.bsky.social hadn't taken in this advisor-less clinical psychology student into his lab. A number of his mentees have similar stories. I can't think of a more deserving recipient of this award.

My favorite conference is the Memory Disorders Research Society meeting. It's a delightful community: top-notch research & wonderful people who have been so supportive in my career. Want to join? Nominations for membership (including self-nominations) are open until April 9! Form at the top👇🏼