Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

In my latest for @nytimes.com, scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain. I became completely fascinated by navigation while reporting this story. (gift link!) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...

Feeling incredibly grateful! Thank you to my examiners, Ed and Chris, for an engaging and insightful discussion about my work, and to my supervisor, Alexa, for her incredible support and guidance over the past four years. Excited for the next chapter as Dr. Zhang.

Congratulations to the brilliant Xinyue (Joy) Zhang on passing her PhD viva with flying colours and no corrections! Many thanks to her wise examiners Ed Wilding and @chrismbird.bsky.social. It's been a pleasure to have you in our lab, @xyzhang.bsky.social!

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by C. Sainz Martinez, J. Jorge, et al: An optimized framework for simultaneous EEG-fMRI at 7T enabling safe, high-quality human brain imaging with millisecond temporal resolution and sub-millimeter spatial resolution doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

The podcast is now available on Spotify! You can still take part in our survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Ann Arbor killing it with the Halloween decorations, 10/10, no notes

PFI = private finance initiative. Short term gain, big long term pain for patients and the #NHS

What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence #musicscience

I have total #mdrs2025 FOMO 😭 - looking forward to the posts!

🧵8 We focused on fMRI studies of 🧠 networks… but there’s so much more neat idiographic work being done in other neuroimaging & psychology domains! See @mattmattoni.bsky.social's recent review for more thoughts on uniting these perspectives www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Because “brain network features occur in different locations across people”

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models "Furthermore, when generating and evaluating resumes, ChatGPT assumes that women are younger and less experienced, rating older male applicants as of higher quality." No surprise, but now documented: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From Black History Month, exhibition at the library of some of the distinguished alumni of Sussex.ac.uk

Important paper for interpreting #fMRI results on #psychedelics! In short, psilocybin changes neurovascular coupling (i.e., how neural activity links to blood flow). 👇

Decoding performance (MVPA) better for OPM-MEG than SQUID-MEG 😎. The improved spatial specificity of OPM-MEG due to the reduced brain-sensor distance is key. And more sensors (beyond 40) don't improve decoding. Preprint from our recent @thechbh.bsky.social study: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It is a great pleasure to share this new collaborative work on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Representations with @fnim-lab.bsky.social @cvlneuro.bsky.social @psychologyuea.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question. Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...

The brain represents the world around us as a series of neural states - stable patterns of activity that change as we move from one event to the next. New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

@sfn.org please consider hosting your next meeting outside of the 🇺🇸

Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally 👀 Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases. 1/5

Not to mention the terrible effect on universities and research…

Evidence-based review of the Tylenol/ paracetamol - autism controversy stirred up by MAGA and their friends - FREE podcast + detailed notes from evidence-based health/ longevity/ exercise podcaster Peter Attia (not on BSky): share with US friends!! peterattiamd.com/tylenolandau...

Education isn’t zero sum - why are so many in Labour @teamlabouruk.bsky.social down on universities and allow HE to be run down as if that helps those who would not go to Uni - we need to support apprenticeships and FE and HE because all are vital!

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6 2. TUS and TMR in humans: tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj Happy to chat to interested applicants.

New book— just got my copy! I know people often don’t read book chapters but I think that’s a mistake. They are usually much more reflective and wide ranging than journal articles.

New from our CNTRACS collab: Santiago Castiello finds that people with schizophrenia false alarm speech in sine wave stimuli, and benefit more greatly from the templates - particularly if they are voice hearers osf.io/preprints/ps...

This looks important for anyone wanting to define ROIs in lateral PFC…

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A nice one for Pride!

REMINDER to PLEASE vote in the consultative ballot on the 25/26 pay claim!

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal. The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years. eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian children to death. It cannot be sugar coated. It is a fact - an engineered famine - and it’s abhorrent. #Genocide #Gaza

Hive mind: Has anyone seen a good, and realistic, policy around the use of AI in writing articles for publication?

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...

Hundreds march in solidarity with Palestine in Brighton and Hove www.theargus.co.uk/news/2534538...

Paper accepted!!! The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects osf.io/preprints/ps... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

🚨Paper now published! 🚨 The Effects of External Cue Overlap and Internal Goals on Selective Memory Retrieval. Grateful for thorough reviews that made it stronger. Out now in #EJN: doi.org/10.1111/ejn..... w @alexamorcom.bsky.social @MattPlummer @ivorsimpson.bsky.social. Updated summary🧵👇

International study shows that higher levels of education do not reduce rates of cognitive and brain decline in later years, contrary to views that education protects against such decline: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @rhens.bsky.social

One of the most common science myths is that we need 10k steps a day...a number originating from a Japanese ad. In general, the more steps the better, right? However, several studies now identify inflection points around 7k as significantly reducing many health risks, from heart to dementia.

I literally live on a council estate in Archway. I have a mezuzah on my door, my next-door neighbours are Iranian. It's totally completely fine? Sorry, actually, it's nice. We have little chats. Take in each other's parcels. They bring me delicious iftar during Ramadan. I lend them my garden hose.

Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987. No? Well, now you do 😌 Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...

1/2 Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Super happy to share our new preprint! 🥳 An exciting adventure with the fantastic @ivanpadezhki.bsky.social ki.bsky.social, and my first time as senior co-author together with @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social