This study shows leisure activities support domain-specific protection against cognitive decline in visual attention and memory beyond job type & education. Given the role of these processes in spatial navigation, such activities might preserve navigational abilities with aging.

New findings suggest memory framing effects are more complex than previously thought and may not require emotional arousal: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Ece Yuksel presented her poster “Age differences in spatial navigation across real and virtual worlds: A mixed-methods approach” at Psychonomic Society 2025, for which she was awarded the Graduate Travel Award. See all SCANN Lab Psychonomic posters here: scannlab.org/psynom-2025

We are now spread across three institutions, but the SCANN LAN is now reunited at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @eceyuksel.bsky.social @adamjbarnas.com @chengsiy.bsky.social

The SCANN Lab will be at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social this week (except for @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social - he's stuck in Texas.) If you're there, connect with our awesome PhD students! And if you're NOT there, you can still follow our work. www.scannlab.org/psynom-2025

We are excited to announce that Dr. Steven Weisberg, was recently featured in The Dallas Morning News! Read the full article here: www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/10...

One of the folks involved is @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/10...

🎓 PhD Opening Join our NSF project on immersive, multi-user virtual field trips for STEM learning + spatial communication. UT Arlington • 2-yr funded • Fall 2026 🔗 NSF #2336507 → www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... 🔗 SCANN Lab → www.scannlab.org/join-us #PhDposition #STEMeducation #VirtualReality #NSF

Hi! Official job ad posted here - for full consideration, please apply: apply.interfolio.com/175152

Hi! Official job ad posted here - for full consideration, please apply: apply.interfolio.com/175152

🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨 Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging. Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible). Salary: NIH levels. Details 👇

Highly recommended!

Interested in navigation, VR, fMRI, aging? Here's a great postdoc opportunity in @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social's new lab at U Texas Arlington.

🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨 Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging. Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible). Salary: NIH levels. Details 👇

Job market alert! Are you hiring a post-doc? You absolutely must consider the brilliant @ashleykrause.bsky.social I was lucky enough to write a paper with Ashley on a topic I knew oh so little about and learned a TON. Place Coherence - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎧 New Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode ‪@vpmurty.bsky.social describes his research for an SRNDNA Pilot Grant and finding inspiration at a haunted house. He also talks about moving his lab across country and the impact of a single line in his presentations. Listen now: srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/

Stay tuned for more news and info here or on my (currently out-of-date) website: adamjbarnas.com. Happy Friday! open.spotify.com/track/7F22lG...

I am grateful for the support of my friends, family, colleagues, and mentors, including Steve Weisberg (@stevenmweisberg.com), Natalie Ebner (@natalieebner.bsky.social), and Adam Greenberg (@snaplab.bsky.social).

Way to go Adam!!!! Ball State is lucky to have you :)

📰 Professional Update 📰 I’m thrilled to announce that I am joining the University of Texas at Arlington Psychology Department as an Assistant Professor starting in Fall 2025!

Much enjoyed @olivia.science ’s amazing talk about Cognitive Maps and ‘small cakes’. Link to the paper: philarchive.org/rec/GUEANR Check out the thread below for some highlights. Thank you @stevenmweisberg.com for organising this online event and the wonderful hosting!

Barnstorming talk and Q&A from @olivia.science on her recent paper on cognitive maps and small cakes. Really thought provoking and now my head hurts. Also, I could listen to Olivia & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social talk about theory all day!

@multisensorylab.bsky.social has now joined blue sky ! 💙💙💙 (In the same week as @tcdpsychology.bsky.social !) Please connect with our lab for updates on #perception #multisensory research #psychology #academic

We have a new paper online at Psych & Aging! Why and how do older adults navigate? First author Adam Barnas (@adamjbarnas.com) alongside Natalie Ebner (@natalieebner.bsky.social), Eliany Perez, and others. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Link to official version: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Excited that we are recruiting for a new postdoctoral program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at #WashU! Get in touch if you have questions! sites.wustl.edu/systemsneuro...

Excited to share that The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences now has a call for a special issue on 🌟DECISION NEUROSCIENCE IN AGING🌟, led by @debyee.bsky.social, Nathan Spreng, and @klempert.bsky.social as Special Issue Editors! @srndna.bsky.social academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

Why is there not a rating system for social media platforms? Like for video games? Rated G - heavily moderated. ID and age verification required Rated T - mildly moderated. ID and age verification required Rated M - no moderation or verification (hint - this is all social media now, right?)

Excited to share this new empirical work funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social, replicating & extending the work of John Grimes on change blindness during saccades: osf.io/preprints/ps... It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

❤️ 🧪

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12

Standing up for science in Philly!

From Philly 💕💪

I'm all for dunking on someone for confusing transgenic and transgender - what better way to discredit them as fools. And of course those lines of research should continue. But let's not lose sight of the fact that transgender research IS being defunded. Right now. And that's not OK either.

Just had the opportunity to read this more thoroughly. Huge thank you to @olivia.science and @andreaeyleen.bsky.social formally addressing what I see as a major challenge for our field in a way only this particular intersection of expertise could! :) I'm left with three distinct impressions.

Omg guess how much it costs to buy PHD regalia. I could tell you your guess will be low and I bet you would STILL be low.

HCMF: a cancelled study section scheduled on 2/24-2/25 now scheduled for 4/7-4/8 according to my grant status.

On the lighter side, my 7 year old found the funniest combination of stickers possible today.

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org

@altnih4science.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Has anyone with a grant at a cancelled study section been told what to do? Resubmit? Wait…? Something else?

If you’re a Philly area scientist (or other professional threatened by federal cuts) reach out to me if you’d like to write an op-ed for @phillymag.com about the impact: bpearson at phillymag dot com

This afternoon, my study section scheduled for Monday and Tuesday was canceled. It’s Higher Cognitive and Mental Functions, or something like that— HCMF. I wonder why they always wait until the last minute? It’s a pattern and I bet there’s a reason.

In Dallas for the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference, but love this! Ask not what your city can do for you, but what city you can do for your!

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

No—only that it has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. The lack of details was concerning and it’s all very alarming.

36 hours before we are scheduled to meet, #NIH NIA Aging Systems and Geriatrics (ASG) Study panel has been canceled. Devastating news for all of those working so hard on issues related to #aging #AlzheimersDisease #BrainHealth @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social