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Aidan Horner

@aidanhorner.bsky.social
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. Co-director of York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC). Interested in memory, spatial navigation and brain imaging. He/Him www.aidanhorner.org

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 3h
Croatia really weren't great, but damn England were good today
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nominations are open for the Jeffrey L. Elman Prize! The prize honors mid-career cognitive scientists whose work shows scientific excellence and a real commitment to community building. Deadline: Nov 18 🗓️ Details and how to nominate: cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/ #CogSci #Award
Graphic announcing “Submit your nominations for the 2027 Jeffrey L. Elman Prize,” with the subtitle “For Scientific Achievement and Community Building,” on a dark teal background with a geometric pattern in the lower-left corner.
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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The deadline for symposium submissions is the 2nd November, so you have exactly one month to get your submissions in!!
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026
early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Home coffee machine getting picked up for well needed maintenance which means we're without a machine for the weekend. Wish us luck 🙏
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Deadline is tomorrow!!
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday we celebrated the 50th birthday of @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! A little bit late, but worth the wait and great to see so many old and new colleagues talking about what a fantastic department York Psychology was, is, and will continue to be
Large screen with the words Department of Psychology and 50th Anniversary with a photo of the department underneath a rainbow. The head of department, Lisa Henderson, is standing to the right of the photo
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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We were told at the start of the year that MRC funding boards had been told to recommend far fewer grants for funding than normal It took a while for the data to come through, but they confirm success rates were down by a big margin The question is now whether the new MRC model will reverse that
A far smaller share of applicants were awarded grants by MRC funding boards in Spring 2026 than in previous yearsOnly 26 awards were made in Spring 2026, compared to 57 in Spring 2024
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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 New preprint! With @mdelmarco.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social Can episodic memory become more flexible, expanding retrieval to new cues, without sacrificing concrete details? Our results suggest so, highlighting the adaptive nature of episodic memory www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Episodic memory adaptively expands retrieval through typicality-guided transformation while concrete details remain accessible
Memory faces a fundamental challenge. It has to become flexible enough to be accessed by novel cues without losing the specific information that defines each individual episode. Whether memory transfo...
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Early Career Researchers: Apply to present at the 2027 Winter Neuroscience Conference in Sölden, Austria. Deadline 31 Oct: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Conference information: www.swc.ucl.ac.uk/winterneuros... @sandra-neuro.bsky.social
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting insights into spatial memory and hippocampal function in humans: Navigation strategies predict spatial memory and hippocampal recruitment Work Zita Patai (who I wish was still in my lab!) www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Navigation strategies predict spatial memory and hippocampal recruitment
Patai, E.Z. et al. show via analyzing spontaneous navigation behavior that humans are idiosyncratic, flexibly adapt strategies to variable degrees to achieve learning, and that strategies do not refle...
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fully funded PhD studentship investigating sleep’s role in forgetting unwanted memories at my lab at @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, starting in September 2027. Funding includes UK home fees and a 3-year tax-free stipend (~£22K per year). Please share widely www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Forgetting unwanted memories during sleep at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Forgetting unwanted memories during sleep at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
World champions? Really? #ENGSPA
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OK, been much better since #engspa
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh Guéhi, that really was awful
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 25/09/2026
Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain Institute focused on understanding and improving brain health across our lifespan, from early childhood through to old age. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4hpgZsl @mrccbu.bsky.social
A large brick building with two stories and a conservatory is surrounded by greenery. Text reads, "Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain institute."
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The deadline for this new role is 2nd October, so you have a week left to apply!
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not only am I evaluating MCQ exam questions on a train at 9.30pm after a busy few days travelling for work, I'm also evaluating previous me's questionable life choices
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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally got around to writing a new post on Barely Informative Content. It is all about random effects in mixed-effects modelling and how to know what the "maximal" model structure is in your experiment: sites.google.com/view/jamieco... #R #lme4 #performance #mixedeffects #stats #INeedALife
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Jamie Cockcroft, PhD
Welcome to Barely Informative Content (or BIC for short); this is a corner of the internet where I ramble about statistics and other topics that take my fancy. Expect niche takes and mild existential ...
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/09/2026
We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵
We are looking at two pewter plates with an assortment of large brass and iron keys in various shapes and sizes.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Honestly, whoever invented water was a genius. It's up there with the wheel, chocolate, fire and gravy. Top notch
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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 24/09/2026
🍂 Autumn colours are starting to arrive across the Dales, and this border collie definitely understood the assignment. 🐾🧡 #YorkshireDales #Autumn #UpperWensleydale
A border collie sits on a large rock overlooking the Yorkshire Dales at sunrise. Golden sunlight fills the sky and illuminates the rolling hills and grassy moorland, with the dog's brown and white coat blending into the warm autumn colours of the landscape.
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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now accepted and published --- with many thanks to the referees for helping sharpen the manuscript. Long time since the first notes. Good to see it officially out. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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A vector navigation and inference architecture can construct universal cognitive maps for abstract reasoning
Bicanski proposes an algorithm and neural mechanisms for the iterative construction of abstract cognitive maps via non-local inference. Map positions are triangulated and memorized by a set of extant ...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Quite impressive that every single train I've seen listed in Germany today has been late. I knew they were unreliable, but kudos for being so reliably unreliable
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The WiFi could have been better, but I'm over halfway from York (UK) to Bochum (Germany) on the train and it is infinitely better than flying. I've had leg room and a table and I've got loads of work done
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The students are back for the start of term which means the campus is once again alive! Always love the buzz associated with a new academic year
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Masa's paper is out in Hippocampus. The left-right alternation of hippocampal theta sequences at T-maze choice points, much loved as a 'planning' signal, falls straight out of MEC dynamics. Well done @masahironakano.bsky.social, fun project with @clopathlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/hipo.70131
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Me: I'm so bored of Sheeran and AI discourse. I've seen every take from every angle and I can't take any more takes Also me: continues to monotonously scroll through BSky for hours
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having them do stuff in words is psychologically equivalent to whacking googly eyes on them
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Aida Rincón Chong @aidarc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
meg-uki 2026 was my fav conference yet !! the talks were all amazing and i got the most useful feedback i’ve ever gotten on a poster 🙂‍↕️ hope to be back next year 🥺🫶
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're hiring! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist to support & develop MRI. This is a new role to reflect our commitment to pushing forward MRI research at York. Come join the team! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #neurojobs #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Jobs - The University of York
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The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How Ed Miliband's late mum was at the forefront of his mind during his statement on Israel-Palestine.
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sepex.bsky.social @sepex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience (Human Neuroscience Lab, CIMCYC, University of Granada) Os enviamos información sobre una oferta de contrato postdoctoral en el Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, Granada. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en…
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Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience (Human Neuroscience Lab, CIMCYC, University of Granada)
Os enviamos información sobre una oferta de contrato postdoctoral en el Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, Granada. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ Job offer (1) Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience The Human Neuroscience Lab ( of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, …
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey our psychology department is recruiting an assistant professor in developmental psychology - please check it out universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
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University & College Vacancies
Connecting talent with opportunity in higher education
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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Cunningham & O’Connell Laboratories at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience are recruiting a 3-year postdoc for the MAP-IT project! 🧠 Using OPM-MEG to improve localisation of epileptogenic tissue in glioma-associated epilepsy. Ideal start: Q1 2027.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is how the Butlerian jihad began.
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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
September Colours. 19°C and a gentle breeze. Squirrels.
September Colours. 19°C and a gentle breeze. Squirrels
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hmmm... www.ukri.org/news/ukri-mo...
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UKRI modernises grant assessment for the age of AI
UKRI is updating its grant assessment approach to speed up grant decisions, respond to generative AI and ensure we continue backing the best talent and ideas.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're hiring! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist to support & develop MRI. This is a new role to reflect our commitment to pushing forward MRI research at York. Come join the team! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #neurojobs #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Jobs - The University of York
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For decades, dreaming has been hypothesized to contribute to emotional memory processing. Here, we investigated how reactivating highly emotional autobiographical memories prior to sleep affects dream content and subsequent emotional appraisal of these memories. #sleeppeeps #psychscisky 🧠🟦
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Experimentally Manipulating Dream Content by Reactivating a Remote Emotional Memory
This research demonstrates that reactivating remote emotional memories before sleep influences subsequent dream emotions. Notably, we found no evidence tha
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're hiring! 2 postdocs + 3 PhD students to join InfantNeuroAI at Trinity College Dublin: awake infant fMRI & OPM-MEG, plus computational models of how infants learn. Aims: understand infant visual cognition, infant neuroimaging methods, more energy-efficient learning 🧵 www.cusacklab.org/vacancies
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Daniel Reznik 🎶 @reznikdaniel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Now out in Hippocampus!! 📣💥 We examined anatomical inputs to the hippocampal region in six species - the tenrec, rat, marmoset, cat, macaque, and human - and found that hippocampal processing operates on fundamentally different types of information across species! (1/3) dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo...
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Phylogeny of Cortical‐Hippocampal Projections Reveals Selective Elimination of Input From Sensory Regions
The study of cross-species differences in the organization of the cerebral cortex received significant attention during the past century. However, the evolutionary principles governing changes in bra...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not to brag, but our family of 4 played a full game of monopoly to the bitter end over the last two days and there was no shouting or crying and it ended amicably
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Weekend bake
Tin loaf on a wooden chopping board, from the side
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How do we prevent memories from competing to guide attention? More distinct hippocampal representations for competing memories are linked to precise preparatory coding in visual cortex & more accurate eye movements to target locations. Thrilled to share this work by the incomparable Serra Favila!
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Hippocampal mechanisms underlying the resolution of competition in memory and perception - Nature Communications
Memory and perception both require selecting behaviorally relevant information. Here, the authors show that more distinct hippocampal memories are linked to precise anticipatory signals in visual cort...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Two things can be true: 1. having a no-AI use policy and getting people to say they haven't used AI can set clear expectations and reduce AI-use and 2. that policy might not be enough and widespread use might still occur
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Looking forward to two days of awesome cognitive neuroscience research in Brighton thanks to @bacn.co.uk!
Brighton beach with pier in the background and sea to the right
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's the time of the year you get to hear about all the awesome academics who have been deservedly promoted, and I'm here for it!
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