Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just wanted to say sorry I haven't been active on bsky for a while--it has been difficult balancing writing, research, lab management, and having some personal life, so I'm limiting social media time. 140
Reposted by Charan RanganathAlison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Every time you experience something new, your brain faces a decision: Should it update an existing memory or create a new one? In our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci, we isolate that exact decision, moment-by-moment during learning 🧵 313847
Reposted by Charan RanganathHannah Tarder-Stoll @hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social · 09/07/2026New work out today w/ @mariamaly.bsky.social & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social! When learning a new link between two sequences (like a new transfer point on the subway), the hippocampus rapidly integrates representations to support flexible predictions. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...royalsocietypublishing.orgThe hippocampus rapidly integrates sequence representations during novel multistep predictionsAbstract. Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the 0204
Reposted by Charan RanganathAlex Barnett @alexbarnett.bsky.social · 08/06/2026And of course big shoutout to the authors June-Kyo Kim for her first 1st author paper, Joshua Koh for stepping in to stats guru, and big dog @charan-neuro.bsky.social 091
Reposted by Charan RanganathCommunications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 11/06/2026New research Article in the journal by June-Kyo Kim and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @alexbarnett.bsky.social @charan-neuro.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Charan RanganathThe Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 10/04/2026"Jacobs doesn’t consider himself obsessive or, as many call him, an archivist. He says he’s just a music fan. He figured if he was going to attend a few concerts a week anyway, why not document them?" Volunteers turn a fan’s recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove:apnews.comVolunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure troveIn 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz. 0173
Reposted by Charan RanganathJakub Kuchař @jakubkuchar.cz · 16/05/2026The always great @awaisaftab.bsky.social on the nature of psychiatric diagnosis.nytimes.comOpinion | Here’s What Psychiatrists Mean When They Say You Have A.D.H.D. 074
Reposted by Charan RanganathChris Bird @chrismbird.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Nice study looking at memory cuing when recalling information about a movie (Sherlock - obvs). Within-event cuing little better than between-event cuing. In fact, gist recall is better following a cue from the preceding event which may help "maintain contiguity". www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | Separating the details while maintaining the story: within event episodic integration and across event semantic contiguity in memoryThe within > across effect refers to improved memory for information cued from within the same event compared to across events. Although this effect has been... 02010
Reposted by Charan RanganathThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Explore “Brainstorming,” @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s new LinkedIn newsletter that looks at how neuroscientists are solving research challenges. The first edition features nontraditional model organisms that are well suited for studying certain behaviors or neurological conditions. bit.ly/4v6x506bit.lyThe nontraditional model organism renaissanceEach month, The Transmitter explores creative approaches neuroscientists are taking to solve problems that arise in their research. In this installment, we see how researchers work backward from speci... 13820
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026One of those small highlights to my day was popping on @npr.org and hearing @paller.bsky.social interviewed about his lucid dreaming research! 050
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 25/01/2026It's really hard to think about anything else right now, this situation is heartbreaking. 0101
Reposted by Charan RanganathBernhard Staresina @bstaresina.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Last week to apply! Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager at @oxexppsy.bsky.social (with links to @oxcin.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ833/c...jobs.ac.ukCognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager at University of OxfordCheck out jobs.ac.uk for opportunities in professional services, including Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager. Apply today and learn more about the role. 11521
Reposted by Charan RanganathDavid Clewett @davidclewett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I share your frustration and I’m sorry you’re going through this. UCPath AI is a nightmare and I recently went through similar issues with lapses in UC-related insurance (with an injured ankle that requires care and doctor’s appointments, no less) 021
Reposted by Charan RanganathTimo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor. osf.io/preprints/ps... People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵 52813
Reposted by Charan RanganathRenil Mathew @renilmathew.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Excited to share my first first-author paper in Nature Methods!🤩 A quest to solve fMRI–EEG interference revealed a hidden strength in the usually discarded “dummy” scans. That spark became SASS-fMRI — boosting sensitivity and enabling silent, flexible experiments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comStimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI - Nature MethodsStimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with acquisition-free perio... 0113
Reposted by Charan RanganathCharlie Ferris @charlesferris.bsky.social · 31/10/2025This 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...npr.orgThis week's Short Wave news roundupRegina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave talk about spider web architecture, storytelling and memory, and why more TV pixels may not translate to a better viewing experience. 011
Reposted by Charan RanganathUC Davis Psychology @ucdavispsych.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Our 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...lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.eduCareer Award for Richard Robins Among Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2025 HonorsRichard Robins is among the 2025 honorees of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the world’s largest association of social and personality psychologists. 073
Reposted by Charan RanganathJacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · 07/10/2025You 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...doi.orgAPA PsycNet 0207
Reposted by Charan RanganathOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2025New 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/ 16527191
Reposted by Charan RanganathRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I 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 🧵) 715294729899
Reposted by Charan RanganathBrynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Last 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.orgmomentslab.orgMoments Lab 28548
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Word. "General" intelligence will involve inherent compromises. More data or layers is not the answer. Metacognition is what helps humans calibrate confidence. 040
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Very cool new results from @alexbarnett.bsky.social ! 181
Reposted by Charan RanganathUC Davis Center for Neuroscience @ucdaviscns.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Happy 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 051
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 08/09/2025We are looking for our next colleague. Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions! 1227
Reposted by Charan RanganathDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 08/09/2025😏 ...Next? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comApple Sued by Authors for Copyright InfringementOn Friday, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of illegally using their books to train its AI. 213749
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I 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! 1123
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 05/09/2025So 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. 130
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 13/08/2025New 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) 0152
Reposted by Charan RanganathCalMatters @calmatters.org · 13/08/2025Breaking: 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 3431116
Reposted by Charan RanganathDenis Lan @denislan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025My 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) 13111
Reposted by Charan RanganathBradley Love @profdata.bsky.social · 27/11/2024"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 19279109
Reposted by Charan RanganathMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 30/07/2025I’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!nature.comStomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental HealthUsing a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i... 819847
Reposted by Charan RanganathNorman Lab @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025New 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...doi.orgRedirecting 1219
Reposted by Charan RanganathMariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I 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/eyaXArdcu.beEye movements provide insight into amnesiaNature Reviews Neuroscience - In this Journal Club, Mariam Aly discusses a 2000 study that attempted to settle the debate about whether implicit memories are lost or retained in amnesia. 14713
Reposted by Charan RanganathNeil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 26/07/2025This 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 1263
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Being 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!youtu.be"Automaton" by theNULLYouTube video by Charan Ranganath 1151
Reposted by Charan RanganathIda Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I'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: 57811
Reposted by Charan RanganathMarta Silva @martamasilva.bsky.social · 01/07/2025🧠 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/eui9lrdcu.beMovie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundariesNature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human... 815968
Reposted by Charan RanganathSabina Srokova @sabina-srokova.bsky.social · 01/07/2025A 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. 051
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Super cool to see this replayed! @nprfreshair.bsky.social 072
Reposted by Charan RanganathJon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I 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!jobs.cam.ac.ukResearch Assistant (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of CambridgeResearch Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. 11018
Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Just 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 081
Reposted by Charan Ranganathneurologicpodcast.bsky.social @neurologicpodcast.bsky.social · 27/05/2025🎙️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... 083
Reposted by Charan Ranganathneurologicpodcast.bsky.social @neurologicpodcast.bsky.social · 23/05/2025👀 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 0113