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Eitan Schechtman

@eitans.bsky.social
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Asst prof at Dept of Neurobiology & Behavior + Center for Neurobiology of Learning & Memory @ucirvine.bsky.social Sleep, cognition & wellbeing 🛌💤🔀🧠. PhD: Hebrew U; Postdoc: Northwestern U. He/him. Views are my own & don't reflect those of my employers.

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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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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026
FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!
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Tony Cunningham @tonycunningham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A nice real-world look at the sleep–mood relationship: across 1,712 nights with home EEG, Pierson-Bartel et al. found later sleep onset predicted lower positive affect the next day. Sleep timing may matter for mood independently of how well we sleep. buff.ly/iryU8Qc
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Sleep timing regulates mood: A multilevel-EEG study of daily life
Sleep and mood are homeostatically regulated systems essential for mental and physical health. Understanding how sleep timing and mood dynamically influence each other, and which individual traits mod...
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Omer Sharon @omersharon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Another postdoc piece out today in @natneuro.nature.com! 🧠💤 In unimpaired older adults, frontal tau pathology tracked with lonely NREM slow waves that fail to travel — and these waves predicted worse overnight memory. full-text: rdcu.be/jDcgH2sK8VZa @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 🧵👇
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Human tau pathology is associated with lonely, nontraveling slow waves linked to memory impairment - Nature Neuroscience
Frontal cortical tau pathology in aging humans is associated with reduced slow-wave travel during sleep. This reduced propagation is associated with poorer overnight memory retention, supporting a lin...
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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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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hippocampal CA1 neurons are crucial for sleep-associated memory formation in humans: The role of theta power during NREM sleep www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
University of California, Irvine (UCI) (@ucirvine.bsky.social) is hiring: Open Rank Professor of Teaching in Statistics #professor #statistics
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Tony Cunningham @tonycunningham.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How long after learning can sleep still reshape a memory? A pre-print from Moyano et al. suggests that targeted memory reactivation during NREM sleep reduced forgetting even when the memories had been learned 24 hours earlier. Exciting news for building learning over time! doi.org/10.64898/202...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hippocampal stimulation timed to memory reactivation shapes human sleep oscillatory dynamics and consolidation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Tony Cunningham @tonycunningham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Interesting evidence that sleep-dependent memory processing may begin before we even fall asleep: Denis et al. found that theta activity during learning predicted later slow oscillation–spindle coupling during sleep, which in turn predicted better memory. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Theta oscillations tag episodic memories for sleep-dependent consolidation
Why some experiences are retained while others fade remains a central question in memory research. This study shows that theta-band activity during learning marks memories for sleep-dependent consolid...
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our new paper.. 🚨Dreams about the 2024 US Presidential Election 🚨 UPSHOT: -Tons of people dreamed about the election -People who dreamed about it felt worse about it the following morning. And worse about their future and the collective future of the country. No baseline diffs. #sleeppeeps 🧠🟦
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The American dream: Election night dreams predict overnight change in feelings about the election and the future
Real-life experiences are often incorporated into our dreams. Does dreaming about those experiences affect how we feel about them? Prior studies have suggested that dreaming may attenuate emotional re...
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411
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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Lisa Genzel (she/her) @lgenzel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New paper from the lab! In this project we identified different ripple types and link them to behavior and other sleep oscillations doi.org/10.1093/slee...
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Our department at Furman University is hiring, in social or social cognitive -- In many ways, Furman is a uniquely excellent place to work for someone who values both teaching and research, looking to do both in a liberal arts environment. Happy to candidly answer questions (DM me).
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Tenure-Track Position in Social or Social Cognitive Psychology
Welcome to Furman University's Career Site! IMPORTANT: Load all documents in the My Experience area under Resume/CV. This may include your resume/C.V., cover letter, unofficial transcript, teaching ph...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 29/08/2026
*Sharing for our department’s trainees* 🧠 Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology? ✨ Apply by Sep 21st to Stanford Psychology's 10th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info session/workshop to have all of your questions answered! 📝 Application: forms.gle/4nujgDd3W2tx...
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Paths to a Psychology Ph.D.: An Information Session and Workshop
Join Stanford Psychology graduate students, research assistants, and faculty for a free one-day virtual information session and workshop on applying to research positions and Ph.D. programs in psychol...
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.
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Middle Eastern Neuroscience @middleeasternneuro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The registration for the long awaited 2nd Middle Eastern Systems Neuroscience Symposium is now open! We offer amazing talks, exclusive networking opportunities and for lucky ~50 people great dinner with the friends you made along the way. Visit our website to register: www.middleeastneuro.com
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Middle Eastern Systems Neuroscience Symposium
Join the Middle Eastern Systems Neuroscience Symposium on November 14, 2025, UCSD, San Diego, in conjunction with the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting. This event fosters scientific collaboratio...
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Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
end of the summer, time to share some cool recent @elife.bsky.social papers: this *important* study shows how locus coeruleus activity is coordinated with heart rate during sleep, confirming previous work in mice and humans, with a possible role for sleep-dependent memory consolidation
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Noradrenergic infraslow rhythm during sleep is the critical link between heart-rate dynamics and memory consolidation
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Excited to have Taylor's work with me and Daphna Shohamy out in Open Mind now: even at the end of an event, it's not too late to prioritize it for long-term memory!
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Tony Cunningham @tonycunningham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A study from Azza et al found that >REM theta and sleep spindle activity after an experimental trauma were linked to fewer intrusive memories over the next 6 days. REM theta was also associated w/ less negative affect a week later indicating a protective role for 😴 ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sleep to remember, sleep to protect: increased sleep spindle and theta activity predict fewer intrusive memories after analogue trauma - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Sleep to remember, sleep to protect: increased sleep spindle and theta activity predict fewer intrusive memories after analogue trauma
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Now out in Learning and Memory! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42608289/ Fun collaboration with @alexatompary.bsky.social, led by then-undergrad Tiange (Summer) Lu, who just started grad school at Rice, working with @asinclair.bsky.social!
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No evidence for sleep-dependent memory generalization in a large online sample - PubMed
Memory generalization allows individuals to extract and apply information from prior experiences to novel situations, supporting flexible learning and efficient decision-making. Theoretical models suggest that sleep should facilitate generalization, yet the literature examining its role in promoting …
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Tony Cunningham @tonycunningham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Schaeffer et al. recently used temporal interference stimulation during NREM sleep to increase slow-wave activity—& the effect continued after stimulation ended. Across nights, larger increases were linked to reports of more restorative sleep. Very exciting potential! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Enhancement of sleep slow wave activity using transcranial electrical stimulation with temporal interference: an interim analysis of the STRENGTHEN study - Communications Medicine
Schaeffer et al. assess the use of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation with Temporal Interference (TES-TI) and high-density electroencephalography during overnight sleep in healthy humans. Findings…
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Now out in J Neuro Methods! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ncNe_3m9L... Code, data and materials are also available on OSF.
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Hayley Bree Caldwell @hayley-b-caldwell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My paper exploring EEG phase dynamics across sleep and retrieval training has just been published online! This paper summarises the work I conducted with Sebastian Michelmann and Simon Hanslmayr, during my PhD. The paper is open access, so feel free to give it a read🧠 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Phase similarity between similar objects indicates representational merging across retrieval training but not sleep
Abstract. Retrieval training (i.e., cued recall) is theorised to induce rapid memory consolidation, similarly to sleep. Across consolidation, related neural representations become increasingly similar...
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩‍🔬#OpenAccess
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Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques - Nature Neuroscience
In macaques, old memories, relative to new ones, are supported by more stable and interconnected cell assemblies. New-biased and old-biased assemblies reactivate during overnight sleep and can sometim...
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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social
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Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits
To make flexible decisions, the brain needs to make inferences between events that were not directly experienced together. In sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events, during periods of rest and sleep, spiking ...
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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus 👀👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Thompson, Rollik and colleagues show that, during sleep, the brain replays procedural memories in the striatum independently of the hippocampus. Replay content was shaped by prior reward and error out...
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Fabian Schwimmbeck @fabian31415.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Can we study MTL ripples non-invasively? New preprint! We show that source-resolved MEG tracks ripple-like activity during sleep that: • localizes to the MTL • follows the canonical SO–spindle hierarchy • matches an iEEG benchmark • indexes memory reactivation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Non-invasive tracking of ripple-like activity during human sleep using MEG
Hippocampal ripples are considered a key mechanism of sleep-dependent memory consolidation. In humans, however, their direct investigation has relied on invasive recordings from patients with epilepsy...
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Night-to-night sleep EEG variability over one year: We found that intra-individual night-to-night variation was low for spectral power, sleep duration, N2 and REM sleep; medium for N3 and macrostructure; and high for sleep cycle duration, wake and N1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Night-to-night sleep EEG variability over one year
This study aimed to explore night-to-night variability of multiscale sleep patterns by analyzing subcutaneous electroencephalography (sqEEG) from 20 healthy participants over one year (205–388 nights ...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Post-encoding slow-wave amplitude during a daytime nap predicts pattern completion from sparse visual cues www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We tested this idea with a representative large-scale survey, and confirmed that higher dream recall frequency is indeed associated with more frequent dream-reality confusions: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Morgan Barense @barense.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Check out our @royalsociety.org Philosophical Transactions B theme issue, "The role of hippocampal prediction: bridging perception and memory." Thanks to all our fabulous authors, and my co-editors @peterkok.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social who dreamed it up and kept the train on the tracks.
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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Very excited to share our new review on C-HORSE, our model of the hippocampus! We think there is very encouraging alignment between C-HORSE proposals and the extant empirical literature, though we also note plenty of areas for further model development. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
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Evidence for complementary learning systems within the hippocampus
Abstract. Decades of research have established the hippocampus as central to episodic memory, but growing evidence suggests that it also contributes to str
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We're finally getting the tools to study replay in humans. But why bother? What can we learn from it that we don't know from rodent recordings? Our thoughts are now out in a new TICS Forum Great fun writing this w @smfleming.bsky.social + @maritpetzka.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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What can we learn from studying replay in humans?
Noninvasive methods are making it possible to study neural replay in humans. Although focused on alignment with rodent findings, human research often …
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Louise Risher @louise-risher.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I love, love, love this idea!! Spread the word!
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Roddy Grieves @roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
During sleep, neurons in the hippocampus 'replay' past activity patterns. This is thought to underlie memory consolidation 🧠 After a busy day, how does the brain sort out what is worth replaying? 🤔 Check out this preprint 📃 from Tirole, Duvelle and Bendor for answers! doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Time, but not reward, shapes replay-based episodic prioritization
Why are some experiences remembered better than others? Leading theories propose that hippocampal replay prioritizes memories for consolidation according to their expected future value. We recorded hi...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place: thetransmitter.org/neuroscience... #neuroskyence
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ALBA Network @network-alba.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🌈 As Pride Month comes to a close, we're proud to introduce Brainbow—a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Help us reach everyone by sharing with friends & colleagues around the world! loom.ly/2_KfMCU @fens.org @ibroorg.bsky.social @sfn.org @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
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Liz Siefert @lizsiefert.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples
Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....
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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We're proud to introduce Brainbow, a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Brainbow aims to provide a safe space, even for those in the closet (emails & names are optional). It also includes channels for communities within the LGBTQIA+ umbrella (eg, trans/non-binary) 1/2
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Join Brainbow on Slack
Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Nora Roüast @norarouast.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ever wondered what having auditory stimulation does to the sleep itself? Random stimulation disturbs SWS, memory, and travelling dynamics of slow waves. New paper in iScience with @mschoenauer.bsky.social, @denizkumral.bsky.social, and Steffen Gais! doi.org/10.1016/j.is... #sleep #neuroskyence
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Who needs sleep when you can just slow wave during wake? www.nature.com/articles/s41... #sleeppeeps
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Induction of cortical on/off periods in awake mice fulfills sleep functions - Nature Neuroscience
Driessen et al. show that core benefits of sleep—reduced local sleep pressure, renormalized synaptic strength and memory consolidation—can be reproduced in awake, behaving mice by inducing sleep-like ...
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Zoe Ngo @zoengo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We are looking to fill a PhD position for an exciting project on the development of memory consolidation karriere.charite.de/tarifvertraege. This project is part of the DFG-funded CRC www.sfb1315.de/de/sfb1315-2/ and is a collaboration between my lab, Claudia Buss, and @yeeleeshing.bsky.social.
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Tarifverträge: Charité
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Simon Kern @skjerns.de · 15/06/2026
🧠 New preprint! How well can current algorithms *actually* detect neural "replay" in the human brain under absolutely optimal conditions? We built FASTIMAGES: A combined MEG + fMRI benchmark with KNOWN neural sequences, so replay-detection methods can finally be validated against a ground truth.
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FASTIMAGES: Validating replay detection methods in human neuroimaging
A combined MEG + fMRI benchmark dataset with known neural sequences to validate replay detection methods (TDLM and SODA).
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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