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Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ)

@igcastillejo.bsky.social
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Psych PhD candidate at UAM, visiting MIT / Unconscious Working Memory 🧠

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 28/08/2026
👏Congratulations to everyone who contributed to the project: Alicia Franco-Martínez @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social, Ricardo Rey-Sáez @ricardoreysaez.bsky.social, and Ignacio Castillejo @igcastillejo.bsky.social.
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 28/08/2026
Congratulations to the project “Psicometríes,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! Psicometríes is a space dedicated to disseminating science, psychology, methodology, and psychometrics. buff.ly/jcpJKev
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Psicometríes
Espacio dedicado a la divulgación de la Ciencia, la Psicología, la Metodología y la Psicometría, creado por @AliciaFrancoXVE pero abierto a quienes, desde cualquier nivel de formación, les apetezca…
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Miguel Vadillo @mavadillo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Very proud of SIPS commendation to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social 's paper with guidelines and recommendations to ECRs running their first manylabs study.
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Bowen Zheng @bwz-brain.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Finally putting this work out as a preprint :) Thanks to Emery Brown and @earlkmiller.bsky.social for helping conceptualize this work! Code: github.com/Bowen-Zheng-... and a tutorial notebook on the key ideas: github.com/Bowen-Zheng-... A 3-min overview below: (1/)
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GitHub - Bowen-Zheng-99/joint-ssmt: Bayesian state-space model for joint inference of oscillatory dynamics and point-process coupling
Bayesian state-space model for joint inference of oscillatory dynamics and point-process coupling - Bowen-Zheng-99/joint-ssmt
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Ricardo Rey-Sáez (β) @ricardoreysaez.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Finally, our paper is out! Together with @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social, Javier Revuelta, and @mavadillo.bsky.social, we extend hierarchical factor models for skewed RTs and task validation, now in Psychological Methods: doi.org/10.1037/met0... Let me briefly explain what we did and why it matters!
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The brain can't be solved by a purely reductionistic approach. Reductionism in Engram Neuroscience pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #neuroscience
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Reductionism in Engram Neuroscience
Engrams are a hypothetical construct in neuroscience used to explain memory phenomena. The search for engrams has been energised by the advent of certain reductionist methods that intervene at lower l...
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Alicia Franco-Martínez (λ) @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This week I presented some modest resources on how to calculate statistical power for multisite projects at the Multilevel Conference in Utrecht. Feel free to access our slides and scripts at osf.io/apy46 👾
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
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SCORE | Center for Open Science
SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
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Kristine Heiney, PhD @krisheiney.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Out now in @plos.org CB: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Neural representations of tasks change over time, even in the absence of changes in task performance. But neurons change tuning at different rates. How does a neuron's stability relate to its interactions with the population? #compneuro #neuroskyence
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Information theoretic measures of neural and behavioural coupling predict representational drift
Author summary Activity in the brain represents information about the outside world and how we interact with it. Recent evidence shows that these representations slowly change day to day, while memori...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 01/03/2026
some resources for cognitive scientists — especially for junior scholars who ask me wonderful questions and want to learn more — on theorising and metatheorising olivia.science/theory/ (not 100% finished & more to come, but all my work is freely available here: olivia.science#publications as usual)
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What is a cognitive scientific theory?
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
📚 Now reading 📚 Mary Everest Boole (1909). Philosophy and Fun of Algebra. archive.org/details/phil... (h/t @olivia.science) 1/🧵
PHILOSOPHY & FUN OF ALGEBRA

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MARY EVEREST BOOLE

AUTHOR OF

“PREPARATION OF THE CHILD FOR SCIENCE,” ETC.
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Temporal Information: Synaptic footprints of time in working memory Temporary changes in synapses may allow working memory to keep track of both events and their timing. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroscience
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Temporal Information: Synaptic footprints of time in working memory
Temporary changes in synapses may allow working memory to keep track of both events and their timing.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚 “Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...
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📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚
Occasionally, I make threads on social media about papers and books that I read. It helps me focus and process deeper when I share highlights and thoughts with others. In this blogpost, I compile a…
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Tomorrow night After Dark at the MIT Museum It's gonna be geeky cool fun. Matt Wilson and I will tell you about minds and memory. Clever Hans will play songs of the mind. And perogies and beer! tickets.mitmuseum.org/events/019b3...
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Traveling waves. Your brain has them. There must be a reason. Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroscience
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Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology
Cruddas et al. reviewed how core concepts from wave physics relate to cortical wave physiology and psychology. They examined how cortical waves emerge, how they facilitate coordinated, hierarchical, a...
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Spiking is not all there is to brain function. Astrocytes propagate electric field influences, like neurons, but do not spike. And they are a large fraction of brain cells. www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought... #neuroscience
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Once Thought To Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out To Be in Charge | Quanta Magazine
New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial la...
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BAMB! @bamb-school.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Applications will be opening soon for BAMB! 2026 The summer school will take place from 12 - 23 July 2026 www.bambschool.org
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BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
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Ignacio Castillejo (ϕ) @igcastillejo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My first PhD work is now out as a pre-print! 💫 Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks (with @mavadillo.bsky.social ) We dive into an issue in a neural circuits framework...
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Ricardo Rey-Sáez (β) @ricardoreysaez.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv. Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Reluctant to ReLU: Uncontrolled Connectivity Pruning Underlying Trainable Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks: osf.io/9uzhq
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