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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!

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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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Proud to share our latest preprint with my very special @mengya-zhang.bsky.social (🥰). Briefly, we studied how the degree to which CA1 responses are the same (reinstatement) or different (novelty response) supports memory, echoing a central tension in the field. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Zurich Cognition Lab @cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Open Postdoc (80%) in our Lab @uzh-ch.bsky.social (PI: Klaus Oberauer) Topics are: Working memory, long-term memory, attention; experiments, individual differences, computational modeling. Start Dec 2026 to Feb 2027, until June 2030. Apply by Oct 15; Questions to: k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

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Jeff Zacks @jzacks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The call for participation for the first inaugural Event Cognition Conference is live! franco.nd.edu/events/confe... franco.nd.edu/assets/67910...

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A longread on why Cofnas is doing pseudoscience, by yours truly. Many thanks to @forbetterscience.bsky.social for hosting the text!

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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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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Come find out whether it’s time or boundaries that boost memory! Poster board #2? #BACN2026

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Emma Sullivan @emmacsullivan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Our pilot RCT is now published 🔎 We asked can a 21-day phone/social media detox help adolescents sleep and feel better? 📱😴 doi.org/10.1111/camh...

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Adam Curtis @adamjcurtis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📢 New preprint with @aidanhorner.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social investigating how schematic violations shape memory for sequences of events. Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

priorsense R package has now JOSS paper "priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R" you can cite, too doi.org/10.21105/jos... with Noa Kallioinen, Topi Paananen, and @paulbuerkner.com priorsense achieved also a gold badge from @ropensci.org review!

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priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R

Kallioinen et al., (2026). priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(123), 11036, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.11036

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Gavin Buckingham @handle.invalid · 21/07/2026

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...

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GitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiency

Contribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Aida Rincón Chong @aidarc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

come check out my poster on how rest at encoding improves recall ft. some fun elaboration discussion ! PS06-09PM-494 ✨

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Arianna Moccia @arimoccia.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you’re at #fensforum2026, come say ¡hola! today at 14.00 poster 475. Also today, same time @aidarc.bsky.social (poster 494), and @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social (poster 493)! 🧠

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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Feel free to come to Poster Board #493 on Thursday to explore whether free time benefits memory and (potentially) why! You can also download the poster here. drive.google.com/file/d/149Yx... #FENS2026 #Poster #Barcelona #EpisodicMemory

Poster presentation for FENS (2026) showing four experiments exploring how the distribution of free time impacts free recall. We find that free recall benefits from free time, with any tasks immediately prior to the next set of items impeding this benefit.

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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠

Preston Lab, University of Texas at Austin. Now recruiting 1–2 postdoctoral researchers in learning, memory, development, and flexible behavior. Methods: behavioral experiments, fMRI, computational modeling, and naturalistic stimuli. Apply with CV, research statement, and 3 references to apreston@utexas.edu. Photos show the lab group smiling together, members working at a table, and members at a celebration.

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New paper led by Tianxiao Yang just out in Behavioral Sciences, examining how working memory for instructions in 8-9 and 12-14 year olds is potentially improved by different forms of action-based processing. www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/16...

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Interested in human replay and solid methods? Jointly with @skjerns.de we're releasing a benchmark dataset with known ground-truth neural sequences in MEG & fMRI, for developing & validating replay methods. First test: existing methods show similar effect sizes, but room to improve shorturl.at/6TgIr

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FASTIMAGES: Validating replay detection methods in human neuroimaging using a combined MEG and fMRI dataset

Studies in rodents and humans using invasive electrophysiology have established that neural replay is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the brain that is associated with a wide range of cognitive functions, ...

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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Proud mentor moment! My student @mujianing.bsky.social (co-supervised w/ @alexanderhuth.bsky.social) presents at #CEMS2026 today. Her work challenges the idea that event boundaries are remembered because they're surprising. What predicts memory is how much a moment shares with the rest of the story.

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Taraz Lee @tarazlee.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Super excited by this manuscript led by the amazing @brissend.bsky.social By combining fMRI, TMS, and modeling, we finally have causal evidence that the cerebellum is contributing to brain-wide working memory representations and recall performance! 1/n

Plot showing that the read-out of visual working memory information from cerebellum is degraded following stimulation to cerebellum, IPS, or FEF

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Lead-DBS @lead-dbs.org · 23/05/2026

Classic publication using Lead-DBS: In this article by Boutet et al., the authors tested 1.5T and 3T MRI in 102 patients with active deep brain stimulation and mapped hardware-related fMRI artifacts, finding no MRI-re... Check out the paper here 👇👇 pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.20…

Title card for publication: Functional MRI Safety and Artifacts during Deep Brain Stimulation: Experience in 102 Patients

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Helena Gellersen @helenagellersen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

How does the brain rapidly distinguish similar memories? We use 7T fMRI to show dynamic shifts between pattern separation and reinstatement signals in hippocampal CA3 and DG with changing task demands: doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Paid Undergraduate Research Internship within the Department of Psychology at the University of York, funded by NIHR. An 8-week summer placement is open to undergraduate students in Psychology (or related disciplines) interested in memory research. You can find out more here: shorturl.at/flepx

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

An amazing set of research we are funding through the latest award of 244 small grants ranging from the creation of an edition of the complete works of Renaissance writer Robert Southwell to a new analysis of the macroeconomic effects of protectionism www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/

We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/

The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/

Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

One last plug for those that might have missed it. A new opinion piece from me about episodic memory and systems consolidation. Enjoy! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I also created a version of the 'guess the correlation' game. Students always enjoyed it, but the original website (with fun retro design) started to require a google account login. So I created my own version. Play it here: lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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Ben Griffiths @benjamingriffiths.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New paper out in J. Neuro! We used MEG and pattern classifiers to ask: if a memory is reactivated in the brain, does that mean you'll recall it? Short answer: no. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... Read on for the details! [1/7] #neuroscience #memory

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Alpha Oscillations Track the Projection of Reactivated Memories into Conscious Awareness

By definition, episodic memory is a conscious phenomenon. Memory traces reactivated by the hippocampus and reinstated in the sensory cortices need to enter conscious awareness for them to be re-experi...

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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Are you a #secondaryschool teacher or school leader? We're looking to hear from educators across all areas of the curriculum about how #vocabulary is being supported in your school. Please share, thanks! ⏱ 15–20 minutes (can leave & return) 🎁 Chance to win a £20 voucher tinyurl.com/UoYVocabular...

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Introducing the #ReplicationAtlas: The FLoRA (FORRT Library of Reproduction and Replication Attempts) lets you browser over two thousand (!) pairs of original and replication studies. Search by DOIs/keywords and find out about replications from your field, maybe even replications of your own work.

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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Children get better at reasoning from memory as they grow up. But is it the same brain process getting stronger, or something more fundamental changing? In our new paper, we use fMRI and computational modeling to test that question directly 🧵

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Exciting job opportunity! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a new Lead Technical Specialist to manage the facility and the amazing team of techs. YNiC is an brilliant facility with 3T MRI, whole-head OPM-MEG, TMS, and EEG. Please RT! #neurojobs #psychjobs #psychscisky 🧪

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Jobs - The University of York

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL

Discover Postdoctoral Research Fellow jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/04/2026

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (100%, E 13 TV-L)

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Darya Frank @darya-frank.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

📣 First paper from the lab! 🎉🧠 Led by brilliant MRes students Aysha and Zhiyun, we found exploring a novel, unpredictable VR environment retroactively enhanced memory in humans: rdcu.be/fc496

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Probing Behavioural Tagging in Humans: Spatial Memory Reveals Novelty-driven Retroactive Enhancement

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available. What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will. oecs.mit.edu

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Simon Kern @skjerns.de · 10/04/2026

Can we really measure replay in humans using MEG with current methods? In our most recent paper we simulated replay under realistic conditions via a novel hybrid approach with astonishing results. we're delighted that it has now been published @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/articles/108...

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TDLM-Resting-State Simulation

How sensitive is TDLM really? Can we actually find replay when we know it is present?

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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The next EPS Meeting will be at the University of Essex from 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture and the 15th Frith Prize Talk. Portals for this meeting will open on Monday 13th April 2026 at 10am (UK time) and for at least 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

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Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture by Melissa Colloff (and accompanying symposium organised by Markus Bindemann). This meeti…

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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Presenting at #EPS2026 today. Talked all things temporal boundaries, and possible other mechanisms driving out effects. Out of all the pictures @arimoccia.bsky.social secretly captured, this is the best one. Look at the pretty plot!

Shows Jamie pointing to the slide for Experiment 3 demonstrating that the introduction of a task in between clusters of words leads to much worse recall of those words compared to free time. Who’da thought?

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

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Jobs - The University of York

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Alison Preston @aliprestonphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We’re hiring a full-time Research Coordinator in the Preston Lab at UT Austin (start May/June 2026). Work on behavioral + fMRI studies of how memory & decision-making develop from childhood to adulthood. Learn more & apply: preston.clm.utexas.edu/news/join-th... Please repost!

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Panagiotis Iliopoulos @piliopoulos.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Our paper is out in @commsbio.nature.com! 🧵 We found that hippocampal-prefrontal connectivity acts as a "neural resource" — it predicts both memory performance AND training-related improvement. More info below 👇

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