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Karen Campbell

@karampbell.bsky.social
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Professor & Canada Research Chair, Director of Lifespan Development Research Institute at Brock University | neurocognitive aging, memory, & attention | mom of 3 | ally | mostly kvetching

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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Finally, a member of this adminsitration that tells the truth.
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Has to be done at least once. After only 5hrs sleep seemed like a good time. 🥱 #pumpkinspice
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Please Don't Use AI for Reviews" -- by @ffassnacht.bsky.social (repost from LinkedIN)
This goes out to everyone but particularly also to early stage researchers: 

Please do not use AI if you get invited for review papers for a scientific journal. There are several critical problems related to this: 1. It is not allowed to upload unpublished work to LMMs (copyright problems) 2. Be aware - editors will in 98% of the cases know that you used AI and it leaves a very bad impression on you 3. Be aware that editors would be perfectly capable to ask a LLM themselves if they would be interested AI's opinion. 4. An AI-review will force the editor to invite another reviewer and delay the process heavily. 5. Trust in your own capabilities - conducting reviews is actually also a good way to learn. Even a statement like "I cannot follow your thoughts in this section" may be helpful advice to the authors to improve their work. AI will not give such advice and is typically also not great at spotting problems in the experimental set-up.

So please - if you do not have the time to really review a manuscript or you are not capable of reviewing the manuscript adequately, just decline the invitation. Thanks!

AI-free artwork created in MS paint.
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
AI art gallery? 🤢
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One nice thing about being a prof is that every day your brain hurts, usually in a good way. Never a dull moment. #AcademicSky #School4Life
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Giving a talk at my alma mater next week, so thought I should present new stuff that I've never talked about before. Instant regret, as I rush to make all new slides on less familiar material. 🫠 Apologies in advance, UofT!!! 😂
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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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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
13yo yelling at me via text bc I made him use a lock and now he can't get it open. I threatened to get his older sister to come help and wow, it magically opened. Getting this kid through highschool will be the death of me! 😂 #parenting
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11/09/2026
omg. (it wasn't me) www.famouscampaigns.com/2026/09/meta...
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Meta smart glasses mocked by fake notices on London Underground
London’s backlash against camera-equipped smart glasses has reached the Tube, with spoof stickers styled as official TfL safety notices appearing inside Underground carriages and warning wearers that ...
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I need @thedailyshow.com & @22-minutes.bsky.social to come back from vacation now. Can't take any more of this news straight up. Needs a comic chaser! 🥃
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sorry for your loss. :(
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And yet every time I try to publish there, they give me *the hardest* time. 😜😂 JK (sort of) #PsychSciSky
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey #memory & #aging people, anyone feel like putting together a symposium for #ICOM2027 with me? or invite me to yours (I'm lazy;)? #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thanks Alex. It's all down to @sarahehenderson.bsky.social's hard work and dedication to doing high-quality science. I just edit the papers. ;)
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We've also learned an important lesson about applied work. Taking findings from classic memory paradigms (in this case, retrieval practice) & applying it to naturalistic stimuli doesn't always work. It's complicated and takes time to work out the kinks. Fingers crossed we get there in the end! 7/7
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So yah, feels a bit weird to post a new paper while also questioning it. But I think we scientists need to be more honest about the limits of our findings. 6/7
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We aren't giving up hope just yet and are digging into our massive pile of data to further understand what is going on. Are there things we can tweak to make this intervention more useful for those who need it most? 5/7
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
But event tagging doesn't work for everyone & more recently in the lab, it seems that it doesn't help those with worse cognitive health - the exact people we wanted to help! This may be because coming up with keywords requires attention and thus, disrupts encoding for those who can't muster it. 4/7
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
As you'll see in the paper, there is a lot of variability. It does boost memory for some old & young, and on average, it strengthens memory for within-event associations. 3/7
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I wish I could say we found the "cure". That pausing a show so participants can generate keywords (i.e., tags) to summarize what they just saw improves memory for everyone. 2/7
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
New paper in JARMAC by @sarahehenderson.bsky.social on our new tagging intervention aimed at improving episodic #memory in older adults. And a little story about our foray into applied work. 🧵👇🏻 Bottom line: guys, it's hard. #PsychSciSky doi.org/10.1037/mac0...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trump's illegal war increases the chances of major oil spills in the gulf. Not that Trump gives a damn, because his whole life is one situation after another in which he walks away from the wreckage he's created. But the rest of us must care, and must stop him.
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Spike in ‘Dark’ Oil Tankers in Gulf Raises Risk of Catastrophic Spills (Gift Article)
More vessels are navigating the Strait of Hormuz with their location devices turned off to evade attacks by Iran, adding to the threat of collisions.
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Arguably it wouldn't be fair use by ad agencies. But in an academic paper about memory? We are not competing with the BBC 🤣
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Another fun story, we were recently told that we couldn't use screen grabs from Sherlock for copyright reasons. Fine, though I would argue it's fair use. Publisher suggested uploading the screenshots to AI to make cartoons for us. Sure, bc that's not a violation of the BBC'S IP?!? Fuck's sake
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Instead of fixing the peer review system, by paying reviewers or awarding some sort of meaningful credit for peer review (e.g., you can't submit without reviewing), publishers are going to go this way. AI-fueled drivel in place of human decision making.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just received a desk rejection clearly written by #AI, sent by an editor not in our field. What are we even doing here? #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence #AcademicSky
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#EEG Christmas 😂 thanks @cortechsolutions.bsky.social #Neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Uri Simonsohn @urisohn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Here is what i think the head-to-head comparison of ResearchBox vs Zenodo look like as OSF replacements. If I am missing an important attribute, let me know, will update accordingly.
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Where does the day go? I started at 9am thinking it wouldn't take me long to finish a review. It's now 2pm and I'm on the Results 🙃 #AcademicSky
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Deuces Amy Poehler
ALT: Deuces Amy Poehler
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Congratulations to @hannahgthomas.bsky.social for defending her MA thesis today! Many thanks to committee members @jordwynn.bsky.social & Karen Arnell. And our external examiner, Khena Swallow. #psychscisky
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And I should also say thanks to @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social for helping mentor ❤️
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Congratulations to Joseph Merante on successfully defending his MA! Huge thanks to committee members @emrich.bsky.social & Heather Bailey. And external examiner @cnwahlheim.bsky.social 🙏🏻
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/07/2026
> Something seems to be lost on my peers today: it’s still easy to not use AI. [...] Eschewing AI is one thing that we can actually do to live out ethics that affirm values of human and environmental rights. It’s almost a gift! Just use a computer the same way you did three years ago!
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 03/08/2026
Prediction in language comprehension across the lifespan Review by Kara D. Federmeier, Hui-Sun Chiu, Cynthia L. Fisher & Yukun Yu go.nature.com/4w4Mn4G #psychscisky
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
13yo is irrationally pumped about the MATLAB shirt he found thrifting. 😂 #math Time to put him to work in the lab, eh #neuroskyence?
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wow. Published in May in The Lancet. Look at those numbers of fabricated references per 10,000 articles in PubMed. The urge to publish is overcoming the urge to, I dunno, discover and learn things? #AI #medsky 🧪 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers
Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to non-exi...
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Cool, there's nowhere on this #CIHR Biosketch to indicate reviewing activities for CIHR (or anything else for that matter). If #reviewing is important, acknowledge it! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Belated congratulations to Eryka, Abby, and @hannahgthomas.bsky.social on receiving Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada funding (MA, USRA, and PhD levels, respectively). Thank you #NSERC for your continued support of our science!!! 🙏 🧠 🎥 🎞️ 👩‍🦳🧑‍🦳 #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So many problems, so little power! Lol. I think I solved a lot of them, but man it was time consuming (and yes, stressful at times).
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Guys, I just deleted "Grad Program Director" from my profile and I gotta say, it felt pretty good 🤣 On to the next challenge this fall!
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
When you're too busy to leave early, but too hopeful to look away. C'mon Canada! 🇨🇦 #WorldCup2026
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I'd say both are valuable. The neural/physiological measures could also reflect something else if you don't ask how people feel. Can't ignore self report, but I suspect that's what you're saying anyway.
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It's take your kid to a conference day 🫶🏻
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you're at #CSBBCS, come hear me talk about @sarahehenderson.bsky.social's work on event tagging - a novel intervention aimed at improving event memory in older adults. 🌞 9am, HNE room 37 🌞
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Come see Joseph Merante's poster on how event tagging affects memory & eye moments 👀 in older & younger adults A69 at #CSBBCS #PsychSciSky Project with @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Check out Emily's poster at 6pm TODAY! 👇🏻 #CSBBCS #PsychSciSky
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Wow, I found a Starbucks slower than the one at #BrockU, at #YorkU 🙃 (I do feel for Starbucks workers everywhere these days...no one orders plain ☕️ anymore)
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Beautiful day for the Alzheimer's walk in Niagara today! The Campbell Neurocognitive Aging Lab raised over $2000, our most ever. Thanks to everyone who donated for your support. 🙏🏻💙 #IGWalkForAlz #BrockU Thanks @hannahgthomas.bsky.social for organizing our team!
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