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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab)

@lealmemorylab.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at UCLA in the department of Integrative Biology & Physiology. Studies all things memory, emotion, aging, and depression. 🧠

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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If you’re attending SBN, be sure to stop by graduate student Beatriz Brandao’s poster 2.29 “Hormonal Context, Symptom Expression, and Emotion Regulation Across the Menstrual Cycle” today (Fri, July 10) from 4:30-6:30 in Cascades Ballroom 2! #SBN2026
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Deadline extended until August! Feel free to reach out if you want to check article fit within the special collection. Anything related to depression in aging is of interest 🤍
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Honored to hood not one but two PhD students this year! They’ve grown into outstanding scientists, and I’m grateful to have been part of their journey. So proud. 🥹 Congratulations, Dr. Morales-Calva @morales-calva.bsky.social & Dr. Clark! 🎓 @ricegradschool.bsky.social
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I am immensely proud of Dr. Fernanda Morales-Calva @morales-calva.bsky.social for successfully defending her dissertation today! Her research examining how culture shapes memory is so important, and I’m lucky to have worked beside her these past 5 yrs. Congratulations Dr. Morales-Calva! 🥹
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I am immensely proud of Dr. Kayla Clark for successfully defending her dissertation last week. Her research examining post-encoding music effects on memory have been outstanding, and I’m so lucky to have been a part of seeing her grow as a scientist. Congratulations Dr. Clark! 🥹
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Agreed! Thanks for writing this important viewpoint - I talk about this all the time as well @suthanalab.bsky.social
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Bluesky
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
📣Call for papers on the “Management of depression in older adults”. 📣 I am guesting editing this collection at Scientific Reports. Feel free to reach out to determine fit in the collection! Submissions due May 21, 2026. www.nature.com/collections/...
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🚨Check out our latest paper from the lab! Great work @morales-calva.bsky.social !
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Hwamee Oh @hwameeoh.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
If you are applying to a PhD program, be sure to check out these tips! 👇👇👇 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Applying for a Ph.D.? These 10 tips can help you succeed
Our Letters to Young Scientists columnists offer their advice
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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Make your voice impossible to ignore. If you support the Menopause Care Equity Act let @gavinnewsom.bsky.social know in the link below 👇🏼 #AB432
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨Attending ISPNE in New Orleans?🚨 Be sure to stop by graduate student Beatriz Brandao’s poster today 9/3 5:30 - 8 pm. She will be discussing results from her recently published Hormones & Behavior paper examining emotion regulation and memory in hormonal contraceptive users!
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Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Check out a new preprint from Adi, postdoc working with me and Jeff Zacks. I’m *extremely* excited to finally, officially get this out into the world 🙂
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Check out our latest paper published in Hormones & Behavior! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We found that hormonal contraceptive users were better able to apply trained emotion regulation strategies, which reduced negative memory!
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 20/08/2025
Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Psychology
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
What we discover at UCLA goes far beyond our lab - this work is meant to make an impact on society to change how we treat conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and PTSD. #ResearchPowersProgress 🧠🎼💙💛 newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/mus...
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Congratulations @morales-calva.bsky.social! 2025 best article in CABN ❤️ If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to check it out. Link below 👇🏻
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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We’re hiring! Pls share widely: In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred. Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Fun chat with @theguardian about the power of music in stirring up our emotions and how that impacts our memories 🎶
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Heidi Jacobs @heidijacobslab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Learn about our work towards earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease. Despite NIH-funding being delayed, terminated, and uncertain, we are fiercely committed to these goals! Link for donations to support our work is at the bottom of the page, or reach out. giving.massgeneral.org/stories/earl...
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Earlier Detection of Alzheimer’s Could Help Reduce Its Most Devastating Effects
Heidi Jacobs, PhD, is a leader in Alzheimer’s disease research whose personal experience with the disease strengthens her passion for finding a cure — something she is well on her way to achieving.
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🚨Attending SBN?🚨 Stop by graduate student Beatriz Brandao’s poster tomorrow Tuesday July 15 4:30-6:30pm (Poster Session 2, #32) examining the impact of hormonal contraceptive use on memory and emotion regulation! #SBN2025
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Exciting to see our work featured in Forbes!
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Brock Kirwan @brockkirwan.com · 02/07/2025
Do you ever get tired of cables getting caught as you're putting a research subject into the MRI scanner? Do you wish you had a 3D-printable model of clips that slide into the slot on the side of your Siemens MRI scanner bed? Well look no further! github.com/Kirwanlab/MR...
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GitHub - Kirwanlab/MR-compatible-clips: STL files for 3D printing MR-compatible clips for a Siemens scanner
STL files for 3D printing MR-compatible clips for a Siemens scanner - Kirwanlab/MR-compatible-clips
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨Check out our latest work published in The Journal of Neuroscience! We examined post-encoding music impacts on memory and found gist verses detail tradeoffs in memory that depended on music-induced emotional arousal. 🎼
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Rebecca Horne @rebeccasky.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Electric art by Saiman Chow for today's essay: Everything, everywhere, all at once: Inside the chaos of Alzheimer’s disease. by Michael A. Yassa @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/alzheimers-d... #sciart
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Everything, everywhere, all at once: Inside the chaos of Alzheimer’s disease
To truly understand Alzheimer’s disease, we may need to take a systems approach, in which inflammation, vascular injury, impaired glucose metabolism and other factors interact in complex ways.
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨Attending APS 2025?🚨 Be sure to stop by @morales-calva.bsky.social poster TODAY from 4-5pm! Fernanda will be presenting her work examining cultural impacts on perception and memory. Details below. #APS25DC
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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause. Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974 Or help us spread the word 💫
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
So incredibly proud of the two graduates from the lab today!! Lorena is the first PhD student to graduate from my lab, and Maddie received her Masters along the way to her PhD! Enjoy and celebrate these moments! 💙
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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 03/05/2025
New opportunity for Bay Area undergrads to gain computational neuroscience exposure and training! I’m teaming up with @neuronush.bsky.social to offer this to students in our communities 💕🧠🧪 Please share with any students who might be interested! Tiny.cc/ucsfcompneuro
Summer Research Program in Neuroscience & Computation
For undergrads interested in exploring the brain and learning how to code
No prior experience necessary!
June - August 2025
UCSF Mission Bay campus
25-30 hours/week commitment
Learn more & apply:
http://tiny.cc/ucsfcompneuro/
Students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in STEM are encouraged to apply!
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Bryan D. James, PhD @bryandjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The 2025 @alzassociation.bsky.social Alzheimer's Disease Facts & Figures report is out today! Once again, I was honored to work on this report with our crack team of researchers and provide the most up to date information on this devastating condition #AlzheimersinAmerica www.alz.org/alzheimers-d...
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Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures
Read the 2025 report to understand the burden of Alzheimer's and dementia on individuals, caregivers, government and the nation's health care system.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. cbsn.ws/3YkDndI
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Congratulations to graduate student @morales-calva.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Excellence in Research, Teaching, & Service Award in the Psychological Sciences Department at Rice University! So proud of you!
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Hi all, if anyone knows of any aging or mental health focused postdoc or research scientist positions, please share them with me! Lorena is on the job market and would be a great asset!
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Congratulations to the Leal Lab RAs for presenting their research projects at the Undergraduate Research Symposium! Great job! Extra congrats to Jacob, Ahi, and Giselle for winning awards for their presentations! 🎉
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Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My paper reviewing how different neurodegenerative diseases affect autonomic function was just published.
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Congratulations to Madelyn Castro for successfully defending her masters thesis today AND for being awarded the 2025 Laughery Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in Psychology! So proud of you!❤️
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Congratulations to the first graduate student in my lab, Dr. Lorena Ferguson, who successfully defended her dissertation today! So proud of you and all your accomplishments 🥹
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Don’t forget to come hear Beatriz Brandao talk about hormonal contraceptives and emotion regulation! Flash talk at 11:15 today! #AffectScience2025
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Attending SAS? Come see graduate student Beatriz Brandao’s flash talk on the effects of hormonal contraceptives on emotion regulation and emotional reactivity on Sat, March 22 11:15am! Details below 👇🏻
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Interesting New Feature in @nature.com Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says
Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do.
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
🚨New paper alert!🚨 Grad student Lorena Ferguson examined how subclinical depression and job stress was associated with emotional memory in retired and working older adults. Check it out 👇🏻 rdcu.be/d7rZN
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Subclinical depressive symptoms and job stress differentially impact memory in working and retired older adults
Scientific Reports - Subclinical depressive symptoms and job stress differentially impact memory in working and retired older adults
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My lab at UCLA is recruiting a research coordinator to start ASAP, who will be involved in lab and research management and take the lead in MRI & PET imaging data collection & analysis in aging! Please reach out if interested (& please share widely). Apps due by Feb 16! jobs.ucla.edu/careers-home...
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Undergraduate Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program at UCLA is recruiting a lecturer! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10124 The candidate would teach M116A, which is a Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory course. Please reach out if you have any questions! Apps are due Fri, Feb 21!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
Lecturer-Neurosc/Psych M116A UNDERGRADUATE NEUROSCIENCE INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
AWESOME research by Patricia Bauer on self-derivation of semantic memory. (How we expand our world knowledge without it being directly taught). Link introduces how to teach the concept in #psychology classes using #retrievalpractice @psychscience.bsky.social #cogpysc #DevPsyc #teaching #Memory
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How We Build Semantic Memory
Teaching: Teaching psychology students about semantic memory will inform them how we learn about the world, piece by piece, integration by integration, silently forming the basis for our academic achi...
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Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🚨New paper out in Learning & Memory!🚨 We examined how current perceived stress impacts emotional memory and found that high AND low current perceived stress enhanced emotional memories. learnmem.cshlp.org/content/31/1...
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Bryna Goeckner @brynagoeckner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Definitely recommend the series for anyone interested in women's brain health research (and who isn't?)!
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to bruce.caughran@northwestern.edu] - please repost
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Eduardo Zimmer @erzimmer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Loneliness is one critical risk factor for cognitive health 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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A meta-analysis of loneliness and risk of dementia using longitudinal data from >600,000 individuals - Nature Mental Health
Using data from large longitudinal observational studies, the authors conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the association between loneliness and dementia.
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Kirsten Adam @kirsten-adam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The ADAM lab will be at #opam and Psychonomics #psynom24! @olgakozlova.bsky.social has a talk on goal setting + WM, friend-of-the-lab @philippmusfeld.bsky.social has a poster on the effect of long-term learning on neural WM representations, and I have a talk on behavioral signatures LTM + WM!
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Stefânia Forner, PhD (she/her) @stforner.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If you are interested in learning about @alzassociation grant opportunities, don’t forget to always check alz.org/grants. We fund globally! 📚🖊🔬🩺🧠 #endalz
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International Research Grant Program
Get information and resources for Alzheimer's and other dementias from the Alzheimer's Association.
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