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Deepa Rajan, PhD @deeparajan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my paper with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny!

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Project CETI @projectceti.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

CETI scientists led by CETI Linguistics Lead Gašper Beguš have revealed that not only do sperm whale vocalizations sound like human vowels, they also behave like them! Read: bit.ly/4dPrIfr By: @begus.bsky.social, Maksymilian Dąbkowski, Ronald Sprouse, David Gruber, Shane Gero

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Peter Cook @pfcook.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🧠🧪🧵1/37 Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Jaime de Juan-Sanz @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Can we make brains “smarter”? By boosting mitochondrial metabolism in neurons of memory circuits, we improved memory in flies and mice. Thrilled to see this work out - congrats to @amrapalianjali.bsky.social for spectacular work, and to all lab members for invaluable contributions!

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Royal Institution @rigb.org · 22/01/2026

Nitrogen triiodide is a highly unstable substance that detonates when disturbed. So, of course, we disturbed it. 💥🧪

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

From high-impact weather events to stratus clouds dancing over the open ocean, this year was filled with impressive satellite imagery. We look back on the most compelling satellite views of 2025. 1) Mesovortices slosh within Hurricane Melissa’s ferocious eye (October 8).

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

New Speculative Article — I'm happy Andrew Budson invited me to write an article with him. We wondered what happens in our minds when we're sleeping? --> Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness

Insights into the mysteries of dreaming and waking conscious experience can be gained by considering fundamental concepts in memory research. To support this assertion, we first provide an overview...

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin. Simply incredible.

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Daniel Gilbert @danielgilbert.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

Cover of the Handbook of Social Psychology 6th edition 2025

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Sebastian Korb @sebkorb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Over the moon that our work on changing emotions with electrical facial muscle stimulation (recently published in Emotion, shorturl.at/YRS9d) was featured in ScientificAmerican @sciam.bsky.social. Thank you so much @RachelNuwer for the interview, and thank you Heather Lench for endorsing us.

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

What can give meaning to life? I remember responding to James Bailey's invitation to write on this about a year ago, & I'm honoured to be included in his collection @guardian (& my mother is still with us 🙏🏽) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more

I asked some well-known names for their thoughts on the ultimate existential question. Their answers were fascinating, funny – and could help us frame our days on Earth

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 07/03/2025

🌿🧠 Can Our Environment Protect Against Dementia? A new study finds that air pollution & busy roads increase dementia risk, while green/blue spaces & walkable streets support cognitive health. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #Dementia #PublicHealth 🧪

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Objectively measured environmental features and their association with cognition and dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Dementia affects millions of people worldwide. Since effective treatments are still lacking, it is important to identify factors that may help prevent…

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Cheng Huang @huangchengwashu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is our best in vivo AP propagation movie so far. Recorded at 1k Hz from the axonal branches of a fly CNS neuron, using voltage indicator pAce.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Alone but not Lonely! New study finds "people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone." Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Loneliness is a widespread issue routinely targeted by the media and public health campaigns. We propose that these efforts, though well-intentioned, may exacerbate this problem by negatively influencing a potential driver of loneliness: people’s beliefs about being alone. Supporting this thesis, we show that contemporary U.S. news articles are 10 times more likely to describe being alone as harmful than beneficial (Study 1, N = 144 articles) and that exposure to such articles causally impacts people’s beliefs about being alone (Study 2, N = 456). Further, a 2-week experience-sampling study (Study 3, N = 161) demonstrates that people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone. Finally, multi-national studies demonstrate the generalizability of these results across nine countries spanning six continents (Studies 4 and 5, N = 2930). Together, these findings reveal the critical role of beliefs about being alone in shaping loneliness.

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Nick Stewart @nstewwx.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The May 2024 #SolarFlare sequence remains the most impressive series of events in Solar Cycle 25. Over the course of four days (May 8-11): -8 X Class flares -13 flares of M5+ G5 conditions on Earth first since 2003. IMF peaked at Bt +73 with the Bz down to -50. Very geoeffective! #SpaceWeather

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting out planet in 2032 is now 1.5%, or 1 in 67. The OVERWHELMING likelihood is that the asteroid will miss Earth. But for the first time ever, we might have to seriously consider a deflection mission soon. Let me explain. 🧵 (1/x)

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Leaf infiltration is a widely used technique in plant science for delivering Agrobacterium or chemicals directly to plant cells 🍃🧬 For those who do it regularly, there’s a satisfaction in watching the liquid flow seamlessly through the leaf's airspaces—when done well..

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Fascinating paper from Roddy Roediger on the fuzzy boundary btwn cognitive and social psychology. As someone who now finds herself living on that boundary it was cool to realize that my undergraduate research mentor lived there too. 1/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Reflections on intersections between cognitive and social psychology: A personal exploration

I appreciate the opportunity offered by the editor to reflect on the relationship between cognitive and social psychology. This topic has interested me my entire professional life, because I was admi...

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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

🔭 Tomorrow Earth is at perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in its orbit. This makes the Sun look slightly larger than it does in July, when it is at its farthest point (known as aphelion). Here's a comparison showing this with images I took of the Sun in 2024.

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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 19/12/2024

I keep updating the DBS starter pack – and super happy we have already 109 folks on here! Am I missing somebody? go.bsky.app/B9A9Cho

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This paper is magical.

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We recently published a book of articles where neuroscientists, medics, and psychologists with neurological disorders discussed their own conditions. Narinder Kapur organised an online conference where some of the authors presented. It's now online in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wfy...

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Injured Brains of Medical Minds: Views from Within (online conference) - supported by UCL CNR

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I love when personal histories and anecdotes are interspersed with scientific discussions – so it was a delight to read these pieces by Lynn Nadel and Daniel Schacter. Nadel: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Schacter: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Some Memories of Stalking the Seahorse

Early influences that led to the development of the cognitive map theory of hippocampal function, and the multiple trace theory, are discussed. Some details are provided, many are left out.

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Hey space folks! If you’re into breathtaking space images, here’s a list of Bluesky accounts run by talented space image processors. They share original content, no need for dodgy content aggregators on Bluesky. Let’s support and share the original sources, shall we? ;) 🔭 go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf

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Alejandro L. Vázquez, PhD @alvazquezphd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Added to the #psychsky list of starter packs developed @drspringflorjo.bsky.social #academicsky Latinx Psychology go.bsky.app/V9ey4RC Black in Neuro go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe LGBTQ+ Psych go.bsky.app/LsshH49 Personality Psych go.bsky.app/TwHBMQi Women Clinical Psych go.bsky.app/SsNPcGP

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Joining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I've started working on a (very incomplete!) starter pack for social interaction researchers! If you're working in this space, please asked to be added (or suggest others)! Meant to be inclusive of many disciplines, methods, interaction types, and types of interacting agents: go.bsky.app/44VAEhU

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

re-issue of science starter pack now that we have so much more action here! fMRI: Humans and Tasks go.bsky.app/Ai1f67H

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

attempting to collect #scicomm focused #physics and #astronomy accounts into one #starterpack! this list is by no means complete—if I've missed you, please just shoot me a DM. go.bsky.app/NvQERru

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I often show my students this visualization of how atmospheric CO₂ travels around the globe. Our attitude toward burning fossil fuels would change significantly if we could actually see CO₂. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11719

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Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris @robincarhartharris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Throw back to a sunny day at Secret Garden festival, to answer question: “how 🍄 work”. Funny enough, 11 years later, I find myself writing a book to answer this very question! 📖 What topics about 🍄 would you like to read about? #psychedelicresearch

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 19/11/2024

The #SciComm starter pack is almost full. Make sure to revisit it as l’ve added lots of folk this week. Do share it and flag up if you’d like added. go.bsky.app/VJQzace

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Starting a Human Neuroimaging pack, let me know if you’d like to be added! 🧠 go.bsky.app/8xs6oWw

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/11/2024

By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

A starter pack of academics, researchers, and organisations active in #EnvironmentalPsychology (the application of psychology to environmental issues, such as climate change, and human-environment interactions. Let me know if you'd like to be added to this list (reply or dm) go.bsky.app/2yJ9TJg

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

List of psychology-related starter packs! #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵 Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology by @drboothroyd.bsky.social

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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I have added lots of new folks to this #neuropsychology starter park. Happy to add more, just message me. Please spread the word :) go.bsky.app/VV4ZhEx

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 18/11/2024

Hello to all the new followers today! I don't blame you for jumping onto Bluesky on this dreary day. If you need some Chicago people to follow, I've got a starter pack for you: go.bsky.app/SzpAdfM

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 17/10/2024

I started making this brain and mind researchers starter pack before I realised the 150 account limit. So this is the first 150 people I added to it :) go.bsky.app/PaCWjEy

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

By popular demand, Cognitive Psychology starter pack, part 2! If you are a professional conducting research in cognitive psych: Comment here if you would like to be added. If you are just interested in the topic: Open the starter pack and click "follow all" to join the convo! go.bsky.app/RgVxacV

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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I have started a Behavioural Science starter pack - just let me know if you would like to be added - see go.bsky.app/CzLwTyZ

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

OK folks, I've started an episodic memory starter pack. By no means a full list so reply below if you're an episodic memory nerd! go.bsky.app/2mtNK43

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Eric Leshikar @leshikar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Overall, this work confirms that generation is a powerful mnemonic strategy, and offers guidance on how future work might continue to investigate this important phenomenon, which has real-world translational potential. (11/11)

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Eric Leshikar @leshikar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Fourth, we found a number of experimental moderators that also influence the magnitude of the generation effect: see the paper to see these different moderators and how they influenced the magnitude of the generation effect. (10/11)

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Eric Leshikar @leshikar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This finding importantly suggests that future work should carefully consider the generation task, because differences across tasks strongly influence memory. (9/11)

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Eric Leshikar @leshikar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Specifically, we found evidence that a factor called generation constraint (limitations placed on participants by the generation task, which limits or constrains what participants can self-generate), has a large effect on the magnitude of the generation effect. (8/11)

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Eric Leshikar @leshikar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Importantly, past theoretical and empirical work has typically assumed that all generation tasks are effectively the same in the generation effect they induce, but our meta-analysis shows that different generation tasks lead to substantial variation in memory. (7/11)

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Eric Leshikar @leshikar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

generation effect through multiple mechanisms (and we briefly propose one such framework). Third, over the history of work in the generation effect, many different types of tasks have been used to induce participants to self-generate information. (6/11)

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